Chapter 350: It's a War of Quality
When the second wave of matter rushed past the six-stringed star, it was shot at by hundreds of thousands of high-energy particles, but the loss was not large, and the key was speed.
Before the arrival of the third wave of supplies, the six-stringed star's group of warships was dispatched on a large scale, they lined up in a neat line, activated the electromagnetic shield, and burst out all the firepower to meet the flow of materials at the calculated time.
This time, the supplies and insect swarm were completely intercepted, but Zhou Wenming definitely did not lose, because two million tons of materials destroyed more than two thousand warships, and the smallest of these warships was also above one million tons.
The battleship group adjusted the queue and blocked the wreckage of the battle-damaged battleships in front, trying to block the fourth wave of supplies, and finally lost more than 1,200 warships.
This was completely an act of blocking the muzzle of the battleship, and the battle damage ratio was as high as three orders of magnitude, so the battleship group retreated, leaving only more than 3,000 battleship wreckage to block the channel.
The wreckage blocked about a quarter of the supplies in the fifth and sixth waves, and the swarm losses were even more severe, reaching half the level.
But these losses were not wasted, they re-cleared the waterways, and set the stage for the arrival of the warhammers, cannons, and forty incarnations.
The greatest value of wisdom lies in improvisation, and unlike mere material swarms, warhammers, cannons, and avatars dropped swarms on the heavily guarded planet as they skimmed the six-stringed star.
Because the launch was too sudden, the warship group and the armed forces on the ring did not react in time, and only a few hundred of the more than 6,000 bugs were intercepted by fire.
But the bugs didn't make it to the planet's surface, they were so fast that most of them burned up in the atmosphere.
A few insects protected by the formation arrived on the ground, but they also smashed out craters on the ground like meteors, and they were even more dead slag.
Warhammers didn't drop bugs for the purpose of throwing troops, no swarm of bugs could make it to the planet alive at a speed of 1,000 kilometers per second, they were actually just vehicles to ensure that the spores hidden in their bodies could enter the atmosphere.
One of the basic principles of war is to know oneself and know that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and the war hammer cannot accept that the war is carried out blindly without knowing the details of the other party, which is why this launch operation was born.
The spores will use the organic matter of the six-stringed star to reform scouting bugs to scout the planets under the strict protection of the fleet and try to relay information.
The spores delivered this time cannot evolve into combat and sabotage troops, because Warhammer believes that intelligence comes first, and after obtaining planetary intelligence, it can naturally arrange a more accurate delivery plan and continuously send combat power into planetary operations.
Warhammer brought hundreds of cocoon servers and randomly placed them in this star system to ensure the connection of the Spirit Sea, and avoid the situation where the last intact cocoon server failed, causing the meteor and the large army to lose contact.
When the two Adventists arrived, the manpower was immediately free, and the construction work began rapidly, and the expansion of the swarm suddenly increased tenfold.
Artillery, in particular, as the advent of the industrial group, is best at the construction of the military industry and the production of offensive weapons. ….
Under the auspices of the cannon, the three basic industries of minerals, smelting and chemical industry have been rapidly developed, and the smelting of metal resources and the output of large-scale chemical products have changed the production mode of the mother nest again, saving a large number of processes, and the speed of producing insects has increased by more than 100 times.
A few days later, with the completion of the basic industrial system and the production of the military industry, a large number of automated defensive weapons began to arm the main base dwarf planet.
Fake bases and sub-bases have not fallen, and these large and small celestial bodies are covered with defensive weapons, and they are rapidly transforming into fire hedgehogs.
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When Zhou civilization was expanding rapidly, the six-stringed star was not idle, and countless reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance satellites were released, and a carpet search was launched.
A fleet of 300 warships tracked and reconnoitred along the trajectory of seven waves of material flows, releasing more reconnaissance planes along the way.
The abundant forces allow the six-stringed star to work in two directions and spread out in all directions
, Zhou Wenming couldn't hide for long.
Cannon suddenly said in the channel: "Unexpectedly, the six-stringed star looks particularly stubborn, but the action to deal with the change in the situation is actually leaky, and it doesn't give us any chance."
Warhammer asked, "Operation Spore?"
Cannon replied, "Yes, it's 99 percent defeated, barely able to give back a little information."
"The six-stringed star actually carried out a large-scale sanitization on our insect meteor trajectory, except for a very small number of spores, which were completely destroyed by them, and blinded Lao Tzu for a lot of hard work."
The individual spores are extremely small, which is its strength, but it is also a disadvantage.
Extremely small, it is easy to infiltrate and invade, dragging the enemy into the abyss of death without even knowing it.
At the same time, tiny spores also lack resistance and are easily destroyed by simple sanitizing methods, such as the simplest acetic acid.
Moreover, if the spores are too small, there can be no redundancy of information stored inside, and after being irradiated, or even after natural reproduction and division, the information will be missing or wrong, which is absolutely unavoidable entropy increase.
The spores are redundant with each other to resist entropy increase, and when the number is small to a certain extent, it is difficult for the spores to transmit enough correct information to develop into a more advanced swarm.
Therefore, although there are still spores remaining, and it is confirmed that they are slowly adapting to the environment, they are likely to redevelop and reproduce later.
But at that time, these spores will become one of the creatures of the six-stringed star, and will no longer be part of the swarm of the Zhou civilization.
Cannon said, "Now the spores can still give some feedback, but they are getting weaker and weaker, and after four days at most, the spores will mutate beyond the scope of the swarm, and I will lose control of the spores."
Meteor asked, "Is there any value in the feedback information?" I've been going around with the Six Strings and I'm still superficial about them."
Cannon replied, "I don't have much information, I just know that the ecological environment of the six-stringed star is very good, and life is extraordinarily prosperous, but I haven't found such an environment as a city."
Warhammer suddenly said, "Too little information to be useful."
The cannon himself said, "It's really too few, and even if there is a city, the area is so small, it's normal not to meet it." ….
He continued, "The six-stringed star has been so tightly cohesive, and so far it has blocked our way to get a corner. This star system is also too clean, there are no giant gas planets, and there are no dense asteroid belts."
"Wait until the fake base in front of you *** is gone, and then you don't even have to play guerrilla warfare, so you can only fight them head-on."
Meteor smiled optimistically, "It's okay, isn't it just hard to produce volume, as long as the resources can keep up, our insect swarm won't be scared."
Warhammer said, "Artificial intelligence, very efficient."
After a pause, Warhammer slowly said a ranking: "Quality War."
When both sides of the war have strong production capacity and the speed of replenishing troops is extremely fast, they will be in a state of fighting logistics, because the number of troops that can be filled on the front line is always limited.
But in space, there is a difference, the extremely wide space is the battlefield, and the investment of troops is almost unlimited, at this time, the competition is the amount of material mass they occupy, and the rate at which these materials are turned into combat power is projected to the battlefield.
At this time, there is no generational difference in the scientific and technological level of the two sides, so what weapon data and energy efficiency are no longer the most critical data, quality, and the quality of the projection to the starry sky is the basis of everything.
This is what Warhammer calls a quality war, and it's not at all the same thing as a high-tech war on the Blue Star.
Meteor was silent for a while, and said, "Forget it, let's be silent for a few more days, accumulate the number of swarms, wait for follow-up supplies, and then officially start the war, and by the way, receive our second batch of reinforcements."
Warhammer: "Okay, I'll take the lead."
Cannon: "Agreed."
This channel is for the Adventists, and it is also a front-line decision-making meeting, so after the battle plan is proposed, the three of them can implement it without objection, and the channel has calmed down.
as a weaker
Zhou Wenming has to face the sweep of a strong civilization, in order to gain time and quickly accumulate strength, everyone has a big mess of things to do.
At this time, on the six-string star front, Zhou Wenming did not grasp the advantage of victory, and there was no room to chat and regulate his emotions, coupled with the suppression of the taciturn boss of the War Hammer, so he was quite silent.
Swarms of insects lifted off from the dwarf planet into high-altitude orbits, then fell into a dormant state, cessating all activity so that the swarm would not radiate heat and electromagnetic waves to the outside.
In space-level strategic reconnaissance, as long as you don't actively emit energy, it's enough to be invisible.
Don't look at the high-altitude orbit of the dwarf planet, there are already tens of thousands of bugs, these knight bugs, commonly known as lollipops, are all big guys with a length of four hundred and fifty meters, but from the direction of the six-stringed star, these bugs can't be seen at all.
Without him, the bugs are too small and the number of bugs is too small.
Even the mother nest on a dwarf planet with a height of two or three kilometers and an area of hundreds of square kilometers is the same, so small that it is not visible at all.
The only thing that really exposes itself is thermal radiation and electromagnetic radiation, and meteors are carefully handled from the beginning, using the cooling of the underground sea to prevent thermal radiation, and using the fungus blanket covering the crust of the dwarf planet to isolate electromagnetic radiation.
At present, the external heat radiation of the entire dwarf planet has increased by less than 1/10,000, and the electromagnetic radiation has decreased slightly, and it will definitely not be discovered. ….
To be on the safe side, the farthest away fake bases are already heating up.
The fake base is located on a comet, at which time the comet ice has completely melted and turned into a crystal water ball, and dust and rocks are naturally deposited in the core, and a hard star core is formed through arc smelting.
As more dragon hearts are delivered, the power output is getting larger and larger, and the water of the comet's melted shell is magnetized, which can be turned into layers of electromagnetic water film protective shields at any time, as well as magnetized water electromagnetic cannon tracks.
And this kind of melted water balloon thermal radiation is tens of thousands of times more than the original ice comet, and it is easy to be found by careful observers through comparison, playing a role in covering the main base.
Previously, in order to conceal itself, a layer of beetles was shrouded outside the comet, reflecting most of the heat radiation back, and a few absorbing it, as the energy for the beetles to survive.
Now the beetle layer has dispersed, and the heat radiation is radiating towards the starry sky.
The speed of discovery of such a sudden change is very much a test of a civilization's level of execution, and all three Adventists are very curious about how long it will take for the six-string star to discover and react.
As a result, two hours.
Just two hours after the comet lifted its cover, the six-stringed fleet began to assemble, and a fleet of 30,000 warships swooped down on the abruptly transformed comet.
It's too fast, which means that the time interval between the six-stringed star's scanning and analysis of the starry sky, plus the time of fleet mobilization, is less than two hours in total.
Ask yourself, this speed is much more powerful than Zhou Wenming, meteors know that in the solar system, Zhou Wenming's reaction speed is about four hours, and the most time-consuming thing is the analysis and comparison of data.
The first thought of the three Adventists was not so powerful, but so weird, with such a super high level of execution, why did this civilization crouch on a planet and stand still?
Super high execution usually represents the centripetal force of civilization and the determination to develop upward, and the greatest advantage of a vibrant civilization should be accompanied by strong curiosity and enterprising spirit at the same time.
Just like Zhou Wenming, there are not many people who have started interstellar exploration, colonized the Purple Thunder Star, and even carried out the construction of the Dyson Ring without their own efforts.
Well, to tell the truth, Zhou Wenming is indeed a special case civilization that jumps very strongly, and many behaviors are close to death and rashness.
But the six-stringed star is even more strange like a pool of stagnant water, except for the tight wrapping of the star, they have no sign of foreign colonization, not to mention colonization across the star system, and there is not only one planet in the star system.
It does not colonize, does not carry out foreign exploration, but has built more than a dozen star rings large and small, and there are six synchronous orbit ladders on the main star ring, and the million warships are even more extravagant and exaggerated projects.
What are the people of the six-stringed star thinking?
While the meteor and the cannon were still tangled, Warhammer said, "Don't think too much, fight it, you know."
Meteor agreed, "Yes, hit it, lift the shell of this million-dollar warship, and you will naturally know what they are doing and what they are thinking."
The cannon also laughed: "That's right, war is also communication, start fighting!"
Two days later, the six-stringed star fleet approached the comet's fake base, which had now become a real fortress, and the layers of electromagnetic water film had expanded the comet's volume thousands of times.
The film of water reflected the stellar brilliance as dazzling as a diamond, and then an even more dazzling beam of high-energy particles was launched from the fortress and hit the six-stringed fleet eight million kilometers away.
With this attack as a start, the war officially began.
However, the first battle of this opening was quite sloppy, and after each side fired hundreds of lasers and high-energy particle beams, they invariably fell silent.
The distance is too far, the energy escape is too serious, and the attacks of both sides cannot be regarded as washing each other's faces, and the damage is not as good as the children attacking each other with water guns.
But the attack consumption of the two sides is not low, and the situation of the six-string star battleship is not known, but every shot of the comet fortress consumes more than a dozen tons of materials, and it is also a strategic material that has been purified and refined.
This level of consumption is just to illuminate the other party, which is also too cost-effective.
So both sides resumed their silence, accumulating energy, waiting for a closer burst to erupt.
Sheep in a hundred battles