Struggle in the Steam Age

"Boom, boom, boom—" Lawrence and the others soon discovered the goblin's attack, and the first to respond was the Enterprise, the warship located at the southernmost point of the entire position, and began to shoot at its own cannons Those goblin swarms within started shooting.

The 150mm caliber heavy artillery is extremely powerful. The range of 30 meters around the landing point of each shell is fatal. Even if Lawrence is on the ground, he can see the impact of the shell after a cloud of black mist rises. The khaki goblins around them immediately fell to the ground.

It's a pity that there are only three cannons on the side of the Enterprise, and they can only fire one round per minute. So even if the shells were extremely lethal, they still couldn't stop the flood of goblins from charging.

"The other party's number is close to 70,000. Our previous investigation was wrong." At this time, Nora suddenly issued a warning voice, "There are 20,000 goblins hiding in the woods and moving to our north side."

"Understood." After receiving the order, Lawrence immediately asked his subordinates to hang a string of flags on the flagpole in the center of the camp. After seeing these flags, he was about to turn around and shoot with his cannon on the other side. The ship immediately increased its horsepower, dragged a puff of thick black smoke and drove towards the north. According to the length of the position and the speed of the Enterprise, the warship should be able to reach the firing position before the opponent moves to the designated position.

Watching the Enterprise leave, Lawrence continued to turn his attention to the front of the position. The wild boar goblin cavalry just now brought great trouble to the front line. The high-speed movement and the vitality of the wild boar made it a very difficult task for humans to eliminate them. The last few fallen cavalry even rushed to a place less than ten meters away from the first trench.

More importantly, in order to stop this group of cavalry and prevent them from rushing into the trenches of the human army, the machine guns had to adjust their direction to chase and shoot. As a result, some of the machine gun fire points that were intended to be hidden were exposed. In addition, those cavalry also successfully attracted the attention and firepower of most people, buying precious time for the main force of goblins who rushed out later.

At this time, Lawrence also looked away from the killed wild boar cavalry and looked forward, only to see the goblin swarm rushing towards the position like waves.

These goblins are grouped in groups of 70 to 100 each, and most of them are groups of ordinary goblins. But there are many elite goblins, goblin bears, hobgoblins and even teams of goblin transcendents mixed in.

Although the core team of goblins was not large in number, they were hidden among the large groups of ordinary goblins and used them as cover to quickly approach Lawrence's position and charge.

Seeing the goblins rushing out of the bushes and almost covering all the open space in front of the position, Lawrence knew that he should let everyone prepare those backhands. Because the first goblins had reached the barbed wire and began to destroy the barbed wire that blocked their way.

The efficiency of this kind of destruction is very low. After all, it is impossible for goblins to bring special wire cutters, engineer shovels or even blasting barrels to destroy these obstacles in front of them.

"Let the mortar fire." Lawrence said, looking at the corpses of goblins piled up in front of the barbed wire. The machine gun fire killed those goblins who were caught by the barbed wire one by one, but more goblins rushed up behind them. The corpses of these dead goblins were spread on the ground, climbed over the barbed wire and rushed towards the trench step by step. What's more, at this time, a large number of goblin bears and hobgoblins crossed the flat ground of nearly a thousand meters and appeared in front of the barbed wire.

The messenger immediately used semaphore to convey Lawrence's order to the mortar position under the camp wall, and then the artillerymen temporarily trained on the ship began to adjust the angle of the artillery according to the previously planned area, and finally a loader with both hands Pick up the cannonball and put it in the muzzle.

"Let go!" As the artillery commander waved down the small flag in his hand, the artillerymen holding the shells immediately let go of their hands and let the shells slide down the barrel to the bottom of the barrel, so that the firing pin at the bottom of the barrel touched to the primer at the tail of the shell.

"Boom——" With a clear metal impact, the primer at the bottom of the mortar and the large amount of gas generated after the additional charge was ignited instantly expanded, and then the heavy shell was pushed out of the muzzle, drawing a beautiful path. The arc of the arc over the city wall plunged into the group of goblins gathered in front of the barbed wire.

In an instant, waves of earth mixed with stumps and broken arms burst out from among the goblins who gathered together and rushed forward. Furthermore, many bloody gaps were exposed in the neat charge formation. Unlike the heavy artillery that fired slowly just now, the mortar shells rained down, almost sweeping away the goblins blocking the front of the position.

Although the goblins behind were still charging bravely under the inspiration of the gods and the coercion of their companions, the wreckage of the same kind on the ground still slowed down the speed of their charge, which was naturally lacking in courage.

After cleaning up the enemies gathered in front of the barbed wire, the mortar crew began to adjust the angle of the artillery so that the impact of the shells slowly extended to the distance. At the same time, the steam machine gun that had been hidden and never fired before began to spit bullets from the hidden bunker, knocking down the remaining goblins in front of the barbed wire in pieces.

Among these surviving goblins, the proportion of elite and elite subspecies, such as bear goblins or hobgoblins, is far greater than that of ordinary goblins. On the one hand, it is easier to survive with their vitality and flexibility when facing shell fragments and bullets flying across the battlefield. On the other hand, their higher intelligence than ordinary goblins allows them to use the terrain on the battlefield and even the corpses of their companions to reduce damage to themselves.

But most of them are no better than ordinary goblins in the face of the bullets that are aimed at themselves, and they are easily knocked down by the steel core steam machine gun bullets flying across the battlefield at high speed.

A few goblins who had reached the extraordinary level successfully rushed out of the death trap in front of the barbed wire, but they were successfully intercepted by the commando of the extraordinary organization led by Safiel after they approached the trench. Facing the organized commando team of superhuman beings, these goblin supernatural beings rushing here sporadically resented the battlefield.

This out-of-control goblin extraordinary charge completely messed up the goblins in front of the barbed wire, because these extraordinary goblins were often the leaders of the grassroots goblin army. After they were killed one after another, the goblins who were barely able to maintain order just now became a complete mess, unable to move forward or retreat.

Some of the goblins did maintain the courage to move forward under the inspiration of the gods, but faced with a battlefield situation they had never seen before, they didn't know what to do next.

But under the protection of good luck, a few goblins approached the trenches smoothly along the path left by the extraordinary goblins just now, and used the rough javelins and the small bows and arrows used for hunting at ordinary times to act like human beings hiding in the trenches. The forces fought back.

It's a pity that this kind of hasty and out-of-scale sporadic shooting is not very lethal to the soldiers hiding in the trenches. Only a few unlucky ones were carried down the traffic trench after being hit by javelins or small poisonous arrows, and soon the reserve personnel filled their positions and continued to shoot out.

After the firing of a base number of shells ended, the charging group of goblins was cut apart. The half of the goblins who were closer to the human position were completely hesitant. They neither dared to face the intensive firepower of humans, nor did they dare to retreat to face the battle team organized by the goblin casters and the bombardments that continued. Loud mortar shells.

Faced with this situation, the militiamen in the trench began to advance towards the extended trench under the leadership of the guard soldiers. From the side, more goblins were included in their attack range, and the humans on the battlefield also sounded the clarion call for counterattack.