Struggle in the Steam Age

In the next period of time, the entire Sauer Island entered the construction in full swing. In addition to the underwater construction of the new Loka murlocs, the construction plans for several armed farms on the upper reaches of the river or alpine meadows under the Blue Mountains have all proceeded very smoothly. The first batch of fortifications were also successfully constructed as planned. Up.

Of course, in the process, the goblin in the morning launched several counterattacks against these fortresses, while the island could only maintain a defensive state because Lawrence had taken away most of the mobile forces before. However, because there were enough fortifications and weapons, the island still successfully defended the newly built fortifications.

Because of the limited ecological carrying capacity of the jungle area, there are not many goblins who attacked the two armed farms where humans located in the upper reaches of the river.

Therefore, before Lawrence and the others returned, these goblins, who totaled less than two thousand goblins, were quickly wiped out by the fortresses and nearby tauren supporters.

Unlike the tauren who only had animal skins and stone tools in the past, even the tauren militias left behind in the tribe are armed with leather armor inlaid with steel sheets, steel weapons, and guns and grenades specially built for them. It can be said that the combat power is completely different from before.

Relying on their familiarity with the surrounding jungle, they touched the side of the goblin camp and launched a surprise attack at the moment when the goblins attacked the fortress. After two days of storming, the goblin alliance immediately collapsed without touching the walls of the fortress, even if the number of tauren was only 1/5 of theirs.

After spending a little time annihilating the goblins here, the Tauren tribe drew more than two hundred people and more than one hundred human guards to rush to the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass. When they entered the fortress along the river in an armed barge, the fortress's defenders soared to 670 men.

Although the goblin attacking this fortress is a coalition formed by the goblin tribe on the meadow and a part of the goblin in the jungle below the mountain, there are about 50,000 people, and there are some tamed beasts and nearby. Thousands of bear goblins. It can be regarded as the most powerful combat power that the goblins on the island can gather in a short time.

However, because their equipment was too simple and the humans cleverly used the terrain to build extremely strong fortresses and prepared powerful firepower, they faced the defenders on the islands, which were only about 1/10 of their own, attacked for several days. This group of goblins Apart from dropping four to five thousand corpses, we didn't even clean up the wooden obstacles on the outermost periphery of the fort.

The gathering of these goblins also gave Lawrence and the others an excellent opportunity. If they were eliminated all at once, it would be much less difficult to develop the meadow in the future. At least when their first phase of the plan is implemented, they can basically avoid the interference of goblins.

So when Lawrence arranged the Roka fish people to work next, the returning army immediately plunged into the encirclement and suppression of the goblins after three days of rest.

Because all the strongholds that Lawrence had prepared before were placed on the banks of the river, the military just happened to be able to quickly mobilize the army by towing barges by armed motorboats.

Obviously, there have never been many water power goblins in history who never thought of Lawrence and the others. When the goblins besieged those strongholds before, they also tried to attack through the water with their own canoes or wooden methods when they found that there were fewer guards on the water side of the fortresses, but the result can be said to be a complete failure.

Some of the rafts tied with straw ropes were scattered into a pile of broken logs just after they were launched under the impact of the current, and the goblins on it naturally fell into the water. Because they are not very good at swimming, most of them drowned in the river except for a few of them flopping ashore.

And the goblins who did not have any problems with the boat turned out to be not much better. Those who were not good at handling boats could hardly maintain their own direction and speed in the river. Therefore, it becomes a target directly on the unobstructed river surface.

The humans guarding the fortress only need to kill one or two goblins who are desperately paddling, and the boat they are riding in will soon be overturned due to the change in the propulsion force, and then the river can help the humans to do the rest. Things.

As a result, the goblins gave up the coordinated attack from the river surface and instead slammed human defenses from the front. Afterwards, he stayed away from the river bank because of the shooting of ships coming to supply. Under such circumstances, they did not give any timely feedback to the army coming from the river.

So when a large number of cannons on the ship fired at the riverbank and covered the attack of the landing army, the goblins organized and attacked the landing field on the human side, like a dream. It's a pity that they are too late at this time, and the support army has successfully boarded the river bank and established a simple but comprehensive front-line starting position.

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As a recognized cancer of the civilized world, goblins have been entangled with humans for thousands of years but have not been completely resolved, which means that they still have some comparative advantages. For example, with strong environmental adaptability, and another example with extraordinary reproductive ability, they are like sunfish to make up for their lack of strength through quantity.

For humans and other intelligent races, this group of guys hiding in the wilderness and able to breed a large group of guys with a certain level of civilization in a short period of time is really a group of tough enemies.

Let alone the fact that the wilderness can wipe out the weapons and strengths of mankind, the fact that they can't be recovered by just killing them is enough to make everyone lack of interest in fighting them. According to a certain big man, The profit from killing a goblin is not even as valuable as the bullets that killed it.

But when they ended their dispersed state and walked out of the jungle, their advantages disappeared in an instant. Their weak strength and crude armament make them look like live targets on the battlefield. Often after one cannonball goes down, twenty or thirty goblins can be killed.

Because the goblins had an absolute advantage in numbers at the beginning, more than three thousand goblins rushed directly to the landing field under the agitation of the shaman and tribal elders’ magic arts and some special mushroom powder, trying to bring only them 1/ Less than 10 human support forces drove down the river.

However, when the group of goblins rushed to a place about 20 meters away from the human position and prepared to throw the javelin in their hands~www.ltnovel.com~ the reinforcements hiding behind a series of temporary bunkers made of wooden planks and the gunboat on the river immediately unfolded All the firepower of one's own side.

With rows of rifle bullets, mortar shells, and Gatling held by several tauren, but the bullets fired swept across the front of the position, the goblins were knocked down by various ammunition like wheat. on the ground.

"Go on!" After only seven or eight minutes, the battle, or the massacre, was over. This 3,000-man goblin army was completely wiped out. Then the reinforcements directly broke the siege line around the goblin and swaggered into the fortress that had been besieged for nearly half a month.

The arrival of reinforcements gave the defenders in the fort a boost again. In particular, this batch of reinforcements and the previous telegrams confirmed that the main mobile force of the previous expedition had returned, and a thorough general attack would soon be launched to eliminate these besieging enemies.

For those defenders who are defending fortresses in a heavy siege, weapons, manpower, food and water are all important, but the most important thing is the contact with the outside world and the kind of hope that the contact contains.

Fortunately, the defenders of Lawrence are very good in this regard. Even from a certain point of view, it is much better than the goblin who besieged the fortress outside.