Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are they crazy?" After overturning a rushing robber with a gold-plated and carved rifle, Viscount Surrey asked Lawrence beside him while loading his double-barreled shotgun.

After the shelling just now, the group of people who were ambushing at the entrance of the valley they were in immediately detonated the explosives placed at the entrance of the valley, blocking Lawrence and the others in the pass.

At the beginning, Lawrence and the others felt that this was just enough to block the mountain pass to avoid enemy attacks. It is convenient for them to delay time.

But what was unexpected was that only a few minutes later, a group of bandits howled and rushed over the valley that had just been blown down and rushed towards Lawrence's position.

It was also for this reason that Viscount Surrey felt that this group of people were crazy. Because the valley they are in now is basically a 70-degree slope, except for some extraordinary people, ordinary people can't rush down from the slope to attack.

Therefore, the only point in the entire valley that is convenient for large forces to attack is the passage at the mouth of the valley.

"The other party is definitely out of their minds." Lawrence said with a pistol left and right and knocked down several robbers who had turned over from behind the low wall formed by the earth and rocks rolled down from the mountain after the explosion, and then said loudly.

In his opinion, the strategy of these bandits to block the only passage through the explosion and then turn over from the ruins here and there is really flooded.

Of course, Lawrence and the others didn't know that the group of guys who came to attack had fallen into complete chaos because of the attack launched by the army they brought before.

The detonation just now is because according to the plan, these attackers should use explosives to divide the rich people in the valley and the bodyguards outside the valley, and then eliminate those armed men before entering this valley and taking those rich people as hostages, waiting to get out Extort money later.

But what I didn't expect was that Lawrence and the others first withdrew everyone into the valley, and then formed a group to defend.

And the soldiers under Lawrence himself also made the bandits realize through shelling that the back road was cut off and they were surrounded. In this way, they naturally changed their plan and made a plan to attack with all their strength and began to attack this valley with all their strength.

But because the group of people ambushing at the entrance of the valley had detonated the explosives at the entrance of the valley according to the original plan and created a large pile of earth and rocks to block the entrance of the valley.

So these unlucky robbers could only struggle to climb up the pile of gravel and mud, and then staggered down the slope to launch an attack.

In this way, their offensive formation naturally cannot be guaranteed to be strict, let alone organize a suitable firepower network.

As a result, several assaults by this group of stragglers were easily fought back by Lawrence and the guards, who used the carriage compartment and the temporary defensive line piled up with sundries as cover, so that these attackers were tightly blocked in the valley. entrance. It is impossible to go deep into the valley as planned, let alone kidnap the people inside as hostages.

"It seems that the situation here is not as terrible as imagined." Viscount Surrey looked at the pile of rubble formed by the series of explosions at the entrance, and the scattered robbers were surrounded The security personnel breathed a sigh of relief after easily knocking down with a single shot, then turned to look at Lawrence beside him and asked.

"Your Excellency, should we move the front line forward, and then use the pile of ruins at the valley entrance to completely block the valley entrance?"

"Don't do that." Lawrence raised his hand to stop the Viscount's plan. "Although the ruins block the intersection, the slope is too small, and there is not much danger to defend."

"If we build a line of defense inside the valley, this pile of ruins can just help us divide and weaken the attackers. But if we move the line of defense forward, it is actually equivalent to giving the opponent a good rallying point. In that case, we will instead would be at a disadvantage."

"More importantly, our main task now is to do a good job of defense, not to destroy how many enemies." Lawrence said, using a dissociation technique to destroy the enchanted shield held by an extraordinary warrior who rushed over from the opponent, and then used Another bullet with the same enchantment shot the guy in the head.

"That's why we have to figure out our main goals in war, and not confuse the primary and secondary goals on the battlefield just because we see some possible advantages for a while."

"Yes, I understand." After hearing what Lawrence said, Viscount Surrey showed a very serious expression.

As a hereditary nobleman, he did receive some family military education, but it was only on paper. So at this time, such a low-level error will appear.

"Don't be discouraged. You can't learn this knowledge just by reading books or listening to others. Only by experiencing the war can you understand what to do when you encounter these things in actual combat."

Lawrence comforted the viscount who looked older than himself, then turned around and contacted the paper figurines and monster phantoms he had sent before, and carefully observed the situation on the surrounding mountains.

For Lawrence, the situation at the entrance of the valley is very good now.

From the perspective of the gangsters, the terrain here simply does not allow them to advance in battle formation, not to mention that as long as they want to gather together now, they may cause Lawrence's artillery to use mortars or throw bombs. hello.

Therefore, the bandits who attacked with all their strength after receiving the order had to attack the group of guards in the valley in a tactically stupid and scattered formation.

And the direct result of doing so was that Lawrence and the other guards found that the gangsters' attacks were disorderly during the battle, and they looked like they were coming to their own guns to die one by one.

So Lawrence naturally reduced his attention to Taniguchi, the core of the enemy's attack, and then focused his attention on the surrounding mountains.

And the reason why he did this is also very simple, because he found that Taniguchi's group looked like ordinary people who were good at using various weapons, at most there were only a few low-level transcendents as minions.

You know, these bandits and regular army regiments are completely different. If it is said that after entering the industrial age, the regular army mainly determines the commander based on the command ability, in order to exert the overall combat effectiveness at the highest level. Then when those bandit groups chose their leaders, they adopted the most primitive way of winning.

This primitive method is not very conducive to the display of group strength, but considering that bandit groups often attack in small groups, they will not act in large groups like regular troops.

Therefore, for bandit gangs, this method of commander selection from the classical agricultural era is the most suitable for them.

Therefore, when Lawrence began to find out that the bandits attacked and broke down, he didn't realize what was wrong. At the same time, he also naturally relaxed his monitoring of this group of thieves who seemed unlikely to break through the line of defense.

After all, through the paper figurines he sent out for communication, Lawrence knew that Bach was commanding the main force to chase after the opponent's core group of people, making it impossible for the opponent to conduct a unified command of the scattered personnel.

However, as the battle at Taniguchi continued, Lawrence slowly discovered something abnormal. That is, the number of Transcendents among the bandits who came to attack now is too small, and the quality seems to be quite inferior.

That's why he handed over the task of guarding the valley entrance, which had become less important, to Viscount Surrey, and then focused his attention on the surrounding mountains.

Because he realized that the only chance for these bandits to win now is to rush into the valley to take hostages, and although the surrounding mountains can block the footsteps of ordinary people, they cannot stop some extraordinary people from attacking.