Struggle in the Steam Age

After the old shaman on the court explained the history of the tauren people, the court was quiet for a while. Seeing everyone looked a little frustrated, Lawrence immediately encouraged everyone, "I don't think our action this time will be the same as before, because this time everyone is truly united and no longer fighting alone like before. "

"Yes, it is true." Everyone said in a rush. Hearing what Lawrence said, everyone present immediately seemed more energetic. Because everyone realizes that the many failures of the tauren in the long time before, although it sounds really frustrating, but since Lawrence and the others landed, the goblins that looked like invincible were completely destroyed like frost under the scorching sun. Defeated.

After all, the times have changed, and gunpowder weapons can easily smooth out the quantitative advantages that goblins are proud of. At the same time, the large number of tools and weapons brought by mankind has also doubled the combat effectiveness of the Tauren. Those tauren who wear sophisticated armor and carry various weapons can easily hit three or four themselves with their bare hands.

For this reason, after Nora proposed to retake the meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Although the tauren were hesitant because of their previous failures. But soon decided to join in this operation. Then everyone began to discuss the details about the next operation.

After summing up the previous records of the Tauren losing the meadow, they found that the previous failures had only one thing in common, and that he was caught in a long guerrilla war. For these tauren, there is no way to gather together to carry out production activities, but if they are scattered and put into production, they are likely to be submerged by the sea of ​​goblins. In this contradiction, the tauren people naturally couldn't hold the Blue Mountain Meadow and were driven down by the group of goblins.

However, since the development of green storage technology and various disinfection technologies in animal husbandry, the Tauren people have been able to transform the original nomadic herding into a combination of nomadic herding and fixed herding. Under such circumstances, Lawrence and the others can divide the entire grassland by establishing various strongholds and passages on that meadow to ensure the safety of various strongholds.

At least with the level of the goblin on this island, it can be said that it is basically impossible to kill a fortress with a large number of gunpowder weapons and personnel assistants with sufficient combat effectiveness. Therefore, as long as the first fortresses are built, this land should be able to be liberated from the rule of goblins.

"This alpine meadow obviously has enough water." After determining the general direction of the next action, Nora took out a thin wooden stick from her body and pointed at her woven with silver light. Speaking of the three-dimensional projection sand table. "So I think our first action should not target the entire meadow, but should be solid step by step."

"It's really a good idea to push forward step by step. I think the reason we failed before was probably because we looked a little too impatient." A tauren warrior nodded and said. "But this meadow has many small territories divided by small mountains and rivers, so which place should we attack first?"

"Personally, I think this place is more suitable." Nora said after a quick communication with Lawrence through the soul connection, and pointed to a location on the sand table. "This place is called the Blue Mountain Pass. It is the only way from our place to the meadow, and the pool next to it is one of the important sources that connect the hilly area and the river in Neusauer Harbor. Our stronghold provides water sources and also facilitates the transportation of materials."

One thing Nora didn’t say is that if the pond continues to move upstream, although the river course still exists, because of the terrain and huge drop, the river here is completely different from the river downstream. With a large number of stones, there is no way to develop shipping.

So even if it is just for the convenience of transportation, a solid material transfer center needs to be established in this place. However, considering that it is difficult to maintain a single fortress for a long time, Lawrence and their first phase of the project can of course not be just such a military fortress, but includes a lot of meadow area.

The biggest trouble with this meadow is that although it is called a meadow, 34 of them are forests, and only 14 are grasslands. The biggest problem encountered by the tauren people is that although they can easily kill the goblin tribes on the grass, but those goblins will escape to the mountains to hide in series? Then gather a huge number of them to flood them and then come to the grass to develop animal husbandry Tauren tribe of the industry.

So this time their first phase of the goal is to use this fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass as the main stop while clearing out two hundred square kilometers? That is 15 of the entire land as the first development goal. The difference between this meadow as a whole is that the area of ​​the grass in the two hundred square kilometers occupies more than 130 square kilometers? Almost half of the entire meadow grass area? It can be regarded as the most essential part of the meadow. .

After all, this entire alpine meadow is distributed along the Blue Mountains, so the terrain is naturally the higher the altitude, the more complex the terrain? The lower the altitude, the flatter the terrain. Lawrence's plan this time is to occupy the only large flat land in this alpine meadow, to maximize the benefits while spending as few resources as possible.

With everyone’s discussion? They decided to use local wood and stone to build 18 armed colonies in addition to the transit center at the mountain pass. In addition, there will be another 12 outposts and towers built on the edge of this land to monitor the surrounding conditions.

"Except for the lack of manpower, this plan is perfect." After drawing up the plan, both the human and the tauren said the power they could mobilize? It turned out that the two sides could draw a total of 200 professional armed personnel? Among them, 120 were humans. , There are 50 tauren, and even half of the outposts in the plan are not full, let alone the armed colonies.

If they act in full accordance with the planned plan, they will station a 50-man force at each armed colony? Each post will station a 30-man force~www.ltnovel.com~The Blue Mountain Pass Fortress will station 200 people, plus The five patrol teams each have 30 people. A total of 1610 people? And this is obviously far beyond the capacity of the island.

Considering that the regular army in the hands of Lawrence now only has 1,200 infantry, 50 cavalry? 300 guards, 150 garrisons scattered in various important areas, and more than 800 navy. Therefore, it is impossible to allocate more than 1,600 people to station on this meadow. What he didn't expect was that the armed forces that the tauren could draw out were even scarcer.

"Actually? Only five or six people in each armed colony are enough." said a tauren shaman. "Your lord? You need to know that even ordinary people, as long as we can be equipped with insufficient weapons, we can become a fighter. So those fortresses only need some professional soldiers as guidance."

"He was right." said a human officer who was stationed here to teach the tauren to use new gunpowder weapons. "The same is true on the human side. Except for the new immigrants who followed you across the sea, most of the old local immigrants had been in constant struggle before. In fact, after the militia training you organized, I can assure you that the adult people on the island can already be used as a militia with a very strong fighting capacity."

As a pioneering lord, especially a pioneering lord who has a military factory in his hands. Lawrence naturally trained his own leaders at all costs. Although most people use old-fashioned flash hiders in consideration of cost, they can at least ensure that everyone is skilled in the use of firearms, at least in the fortress, their combat effectiveness is no less than that of ordinary soldiers.