Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 28 Buying time
A few days later, Li Qingsong added that the number of armed clones in the 10 mining bases had reached 2000, with an average of per base.

In addition, there are 4000 armed clones in the main base. At the same time, new sets of equipment are still being produced at an average rate of 3200 sets per day, which means that an average of 3200 armed clones are born every day.

At this time, the total number of strange birds reached more than 11 and finally moved to the vicinity of the base cluster, and launched an attack on Li Qingsong's most core bases from all directions without omission.

Extremely brutal battles broke out simultaneously on 11 battlefields.

But the fighting broke out not only in these 11 bases, but also in many other places where smaller-scale battles were taking place.

That is the railway line.

At this moment, the railway line's circuit had been destroyed by the strange birds. Li Qingsong had no choice but to urgently activate a batch of steam locomotives to undertake the subsequent material transportation tasks.

Li Qingsong knew that he could not win the battle of consumption with the strange bird.

The only way to defeat these strange birds is to use the lives of the clones to stalemate the battle line and buy time for the subsequent development and production of firearms.

Since firearms need to be produced on a large scale, material replenishment is essential.

These railway lines must be preserved! Production at the mineral base must also be maintained, without stopping for a moment!
As a result, such strange sights occurred in 10 mineral bases.

Outside the base, thousands of armed clones risked their lives in a desperate battle, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Inside the base, the original mining clones were still working meticulously, mining large amounts of minerals, without being affected by the external fighting at all.

Afterwards, the minerals were loaded onto trucks, and the huge steam locomotive spewed out thick smoke, heading towards the main base under the protection of the transport combat team specially formed by Li Qingsong.

While fighting with the strange birds, the damaged railway line was being repaired. The train's speed even slowed down to less than ten kilometers per hour. But even so, there were still trains leaving from various mining bases and merging into the main base.

After unloading the minerals, a large number of armed clones will get on the vehicle, carrying a large amount of supplies and returning to the mining base. Once a front-line clone dies, they will be replaced immediately.

The battle situation remained at a stalemate.

In order to maintain the current situation, Li Qingsong had to put 1.6 consciousness link shares into the battle. At the same time, he controlled an average of 1000 in each mining base, 4000 in the main base, and 2000 in various railway guards, totaling 1.6 armed clones joining the battle.

The battle situation stabilized for a while, but the so-called "stability" was probably only for Li Qingsong.

For the strange birds, they probably think they are constantly winning.

After all, under our attack, an average of 2000 to 3000 delicious enemy corpses are swallowed by our side every day. Isn't this a victory?
"If you want to eat, I'll let you eat!"

The deaths of thousands of clones every day filled Li Qingsong's heart with fear: "Just wait, there will be a day when you can't eat anymore!"

At this moment, within the main base and various key mineral bases, a total of 4000 clones were engaged in various tasks, ranging from mining, planting, farming, and transportation, supporting the operation of the entire base system and delivering a steady supply of cold weapons, equipment, and food to the front lines. However, in addition to these 4000 clones, Li Qingsong still had a final 1000 or so clones. Although the battle situation was extremely stalemate and the pressure was extremely high, none of them were involved in combat or logistical production work.

They are doing another thing.

In the core area of the main base, in the laboratory located among various factories such as metal smelting plants, processing plants, and chemical plants, these 1066 clones were divided into 100 teams by Li Qingsong, and all of them were put into the research and development of gunpowder weapons by Li Qingsong.

Li Qingsong knew almost nothing about muskets, especially modern firearms.

Apart from knowing the basic principles of modern firearms, which are that gunpowder burns violently in the barrel to generate gas that propels bullets out at high speed, and that firearms are divided into barrels, bullets, and grips, Li Qingsong knew nothing else.

There is no relevant knowledge in the Deep Space spacecraft's knowledge base.

You were sent to Luoshen for scientific research. How could the human world put this knowledge into the knowledge base?

But it's still the same sentence.

It doesn't matter! Just know the basic principles! I can figure out the rest myself!
So these 100 firearms research teams all devoted themselves to the research of firearms.

Li Qingsong asked each of the 100 teams to choose a possible research direction, covering every aspect of the firearm structure, from the barrel material, internal mechanical structure, bullet structure, charge amount, gunpowder type, firing type, etc., and carry out experiments at the same time to find the most suitable material or construction mode.

Among the 10 people in each team, there will be one person dedicated to studying various gunpowder ratios and looking for the most suitable gunpowder material. Another person will operate the metal drilling equipment and try to drill various metal materials to find the most suitable material to serve as the gun barrel.

There was also a person who specialized in studying the structure of firearms, constantly processing parts and trying to assemble them, and someone else studied bullets, studying how to combine gunpowder and bullets.

The 10 people in each team have clear division of labor and cooperate with each other in an orderly manner.

The most important point is that there is a mutual coordination mechanism between different teams without any delay or communication cost.

The gunpowder testers of Team 66 accidentally found a formula that was more suitable for gunpowder, and in an instant, the gunpowder testers of all other teams knew about it.

They immediately stopped the gunpowder formulas they were testing and discarded them, then immediately copied the formula of Team 66 and carried out subsequent research and experiments based on this formula in an attempt to further optimize the performance of this formula.

When a member of a team makes another achievement, his progress will be known to the others at the same time, and then this situation will happen again. Everyone will once again throw away the formula in their hands and start further research based on this progress.

This applies not only to gunpowder, but also to the rest of the structure of the firearm.

Barrel, gun body, hammer, firing pin, spring, gun body structure, bullet...

With the cooperation of these 100 teams, Li Qingsong's knowledge about firearms, which was originally blank, skyrocketed like a balloon.

(End of this chapter)