Struggle in the Steam Age

After simply passing on the attack order, Lawrence immediately activated the emotional magic again to stir up the emotions of the incoming goblins, but the difference is that the targets of his spells now are mainly those on the periphery of the entire goblin army. Those goblins, the magic they cast at the same time is basically the magic of courage.

The reason for this is that after the altar and the priests were all killed, the bloodthirsty magic of war disappeared, and at that time, almost all the goblin leaders were killed together with the priests.

. And the direct consequence of all the command cores of the goblins being reimbursed at the same time in an instant is that if there is no accident, the goblins are likely to return to their original timid nature in a short period of time and disperse.

At that time, even if the human legion can kill the goblins who have crowded in front of the position, at least 1/3 of the goblins in the rear will be able to successfully withdraw from the battlefield.

If this is the case, humans may need to spend a lot of time, energy and resources in the next time to fight a jungle law and order war with these damn goblins.

You know, the reason why Lawrence mobilized so many manpower and resources in this war is to wipe out as much as possible of the goblins in this area at once. Avoid dragging the battle into a long and cumbersome security battle. So no matter what, he had to try his best to keep the goblins on the small plain in front of the fortress.

Fortunately, the soul-type magic he had mastered had an unexpected effect. Taking advantage of the remnants of those magical effects on the other party, Lawrence smoothly made the group of goblins on the periphery fall into a frenzy again, and went crazy. He rushed towards the direction of the human position.

These goblins rushing forward drove the herd mentality in the daily habits of the surrounding goblins, and soon, the goblins who were confused because of the disappearance of magic spells stopped their previous hesitation and rushed to the front line as crazy as before.

In this way, the goblins who were frightened by the powerful firepower of the humans in front and the tragic death of several parties were constantly retreating, but under the pressure of the goblins behind them, they had to move step by step towards the area where the firefight was fought.

At this time, the front line has completely turned into a huge flesh and blood mill. With all kinds of firepower pouring out, the goblins at the forefront of the exchange of fire between the two sides fell one by one, and a large number of complete or broken corpses were spread on the ground. superior. But this hell-like ground was quickly overwhelmed by the goblins coming from behind.

In the early days of cold weapons and gunpowder weapons, this kind of goblin tide charge was quite lethal, because the long-range weapons of that era lacked sufficient penetration capabilities and had a low rate of fire.

This also led to the fact that long-range firepower can only simply weaken the outermost layer or two of the goblin army in the face of such centralized monsters, and then they can overwhelm those who fight with them with their absolute superiority. Enemy gone.

But with the birth of gunpowder weapons, the crowd tactics and dense queues that goblins are good at immediately became very outdated. For example, in some densely populated places, a single round of heavy mortar shells fired from warships in the river can kill or injure nearly a hundred goblins, completely losing their combat effectiveness.

"We have to retreat." Lawrence suddenly gave an order just as the group of goblins were rushing towards the forward position as frantically as before, because at this time the corpses of the goblins in front were piled up higher and higher, and even the goblins on the battlefield All the blood that flowed out went into the trenches, drowning the soldiers' ankles in stinky goblin blood.

However, because there were too many dead goblins, the corpses of goblins nearly one person high were piled up in front of the trench where Lawrence and the others were located, which seriously affected the display of human firepower. Under such circumstances, Lawrence had no choice but to order all the soldiers to retreat towards the last defensive line that was temporarily built on the river bank.

Fortunately, as the directional mines were detonated in batches, the goblins who were rushing forward and the beasts like long-tused wild boars raised by the goblins were emptied. And those goblin survivors who ran away frantically after being frightened blocked the way for other goblins to charge in the rear, making the whole battlefield even more chaotic.

For the goblins, the only lucky thing is that Lawrence ordered the artillery to shoot far away from the line to cut off the goblins rushing towards the position from the rear, so they didn't take care of them for the time being. This group of guys huddled together in front of the battlefield.

"If we retreat again, we will retreat to the river." After everyone had made arrangements and withdrew from the second trench, Safiel, covered in blood, brought his team to Lawrence's side and said , "Can you tell me now when we can fight back?"

"Wait a minute, now is not the time." Lawrence carefully observed the situation ahead. At this time, there were only more than 10,000 goblins alive on the battlefield, but those goblins who were affected by Lawrence's magic in the rear were crazy Pushed and pushed, they still entered the trench that Lawrence and the others had just evacuated, and the trench was almost filled in less than a minute.

Seeing the goblins rushing out of the trenches, everyone immediately started shooting. However, compared to the trenches and barbed wire just now, now there are only some wood and sandbags piled up on the parapet, which is difficult to defend here for too long. Fortunately, at this time, the machine guns on the ship that could not shoot because of the terrain could provide them with enough help.

But even so, the goblins managed to cross the small hillside between the trench and the beach and rushed towards the human army below the hillside, and the goblins who were hit even rolled all the way to those piled up in front of the human position. The front of the parapet was gathered in a small pile.

"It's ready now." Watching the goblins rushing to a distance of more than ten meters from the parapet, several officers at the end of Lawrence said, and then a young officer took out the signal flare launcher and fired two blood-red bombs into the sky. signal flare. Just before the signal bomb fell, the trench exploded like a volcanic eruption.

All the directional bombs that had been buried in the trench walls before were detonated. Because there was no plastic, Lawrence's practice of replacing the shell with wood actually played a special role in camouflage at this time.

After all, all the goblins who faced the directional bomb charge at close range before in the battle were all dead, and the remaining goblins apparently took the directional mine wooden covers embedded on the wall as reinforcements for the trench after they charged into Xuanhao. Wooden planks for the walls.

The result of this is that most of the directional mines were successfully detonated except for a small number of directional mines that were squeezed and displaced in the crowd and failed to detonate due to broken fuses. In addition, the same batch was detonated with dozens of small pieces of explosives placed at the bottom of a small pit under a pile of rubble.

In an instant, the iron balls, wood chips and gravel flying around quickly took the lives of the goblins near the trenches and inside the trenches, while the goblins farther away were interrupted or injured, and then they died. In this way, he fell on the blood-soaked battlefield and completely lost his combat effectiveness.

"Charge—" After the explosion ended, the army of goblins at the scene immediately became two sections before and after, and suddenly entered chaos. After seeing this scene. Lawrence immediately gave the order for a general attack. Then three consecutive red flares rose into the air.

After seeing the signal flare in the sky, the human army immediately began to walk out of the previous temporary fortifications on the river bank in small groups, and then pushed forward steadily while shooting.

At the same time, Nora, who had cleaned up the group of goblins in the forest, also flew out of the forest, and then fell into the goblins, creating one group after another of flesh and blood storms.

"Then it's time to clean up the mess." Lawrence said after looking at the situation on the field, "I hope there won't be too many goblins running out."