Struggle in the Steam Age

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the vortex on the cloud layer, like a devil's eye, began to slowly and firmly fly towards the pine tree.

Although it is said that the coalition forces of the civilized races mobilized some high-level extraordinary people to check the situation because they repelled the large-scale invasion of the wilderness races. But when facing a true god, these extraordinary beings who are extremely powerful in the eyes of mortals are not much different from ordinary people facing them.

"Damn it, I can't stop it at all!" Seeing teams of extraordinary people trying to intercept the blood-red vortex but returning in vain, the command post on the Pine Tree Valley was in chaos.

Because judging from the current situation, the power belonging to the spider goddess Rose is now targeting Pine Tree Valley.

"I probably figured out what's going on." Xiaorou, who had been monitoring the telegrams from various departments on the battlefield, suddenly said to Lawrence through soul contact. "This should be the lady's revenge. At least according to the information from various battlefields, the wilderness race lost a lot in the overall attack tonight, even the main forces such as the dark elves or gray dwarves suffered heavy losses."

According to the little puppet, the wilderness race basically dispatched the whole army in this night attack and then completely hit the iron plate. As for the reason, it is also very simple, that is, their memory of the military actions of the civilized race is still in the last civilization expedition.

But what they didn't expect was that more than 70 years had passed since the last civilized expedition, and the armed forces of civilized races could be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

For example, in the civilization expedition more than 70 years ago, the transportation of civilized races mainly relied on oxen and horses, and occasionally one or two large puppets helped to transport artillery. And the weapons they used were limited to the front-loading smoothbore guns and front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns made by early steam engines.

But after more than 70 years of development, the military of civilized races is no longer what it used to be. Breech-loading metal-cased single-shot rifles replaced those muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock rifles, and breech-loading guns also replaced those muzzle-loading smoothbore guns.

In addition, continuous fire weapons such as steam machine guns and hand-cranked rotary machine guns have also been added to the army's weaponry.

Although this group of wilderness races also obtained some weapons of this type through various means in their daily lives, this sporadic and unsystematic acquisition of weapons only made them realize that the weapons of the civilized races have become stronger now.

They have no way of knowing the upgrade of the overall tactics accompanied by the upgrade of these weapons, nor do they know that with the cooperation of new tactics and new weapons, the legions of civilized races can break out several times or even more than the previous civilization expedition in the war. More than ten times the lethality.

After all, compared with those weapons in the past, the new weapons now have an unprecedented rate of fire. In other words, the army of civilized races now has unprecedented firepower projection.

Under the attack of those gunpowder weapons in the past, the wilderness races can still rush into the human line to fight with them by virtue of their much stronger body and faster action speed than humans, after a few rounds of damage, and use this to win the battlefield victory.

But with the passage of time, the gunpowder weapons used by the modern civilized race legions have made a qualitative leap compared with those weapons in the past.

Therefore, in this war, the significantly increased firepower successfully isolated the army of the wilderness race at a distance from the coalition forces of the civilized races.

After a large number of wilderness race troops rushed into the battlefield, they realized that they simply couldn't rush into the front lines of civilized races like they did in the last civilization expedition, and then launch hand-to-hand combat that had an advantage over them.

Even the Wilderness side suffered even greater losses by adopting the old-fashioned tactics as they were.

In the last war, because of the lack of firepower density on the human side, the wilderness race summed up the tactics of quickly breaking through the firepower range of the civilized race in a high-density formation, and then rushing into the front line to fight hand-to-hand.

However, among the improved firepower of civilized ethnic weapons, this dense formation is actually conducive to the lethality of the new weapons.

After the ordinary troops can completely resist the ordinary troops of the wilderness race, the superhumans of the civilized race can get out of the ordinary battles, and then devote themselves to the battles between the superhumans and gain an advantage.

For example, in this civilized expedition, the forward troops encountered two mature white dragons recruited by the wilderness side to try to stop the legion of the civilized race.

As a result, because the civilized race had more superhumans who could maneuver at any time, the two white dragons were directly wiped out by the superhumans who had prepared in advance.

Naturally, in this hail of bullets, even the top creatures in the wilderness such as dark elves or gray dwarves would find it difficult to protect themselves.

According to the statistics made in various fortresses, even the places with the least losses have lost half of the dark elves, and the worst places have only 1/10 people survived.

Unlike those goblins or gnolls whose reproductive ability is like cockroaches, dark elves are born with a high extraordinary level, but correspondingly have a terrible low fertility.

Even though the dark elves have improved their reproductive capacity through a series of unscrupulous methods, because of the low reproductive capacity of high-level transcendentals, their population growth rate is only lower than that of their light-skinned cousins ​​on the ground. It's only two or three percent more.

Therefore, the loss in this war can be said to make the dark elves feel heartbroken. At least within a century or two, the dark elves in this area will never be able to return to their original level.

In this case, as the main god of the dark elves, it is understandable that Rose couldn't bear to make some impulsive actions.

Because as the main god of the race, when her own race was severely slaughtered, no matter how much Rose liked to play tricks, she had to stand up to face the battlefield and make some counterattacks.

Otherwise He would be considered weak. And once an evil god is regarded as weak, then they will face countless challengers who want to replace them.

However, this kind of counterattack also needs to be well controlled, because the civilized race on the attacking side has more gods. For Rose, if his counterattack is too weak, it will be considered fear or fear. But if the counterattack is too strong, it is easy to be beaten by the gods of the civilized race.

Of course, Rose had a way to kill the legions of civilized races that entered the mountain range, and escape from the hands of the gods of civilized races that were chasing after them. But this comes at a huge price.

And the sum of all the dark elves in this area is a very small part of all the dark elves, and it is obviously not worth paying such a price for them.

It is well known that Lolth is an evil deity. For the evil gods, the interests are what they are most concerned about. Including beliefs, including dogma, in their eyes, they are all exchangeable.

Therefore, Rose will never attack the civilized race coalition forces recklessly in a fit of anger because of the killing of her own people.

So now this kind of attack naturally needs to carefully select the target. For Rose, Pine Hollow was a very nice place.

Because this transfer station is a very important intersection on the offensive route of civilized races, in addition, there are also important institutions like field hospitals or repair shops set up here. Once this place is destroyed, it will be enough to reflect Rose's powerful power and firm attitude on this matter.

At the same time, because there are not many people here, it is not because they cannot be replaced. So on the whole, the guardians will not be too strong, and the internal defenses can be easily destroyed.

In this case, Rose can destroy this place and evacuate as quickly as possible, instead of spending more time disarming the defenses of those areas and giving the gods of the civilized race Come and create opportunities.

On the other hand, if only Pine Valley was destroyed, the gods of civilized races would not try their best to hunt down and kill them. In that case, Rose would naturally be able to retreat unscathed, and show her strength to other evil gods of the same kind.

After realizing that the area they were in would become the target of destruction, all the people in Pine Tree Valley immediately moved and prepared to retreat.

Because for them, it was impossible for reinforcements to arrive before the attack, and their own strength alone would definitely not be able to stop this evil god's attack.