Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 80 Crush
In this vast space, Li Qingsong's only Venus-class battleship is undergoing full-load acceleration testing.

First, the four thrusters on this side of the spherical spacecraft simultaneously pushed at full power, pushing it to accelerate rapidly at a speed of 30 meters per square second. It continued to spray for 2 minutes, and the speed increased to 3.6 kilometers per second. Afterwards, the four thrusters on this side were shut down at the same time, and the four thrusters on the opposite side sprayed at the same time, pushing it to decelerate violently.

Yes, this spherical spaceship has engines on every side!

Li Qingsong installed a total of 12 high-thrust methane-oxygen engines on the entire spherical surface, and any engine can be easily activated at any time and anywhere.

This saves time in changing attitude. These 12 engines work together to respond instantly to any maneuver.

An acceleration of 30 meters per square second would bring a gravity roughly three times that of Earth. As the Venus-class battleship rapidly accelerated and decelerated, the clones strapped to their seatbelts were pressed against the backs of their seats, then against the forward control console, and then against the ceiling.

Fortunately, each clone was wearing a seat belt, which kept them all firmly fixed in their seats.

During this violent process of rapid acceleration and deceleration, the clones tried their best to control the dashboard in front of them, cooperating with each other to control the movement of the entire spacecraft.

After maneuvering like this for a while and the test was roughly stable, the weapon system test began.

More than twenty old, retired Mercury-class battleships appeared in front.

The radar detection systems of these Mercury-class battleships have been turned on at full power, carefully scanning all the surrounding space.

The scanning range of this first-generation radar can reach about 5000 kilometers.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides was still about 1.2 kilometers. The Venus-class battleship had not yet entered the radar scanning range of the old Mercury-class battleship.

But even at such a long distance, the radar on the Venus-class battleships had already scanned those Mercury-class battleships.

The new generation of high-speed scanning radar has outstanding detection range and accuracy.

The next moment, the Venus-class battleship began accelerating at full speed. Simultaneously, fifty black gun muzzles appeared on the side of its spherical shell facing the Mercury-class battleship, and a large number of bullets instantly poured out.

The firing rate of these new machine guns reached 3000 rounds per minute, and the muzzle velocity reached about 3.1 kilometers per second!

With the help of the spacecraft's own acceleration, these bullets have gained a speed increase of about 3.1 meters per second on top of their original speed of 200 kilometers per second.

So their speed reached 3.3 kilometers per second.

Almost in an instant, tens of thousands of bullets rushed towards the Mercury-class battleship in the distance. Not long after, the defenseless Mercury-class battleship was directly blown up.

It was not until they were attacked that the other Mercury-class battleships fought back in a panic.

The radar still couldn't detect the opponent, but by observing the bullet trajectory, it could barely locate the opponent's direction.

So more than 40 Mercury-class battleships, with a total of machine guns, began to fight back fiercely at the same time.

However, not long after the battle, the Mercury-class battleship was forced to slow down its firing rate.

The reason was simple: their ammunition reserves were running out.

However, the attack from the opponent is still continuing, with no sign of slowing down!

The Venus-class battleship has more machine guns, a total of 100 across the entire sphere, so the bullet consumption should be greater, so the duration should be shorter. However, this is not the case.

The standard carrying capacity of each Venus-class battleship is 4000 million bullets. On average, one machine gun has 40 bullets available, which is twice as many as a Mercury-class battleship with only two machine guns!
At the same time, after a completely new design and the application of more advanced technology, the muzzle velocity of this new bullet has been increased, but the overall quality has been greatly reduced.

A bullet weighs only 5 grams, and 4000 million bullets would have a mass of 200 tons, which is well within the payload range of a Venus-class spacecraft.

The two sides fought for a while, and more than 20 old Mercury-class battleships had no ability to fight back, and three of them were directly blown up in a short while.

The remaining Mercury-class battleships dispersed at the same time and tried to attack the opponent from multiple directions.

But this tactic, which had been tried and tested in the past, lost its effectiveness at this moment.

The reason is simple: the Venus-class battleship is spherical, with 100 machine guns distributed in every direction of the sphere.

It has no blind spots for attack!
As a result, more machine gun muzzles were exposed and fired fiercely in all directions at the same time.

Five more Mercury-class battleships were destroyed.

The remaining 15 Mercury-class battleships finally gave up and evacuated with all their might.

At this time, the Venus-class battleship changed its tactics again.

The machine gun fire stopped, and a total of 10 machine guns distributed on the spherical shell revealed their muzzles full of murderous intent.

One shell after another flew out at a speed faster than a bullet.

These are not ordinary shells that rely entirely on inertia to fly once they leave the muzzle, but rocket artillery shells with a certain orbital adjustment capability!
Although they were not as capable of orbital adjustment as interstellar missiles, they were of lower quality and more numerous. As long as they were aimed in a general direction and the target did not deviate too much, they would automatically lock onto the target and move towards it.

In one round of salvo, 10 out of 8 rockets hit the target, four ships were destroyed, and the remaining four were seriously damaged, which were solved with a round of machine gun salvo.

Only the last 7 Mercury-class battleships are left!
At this point, they had already fled a considerable distance, and it was difficult to cover the target with machine guns alone. The same was true for rocket launchers.

But it's okay.

The cover on one side of the Venus-class spacecraft opened, revealing a new type of interstellar missile inside.

Driven by the latest thrusters, the speed of these interstellar missiles accelerated to more than 15 kilometers per second in a very short time, and they also flexibly changed their directions in space, always keeping a firm lock on the target.

After more than ten minutes of pursuit, the missile hit the target accurately. In an instant, several huge balls of fire exploded in space.

The entire live-fire exercise lasted only less than an hour, and more than 20 old Mercury-class battleships were completely destroyed!
This Venus-class battleship hadn't even used its full strength yet, as it didn't use its greater maneuverability to pursue its target, but simply took a long-range attack to destroy the enemy.

After completing the exercise, the spacecraft accelerated rapidly again and returned to the ground base.

A group of clones rushed forward and took a closer look. They saw that although it had been hit by at least a thousand bullets during the battle, there was no damage other than some tiny dents on the armor.

Li Qingsong sighed with satisfaction: "This is the battleship I want."

(End of this chapter)