Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones

Tom saw that under his all-out assault, where he replenished every warship destroyed and every unmanned combat facility annihilated, maintaining a constant deluge of electromagnetic cannon shells and laser beams, and continuously detonating high-yield electromagnetic interference bombs, even the Strong Nuclear-level warships were forced to make tactical changes due to his fierce offensive.

They no longer recklessly interspersed, maneuvered, and fiercely attacked, relying on their energy shields as before. Instead, they were forced to begin coordinating with each other and retreating to some extent to avoid friendly fire.

Their advance was abruptly halted by Tom!

Although this was merely a detached fleet of the opponent, with no large warships among them;

Although the opponent might not have come with the intention of destroying him, and their primary combat mission was merely deterrence to make him surrender;

Although he had gone all out and was suffering heavy casualties at all times;

Although this effect of halting the opponent's advance was achieved only by the superposition of these conditions, one point was undeniable no matter what.

That was, he, with the combat power of an Electroweak Civilization, had temporarily halted the Strong Nuclear Civilization's fleet, preventing them from advancing an inch!

Judging by the combat power displayed by both sides at this moment, Tom knew that probably no other Electroweak Civilization in the entire Milky Way could achieve this.

"Though you are powerful, you are not invincible."

Tom's heart was filled with surging fighting spirit, and his gaze once again looked into the distance, toward where the Mechanical Disaster's main fleet was located.

There, over two million warships were still stationed and had not been deployed.

Tom knew that this number should exceed the maximum number of warships a normal Strong Nuclear Civilization could possess.

Different levels of civilization have different population limits, or rather, organizational limits.

The level of organization depends on the level of technology. The more advanced a civilization, the more people it can organize through technological means. And a population that cannot be organized is not only not an asset to the civilization, but rather a burden.

Thus, different levels of civilization have different population limits.

According to Tom's estimation, the population limit of a Strong Nuclear Civilization can support a fleet size of approximately 700,000 to 1 million warships.

The Mechanical Disaster, however, through the enslavement of intelligent life from other civilizations, had acquired combat power significantly exceeding that of normal civilizations of the same level.

This total of over two million warships was a manifestation of its formidable war strength.

Currently, most of its war strength remained in the rear and had not been deployed.

This was unacceptable.

The reason why Tom was willing to suffer such heavy casualties and desperately hold this detached fleet outside the defense perimeter was precisely this.

If your main fleet doesn't deploy, how can that be allowed?

Of course, even if Tom had temporarily held back the opponent's attack, the opponent could break through his defense perimeter by deploying at most a few tens of thousands more warships, without needing to deploy their entire force.

But Tom knew that the opponent would most likely not do that.

Tom had some confidence in this judgment, but it wasn't very strong. However, at this moment, besides taking a gamble, there was no other way.

If the opponent did not deploy their entire army, but only sent a small portion of reinforcements…

Tom knew that he should consider restarting.

At this moment, within the Supercomputing Mothership, with the support of Stellar Communication Technology, the frontline battle situation was being transmitted in real-time, undergoing real-time processing by Akainu.

The war ahead could already be called immense. And, when the scale of war is large, the amount of data generated will inevitably be high. More data means more resources consumed for processing.

However, at this moment, on the Supercomputing Mothership, the many supercomputing bases were still operating smoothly, with even power consumption showing little fluctuation.

In the logical operation units, numerous pieces of information were still flashing rapidly.

"The prey civilization has not mentally collapsed due to our display of force; instead, they have shown even stronger combat will, even managing to intercept our fleet outside their defense perimeter.

It is no longer possible to defeat the opponent with a single detached fleet.

To achieve this, approximately forty thousand more warships would need to be deployed.

However, in this battle, their resolute combat will exceeded my previous expectations.

Their manned warships completely disregarded casualties, even seeming to actively pursue death.

The success rate of the 'Defeat Opponent, Force Surrender' plan has dropped to less than 20 %. Even if the opponent is truly defeated, we will face large-scale suicidal attacks from them.

While this will not cause any damage to us, the intelligent life of the opponent is valuable wealth. Large-scale suicidal attacks will lead to a large number of intelligent lives dying, preventing us from capturing enough 'native' intelligent lives, and the harvest will be less than expected.

Thus, the original combat plan needs to be abandoned. We need to deploy more combat power to incapacitate the opponent without destroying their warships or causing a large number of their personnel to die, so that they can be captured by us in the future.

Controlling the opponent is more difficult than killing them. Comprehensively evaluating the battlefield situation and the opponent's will to resist, the total number of warships we need to deploy is… 1.5 million.

To ensure the smooth progress of the plan, I believe we can be even more aggressive.

This star system has been fully surveyed, and there are no external threat forces within or around the star system. It is sufficient to reserve fifty thousand warships for the main fleet for basic defense.

The remaining total of 2 million warships can all be put into battle.

At the same time, one more point needs attention.

Reconnaissance satellites have detected that the prey civilization has deployed a large number of hydrogen bombs in the asteroid belt, suspected to be hydrogen bomb traps.

However, since encountering a hydrogen bomb trap in the previous star system and suffering significant losses, we have specifically adjusted our response plan and have seen results—the second hydrogen bomb trap posed no threat to us whatsoever.

The reality proves that as long as we reduce our speed and carefully investigate, hydrogen bomb traps become ineffective against us.

This should be because the prey civilization does not understand the situation in the previous star systems and is completely unaware that hydrogen bomb traps are already ineffective against us, which is why they deployed them again.

So, the summary of this combat plan is as follows:

Deploy another 2 million warships, and while reducing speed and carefully investigating to avoid the threat of hydrogen bomb traps, focus on targeted attacks on the engines, electromagnetic cannons, radars, and Laser Cannons of manned warships, to make the opponent lose the ability to launch suicidal attacks, reserving them for our future capture.