Li Qingsong saw that, with his no-holds-barred, no-sacrifice-spared approach—replacing every destroyed warship and unmanned combat facility with a new one, maintaining the most intense barrage of electromagnetic projectiles and laser beams, and detonating high-yield electromagnetic interference bombs at every moment—even those strong-nuclear-level warships were now forced to make tactical adjustments due to his all-out offensive.
They no longer recklessly maneuvered and attacked, relying on their energy shields as before. Instead, they had to start coordinating with each other and retreating to some extent to evade his fire.
Li Qingsong had forcefully halted their advance!
Although this was only a detachment of the opponent's fleet, without any large capital ships;
Although the opponent may not have come with the intention of destroying him, their primary mission being merely to intimidate him into surrender;
Although he had already gone all out, and suffered heavy casualties at every moment;
Although it was the combination of all these conditions that allowed him to halt the opponent's advance, one thing was undeniable.
That was, he, with the combat power of an electroweak-level civilization, had temporarily stopped a strong-nuclear-level civilization's fleet, preventing them from advancing an inch!
Judging by the combat power displayed by both sides, Li Qingsong knew that probably no other electroweak civilization in the entire galaxy could achieve this.
"You may be strong, but you are not invincible."
Li Qingsong's heart was filled with surging fighting spirit. He looked again into the distance, towards where the Machine Intelligence Disaster's main fleet was located.
There, more than two million warships were stationed, not yet deployed.
Li Qingsong knew that this number should exceed the warship limit that a normal strong-nuclear civilization could possess.
Different levels of civilization have different population limits, or rather, organizational limits.
The degree of organization depends on the level of technology. The more advanced the civilization, the more people it can organize with the help of technology. People who cannot be organized are not only not an asset to the civilization, but a burden.
Thus, different levels of civilization have different population limits.
According to Li Qingsong's estimation, the population limit of a strong-nuclear civilization can support a fleet size of about 700,000 to 1,000,000 warships.
Of course, even if Li Qingsong temporarily held off the opponent's attack, the opponent would only need to deploy a few tens of thousands more warships at most to truly break through his defensive perimeter, without needing to deploy the entire fleet.
But Li Qingsong knew that the opponent would probably not do that.
Li Qingsong was somewhat confident in his judgment, but not too much. But at the moment, there was no other way but to gamble.
If the opponent didn't deploy its entire army, but only sent a small portion as reinforcements...
Li Qingsong knew that he should consider restarting.
At this moment, within the supercomputer mothership, with the support of hyper-range communication technology, the frontline battle situation was being transmitted in real time, being processed by Akainu in real time.
The war at the front was already vast enough. And, when the war situation is large, the amount of data generated will inevitably be large. The more data there is, the more resources it will take to process it.
But at this moment, on the supercomputer mothership, the numerous supercomputer bases were still operating smoothly, with even the power consumption showing little fluctuation.
In the logical operation unit, numerous pieces of information were still flashing rapidly.
"The prey civilization did not suffer a mental breakdown due to our military demonstration, but instead showed a more determined fighting will, and even managed to intercept our fleet outside the defensive perimeter.
It is no longer possible to defeat the opponent with a single detachment.
To achieve this, it would be necessary to deploy approximately 40,000 more warships.
But in this battle, the determination of their fighting will exceeded my previous expectations.
Their manned warships completely disregarded casualties, and even seemed to be actively seeking death.
The success rate of the 'defeat the opponent and force them to surrender' plan has been reduced to less than 20%. Even if the opponent is truly defeated, we will face a large-scale suicide attack.
This will certainly not cause any damage to our side, but... the intelligent life of the opponent is a valuable asset. Large-scale suicide attacks will lead to the death of a large number of intelligent life, resulting in our inability to capture enough 'native' intelligent life, and the harvest will be less than expected.
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Thus, the original operational plan needs to be abandoned. We need to deploy more combat power, to disable the opponent without destroying their warships or causing a large number of casualties.
Controlling the opponent is more difficult than killing the opponent. Comprehensively assessing the battlefield situation and the opponent's resistance will, the total number of warships we need to deploy is... million.
To ensure the plan goes smoothly, I think we can be even more aggressive.
The star system has been fully surveyed, and there are no external threat forces inside or around the star system. It is sufficient to reserve 50,000 warships for the main fleet for basic defense.
The remaining total of 2 million warships can all be deployed to the battlefield.
There is also one thing to note.
Reconnaissance satellites have detected that the prey civilization has deployed a large number of hydrogen bombs in the asteroid belt, suspected hydrogen bomb traps.
But since suffering significant losses due to hydrogen bomb traps in the previous star system, we have specifically adjusted our response plan and achieved results—the second hydrogen bomb trap did not pose any threat to us at all.
The reality proves that as long as we reduce our speed and carefully explore, hydrogen bomb traps will become ineffective against us.
This is probably because the prey civilization does not understand the situation in the previous star systems, and is completely unaware that hydrogen bomb traps are no longer effective against us, which is why they have deployed them again.
So, the summary of this operation plan is as follows:
Deploy another 2 million warships, and on the premise of reducing speed and carefully exploring to avoid being threatened by hydrogen bomb traps, focus on launching targeted attacks on the engines, electromagnetic guns, radars, and laser cannons of manned warships, to make the other side lose the ability to launch suicide attacks, and wait for our future capture.
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