The armor of these combat ships seems to be made of some kind of material with extremely high technological content and is very strong. Faced with the projectile bombardment that lasted for a total of three days, although they were hit many times, none of them was destroyed. At most, the surface became bumpy and some equipment installed on the hull of the spacecraft was destroyed. The fighter ship that suffered the most damage seemed to have its thrusters destroyed and lost its ability to maneuver. Although the results were not great, they were still enough to satisfy Li Qingsong. After all, Li Qingsong never thought that he could rely on the torrent of bullets to threaten the spacecraft. He was able to seriously damage one spacecraft, and the rest all suffered some damage to varying degrees. It was purely a pleasant surprise. There are other things used to deal with these warships. At this moment, the bombing that lasted for three days has come to an end. The entire surface of the enemy star has been plowed by itself, and no artificial buildings can be seen on the ground. At this time, the real Mercury-class battleship was also ready. Before, he was afraid that his opponent would find out that he was not doing anything. But now that he had revealed his cards, he naturally had no more reservations. As a result, these 500 Mercury-class battleships and 50 of the largest cargo ships simultaneously started accelerating at the highest power.
Methane and oxygen burn violently in the combustion chamber, continuously generating high-temperature and high-pressure gases. These gases are tightly confined in the combustion chamber and cannot diffuse around, so they can only be squeezed and ejected from the engine nozzle like an explosion, thereby providing a surging reverse thrust for the spacecraft as a whole, driving the spacecraft to accelerate rapidly. In a short period of time, these spacecraft accelerated from only 1 kilometer per second to 11 kilometers per second! After that, the spacecraft's engine was shut down and it entered into inertial navigation. During the subsequent flight process, the spacecraft will only make some fine-tuning of its route at most. It’s not that Li Qingsong doesn’t want to accelerate to a higher speed, but that he can’t do it. After all, they have neither high-speed ion propulsion technology nor secondary pressurization propulsion technology, and can only rely on chemical propellants for propulsion. The amount of chemical propellant used is huge. If it accelerates further, even with a cargo ship following, its own fuel will not be enough. But it didn't matter. Even if they continued to move at this speed, it would only take a little over a month at most to reach the battlefield across the 40 million kilometers. This time, Li Qingsong still did not choose to let his main body arrive at the battlefield. This means that when you control these warships, there will still be a delay of about 4 minutes. This will inevitably lead to the poor performance of these 500 warships and a sharp decrease in combat effectiveness. But it doesn’t matter, Li Qingsong has his own plans. However, the first batch of 500 warships that set sail were not all for this war. Li Qingsong, who stayed at the main base, was still controlling a total of about 900,000 clones with almost no communication delay, and was once again engaged in another task. Go all out to build more Mercury-class battleships, go all out to produce more machine gun bullets, machine gun shells, fuel, consumables, and interstellar missiles! Almost on the first day that the 500 Mercury-class battleships set sail, the first batch of follow-up supplies had been produced. That is 10 million machine gun bullets, 10,000 machine gun shells, as well as large amounts of methane, pure oxygen, interstellar missiles, etc. They were packed into containers, ten in total, and then accelerated by cargo ships. After they were accelerated to the appropriate speed and had a suitable orbit, they were thrown directly into space and allowed to fly autonomously towards the direction of the enemy star. The cargo spacecraft then returned, picked up a second batch of supplies, and threw them into space again, and repeated the process.
After three days of expedited production, the first batch of Mercury-class battleships were completed. There were five ships in total. After completing the replenishment at the space base, they also embarked on the journey to the enemy planet. So, either bullets or warships, either artillery shells or fuel, all kinds of supplies continuously set out from Luoshen Star and flew towards the enemy star. At this moment, there is still about a month before the first batch of 500 Mercury-class battleships arrive at the battlefield. The surviving enemy motherships and warships were once again faced with a dilemma. At this moment, their base was destroyed and they had lost almost all logistical supply capabilities. Although the enemy's warships were lagging behind, they were coming in an endless stream. So, what should we do? Should we repair the base and restore supplies as much as possible, or... give up on the supplies, head to the opponent's planet, and destroy the opponent's base first? The more rational choice is undoubtedly to destroy the opponent's base as well. But... since the previous torrent of bullets could be used to destroy one's own base, it seems that it can also be used to perform defensive tasks. Just imagine the overwhelming bullets coming from the planet non-stop. How can our warships resist them? Then it seems that there is only one choice left. Rely on the superior performance of your own spacecraft to block the opponent's continuous attacks, and rush to repair the base and restore supplies! Remember to build your base underground this time! Once the supply is restored, no matter how many warships the enemy sends, it will be useless! Judging from the technological gap between the enemy and us, this is something that is very likely to be achieved. So these dozens of warships continued to stay on the enemy planet. Under the watchful eyes of Li Qingsong's spy satellite, they frequently took off and landed between the surface of the enemy planet and the mother ship, and seemed to be doing their best to carry out emergency repair work. The battlefield returned to silence for a moment. Then, the first batch of 500 Mercury-class battleships arrived. Half of the dozens of enemy warships rushed towards the Mercury-class battleship fleet. But this time, Li Qingsong did not directly control these Mercury-class battleships to confront them head-on. Even at this moment the opponent's warships were seriously short of logistical supplies and most of them were damaged. Li Qingsong only performed an extremely simple tactical move. Retreat with all your might! Escape! At the same time, machine guns, cannons, and missiles were all fired out at once, attacking with all their might! Because the tactics were simple, they could be executed even with a four-minute communication delay. Tiny sparks of fire flickered in the vast and deep space. As expected, most of their attacks were intercepted, and not even a single enemy warship was destroyed. Instead, more than a dozen of their own warships were directly destroyed by the enemy because they could not escape in time. Fortunately, the main fleet finally escaped.
Seeing their own side escape, the enemy warships returned to the mother ship, intending to continue their repair mission. "Not chasing? How can that be possible? If you hadn't come, I would have gone over there." Li Qingsong sneered and directly controlled the fleet to move closer again. Machine guns, cannons, and interstellar missiles once again began to bombard fiercely.
