Struggle in the Steam Age

Because of the previous disastrous defeat, the forces belonging to the adventurous faction on the side of the wilderness race were hit hard. The army of the civilized race outside the mountain area did not suffer too many losses at all, so naturally they would not stop moving deeper into the mountain area.

In just a few days, Pine Tree Valley, the most important base of the wilderness race on the outskirts, was lost like this. After occupying Pine Tree Valley, the Allied Forces of Civilized Races built it into a frontier base and expanded further.

Although the battle situation has improved partially after the wilderness race changed tactics, it still can't stop the overall battle situation on the battlefield from changing in a direction that is unfavorable to their own side.

Especially after the bases built behind the civilized races were dug out one by one, panic spread throughout the settlements of all the wilderness races in this area.

So in desperation, this group of guys who refused to obey anyone because of historical grievances could only choose to hold together to keep warm, so as to avoid being defeated by the coalition forces of civilized races.

This is the reason why the leaders of those tribes and city-states brought their core commanders to the front line to gather for a meeting at this time of crisis.

Out of fairness and security considerations, the meeting place this time was placed at the exit of a certain Underdark region.

Different from most of the exits, this is a cave hall with a large span and a large entrance but a shallow depth. And on the side of the cave hall close to the mountain, there are several deep caves leading down to those underground spaces.

But now, the supposedly quiet and solemn venue was full of noisy voices. The cursing and denunciation of the attacking coalition of civilized races, the discussion and debate on how to deal with the current situation, and the crying voices of representatives of those unlucky forces mixed together, making this place more lively than a vegetable market.

But it's normal to think about this situation. Although these guys present are all leaders of various forces, considering that the relationship between the group itself is average or even hostile, the mob gathered together for no more than two months. , so not using weapons and extraordinary power is already a manifestation of discipline.

"Okay, let me be quiet now!" Watching the group of guys below evolve from spitting each other to small-scale body collisions, they may get into a ball at any time. The dark elf mistress who presided over the meeting knocked on the table with a golden scepter inlaid with obsidian. Then stood up and said.

As the commander-in-chief elected by this group of wilderness race coalition forces, the mistress Angst, who came from the first family of Blackscale City, the largest city in the region, is now quite dissatisfied with these guys.

In her opinion, it would be better for these guys who were holding each other back in the war to sacrifice to the Spider Queen than they are now.

"Having a meeting makes it noisier than the battlefield. Why don't you use so much energy on the battlefield! Now that the enemy is about to touch us, don't you feel a little nervous?"

As the mistress of the dark elf spoke, the table at the bottom of the scepter in her hand made a rattling sound.

After seeing the supreme commander of the coalition forces get angry, everyone immediately fell silent. After all, for this group of rabble, there is only one reason for choosing this dark elf as the commander-in-chief.

For this group of chaotic and evil wilderness races, big fists are the truth. So they will naturally give the dark elf face.

After watching these guys on the field quiet down, Angst finally felt a little calmer in her heart. So I started talking about the content of this meeting.

"The guys outside have broken through Falling Eagle Ridge, and started to build a series of fortifications and clear the rear. If we don't do something else, the situation will be more passive than it is now."

"But what can we do now?" At this moment, an unharmonious voice came from the side.

Angst turned her head to look, only to find that the only gray dwarf city lord Dunif among the mob who could rival the dark elves stood up and said.

"Before, we sent our most elite troops to participate in your so-called important counterattack plan according to your order, and as a result, we lost 60% of our manpower."

"Duniff, shut your mouth, you are not the only ones who have suffered heavy losses in this place." Angst, who had enmity between the two sides, said angrily after hearing the gray dwarf come out to argue.

"The second action was carried out after everyone here agreed, and we added a lot of magic to prevent the enemy from using prophecy magic to obtain our action plan. I believe that unless the other party can invite the incarnation of the gods, otherwise It's absolutely impossible—"

Facing this disgusting gray dwarf, Angst immediately defended herself, but compared to this excuse. She actually preferred to kill that nasty guy with magic or poison now.

It's a pity that this occasion is not suitable for hands-on action, otherwise, once everyone is scattered, she will have no way to rely on her own strength to keep the city-state alone.

"No matter what you say, our plan failed in the end. And with the failure of the plan, we lost a large number of elite troops. For example, our city-state completely lost one of the three core heavy-armed Ironbreaker companies. "

Dunif, the gray dwarf city lord, folded his arms on his chest and said, "And we can't afford a second failure like this."

Part of the gray dwarf city lord's anger was pretending to hope to gain benefits for himself, but most of it was a genuine expression of inner emotions. Because for him, more than half of the enchanted armor and weapons that the entire city-state had accumulated over two or three hundred years had been lost in just a few days. If he did this again, he felt that even if he finally drove the coalition forces of those civilized races out of his city, he would be dead.

But he also understood that now is not the time for everyone to quarrel, so after nagging for a long time to vent his inner anger, he quickly found a step to calm down.

But at this time, everyone also understood through the debate between these two people that the current situation is indeed a bit bad. If the status quo is not changed, then everyone will lose.

For these people present, their enemies are not only the troops attacking from outside the mountain, but also each other sitting here. Even for many of them, the threat of those outsiders is far less than the threat of their neighbors.

After all, for the coalition of civilized races headed by humans, the core mission of their attack here is to build a road that can cross the mountains, not to fight with these wild wild populations.

In other words, if they really can't hold their positions in the future, they can flee to the mountains in other places. As long as they can escape the area radiated by this traffic line, they will be safe. The coalition forces of those intelligent races will never be bored enough to keep the army in the mountains for a long time to play hide-and-seek with them.

But their neighbors are not like that. Just the fact that the environment required by both parties to survive is the same is enough for them to fight for living space.

Not to mention the desire for material that is born as an evil creature and the hatred between everyone that has lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years.

So everyone present believes that if they lose more than others in this war. Then other people will never spare them for the sake of fighting side by side.

Instead, they will directly divide up their wealth, population and everything.

Of course, Angst, who is now the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, also knows this in her heart. But she also knew that if she couldn't organize people to do something now while everyone was still there. Then they would definitely have to choose one of the two options of abandoning everything and leaving their hometown or being wiped out by the enemy.