Struggle in the Steam Age

Perhaps because of the existence of trenches, a large number of seriously wounded among these wounded were evacuated.

After all, when they stayed in the trenches and the enemy shot each other with light weapons, they only needed to expose the parts above the chest. Therefore, once they are shot, they have a higher probability of hitting those fatal parts.

Because Nora needs to provide aerial reconnaissance now, even Lawrence in the field hospital went off to operate on the wounded.

This is because it is not difficult to perform operations on these seriously wounded, and only those experienced doctors or Lawrence, who are not low in level, can guarantee to save these wounded as much as possible.

In one emergency wound operation after another, the time just passed. Soon, the sky slowly darkened. Oil lamps were also lit in the tent to illuminate these temporary operating rooms. At this time, the scattered gunshots that had just entered the tent from outside slowly disappeared.

"Those skirmishers who were in front of the opponent's position before are starting to retreat to their main position."

The puppet Nora with night vision ability reported the enemy's whereabouts to Lawrence at this time, and at the same time communicated with the book charm in the headquarters through the spiritual connection, and notified the headquarters of everything she saw at the same time .

"It seems that they want to attack on a large scale." After receiving Nora's news, Lawrence immediately judged what the wilderness race wanted to do, and then sent a request to the little doll.

"Have you seen where the heavy weapons held by that group of wilderness races are located? I think they must be supported by those heavy weapons if they want to attack now."

"Let me take a look." After listening to the task assigned by Lawrence, Nora climbed up several hundred meters fiercely, and then began to search the periphery of the battle line.

Fortunately, the Harpies, one of the two major air forces in the wilderness race, were also unable to take off at night, so it was much easier to scout now than during the day.

After circling the entire Pine Valley position and dispelling several groups of vampire bats trying to attack the Pine Valley troops below, Nora basically saw the surrounding situation clearly.

According to the results of her observation, there are 4~6 dwarven dragon cannons in the surrounding area that are being transported to the preset positions around Pine Valley.

"This group of wilderness race legions are building roads. According to their speed, if there is no accident, the group of gray dwarves will get the artillery in place at three or four o'clock in the morning."

Looking at the wilderness race legions who were cutting down trees overnight and trying to clear a road in the distance, as well as the short cannon barrels that only exposed the hole, Nora quickly analyzed their target of action.

After all, as a standard magic cannon, the gray dwarf's dragon cannon fires not a solid projectile, but a powerful flow of magic power.

Therefore, it has almost the same straight ballistic trajectory as the Yiguang Cannon. Therefore, if you want to use the dragon cannon in mountainous areas, you must select the launch position, otherwise it will be difficult to hit the target position.

And there are not many places where dragon cannons can be placed around Pine Valley, not to mention that the group of wilderness races not only mobilized people to build roads, but also cleared various obstacles on the surface in many surrounding areas to prepare for the construction of artillery positions.

Through aerial reconnaissance, the little puppet found that the artillery positions were all hidden behind some short bushes, and even set up some air defense concealment systems with various vines and trees.

It was through these positions being temporarily built that Nora roughly deduced how many artillery pieces the opponent could use.

However, considering that under normal circumstances, there are more cannon positions than artillery, so Nora is not sure about the exact number of the opponent's dragon cannons, so she can only give an approximate number based on her own guesses.

But this number is already much more accurate than the results of other scouts checking and detecting, and relying on the detection of the little puppet. The Pine Valley command quickly figured out the specific situation on the front line and made corresponding preparations.

For example, the dwarf engineers accompanying the army can calculate the direction of the artillery fire of those evil cousins ​​through the position and shape of the gun positions, and then infer the position of the opponent's next attack.

As for the wild race's failure to guard against Nora's investigation, it's also very simple, because they feel that their side has already occupied the air supremacy in this area, so even if the civilized race has any air power, it is impossible to go too deep.

But what they didn't expect was that Nora's eyesight as a puppet was much stronger than the naked eyes of most creatures, so as long as she climbed to a certain height, she could clearly see the mobilization of troops hidden behind various concealed objects.

Or from another point of view, the group of wilderness creatures never thought that there would be a transcendent of Nora's level who would not be on the more important front or rear, but would stay in this second-line hub.

So when formulating policies, only regard Nora as an expert or a master-level transcendent. After all, they inferred Nora's strength from her previous battles, and the enemies the little puppet had encountered before were all ordinary monsters or low-level superhumans, so she didn't fight with all her strength. Therefore, it is reasonable for the wilderness race to misjudge.

However, the absence of heavy weapons does not mean that the wilderness races will not attack. Just after the group of scouts who had been fighting against the Pine Valley defenders withdrew, a large number of rustling footsteps appeared around the Pine Valley and were cleared. The edge of the isolation strip.

Because of the cover of a large number of plants and the fall of night, the defenders of Pine Tree Valley had no idea how many enemies were hidden in the bushes tens of meters away.

Seeing the rustling movement hidden in the darkness of the vegetation, the fleeting green eyes and the howling of beasts from the bushes lingering in their ears, the soldiers on the Pine Valley defense line were shocked. Inevitably there was commotion. Under such circumstances, those low-level officers and non-commissioned officers on the front line immediately discovered the commotion on the ground and issued orders to deal with it.

"Reconnaissance shooting." A similar order came out of the mouths of these front-line commanders, and then the soldiers moved the connecting rod under the trigger, opened the chamber and inserted a bullet. Then he raised his rifle and carefully looked at the dark woodland opposite, and finally aimed at the target he had selected before and pulled the trigger.

In an instant, scattered gunshots were heard on the defensive position where the Pine Tree Valley defenders were located. After the gunshots rang out, the movements in the jungle suddenly became much quieter.

The reason why the effect is so immediate is also very simple, that is because the light on the entire battlefield is very weak now, so the soldiers subconsciously shot the bullet for scouting and shooting at the place with the most movement in front of them, so they thought that it was very difficult for them to be invisible in the dark. Some of the safe wilderness races were directly shot into the street like this.

And after the sporadic gunshots of this round of investigation ended, the movement in the opposite jungle suddenly became much quieter. But ten minutes later, those movements sounded again.

It's just that this time the opponent's movement seemed much smaller, and it sounded like they were hiding behind some obstacles to make movement.

"The legion of the wilderness race is slowly gathering." Nora, who hid her figure and flew silently above the group of monsters, reported the current situation to Lawrence.

"However, they are scattered across the entire front in the form of small groups, and it seems that they don't plan to launch an attack in a short time."

"In other words, the other party is waiting for the heavy firepower to be in place." After hearing Nora talk about the movement of the wilderness army, Lawrence immediately guessed the most likely movement of the wilderness population.

Obviously, these wilderness populations are ready to launch a general attack after the heavy firepower is in place, completely destroying the civilized race legion in Pine Valley. And now all they do is to harass the defenders in this area as much as possible, so that they can gain more advantages in subsequent attacks.