Struggle in the Steam Age

After the brief mobilization ended, nearly two thousand sahuagin removed their camouflage and revealed their original appearance. Then, together with those loca murlocs who took out their weapons, they rushed towards the only passage behind the resort that could go deep into the inland. While charging, he also threw some kind of flammable object at the resort building in an attempt to cause chaos.

"I think our side is the real main direction of attack. I quickly sent a message to the headquarters to ask for preparations." Looking at the flames and yellow smoke rising from the resort's buildings, Lawrence immediately realized that this time The position where you attack yourself is the direction of the opponent's main attack.

After all, the sahuagin were a group of aquatic creatures anyway, and unless they had planned and made sufficient preparations, it was absolutely impossible for them to carry so many firelighters with them.

And carrying so many firelighters and trying to hide it from Lawrence and the others would require a lot of resources. If it was just to attract Lawrence's attention, the other party would not have to spend such a large amount of capital. Therefore, Lawrence immediately judged that the bay he was facing was the direction of the opponent's main attack.

"Those murlocs are attacking us." A sentry shouted, upon hearing that, Lawrence immediately lowered his head and looked down the cliff.

As a result, I saw that some of the group of Rokayu who had just swam to the bay leading to the entrance of the sea also removed their camouflage and returned to their original sahuagin appearance, rushed ashore and cut off the plank road originally built on the cliff. And seized the temporary fortifications piled up with sandbags and wooden boards at the bay entrance platform that was empty due to the previous troop transfer.

Seeing this, the soldiers on the cliff began to try to shoot and throw bombs at the murlocs. It's a pity because of the ruggedness of the mountain. So after ping-pong-pong, they found that most of the bullets and shells fell into the water. It didn't do much damage to the sahuagin who washed ashore in the first wave.

Only some of the Roca murlocs who hadn't had time to go ashore were killed by these firepower and a large number were injured.

However, these attacks seem to have reminded the sahuagin that after consolidating their occupied area, nearly 200 elite sahuagin were drawn out of this army of more than 1,000 murlocs, using various tools like activation ropes. A type of magic began to climb all the way up the mountain. It seemed that they wanted to clear the defenders on the two cliffs and completely open the way from the open sea to the harbor.

"Sure enough, they are all elite." Seeing those four-armed sahuagin nobles and some sahuagins who were obviously extraordinary warriors climbing up the rope, Lawrence also admired from the bottom of his heart.

After all, these guys with webbed hands and feet are actually not very suitable for going ashore to fight from various angles, let alone climbing those cliffs along the rope. But these guys below really relied on their physical fitness to climb up to the top of the cliff quickly.

It's a pity that this kind of nearly vertical rock wall has too many advantages for the defensive side. Dozens of Ratman precision shooters arranged around set up a firepower net. Using the expensive magic rifles in their hands with the enchanted bullets, they easily knocked down the sahuagin who were hanging in midair by ropes and had nowhere to hide.

At the same time, the six cannons on the cliff that had been arranged before also began to roar. A round of shells fell into the sea and blew up the Loka murlocs who hadn't had time to go ashore to pieces.

Although this group of sahuagin were defeated in the battle at the entrance of the bay on the sea side, the operation to let the coastline advance on the other side of the bay went unexpectedly smoothly. Because Lawrence transferred most of the troops originally stationed there before, the mixed murloc army didn't encounter resistance until it reached the exit of the entire harbor.

It was a mounted infantry regiment on the island that was conducting the blocking battle. Although it is called a regiment, the whole regiment only has more than 200 people because of the general confusion in the colony. Therefore, when faced with more than 10,000 murlocs who are overwhelmingly overwhelming, all they can do is to protect themselves as much as possible and delay time.

Fortunately, this cavalry is considered an elite force on the island, so not only does everyone have a rifle and a revolver, but the entire army is also equipped with four 60mm light mortars produced by Lawrence's Bofors factory. More importantly because they had been informed of Lawrence's plans in advance and had enough discipline to carry out the mission.

Therefore, after the grain transport team left the road, they used the cover of the resort buildings in the harbor to build a lot of fortifications and planted a batch of explosives on the side of the road.

Therefore, the murlocs failed to capture the 30-meter-wide line of defense at the narrowest part of the road after several assaults, and instead let their own corpses cover the open space in front of the position. Even if the people who rushed to the forefront in these charges were only some roka murloc cannon fodder, the comparison of the disparity in the number of the two sides is enough to show how brave and good this group of mounted infantry is.

However, as the sahuagin, especially those sahuagin superhumans in the team moved forward quickly, the battlefield situation changed immediately. Because those transcendents used the stone-shaping scrolls to cast spells on both sides of the road, the stone walls on both sides of the entrance changed, and the passage that was originally only 30 meters wide was suddenly expanded to 50 meters.

After seeing this scene, the officers and soldiers who realized that they could not defend at all immediately got on their horses and rushed towards the inland area. Before retreating, the leading officer detonated all the remaining explosives in front of the previously arranged position and killed nearly a thousand murlocs who saw the widening of the mountain pass and swarmed up in a dense formation.

"—Damn it, chase after it!" Seeing this scene, the four-armed sahuagin nobleman who was directing his eyes was shattered, because everyone thought it was the last blow just now, so many of the troops sent were elite sahuagin.

As a result, the vanguard of this batch of sahuagins lost more than 300 in the big explosion, which was close to 1/5 of the number of sahuagins who launched an attack deep into the island this time.

"Charge according to the original plan, don't chase and kill those cavalry." Just when the fish crowd was going to chase and kill the group of human cavalry who retreated along the side path of the main road, a sahuayu who was the commander in chief of this operation The voice of the human priest rang in their ears.

"Your Excellency, our loss this time—" After hearing this sentence, the four-armed sahuagin noble who was the forward commander turned his head and said to the sahuagin priest who came from behind with an expression of disbelief. Yes, but before he finished speaking, he was slapped back by the sahuagin priest.

"Stupid, don't forget what we are here for?" the sahuagin priest paused vigorously for the cane in his hand and said.

"Do you think that only your subordinates are losing? All of us are losing. But if we can't seize the key points on this road as soon as possible to open the passage for the follow-up troops and stop the continuous reinforcements of human beings, then what we have paid now All sacrifices are meaningless."

"Also, I hope you can change your opinion and follow the plan in the next actions, and don't just think about preserving your own strength. Otherwise, I don't mind changing the lord of the Zizao Trench." After the sand The Huayu priest glared angrily at the murloc noble who was about to do something wrong, and then walked forward with the large army.

It's a pity that this army didn't go far after breaking through this key point, and hit a stronger line of defense: the White Eagle Federal Standard Light Infantry Battalion that was transferred from the resort before was at the exit of this mountain road. Defensive positions were set up.

And judging from the positions formed by a series of fortifications such as trenches, bunkers, and barbed wire, this army is not the kind of army that hastily rushed to fight, but has already prepared in advance in this place.

After the murlocs discovered this, their morale immediately dropped, because they did not seem to have launched a successful surprise attack now, but instead seemed to have fallen into a trap. But at this moment, the sound of artillery firing from the harbor also stopped.

"The landing point is under our control now, and powerful reinforcements will arrive soon. So we can just rush up to win." The sahuagin priest immediately waved his staff to boost morale. "Come on, don't be afraid of sacrifice. Our gods are watching us!"

Hearing what he said, the low morale of the murlocs rose again. Then they formed a yellow crowd and rushed up against the dense firepower of the human army ahead.