36 hours later, the two sides were 80 million kilometers apart, and the first head-on confrontation was about to come.
More than 2,000 township and town-level spacecraft immediately launched a large number of space missiles.
These missiles include conventional high-explosive bombs and heavy missiles carrying hydrogen bombs.
Propelled by nuclear fusion engines, all missiles reach an astonishing speed of 3,000 kilometers per second.
Space missiles are fast, small in size, and numerous, which will inevitably bring great difficulties to the opponent's interception.
Each wave of space missile launches consumes a large amount of fuel reserves.
But the human fleet didn't take it seriously at all, as they had plenty of fuel reserves.
At the same time, more than 6,000 village-level spacecraft also opened fire.
Instead of launching missiles, they turned on their Gauss cannons.
The bullets fired by the Gauss cannon are accelerated by the Gauss electromagnetic coil.
The speed is not much slower than a space missile powered by a nuclear fusion engine.
These bullets are smaller, faster, and denser, making them less likely to be intercepted.
Compared with the explosive power of space missiles, the destructive power of Gauss warheads is naturally much smaller.
However, they are numerous, cheap to manufacture, and can generate huge kinetic energy without resistance.
As long as the spacecraft is hit by a Gauss warhead, even the strongest spacecraft material will be penetrated, causing certain damage.
Level 1 civilizations already possess energy weapons that are more powerful and difficult to evade.
However, each time an energy weapon is fired, it takes time to store energy. The larger the caliber, the longer the storage time.
Therefore, kinetic weapons are still the most commonly used and largest weapons in interstellar warfare at this stage.
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