Struggle in the Steam Age

According to the staff officer, the only reason for setting up warehouses in this place that can be said to be extremely desolate is that there will be no enemies in this place, and it is also very close to the coast and urban areas. Once a war starts, it can be very convenient for supplies. The transfer station in the country is convenient for the troops on the coastline to replenish various supplies.

It was just an accident to choose this place as a backup command center this time. No one expected that the sahuagin would launch a surprise attack in this place, which can be called the Jedi of aquatic life.

But since things have become like this, this place will naturally not be empty, so it was simply transformed into what it is now.

After passing through a passage more than ten meters long, the space in front of him suddenly opened up, and several large caves connected together appeared in front of him. Then, under the guidance of another Isle of Shaw staff officer, Lawrence bypassed the busy group of people in front of him and came to a small house.

This small house should be a temporary hospital used during the war. After entering the door, he saw many people gathered there. In the center of the crowd is Nora, a small figure floating in the air.

Under the little puppet, there are more than a dozen murloc corpses piled up in a haphazard manner, including both sahuagin and locatha.

"What's the situation?" Seeing Lawrence walking in, all the soldiers present immediately stood at attention and made way for a path, and at the same time raised their hands to the Supreme Commander Lawrence as a military salute.

And Lawrence also raised his hand and returned a military salute to everyone, and then followed the soldiers present to get out of the way, just arrived at the side of the pile of murloc corpses, then raised his head slightly and said to the little puppet floating in the air . "What's with this pile of corpses?"

My lord brother, I just set out to fish this back from the battlefield. "After seeing Lawrence coming, the little doll proudly puffed up his chest and introduced. "The time just chosen by the group of murlocs was very coincidental. It just happened to be stuck at night when the sea was ebbing. If my movements were a little slower The dead body is not easy to fish when it floats to the depths of the sea. "

After speaking, the little puppet shot out several silk threads from its hands to wrap around the corpses below and hang some of them up one by one. Then he floated to the side of the corpse and began to explain.

"Among these corpses, the corpses of the Loka murlocs are relatively normal. Although most of these corpses are old and weak, considering that the old and weak are often left behind in the process of escaping, their death rate is higher. It can be said to be reasonable.”

"But the other batch of sahuagin corpses are obviously not so normal." Speaking of which, Nana flicked her fingers to make those lokagin corpses fall to the ground, and then used these silk threads to hook the other corpses. Some of the corpses belonged to sahuagin people. "I think you should be able to see now that these sahuagin are not fighters, but just civilians."

"Are all the sahuagin corpses here the corpses of civilians?" Lawrence stepped forward to inspect the sahuagin corpses, and found that the sahuagins were similar in muscle and body patterns. Real sahuagin fighters are not the same.

After a while, he found one of the exceptions. "Wait, there seems to be a corpse here that belongs to a sahuagin warrior."

"There is indeed a corpse inside that belongs to a sahuagin warrior." Nora flew to the sahuagin warrior corpse and said. "But it took me a long time to find this corpse. If I read correctly, only 1% of today's pursuers are sahuagin warriors."

As soon as the little puppet finished speaking, the group of officers on the side immediately started a serious discussion. Because everyone knew that the sahuagins guarding the servant army must be a small but very elite sahuagin fighters. It is obviously abnormal that this kind of situation is dominated by civilians.

If coupled with the behavior of Huafin preventing Lawrence and the others from salvaging the corpse just now, everyone thinks that a new round of sahuagin raids is imminent.

"But when will they make a surprise attack?" A staff officer said, "Although the supernatural beings can hold on for the time being, ordinary soldiers will certainly not be able to last too long in this tense atmosphere. I am worried that if If the enemy doesn't activate in a short time, we may collapse before the enemy."

"You don't have to worry about this, because the sahuayu people are more anxious than us." After hearing what the staff officer said, Lawrence immediately said to the surrounding officers who also had worried faces on their faces, "Because the other side The phantom magic that can be used has a time limit, and if they don't activate it as soon as possible, the people sent here as internal agents will soon be exposed."

But the strange thing is that nothing unexpected happened that night, everything was quiet. Even after dawn, Huafin sent someone to ask Lawrence and the others to lend a helping hand, hoping to borrow some food from them. Because they were in such a hurry when they fled from the sahuagin that they didn't bring anything.

Of course, the Loka fish people also know that borrowing food at this time is not a very timely request. After all, in addition to having plenty of fresh water, this island is not only small in size, but also has poor soil. Even under the best circumstances, they can only produce some fresh vegetables, fruits and fish by themselves, and basically can only rely on external input in terms of food.

Now the siege of the island by the surrounding sahuayu people has completely cut off the original waterway and cut off the food imported from the outside by sea.

Although the island officials, who had realized that the war might come before the sahuayu people attacked, temporarily purchased a large amount of food from other places and shipped it into the island, but it is not clear how long the siege of the sahuayu people will last Food should always be saved a little.

For example, immediately after the sahuayu people besieged the city, the island entered a wartime state in an all-round way, and carried out rationing management of various daily necessities in order to reduce consumption as much as possible. Under such circumstances, the addition of tens of thousands of loca murlocs who came to eat rice is obviously a pressure that cannot be ignored on the island.

Providing rations for tens of thousands of people is naturally not something that ordinary workers can decide. So after reporting layer by layer. The last person who appeared in front of Huafin who came to ask for help was naturally the only Lawrence in this place who could make a decision. After seeing him, Huafin, who was standing at the forefront of this small group of Loka murlocs, immediately bowed down and saluted.

"I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble, but we really have no other way." After the salute, Huafin straightened up and said, "Of course, I swear we are just borrowing these grains. When the war is over In the future, we will definitely return these grains at more than three times the price."

"You have to understand that this is a time of war, and we are in short supply of food. And you now have more than 20,000 to 30,000 people. Therefore, when providing food to you, it is not just a question of money that needs to be considered—" Lawrence said with a face A troubled look appeared on his face. "Okay, tell me how much food you want, if it's too much—"

"We only need three days of food." Huafin said quickly after hearing Lawrence's words. "We found that the sahuayu people are not too close to the coastline, so we can send some people to collect some food a little farther away. In this case, I think it should last for about a week if mixed with food."

"Of course, I also know that there are not enough people on the island now, and this place is a bit remote." Huafin said after finishing their request. "So we can send people to help carry the food."