Struggle in the Steam Age

There were more than one hundred war behemoths attacking the island this time, but the most precious war crabs among them were only a little over thirty.

After all, this kind of creature is really powerful, but the corresponding breeding cost is also extremely high, even if it is the kind of large-scale sahuagin country that occupies hundreds of kilometers, the number of such large-scale biological weapons is also high. Between 100 and 150, no more can afford it.

For example, this is the case in the country where the sahuagin prince who attacked the land is located, and there are only one hundred and thirty or forty such monsters on weekdays. Except for the 50 that originally belonged to the territory directly under the kingdom, the rest were basically distributed in the hands of various sahuagin nobles in the kingdom.

In this battle of king selection, these nobles chose their favorite princes to bet and followed them to participate in the war.

Naturally, those nobles also brought their powerful legions with them when they participated in the war. Because at the end of the war, when dividing up the spoils, a very important basis is how much effort they have contributed in the war. It is definitely useless for them to want to obtain the merits of the dragon without paying.

Because of the old king's methods before, the power in the hands of these three princes is almost the same. Therefore, each of them only has more than 30 war cancers in their hands. Under such circumstances, the princes will naturally adopt some other tactics in order to have a stronger army, such as calling other sea giants as assistants.

Under such circumstances, the only war cancers will naturally be concentrated on the frontal battlefield facing the port area to try to break through. And because the peninsula where Safir and the others are stationed is not the core of the enemy's attack, there is naturally no war cancer here. The core forces that came to attack the peninsula were more than twenty other behemoths and some superhumans among the murlocs.

Since the professional officers among the sahuagin were almost all transferred to the frontal battlefield to launch a general attack, the murlocs here were very clumsy tactically. At the very beginning, there was a problem that the troops were out of touch. As a result, Safir accurately seized the opportunity to eliminate a whole group of sahuagin superhumans who were too forward.

And the fate of the next group of giant monsters was not so good. When they approached five or six hundred meters away from the beach, the artillery on the fort suddenly fired and directly hit the slow-moving sea monsters.

Although these sea monsters also have a certain degree of defense, they are far different from those war crabs that are purely biological weapons. So it was quickly hit by those shells and collapsed on the sea surface without moving.

But the strange thing is that even though these giant beasts were killed one after another, the sahuagins still kept charging like beachheads in different waves. The Transcendent continued to release magic and throw javelins.

In this case, even though everyone has trenches as cover, and priests and precision shooters are trying their best to counter the opponent's attack, the attackers in some areas are still suppressed by long-range firepower.

After all, when facing magic or long-range weapons thrown by extraordinary people, most ordinary defenses can't play a very good role. For example, most of the fortifications piled up with sandbags and wood were destroyed under such long-range attacks, and many firepower points naturally fell silent as a result.

Compared to the sea monsters with specialized weapons, the superhumans among the murlocs were the most difficult enemies to face on the battlefield. Because they not only have small targets, but also move very fast. Therefore, the human side on the battlefield has no good way to deal with these guys, except to send extraordinary people around to fight the fire.

Fortunately, when the battle broke out, because of some problems in the command, the group of murlocs made the team of superhumans rush forward and sent a wave of heads, so the superhumans on the peninsula are still able to block those attacks. Among them, the transcendents prevented a large group of transcendents from rushing into the position.

But even so, some sporadic sahuagin transcendents would still break into the position. Fortunately, almost all of these extraordinary people who can break through are sahuagin fighters with very low extraordinary levels, so those tauren heavy armor squads that were left before still killed them with the help of ratman precision shooters or Drive out of the trench.

But in this way, the firepower in this position will naturally be affected. Then the sahuagin army that has already landed will seize the loopholes in these defensive circles and swarm up. In some places, the defenders were able to hold their positions at the reaction level, and in other places to avoid large-scale casualties, the soldiers could only fight and retreat to the next level of trenches.

The trenches that Good Lawrence designed on this mountain before are not the same as the normal trenches of this era. It is not just a thin trench connecting various firepower points, but a complex set of several layers of trenches, traps and fortifications. defense system.

If someone overlooks the entire defensive position from the air at this time, they will find that almost the entire peninsula is connected by a series of fortifications such as trenches and tunnels, which looks like a dense spider web.

Naturally, it is impossible for such a defense system to collapse the entire defense line just because a breach was made. After the murlocs poured into the breach, they found out that the trench was zigzag and there were a large number of parapets in the middle. It is impossible for them to charge along the trench to both sides as imagined.

What's worse for this group of murlocs is that the army stationed here retreated voluntarily, so they still maintained the original system and retreated behind the next fortification, pouring down on the invading murloc army from both wings. firepower. It was even more powerful to kill the murlocs because of the side attack.

"Damn it, what's going on here?" A four-armed sahuagin noble who led the commando looked astonished as the sahuagins around him fell down one after another. An elite military officer of the kingdom, he has participated in many wars against land creatures before, but he has never seen such a strange fortification.

In his impression, as long as he rushed into the trenches dug by those land creatures to fight, he could be considered a victory. Then there is the question of how many enemies can be chased and killed in the opponent's escape. But he never thought that after I broke through a line of defense, his side would look like the one falling into the trap.

"Although the defense system set up by Your Excellency is different from anything we have seen before, it seems to be very effective now." A staff officer standing on the top of the mountain observing the overall battlefield situation said to his comrades beside him. , "With the help of such defensive positions, we can even turn those breakthrough points into traps for killing the enemy."

"Of course, our earl is not those weak court nobles!" Another staff officer observed the battle formation below with a telescope and said, "If there is no accident, our side will definitely be able to defend. I don't know the earl What are you doing now—”

"Aren't you worried about our positions on the peninsula at all?" Nora also asked Lawrence through the soul connection when the two staff officers were discussing matters related to their own earl. "I see that the battle over there seems to be very intense, and in some places the battle line has already begun to penetrate into the position."

"Don't worry, the battle just started when this group of stinky fish and rotten shrimps entered the position." Lawrence smiled and said to the little doll, "This is a combination of fortification construction experience on the Western Front of World War I and the Korean battlefield. , is definitely not the usual simple line of defense that will collapse completely with just a little breakthrough."