Struggle in the Steam Age

After arranging the mission, Lawrence immediately drew his pistol from his waist and walked out of the fort. Then he led his subordinate guard of more than 50 people into the first-line position. When they walked into the most dangerous trench in the first-line position, they found that a large-scale hand-to-hand combat had already begun, and the entire front of the position was in a ball.

Of course, they still had the upper hand in the hand-to-hand fight against Lawrence. Because just when this group of sahuagin were about to rush into the fortification, the reserve team composed of tauren rushed out to stop them and started fighting. At the same time, those machine guns and artillery also fired extended shots to stop the sahuayu who wanted to reinforce them.

In battle, compared with the group of sahuagin who only have seaweed and big shells for protection, these fully armed tauren are much more capable of surviving on the battlefield. For example, the tridents in the hands of the sahuagin can hardly do much damage to the tauren wrapped in armor, but the defense made of woven seaweed and the shield made of large shells on the sahuagin basically cannot stop the tauren All kinds of heavy weapons made of fine steel in their hands.

Although the huge size and strong body that the sahuagin are proud of have great advantages over humans, the tauren are no worse than them in this respect. Therefore, in such a face-to-face fight, the tauren with more complete equipment naturally had the upper hand.

With Lawrence and the others joining the battlefield, the balance quickly tilted over. After a short and bloody battle, Lawrence and the others successfully destroyed this group of sahuagin army who had rushed into the fire range of their own position. Only single-digit sahuagin rolled down the hillside to escape.

In other areas, there are far fewer monsters that can break through the firepower net than here, so they were also driven out of the position under the countercharge of Safir and another part of the reserve team. After this attack failed, the sahuayu quickly retreated from their position on the hillside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the elite ratman rangers in Lawrence's army first rushed out of their positions and chased them down, followed by rows of soldiers with bayonets on them. They chased and killed all the way from the position to the edge of the jungle not far from the coastline before stopping. In the end, less than 200 murlocs managed to escape back to the sea.

"There's something wrong with the situation." After discussing it when everyone returned to the position after the battle, Lawrence realized that there was something abnormal about the battle tonight. "If the two giant sea beasts posed enough threats to the shore during the last attack, what is the purpose of their attack today?"

"It feels like they are coming up to die." Nora, who had been sitting on the communication station at the highest point of the peninsula as the general reserve team, also flew down from the mountain and said, "Although it seems that this pure sahuagin The army seems to be stronger than the mixed army last time, but in fact, without mid-to-high-level Transcendents and large sea beasts, this kind of attack is actually meaningless, so this situation seems a bit strange."

While they were talking, the gunfire from the direction of the main island also stopped. The entire island became silent again. Except for the faint smell of gunpowder smoke blown by the sea breeze, it was as if no war had erupted. The battle tonight ended in an anticlimactic manner.

"Your Excellency, I seem to have found something wrong." At this time, an officer who had just ran down to clean the battlefield suddenly trotted over and said, "Among these murlocs, except for the commando that approached just now, it is composed of pure soldiers. Apart from those formed, at least half of the remaining murlocs are just sahuagin civilians."

"Civilian?" Lawrence frowned, while Nora, who was more adept at action, flew out directly. After a minute or so, Nora flew over dragging the two corpses with a silk thread. "The priest is right. At least half of the sahuagin who launched an attack on our side are just civilians."

Sure enough, under the lights of the fortress, Lawrence found that the corpses of the two sahuagin thrown by Nora at his feet were much smaller than those he had seen before, and at the same time, the muscles on his body also appeared to be much smaller than before. The real fighters are weaker. On the whole, it is obviously smaller than the real sahuagin fighters.

The slightly neurotic race of the sahuagin, like the goblins, can be regarded as a race of all soldiers, and as long as the adult sahuagin can fight with ordinary human fighters in hand-to-hand combat, this does not mean Each of them is good enough to be a fighter. At least on such a real battlefield, the civilians among these sahuagin could easily lose their morale and flee quickly due to certain blows, just like just now.

"This is not normal." Safiel, who was educated as a regular soldier, said, "Although the sahuagin society doesn't pay much attention to the survival of civilians, they rarely use civilians of their own race as cannon fodder. Normal situation The civilians who took down these sahuagin will only move the spoils or support them when the war is about to end."

After confirming that the sahuagin had sent civilians to the battlefield, Lawrence and the others immediately transmitted the information to the headquarters in the main city through the telegraph station. Shortly after the information was uploaded, they received a series of urgent notifications from the headquarters.

"This time the sahuagin attacks are the same at all locations." Lawrence took the telegram as soon as the translator finished translating the telegram, and then told everyone present the contents of the telegram. "The headquarters asked us if there were any special discoveries or meaningful conjectures."

"No." "I don't understand what happened here." After hearing Lawrence finish reading the telegram, all the people present shook their heads slightly and expressed that they didn't quite know what happened here. what. After all, everyone just saw a group of sahuagin civilians now, and they couldn't guess anything based on this alone.

After everyone had dispersed, Nora and Lawrence greeted Safiel. Then the little puppet filled Lawrence with the astral plane as before and flew into the depths of the sea. After making sure to bypass the heavily guarded sea area of ​​the sahuagin, the little puppet plunged into the sea, and then quickly swam towards the settlement of the sahuagin.

The puppet chose a sea area densely covered with reefs this time, because there are so many reefs here, and because of the offshore tides, these reefs have extremely sharp edges in the long-term collision, and the terrain makes the currents extremely complicated. . So even the sahuayu people are reluctant to get close to this place, which is very close to their settlement.

Moreover, the sahuayu people feel that this place is very close to the camp, so even if someone comes to investigate, it is impossible to escape their sense of smell and the warning magic arranged by the priests. Not to mention that for those stupid land people, it is impossible for them to pass through the complicated local currents to attack their own camp.

But for Nora, this is not a problem at all. She constructs the body of the creature to directly invalidate the sense of smell in the water that people are proud of and the detection magic of the priests, and releases a lot of silk threads to sense After the external environment, she can shuttle through this reef as nimbly as the most nimble fish.

So it only took ten minutes for Nora to cross this complex reef and enter the sahuagin camp. After simply bypassing the two patrols, the little puppet quickly swam to the aquatic grass on a small hillside and looked at the core sahuagin camp not far away.