Struggle in the Steam Age

After discovering that the wilderness races were infiltrating the back of their own front by relying on the local complex terrain and hidden underground passages, the military on the side of the civilized race immediately issued an order for all troops on the front to stop advancing and enter a defensive state in place.

At the same time, the command began to mobilize more troops from the rear, similar to dwarves, dwarves, or rat people, who are good at fighting in underground environments, into the theater, and then began to search for hidden underground hidden spots around the entire theater, especially Land near various lines of communication.

As the army of these races who were good at fighting in the narrow underground caves was put into the war zone, many tunnels and secret camps were gradually discovered and occupied.

Most of these camps were built temporarily, and obviously the other side had nails left by the orderly retreat. But there are also some that seem to have a long history, and are likely to be part of the entire underground tunnel system in the Great Mountain Range.

As for why there are so many underground passages here, it is also well understood. After all, there are not many places where large numbers of populations can survive in places with poor natural environments such as large mountains, and they are often concentrated in places with flat terrain.

And these places are basically the places that humans must choose when they want to build a cross-mountain transportation line.

For example, this is the case for a series of valleys and valleys that humans need to seize this time. They are often areas with an average elevation of less than 500 meters, flat terrain and sufficient water sources.

And those who are similar to the goblin, bear goblin or jackal population can survive here an important factor is to occupy these places with relatively high environmental carrying capacity.

Also because of the terrain of this area, the goblins and jackals who originally lived on the plains by hunting and looting have converted to a nomadic life, supplemented by looting.

Although this kind of life still depends on the sky for food, it is difficult to store what food. But in any case, it is better than the life of safari or robbery in which it is purely to obtain supplies.

As for the dark elves and gray dwarves that live underground, although they don’t need much ground output, the problem is that the basins and valleys in these mountainous areas are often syncline structures, which can gather the surrounding surface. Water enters the areas where they live underground, and in the underground world, water is the most important material.

Under this circumstance, even if they do not need or even dislike the surface environment, they have to organize manpower to occupy some settlements on the surface, and use various methods to gather those surface creatures as their vassals.

In addition to obtaining some surface materials, the most important point is to protect their precious water source.

On the other hand, for these wild races, this kind of terrain is also convenient for them to rush out of the mountains along the easy-to-go valleys to rob the settlements of the civilized races on the plains and bring back all kinds of spoils.

This is especially important for those highly civilized races like dark elves or gray dwarves that live underground.

This is why those wars that open up the lines of communication turn into large-scale civilized expeditions, because the territories needed by the civilized races are so important to these wild races that they can't give up these lands at all, and they must do everything. Means to shut out the attackers of those civilizations.

Similarly, for civilized races, these areas are also rare places that can cross large mountains. They really couldn't find other places to establish passages except this lot.

As the war progressed, the civilized race entered a stage of strategic contraction. Then, in addition to the dwarves and other races that are good at underground combat, non-human forces of other races are gradually entering the war zone.

After these races with their respective advantages joined the battlefield, the pressure on the defensive wilderness races suddenly increased a lot. This pressure not only comes from the new high-level transcendents, but also ordinary soldiers.

For example, at the beginning, the sniper team composed of gray dwarves and dark elves used the mountains to bring a lot of trouble to the human beings on the offensive side.

However, with the reinforcement of the Elf Ranger troops on Summerset Island, the civilized race also slowly regained some of its advantages in the battle in the mountains.

Under such circumstances, the wilderness race can naturally feel the increasing pressure. Especially for those races on the periphery.

Therefore, the alliance of these wild races, which frequently broke out wars for territories, wealth or slaves, soon held a second meeting.

Unlike the first meeting organized and convened after hearing that the civilized race was about to attack, almost every city-state and every tribe sent their own representatives in this meeting.

The reason for saying it is almost because in the previous battles in the outer mountainous areas, many of the slower tribes have completely perished.

In the first meeting before, no one was able to convince anyone because of the grievances that everyone had had before. Some people think that the terrain of the mountain should be used to stick to it, but the forces on the periphery of the mountain naturally oppose this practice of sacrificing their territory.

Not to mention that some of them go out to rob on a daily basis. The forces that only face the militia and cavalry in some poor areas all year round feel that the intelligent race is nothing more than that. After they have obtained sufficient equipment, they can defend those areas and even launch a counterattack against the civilized race.

"Take the St. John's Fortress and grab the St. John's Plain." This was the slogan shouted by the wild races at that time. They believe that they are fully capable of defeating those civilized races and gaining unprecedented benefits outside the mountains.

And the reason why they have the confidence to shout such slogans is because these wilderness races, which have the two main channels of human smuggling and the dark region, are completely different from those on the plains.

Take the most common goblins as an example. The goblins on the plains are just small tribes just like the goblins Lawrence saw when he was a child, with few people and less equipment. A wooden stick with a nail is considered advanced equipment.

But the goblins of the Great Mountains are much more generous than that, except for providing each combatant with a set of leather armor and metal weapons. It can even form a group of professional cavalry with tusks as mounts.

The same is true for other races. In addition to making use of local resources, they can also import a variety of weapons, ammunition, and magic items from civilized races through smuggling and robbery.

Under such a premise, they naturally felt that they would be able to attack the legions of civilized races on the outskirts of the mountains.

As a result, the first meeting ended up unhappy ~ www.ltnovel.com~ Most of them chose to build fortifications on the outskirts of the mountain and stand ready to launch a counterattack.

Only a small number of more sensible forces chose to hide in the mountains and use the complex terrain of the mountains to prepare for various attacks against the intelligent races to attack the army.

And the facts have proved that a small number of talents are right now. When faced with the fierce artillery fire and three-dimensional large-scale offensive of the civilized race regular army and the security forces of various places, the line of defense that is built on the periphery of the mountain and regarded by the wilderness races is only It only lasted a few days before being breached.

After the defense line was broken, the pursuit and killing of the defeated army by the civilized races almost drained the blood of several powerful forces. If it weren’t for the obviously rugged terrain after entering the mountains and the wild races that had not attacked before, that There may not be too many people surviving in the huge wilderness race.

But even so, the power held by this group of wild races suddenly lost 40%. Among them, many formed standing legions, including the wolf cavalry with wolves and elite troops such as heavy armor hobgoblin infantry, were wiped out.

For these populations that are already in short supply, it may take more than ten years to make up for this loss.