Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are they crazy?" After knocking over a robber who rushed up with a gilded and carved rifle, Viscount Surrey asked Lawrence next to him while loading his double-barreled shotgun.

After the shelling just now, the group of people ambushing at the mouth of the valley where they were located immediately detonated the explosives placed at the mouth of the valley, blocking Lawrence and them all in the mountain pass.

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

But unexpectedly, just a few minutes later, a group of bandits screamed over the newly bombed Taniguchi and rushed towards Lawrence and their position.

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

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

"The other party is definitely getting water in his brain." Lawrence said as he shot his pistol left and right and overturned several robbers who had turned over from the low wall formed by the rocks that fell from the mountain after the explosion, and then said loudly.

In his opinion, the tactical brains of these bandits who first blocked the only passage through the explosion and then turned over from the ruins in this way were really flooded.

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

It was detonated just now because according to the plan, these attackers should use explosives to separate the rich in the valley from the bodyguards outside the valley, and then eliminate the armed men before entering this valley and kidnapping the rich as hostages, and wait to go out. Blackmail money later.

But what they didn't expect was that Lawrence first evacuated everyone into the valley, and then teamed up to defend.

The soldiers under Lawrence himself also made the group of robbers realize that their back was cut off and they were surrounded by shelling. In this way, they naturally changed the plan and made a full impact plan and began to impact this valley with full force.

But because the group of people ambush at the entrance of the valley has detonated the explosive 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 hapless robbers could only climb up the pile of gravel and mud, and then staggered down the same **** to launch an attack.

In this way, their offensive formation can't guarantee a strict formation, let alone organize a suitable firepower net.

As a result, the several assaults of these stragglers were easily beaten back by Lawrence and the guards who used the defensive front of the carriage and the temporary piles of debris as a cover, causing these attackers to be 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 looks like the situation here is not as terrible as imagined." Viscount Surrey watched as he was completely blocked on the pile of rubble formed by a series of explosions at the entrance, and the scattered robbers were surrounded by the surrounding area. The security guards in sighed with relief after a relaxed shot, then turned to look at Lawrence next to him and asked.

"Your Excellency, shall we move the front line forward, and then use the pile of ruins in Taniguchi to completely block the valley entrance."

"Don't do that." Lawrence raised his hand to stop the viscount's plan. "Although this ruin is blocking the intersection, the **** is too small and there is not much danger to guard."

"If we build a defense line inside the valley, this pile of ruins can just help us divide and weaken the attackers. But if the defense line is moved forward, it is actually equivalent to giving the opponent a good assembly place. In that case, we will instead. Will fall into a disadvantage."

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

"So we have to figure out our main goals during the war, instead of confusing the primary and secondary goals on the battlefield by seeing some possible advantages for a while."

"Yes, I understand." After listening to Lawrence, Viscount Surrey showed a very serious expression.

As a hereditary nobleman, he did receive some family-renowned military education, but it was only limited to paper talk. That's why such a low-level error occurs at this time.

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

Lawrence comforted the viscount who looked older than him, then turned around and contacted the paper figures and monster ghosts he had sent before, carefully observing the situation on the surrounding mountains.

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

From the perspective of that group of bandits, the terrain here has no way for them to advance in battle formation, let alone now that they just want to gather together, they may cause Lawrence’s artillery to use mortars or grenades. The tube greets.

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 scattered formation.

And the direct result of this is that the guards like Lawrence found in the battle that the offensive of the group of bandits was disorderly, looking like they came to their own guns to die.

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

The reason why he did this is also very simple, because he found that the group of people in Taniguchi seemed to be just ordinary people who were good at using various weapons. At most, there were only a few low-level transcendents.

You know, these bandit groups and regular army groups are completely different. If the regular army enters the industrial age, it is mainly based on command ability to determine the commander, so as to achieve the highest level of overall combat effectiveness. So when those bandits choose the leader, they adopted the most primitive way of winning.

This primitive method is not very conducive to the development of group strength, but considering that bandit groups often attack in small groups, they do not act in large groups like regular troops~www.ltnovel.com~ So for bandit groups, This commander selection method from the classical agricultural era is the most suitable for them.

So when Lawrence began to discover that this group of bandits attacked and collapsed, he didn't realize what was wrong. At the same time, he naturally relaxed the monitoring of this group of thieves who seemed unlikely to break the line of defense.

After all, through the paper people he sent out before for contact, Lawrence knew that Bach commanded the main force to fight the group of people who had been chasing the opponent's core, so that the other party had no way to command the people scattered everywhere.

However, as the fighting continued at Taniguchi, Lawrence slowly discovered an abnormal place. That is, the number of transcendents among the bandits coming to attack now is too small, and the quality seems to be inferior.

That's why he gave the guard job of Taniguchi, which had become less important, to Viscount Surrey, and then he focused his attention on the surrounding mountains.

Because he realized that the only chance for this group of bandits now is to rush into the valley to hold hostages, and although the surrounding mountains can block the footsteps of ordinary people, they can't prevent some extraordinary people from attacking.