Struggle in the Steam Age

Although Safir hadn't experienced too much actual combat, Lawrence unexpectedly discovered that she had a special sense of battlefield.

For example, less than a minute after Safir said that those guys stationed on the bridge were likely to defend the rear, the radio station carried by Lawrence and the others received the telegram sent by the captain just now.

"Look, I'm right." After quickly deciphering the previously sent secret telegram, Safiel immediately held up the telegram and said to Lawrence.

"The captain sent a telegram just now to tell us that after they returned to the channel and drove forward for more than half an hour, they accidentally found a two-masted schooner hidden in a bay."

"According to Uncle, the place where the schooner was picked is very good, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find the location of the ship. If he hadn't had a lot of experience in catching smuggling ships before, it would be impossible to see the schooner through the gaps in the hills and forests." The two tall masts of a ship."

"Ah, if that's the case, then the situation can be corrected." Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Safir finish reading the contents of the telegram.

After all, he could always get Nora's unilateral battlefield transparency when he acted before, so now this situation makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Then what should we do next?" Safir asked a little puzzled, "It is impossible for so many of us to cross this river from other places without disturbing each other. But if If we walk on the bridge, it is difficult for us to guarantee the secrecy of our actions."

"This is indeed a serious problem, but it is not impossible to solve." Lawrence thought for a while and said, "We can continue to walk north for a certain distance, and then cross the river at a place with gentle water ahead."

"After all, the only goal of these people stationed here is to defend their retreat route, so I think if they go a little further, the opponent's defense should not be so tight."

Lawrence was indeed taken aback by the defense line in this area and the patrolling personnel coming and going, because there are only two situations in which so many people can be drawn to establish a security circle:

Either this has received strict training and can carry out orders in a completely militarized manner. Either there are too many people, and enough power can even be deployed in such a secondary direction.

But for Lawrence and the others, either of these two situations is dangerous enough.

Fortunately, the current situation clearly shows that all of Lawrence's guesses were wrong, and those people here are only optimistic about the future for the main force.

Therefore, Lawrence felt that under such circumstances, those areas not within the range of the back road should not have so many patrollers here.

And the fact is exactly the same, as they gradually moved forward, the people on both sides of the team who were scouting slowly found that the number of guard posts and patrols that had been appearing before suddenly decreased a lot, and they were not as elite as before.

And when Lawrence and the others arrived at the previously scheduled river crossing location, they found that the previous investigators were no longer around.

Soon, Lawrence and the others crossed the not-so-wide river with a few rubber boats they carried with them. Then they began to march towards the goal along the path in the mountain forest.

Compared with the road chosen before, this road is longer and more rugged. But the difficulty of these roads did not prevent them from advancing.

"It's finally here." When Lawrence asked his subordinates to station in a mountain, he and Safir and the others climbed up a not-so-high hill to prepare for reconnaissance.

When the few of them dodged the scattered patrols and crawled to the edge of the hill and glanced down, the scene in front of them made Lawrence sigh softly.

Although the whole plan had to be modified for them due to many unexpected discoveries on the road, but fortunately they arrived at the scheduled goal smoothly in the end, although it was about an hour later than the scheduled time. But overall it did not delay their actions.

Because at this time, Lawrence saw that the valley below was already crowded with people, and there were still many colorful tents stationed there on the flat land near the entrance of the valley. At least from Lawrence's point of view, those people didn't come for adventure at all, but came for an outing.

However, the masterminds of the behind-the-scenes conspiracy did not take this opportunity to go out for an outing or play. At least after Lawrence released a large number of insect monster phantoms to investigate around, he found that there were several forests around the valley. There are many people hidden, and all of them are observing the location of the group of people in the valley.

"As we guessed before, this group of people should be assembled under an organized group organization." After a brief investigation around and found several hiding places, Lawrence said to Safir and the others beside him arrive.

"What is certain now is that the opponent's core looks like an elite group of thieves. It has 5 to 6 extraordinary people. In addition, there are 12 to 15 thieves group that were coerced by them."

"How can we be sure that the bandits were coerced instead of attacking collectively after a joint negotiation?" asked the half-elf ranger beside Lawrence.

"They must have cooperated." Realizing that what he just said was imprecise, Lawrence immediately added. "But the other thieves are all under the command of the core thieves.

To give the simplest example, I found that there are several members of the core thieves in every thieves group other than the core thieves group. "

"I did some calculations just now, and I found out that this group of thieves has about 500 people in total. I think this is probably a large part of the outlaws who gathered around the Bay of Swords."

After introducing the organizational structure of the thieves group, Lawrence began to introduce the overall situation of the valley and its surroundings. "Besides, the rich people in the valley come from about 17 families. I recognize three of them as aristocrats who came to the area for vacation—"

"One is a carriage tycoon in Eagle Fort City." The priest of the Goddess of Wealth Church said after looking at the situation in the valley.

"Because that person is a believer of the Goddess of Wealth. When I came to Sword Bay, I went to the church of the Goddess of Wealth to offer sacrifices. At that time, I happened to meet him in the church, so now I can recognize his identity."

"That is to say, there are all rich people underneath, the kind that can make the kidnappers have a good life if they are tied up." Saifeier continued.

Even though she is now a rich person in her mouth, her thinking is still the same as when she was on the farm in many cases. So Lawrence could hear a certain teasing tone in his tone.

If a serious aristocrat heard Safir's speech here, he would definitely feel disgusted in his heart, but besides Lawrence and his soldiers, there are only some temporarily recruited expedition members around.

As for the members of the adventure team, Saifeier's words can actually bring everyone closer.

"That's right, that's why we came all the way here." Lawrence said, looking at the valley below, and then turned to look at the staff lieutenant who was kneeling behind him. "When and where do you think it would be appropriate for us to attack?"

"We may need to make some preparations, because we brought two guns and six grenade launchers this time." The lieutenant lowered his voice and said to Lawrence.

"If there is no accident, these weapons can cause great damage to the surrounding bandits, but I am worried that the loud noise they make when they are used will also cause unnecessary losses to the people below due to panic."

"Well, I think you're right." Lawrence looked at the guys below who were obviously planning to turn the adventure into a spring outing and said with a sigh. "We have to find a way to get the group of people below to cooperate with us."