Struggle in the Steam Age

Due to the fact that the sahuagin have night vision and launched a general attack last night, they only sent some small teams to try to go ashore from different places to harass them during the day and look for something that could be used. The breaking point of the breakthrough. As a result, because everyone maintained a high level of vigilance, the troops stationed at various key points easily blocked these teams in front of the defensive line.

Amidst the scattered gunshots on the battlefield, Lawrence and Safiel squatted on the edge of the big pit full of blood and fish, curiously watching the whole pit of flesh and blood in front of the little puppet. The scattered gray powder was quickly decomposed and consumed. Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, the flesh and blood were transformed into some gray-blue liquid with a metallic luster, which looked like molten lead.

"Are you sure this thing won't leak out?" Safiel asked worriedly, looking at the rapidly proliferating gray liquid in the pit. At the beginning, the speed of the gray liquid was not too fast. But as the first mass of flesh and blood was transformed into a drop of such a liquid, the whole speed was greatly accelerated, and until now the liquid began to spread throughout the pit as if it had come to life, constantly devouring the flesh and blood.

"It's definitely not a problem. If there is a problem, Nora won't stay in the fort to sleep now." Lawrence said, patting the back of Safir's hand lightly. "If she hadn't confirmed the safety of these things, she wouldn't use this thing as a weapon. Otherwise, once this kind of thing leaked into the natural world, it would definitely be a disaster."

"So although Nora didn't look here, she still made some defensive preparations here." After speaking, Lawrence pointed to the six stones placed around the pit. The stones are about as high as a person's knees, and each stone has a small-looking handprint on it. All the palm prints were deeply sunken into the stones, as if someone pressed them out with their hands.

These handprints were pressed by Nora on these stones before. If someone switches to special vision at this time, they can see clusters of silver magic aura emanating from the fingerprints, forming a magic power on the edge of this big pit. The formed barrier envelops the entire pit inside.

And because of the existence of this barrier, the silver-gray liquid that seemed to come alive was all confined to the center of the big pit. Because of this, several workers around the big pit had to use a long pole to pick up the flesh and blood on the side of the pit to the center of the pit so that the silver-gray liquid in the center of the pit could complete the conversion work.

That night, the murlocs who had been quiet all day launched another attack. It may be because they discovered that Lawrence's firepower density was strong enough during the test last night, so the number of murlocs who launched the attack this time was not large, only about 1500-1700.

"What are they doing?" Lawrence raised his binoculars and frowned as he watched the murlocs attacking the peninsula in small groups. Different from the previous tactic in which various races mixed together and rushed to the land, all the sahuagin who rushed up this time were heavily armed.

The so-called heavy armor means that each of these guys is wearing armor woven from water plants, driftwood, fish bones, and shells. At the same time, it is wearing a giant shield woven with soaked seaweed and some hard objects in front of it. In addition, these attackers were not arranged in dense formations as before, but were divided into squads of 8-12 people.

"It should be that they want to reduce our firepower to attack them through this method." Safir said after looking carefully. "If I remember correctly, many firearms in the main city are still made of cardboard, and even their militiamen have front-loading guns. And some of those old-fashioned weapons can indeed be defended by this type of defense."

This era is an era of rapid technological advancement, especially for individual weapons. Firearms using metal cartridges and smokeless powder were indeed in use. However, people in many places are still using old-fashioned firearms with black powder paper shells and even very old front-loading cap guns.

Although Vieques Island belongs to the bridgehead of the White Eagle Republic in the Sea of ​​Stars, as a territory directly under the Federation, it needs to consider the thoughts of the Federation itself when purchasing weapons. Therefore, after a series of wrangling, the army on this island still uses the slightly old-fashioned black powder paper-shell rifles with breech loading, while the militia generally use whatever guns they have. At least when Lawrence entered the urban area while preparing for the war, he found that even some militiamen were still using ancient flintlock guns.

Naturally, the lethality of these weapons is naturally much weaker than the latest military rifles. Therefore, after the previous battle, the sahuayu people realized that when facing these weapons, bringing some armor made of driftwood and wet aquatic plants should be able to reduce casualties as much as possible in the battle.

But the sahuagin did not expect that this experience would basically have no effect in the face of Lawrence and his group of reinforcements. Because Lawrence took the route of elite soldiers, he had some money in his hands, and most importantly, he also had an arsenal under his command. So it is natural to equip the soldiers under his command with sufficiently advanced weapons.

Although considering that smokeless gunpowder is too expensive, Lawrence and his main force still use metal cartridge rifles filled with black powder. But because of the sealing of the metal shell case, the penetrating power of these bullets is much stronger than those of the old-fashioned paper shell bullets and front-loading guns.

Not to mention that whether it is the large-caliber rifle in the hands of the Tauren or the heavy-barreled rifle used by the Ratmen using smokeless medicine, both in terms of penetration and lethality, they are far more powerful than the rifles used by ordinary human soldiers. Those sahuagin A simple barrier around him is no different from a piece of paper in the face of such firepower.

Therefore, as soon as these murlocs landed, they fell into the firepower net built by Lawrence and the others. Under the attack of the precise shooters among the ratmen and tauren, many sahuagin were beaten as soon as they emerged from the sea. Fell in the sea, some temporary barriers made of seaweed, fish bones and driftwood were also thrown on the ground due to lack of manpower.

However, the number of accurate shooters who can shoot moving targets at long distances at night is still relatively small, and the formation formed by the sahuayu people is indeed too scattered to be suitable for artillery shooting. So the sahuayu people can still continue their attacks on the coast with such a degree of casualties.

As the sahuagin got closer and closer to those positions, their death rate also began to rise linearly. Because at this time, under the illumination of the lights on the position, more shooters joined the shooting. At the same time, the closer distance also makes those bullets more lethal.

In the crackling shooting, the sahuagin fell in pieces. But at this time, the fierceness in people's bones was also stimulated. When they rushed to a place less than 30 meters away from Lawrence and the others despite the casualties, they made a huge strange cry, and then rushed towards the position regardless of the casualties.

Even at this time, all the people on the position were firing rapidly, and the hand-cranked machine guns placed on both wings of the position also formed a barrier of iron and fire in front of the position. But those sahuagin still rushed forward against the hail of bullets, even if their companions around them fell down one after another, the surviving murlocs just avoided their falling corpses and continued to charge.

"Damn it, large-scale bloodthirsty!" Lawrence, who was standing in the fortress commanding, immediately saw the reason why the group of sahuagin were so crazy, "The spare machine gun can now shoot, cut off the sahuagin as much as possible." Follow-up troops. The reserve team will charge back with me to drive these guys down."