Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 270: Massive Suppression
The so-called energy artillery certainly does not use gunpowder as its driving force.

In Li Qingsong's weapon system, energy artillery corresponds to energy cannon.

The energy cannon fires small-mass projectiles that have no power, and once launched, the trajectory is fixed.

Energy cannons fire projectiles that possess self-locking capabilities and power, allowing them to track targets in space. Because of their similarities to the artillery of Earth's era, Li Qingsong adopted the name "cannon."

Its initial launch driving force is still electromagnetic force. It relies on the same mechanism as energy cannon projectiles to obtain initial speed under the action of electromagnetic force and quickly exit the barrel.

As for explosives, during the initial electroweak civilization stage, Li Qingsong used high-explosive chemical explosives. However, now that they had reached the strong nuclear civilization stage, with a deeper understanding and ability to utilize the strong nuclear force, their explosives had been upgraded to substances in a strong nuclear excited state, similar to electromagnetic cannon projectiles.

Such a shell with a total mass of 50KG is equipped with a 10KG shell in a strong nuclear excited state in its warhead.

Once it is hit or detonated on its own, it can immediately release the strong nuclear force within itself, which is originally in a stable strong nuclear excitation state.

Although its mass-energy conversion efficiency is not as good as that of a real nuclear bomb or an energy cannon projectile, it can only reach about 0.002%.

But even so, this means that once detonated, about 10 grams of the mass of the 0.2KG shell will be converted into energy, which can release energy equivalent to the explosion of 4000 tons of TNT!
Compared with real nuclear bombs with an equivalent of hundreds of thousands of tons, millions or even tens of millions of tons, this power is extremely small.

However, as long as it is accurate enough, the energy of a mere 4000 tons of TNT explosion is enough!

At this moment, the first batch of energy artillery, about 1 pieces, were transported to the warships and artillery positions and began to fire.

In the barrels of the huge energy artillery, the surging energy from the nuclear fusion power plant was converted into electromagnetic force, driving these artillery pieces to rush out of the muzzles at an incredibly high speed in an instant, rushing towards the millions of unknown flame-shaped creatures in space.

At this moment, just like when facing nuclear bombs in the past, the unknown creatures in the target area instantly scattered and began to flee to the surrounding areas.

But unlike bulky, nuclear-armed interstellar missiles, these artillery shells are low in mass and more flexible.

Propelled by their own ion thrusters, their course changed immediately, and no matter where those unidentified creatures fled, they were always firmly locked onto them.

These shells are of lower mass, more flexible, and far more maneuverable than warships, but still no match for those unidentified objects.

Although it is locked, it is still difficult to actually catch up and get within a certain distance.

But it doesn’t matter, there are enough of them!

A full 10,000 shells were enough to seal off the entire area. No matter which direction the unidentified creatures fled, there would be corresponding shells heading towards them.

A cage built of energy artillery shells has taken shape. Those unidentified objects have no way to go up to the sky or into the earth!
This extremely complex maneuver and change of trajectory lasted only a few seconds. During this process, dozens of shells were eventually shaken off by the unknown target creature, but in the end, one shell still reached it.

At this moment, the intelligent fuse was activated instantly, and the projectile in the warhead, which was in a strong nuclear excitation state, exploded instantly.

In an instant, a bright fireball appeared and instantly enveloped the unidentified object.

Although its radius is less than 200 meters, the absolute killing radius, that is, the radius of the area with sufficient thermal radiation and high-energy radiation impact is less than meters, but for this unidentified creature, it is enough!

The bright fireball flashed by in a flash, and the next moment, the space returned to darkness and depth.

But... after the fireball disappeared, the unidentified object also disappeared!
It was completely destroyed!
"It really works!"

Li Qingsong was delighted.

Your doomsday has come!
Li Qingsong made a decision immediately.

Mass production! Use quantity to crush these weird creatures!
The production line for energy artillery shells was already complete. To produce this improved model of artillery, it was only necessary to modify the existing production line and add some heat source recognition and shape recognition modules, which was a minor improvement.

In a short period of time, Li Qingsong completed the upgrade and renovation of a considerable portion of the production line. Then, large-scale production began immediately.

Endless projectile material poured into the factory, being shaped into cannonballs by the precision casting equipment. Other materials, such as the strong nuclear excitation energy module, ion propulsion module, intelligent propulsion module, intelligent recognition module, and most importantly, the cannonballs in a stable state of excitation during the strong nuclear excitation process, etc., all emerged like a flood.

On the first day that Li Qingsong decided to start mass production, a full one million artillery shells were produced.

The production line transformation process was still progressing rapidly. So the next day, the number became 180 million.

Day three, day four...

Every day, the production of this improved type of shells would increase by at least 50%. Until now, the daily production of this type of shells has reached more than 1000 million!

Endless shells poured into space, entering space artillery batteries, automatic launch systems, unmanned warships, and most importantly, manned warships.

The major counterattack began.

Li Qingsong's combat power no longer huddled around the planet, but began to take the initiative to attack.

Artillery fire roared, and in the vast and deep space, countless self-powered shells flew across, like birds of prey chasing birds, unscrupulously tracking those strange, flaming unidentified objects.

During this process, at least 95% of the shells failed to hit the target.

After exhausting their own propulsion energy, they had to detonate themselves to avoid causing trouble for their remaining spacecraft in the future.

But among the vast number of shells, a few always hit the target. And each hit means the disappearance of an unidentified object.

In this vast space, Li Qingsong killed recklessly and with great pleasure.

In just one month, the number of unidentified objects counted by Li Qingsong has dropped sharply from more than 900 million at its peak to less than 100 million at this moment.

It is estimated that it will only take another month for Li Qingsong to eliminate all these unidentified objects.

But at this time, something unexpected happened again.

Li Qingsong saw that the less than one million remaining unidentified objects were no longer fighting with him, but were all rushing towards the core of the entire galaxy, the star, at the fastest speed.

(End of this chapter)