Struggle in the Steam Age

"Rang Rang, Rang Rang, there's someone here who needs first aid." Just after Lawrence cleaned up the wound of a man whose arm was broken by a bullet and put on the bone, Yagoda's familiar voice came from the elevator. With a loud voice, he and another judge carried a middle-aged man in a white priest's robe and walked in.

"He's the leader of the first aid team above. He vomited blood and fell into a coma just after he blocked a shell. Please help us to find out what's going on." Yagoda said eagerly after seeing Lawrence approaching him.

"The priest was not seriously injured, he just lost his strength all of a sudden." Lawrence stepped forward to check briefly and found that the priest was fine. "The vomiting of blood just now was only caused by the loss of strength and the sudden interference, which caused the spell backlash. Fortunately, what he released was just a defensive spell. The injury is not serious, just take a rest."

"That's good, that's good." Yagoda touched his chest with his hands and showed a look of rejoicing. After all, the priest of the Church of Dawn rushed over from the church as a reinforcement. It would be too bad to be hurt.

Seeing a scratch on Yagoda's shoulder that seemed to be scratched by shrapnel, Lawrence immediately motioned for a nurse to cut off the wound's clothes to help him treat the wound, and asked at the same time. "How's the situation up there?"

"The situation is not bad." Yagoda took a sharp breath after cleaning the wound with an alcohol swab, and then said. "There is probably a little more than a battalion of the Imperial Guards attacking here. At the beginning, they exchanged fire with our stragglers who were ambushing in nearby buildings, and then took this opportunity to rush into the shops on both sides of the street to rob."

"Because they had enough grassroots officers and supervisors this time, the looting and chaos ended quickly. However, the chaos during this period also allowed almost all the stragglers we sent before to withdraw smoothly. Then it becomes a traditional fortress battle."

"It is indeed a good thing that our people can withdraw." Lawrence nodded, then pointed to the priest of the Lord of Dawn who was lying on the bed in a comatose state and asked, "Obviously, he did it because he cast magic Shi Tuoli became what he is now. You just said that he is the leader of the emergency team, so theoretically speaking, he should be in a safe place. Why is it his turn to block the shells? It is because the battle above is very fierce because of it?"

"Not all." Yagoda said while watching the nurse bandage his wound with a clean bandage, "The battle up there was indeed fierce, but at the beginning we had strong fortifications and a large number of supernatural beings. It can offset the opponent's superiority in numbers and firepower, so the field quickly turned into shooting each other through bunkers. The battle situation has also reached a stalemate."

"However, the opponent quickly brought up two small-caliber artillery pieces and six hand-cranked machine guns. At the same time, there were many extraordinary people in their team who did not know where they came from to resist our extraordinary people's attack. This As a result, although it is not difficult for our manpower to defend here with the help of fortifications, it is very difficult to break away from the protection of the fortifications and destroy the opponent's heavy firepower."

"Then our side was naturally suppressed by those heavy firepower, and this priest also used divine magic to block a shell fired at the temporary first aid station when rescuing the wounded, and then vomited blood and fell into a coma. Of course, this is the same as before. It has to do with spending too much mana for the rescue."

"Don't we have that kind of high-level transcendent or heavy firepower here?" Lawrence asked. In his eyes, a powerful institution like the referee should have enough power as a backing, at least it shouldn't be surrounded by a few small-caliber artillery and The firepower of several machine guns was suppressed.

"The high-level transcendents either need to guard the important rooms in the basement, or they have been mobilized before to stop some evil transcendent creatures and high-level transcendents that suddenly appeared inside and outside the city walls after the explosion in the direction of the palace. So the headquarters does not have the ability to After rushing out to destroy the bunker more than 300 meters away, the enemy's high-level superhumans have heavy firepower. And the middle and low-level superhumans can't break through the defense line of the opponent's superhumans."

"As for heavy firepower, don't forget that our place is less than 800 meters away from the imperial palace. How could it be allowed to place some heavy firepower in normal times? After all, the Tribunal is an armed force independent of the country, and can allow us to It is the limit to have your own military fortress in the core area of ​​​​the city and maintain an armed force for carrying out the mission."

"Then why do you leave space for heavy weapons on the wall of your headquarters?" Lawrence asked a little puzzled, because when he entered the headquarters before, he saw that the wall of the headquarters should obviously be used for artillery positions and shell storage. If there is no artillery, there is no need to build it like that.

"Because we were always preparing for street fighting back then. As a fortress here, we definitely needed artillery." At this time, Yagoda's wound had already been bandaged, so he stood up and said while bending his arms. "But you know that the overall speed of that kind of war is often not too fast, so when preparing for the war, you can calmly let the national artillery enter the various fortresses."

"And what's breaking out now is an internal rebellion, and it's too late to mobilize heavy firepower in time. Not to mention that theoretically, the artillery of our Guards here should be strengthened and has now joined the ranks of this riot."

After speaking, Yagoda brought the colleague who came down with him to continue returning to the battlefield, and Lawrence also stood up at this time and said to him: "Let me go up with you, the leader of the emergency team above always needs someone after he is injured." Take his job."

"It's—it's a good thing that you can go up and organize medical work. But down—" Lawrence waved at Yagoda before he finished speaking, and then pointed behind him to summon a dozen silver Nora, the little puppet with various medical instruments wrapped in silk threads, said, "It is enough for my sister to be here for the following things, and it can operate normally without me after just running in. Not to mention Said the number of casualties sent down from 15 minutes ago has dropped significantly."

"That's good, let's go up now." Said Yagoda, he walked quickly to the elevator at the other end of the corridor outside the door. After letting go of the wounded who had just been removed from the elevator, the three of them and several other members of the stretcher team who had completed the carrying work took the elevator, and then the elevator quickly descended to the ground with a sound of clanging rise.

"Where did you find that construct friend of yours? I have never seen a construct life that is so good at all kinds of common medical methods." Yagoda asked curiously while going upstairs.

"She is my sister. I found her in a ruin near Huguang City." Lawrence said half-truthfully. "I prepared for that ruin for a long time, but when I went in, I found that there were no gold or silver treasures at all, let alone any magic props or extraordinary inheritance. I finally got to know this lovely sister and brought her out."

"What you found should be the remains of an ancient spellcaster." Yagoda did not express any doubts about what Lawrence said, because in his experience, he had heard a lot of things that benefited from ancient times, and even I've heard more than one exaggeration than this. But he was still full of envy for those lucky ones.

"You can ask your construct sister, if she has any brothers and sisters, she can introduce one to me." Yagoda said half-jokingly and half-seriously. "I have also been to many ruins, and even went to the mage tower of a legendary mage, but I have never found such a good thing from the ruins like you."

While everyone was talking, there was a bang from the top of the elevator and it stopped. At this time, Yagoda also recovered from the state of relaxation to the state of preparing for battle. As the elevator door opened, Lawrence heard the faint sound of gunfire and explosions coming from a few walls not far away.

"Come with me, this is a real war, and it's different from the one-sided massacre against wilderness races you faced in the New World before." Yagoda said after motioning Lawrence to follow him. "You have to pay attention in a moment. Although the temporary first aid station is relatively safe, there are still certain dangers in the process of moving the wounded or going to the front line for treatment."