Struggle in the Steam Age

"Human firepower is weak, we can rush over." A goblin priest said after watching the goblin legions fall one after another under the firepower of the human army, but their fallen positions were getting closer and closer to the human line . From its point of view, it might be possible to completely submerge these main human forces with crowd tactics.

After most of the goblin legion left the woods just now, the goblin core command layer who had previously prepared to disperse and run away from the camp deep in the woods in case of a sudden attack by humans also moved forward.

A few minutes later, they came to a small hillside at the edge of the jungle and began to observe the entire battlefield. Soon they saw the goblins' attack on the battlefield as if they were breaking through.

"Wait for a while, those humans should not be so easy to deal with, at least the warships they parked on the river are just shooting with guns, not firing." Another goblin chief who seemed quite experienced said.

"I heard from the men who escaped from Niujiao Bay before that the artillery on the human ship is very powerful, so they may be luring us to attack now."

In fact, the main artillery used by Lawrence last time was heavy mortars, but because mortars are a new type of artillery, the goblins didn't understand, and Lawrence hid the mortar behind the mountain and carried out straddle fire. Therefore, this group of little-informed goblins subconsciously thought that all the deadly heavy artillery were naval guns on warships.

"That's right, the goblins who escaped from the downstream direction a few days ago also mentioned that these ships have artillery." Another hobgoblin chief said,

"So I think the current situation is likely to be a trap set by humans. When our entire army is dispatched, they will use artillery to defeat us. So I think we should change our attack method—"

"What does the other party mean?" Safiel, who was observing the movement of the battlefield on a high platform in the position, frowned as he watched the goblins rushing up one after another in the distance. As the commander-in-chief of the Extraordinary Commando on the island, Safir naturally observed the overall situation of the battlefield in the headquarters like other commanders at this time.

The reason why Safir expressed such emotion is that as the headquarters of the goblins moved forward, the swarming charge of the goblins stopped soon, and after a brief pause, a small group of goblin bears led the squad Scattered left the front line and began to charge towards the human position.

"It feels like those goblins are trying to test out our firepower arrangement." After the squads were knocked down by the soldiers with rifles, Lawrence found that the group of goblins were testing the firepower of the position with their lives. Because the goblins who attacked afterwards obviously got closer to those areas with weaker firepower time and time again.

After the first batch of tentative attacks ended, a large number of goblins began to line up in loose formations to launch waves of attacks along the places where the firepower was weak. Or for the goblins, there are only two formations for their attack, swarming up or rushing up sporadically.

But this sporadic charge obviously made Lawrence and the others feel a little helpless, because this formation made it easy for them to survive the gunfire from the defensive positions, and then rushed into those positions. Just an hour later, the group of goblins used a lot of lives and corpses to open up several paths through the temporary obstacles and barbed wire.

Of course, the goblins lost more than six thousand lives in the process. But for those commanding goblins in the rear, these losses are totally worth it.

When the corpses were spread all the way to a place less than 10 meters away from the human position, the leaders of this group of goblins sent some bear goblins equipped with leather armor and metal weapons to mix with a group of elite goblins, and then launched a short and fierce attack. assault.

In an instant, more than 10,000 goblins appeared on the battlefield, brandishing their weapons and howling, rushing towards the human position. Obviously, the attack of this number of elves cannot be solved by the existing firepower alone.

So just a few seconds after the goblin vanguard rushed out of the woods, as a red and yellow flag was raised, the gunboats on the water immediately fired shells at the goblin.

"Boom—boom, boom—" After a series of explosions, a large number of goblins were torn to pieces by heavy mortar shells falling from the sky. But because the priests in the rear released the war magic version of bloodthirsty at this time, this group of goblins still rushed forward without fear of life and death.

"I found the location of the other party's altar group. It seems that they are serious this time." The moment the other party released the war magic, Nora, who had been circling above the forest where the group of goblins were hiding, immediately locked the position of the caster.

"There is a large altar and a dozen small altars here. It seems that they have almost pulled out all the altars."

"Keep an eye on them, wait for my order before acting." Lawrence raised his binoculars and looked at the battlefield in front of him. Still stepping on the corpses of their compatriots, they launched wave after wave of charges towards the places with relatively weak firepower that had been detected before.

Soon, the goblins passed through the death area full of steel and fire, and then followed the roads just opened to the front of the trench. Although both sides of the road were full of the flesh and blood of the goblins who had been killed before, this did not stop the living goblins from continuing to charge forward.

Some lucky goblins successfully rushed into the trenches, because the previous landing time was too short, so there were only two chest-high trenches here.

Fortunately, the frontal width of the front is not large. So Safir, who had come to the front line at this time, quickly led the hand-to-hand team and the main force to successfully wipe out the goblins.

However, because these goblins penetrated further into the battle line, the soldiers had to stop and shoot from time to time to kill the scattered goblins who fell into the trenches.

Although those scattered goblins are basically unable to cause any harm to human soldiers, these sporadic outbreaks of hand-to-hand combat still weaken the firepower on the front line a lot, allowing more goblins to rush closer to the human soldiers. near place.

Maybe it was because they found that the attack was going well and they felt that they had figured out the strength of the artillery firepower of the human side, so the main force of the goblins in the woods also began to slowly walk out of the jungle and launched a wave of attacks against the artillery fire.

It has to be said that the commander of the goblin coalition army has a good military quality and was able to seize this short opportunity to launch an attack directly.

According to the original plan, the leader of this group of goblins planned to use this group of goblins to thoroughly test out the human firepower arrangement. But now, after discovering that the firepower of the human positions does not seem to be as strong as imagined, they immediately let the remaining army launch an attack, preparing to completely overwhelm the human army with numbers.

Although there are one or two goblin leaders who have some doubts about the firepower of humans, they feel that it is very likely that some traps have been set by humans.

But for the vast majority of goblin leaders, their knowledge of human combat effectiveness is limited to the legends of their ancestors and the accounts of a very small number of goblins who escaped from human actions before, so they don't think there is a problem with the current situation on the battlefield.

"Prepare the new weapons in the second trench, and then prepare to withdraw the people in the first trench at any time." Lawrence instructed the officer on the side, and then two small flags, one yellow and one green, were hoisted.

After seeing the information from the command post, the soldiers in the second trench quickly opened the heavy wooden boxes that had been transported to the shore by the first batch before landing, and then opened the lid of the box and took out the One after another, boxes with iron rod brackets were placed on the breast wall at the front of the position, and each box was larger than a large lunch box.

After placing them, they removed the iron covers of the boxes facing the battlefield one by one. Then unscrewed a small screw cover on the back, raised the matchlock that pulled the fuse, and stared nervously at the battlefield.