Struggle in the Steam Age

Except for Lawrence's face when meeting with the group of people departing from Vieques, Lawrence spent most of the journey in the cabin with his subordinates to study the specific design of this battlefield hospital. So that the hospital can be established as soon as possible after arriving at the destination.

Although this task is not difficult, it is very complicated. After all, compared to ordinary hospitals or hospitals temporarily established during the plague. The battlefield hospital should not only consider how to facilitate the medical treatment, but also consider the guarding problem for the face of the enemy's attack during the war.

Theoretically speaking, this field hospital is actually set at the rear of the battle line, and there is a line of defense in front that can block the enemy's attack.

However, considering the surrounding mountainous terrain, all those with common military knowledge on the scene realized that although it is difficult for the enemy to directly use large forces to break through to the location of the field hospital, infiltration and harassment by small forces is absolutely inevitable.

Not to mention that according to the information provided by the previous headquarters, the territories of the target wilderness races are likely to have entrances and exits from the dark regions. So as long as the other party is willing to spend the money, it is possible to launch a short raid on the rear through the newly dug underground passage.

Although everyone on the scene did not think that the other party would put the target of the raid on Lawrence and their field hospital, but considering that the Pine Valley where the field hospital is located is an important transportation hub between the front and the rear. Lawrence and the others felt that the possibility of being affected by the enemy's military actions during the war was not small.

Therefore, in addition to medical-related buildings, various defense facilities are also an indispensable part of the entire field hospital system.

Considering that the area of ​​the platform on the mountainside allocated to the field hospital is not very large, it is not too simple to accurately allocate the area of ​​each function of the field hospital.

Especially after the fleet entered the territorial waters of the White Eagle Federation, Lawrence and his radiotelegraph received countless military and civilized expedition information, and when they docked for supplies, they were able to obtain more accurate information about the current situation from the local government. Announcements or news about front-line conditions.

After collecting and summarizing this information, they have a deeper understanding of the enemies they will face after participating in this civilized expedition.

"It seems that the first step of this war can be said to have basically reached the expected goal." After taking a look at the summed up series of intelligence, Nora quickly came to a conclusion. "The civilized and ethnic coalition forces have successfully broken through the enemy's defense line in the hilly plains at the foot of the mountain."

"This is an expected situation." Lawrence nodded slightly and replied after listening to the little doll's words. "Those wilderness races may have a higher proportion of transcendents than us, but under the cover of modern firepower, I don't think they can stay on the plain for long in terms of numbers and weapons."

As we all know, it is not a simple matter to develop industry, especially heavy industry. There are a series of stricter requirements from population to technology. And the level of those wild races that can develop a high level of handicraft is already the limit.

Although it is not that difficult to obtain certain technical products in this world with extraordinary powers, especially some extraordinary people who have mastered alchemy or magical item manufacturing ability can even make a steam engine. But in terms of cost, this is totally unattractive.

For example, the gray dwarves can make guns and even artillery in the hand-made factories in the dungeon, but each of these things is a unique product. Although these weapons are indeed better than human weapons, there is basically no way to mass-produce and popularize them.

Therefore, the main weapons of the wild animals are still ancient cold weapons. Generally, only the more elite troops can be equipped to obtain various weapons and ammunition through seizure, robbery or some kind of smuggling. Even so, the weapons and ammunition of those troops still lack uniformity, and it is likely that there are seven or eight types of weapons among 100 people.

In terms of heavy weapons, the level of these wild races is even worse. After all, compared with smuggling firearms, smuggling artillery is too difficult. Therefore, even if the wilderness races are willing to spend a lot of money, they can only buy some small-caliber artillery pieces that have been eliminated from a few powerful smugglers.

Although races like the gray dwarves can also produce some artillery by hand, in the hands of the wilderness races full of craftsmanship, each of these artillery pieces is a handicraft. Or to put it another way, no two of the artillery they produced are the same.

Some of this type of artillery has been seized by the wise race. Compared with human artillery, these artillery cannons are not inferior in lethality, range and accuracy, and even some exceed them under the influence of magic.

But the problem is that the cost of these artillery is far beyond that of human artillery, no matter the production cost or the cost of use, there is no way to equip them on a large scale.

In addition, each of these artillery has unique ballistic characteristics. Therefore, not only does each artillery need to be equipped with its own artillery, but it is also basically impossible to fire at certain places like the mass-produced artillery of human beings.

In other words, it is basically impossible for the opponent to carry out fire coverage or fire cover like humans or other intelligent races.

This directly leads to the fact that in small-scale battles, those wild races may also be able to win the battle through their bodies stronger than humans and the concentration of technical weapons.

However, in frontal battles on plains with similar numbers of people on both sides, the wilderness races lacking sufficient firepower have basically not won a few times after entering the hot weapon era.

And this war is no exception. According to intelligence, although the coalition of humans and dwarves suffered a small loss during the outpost contact battle, they were even blocked by the defense line established by the wilderness races in the hilly area of ​​the mountain aftermath. However, as the civilized race's heavy weapons gradually came in place ~www.ltnovel.com~ the wilderness race had to abandon the outer line of defense and retreat to the mountains.

"I think-we are here at the right time." Looking at the aggregated information, Lawrence said while looking at the little doll floating in front of him. "I think you should know that if the other party wants to fight a guerrilla war with us in such a mountainous area with abundant supplies, this war is likely to last a long time."

"That's true, think about that famous imperial cemetery." Nora said with a straight face. "Not to mention that in this early spring season, the climate in the northern mountainous area where we are about to fight is actually the same as winter. I am worried that non-combat attrition may be more than everyone expected."

"Don't worry, I think the command should take this into consideration, because this is not the first time we have launched a civilized expedition in this season." Lawrence thought about it for a moment and showed a relaxed expression on his face. "For example, they have prepared winter clothes and antifreeze oil for our troops coming from the south."

In fact, if the early intelligent races took the initiative to launch an offensive, they would usually choose to consolidate their occupied territories or retreat before the winter's temperature drops after the autumn harvest, so as to ensure sufficient supplies while ensuring that the army will not be massively attenuated due to the cold winter.

However, with the development of industrial technology of civilized races, productivity has naturally increased significantly. Therefore, the time for military operations is limited by seasonal restrictions.

However, those wild races are still able to launch large-scale behaviors only at the end of autumn because they are still traditional production methods. So an offense like this in winter and spring just caught them off guard.

More importantly, this season's offensive can destroy the spring plowing of the northern wilderness races, and will have a long-term impact on these wilderness races in the second year or even longer.