Struggle in the Steam Age

The time in the conference room seemed to freeze, leaving only the voice of Lawrence flipping through the broken document. During the inspection, he discovered that this document was not so much an archive, but actually looked closer to someone's handwriting.

"Okay, I think I know what's going on." Lawrence put it down after reading the note. Then said to the retainers sitting on both sides of the long table. "I have now figured out why those people built towns here twice and gave up twice."

In fact, the reason for this is also very simple. This piece of land is a relatively independent piece of land surrounded by the sea, mountains and rivers. From a certain perspective, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. But the problem now is that there is a huge cave in that mountain area, which is still occupied by a group of goblins.

In the previous developments, those pioneers successfully killed all the enemies on this flat ground. However, they have no way to deal with the goblins hiding in the mountains. After all, for most extraordinary people, it is too difficult for the mountains with a relative height of about 1,000 meters to blow up.

And it is almost a nightmare for humans to go into those two-meter-high, 1.5-meter-wide tunnels to fight with goblins. Let alone dodge in such a small place, it is very difficult to even wield weapons in many places. Not to mention darkness, humidity and lack of oxygen have been plagued by the attackers.

Therefore, that group of armed forces retreated and left here after only killing 70% to 80% of the goblins. Because it takes a lot of money to maintain such an armed force in such a place. It is obviously not a good idea to stay here to fight guerrilla warfare with goblins. So even if they finish the task after clearing the plain, thinking that the colonists can use this period to develop, even if there are more goblins in the future, they won't worry about it.

However, the reproductive capacity of goblins far exceeds that of humans, after those colonists colonized this land for two or three years. The previous group of goblins regained their past numbers, and then launched another attack on the human colony.

The kind of armed forces that used to clean up this plain obviously cannot be stationed here for a long time, but with the militia alone, it is impossible to rely on the output of this place to raise a militia that can maintain the status quo in just two or three years. . So they had no choice but to leave this land.

"I know that the reason you are opposed to colonizing this place is because there were early examples of failures placed here, and the armed forces in our hands are not even as powerful as those in the past." Lawrence looked at the Bayer butler and said, " So I have great confidence in choosing Niujiaowan."

"Listen to me, I'm not the kind of arrogant person. I don't think that the power we have is stronger than those groups of people back then." Lawrence interrupted seeing the Bayer butler trying to stand up and say something. Said his words. "The reason I have this confidence is that I now have a force that can deal with this situation specifically."

After speaking, Lawrence took out Fatina’s telegram and handed it to the butler, saying: “Goblins are only better at fighting in such small caves than humans, but in front of these experts, they claim Not good at cave fighting."

"You have a mouse friend!" After reading this letter carefully, the Butler Byer looked up at Lawrence slightly surprised. "If they are willing to have a scavenger clan come to help you as the letter says, then the plan to occupy Niujiaowan should be no problem."

"Yes, it's not a problem." The Joseph Knight, who has participated in the civilization expedition and fought **** battles with all kinds of wilderness races, also nodded in agreement. In his impression, once he entered a narrow and dark cave, a fully armed scavenger warrior could easily kill five or even ten times as many goblins as his own.

No matter the dark environment, all kinds of disgusting smells or the simple traps set by the goblins, they can't resist the attack of these rats who are born to dig holes and are good at fighting in caves. Correspondingly, if these rat people occupy the cave and defend it, they can easily defend against the attack of three to fifty times the goblin with the help of the cave and defense.

Therefore, as long as Fatina and the others occupy the caves in the mountains, they can guarantee that the previous goblins will return, and repeated harassment will not happen again. At the same time, it can also add some additional defenses to the colonial points on the plains.

After the problem was solved, everyone present quickly reached an agreement on the location of the first colonial location. Then everyone began to discuss the details of the colonial construction.

At this point in the discussion, the expressions on Lawrence's faces suddenly relaxed a lot. Because as more and more information was found, everyone found a lot of information on Niujiaowan that was beneficial to them on those yellow and brittle papers.

For example, a small town has been built twice before, although the buildings on the ground either disappeared or were destroyed. However, the drainage pipe network and the foundations dug in the town before have not been damaged, as is the stone wall.

The same is true for the farmland outside the town. After decades of barrenness in this tropical terrain, the land is naturally deserted. However, some of the ditches that were dug before and the leveled land foundation are still there, which is much less difficult than opening up land directly in the tropical rain forest. Otherwise, the work of cutting trees, digging roots, and leveling the ground can exhaust people.

When everyone was planning on the map for the first pioneering territory in the future, they also completed a long voyage of more than three months and approached the island named New Sauer.

This morning, when everyone had just finished the canned food and was ready to further discuss the planning details, the captain knocked on the door and walked into the meeting room and told everyone that they would be at their destination soon. If everything goes well, two or three in the afternoon. When you can see the coastline of Niujiao Bay.

"These details are too late to plan for landing~www.wuxiahere.com~ After watching the captain leave, Lawrence said to his regiment that even if the world has extraordinary powers to help store fresh food and water, it is better than Lawrence had been comfortable sailing in his previous life, but nearly 100 days of sailing at sea still made everyone extremely exhausted.

"Let's go to the deck and sunbathe for a long time now. After all, we should set foot on our own territory in the afternoon. At that time, everyone had better be more energetic."

Lawrence’s call naturally won the support of everyone in the conference room. Even if they knew that they were about to board a deserted plain, they still hope to board this piece of their own in the best state. land.

After arriving on the deck, Lawrence saw the vast ocean still in front of him. The only difference is that this sea has become a lot lighter from the disturbing dark blue a few weeks ago, and the bright sunshine makes everyone who saw this scene happy. A lot.

Lawrence’s small fleet is like wild geese on the horizon, breaking through the waves on the calm sea in a single formation, while the sea stretches from his feet to the front all the way to the horizon, and then connects with the same blue sky. Together.

Probably because of its proximity to islands and shallow waters, many snow-white seabirds hovered behind the ship, swooping down from time to time and rushing into the white wakes left by the ship, taking a fish into the sky. Lawrence even saw dolphins jumping out of the water not far from the side of the fleet, as if to greet everyone.

At this moment, an extremely small protrusion appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky in the distance, and then it became bigger and bigger. Then came the excited cry of the lookout from the observation platform on the mast. "Here, we are here!"