Struggle in the Steam Age

The reason why Lawrence was so nervous was not because he was timid or any other reason, but because the war cancer was fundamentally different from the giant sea creatures they had seen before. They are not giant creatures domesticated by those deep-water intelligent creatures, but giant biological weapons born to create killing and destruction.

It is also for this reason that the war giant crab has become the top part of the sea monsters domesticated by sea intelligent creatures for war. Their appearance looks like an enlarged crab.

It's just that the difference from ordinary crabs is that there are a lot of spikes on their back carapaces and various sundries glued together with a lot of coral reefs, which provide them with strong physical defense capabilities.

According to the information Lawrence had seen from the Church of Knowledge before, this kind of big guy was created by the kuo-toa fishmen who are basically only active in the dark area now. In this process, their biological knowledge, magic and divine skills were integrated. strength. Finally, such a biological miracle was created.

The reason why these monsters were created was to easily capture the camps of other creatures, so as to obtain more sacrifices to please their aboleth "gods".

However, after the first batch of war crabs were put into the battlefield, the production technology of this biochemical weapon was inevitably spread to other oceanic intelligent races. Soon, relatively strong and intelligent races such as sahuagin, locatha, triton, sea elves, and mermaids all mastered this technology successively.

Yes, those who mastered this technology did include the Loca murlocs. It's a pity that there is no country of locathermen in this sea area, and the locathermen village in a mass of scattered sand cannot have enough resources to build such underwater monsters. As a result, the Rocagin in this area were wiped out by the sahuagin and turned into cannon fodder.

Such behemoths are rare for humans. Because the vast majority of marine intelligent creatures basically have no ambitions for everything on the coast, naturally they will not move such big guys to offshore areas.

Only the sahuagin, who are purely water-minded, will use these things that were originally used for water warfare to attack land. Even in order to achieve this goal, they specially modified the war crabs, giving up some underwater combat capabilities and strengthening land combat capabilities.

Of course, for humans and all land creatures, the war cancer is indeed a very difficult opponent. Because in terms of the size of this monster, most of the human fortifications are not much different from a piece of paper in front of them. It can be completely destroyed with only a light force.

At the same time, this kind of monster also has extremely strong magic defense, and even if the magic defense is excluded, they can block the damage of bullets and small-caliber shells with their bodies alone. Under such circumstances, unless a large amount of heavy firepower and extraordinary power are used to continuously attack and accumulate damage to break through the defenses of these monsters, it will be difficult to cause too much damage to these tenacious big guys.

"Commander, the new batch of loca murlocs' food transport team is about to leave." A young officer bowed and ran to Lawrence's side and said. "The Lord Priest of Dawn who was among the soldiers below just informed us that many of the locathermen in this group have much stronger power than before, and they are probably superhumans."

"Send a telegram to the grain depot, telling them that the roca murlocs will launch an attack when the next batch of grain shipments arrives." Lawrence looked at the loca murlocs who were active in the bay below the mountain and said.

"Then tell the light infantry battalion stationed in the resort to take the batch of artillery that was transferred yesterday to quickly gather and hide in the valley three kilometers away, but when you set off, tell the soldiers that this is for reinforcements Downtown."

Yesterday afternoon, Lawrence asked people to transfer most of the artillery on the cliffs on both sides of the bay. The reason was that it would not be used here for the time being, so he was ready to reinforce the urban area. On the cliffs on both sides, there are only six oldest artillery pieces and less than 20 soldiers left on the surface.

But in secret, they dug out a number of secret passages inside the mountain by secretly using magic and deployed a lot of firepower. However, because of Nora's involvement in this process, such a large project was not discovered by the Loka murlocs outside until the completion of the construction.

So now Lawrence and his elite troops are stationed in these secret passages, quietly waiting for possible changes in the bay below, and at this time, the distant port city and the positions around the city are all trapped. During the fierce battle, both sides unleashed their strongest strength.

For example, on the peninsula where the military is stationed on Shaw Island, a large number of sahuagin and locatha surrounded by more than a dozen giant sea beasts rushed towards the coastline quickly, and the entire sea was full of fish heads. At the same time, a group of extraordinary people among these murlocs also started to attack the shore.

Naturally, the army on the shore fought back without showing any weakness. With the help of the accompanying priests, they easily blocked the rounds of attacks launched by the group of extraordinary men in the murloc vanguard. And in Safir, he also cooperated with Fatina to kill those extraordinary murloc fighters who rushed ashore one by one to the ground.

"Squeak—we should withdraw." After jointly killing a four-armed sahuagin nobleman, Fatina glanced at the murloc vanguard less than 100 meters away from the coastline and said to Safiel.

Hearing this, Safiel swung the sword to shake off the blood stains on the blade and looked at the coastline with a series of messy things. Sure enough, he saw a large group of dark figures getting closer to the coast, and it seemed that they were about to rush to the coast.

"Beep—" Seeing this, Safiel immediately grabbed the silver whistle hanging on his chest and blew vigorously, then took out a green flag from his arms and waved it a few times.

After he finished doing this, several officers scattered on the coast also made the same action. Soon, the elite team that stopped the sahuagin superhuman assault quickly and calmly withdrew back, and when they retreated, they also brought their own wounded and some oily-looking enemy corpses with them.

Boom—boom—shortly after the team led by Safir and the others evacuated the beach, the murloc army flooded the beach like a tide, and then all the large and small artillery arranged around the beach began to shoot and exploded on the beach. A large piece of flesh and flames exploded on the ground.

But at this time, the group of murlocs and monsters rushed towards the coastline like crazy, even if the flesh and blood of those companions splashed on them, they still couldn't stop their footsteps, and they all howled. Waving the weapon in his hand, he charged towards the shore.

Fortunately, at this time, after the murlocs launched a general attack, almost all the restrictions on weapons were released. Therefore, the guns arranged at each firepower point were fired at the highest rate of fire except for the hedgehog bullets which remained concealed. .

Then the bullets discharged from the chamber formed a dense barrage, and together with the large number of hot shell fragments flying at high speed after the mortar shells exploded on the ground, they formed a barrier of iron and fire on the beach.

The scattered metal pieces on these beaches knocked down a large number of murlocs who were frantically washing ashore, and instantly emptied a large area of ​​the beach. And when the follow-up troops couldn't come up, the attacking murlocs stopped in an instant. Greatly reduced the pressure on the positions halfway up the mountain.

At the same time, several howitzers on the battery located at the tip of the peninsula did not join the fire on the beach. Instead, it loaded the special shells enchanted by Nora before and pointed them at the approaching giant sea monsters step by step, preparing to give them a fatal blow.