Struggle in the Steam Age

After finishing contacting with the doll, Lawrence didn't stop, but came to a semi-underground building in the middle of the peninsula. The height of this building out of the ground is only about the waist of a person, and it is basically surrounded by a large pile of vine-like plants, and there is an earth wall blocking the entrance. It's basically hard to find this place without knowing it in advance.

This building is one of the core buildings that Lawrence and the others built on the mountain after they came here. In addition to the short-range telegraph allocated on the island, they also removed a long-range telegraph from the ship, so it can be used to communicate with the urban area. The main position, those warships and armed merchant ships temporarily operated by the navy, and the function of Shaw Island.

So in this case, this building is naturally under key protection. In addition to using a small amount of steel plates allocated for reinforcement, there are more than two meters of heavy civil structure and low-rise fortifications on the outside of this temporary communication station. shape.

Even in order to prevent this place from being discovered by the sahuayu people, they specially asked the priests of the agricultural church to take time to temporarily cultivate a batch of plants to disguise the building as a small ordinary hill and strictly enforce the blackout.

The hardest thing to hide about those telegraphs was the tall antenna. This is especially true of the batch used for long-distance communication. Fortunately, before this small peninsula, only a fortress was built on the top of the peninsula. Other than that, all the other places kept the original ecology, so there are many trees in this area.

So Lawrence and the others decided to disguise the communication towers as trees and mix them in the surrounding woods after some simple thinking, so that they could basically guarantee enough concealment in the battle against the murlocs. Anyway, for this war, it is basically impossible for murlocs without radio detection equipment to find this side.

"Now send a report to the urban area, saying that our department has discovered that the large army of the sahuagin is still more than 30 kilometers away from our island. If there is no accident, they will meet with our side in three hours. Peripheral defense collision—”

After entering the communication room, Lawrence quickly sent the information detected by Nora to the main position in the city through the telegraph operator on duty. Then began to wait for the call back from the command.

Ten minutes later, Lawrence received an order from the port requiring all armed personnel to enter the position. So under Lawrence's order, a hand-cranked siren placed on the highest point of the peninsula was quickly rang. Then the soldiers in the tent of the barracks quickly took their equipment and began to enter the battle position.

Because of everyone's previous drills and the mixed formation of different races, the troops on the peninsula arrived at their respective combat positions in a short period of time with the extremely rare lights under the blackout situation.

In comparison, the direction of the main position in the port area is a lot more chaotic. Even if Lawrence stood in the observatory at the top of the small mountain range on the peninsula, he could see the messy lights in the direction of the downtown area of ​​the port and the noisy sounds of personnel and weapons being mobilized.

At the same time, the logistics department was also busy. Lawrence had prepared two field cooking vehicles and started cooking breakfast with all his might. Considering that the sahuagin attack is likely to last for a long time, Lawrence thinks that everyone should have a full breakfast at this time, so as not to reduce their combat effectiveness due to hunger during the battle.

"Prepare meal No. 2. Pour in the meat floss and cheese we brought before, and remember to add more spices." Because of Nora's real-time monitoring of the sahuagin troop, Lawrence also seemed relatively calm in the battle arrangements. After inspecting the front line, he came to the cooking class to inspect.

Lawrence's request was very normal, because according to tradition, everyone would naturally have a good meal before going to the battlefield. Not to mention that sahuagin attacks often start with a climax, so if they don't consume enough calories at one time, he is really worried that everyone will not be able to sustain it under the premise of high-intensity activities.

If it was wartime, Lawrence and the others would make a large amount of high-calorie paste and send it to the front to save time for eating, and might even consider letting the soldiers eat the compressed biscuits they carried with them. But considering that there are still about three hours before the battle, everyone has enough time to have a formal breakfast.

Yes, you read that right, compressed biscuits already exist in this era. It hasn't been that difficult to make something like this since the invention of the steam engine. It is different from the compressed biscuits purchased by the general military that only have flour, water, salt and vegetable oil. Lawrence, who chose to take the route of elite soldiers, added meat floss, dried fruit and a lot of milk powder to the compressed biscuits distributed to the army.

According to the conclusions of the soldiers who tried it before, the simple version of the compressed biscuits in Lawrence's eyes tastes very good, and it is also very hungry. The only downside is that this kind of thing is not suitable for long-term consumption due to the lack of vitamins and unbalanced nutrition. Otherwise, it may lead to a series of adverse effects caused by vitamin deficiency.

Fortunately, the compressed biscuits used as emergency food are only used for a short time during battle, so the problem is not too big.

After all, compared with the logistics food of most ordinary soldiers armed with dry noodles and pickled vegetables and savory broth, Lawrence's logistics equivalent to the level of World War I is enough to be called a luxury, at least not like Some armies, like the army, can produce a bunch of scurvy patients.

As a standard keyboard military expert in his previous life, Lawrence had a good understanding of various military theories. But the corresponding actual military command level is limited to adding chaos. So now he simply handed over the frontline command tasks to those professional officers under Huixia. Instead, he focused on boosting morale.

As for boosting morale, there is nothing better than a good meal at this time to boost morale. Although the island is located in the tropics, the temperature is not very cold, but it is very humid because of the seaside. Considering this reason, Lawrence ordered to add spicy spices to the high-calorie canned meat and stir-fried vegetables to dispel dampness.

In addition, Lawrence also used the black tea he carried to boil several large pots of tea and bread, and sent them to the battlefield together with stir-fried vegetables and thick soup. In a fierce battle, these foods may cause the stomach to be overburdened, which is not conducive to combat, but now we still have more than two hours, which is enough for everyone to digest.

Sure enough, this batch of hot food greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers after they were delivered to each battle position. Especially now that many people are a little drowsy because they just woke up from sleep, these hot foods help them wake up quickly after eating.

After eating, they began to conduct the last weapon inspection before the battle under the arrangement of the officers. At the same time, I started shifts to take a temporary rest to recuperate and recharge my batteries.

After inspection, Lawrence found that these people under his command were in very good condition. After all, this world is not the stable world of Lawrence's previous life. A certain distance away from the settlements of civilized creatures will encounter various deadly enemies. So basically everyone present has war experience in dealing with those savage creatures, and their morale is generally high.

This is true even for armies like Ratmen and Tauren that have many militias recruited temporarily. Unlike humans, their living environment forces them to be in a state of war all the time. In terms of combat experience, it might even surpass that of Lauren's professional soldiers.

Because among this group of professional soldiers, only veterans have experienced the previous large-scale battles, and the recruits, apart from training, at most only participated in the mission of encircling and suppressing scattered goblins.

The next step was to wait, so Lawrence and Safir entered the observation post at the highest point on the island and began to observe the surrounding movements, and sent the content of Nora's observations to the main position by telegram every 15 minutes.