Time in the conference room seemed to have frozen, and only the sound of Lawrence flipping through the torn document was left. During the inspection, he found that the document looked closer to someone's handwriting than a file.
"Okay, I think I know what this is all about." After reading the note, Lawrence put it down and said to the retainers sitting on both sides of the long table. "I have it figured out now.
It explains why those people established towns here twice and abandoned them twice.”
In fact, the reason is very simple. This land is a relatively independent land surrounded by the sea, mountains and rivers. From a certain perspective, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. But the problem now is that there is a mountain in that mountainous area.
The entire huge cave is still occupied by a group of goblins.
In the previous several explorations, the pioneers' armed forces successfully killed all the enemies on the plains. However, they had no way to deal with the goblins hiding in the mountains. After all, for most extraordinary beings, those who are relatively
It is too difficult to blow up mountains with a height of about 1,000 meters.
It is almost a nightmare for humans to get into those two-meter-high, one-meter-and-a-half-meter-wide tunnels to fight goblins. Not to mention dodging in such a narrow place, even wielding a weapon is very difficult in many places.
Not to mention the darkness, humidity and lack of oxygen that have always plagued the attackers.
Therefore, that group of armed forces only killed 70% to 80% of the goblins and then retreated from here. Because it would cost a lot of money to maintain such an armed force in a place like this. It is obvious to stay here to fight guerrilla warfare with the goblins.
Not a good idea. So they completed the task after clearing the plains, thinking that the colonists could use this period to develop, and they wouldn't have to worry even if there were too many goblins in the future.
However, the reproductive capacity of goblins far exceeds that of humans. Just two or three years after the colonists colonized this land, the previous group of goblins restored their previous numbers, and then launched repeated attacks on human colonies.
attack.
It is obvious that the kind of armed forces that cleared this plain before could not be stationed here for a long time, but relying on militia alone, it is impossible to rely on the output of this place to raise a militia force capable of maintaining the status quo in just two or three years.
.So they had no choice but to leave this land.
"I know that the reason why you are opposed to colonizing this place is because there were previous examples of failure here, and the armed force we have now is not even as powerful as the one we had back then." Lawrence looked at Butler Bayer and said, "
So I have a lot of confidence in choosing Niujiaowan.”
"Listen to me, I'm not the kind of arrogant person. Nor do I think that the power we have is more powerful than those groups of people back then." Seeing Butler Bayer about to stand up and say something, Lawrence interrupted.
He said, "The reason why I have this confidence is because I now have a force in my hand that can specifically deal with this situation."
After speaking, Lawrence took out Fatina's telegram and handed it to the housekeeper and said: "Goblins are just better at fighting in such small caves than humans, but in front of these experts they are far inferior.
Not that he’s good at cave fighting.”
"You have rat friends!" After carefully reading the letter, Butler Bayer raised his head and looked at Lawrence in surprise. "If they are as willing as the letter says, a clan of rat men can come to help.
If you say so, then there should be no problem with the plan to occupy Niujiao Bay."
"Yes, it's indeed no problem." Knight Joseph, who had participated in the civilization expedition and fought bloody battles with all kinds of wilderness races, also nodded in agreement. In his impression, once entering the narrow and dark cave, the heavily armed rat men
Warriors can easily kill five or even ten times their own number of goblins.
No matter the dark environment, various disgusting smells or the simple traps set by the goblins, they can't resist the attack of these rat people who are naturally fond of digging holes and are good at fighting in caves. Correspondingly, if these rat people are
If you occupy the cave and defend it, you can easily defend against thirty to fifty times the goblin attack with the help of the cave and defense.
Therefore, as long as Fatina and the others occupy the caves in the mountains, they can ensure that the previous goblins will return and repeated harassment will no longer occur. At the same time, they can also add some additional defense to the settlements on the plains.
After the problem was solved, everyone present quickly reached an agreement on the location of the first colonial site. Then everyone began to discuss the details of the construction of the colonial site.
When the discussion reached this point, the expressions on Lawrence's and others' faces suddenly relaxed a lot. Because as more and more information was found, everyone found a lot of information about Niujiao Bay that was beneficial to them on those yellow and brittle papers.
.
For example, a town has been built here twice before. Although the buildings on the ground have either disappeared or been destroyed, the drainage pipe network and foundations dug in the town before were not damaged, as were the stone walls.
The same is true for the farmland on the outskirts of the town. After decades of being abandoned in this tropical terrain, the land is naturally abandoned. However, some of the ditches dug before and the foundation of the land that was leveled are still there, which is much better than directly in the
It is much easier to open up land in the tropical rainforest. Otherwise, just cutting down trees, digging tree roots, and leveling the land can tire people to death.
By the time everyone was almost done planning the first territory to be opened up on the map, they had also completed a long voyage of more than three months and approached the island named New Sauer.
In the early morning of this day, when everyone had just finished eating canned food and was preparing to further discuss the planning details, the captain knocked on the door and walked into the conference room, telling everyone that they would be arriving at their destination soon. If everything goes well, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon
You can see the coastline of Niujiao Bay.
"It's too late to plan these details ashore." Lawrence said to his group of retainers after watching the captain leave. Even if this world has extraordinary power to help store fresh food and water, overall it will be more comfortable than Lawrence's voyage in his previous life.
But nearly 100 days of sea voyage still made everyone extremely exhausted.
"Let's go to the deck to bask in the sun and rest for half a day. After all, we should set foot on our own territory in the afternoon. It's better for everyone to be more energetic at that time."
Lawrence's call naturally won the support of everyone in the conference room. Even if they knew that what they were about to board was just a small, uninhabited plain, they still hoped to board this piece of their own land in the best condition.
land.
After arriving on the deck, Lawrence saw that the vast sea was still in front of him. The only difference from before was that the sea had become much lighter from the unsettling dark blue a few weeks ago.
The bright sunshine made everyone who saw this scene feel a lot happy.
The small fleet that Lawrence was in was like wild geese on the horizon, moving forward in a straight line on the calm sea, while the sea stretched from his feet forward all the way to the horizon, and then connected with the same blue sky.
together.
Perhaps because of the proximity to the islands and shallow waters, there were many snow-white seabirds hovering behind the ship. From time to time they swooped down and rushed into the white wake left by the ship, picking up a fish and flying into the sky. Lawrence even saw
Not far from the side of the fleet, there were dolphins jumping out of the water, as if they were saying hello to everyone.
At this time, an extremely small protrusion appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky in the distance, and then grew gradually larger. Then the lookout's excited shout came from the observation platform on the mast of the ship. "Here we are, we are here!"