Before the poison gas battle began, Lawrence was most worried about the opponent's magical users changing the wind direction on the battlefield to make the poison gas roll back. Therefore, he not only prepared a large amount of lime water near his own position, but also prepared a large amount of lime water in the settlement area.
A temporary shrine for the Horned Rat was specially excavated under the hill, and the priest of the Horned Rat was asked to be ready to counter the opponent's magic at any time.
But unexpectedly, after the poison gas release started, the goblins' magic was not released in the worst possible state as expected. According to Nora's detective results, this was very different from the mortar range that Lawrence and the others had hidden before.
It's related.
Because Lawrence had previously restricted the range of mortars on the battlefield, these goblin priests placed the altar within the range of those large-caliber mortars without knowing it.
Although the threat of naval guns caused by the presence of warships caused these goblin priests to hide behind some hills with their altars, after all, according to the traditional nature of artillery, these hills that are not very high can indeed block those direct-fire artillery.
attack. But they really didn't expect that the shells of a new type of artillery like mortars would actually fall from the sky.
Therefore, after the first round of artillery fire, those large-caliber mortar shells mixed with explosive bombs and chlorine gas bombs killed the unsuspecting group of priests at the first opportunity. This not only made it possible for the opponent to use divine magic to direct the wind direction
The threat of mutation and poisonous gas rewind is eliminated. At the same time, it is equivalent to completely killing the core command structure of the goblins.
The direct consequence of this was that the goblins immediately fell into chaos, not knowing whether to retreat or continue to move forward. As a result, a group of goblins gathered on a large scale near the first trench.
Naturally, the coalition forces on the human side could not miss such a great opportunity. They quickly concentrated all their firepower and poured it towards the goblins stranded in front of the position.
However, due to the change in wind direction and the density of goblins, many goblins in front of the position still survived the poisonous gas, and then subconsciously rushed towards the human position that was not enveloped by the poisonous gas.
For the soldiers who are now on the second line of defense, they can only see countless khaki goblins rushing out of the yellow-green mist like mudslides and then stumbling toward their positions. Many of them
As he rushed, he clutched his throat and fell to the ground. However, those goblins who were still able to move did not care about their fallen compatriots at all, but stepped on the corpses of their compatriots and rushed towards them crazily.
Faced with such a situation, the soldiers in the second trench were inevitably a little nervous. After all, most of them were just ordinary people and had never faced such a situation. Fortunately, with the whistles and roars of the team captains,
They were still able to mechanically shoot, reload, and shoot again according to the steps of previous training, and the goblins in front of them fell layer by layer.
However, seeing the goblins falling one by one in front of them, even the individual goblins who rushed into the trench were killed by Sephiel and his commando team, without causing much damage. The soldiers' mentality slowly adjusted.
The frequency of shooting and the accuracy of shooting are also getting higher and higher, which further curbs the momentum of the goblin charge.
The smoke caused by the explosion on the battlefield and the chlorine gas released previously filled the entire battlefield, forming a smoke that could not be dissipated for the time being. This made the goblins hidden in the fog appear blurry like monsters in the shadows.
Fortunately, with Nora's aerial reconnaissance, Lawrence can still temporarily grasp the situation on the battlefield. As the killings continue in front of the front, time slowly flows by. At the same time, the chlorine gas prepared previously has been released, and in the sea breeze
Under the breeze, it began to slowly move away from the trench where the humans were.
"Stay on alert and start cleaning the battlefield." When the yellow-green chlorine gas group moved further forward, there were no goblins desperately attacking in front of the trench. There were only some scattered goblins wandering there in despair.
"We are - victorious." The followers who were temporarily recruited on this island looked at the land in front of them in disbelief, covered with goblin corpses. In their memories, although a single
Goblins are not scary, but swarms of goblins can destroy everything in their path like locusts.
What they didn't expect was that the largest group of goblins on this archipelago in decades could be so easily wiped out by themselves, completely surpassing their idea of ​​sacrificing at least half of the people before they came.
"Everything is brought about by the development of productivity." Lawrence said to the senior commanders around him. Now the fog on the battlefield is beginning to dissipate, revealing the corpses of the goblins on the ground that were obscured by the grass-green fog just now.
"If we use magic, we definitely can't afford it if we want to achieve such an effect."
On the front of the position, some militiamen, led by the guard soldiers, hung their bayonets on the muzzles of their guns and crawled out of the trenches to inflict wounds on the goblin corpses on the ground. Most of the main troops began to move to the wings to pursue those who were not in front of the chlorine gas release.
The goblins who escaped with their lives and fled towards the woods.
As the fog slowly dissipated, Nora also gained a comprehensive understanding of the current situation on the battlefield, and then transmitted everything she observed to Lawrence. From this common sight, Lawrence discovered that most of the
All the goblins died on the battlefield, and only five to six thousand scattered goblins escaped from the fire and ran into the woods.
In other words, Lawrence's poison gas battle just now killed more than 90% of the goblins. And the subsequent large-scale pursuit will further eliminate more goblins. This means that if the cave full of goblins can be conquered according to the original plan,
, they can completely settle down in Niujiao Bay, the largest plain along the coast.
At this time, the human army was also organized, and then divided into many small teams and chased into the forest. The most special thing was that in each small team there was a rat man as the leader.
Although the Skaven are on par with the goblins in the jungle, if we take into account the huge gap in organization and equipment between the two sides, it is impossible for the fleeing goblins to attack the mixed pursuit team with the Skaven.
How much harm does it cause.
The pursuit lasted until four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and the last chasing unit retreated from the jungle. After tallying their results, the final results appeared on Lawrence's desk.
Ten minutes later, Lawrence walked out of the door, waved the documents in his hand, and shouted to those standing outside the door: "We have almost wiped out all the invading goblins, there are only about 2,000 and close to 3,000 of them.
The goblins escaped from the battle.
So we won, and now everyone can cheer."
"Long live the count!" After hearing the good news, the people waiting outside the door first paused to digest what Lawrence said, and then shouted almost simultaneously.
What followed was a series of post-war work. The old, weak, women and children began to take out various foods and started cooking them. Most of the young and middle-aged men, except for some patrolling figures, went to the hilly area to cut down the bushes.
A pyre was built and the bodies of the goblins were burned, and then a pit was dug at the chosen place.
After all, these goblins were all dirty and had no idea how many germs they carried with them. So according to the plan, Lawrence gathered them all together, burned them with fire, and then buried them deeply with lime.
That night, everyone held a happy bonfire party on the battlefield to wash away the tense atmosphere that had been caused by the strong enemy's pressure. Because this victory was so important to them and determined the future of everyone present.