Struggle in the Steam Age

In the following period of time, the entire Isle of Sauer entered into a booming construction. Except for the underwater construction of the new locathermen, whether it is the armed farms in the upper reaches of the river or the alpine meadow construction plan under the blue mountain, all progressed very smoothly, and the first batch of fortifications were also successfully built according to plan. up.

Of course, during this process, the goblins in the morning launched multiple counterattacks against these fortresses, and the island could only maintain a defensive state because Lawrence had taken away most of the mobile troops before. However, because there are enough fortifications and weapons, the island still successfully defended the newly built fortifications.

Because of the limited ecological carrying capacity of the jungle area, the number of goblins attacking the two armed farms arranged by humans in the upper reaches of the river is not large.

So before Lawrence and the others returned, these goblins, who combined to less than 2,000, were quickly wiped out under the double-sided attack of those fortresses and the nearby tauren who came to support them.

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

When they relied on their familiarity with the surrounding jungle to touch 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 collapsed immediately without even touching the walls of the fortress, even though the number of tauren was only 1/5 of theirs.

After spending a little time annihilating the goblins here, the Tauren tribe sent more than 200 people together with more than 100 human guards to help the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass. When they entered the fort along the river in armed barges, the fortress's defenders soared to 670 men.

Although it is said that the goblins attacking this fortress are a coalition army formed by the goblin tribe on the meadow and some goblins in the jungle below the mountain. There are more than 50,000 people, and there are some tamed beasts and nearly A thousand bear goblins. It can be regarded as the most powerful combat power that the goblins on the island can muster in a short period of time.

However, because their equipment was too simple and human beings cleverly used the terrain to build extremely strong fortresses and prepared powerful firepower, after facing the defenders on the island with only about 1/10 of their own for several days, the group of goblins In addition to dropping four or five thousand corpses, they didn't even clean up the wooden obstacles on the outermost edge of the fort.

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

Therefore, when Lawrence arranged for the loca murlocs to work next, the returning troops immediately went into the siege of the goblins after a three-day rest.

Because the strongholds that Lawrence had prepared before were all placed by the river, the military just happened to be able to quickly mobilize troops by dragging barges with armed motorboats.

Obviously, the goblins, who have never had much water power in history, never thought of Lawrence's move. When the goblins besieged those strongholds before, when they found that there were fewer defenders on the water side of the fortresses, they also tried to use their own canoes or wooden methods to attack through the water, but the result can be said to be a complete failure.

Some of the rafts tied with straw ropes were scattered into a large pile of broken wood as soon as they entered the water 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 very few who jumped ashore.

And those goblins who didn't have any problems with their boats didn't get any better. They were not good at handling boats, and it was difficult for them to maintain their own direction and speed in the river. Therefore, it directly became a target on the unobstructed river.

As long as the humans guarding the fort kill one or two goblins who are paddling desperately, the boat they are riding on will soon be overturned due to a change in the propulsion force, and then the river water will be able to help humans finish the rest. things.

In this way, the goblins gave up the method of coordinating the attack from the river, but smashed the human defense from the front. Later, because of the shooting of ships that came to supply, they moved away from the river bank. Under such circumstances, they did not give any timely feedback to the army rushing over the river.

So when a large number of cannons on the ship fired at the river bank and covered the attack of the landing army, the goblins just woke up from a dream and organized to attack the landing field on the human side. It's a pity that they were too late at this time, and the support army had successfully landed on the river bank and established a front-line starting position that was simple but comprehensive.

As a recognized cancer in the civilized world, goblins have been entangled with humans for thousands of years and have not been completely resolved, which means that they still have some specialties. For example, they have extremely strong environmental adaptability, and another example has extraordinary reproductive ability. Like sunfish, they make up for their lack of strength through numbers.

For humans and other intelligent races, this group of guys who hide in the wilderness and can reproduce a large group in a short period of time and have a certain level of civilization are really a group of difficult enemies.

Not to mention that those wilderness can wipe out the advantages of human weapons and strength, just the fact that killing them can't make money back is enough to make everyone less interested in fighting them. According to a certain boss, The profit from killing a goblin is not even worth the bullets that killed it.

But when they ended their scattered state and walked out of the jungle, their advantages disappeared in an instant. Their weak strength and crude armament make them like living targets on the battlefield. Often twenty or thirty huddled goblins can be killed in one shell.

Because the goblins had an absolute advantage in numbers at the beginning, more than 3,000 goblins rushed to the landing site under the instigation of the magic spells of shamans and tribal elders and some special mushroom powder, trying to kill only 1/1 of them. Less than 10 human support troops rushed down the river.

But when the group of goblins rushed to a place about 20 meters away from the human position and were about to throw their javelins. The reinforcements hiding behind a series of makeshift wooden bunkers and the gunboats on the river immediately launched their full firepower.

Following rows of rifle bullets, mortar shells, and Gatlings held by several tauren, the bullets fired across the entire front of the position, and those goblins were knocked down by various ammunition like wheat on the ground.

"Keep going!" After only seven or eight minutes, the battle, or rather the massacre, was over. This goblin army of more than 3,000 people was wiped out. Then the reinforcements directly broke through the goblin's outer siege defense line and swaggered into the fort that had been besieged for nearly half a month.

The arrival of reinforcements boosted the morale of the defenders in the fortress again. In particular, this group of reinforcements and the previous telegram confirmed that the main mobile force of the previous expedition had returned, and a thorough general offensive would soon be launched to clear out the besieged enemies.

To the defenders of a fortress under siege, arms and men, as well as food and water, are important, but most important is communication with the outside world and the hope that communication entails.

The good news is that Lawrence's side defenders are very good in this regard. Even from a certain point of view, it is much better than the goblins who besieged the fort outside.