Struggle in the Steam Age

Since there are few professional medical personnel in the world, Lawrence can't count on how many real regular doctors can be in this place. Fortunately, he had read a "Handbook of Barefoot Doctors" from his grandfather before crossing, so he decided to follow the method in that manual to train a group of barefoot doctors who belonged to the island.

Lawrence also knows that the medical personnel trained in this way have relatively low knowledge of medicine and pathology because they have not received systematic learning, and that serious and serious illnesses cannot be cured, let alone complicated diseases. At most, it can cure common diseases, reduce infant mortality during childbirth and prevent large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.

But compared to the current medical system in the region, which is almost zero, this is already very good. After all, the overall development level of the world is here, even if there is an extreme lack of medical experts in the city. So if you want to establish a medical system, you must adopt some native methods.

Therefore, in addition to immigrants, there are many aboriginals on the island among the young people who are now receiving training in the hospital, and the donated by these aborigines about the methods of treating diseases with local herbs passed down from generation to generation are also beneficial to Lawrence and others The establishment of the medical system here has provided immense help.

These prescriptions do have a series of problems, such as the overall fragmentation and fragmentation, and some of the prescriptions themselves are fake or have serious side effects. However, if effective screening is carried out, several useful prescriptions can always be summed up.

After all, this place is far away from those industrial centers, and all kinds of drugs used by doctors in the past are difficult to obtain. So these herbs can also make up for the lack of drugs to a large extent.

In addition, most of the drugs in this era are not as heavily industrialized as in Lawrence's previous life. So Lawrence also established a small medicine workshop on the island to produce some needed medicines.

Of course, it is impossible to produce complex medicines in such a production environment. It can only produce some alcohol for disinfection and a few drugs with relatively low production thresholds. However, Lawrence, as a spellcaster, will come here as long as he is free and will try to analyze the effective ingredients in these local herbs through smashing, distillation and other methods.

Recently, he has made a breakthrough in this area: he obtained some white powder when extracting some kind of bark used by local people for pain relief. After many experiments, Lawrence discovered that this should be the natural anti-inflammatory drug salicylic acid.

It's just that this kind of thing is corrosive to the human body to a certain extent, so Lawrence only uses it as a kind of technology reserve in a small-scale experiment in the hospital, and records the results of the experiment on the file. For him, he does not intend to announce the drug until a further safer product, aspirin, is manufactured.

In short, the territory on the island can be said to be a waste of time. But under the command of Lawrence, the entire development has entered the right track. If everything is normal, the island will develop little by little.

However, various things in the world are often not as smooth sailing as people imagined. Just as Lawrence was preparing to nest on the island and grow slowly, he suddenly received a wide-area telegram from the Elysian Imperial Navy, which was active nearby. . Only one thing was notified in the telegram, and that was to tell the surrounding islands that they had found traces of pirates.

Because this sea area is the closest to the Erythian Empire, the Imperial Navy will often send long-distance patrols to patrol this area. However, because of the reason to be far away from the base, the Imperial Navy of Elsion in this area generally only attacks the hostile targets they can guarantee to eliminate, and often avoids those larger-scale enemies.

Therefore, after discovering the whereabouts of the pirates this time, the two heavy frigates of the Navy took the initiative to break away from contact with each other as usual in order to protect the ship. For reasons of certain rules, when they are far away from the area, they are also sending out alarms to all the surrounding settlements at the same time.

For Lawrence, there are piracy activities in the surrounding area is a very troublesome thing, because it means that he needs to summon a part of the people who are building on the island to enter the port area for defense.

Although there are a lot of places to land on this island, it is too much trouble for the pirate troops to pass through the vast tropical rainforest, and it is easy to cause non-combat attrition. Therefore, pirates often only attack those coastal settlements, so Lawrence can also determine the pirate landing points in advance and conduct targeted defenses.

Fortunately, Lawrence felt that the coastal defense fort at the entrance of the port was almost completed, and artillery and mines had been placed in place, leaving only the final peripheral finishing work to be completed. With this fortress, the island will be able to avoid the possibility of direct shelling of the port after the opponent rushes into the bay.

But just waiting for the pirates on the island seemed too passive, so Lawrence began to collect information about these pirates. After synthesizing the information sent by the neighbors, he probably determined the approximate situation of the pirates now appearing in this sea area.

According to the pirate situation described in the warning telegram by the Imperial Navy of Elsion, especially the flags flying on the pirate flagships and the ship types of several ships in the fleet. Neighbors in the surrounding area can basically be sure that the pirates they encountered were the Killing Mist pirate group that had been active nearby in the past five or six years.

According to the records of the neighbors in previous years and the observation of the Imperial Navy of Elsion, the pirate group now has five pirate ships. The flagship Torch and the other ship are steam sailing ships with six to eight rear-mounted cannons of 100mm or more, while the other three are old-style sailing ships with a deadweight of about 200 to 250 tons. Only some old-fashioned ships with spherical shells are used. The gun is used as a weapon. The only role in the pirate regiment was to attack old merchant ships and transporters.

However, unlike when they came the year before, there were only five ships left in this pirate ship group this year. A 300-ton double-masted clipper has disappeared, and there are signs of repairs on other ships. So this year, they should have taken refuge in these places far away from the mainland after the navy was defeated, and by the way, they robbed the surrounding areas to regain their morale.

According to the account of a certain island owner who had fought against this group of pirates before, the leader of this group of pirates was an expert black priest who had served the sea **** before. However, after he was discovered for piracy, he killed the Poseidon Guardsmen who came to arrest him and became the Black Priest.

The silver-tier spellcaster is already troublesome enough, but what's even more troublesome is that he should have a magic item in his hand that can make the surrounding environment mist up. Many times the pirate group used the fog produced by such magic props as a cover to complete the raid.

But no one knows what this magic item that can generate fog looks like, because the captain of the pirate regiment kept this secret so well that even the crew on board did not know. According to intelligence, there were pirates who tried to spy on this secret when they were casting spells, but they were directly beheaded by the captain. Since then, no one on the ship dared to peep and cast spells.

Although this fog is just ordinary fog~www.wuxiahere.com~ It is easy for the caster to lock the enemy's position through the fog. But the sparsely populated island in this sea area has few transcendents, not to mention the rare spellcasters in Transcendent.

For example, on the island of Nicosia, there is only one spellcaster in the surrounding area, which is a place with relatively strong extraordinary power, and more islands have only a few extraordinary warriors or magic gunners. The situation of a group of spellcasters on an island like Lawrence is very abnormal. Because of this advantage, Lawrence did not worry much about the possible offensive of the pirates.

"We should take the initiative." This is the tone that Lawrence set for the next plan when he gathered people for a meeting. Although he is not afraid of the enemy's attack, it is not a good thing for a group of pirates to wander around.

More importantly, among the merchant ships that have sailed in this area recently, the most valuable ship should be the ship transporting supplies to the island of Neuschau. In case of loss of a ship, let alone how much property damage, it will only cause the island construction progress. Lawrence could not accept the obstacles.

"Of course it is a good thing to take the initiative to attack." The Joseph Knight in charge of the military first nodded in support, and then asked an important question. "But what should we do next?"