Struggle in the Steam Age

The wilderness race army dispatched the whole army at the first time, giving Lawrence a fright. After all, those monsters such as hordes of goblins, gnolls, and goblin bears suddenly rushed out of the dark jungle accompanied by a large number of wild beasts. Great mental stress.

Fortunately, at this time, some rear artillerymen adjusted the targets of the artillery fire in time to intercept them, and at the same time, the light artillery equipped on the front line also joined in the shooting. That's why they successfully cooperated with the fortifications and infantry on the front line to block the monsters rushing towards the position crazily.

"Fortunately, we used those special artillery shells to shoot at the gathering places similar to dark elves, trolls, and gray dwarves in the first round. Otherwise, this tide of attack is likely to break through our defense line at some point. .”

After observing the situation on the field, Nora was flying in the sky while talking to Lawrence, while dozens of vampire bats scattered around her were flying up and down, trying to knock the doll down from the sky.

At this time, Lawrence also saw the current situation of the wilderness race through the synchronized perspective with Nora. Because of the violent shelling with special shells just now, the targets of powerful races such as gray dwarves, dark elves, or trolls all fell into a trap. into a kind of chaos.

If races like the gray dwarves and dark elves suffered no more than 1/5 of the casualties in the shelling due to superior equipment and other reasons, they only need to regroup in time like the fleeing and evading teams just now before they can turn back and fight again . Then the vampire bats and trolls can be said to have suffered heavy losses this time.

Among them, the only large air force vampire bat unit in the wilderness race at night was concentrated in several surrounding caves on standby before launching the war. As a result, it was directly hit by these special white phosphorus incendiary bombs to the entrance of the cave and burned.

These flames with toxic smoke blocked the hole where the vampire bats hid in a very short period of time, and killed almost all the vampire bats in the cave through high temperature, flames and toxic smoke.

This is why the number of vampire bats appearing over Pine Valley is so rare now, because no more than 1/10 of the vampire bats survived the previous shelling.

So even after the Wilderness Race realized that Nora was probably the aerial artillery scout post after experiencing the shelling, they really didn't have enough manpower to attack Nora.

The trolls are another situation, because of their size and the reason they have to serve as the spearhead of the assault in the war. So the starting point they chose was naturally some forest clearings very close to Pine Valley. As a result, when facing the shelling, because there were no trees to cover them, they were directly doused by burning white phosphorus.

We all know that trolls are powerful creatures. Especially in addition to the opponent's extremely powerful defense ability and regeneration ability.

Therefore, in the face of the damage caused by modern gunpowder weapons, mainly piercing injuries, it is difficult for them to be stopped by the infantry-level firepower in the hands of ordinary people.

For example, after facing a simple knife cut, gun stab or rifle bullet. They stop bleeding and restore function quickly.

And if there is enough food, they can even grow back the missing body in a very short time. For this reason, trolls are often used as the offensive spearhead of wilderness races to break through the defense lines of civilized races in this kind of race war.

At least in the attack on some small civilized race settlements, these existences that look like flesh tanks can easily block all the bullets in front, and then rely on their own strength and weapons in their hands to attack those wooden fences. Open a passage to cover other wild creatures from invading the settlement.

However, this kind of monster is not without any weaknesses. For example, when they face wounds caused by strong acid, strong alkali flame or some magical attacks, their extraordinary healing ability will fail.

And the flames on the shells filled with white phosphorus that Lawrence and the others used just now naturally caused them huge damage.

Different from the flame of the explosion of ordinary shells, the white phosphorus after the explosion of this special shell will stick to everything around and burn until the white phosphorus is burned out.

And this group of trolls who don't know the characteristics of white phosphorus found that they couldn't extinguish the flames on their bodies by slapping and rolling. The panic of the flames and the burning pain in their bones made them run around frantically. widespread chaos.

Situations like this happened at multiple shelling locations at the same time, and through Nora's comprehensive investigation of the situation on the field now, Lawrence realized that these shellings had killed not many elite troops of the wilderness race. The greatest contribution actually completely disrupted the pace of the wilderness race attack.

The most obvious manifestation of this result is that although the current group of wilderness races rushed towards the defense line of Pine Valley like a tide, they lost a lot of organization. Offensive unorganized waves.

Even Lawrence saw through a telescope that a large creature with tusks resembling a boar actually ran over a group of goblins during the attack.

At this time, the two steam puppets that had stayed in the field hospital before moved. Then walked in the direction of the front line.

Evidently news of the confusion among the enemy had reached headquarters. Therefore, the headquarters quickly made a decision to launch counterattacks in multiple directions in order to further disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.

"It seems that the whole war is going well now." Looking at the defenders who launched a counter-charge on some fronts, Lawrence murmured softly. Although the overall situation on the battlefield is still strong and the enemy is weak, the defenders of Pine Tree Valley still focus on defense, but this does not mean that they can only rely on fortifications to defend.

In other words, choosing the right time to counterattack in defensive operations is also a very important task. Compared with the tactic of just defending in the trenches, it is a smarter tactic to use ordinary troops to contain the front in defensive operations, and at the same time take part of the elite troops as spearheads to quickly assault the enemy's flanks and rear, and then interrupt the opponent's offensive. .

For example, the two steam puppets led an elite small troop to quickly go around to the enemy's rear blocked by mines, barbed wire and a series of obstacles, and then decisively launched a charge to intercept the group of wilderness races. army.

After discovering their charge, Lawrence immediately commanded the artillery around him to fire around their attack route, in order to reduce the pressure of the surrounding enemy forces on them as much as possible.

Soon, the enemies in this direction completely collapsed under the attack from both sides. Of course, an important reason why the army of the wilderness race collapsed so badly was that Nora provided detailed information, so the guards in Pine Tree Valley could accurately select those troops of the wilderness race that were miscellaneous or obviously chaotic as assault targets. .

And after encountering these elites, the already chaotic Wilderness Race Legion naturally collapsed directly.

"My lord, be careful. I saw some rogues of the wilderness trying to infiltrate the rear of the Pine Valley defense line." Just as Lawrence was observing the situation ahead of the front line, Nora suddenly reminded Lawrence of what she had observed. accidents.

"Let me see." Hearing what Nora said, Lawrence immediately became nervous, and then activated his special sphere of influence. Soon he discovered that some Transcendents in the invisible state crossed the first line of defense in the chaos and infiltrated into the interior of Pine Tree Valley.

"Looks like I'm going to move around too." Lawrence murmured while looking at the real-time monitoring picture that Nora sent him, because he found that a wilderness team was rushing towards his position.