Chapter 231 Your Limit Is Not My Limit!

As the war dragged on, Fan Li Teng was most worried about the situation in the solar system.

The overall will of mankind was encouraged, the rebels saw hope, and the rebellion became more fierce. This was foreseeable. But if the human elites began to doubt the fighting power of the Itars, and even began to make preparations for both situations, pretending to be submissive to the Itars while secretly cleaning up the evidence, and even began to think about making meritorious contributions to the rebels in exchange for leniency, that would be bad.

He had vaguely noticed the change in the attitude of the human elites.

Now, more than ten days after the start of the war, those wealthy people who were originally extremely enthusiastic and seemed willing to give everything to wipe out the rebels have shown a slight cooling trend at this moment.

"Damn, fence-sitters, you are really unreliable. If you make me angry, I will kill you all one by one!"

Fan Li Teng cursed in his heart.

But it was just a curse in his heart.

Mobilizing the power of human civilization still needs to go through the channels of these human elite families. Killing them all, are they going to let the Itars deal with the bottom of humanity themselves?

However...

The war situation should change soon.

Through precise calculations, Fan Li Teng has confirmed that the upper limit of the number of interstellar mines produced on the planet Triton is about 550 million per day. In other words, the current level of production is actually approaching the upper limit.

This upper limit does not refer to the industrial capacity, but is calculated based on the scale of mineral reserves on Triton and the difficulty of mining.

No matter how powerful you humans are, and how many supermen you can turn into, the maximum amount of minerals that can be mined from Triton per day can only produce about 550 million interstellar mines. What else can you do?

Expand the scale of the mine? Does that mean you can expand it? The ore vein is so large, there is no point in having more.

Speed ​​up the mining speed? The operating area is so large that it can accommodate one machine. How can you speed it up?

Improve the mining level?

If you really want to improve the mining level and have this level of technology, will the performance of your warships and interstellar mines still be so poor now?

Overall, the current level of placing interstellar mines in space is close to the limit.

Although the cleaning speed of our fleet has reached its current limit, don't forget that after expedited production, the first batch of automated interstellar mine cleaning devices, totaling 10,000 units, will be shipped to Neptune in at most thirteen days!

There will be such an average daily replenishment in the future.

The automatic cleaning device and the interstellar mines are mutually depleted. According to the model calculation, an average automatic cleaning device can clean up about 10,000 interstellar mines.

At the same time, after emergency deployment, 10 Ita warships and 100 guard ships will arrive with the first batch of automatic cleaning devices.

In this way, the number of mines that can be cleaned daily will rise again, increasing to an average of about 750 million interstellar mines per day!

The upper limit of Triton's output is 550 million per day, so a gap of 200 million per day can be created.

At that time, I'll see how you damn rebels and damn humans will deal with it!

Thinking of this, the stagnant air in Fan Li Teng's heart slowly dissipated a little.

He couldn't wait to see the defense line of Triton breached, the Eta fleet descended on Triton, and all those damned humans were caught and judged.

"When the time comes, I will dissect tens of thousands of these damned humans and take a good look at where this so-called spiritual power is hidden!

Let's see what the difference is between the body structure of you so-called spiritually inspired humans and ordinary people!"

The battle on Triton was temporarily in a stalemate. And Han Yang never stopped the large-scale engineering work underground on Triton.

At this moment, Han Yang really went all out without any reservation.

He used all his remaining computing power to control the tens of millions of robots and intelligent machinery underground on Triton.

Countless underground passages were excavated, and a huge amount of earth was cleared and piled directly into the basins and canyons of Triton.

Of course, in order to cover up, Han Yang also covered these basins and canyons with a layer of camouflage, just like he did on Jade Star.

Under these disguises, except for Han Yang, neither the humans on Triton nor the Itars in space knew that he was actually carrying out such a huge project underground on Triton.

Under this circumstance, in the distant inner solar system, heavy cargo ships shuttled between different planets, transporting tens of thousands of tons or even hundreds of thousands of tons of materials.

Unlike in the past, at this stage, even in the inner solar system, there are very few single cargo ships acting alone. Generally, there are seven or eight or more cargo ships forming a fleet, and then they act together under the escort of private armed forces or guard ships.

Because the rebels have broken the rule of not attacking civilian forces at this stage when most of the rich have already made their positions.

For some interstellar transportation forces that are devoted to the Itars, the rebels will no longer be soft.

However, even with armed escort, cargo ships are looted and destroyed every now and then in the solar system.

As the war on Neptune became more intense, the rebel fleets throughout the solar system seemed to have gone crazy.

The materials between different planets flowed and finally gathered at the port of Saturn, where they were actually assembled and turned into boxes of war supplies for shipment to Neptune.

At this stage, Saturn has truly become the rear base supporting the war on Neptune.

At this moment, a fleet consisting of 10 Ita warships and 100 guard ships protected a fleet of 16 cargo ships and set off for Neptune at the same time.

After a few days, the fleet finally arrived.

"Is this the automated minesweeper developed by the Ita Academy of Sciences?"

Fan Li Teng looked at the sample device in front of him with a smile on his face: "It has dual stealth of optics and radar, and has extremely strong survivability; it is equipped with 16 micro electromagnetic cannons and 12 micro laser cannons, and a small high-efficiency nuclear fusion reactor is integrated inside, with a lifespan of up to half a year..."

Every time a performance indicator is mentioned, the Ita engineer who came with the ship next to him will answer with a "yes".

Fan Li Teng let out a long sigh: "Very good, very good. It's a pity that if it weren't for those damn rebel fleets, the inner solar system could have achieved an average daily delivery of 13,000 automated minesweepers...

But with this daily supplement of 10,000 devices, it is completely enough.

Order, immediately put these 10,000 devices into the battlefield! At the same time, the newly added 10 Ita warships and 100 guard ships are organized into 5 formations and immediately go to the battlefield!"

"Yes!"

Under Fan Li Teng's order, the forces that were supplemented with great difficulty were thrown into the battlefield in one fell swoop. And this batch of combat forces did not disappoint Fan Li Teng at all.

Almost in an instant, in the combat command room, the number showing the number of interstellar mines that had been cleared jumped up at a faster speed than before.

In the vast space, under the gaze of the blue Neptune, the interstellar mines that were as ferocious as piranhas and as weak as small fish and shrimps were being rapidly swallowed by nearly a thousand huge whales.

At this moment, with the investment of up to 10,000 automated cleaning devices, the vast sea of ​​stars is like there are countless more ferocious sharks in groups in addition to the nearly 1,000 giant whales.

Although they are not as big as whales and their swallowing speed is not as fast as whales, they are more numerous and more efficient and fierce because of their special targeted development!

Wherever the automated cleaning devices move, the interstellar mine clusters there will be destroyed by electromagnetic cannon pellets one after another and by laser beams one after another.

These electromagnetic cannon pellets and laser beams have extremely low power, and they can't even cause any damage to the Blue Army warships with backward performance. But they are just right for dealing with interstellar mines.

Wherever these automated cleaning devices arrive, there will be an absolute vacuum zone.

Interstellar mines, armed satellites, detectors, interstellar turrets, micro missiles... none of them will be left, all destroyed!

It's like dropping antibiotics on a bacterial culture dish.

In particular, their number is extremely large, up to 10,000 units, ten times that of warships. In this way, the effect of blooming in multiple places can be achieved. Even different automatic cleaning devices can be linked to each other to make simple tactical cooperation. Sometimes, multiple cleaning devices will even join forces to clean up a large group of interstellar mines.

Under the control of their own programs, the interstellar mine clusters are also desperately counterattacking these automatic cleaning devices. However, based on the performance and technological level gap between the two sides, it takes about 11,000 interstellar mines to destroy an automatic cleaning device.

The gap in combat power between the two sides is too huge.

Under this circumstance, the number of automated defense devices around Triton began to decline rapidly.

In just the first day, the number of interstellar mines around Triton fell from the original 1.86 billion to 1.72 billion!

At this moment, the second batch of automated cleaning devices, also 10,000 units, were once again put into the battlefield.

The situation in space was quickly known to the senior officials of the human government, that is, the former leaders of the various resistance forces.

At this moment, everyone's heart sank to the bottom.

Before, the leader told us to believe in the power of our fellow human beings.

We did believe it. And, under the call of the human government, our fellow human beings did indeed demonstrate an almost unbelievable strong production capacity.

Our fellow human beings have achieved a daily production of 530 million interstellar mines, which is basically close to the level of Triton's resource production limit!

But now, the enemy's cleaning efficiency has increased again...

What else can we do?

What else can we do?

At this moment, the senior officials of the human government once again gathered in the conference room.

The dummy controlled by Han Yang still maintained a calm smile at this moment.

"The upper limit of resource output... is it really an upper limit?"

A high-ranking human muttered: "But, on Triton, all the easily exploitable mineral deposits have been developed to their limit, and the output has also reached its limit. It is basically impossible to increase it..."

The leader of the Blue Army smiled and said: "You also said that those are only the easily exploitable mineral deposits. There are more resources buried deeper underground that can be used."

The human leader was shocked: "Deeper underground? Isn't it too difficult to mine? It's difficult to scale up in a short time."

The Blue Army leader said calmly: "We must believe in the strength of our compatriots. The Blue Army soldiers have organized their compatriots to start production. Soon, the output of interstellar mines will be greatly improved..."

At this moment, on Triton, with a huge canyon with no people as the benchmark, Han Yang has opened up a huge hole totaling about 20 cubic kilometers underground.

The average height of the underground base is 10 meters-some places need to build higher buildings, the height can reach more than 100 meters, and the height of some precision equipment rooms and passages can be as low as only 3 meters, or even 2 meters, 1 meter. In short, the average height is about 10 meters. Based on this estimate, this huge hole totaling about 20 cubic kilometers can cover an area of ​​​​almost 2,000 square kilometers!

There are more than 10 million robots busy in this vast underground cave, building one factory after another.

At this stage, the construction of these underground industrial clusters has reached a critical node.

Materials produced by surface cable factories, parts factories and other factories flowed into the underground like water. Under the operation of multifunctional robots, they turned into distribution rooms, cables, transformers, etc., and gathered into a huge network covering 2,000 square kilometers.

Triton underground power grid!

One end of the power grid is connected to a total of 26 huge nuclear fusion power plants distributed in various parts. The other end of the power grid is connected to a total of more than 5,000 mines, crushing plants, cleaning plants, refining plants and other factories.

That's right, this huge factory cluster built underground on Triton is a veritable mineral base.

In addition to the mineral bases on Triton that are easy to mine and have been developed by the Itar people in the past, Han Yang directly adopted the strategy of mining deeper underground, directly consuming huge computing power and industrial power to build such a vast and huge mineral industrial cluster underground.

What is the output limit of Triton's mineral resources?

That's your limit, not mine!

Mineral resources buried deep underground? If you want to mine, you need to invest a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and it will take a very long time, but in the end you can only produce less than half of the resources of the easy-to-mine mine?

From the perspective of economy and human resource utilization, it is not cost-effective at all?

That is not cost-effective for you!

For me, as long as it can be achieved by consuming computing power and can be solved by engineering power, it is not a problem at all.

This is Han Yang's real confidence.

The only thing Han Yang needs is time. After all, if he is not given enough time, no matter how powerful his computing power is, he will not have time to mine these resources and make them into war materials.

Mining resources is something that must be done step by step.

But at this moment, through the huge amount of resources invested in the early stage and taking advantage of the initial contempt of the Itar people, Han Yang finally delayed the time to now, to the moment when the underground power grid of Triton was built.

Once the underground power grid is built, Han Yang's industrial power will be truly supported and can be exerted without scruples.

At this moment, under the busy work of countless robots, two pre-completed nuclear fusion power plants have begun to supply power to the power grid underground of Triton.

At the other end of the power grid, more than 30 factories have begun production.

A large number of underground mineral deposits have been mined and directly entered the smelting process. At the other end, from the underground passage, heavy-loaded trains roared to deliver various resources to the production-end factory, and a huge amount of landing spacecraft, interstellar mines, armed satellites, etc., once again emerged in an endless stream.

However, this time, Han Yang did not put all the automated defense facilities produced into space, but only put in part of them, allowing the total amount of facilities such as interstellar mines in space to continue to decline.

But even so, the changes that occurred in space also scared Fan Li Teng.

"What's going on?! Has the production speed of Triton's interstellar mines and other facilities increased again? Reaching an average daily production of about 720 million interstellar mines?"

On the side of the Ita Fleet, the Ita warships plus guard ships plus automated cleaning facilities, can clean up 750 million interstellar mines per day, and the average number of interstellar mines can only be reduced by 30 million per day.

Compared with the previous daily gap of 200 million, the efficiency has dropped by nearly seven times.

"Obviously, the production capacity limit of Triton is 550 million per day, how did they achieve a daily production of 720 million! This is impossible!"

Fan Li Teng's head was a little confused at this moment.

His calculation data must be correct. But the reality is also presented in front of him. In this case, the only possibility is...

"It must be the previous backup resources. They must have put all the backup reserve resources into production. It must be correct, it must be..."

If this is the case, then it is acceptable.

Fan Li Teng's heart is a little more stable.

"Let's wait and see what they do next. If the subsequent production capacity continues to increase, then there must be something wrong. We may have to temporarily abandon the remaining planets and fully mobilize the fleet to launch an all-out war and fight a protracted war.

If the subsequent production capacity cannot be maintained and begins to decline rapidly, it means that my speculation is correct and it is just a reserve of resources and nothing to worry about. "

Fan Liteng began close follow-up observation. But something unexpected by Fan Liteng happened again.

He observed that Triton's interstellar mine production capacity has remained stable at the current level, neither increasing again nor starting to decline.

This is very strange.

It is said to be reserve resources, but how could there be so many reserve resources? Without reserve resources, how could humans on Triton produce mineral resources that exceed the limits of Triton?

Fan Liteng was puzzled.

but……

At this moment, even if Triton's production capacity is increased again, there is still a gap between the speed of its own elimination and a gap.

In the early stage, we created a gap of 200 million pieces every day, and the expected time to break through Triton's defense line was about 6 days. At this moment, the gap has been reduced to 30 million pieces per day, and the expected time to break through Triton's defense line has increased to about 40 days.

Fan Liteng gritted his teeth and decided to persist again.

Isn’t it just over a month? As long as I can still break through Triton's defense line in the end, I can afford to wait!

"Order, continue the all-out eradication! Reduce the number of automated defense facilities!"

Fan Liteng issued the order again.

The situation has developed to this stage, and it requires our own side to expend such a huge effort to deal with the rebels. This is a situation that Fan Liteng could not have imagined at the beginning.

But no matter what, no matter how much his side pays, as long as the final outcome is good and as long as the enemy can still be eliminated in the end, then Fan Liteng believes that it will all be worth it.

In front of Governor Malentin, and even in front of Commissioner Yu Zhenghui, he can be considered to have made a contribution.

Time passed bit by bit, and more than twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past twenty days, another 15 guard ships were besieged by interstellar mines and annihilated. But at the same time, the ETA fleet has also maintained a rate of reducing the total number of interstellar mines by 30 million per day.

As of today, the number of interstellar mines around Triton has dropped from about 2 billion at its peak to only about 960 million today.

If the current rate continues, in up to 15 days, the total number of interstellar mines will be reduced below the threat level. At that time, our fleet will launch a general offensive and truly break through Triton's defense line.

Hope is already close at hand.

At this moment, in the Triton underground industrial base cluster, a huge factory covering a vast area, with the arrival of various parts from other factories, with the joint efforts of many mechanical arms and robots, a ship fully loaded with mass was The "Stardust" class combat spacecraft of about 1,500 tons was finally produced.

This is the first warship produced by Han Yang on Triton, using the resources mined from Triton and operating the local factory built on Triton!

At the time when it set off from Jade God, the total size of Han Yang's fleet was 24,000 warships. Then it loses all the way and decreases all the way, and there is never a time to recover.

Now, the total number of warships has dropped to just over 6,500.

At this moment, after setting off from the Jade God Base, Han Yang finally achieved an increase in the number of battleships for the first time! Finally, a real battleship was built for the first time outside of Jade God!

At this moment, Han Yang felt happy.

He knew that after such a long period of passive defense, such a long period of being passively beaten, and trying his best to deal with the enemy to gain time, at this moment, it was finally almost time to launch a counterattack!

After the first battleship was built, Han Yang did not stop at all.

Thanks to the huge supply from upstream factories in the entire system and the rapid production of the assembly line assembly plants, a full 400 Stardust-class battleships were built within 24 hours after the first Stardust-class battleship was produced.

Han Yang has always maintained this extreme speed. After 15 days, the number of newly produced Stardust-class warships has reached 6,000, and it is still being produced at an average rate of 400 ships per day.

At the same time, after this period of intentional storage, the number of interstellar mines that were deliberately stored by Han Yang and were not put into the interstellar battlefield has reached 3 billion.

At this moment, under the full sweep of the ETA fleet, the number of interstellar mines around Triton has been reduced to only 550 million.

In the logistics mothership, Fan Liteng's eyes were bloodshot, and he was obviously extremely tired. But his spirit was as high as ever.

After many days of all-out cleaning, the number of enemy interstellar mines was finally reduced to 550 million, and conditions were finally created for our own side to break through the enemy's defense line...

"From now on, the combat objectives are adjusted. In addition to retaining some warships and automated cleaning devices to continue clearing interstellar mines and suppressing their numbers, the remaining 30 ETA warships and 500 guard ships... attack with full force!

I order an all-out attack at all costs! Occupy Triton and kill all the rebels! Kill! "

Triton and Han Yang also sighed silently at this moment.

"Do you think my goal is just to defend Triton?

No, you are wrong.

My real goal is to keep all of you... Otherwise, why would I keep delaying until I finally have enough warships and interstellar mines?

If I drop too many interstellar mines, I'm afraid you'll run away. If I drop too few, I'm afraid I won't be able to delay you for too long. In order to keep you, I'm being very cautious...

Fortunately, it's all over. It's time for the final showdown.

I order the interstellar mines to be dropped with all your strength! Stardust-class warships, all take off and meet the enemy! "

Under Han Yang's command, countless camouflage sheds on the vast land of Triton were removed in an instant, revealing the landing spacecraft that had been ready to go one by one, tens of thousands of them.

And the Stardust-class battleships that had been fully fueled, loaded with electromagnetic cannon projectiles and interstellar missiles.

At this moment, tens of thousands of various spacecraft simultaneously sprayed bright and dazzling blue light towards the vast land of Triton.

At this moment, tens of thousands of various spacecraft took off at the same time and rushed straight into the vast space. (End of this chapter)