Struggle in the Steam Age

After the old shaman on the field explained the history of the tauren, the field was quiet for a while. Seeing that everyone looked a little frustrated, Lawrence immediately encouraged everyone, "I think our actions this time will definitely not be the same as before, because this time everyone is truly united, and we are no longer fighting alone like before. "

"Yes, that's true." Everyone chattered, and hearing Lawrence's words, everyone present immediately became much more energetic. Because everyone realized that the many failures of the tauren in the long time before sounded depressing, but since Lawrence and the others landed, the goblins, who seemed invincible, were completely destroyed like frost under the scorching sun. crushed.

Times had changed, after all, and gunpowder weapons could easily erase the numerical advantage that goblins were so proud of. At the same time, the large number of tools and weapons brought by humans also doubled the combat effectiveness of the tauren several times. Those tauren who wear excellent armor and carry all kinds of weapons can easily hit three or four unarmed themselves.

Also because of this reason, after Nora proposed to recapture the meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountain. Although the tauren seemed a little hesitant because of their previous failures. But soon decided to join the action. Then everyone began to discuss the details of the next operation.

After summarizing the previous records of the tauren losing the meadow, they found that the previous failures had only one thing in common, that is, he was caught in a long guerrilla war. For these tauren, there is no way to carry out production activities when they gather together, but if they are scattered and put into production, they are likely to be submerged by the sea of ​​goblins. In this contradiction, the tauren were naturally unable to hold onto the blue mountain meadow and were driven down by the group of goblins.

However, since the introduction of green storage technology and various disinfection technologies in animal husbandry, the Tauren people have been able to change the original nomadic pastoralism into a combination of nomadic and fixed pastoralism. Under such circumstances, Lawrence and the others can completely divide the entire grassland by establishing various strongholds and passages on that meadow to ensure the safety of the various strongholds.

At least with the level of goblins on this island, it can be said that it is basically impossible to kill the fortified fortress with a large amount of gunpowder weapons and personnel assistants with sufficient combat effectiveness. So as long as the first fortresses are built, the land should be freed from goblin rule.

"This alpine meadow obviously has enough water." After determining the general direction of the next action, Nora took out a thin wooden stick from her body and pointed to the silver light woven by herself. The stereoscopic projection sand table said. "So I think our first move should not target the entire meadow, but should be a solid step by step."

"Advancing step by step is indeed a good idea. I think the reason why we failed before may be that we were too impatient." A tauren warrior nodded and said. "But this meadow has many small territories divided by small mountains and rivers, so which place should we attack first?"

"I personally think this place is more suitable." Nora said after a quick communication with Lawrence through the soul connection, and pointed to a location on the sand table. "This place is called the Blue Mountain Pass, which is the only way to enter the meadow from our place, and the water pool next to it, as one of the important sources of the river that connects the hilly area and the Port of New Sauer, can not only provide Our stronghold provides water and facilitates the transportation of supplies.”

What Nora didn't say is that if the pond continues upstream, the river will still exist, but because of the terrain and the huge drop, the river here is completely different from the river downstream. With a large amount of stone, there is simply no way to develop shipping.

So even if it is just for the convenience of transportation, a solid material transfer center needs to be established in this place. However, considering that a single fortress is difficult to persist for a long time, Lawrence's first phase of the project could not be just such a military fortress, but included a lot of meadow area.

The biggest trouble with this meadow is that although it is called a meadow, 3/4 of its area is forest, and only 1/4 is grassland. The biggest problem the tauren encountered before was that although they could easily kill the goblin tribes on the grasslands, those goblins would flee to the mountains to hide and join forces, and then gather a huge number to submerge those who came to the grasslands to develop livestock The Tauren tribe of the industry.

Therefore, their first phase goal this time is to use this fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass as the main fortress and at the same time clear out 200 square kilometers, which is 1/5 of the entire land, as the first development goal. What is different from this meadow as a whole is that the grassland area of ​​the two hundred square kilometers occupies more than 130 square kilometers, which is almost half of the entire meadow grassland area, and can be regarded as the most essential part of the meadow .

After all, the entire alpine meadow is distributed along the Blue Mountains, so the terrain is naturally more complex at higher altitudes, and flatter at lower altitudes. And Lawrence's plan this time is to occupy the only large flat land in this alpine meadow, and get the maximum benefit while spending as little resources as possible.

Following everyone's discussion, they decided to use local materials in the meadow except for the transit center at the mountain pass, and use local wood and stones to build 18 armed colonies. In addition, there will be another 12 outposts and towers built on the edge of the land to monitor the surrounding situation.

"This plan is perfect except for the lack of manpower." After the plan was formulated, both the humans and the tauren said the power they could draw, and it turned out that the two sides combined could draw a total of 200 professional armed personnel, of which 120 were humans. , 50 tauren, even half of the sentry towers in the plan can't be filled, let alone those armed colonial points.

If they act exactly as planned, they will station a 50-man army at each armed colony, and 30 troops at each outpost. 200 men were stationed at the Blue Mountain Pass Fortress, plus five patrols of 30 men each. A total of 1,610 people are needed, which is obviously far beyond the capacity of the island.

Considering that the regular army in the hands of Lawrence now has only 1,200 infantry, 50 cavalry, 300 guards, 150 garrison troops scattered in various important areas, and a navy of more than 800 people. So it is simply impossible to draw more than 1,600 people to be stationed on this meadow. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the armed forces that the tauren could draw out were even rarer.

"Actually, five or six people are enough for each armed colony," said a tauren shaman. "Your Excellency, you need to know that even if we tauren are ordinary people, as long as they are equipped with insufficient weapons, they can become warriors. So those fortresses only need some professional soldiers as guides."

"He's right," said a human officer who had been sent here to teach the tauren the new gunpowder weapons. "The same is true on the human side. Except for the new immigrants who followed you across the sea, most of the local old immigrants have been in constant struggle in their lives. In fact, after the militia training organized by you, I can assure you that the adult people on the island can already be used as militiamen with strong combat effectiveness."

As a pioneer lord, especially a pioneer lord with a military factory in his hand. Lawrence naturally spared no expense in training his subjects. Although considering the cost issue, most people still use old-fashioned front-loading guns with flash caps, but at least everyone can be guaranteed to use firearms proficiently. At least their combat effectiveness in the fortress is no less than that of ordinary soldiers.