Chapter 485 The Long War
Of course, this breakout path is not directly opened up. Instead, as the Tianqin moves, the warships of the battleship cluster will appear on each node in a timely and planned manner under the control of strong artificial intelligence, providing the basis for Tianqin. Qinhao has opened up a new space path.
This look is like a person wading across a river, and the river automatically gives way in front of the person.
Without the coordination of strong artificial intelligence, such cooperation would be difficult to achieve. But in order to cover the Tianqin to break out of the encirclement, the battleship cluster also paid a heavy price.
By the time the Tianqin successfully escaped from the melee, there were only less than 300,000 warships following it, and they were still decreasing.
However, this situation changed after successfully breaking out of the melee circle, because the Donghai and Xihai squadrons had rushed to the battlefield and were only about 7 light seconds away from the Tianqin.
In this round of the game between the two sides, the Tianqin battleship cluster spent a total of more than 1.8 million battleships in order to hold back the Red Flame Civilization. In the melee, the opponent's fleet also had more than 3.6 million ships. The battleship was destroyed.
In fact, if it weren't for the support fleet equipped with No. 1 alloy armor, the battle loss ratio would be even greater.
At this moment, the fleets of both sides once again transformed from a squadron into a large fleet, but the number was much smaller than before the war began.
The three human fleets combined, there are only 2.9 million ships left, and the Red Flame civilization is not many, with only 5.07 million ships left.
The battleships of the Red Flame Civilization dropped sharply from 1.4 million at the beginning of the war to 5.07 million, a loss of more than half, while the human warships also dropped from 6 million to 2.9 million, with a loss of nearly half.
Of course, judging from the battle loss ratio, humans still have the upper hand, but the results are much smaller than those five years ago. The overall battle loss ratio has not reached 1:3.
Regarding this result, many senior officials on the Tianqin believed that this was the reason for the appearance of the armor made of No. 1 alloy material.
In these years, the combat effectiveness of the human fleet has not been improved, but the interstellar trading market has significantly improved its defense power due to No. 1 Alloy technology. More importantly, the defense power brought by No. 1 Alloy Armor has been improved. It seems that there happened to be a chemical reaction with their advanced ultra-micro nanorobot technology, allowing their new battleship's combat effectiveness to skyrocket to a level that is comparable to that of enemy battleships.
Because of this, someone on the Tianqin complained that the No. 1 Alloy manufacturing technology should not have been told to the other party. Of course, this is just a complaint. At that time, in order to obtain the fourth-level civilization creation, that is, the negative mass generator, humans promised to hand over the No. 2 alloy technology. If they did not come up with the No. 1 alloy manufacturing technology to confuse the public, they would not have it at all. to that creation.
"Commander Yue, the longer this war drags on, the worse it will be for us."
As soon as the Tianqin broke out of the melee and met the Donghai and Xihai squadrons, a military expert immediately said on the internal channel: "Although we have destroyed the opponent's Earth-6 planetary base, we are now preparing to destroy their third planet base." Two planetary bases, but generally speaking, they have been operating in this system for many years.
They still have an absolute advantage in terms of the speed of resource extraction and the number of resource development sites they occupy. Because of this, they are much faster than us in producing warships. It took us five years to produce a hundred new warships, but as we can see from the first war, they produced at least three million warships.
In other words, the production capacity ratio between us is 1 to 3, us 1 to them 3, and the battle loss ratio was still 1 to 3 overall, or even higher, but after the addition of their new warships, the gap has been eliminated. The score was 1 to 2.8, and this was despite the excellent use of tactics this time.”
"If the opponent has all new warships in the future, in a head-on battle, it may not be impossible to exchange two warships for one of our warships."
This expert's words can be summed up in one sentence. After the emergence of the opponent's new warships, the comprehensive strength of one side in the interstellar trading market has surpassed that of humans. If the war continues for a long time, the ultimate loser will be humans.
After listening to the military expert's words, Yue Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "What you said makes sense, but you have overlooked one issue, or in other words, you have neglected one issue, and that is the population. Oh, the alien population.
You should also have discovered that since the strong artificial intelligence was eliminated by us, the opponent's fleet has never been controlled by strong artificial intelligence. In other words, they are fighting our steel with their lives.
Taking this into account, even if they can really achieve a two-for-one record with us in future wars, can their population really keep up? "
Yue Yuan's words seemed like rhetorical questions, but in fact he was also asking himself.
But there is no answer to this question now, because humans still don’t know how living individuals exist in this interstellar trading market, nor do they know how many living individuals they need to operate a warship, let alone their fertility rate.
All we know is that the third, fourth, and fifth planetary bases located inside this star system are their core areas, and they are filled with their living individuals.
Naturally, the fertility of aliens cannot be compared to that of humans. If they were the same as humans, Yue Yuan would be absolutely sure that they would be beaten to the point of having no soldiers left, otherwise they would be like fish, laying tens of thousands or even billions of eggs. If so, the longer the battlefield drags on, the more detrimental it will be to humanity.
Of course, there is no way to deal with it. Yue Yuan quickly reached the number of strong artificial intelligence that humans now have.
Now the strong artificial intelligence on the South Sea is in charge of resource development and warship manufacturing on the thirteenth planet. In fact, whether it is the South Sea, the East Sea, the West Sea, or the North Sea, the strong artificial intelligence they carry originally only has military functions, and is not professional in resource development and warship manufacturing.
But there is the most complete strong artificial intelligence on the Tianqin, and of course Yue Yuan's highest authority authorization is indispensable.
The reason why the South Sea is competent for this job is because Yue Yuan uses his authority to let the strong artificial intelligence on the Tianqin share this knowledge and experience with it. It can be said that as long as Yue Yuan is willing, he can let the other several ships carrying military-specific strong artificial intelligence also transform into strong artificial intelligence that takes into account mining and production.
In this way, humans can also carry out multi-point resource development on other planets, and then use machines to manufacture machines, greatly improve production capacity, and then directly surpass the interstellar trading market in productivity.
In that way, the war will be won.
It is better to think of ways from the resources you have than to pin your hopes on the individual life reproduction mode of the other party whose details are unknown.
After thinking about this, Yue Yuan already had the answer in his mind.
But now is not the time to implement it, because the fleets of both sides have started a new round of confrontation at this time. Humans have 2.9 million warships. The other side still has 5.07 million. This number ratio shows that humans have an advantage.
If they really continue to fight in the starry sky, humans have a great chance of winning.
Obviously, not only the human side saw this, but also the commander-in-chief of the Red Flame Civilization, so this new round of confrontation did not break out on a large scale like before.
After the Red Flame Civilization fleet discovered that the Tianqin successfully broke out of the melee circle, they only pursued for a while. After the vanguard met the two fleets that came to support humans, they did not continue to advance, but consciously fired long-range shots while slowing down. Then, at the moment when the Tianqin completed the turn, they made a detour in the starry sky and headed towards their second planetary base.
Obviously, the Red Flame Civilization knew that they could not gain an advantage in the starry sky, so they hid near the planetary base for joint defense, trying to use the various artillery batteries of the planetary base for defense.
A very wise choice.
If humans enter the planetary orbit to fight them, they will inevitably face attacks from defense facilities such as planetary bases, orbital artillery, and satellite defense bases.
In the past, with the current number of warships, humans were really not afraid, but now there are two million new warships among the 5.07 million warships, and humans cannot take risks.
After a while, watching the fleet that broke away from the battle and gradually drove towards its planetary base, Yue Yuan understood that this war was really going to become a protracted war.
He did not hesitate and directly ordered the fleet to stop chasing, and then started the return journey.
"Then let's compare productivity!" Yue Yuan, who exited the overclocking state, muttered, and then sent a command from the brain chip to let the computer call up the star map, and then his eyes turned to the twelfth planet that was previously bombed by human orbit.
Expand the planetary base, increase resource development efforts, increase the number of docks, and speed up the production efficiency of warships.