Struggle in the Steam Age

"The granary is a bit far from here, and the road from the granary to here is not very easy." Speaking of this, Lawrence looked at the sahuagin's webbed hands and feet. "Even if we can lend you a batch of vehicles to help you transport food, it will be difficult for you to transport it from there to here."

"Thank you for your concern." Huafin bowed to Lawrence and said, "But we have discussed before that everyone can take turns to carry the food. After all, we don't need to move all the food at once, and if It would be absolutely fine for us to move a part at a time."

"In that case, follow your plan." Lawrence nodded, then took out a pen, wrote a small note on the paper, sealed it, and handed it to the loka murloc in front of him, saying arrive. "You can take these notes to the granary, and the staff there will give you the grain when they see this note."

But after the group of loca murlocs saluted again and walked out of the room, Lawrence immediately went out from another door of the room and said to the several officers waiting there:

"Quickly send a telegram to the headquarters and tell them that a large-scale attack by the sahuagin is likely to be launched within a few hours. It is very likely that extraordinary people are mixed in there to carry out sabotage activities, so we must pay special attention to precautions."

"Understood." After listening to Lawrence's instructions, an officer immediately saluted, and then quickly found a small transmitter next door and pressed the button in front of a tick-tock.

Not a few minutes after the telegram was sent, the headquarters successfully sent a reply, saying that they had received their warning, and sent an elite team of extraordinary people to ambush in the grain depot, preparing to wipe out the group of sahuagin possible raiders.

"I remember that the sahuagins generally attack at night in the knowledge I learned before." Just after these preparations came to an end, one of the staff officers following Lawrence asked, "Why did the sahuagin attack this time?" The murlocs will choose to attack during the day, is it just because of the time limit of their magic items?"

"This is an important reason, but not all." Seeing the curious eyes of this group of young officers, Lawrence felt that he could share some combat-related experience with them.

"If you have carefully observed the recent battle between us and the sahuagin, you will find that they did launch a large-scale bloody battle on the first day of this war, and all other time attacks were just doing It's just a look."

"But whether it was the bloody battle on the first day or the feint attack afterwards, the sahuayu people basically chose to dispatch at night." Lawrence explained seriously.

"On the one hand, this is because the sahuayu people have the ability of dark vision, and they have a stronger advantage in fighting at night, but on the other hand, they want to inject a consciousness in our minds through this behavior, making us think that they only Massive attacks will be launched at night."

"Are the sahuagin so cunning?" A staff officer who looked very young, with a black eye patch covering one eye, showed a look of surprise on his face. "The courses I listened to in class when I was in military school used to say that those wild races were just smarter beasts."

"I remember that your name is Carl Vesalius. You are an immigrant from the Grand Duchy of Flemish, right?" Lawrence said, looking at the blond young man in front of him.

"To be honest, in a country like the Grand Duchy of Flemish, which is in the core area of ​​human beings, except for a few elites, basically not many people have seen too many wilderness races. I think the classes you took in the military academy at that time were mainly about Is it about how to fight intelligent creatures?"

This Lieutenant Vesalius is the highest staff officer of the Vieques Island Security Forces, and there is only one reason why he has such a status as a lieutenant, that is, there are too many people who have really received formal military education in this colony. Less, so the officer who immigrated here after retiring due to injury was naturally entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

"Yes, Your Excellency Earl Sauer." Lieutenant Vesalius saluted Lawrence and said, "At that time, what we mainly learned in the military academy was how to fight intelligent creatures first, and the rest of the time we studied I don't know much about how to deal with goblins, kobolds or other land creatures, so I don't really know much about sahuagin."

"Understandable, but since you are now a staff officer on this island, you should learn as much as you can about the sahuagin. Because it will be very useful to you in the future."

Lawrence looked at him and nodded seriously. "For example, although this battle broke out during the day, the group of sahuayu would definitely not just rush to the shore. Under normal circumstances, they would definitely do their best to create some favorable conditions for themselves."

Sure enough, when the time was close to noon, the originally clear weather suddenly changed. In the originally cloudless sky, some white clouds like fish scales first appeared, and then the color of these white clouds quickly became darker, and the area also quickly became larger. In less than ten minutes, the sky became cloudy.

At the same time, a gust of wind slowly blows from the sea to land. The original calm of the sea was also completely broken, and waves of waves gradually formed under the blowing of the sea wind, and then began to beat towards the shore. At the beginning, these waves were only a dozen centimeters high, but later the waves became bigger and bigger, just like when a hurricane came.

And in the sea that became violent, large carapaces with a diameter of about 10-15 meters slowly emerged from the water not far from the coast. Then he approached the coastline step by step. Beside them, countless sahuagin followed these big guys in the sea holding their own weapons and defensive props.

As these big guys slowly approached the island, their bodies gradually exposed to the surface of the sea. At the beginning, there were two large eyes the size of a person. Then there are shells covered with various sea creatures and thorns, as well as two huge pincers that seem to be a circle larger than a carriage, and finally eight thick legs with carapaces like large building pillars.

And on their backs are placed small rooms made of large shells, wood, aquatic plants and corals. The sahuagin nobles and priests, wearing robes inlaid with various pearls and gemstones and holding golden tridents, howled loudly and pointed to the land with their weapons.

Naturally, such a big movement cannot be concealed from the soldiers on the shore who are on the highest alert. As soon as they emerged from the sea, all the outposts on the shore discovered the sahuagin army that was attacking the coastline in an all-round way. Immediately the shrill sound of the hand-cranked siren spread throughout the island.

"Damn! War Cancer." At this time, Lawrence, who was ambushing on the cliff with a small elite army, immediately raised his binoculars to look in the direction of the port after hearing the alarm, and then instantly recognized the group of huge monsters that were advancing towards the coastline. What exactly is it.

"Obviously, no trace of their existence has ever been found in the previous investigation. Is this the sahuayu people secretly mobilized? I hope the port can guard it."

"My lord, the defense of those places should be fine." Nora, who was floating beside Lawrence, said, "All the shells I prepared have been distributed to the various artillery positions. If there are no accidents, they should be able to give these big guys A lesson."

"I hope so." Lawrence said with a slight sigh. "After all, there are 30 war crabs, and they are not so easy to deal with."