Struggle in the Steam Age

The dwarf Adolf and his group of engineers followed Lawrence and they had an important mission to help them across thousands of miles, which was to install and debug the hedgehog bombs and prepare for the war against the sahuagin. A total of 12 hedgehog launchers and more than 80% of the hedgehog bombs were placed in the cabin of their ship.

At the beginning, Lawrence didn't think of this, because he was originally going to participate in the tribunal's action to destroy the half-dead island whale and the puppets it controlled. Hedgehog bullets are not very effective against undead creatures in the deep sea, and the relatively small charge is obviously impossible to cause any damage to island whales that are several kilometers long.

But then the dwarf Adolf's initiative to ask for a battle reminded him that these weapons could be used in this battle. Fortunately, due to the progress of the island's construction, some hedgehog launchers were still installed on the ship and had not been unloaded. So they simply went to help with these weapons and the ammunition that was reloaded on the ship.

Because it is winter now, even if the surrounding temperature is not low, the wind and waves are much smaller. At least as far as Lawrence was concerned, everything was peaceful. But there are still quite a few people on the ship who get seasick. Among them, the situation of humans and rat people is better. There are only a dozen or less than 20 people who get seasick, and the seasickness is not too severe. Almost recovered.

But the tauren who seemed to be the strongest are unexpectedly weak in this respect, and most of the tauren have more or less signs of seasickness. So that Lawrence could only arrange them as much as possible to the upper deck where the ventilation is convenient and open the gun port, hoping to ease them a little.

When he was on the boat, Lawrence kept in touch with New Shaw Island three times a day, because he was a little worried that something would attack the island at this time. However, according to Mr. Lambert's call back, everything on the island is very normal. Although there were a few small groups of goblins who ran out to show their presence after discovering that the patrol team had decreased, they were quickly wiped out by the remaining personnel.

Although he brought out a group of elite troops for the rescue operation, there is still a lot of force left on the island and a complete militia system can rely on the previously repaired fortifications to continue the previous defensive missions, let alone most of the clergy The personnel stayed on the island as an extraordinary defense force on the island, so the island can be said to be relatively safe. Lawrence's worry was just a habitual worry.

After tossing and tossing all the way, they finally arrived at their destination. Perhaps because they came relatively quickly, the attack of the group of sahuagin had not yet started. Even the reinforcements came with only one ship from the Xinchenghai Colony of the Republic of Xinzhou and a small army of 120 people.

The highest consul on the island expressed great enthusiasm for Lawrence's arrival, because compared with other reinforcements, Lawrence's army was more like his own army because of Lawrence's identity. Therefore, when they learned that many of the reinforcements were severely seasick and needed to rest, the island quickly vacated a hotel in the port area as their residence and sent everyone enough food and drinking water.

In addition, the Supreme Consul also sent a banquet invitation to Lawrence, but this was politely declined by Lawrence. Because he believes that he has now entered a state of war, so as the supreme leader of the armed forces, he should stay with his soldiers.

"It's really embarrassing for you to come here by boat from such a long distance and join the battlefield like this." After hearing Lawrence's wailing words of decline, the supreme consul said gratefully, shaking Lawrence's hand. "Thank you so much for lending a helping hand to us at this time, especially for bringing so many elite troops and weapons—"

Ten minutes later, Lawrence and a group of engineers arrived at a defense point assigned to them: a peninsula extending into the ocean beside the island's port. This site can be said to be very important for port defense. The words here can at least reduce the pressure on the main position in the port area.

Also because of this situation, a number of fortifications have been built on this peninsula before. For example, the small fort named Emerald Point Fortress and a series of fortifications around it. However, because the scale of the attack here was not very large before, the entire fortification was also small in scale and very old in style.

Fortunately, those people on the island are more concerned about island defense, so Lawrence and the others found six latest-style 76mm howitzers and a large number of ammunition that can be used at any time in this fortress that can only accommodate about 100 people. In addition, there is a batch of bullets used by Lawrence and his current rifle.

In the warehouse attached to the fortress, they also found a lot of labor construction tools, pickets that were processed into appropriate sizes, and large rolls of well-maintained barbed wire. As long as the labor force is sufficient, they can build a batch of temporary fortifications around the fortress in a short time.

"I think this place should be expanded before the group of sahuagin come." Lawrence said after taking Safir and the others to check the specific situation of the fortification. "This fort itself does not need much improvement, but in addition to that, we should build two more forts to ensure that we can organize a firepower network that can support each other to defend the entire peninsula."

Two new forts were built along the peninsula, respectively in the middle of the peninsula towards the sea and where it connected to the island. In order to be able to repair these fortifications before the sahuagin attack a week later, Lawrence not only asked all his subordinates to join in the labor, but even their superhumans also participated in the work of building the fortifications.

In fact, at the beginning, Lawrence and the others thought about whether they could hire a group of local laborers to help, but after discussing with the person in charge of the island, they realized that although the sahuagins might attack during this period of time. Various activities on the island have temporarily stopped, but this news also made the originally idle labor on the island gathered in the original version basically try their best to leave here by boat, so there are not many people available for employment on the island now. labor force.

On the other hand, there are now a large number of places on the island that need to build various fortifications to strengthen the overall defense of the island, and such work naturally requires a lot of labor. So even if Lawrence and the others tried their best, they could only find less than 100 workers, and most of them were the simplest manual workers.

Fortunately, Lawrence and the others brought enough professionals this time. In addition, in the previous training, the army on New Sauer Island had all the soldiers trained to build fortifications according to Lawrence's requirements. Under the command of skilled professional military officers, everyone successfully started the construction of this series of fortifications.

Since it was only about a week before the sahuagin attack, there was definitely no time to build a permanent fortification made of stone like the top of the peninsula. Fortunately, there are trees and a lot of soil on the island for Lawrence and the others to use, and the geology of the peninsula is mainly land mixed with a little rock, so the difficulty of building fortifications is not high.

This is especially true after the tauren have recovered from seasickness. These big guys alone can support the labor of three or five people. Therefore, under the scientific overall planning, the fortress is being built at a high speed every day. In just five days, two other forts of the same size as the one at the tip of the peninsula were erected.