Li Qingsong was convinced that once he had deployed Venus-class battleships on a large scale, 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 tough targets, while they can also provide long-range fire support. 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 Bluetook 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 better for my fleet to be at a total of 1,000 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 battleships began to proceed rapidly. As the manufacture of new spacecraft began, all the warships that Li Qingsong previously owned - including those Mercury-class battleships equipped with new engines - seemed somewhat redundant. Because in the process of developing the Venus-class battleships, Li Qingsong has accumulated enough technology to fully innovate and upgrade the Mercury-class battleships and build more advanced and more powerful Mercury-class battleships.
They are of no use. But Li Qingsong does not intend to recycle them and recycle the resources. They have other uses, too. At this moment, Li Qingsong was thinking about another question. “Since there is an AI in transportation, planting, animal husbandry, metallurgy, chemical industry, power grid, power plant and other industrial categories to take charge of the underlying work and achieve a huge improvement in efficiency, then can the same be done in combat? Can I also let AI perform spacecraft operations that require high real-time performance? For example, if a cluster of bullets is detected, the spacecraft can automatically start its engine to dodge. This will also solve the problem of my inability to command distant clones in real time due to communication delays between me and them." The scope of the interstellar battlefield must be huge. Moreover, the more advanced the technology, the larger the battlefield. Before mastering the long-distance communication technology, Li Qingsong must consider the command of distant warships. After some thought, Li Qingsong finally made a decision. "I don't know if this approach will work. After all, interstellar combat is quite different from daily 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 each of their operations would be collected by Li Qingsong. The new supercomputer base is being built and will be put into operation soon. The combat AI is also being written and will soon be able to enter the supercomputer to start training and feeding, and to carry out self-iteration and optimization. By then, the data collected from the old Mercury-class battleships will become the food for cultivating the growth of combat AI. In order to generate enough data to feed AI, these old Mercury-class battleships are not idle, but are becoming busier. Li Qingsong controlled them and came to a place tens of thousands kilometers away from Luoshen Star, where a melee and fight broke out. The artillery fire rumbled all day long. One after another, huge cargo ships set sail from Luoshen, loaded with bullets, shells, interstellar missiles, fuel, food, first aid supplies, etc., and arrived at the battlefield. They handed these supplies to the combat ships participating in the exercise as if they were thrown into a bottomless pit, and then turned into balls of fire and pieces of wreckage in space, disappearing. Looking at the supplies being transported on spaceships, even Li Qingsong felt a little distressed.
"This is simply burning money! No, even money is not burned 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, it has to be carried out despite the high consumption. The combat AI that he has high hopes for is waiting to be fed with the data generated during the exercise. Li Qingsong was still not satisfied with the manufacture of new spaceships, exercises of old spaceships, basic production on the planet Divine, large-scale industrial system on the planet Luoshen, and 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 attached great importance to this scientific research task. Because he knows in his heart that the success or failure of this scientific research will have a profound impact on his entire scientific system, and even affect his entire industrial layout, and is related to his future destiny! That is to say, Li Qingsong dared to start this research only when all the prerequisites were met. Before that, Li Qingsong would not 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 methods of obtaining energy! nuclear energy! Atomic bomb technology can be regarded as the beginning of the entire nuclear energy technology. In order to manufacture an atomic bomb and to successfully detonate it, Li Qingsong must master a whole series of processes from the initial exploration of uranium ore 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, and 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 of the sea of stars appeared in front of Li Qingsong. Li Qingsong had no choice but to blow it open with a nuclear bomb.