Struggle in the Steam Age

In the next few days, according to the command of the headquarters, the armies of civilized races on the entire front are desperately setting up various defensive measures and hoarding resources.

At the same time, the military also sent investigators to investigate as far away as possible at any cost, in order to obtain more information.

During this period of time, Lawrence and the others obtained a lot of intelligence from other battlefields. Obviously, after this period of fighting, those wilderness races probably determined the main attack direction of the civilized race side.

Therefore, the intelligence showed that those troops who were feinting to attack in other directions of the mountain range almost found that the wilderness race legions opposite them showed signs of retreating.

But even so, for the army of civilized races who feinted elsewhere, they have already made a profit.

Because taking advantage of this vacuum period in which the power of the wilderness races has been significantly weakened, as long as those civilized races are not too greedy, they can always find a way to occupy one or two pieces of land on the territory that originally belonged to the wilderness races.

For Lawrence, among the news about the war situation, what he paid the most attention to was the news from the New Island Republic.

According to the information obtained by the General Command from the troops west of the Great Mountain Range in recent days, the advance of the army in the Republic of New Island was very smooth, even a bit too smooth.

At the beginning, the headquarters thought that the group of wilderness races planned to adopt the tactics of luring the enemy deep and then ambush the army of the New Island Republic.

But after repeated investigations, it was realized that the only reason why the army of the Xinzhou Republic was so powerful was that the wilderness races opposite them chose to avoid their attacks.

After obtaining this information, the headquarters felt a little at a loss at first. But after careful analysis, they quickly deduced the target of the next move of those wilderness races.

There is only one reason why the wilderness races choose not to stop the army attacking in the direction of the New Island Republic at this time, and that is that the wilderness races around the line of communication in the future have now united. Prepare to concentrate forces to launch a decisive battle to defeat the two armies of the civilized race.

For the civilized race, as long as this expedition fails, then the next expedition will basically not choose this route if there are no accidents.

After all, the purpose of their expedition was to build a traffic line connecting the north and south of the large mountain range in the north of Xindalu North Road, so there was no need to die at one point.

At least Lawrence knew that the civilized side had designed a total of five routes for this expedition. The only reason for choosing the current route was that it won by a narrow margin when everyone voted by secret ballot. And this naturally does not mean that this route has any advantages that the other four routes cannot match.

Because there have been more than one civilized expeditions in history for the purpose of opening up traffic in the mountains, the wilderness races in the mountains naturally know what the purpose of the war by the coalition forces of the civilized races is.

So for them, as long as the two flanking armies are defeated one way, the other side will naturally retreat due to lack of supporting troops. Then they will be able to keep their territory for a long time afterwards.

Of course, doing so is actually a beggar-thy-neighbor behavior, because when the civilized race coalition forces find that the enemy here is too difficult to deal with, they will naturally go to other places to find enemies that are easy to deal with, and then the wilderness races in other places in the mountains will lie down. .

However, it is well known that the so-called wilderness race is just a general term for a series of evil races that refuse to accept civilization, admire plunder and despise production.

For them, both neighbors and compatriots can be the target of looting and killing, as long as the one who dies is not themselves, it doesn't matter how many other people die.

"Then how do these guys who don't care about their lips and teeth form a coalition?" In the evening, Nora asked Lawrence who was changing the dressing of another wounded while removing the stitches for one wounded.

"It's hard for me to imagine what these pure rabble can do together."

"You're right. If those wilderness races were only allowed to organize themselves, they would definitely not be able to fight back and forth with us like they do now." Lawrence cleaned them up with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol and some special potion powder. Said after some effusion in the wound of the wounded man in front of him.

"In a large-scale war like the Civilization Expedition, the consciousness of the gods on both sides will basically be reflected, so I think they can get together mainly because of the power of the gods behind them."

In addition to gathering this group of rabble together, the wilderness race gods also did a lot of things. For example, using the power of the gods to cover the entire battlefield, to prevent the civilized race from detecting their movements through prophecy spells or magical spells. Of course, the gods of the civilized race did the same thing.

This is why both sides are desperately sending personnel to scout each other, because after excluding the means of magic scouting, they can only obtain the other party by sending a large number of scouts just like Lawrence did in his previous life in a world where extraordinary power did not exist. layout.

Although investigators in this world can also use some supernatural abilities, in fact this kind of war is no different from the similar war in Lawrence's previous life, which was purely ordinary people's world.

Naturally, in this kind of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance battle of the scouts, both sides also produced a large number of wounded.

The field hospital has naturally accepted many wounded of this type during this period, and because of some special weapons in the hands of the scouts on the other side, some wounds are difficult to deal with, so top doctors like Lawrence and Hugo had to be let Go straight to the field to treat the wounds of these wounded.

"It seems that their wounds should all recover." After treating the wounded in her hand and checking it, Nora turned her head and said to Lawrence.

"Because their injuries are mainly concentrated in fractures, bone cracks, some soft tissue consultations and internal bleeding, but the kind of damage to the soul or loss of organs and limbs that I am most worried about did not appear."

"That's because no matter how serious their injuries are, it's impossible to withdraw them." Lawrence said to Nora in a somewhat heavy tone.

"Don't forget that they are scouts, and they need to go deep behind the enemy's line without much support. So if they are too seriously injured, it is basically impossible for them to break through the encirclement and retreat."

"They are all heroes." After hearing Lawrence's explanation, Nora pursed her lips and said. It was natural for her to realize how many victims there would be in the scouting force under such circumstances.

"Yes, they are all heroes." Lawrence nodded approvingly.

Just as Lawrence and Nora were discussing the soldiers who died in the battle, several people in military uniform walked through the group of busy nursing staff and came to the outside of the tent where Lawrence and the others were.

Then, the second lieutenant who was leading the way put his hands together in front of his mouth and shouted to Nora on the top of the tent made to facilitate multi-line operations. "Miss Nora, may I ask where Earl Sauer is?"

"I'm here." Before Nora could answer, Lawrence stuck his head out from the tent door in front of them. Soon, he recognized that the second lieutenant who led the way was the one who had been at the Pine Valley Headquarters before. A second lieutenant in command service. "can I help you?"

"Yes, there are some very urgent situations from the general headquarters that need to be dealt with by you." The second lieutenant saluted Lawrence when he saw him, and then stepped aside to reveal the major standing behind Speaking of. "The details will be introduced to you by Major Louis."