Struggle in the Steam Age

"Of course, my lord." After Lawrence asked, the old tauren saluted him and turned to everyone.

"This site actually involves the most shameful scene in the history of our tauren. I think the humans present and the young tauren may not know about it, because we consciously want to forget this history, but now, I Guess we can tell everyone what's going on in this—"

Following the old shaman's explanation, Lawrence finally understood why the older tauren were so excited. It turned out that this meadow was one of the earliest hometowns of the tauren on the island. According to them, their tribe came here from the west of the old continent a long time ago.

According to the legends of the tauren and the information Lawrence had read before, the earliest settlement of their branch of the tauren was on a small island in the east of the Earth Sea between the western part of the Old Continent and Yanzhou, famous for its complex labyrinth buildings.

Later, a tsunami triggered by a large-scale eruption of a submarine volcano triggered by a battle of gods destroyed most of the civilization on the island. So after the tsunami, the surviving tauren left the island one after another to find a safer place to live.

Thankfully, the god who won that battle of gods was a good god. After realizing the harm he caused to the tauren, the god and friends blessed the scattered tauren, so that most of them could find a new homeland across the dangerous sea with simple means of transportation.

According to the current distribution, the tauren people mainly went to places where they had been close to their hometown, such as the south in the west of the old continent, or the north of Yanzhou. Until now, there are villages and even small towns where some tauren gather in those places.

And the group of tauren on Saul Island should be the part that traveled the farthest in that era, as a tribe with a seafaring tradition among the group of tauren in the past.

Originally, according to their plan, they arrived in the westernmost part of the Earth Sea in a large ship to find a place to go ashore and settle down. But very unfortunately encountered a strong wind that lasted for half a month on the way. So much so that they completely rushed out of the Earth Sea and walked out of the farthest point where the power of the gods in the old continent could radiate.

As a race that believes in the power of nature, the tauren believe that this is the inspiration given to them by nature. So they did not return, but just set sail towards the unknown ocean.

Relying on the experience accumulated in previous sailings, their strong physique and the ships they built specially for remote colonization. They finally crossed the ocean and came here, becoming the ancestors of the tauren in the New World.

In other words, the other tauren in the New World basically followed the footsteps of humans colonizing the New World. Only the Tauren on Shaw Island and the Tauren population in the Northern Republic of Vinland in the White Eagle Federation belonged to the only two native Tauren societies in the New World.

After going to the island that year, the tauren were divided into three groups. Some people stayed at the landing point to continue their work related to the sea, and some people went deep into the island and stayed on the edge of the ruins left by the elves to set up camp, and then slowly spread to the entire hilly area.

The larger number of tauren continued to penetrate into the interior of the island, and finally brought their four-horned bulls to the meadow under the Blue Mountain to settle down.

If everything develops step by step, the island is likely to become a small island dominated by tauren in the end. But the problem is that just over a hundred years after the tauren settled here, a group of goblins also came to this island with a few floating garbage on the water that they called boats.

This is the most common nesting behavior of goblins. Because goblins only know how to destroy and don't know how to build, and they have a high fertility rate, so when the number of goblins exceeds the upper limit of the local ecological carrying capacity, they will expand outward.

For other civilized races, if these goblin colonies expanding in all directions cannot be discovered in time, a large group of such disgusting creatures will soon appear on their own territory.

Unfortunately, at that time, because the number of tauren was too small, they did not find the goblin colony that had landed from a hidden place on the island. As a result, when the tauren discovered the goblin invasion, the scale of the goblins on the island had turned into a huge disaster, which was no longer something the tauren could handle.

Under such circumstances, the tauren tribe that was originally staying by the sea was defeated and returned to the interior of the island to join the two tribes on the island, and then they and the goblins started a tug-of-war for the territory on the alpine meadow.

Because the terrain of the meadow is flat and there are not many metal ores on the island, the tauren who lacked weapons and equipment were finally defeated by the goblin's goblin sea tactics, and finally retreated back to the most barren of the three territories. hilly terrain.

Because of the rugged terrain in the hilly area, the tauren's individual combat effectiveness has been brought into full play in this place. Goblins, on the other hand, are basically unable to give full play to their numerical advantages because of the terrain. So after several years of trials, the goblin legion gave up this territory and turned to other places, so that these tauren could thrive in this hilly area.

The mangrove beach where Lawrence and the others went to colonize was the place where the tauren landed on this island. According to the tauren, the land there was originally very rich. It's a pity that the local ecological environment was completely destroyed after the goblins lived there on a large scale, so when Lawrence and the others boarded the beach, they found that the vegetation on the beach was not as lush as the surrounding areas, and even the land A situation of salinization has occurred.

According to the tauren shaman, they lost almost all of their sailing knowledge after arriving here in the early years. This is why they gave up that piece of land so easily back then.

However, unlike the mangrove beach, the alpine meadow at the foot of the blue mountain is very important to them now, and it can even be said to be related to the future of the entire population. This is why these elders are so excited when they talk about alpine meadows.

"Then why did you hide this history from us?" After the old shaman finished speaking, a young tauren shaman stood up and asked. "There is nothing shameful about being defeated. You can tell us these things for us to remember. I think we will be able to regain that land one day."

After hearing what the young tauren shaman said, Lawrence also nodded slightly. Because in his impression, the tauren are not the kind of creatures who dare not face their past. So what the old shaman said just now because of the shame should not be the real reason why they chose to hide this history.

"Actually, we concealed it because of your young minds." The old shaman said with a long sigh, "We did this before, and it turned out that your fathers came from the same place decades ago. The group of humans on the island organized a battle to regain the Blue Mountain Meadow—”

"I remember this incident," said a younger tauren shaman. "At that time, because of the arrival of human allies, we ushered in an era of expansion. On the one hand, branch tribes were established on the plains by the sea, and on the other hand, branch tribes were established on the alpine grass mats. After we left, we shrunk back for a variety of reasons."

"Yes, but because of this story, many people refused to retreat from the Blue Mountain Meadow. In the end, almost all of them died there." Speaking of this, the tauren shaman let out a long sigh.

After all, the breeding ability of the tauren population is not even as good as that of humans, and the loss of each person is enough to make people sad. "So since then, we have started to hide this history to avoid more similar tragedies."