In the vast, profound expanse of space, with the dark-red Adversary Star as the backdrop, a fierce battle began.
But this battle seemed rather strange.
Li Qingsong's "Mercury-class Battleships" seemed to care only about charging forward with their heads down, ignoring everything else.
They did not return fire, perform tactical evasions, conduct interstellar scans, or do anything at all.
They simply charged forward.
Thus, shells from those unknown warships rapidly struck the 250 "battleships."
The next moment, more than a dozen battleships exploded violently and turned into fragments.
Li Qingsong did not feel the slightest heartache. He merely endured a communication delay of more than four minutes as he controlled the clones with all his strength, gathering combat data on those unknown warships as thoroughly as possible.
They also use shells as their primary means of attack. But these clearly aren't gunpowder bullets. Gunpowder bullets can't reach speeds this high.
The maximum speed of a gunpowder bullet was only around seven or eight kilometers per second. It was absolutely impossible for one to exceed ten kilometers per second.
The reason was simple. Gunpowder's detonation velocity was only seven or eight kilometers per second at most. How could it possibly accelerate a projectile to ten kilometers per second?
Yet the projectiles Li Qingsong observed the enemy firing were traveling at no less than forty kilometers per second!
These clearly were not gunpowder bullets. Based on his understanding of Human Civilization's technology and its future prospects, Li Qingsong swiftly reached a conclusion.
These were Electromagnetic Cannon Shells!
Using a propulsion principle similar to High-Speed Ion Propulsion Technology and accelerating projectiles with electromagnetic fields could raise their speed to roughly forty kilometers per second!
Although each individual shell had very little mass, their speed was high enough. With greater speed came greater kinetic