Struggle in the Steam Age

"Good afternoon, Major Louis." After watching the middle-aged blond major salute himself, Lawrence raised his hand and returned the salute, and then led all the officers to a small tent next to the medical tent. walked over.

When he and Major Louis entered the tent, the second lieutenant and two orderlies stood at the door consciously.

"It seems that what you want to talk to me about is some very important issues." Looking at the behavior of those soldiers, Lawrence immediately understood the level of intelligence the major wanted to discuss with him, so he signaled Nora to stay The door, and then the Major Louis asked him after sitting face to face.

"May I ask if the commander has any news to inform me?"

"It's a very bad news, and it's not suitable for others to know for the time being." Major Louis said to Lawrence with a serious face, "It mainly comes from the scouting troops sent at noon today."

"From noon to now, we have successively dispatched seven reconnaissance troops to the surrounding areas. But at 3 pm, we found that the first reconnaissance troops we sent earlier had not been able to return as scheduled. .”

"At the beginning, we didn't think there was anything wrong. After all, when the reconnaissance troops were on the front line, they often couldn't act on time and as planned due to various situations. The area reconnaissance team was not able to return either."

"This is not normal." After hearing this, Lawrence frowned and said.

"The reconnaissance teams are basically all elites, and there are often some professionally trained transcendents among them. How could all three reconnaissance teams disappear? By the way, I remember that the reconnaissance teams should have some weapons for transmitting information." Special magic items—"

"Yes, they do have some magic props for communication in emergency situations. But the problem is that none of the magic props carried by the three teams gave any response." Major Louis said helplessly.

"The reconnaissance troops sent later reported to the headquarters that today the defense line of the wilderness race has been further strengthened, and at the same time the defense line has been pushed forward, which makes it impossible for them to break through the defense line of the wilderness race as before."

"It seems that the situation is indeed a bit bad now." Lawrence's face suddenly became ugly, and the current situation gives people the feeling that a storm is coming.

But soon, he thought of a very important question. "By the way, if that's the case, what's the matter with you coming to see me now?"

"Well, I'd like to ask your puppet to go out for reconnaissance." After being asked by Lawrence, Major Louis paused for a moment before continuing. "Because this situation is happening on the entire front now, we can't apply for any support from the general headquarters, so we can only figure out a way by ourselves now."

Obviously, the group of wilderness races should be preparing for a big news right now, and the coalition forces of the civilized races have too many points on the front line that need to be defended.

Therefore, in this critical period of time, it is natural to invest one's own elite forces in important nodes like the offensive front, and places like Pine Valley have naturally been ignored in the past.

"I think it should be fine." Lawrence said, "Now Nora should be willing to run for everyone's safety."

Lawrence said this because although Nora was outside the tent now, a thin layer of cloth and a distance of four or five meters made no difference to Nora beside her.

Therefore, even though Lawrence and Louis lowered their voices just now, Nora still heard the ins and outs of the matter clearly, and expressed to Lawrence her willingness to attack through the spiritual connection.

"If the surrounding situation is not right, I think it should be a good thing for me to take a look, at least I can get enough information in the first place."

Just as Major Louis expressed his gratitude to Lawrence, Nora's voice appeared in Lawrence's mind through the soul connection. "After all, only I can figure out the surrounding situation in this situation."

Soon, Nora took off directly on the spot and flew towards the periphery of Pine Tree Valley. According to the plan, Nora will start to fly out clockwise from the valley area of ​​Pine Tree Valley to find out the specific situation of the current wilderness race front, and then focus on investigating the locations where the scouting team left before.

After Nora turned into a small black dot in the air, Lawrence immediately summoned the Book Charm, and then asked it to draw the investigation results obtained through the connection with the puppet's soul.

Soon, sheets of white paper were put into her body by the tentacles stretched out by the book charm, and then pictures were printed out.

"Someone actually built an altar on the seventh highland in the west."

"Yes, some Gnoll forwards appeared in the No. 2 Valley where there was no one before. These people are actually equipped with some old-fashioned front-loading guns."

Soon, the second lieutenant outside called several officers, and then analyzed these patterns with Major Louis, and analyzed some new information from these patterns.

"Wait, I seem to see some strange traces." After investigating the situation around Pine Tree Valley, Nora began to slowly expand the scope of investigation.

After searching the direction in which the first two teams were heading and returning empty-handed, she found some unusual signs in the direction where the latest scouting team disappeared. "It seems that there are some unusual gatherings of wilderness races there."

"Then you have to be careful." Lawrence said, he knew that Nora would definitely not let go of this doubt in this situation, so he could only tell her. "If you find anything wrong there, tell me quickly, and I will immediately ask those artillery to support you to open a passage for you."

The reason why the wilderness race army headed by several hobgoblins dared to gather at this time is also very simple, because there are several hills with a height of only 30-50 meters between this place and Pine Valley, so under normal circumstances civilization It is basically impossible for the artillery on the racial side to hit them.

As for why there is such a determination, the reason is also very simple, that is because the invention of the mortar with extremely strong curved fire ability has been invented for less than a year, and it is not very popular. Things, so this group of wilderness races naturally don't know the existence of mortars. .

And now Lawrence has prepared four heavy mortars directly under his hands, and they are now ready to fire at any time.

Although the range of these mortars is a bit shorter than the modern mortars in Lawrence's impression, they are still enough to cover the wilderness race targeted by Nora.

Knowing that she had enough fire support behind her, Nora felt that she was more confident of her success.

So after confirming that the cannon had been aimed in this direction, she wrapped some silver-green silk threads around her body, then used magic to hide her figure and quietly moved towards the location of the group of wilderness races.

When Nora approached the opponent's position, apart from the howling of those wilderness races, she heard scattered gunshots.

And these sounds immediately lifted Nora's spirits, because the sound of gunfire meant that fighting was still breaking out in the place, instead of only a little trace of the exchange of fire in the two directions before.

"There are still people alive in this reconnaissance team." After getting closer, Nora found that the group of wilderness races fanned out at the entrance of a cave, and at the entrance of the cave were two or three gnolls lying there motionless. From the pool of blood under these jackals, it can be seen that they should have been beaten to death by the people in the cave during the attack.

In the distance, a male dark elf as the commander is gesticulating and directing some goblins to carry various branches and weeds from a distance and pile them near the entrance of the cave. It seems that the next step is to smoke the cave The resisters were driven out.