Struggle in the Steam Age

For the wilderness race troops hiding around Pine Tree Valley, their main task is to harass the guards in Pine Tree Valley as much as possible before launching a general attack.

However, considering the superiority of the artillery on the side of the civilized race, these troops can only be dispersed as much as possible to avoid being used by the defenders with artillery.

From another point of view, it is also risky for the army of the wilderness race to do so, because such a scattered arrangement is difficult to stop the opponent's attack.

If the defenders of Pine Tree Valley saw this opportunity to launch a counterattack, it would be difficult for these small groups scattered in various places to resist the assault launched by the civilized race, and they might be directly crushed by a single blow.

What they didn't know was that the defenders of Pine Hollow did have such a plan.

Even after entering the night, Nora was able to continuously inform the headquarters of the specific locations of the camps of those wilderness race troops, so the headquarters also asked if they would take this opportunity to launch a counterattack at the beginning.

But after a brief discussion, the officers present gave up this tactic. Because they quickly realized that with the quality of the Pine Tree Valley defenders and almost zero vision, letting them go a little deeper into the jungle would be no different from sending them to death.

And if you just enter the outskirts of the mountain forest, this way of shooting across an open space is enough.

Even out of the idea of ​​preparing for a decisive battle later, Nora's original plan to direct the artillery to indirectly target and shoot at the nodes of those wilderness races was rejected.

Because at this time, once the artillery under the command of Nora accurately hits the wilderness gathering points, the headquarters is worried that the other party will realize this problem and find a way to solve it later. So I decided to save this skill for the decisive battle in the early morning.

However, because of Nora, the defenders of Pine Tree Valley could also get a timely warning. Under such circumstances, the fortifications on the front line and the defenders in the trenches can naturally choose to take advantage of the enemy's bluff to let the soldiers rest in shifts to avoid being exhausted before the decisive battle breaks out.

"It seems that our plan has been implemented very well." Just behind the clamoring gnolls and goblin troops in front, a female dark elf raised a carved brass-cased telescope made by a gray dwarf in her hand and looked at the position of the Pine Valley defenders. Said.

Because humans built trenches and bunkers in advance to cover their sight, she couldn't see that most of the defenders were resting.

Therefore, after hearing the sporadic but continuous gunshots from the front line, it is natural to think that the previous harassment plan has succeeded.

"It does look like this," said another gray dwarf who was also holding a telescope not far from her.

In the eyes of this dwarf, it is obvious that the legion of the civilized race can only stay on the defensive line and endure the harassment of its own army but cannot fight back. If this situation lasts for a few hours, it will inevitably greatly weaken the strength of the defense line.

"The first step is basically proceeding according to the previously scheduled plan." After putting down the telescope in his hand, the dark elf lowered his head and said to the gray dwarf.

"However, those defensive lines are obviously not something we can easily cross, so we need to look at your artillery next. I hope that we will not fail because of you gray dwarves."

"Don't worry, we won't fail. But you bean sprouts need to worry about whether your commandos can break in after we open a gap." The gray dwarf said decisively.

Although it is said that the gray dwarves cooperated with the feud and the dark elves because of the gods, but neither of them was convinced. Therefore, even if the two sides find an opportunity on the front line of this kind of war, they must despise each other.

Time passed slowly in the confrontation between the two sides, and during this time, although the movements of both sides seemed to be very loud, the casualties in the battle were not too large because both sides basically couldn't see each other.

Especially under Nora's continuous investigation, the defenders, who should have been more tired, took advantage of this time to recharge their batteries.

Finally, when it was close to 4 o'clock in the morning, the sound of shooting gradually quieted down. At first glance, it seemed that the wilderness side could not bear it and was about to withdraw after half a night of tossing.

But at this time, Nora, who was patrolling the sky as before, saw something extra, and then sent an alarm to the Pine Valley General Command.

"The opponent's artillery has entered the previously built firing position." The content of Nora's report appeared in Lawrence's mind and on the piece of paper in front of the commanding book charm at the same time.

"Now it can be determined that the enemy's heavy weapons are six dragon cannons belonging to the gray dwarves. At the same time, there are also varying numbers of dark elf chain ballistas arranged near the dragon cannons."

"Besides, the frontline troops of the wilderness race are in direct contact with our frontline. Most of the remaining troops are gathering at several points. According to their current speed of action, if there is no accident, the other side will Get the whole team and attack in 20 minutes."

"What should we do next?" As the supreme commander of the Pine Valley Transit Station, Colonel Taylor asked the officers under his command while standing in the headquarters tent.

Because this place was just a transfer station before, when choosing a commander in this area, the main consideration is the ability to coordinate the transfer of various materials. Therefore, when faced with the full-scale attack of the wilderness race but could not summon reinforcements for a while, the colonel seemed a little flustered.

Fortunately, the panic turned into panic, but his heart was still full of courage. So after the initial panic was over, he quickly summoned the officers under him to formulate a combat plan through discussion.

Fortunately, many of the officers stationed in this area are front-line officers with rich experience, so these officers quickly put all the armed forces in the valley into a state of preparation for war.

Now, after receiving the real-time situation reported by Nora, these officers still had a short and intense discussion, and then made a decision.

"I think we should launch an attack immediately and use artillery to pre-empt the enemy before they are ready for a full-scale attack." After the discussion ended, Major Louis stood up and announced the results of everyone's discussion.

"Is this the result of your discussion?" Colonel Taylor nodded resolutely after he glanced at the officers sitting on both sides of the table and received a definite answer.

"If that's the case, let's contact the artillery position to fire, but before that, let's pass the data provided to us by the puppet of Colonel August to the artillery position."

A few minutes later, a large amount of data was transmitted to every artillery position. Then these artillery positions began to adjust the parameters of their artillery to aim at the target. After all the cannons were adjusted, Colonel Louis, who received the information, raised the flare gun and walked out of the tent, then raised the gun to the sky and pulled the trigger.

Three bullets flew out from the muzzle of the signal gun, and then exploded violently at a height of more than 30 meters, covering the entire Pine Tree Valley and the surrounding area with blood-red light, dyeing everything red.

After seeing this signal, the artillery positions located in various places in Pine Valley quickly began to fire shells at the intended targets at the fastest speed.

According to the plan, the artillery positions of the wilderness races and the gathering points of the opponent's elite races were the main attack directions of these artillery pieces. Especially the place where the six dragon cannons are located has received special attention. A few seconds later, dozens of flames emerged from the forest.

"1, 2, 3, 4—the first batch of artillery shells all hit." Just after the first round of artillery firing ended, Nora immediately passed back the statistics of the first round of artillery fire.