Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 81 Atomic Bomb

Li Qingsong was convinced that once he had deployed a large number of Venus-class battleships, the combat effectiveness of his fleet would skyrocket.

At that time, the large Venus-class battleships and the small Mercury-class battleships, two different types of battleships, will cooperate with each other. The Venus-class battleships will be responsible for attacking the targets and providing long-range fire support. The small targets can be handed over to the Mercury-class battleships, which will be responsible for harassment and fighting. The tactics can also be more diverse and flexible.

If he had had a Venus-class battleship when fighting against the advance fleet of the Bluetuk civilization, then that battle would not have been so risky and passive, and he would not have needed to rely on various conspiracies to defeat the enemy.

"Taking into account my current industrial and technological levels, the number of clones, logistical supply capabilities, communication capabilities, and combat radius, well... at this stage, it would be best if my fleet remained at a total of 1000 warships.

Of these, 800 are Mercury-class battleships, 50 are Venus-class battleships, and the remaining 150 are logistics supply ships."

After making the decision, Li Qingsong immediately started the actual manufacturing.

The huge spacecraft assembly plant has now been completed, and the various spacecraft component factories have also been put into operation.

Thus, with the busy work of many clones, the production of new warships began to proceed rapidly.

As the manufacture of new spacecraft began, all the warships that Li Qingsong had previously owned - including those Mercury-class warships equipped with new engines - seemed somewhat redundant.

Because in the process of developing the Venus-class battleship, Li Qingsong has accumulated enough technology to fully innovate and upgrade the Mercury-class battleship and build a more advanced and more powerful Mercury-class battleship.

They are no longer useful.

But Li Qingsong does not intend to recycle them and recycle the resources.

They have other uses as well.

At this moment, Li Qingsong was thinking about another problem.

"Since AI can handle the underlying work in transportation, agriculture, animal husbandry, metallurgy, chemicals, power grids, power plants, and other industrial sectors, achieving significant efficiency gains, can it also be applied to combat?

Can I also delegate real-time spacecraft operations to the AI? For example, if a swarm of bullets is detected, the spacecraft can automatically start its engines to evade them.

This will also solve the problem of me being unable to command distant clones in real time due to communication delays between me and them."

The scope of an interstellar battlefield is bound to be enormous. Furthermore, the more advanced the technology, the larger the battlefield. Before mastering long-distance communication technology, Li Qingsong had to consider the issue of commanding distant warships.

After some thought, Li Qingsong finally made a decision.

"I'm not sure if this approach will work. After all, interstellar combat is quite different from everyday industrial production.

But why not give it a try? Even if it turns out not to be feasible, it's just a small loss of resources, a drop in the bucket."

To be cautious, Li Qingsong did not directly add intelligent control modules to the new spacecraft, but instead began to modify the retired old Mercury-class battleships.

A large number of sensors and controllers were installed in these old warships. From this moment on, all the data generated by their operation would be collected by Li Qingsong.

A new supercomputing base is under construction and will be operational soon. Combat AI is also being written and will soon be able to enter the supercomputing system to begin training and feeding, self-iteration, and optimization.

By then, the data collected from these old Mercury-class battleships will become the food for cultivating the combat AI. In order to generate enough data to feed the AI, these old Mercury-class battleships are not only not idle, but are becoming busier.

Li Qingsong controlled them and came to a place tens of thousands of kilometers away from Luoshen Star, where a melee and fight broke out.

The rumble of artillery fire continued day and night. One after another, massive cargo ships set sail from Luoshen, laden with ammunition, artillery shells, interstellar missiles, fuel, food, first aid supplies, and so on. They delivered these supplies to the participating combat ships as if they were being thrown into a bottomless pit, then vanished into thin air, turning into balls of fire and fragments of wreckage.

Even Li Qingsong felt a little distressed when he saw the supplies being transported on spaceships.

"This is simply burning money! No, even burning money is not this fast!"

Although it is not a war, even if it is a live-fire exercise, the consumption of resources is really too great.

Just for bullets, hundreds of millions of them are consumed every day!

Tens of thousands of tons of fuel are consumed every day!

Hundreds of interstellar missiles are consumed every day!

If I couldn't get supplies from the enemy planet, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hold on for long in the exercise.

However, despite the high cost, it still had to be carried out. The combat AI that he had placed such high hopes on was now being fed with the data generated during these exercises.

Li Qingsong was still not satisfied with controlling the clones to manufacture new spaceships, conduct exercises on old spaceships, carry out basic production on Enemy Star, establish a large-scale industrial system on Luoshen Star, and carry out numerous scientific and technological research and development projects. He separated out some clones again and invested the scientific research power into another cause.

Li Qingsong attaches great importance to this scientific research task.

Because he knew clearly in his heart that the success or failure of this scientific research would have a profound impact on his entire scientific system, and even affect his entire industrial layout, and affect his future destiny!
Only when all the prerequisites were in place did Li Qingsong dare to start this research. Before that, Li Qingsong wouldn't even think about it.

This research is, the atomic bomb!

After a long period of relying on chemical energy to drive the overall operation, Li Qingsong has finally decided to try more advanced and efficient means of obtaining energy!

nuclear energy!

Atomic bomb technology can be regarded as the beginning of nuclear energy technology as a whole.

In order to manufacture an atomic bomb and successfully detonate it, Li Qingsong must master a series of processes from the initial exploration of uranium mines to the subsequent separation, purification, enrichment, calculation, etc., and master the basic physical principles of utilizing nuclear energy.

Only by mastering the uncontrollable nuclear fission technology of the atomic bomb can Li Qingsong start subsequent research on controlled nuclear fission technology.

The entity corresponding to controlled nuclear fission technology is the nuclear power plant.

Only after building a nuclear power plant can we think about the technology of miniaturizing nuclear fission reactors, the subsequent secondary pressurization propulsion technology, and even the high-speed ion propulsion technology that even the human world has not mastered. Only then can we truly be free from the restrictions of chemical fuels and truly enter the sea of stars.

Now, the gate to the sea of stars appeared in front of Li Qingsong. Apart from using a nuclear bomb to blow it open, Li Qingsong had no other choice.

(End of this chapter)