Struggle in the Steam Age

"Ready to shoot, 1,200 meters, shrapnel, three rapid-fire shots." Watching the group of murlocs on the sea getting closer and closer, Lawrence shouted, and he quickly judged that what was in front of him was by exposing his back and fins to the sea. The fleeing Rocagin are followed by the chasing sahuagin. So he immediately issued an order to the artillerymen around him.

After receiving the order, the artillery that had been fully loaded before immediately adjusted the elevation angle of the artillery according to the position calibrated by Lawrence, and then pulled the matchwire of the artillery at the same time.

After a burst of artillery fire, more than a dozen shells flew out of the gun barrel with flames, and then exploded violently near the sea surface, scattering a large pile of hot steel balls the size of pinballs to the sea surface.

The underwater target effect of this kind of shrapnel is very general. In other words, unless you use special weapons underwater, the lethality of all land weapons underwater is so small that it can be ignored.

For example, this kind of shell is like this. Those pinball-sized steel balls may make a finger-deep hole on land, but in the water, they may lose all their kinetic energy as long as they are separated by less than 1 meter of water.

It's just that the sahuagins who were chasing had to float to the surface because of the shoal nearby, so the steel balls of these shrapnel shells quickly hit the gray-green backs of the sahuagins and the sharks they drove out of the sea. A large blood flower then entered their bodies and completely destroyed their internal organs.

The overall number of sahuagin chasing troops is not large. It seems that because the escape time chosen by these locagins is too sensitive, the sahuagins have no time to mobilize more troops to hunt them down.

Therefore, after this burst of shells fell into the dense team and caused hundreds of casualties, the sahuagin stopped quickly, and then dispersed and retreated to the depths of the ocean in the opposite direction.

In the following time, the artillery fired several more rounds. But because the opponent began to dive gradually and disbanded the dense formation, the effect of this batch of shells was not very good. The number of sahuagin killed was less than 1/5 of that in the first round. Seeing this, Lawrence immediately sent an order to stop all the artillery firing.

"Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you for saving our compatriots!" Seeing this scene, Huafin, who was watching the battle before, bowed to Lawrence together with the Loka murlocs who came here with him, and At their feet, a large group of roka fishmen, under the command of some leaders and elders, maintained a basic order and passed through the shallows at the mouth of the bay.

"It's nothing, this is what we should do." Lawrence said with a smile and waved his hands, then looked at a piece of corpses floating on the sea in the distance and asked, "By the way, there are some remains of your people over there. You Do you need us to help you bring back all those remains now?"

"Well—thank you, but I don't need it anymore." Huafin looked at a large pile of murloc corpses floating in the distance, with an unknown look in his eyes. But soon he returned to normal speaking. "Let them return to the sea like this. This is not against the customs of our Loka murlocs. And anyway, I don't want you to pay too much for this matter."

Hearing what Huafin said, Lawrence pursed his lips slightly. Then he waved his hand to signal everyone to follow him and go down from the artillery position on the cliff. In addition to them, the artillerymen also roughly placed the artillery and followed them from this position to the flat ground below.

"Hey, why do you want to go down!" Huafin asked strangely after seeing the artillerymen who went down the cliff with him. "The war is obviously not over yet, why don't you continue to defend on it? I see that there are so many fortifications on it."

"As long as those heavy weapons are on it." Lawrence said with a smile. "Because if a large army of sahuagin wants to attack, the movement can definitely be detected from a long distance. In this case, our troops have enough time to deploy defenses from the bottom, instead of making everyone wait on the top. .”

After returning to the resort below, the previous silence here has been completely broken. All kinds of croaking and slapping sounds of the Loka fish people rang out together, making this place almost as noisy as the market in the urban area during the day. And the place near the coast is full of fish heads, which looks extremely lively.

Seeing this, Huafin immediately saluted Lawrence, ran to the water's edge and yelled loudly. Soon, the Loka fishmen on the shore became quiet. Then more than a dozen Roka murloc leaders and elders got out of the water, and then they knelt down at Lawrence's feet and knelt down to him, whispering the murloc language at the same time.

"Your Excellency, they are thanking you." Huafin said to Lawrence. Although the Loka murlocs have the wisdom equivalent to humans, most of them can only speak the murloc language. Therefore, Huafin took the initiative to translate to Lawrence.

"And they hope to provide them with some relatively quiet waters where the old and the weak can live. Because the chase battles just now have seriously damaged the bodies of many old and weak, so they hope to have a place to recuperate."

"Quiet waters?" Lawrence frowned first, then looked at the artificial lake filled with seawater in the resort. "Can you tell me about how many old and weak people need to rest? If there are few people, I think the artificial lake not far from this place should be able to provide you with rest."

"I think that artificial lake is enough." Flower Fin bowed to Lawrence again and said, "

They just told me that the number of people who need to be recuperated is about 700-800 people. The size of the artificial lake is enough to allow all our wounded and some of the nursing staff to enter there. On behalf of the loca people here, thank you for your help. Now allow me to retire, I need to help my people to establish order here for the time being. "

"Your Excellency, our command center has successfully retreated." After Huafin led the people to retreat, Lawrence returned to the cellar just now, but unlike the busy scene just now, the cellar has returned to its original appearance at this time , only a young officer is waiting for him here.

"Your puppet flew out after the small-scale battle. It said that it was going to the battlefield to find some important things. When it comes back, it will naturally join our No. 2 command center."

"Command Center No. 2? Well, let's go there now." Lawrence nodded as he spoke, and followed the staff officer out of the resort.

It's just that they didn't go all the way down the road leading to the city. Instead, they turned left and passed through a bush, then pushed open a door disguised as a rock and entered a road completely illuminated by oil lamps. in the tunnel.

"It feels much better here than I thought before." Lawrence said, looking at the smooth side under his feet and the cave wall that had obviously been renovated, "I heard you say that this is a backup temporary shelter. At that time, I thought this place was just a natural cave, but I didn't expect you to repair it so well."

"This is one of the most important national defense projects on our island. In fact, the construction of this cave has already begun when the White Eagle Federation began to build this island." The staff officer sent by the National Guard on the island in front turned sideways. said the face.

"It's just that this place was only used as a temporary warehouse near the shore in case of a full-scale attack. We never thought that the enemy would choose this place to attack."