Struggle in the Steam Age

Before the start of the poisonous gas battle, Lawrence was most worried about the opponent's magic arts users changing the wind direction on the battlefield to let the poisonous gas roll back. Therefore, he not only prepared a large amount of lime water near his position, but also excavated a temporary shrine for the big horned rat under the small hills of the settlement, and asked the priest of the big horned rat to be ready to counter the other party's magical skills at any time.

But unexpectedly, after the release of the poisonous gas began, the goblins' magic arts were not released as expected in the worst state. According to Nora's detective results, this has a lot to do with Lawrence and the others hiding the range of the mortar.

Because Lawrence previously restricted the range of mortars on the battlefield, the priests of this group of goblins placed the altar within the range of those large-caliber mortars without knowing it.

Although the naval gun threat brought by the presence of warships caused these goblin priests to hide behind the hills with their altars, after all, according to the nature of traditional artillery, these not very high hills can indeed block the direct artillery. s attack. But they did not expect that the shells of the new artillery mortar would actually fall from the sky.

Therefore, after the first round of artillery firing, those large-caliber mortar shells mixed with explosive bombs and chlorine bombs killed the unsuspecting priests in the first place. This not only made it possible for the opponent to use magical techniques to change the direction of the wind and remove the threat of poisonous gas rollback. At the same time, it is equivalent to completely killing the goblins' core command organization.

The direct consequence of this is that the goblins immediately fell into chaos, not knowing whether they should retreat or continue forward. As a result, a group of goblins gathered on a large scale near the first trench.

Naturally, the coalition forces on the human side could not miss such a great opportunity. Everyone quickly concentrated all their firepower and poured over to the goblins stranded in front of the battlefield.

However, due to the change of the wind direction and the precision of the ground, many goblins in front of the position still survived the poisonous gas, and then subconsciously rushed towards the human position where there is no poisonous gas enveloped.

For the fighters on the second line of defense, they can only see countless khaki goblins rushing out of the yellow-green fog like mudslides and then staggering towards their positions, many of them She pressed her throat and fell to the ground. However, those goblins who were still able to move did not care about the fallen compatriots, but stepped on their compatriots' corpses and rushed towards them frantically.

Faced with this situation, the soldiers in the second trench inevitably felt a little nervous. After all, most of them are just ordinary people and have never faced such a situation. Fortunately, with the whistle and roar of each squad leader, they were still able to mechanically shoot, reload, and shoot again in accordance with the previous training steps, and the goblins in front of them also fell one by one.

However, watching the goblins in front of them fall down one after another, even the individual goblins who rushed into the trench were beheaded by Syfiel with the commando, and they did not cause much damage. The mentality of the soldiers also slowly adjusted, and the frequency and accuracy of shooting became higher and higher, which further restrained the momentum of the goblin charge.

The smoke and dust from the explosion on the battlefield and the previously released chlorine permeated the entire battlefield, forming a smoke that could not be dissipated temporarily. This makes the goblins hidden in the mist look vague, like monsters in the shadows.

Fortunately, with Nora's aerial reconnaissance, Lawrence is still able to temporarily grasp the situation on the battlefield. With the continuous killing in front of the front, time slowly flowed past. At the same time, the chlorine gas prepared before has been released, and under the blowing of the sea breeze, it has slowly moved away from the trenches where humans are located.

"Stay alert and start cleaning the battlefield." When the yellow-green chlorine gas group moved forward further, there were no goblins in front of the trenches desperately attacking. Only a few scattered goblins wandered in despair.

"We are—victorious." The followers who were temporarily recruited on this island looked at the land in front of them with the corpses of goblins in disbelief. In their memory, although individual goblins are not terrible, clusters of goblins can destroy everything in their way like locusts.

What they didn't expect was that now the largest goblin cluster on the archipelago in decades was so easily wiped out by themselves, completely beyond the idea of ​​sacrificing at least half of the people before they came.

"Everything is brought about by the development of productivity." Lawrence said to the senior commanders around him. Now the fog on the battlefield is beginning to dissipate, revealing the corpses of the goblin that had just been blocked by the green fog. "If we use magic, we can't afford to achieve such an effect."

On the front of the position, a part of the militiamen, led by guard soldiers, hung their bayonets on their guns and climbed out of the trenches to mend the goblin corpses on the ground, while most of the main force began to move to the two wings to pursue those who were not in front of the release of chlorine gas. The goblins who escaped to the woods.

As the fog slowly dissipated, Nora also had a comprehensive understanding of the status quo of the battlefield, and then transmitted everything he had observed to Lawrence. From this common sight. Lawrence found that most of the goblins had died on the battlefield, and only five or six thousand scattered goblins escaped the fire and ran into the woods.

In other words, Lawrence's gas battle just now killed more than 90% of the goblins. And the subsequent large-scale hunting will further eliminate more goblins, which means that if they can conquer the cave full of goblins according to the original plan, they can completely settle down on the largest plain on the coast of Niujiao Bay. .

At this time, the human army was also organized, and then divided into many small teams to chase and kill the forest. The most special thing is that there is a ratman as a leader in each team.

Although the scavengers in the jungle and the goblins are only half a catty, if you consider the huge gap between the organization and equipment of the two sides now, it is impossible for those fleeing goblins to chase teams with scavengers. How much harm caused.

This chase continued until four or five o'clock in the afternoon, when the last chasing troops retreated from the jungle. After counting their results, the final result appeared on Lawrence's desk.

Ten minutes later, Lawrence walked out the door and waved the papers in his hand, and shouted to those standing outside the door: "We almost wiped out the invading goblins, probably Only more than 2,000 and nearly 3,000 goblins escaped from this battle.

So we won, and now everyone can cheer. "

"Long live the earl!" After hearing the good news, the people waiting outside the door paused to digest what Lawrence said, and then shouted almost simultaneously.

Next came a series of post-war work. The old and weak women and children began to take out a variety of food and began to cook, and the young adults, except for some patrolling figures, went to the hilly area to cut the bushes. He picked up the pyre and burned the goblin's body, and then started digging a hole in the selected place.

After all, these goblins are all dirty, and the ghost knows how many germs they carry. So according to the plan, Lawrence gathered them all together and burned them with flames, and then buried them deeply with lime.

That night, everyone held a joyous bonfire party on the battlefield to wash away the overall atmosphere that was tense because of the pressure of the enemy. Because this victory is so important to them, it determines the future of everyone present.