Struggle in the Steam Age

After waiting for three days, Lawrence and the others finally arrived at the ships that returned with a full load after the battle against the sahuagin. The reason for the delay is that after destroying the opponent's main force and most of the living forces, they took this opportunity to spend some time destroying their settlements with magic and explosives.

According to the report of the captain of the Enterprise, in this operation, everyone destroyed a sahuagin city, 11 sahuagin small towns, and more than 30 sahuagin villages. It can be said that the forces under the previous sahuagin prince were wiped out in a short time by taking advantage of the opportunity of this battle.

During this process, some small-scale conflicts occurred between the subordinates of the sahuagin court and the other two princes and this human fleet. But after the conflict, the sahuagin gave way rather abnormally, so everyone didn't encounter any great difficulties in the next actions.

Lawrence felt that this might be because the prince and his forces had been declared blasphemers, so even the friendly forces of the same kingdom were unwilling to do something that might misunderstand their own gods at this time. Otherwise, with the character of the sahuagin, this war will still be fought.

As for the human side, they are now planning to reap the spoils, so they did not continue to pursue after seeing the sahuagin retreat. So when both sides chose to give in, the salvage days were extremely calm, and it wasn't until the humans left that the sahuayu rushed over to grab the territory.

"How about our casualties?" Lawrence was the first to ask after listening to the captain's general introduction to the battle situation. "I heard from you on the phone that the sahuayu people launched a short but intense night attack on the first night of the pursuit, and even used the few remaining giant sea beasts to sink a warship. In this case, our What about the three ships?"

"Only five or six people were injured, but a ratman warrior lost his left leg below the knee when he fought the sahuagin. It's pretty good considering the situation that night." The captain of the Enterprise said . "As far as I know, the ship that was sunk lost half its men."

In the following captain's description, Lawrence finally figured out what happened that night. Although he sent a telegram to remind everyone to be vigilant, because the ship came from multiple forces, only The regular army on the island, the Navy of the New Island Republic, and Lawrence maintained the highest state of alert.

As a result, when the sahuagin gathered the only remaining magic scrolls to cover their own elites to launch a surprise attack, they attacked the armed merchant ships assembled by various forces on the island at night for some unknown reason. The group of warships formed.

Although the Ratmen raised the alarm in time, some ships were directly destroyed because the ship crews were not prepared at all and there was no one on the post.

And this blow also completely confused the armed merchant ships that hadn't made much preparations. They ran around on the sea, and even affected the formation of the warships. Fortunately, the Federation Navy directly used artillery and Transcendents to enforce battlefield discipline to quell the riots in a short period of time, and then organized big guys to completely wipe out this group of sahuagin.

However, because of the confusion at the beginning, many elite sahuagin took advantage of this opportunity to climb onto the deck and start a fierce hand-to-hand battle with us. Fortunately, our three ships were hovering around the perimeter of the team because they were clippers. At the same time, we kept the boilers at high pressure because of the high alert, so we accelerated the ships immediately and drove away most of the pursuers.

"Thanks to your warning in advance, we were able to react correctly at the first time." The captain looked at Lawrence and said seriously. "During the attack that night, the number of sahuagin who could climb up the deck of our ship was obviously much less than that of other ships, but correspondingly, all the sahuagin who could come up were elite."

"Our losses were mainly incurred at this time. Facing the melee combat of the superhumans of the sahuayu people, it is basically difficult for ordinary sailors to defeat them. The only good thing is that before departure, there is a team of bull-headed soldiers on board each ship." Humans, Ratmen, and our human Transcendents formed an elite group, so they quickly blocked those sahuagin."

"After destroying all the sahuagins, our ship used the pre-installed hedgehog bombs to cooperate with other ships to attack the sahuagin army, and successfully eliminated the group of sahuagins in a short time. Huayu people." The captain finally concluded.

"At least after going through this war, I think there should be some resident elite squads and superhumans on board. Because supernatural beings among the enemies are likely to launch counterattacks under certain circumstances. If there is no targeted force, it will be easy Suffered serious losses. For example, an armed merchant ship that went out this time was killed by several sahuagin nobles and killed nearly half of the people on board—”

"Yes, you are right, it should be like this. After we go back, we need to consider setting up an elite squad of permanent warships." After listening to the captain, Lawrence nodded thoughtfully. Indeed, the extraordinary beings unique to this world will bring some unexpected variables to the war.

It's just that because of certain traditions related to extraordinary people in this world, other navies often only temporarily use extraordinary people to strengthen the force on warships before the war. But Lawrence didn't remember these things for a while because of some habits in his previous life.

But now that it was mentioned, Lawrence suddenly thought that it was imperative to organize a dedicated team.

Fortunately, with the development of Sauer Island, the strength of this territory has gradually been strengthened, so not only did they have enough money to buy some extraordinary items, but also began to attract some low-level extraordinary people to immigrate to this island, so such a group was formed. It can be said that the foundation of an army is already in place.

While Lawrence was thinking about how to organize such an army, Safir read the voyage diary that the captain had handed her before, and then showed a very shocked expression. "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, is the number in the nautical diary true? Have we really seized wealth close to 13.5 million federal dollars?"

It's normal for Safir to be so surprised, because the interest-free loan Lawrence obtained from the emperor after he obtained the title was only equivalent to 10 million federal dollars, and with the addition of those various materials, it was barely close to 12 million. In this case, she naturally felt a little unbelievable when she heard the amount seized.

"Of course it's true. Those trophies filled almost every inch of free space in the cabin of our warship." The captain of the Enterprise showed a proud look on his face.

"Because we achieved an extremely brilliant victory before, this time we successfully evacuated most of the wealth in a sahuagin city and its subordinate territories, so everyone expected so many gains among."

You know, what they got this time was the wealth accumulated by a sahuagin kingdom for hundreds of years. Even if this wealth is not the entire wealth of the kingdom, it is enough for the human parties who are the victors of the war to obtain a spoil that is enough to satisfy most people.

"It's great to have so much money." Nora said beside her at this time. "At least in my opinion, with this money, we will be able to promote several projects at the same time, instead of delaying many constructions due to resource constraints, and even affecting the development speed of the entire island. "