Struggle in the Steam Age

"They're finally here." Less than ten minutes after everyone finished the last battle before the battle and took their positions, Lawrence, who was standing at the core fortress at the tip of the peninsula, whispered. Although the sky is still dark now, Lawrence, who has dark vision and has been repeatedly strengthened by the Bai Ze bloodline, can see clearly everything on the sea.

At this time, the sea surface not far from their fortress was already covered with dense dorsal fins and some black shadows that obviously looked larger than normal ships. In his line of sight alone, there were at least 3000 The dorsal fins and carapaces of various marine organisms are mixed together, and how many are unknown in farther places.

"I feel that there are more monsters attacking our side than expected." After eating some hot food just now, Nora lifted off again and began to provide real-time reconnaissance. It may be because of being in the air and possessing some special extraordinary abilities. , so she quickly reported the latest situation to Lawrence. "You should only see half of the part above the water, and the other half is hidden under this group of guys. If you guessed right, the other party probably wants to attack us."

"However, there is good news, that is, the main direction of the opponent's attack should be the port area, the most populous place on the island, that is, the urban area on our right hand side. And our side is likely to be a feint attack. So the attack on this Among the group of monsters on the side, the real sahuagin main force is only about 1/5, and the rest are basically rocagin servants and some monsters. The only thing to note is that there are two giant monsters in this batch of attacking teams. The sea beast, if I'm not mistaken, looks like a giant hermit crab."

"Thank you for the detailed information. If you find anything wrong, please let me know as soon as possible." Lawrence whispered after finishing speaking. "At least this battle is very simple, as long as you kill all the stinky fish and rotten shrimps who came to attack, you don't need to think too much like other battles."

"Everyone is in their positions." Just after Lawrence finished talking with Nora, Safir ran in from the door and continued. "Forts 2 and 3 have sent signals telling us they are ready for battle, and soldiers have entered the fortifications around this fort and the trenches connecting the forts."

"Very good!" Lawrence said after watching a series of three green lanterns raised by the other two forts through the observation port of Fort No. We can use iron and fire to kill the stinky fish that will flood our defenses like a tidal wave."

While Lawrence was communicating with Safir, all the lighting equipment in the main position of the port area was turned on. Unlike Lawrence, who relied on the Ratmen who were born with dark vision to direct the heavy firepower, so he was able to maintain the blackout, the main city lacked night vision and could only ensure safety through a large number of lights.

At this time, turning on all the lights can not only point out the enemy's position for the army on the shore, but also boost the morale of one's own side. After all, there are quite a few militiamen recruited temporarily among them. If they wait for the enemy to take the initiative to attack in the dark, this kind of psychological pressure is likely to cause their morale to collapse and make certain actions to completely disrupt the entire defense line.

But the sahuagin are not stupid, so after turning on the lights now, it is easy for the attackers to lock the position of the light source and launch a key attack on those places after the battle breaks out in a while. Therefore, positions like Lawrence that are capable of ensuring that the army is still organized at night will choose blackouts, and prepare to give the group of murlocs a surprise attack later.

In addition to the peninsula where Lawrence and the others were located, the Xinzhou-White Eagle Mixed Legion, which was flanking the other side of the main position, also maintained a blackout. This temporarily mixed army is a temporary combination of the extra part of the White Eagle Federation reinforcements guarding the main position and the reinforcements of the New Island Republic. As professional soldiers, they can quietly in the dark waiting for the enemy to come.

That legion is much stronger than Lawrence's army, because what they need to garrison is a relatively flat beach, so they can only rely on more people and stronger firepower in the absence of geographical advantages. Hold this area of ​​defense that belongs to you, and in the emergency construction before the war, most of the workers were sent there to build a series of temporary fortifications as their defensive support points.

Because of the light emitted from the direction of the main position, the two wing positions in the dark can also clearly see the enemies approaching from the sea. At this time, some long-range artillery deployed in some inland areas began to shoot. These are the giant war monsters that were observed to belong to the murloc side.

A few monsters that charged too far ahead were quickly focused by the artillery, although the monsters that were so big often had extraordinary abilities, and they could have stronger defense capabilities than normal creatures. For example, Lawrence saw a large-caliber coastal defense artillery shell fall on the back of a turtle-like sea beast, and a defensive layer like water splashed on the sea beast's back to block the shell.

But not every giant beast has such a strong defense ability and such good luck. A crab-like creature on the side of this giant sea turtle was almost hit by three heavy shells at the same time, one of which was broken. The opponent's defense was much worse than that of the giant tortoise, while the other two shots penetrated the crab's carapace and exploded inside the crab, tearing the whole crab and the monsters around it to shreds.

"The opponent has landed." Safiel, who was watching the hot scene in the distance, suddenly heard Lawrence say, so he quickly cast his eyes on the coastline on his side. Sure enough, while the main battlefield was in full swing, a large group of murlocs of various colors and the sea beasts they brought slowly emerged from the bottom of the sea and walked towards the coastline.

Perhaps because their queue was too dense, it looked like a large pile of sardines caught by a net. These guys jumped out of the sea and came to the beach, and then under the command of several sahuagin who looked obviously a circle bigger than other murlocs, they began to raise their own weapons and gathered together and divided into fighting groups. .

The weapons of these murlocs are relatively uniform, basically spears, tridents and some crossbows originally used in water. Under the command of the sahuagin, they quickly organized and established a beachhead on the beach. And began to send teams to the direction of the small mountain range on the peninsula.

"Aren't we going to attack now?" Because Lawrence didn't issue an order, all the positions remained silent. Looking at the densely packed murlocs below, Safiel couldn't help it. "The opponent has already established a beachhead and is beginning to approach our position. They are likely to reach the front of our position within five minutes."

"Wait a minute." Lawrence whispered, "Our enemy is the murlocs, and the beachhead is not as important to them as it is to us. In fact, the more they gather on land now, the better. At least this will allow us to take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate as many monsters as possible at once."

At this time, those two guys who looked like large hermit crabs entered the shallow sea area and raised half of their bodies out of the sea. At the same time, a part of the murloc scouting team also approached the position only about 20 meters away.

"Flare, all the firepower except for the hedgehog shells and half of the large-caliber mortars!" After seeing that there were about a thousand murlocs, including more than 200 sahuagin, they had landed on land. , Lawrence finally gave the order to fire. "Act according to the previously set plan."