Struggle in the Steam Age

"You don't have to worry about this, Mr. Liszt." Lawrence hurriedly explained after seeing the tense expressions of several people on the field who didn't know much about military affairs and goblins after Liszt made his point. After all, these people also represent the thoughts of most ordinary people who followed everyone to the island.

"Goblin is actually a kind of intelligent creature with a lot of beast characteristics." Lawrence first told everyone present the definition of goblin in this world's intelligent race, and then said: "As their animal side, it is also the most lethal The intolerable aspect of intelligent races is that they take but basically do not create."

"That is to say, the way they obtain food is still the most primitive hunting or gathering. Only when they are lucky will they make some dried meat or dried edible plants as a temporary reserve in a way that consumes a lot of money. .do not consciously hoard food like other intelligent creatures."

"According to previous investigations, the same is true for the group of goblins who are fighting us now. They can't get enough food from this land to sustain such a large army."

"On the other hand, goblins themselves are chaotic creatures. As leaders, those spellcasters, priests or others can restrain them for a short period of time, but it is basically impossible to maintain this restraint for a long time. So they The attack must be launched while there is still food and when the subordinates can be restrained."

"If that's the case, we can rest assured." Dr. Liszt nodded and said, and then began to report on the current situation of the field hospital. After he finished his report, Reina's housekeeper stood up and reported on the amount of food currently in possession and how long it would last.

After summarizing the situation reported by these non-combatants, Lawrence felt that the situation was very good. After all, there is food on hand that can last for about two months, and a temporary hospital has also been established at the same time. Moreover, those non-combatants were also organized to take over the logistics work, allowing Lawrence to bring more than 3,000 people to the battlefield wholeheartedly.

The results of the pre-war meeting were notified to everyone after the meeting, and these summarized facts lifted everyone's morale, and at the same time, the previous panic disappeared. More than 7,000 pioneers have now formed a whole and quickly and steadily revolved around this war.

Early the next morning, when Lawrence finished his breakfast at the battle station. Those goblins came out of the hilly bushes about a thousand meters in front of the position, and after being beaten and scolded by some elves who seemed to be the leaders, they rushed towards the position in a group of 30 to 50 sporadically.

"This is to further test the position of our firepower, and take some ammunition." Looking at these people who rushed forward at most 1/3 distance, they were killed by the selected sharpshooters on the ground. Lawrence of the goblin team thought, after all, the common feature of these goblin teams is that their equipment is extremely simple, and they look like old, weak, sick and disabled.

"It should be so." said Nora, who flew to the sky to scout as soon as the station opened, "A large number of goblins began to gather behind the hills and bushes, especially in front of us."

The results of Nora's investigation did not exceed Lawrence's expectations. After all, Lawrence's position was actually centered on the small hill in the camp and extended to both sides, forming a crescent formation backed by the coastline.

In this way, since the cannons on the warships can only shoot directly at a short distance, the firepower of the warships moored behind the position shouted at most to support the flanks of the Queyue formation after the war started, but the front of the position was damaged by those war fortifications. The existence of the enemy cannot attack the enemy in front of the position through the fortifications. After all, the accuracy of artillery in this era is still a bit lacking. If it misses, the shells will easily fall on the heads of your own people.

Therefore, the front of the position can only be guarded by the guards themselves. Fortunately, this time Lawrence not only deployed enough troops on the front of the position, but also obtained a batch of soldiers from the dwarf Eugene of Huguang City. A new weapon of his own design. So he is sure enough to hold the frontal position.

Just as Lawrence was thinking, the small force of more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled goblins had been exhausted. However, at this time, the goblins' large forces were successfully organized, and then under the stimulation of the clergy of the goblin gods, they formed a skirmish formation from all directions and started a tentative attack.

Immediately, gunshots rang out from the human position. At the beginning, there were sporadic shootings. It was the sharpshooters who shot at the elves who seemed to be the leaders among the attackers. However, the effect of doing so was not as good as expected, because even if some team leaders were killed in such a situation where thousands of goblins swarmed up, they would still rush to the human position in front of them under the coercion of the surrounding goblins. At most it can only create a little confusion.

At the same time, because the goblins swarmed up, it was difficult for the sharpshooters on the human side to find the exact location of the team leaders. So after three or four minutes, the remaining 5,000 goblins approached the barbed wire fence. Then he was tightly entangled there by those barbed wire fences.

While these goblins were entangled by barbed wire and unable to move forward, other human soldiers also started shooting with their rifles. Although their marksmanship is not as good as those sharpshooters, it is not difficult for them to shoot a fixed target as large as a goblin from a distance of two to three hundred meters.

Because Lawrence hid a lot of firepower, this group of goblins who touched the front of the position also succeeded in destroying a lot of barbed wire and fortifications when they lost 70% to 80%, and approached to less than 20 meters away from the first trench. m place.

"Woo————" With the sound of several chaotic and sharp horns, bursts of dust came out from the edge of the jungle. Then more than 300 goblin cavalry riding some kind of wild boar with long tusks frantically rushed towards the front of the main human position, and behind them were densely packed khaki goblin heads.

"Is this a general attack?" Lawrence's eyes widened as he watched the monsters rushing out of the woods. But think about it, even if there are some good-minded spellcasters to maintain order, it is impossible for so many goblins to make any subtle tactical detours.

So for the goblins, there are only two tactics now, or they will charge in waves one after another, and when the casualties exceed 1/3, they will disperse in a crowd and fight against Lawrence and the others on the entire land. Or just rush forward with huge casualties and see if you can use the goblin sea tactics to overwhelm Lawrence and the others.

Especially this goblin attack was instigated by the clergy of the goblin god, which brought valuable organization to the goblins, but also from a certain point of view, the goblin attack was seriously affected by the gods. .

For the gods, sometimes face is more important than anything else. After those clergymen reported the operation, the goblin god asked the goblins to cause as many casualties as possible to humans.

As for the loss of the goblin, it is not even a number for the goblin god. After all, for the goblin god, the most important thing is to show the power of the goblin and his own greatness. For this purpose, goblin casualties don't matter. Not to mention that the biggest advantage of goblins is the number advantage.

Therefore, this group of goblins can only choose a forceful charge to complete the instructions of the gods. After all, through their investigation, the firepower of humans can be regarded as far superior to them, but there is a fatal shortcoming of insufficient manpower.

In a way, they are right. After all, most of the victories of the barbaric races were obtained through this method. In this way, they commanded all the power in their hands to charge towards the human position with full confidence.