A few days later, Li Qingsong added that the number of armed clones in the 10 mining bases had reached 20,000, with an average of 2,000 per base. In addition, there are 4,000 armed clones in the main base. At the same time, new sets of equipment are still being produced at an average rate of 3,200 sets per day, which means that an average of 3,200 armed clones are born every day. At this time, the total number of strange birds reached more than 70,000 and finally moved to the vicinity of the base cluster, and launched an attack on Li Qingsong's 11 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 create a stalemate on the front 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! The production of the mineral base must also be maintained, and it cannot be stopped for a moment! As a result, such strange sights occurred in 10 mineral bases. Outside the base, thousands of armed clones fought desperately, 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, these 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 was even slowed 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 any front-line clones die, they will be replaced immediately. The battle situation remained at a stalemate. In order to maintain the current situation, Li Qingsong had to put 16,000 consciousness link shares into the battle. At the same time, he controlled an average of 1,000 shares in each mining base, 4,000 shares in the main base, and 2,000 shares in various railway guards, totaling 16,000 armed clones joining the battle. The battle situation was stable 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 2,000 to 3,000 delicious enemy corpses are swallowed by our side every day. If this is not a victory, what is? "If you want to eat, I'll let you eat!" The death of thousands of clones every day made Li Qingsong feel grim: "Just wait, there will be a day when you can't eat anymore!" At this moment, in the main base and various important mineral bases, a total of 4,000 clones are doing various tasks, such as mining, planting, breeding, transportation, etc., supporting the operation of the entire base system and delivering a steady supply of cold weapons equipment and food to the front line. But in addition to these 4,000 clones, Li Qingsong still has the last 1,000 clones. Although the battle situation is extremely stalemate and the combat pressure is extremely high at the moment, they have not been involved in combat or logistics production work. They are doing something else. 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 1,066 clones were divided into 100 teams by Li Qingsong, and all of them were put into the research and development of gunpowder weapons. 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 produce gas that propels the bullet 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! If I don't know the rest, I will study it myself! So these 100 firearms research teams all devoted themselves to the research on 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 conduct 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 who specializes in studying various gunpowder ratios and looking for the most suitable gunpowder material, and another person who specializes in operating metal drilling equipment, trying to drill holes in various metal materials and looking for the most suitable material to serve as the gun barrel. There was another person who specialized in studying the structure of firearms, constantly processing parts and trying to assemble them together. Another person studied bullets and studied how to combine gunpowder and bullets together. 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 all 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, so the situation will happen again. Everyone will once again throw away the formula in their hands and start follow-up research based on this progress. This is true not only for gunpowder, but also for 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.