There was no ceremony when these eight boats were launched, but they were put into use directly. In addition to these eight boats, the Enterprise and four temporarily rented sailboats were also included in the operation. According to the plan, these boats will carry a
A force of 800 troops initiated the clearing of the mangrove beach and completed the corresponding occupation work.
Of course, these 800 people are definitely not professional soldiers. After all, there are only more than 800,000 people on the entire island. Even if Lawrence can directly and indirectly control the manpower, the total number is only 600,000 at most, which is one thousandth of the conventional number.
In terms of the ratio of soldiers to soldiers, the number of regular soldiers on the entire island can be a little more than this number.
In fact, except for two hundred of these people who are regular troops, the rest are all armed immigrants. According to the plan, they will clear out the organized goblins in the Mangrove Beach area and then the regular troops can evacuate. All the next work,
Things like building fortifications and cleaning up the remaining goblins were all completed by these armed immigrants.
Mangrove Stall is one of the two landing sites that Lawrence and the others booked when they first arrived on the island. The entire plain is about 25 square kilometers, but unlike Niujiao Bay, which Lawrence and the others finally selected, this land is a piece of land with little development potential.
Large land. Because this land is surrounded by hills that are a continuation of the central mountain range of the island, and the land itself also has some salinization.
Because of this, the vegetation on this land is not very lush, and there are very few goblins active here. According to Lawrence's observation results using paper figures, there are only three small goblin tribes on this land, even if they are added
There will be no more than 1,700 scattered goblins. Moreover, due to the sparse local vegetation, these goblins cannot hide and seek with Lawrence's small army. In a face-to-face battle, fully armed humans can easily kill several times their size.
Goblin.
The next battle seemed a bit lackluster. According to the plan, Sephiel and Nora led more than 300 people and 12 mortars from the edge of the flat land to the rear of the tribes, and waited for them to arrive.
.Immediately, all the firepower was unleashed on the goblin tribes.
In an instant, several flowers mixed with steel and flames exploded in the goblin tribe. Then streams of white smoke and flames spread from the impact points of those cannonballs. Because Lawrence used a cannonball this time with white phosphorus inside.
Incendiary explosive bombs, the rapid fire of mortars caused a large number of fire spots in the goblin tribe that were difficult to extinguish, and the poisonous smoke produced when the white phosphorus was ignited completely made these goblins who lacked discipline themselves completely explode.
Since there was not enough vegetation in the area for cover, the goblins quickly discovered Saphiel and his subordinate troops coming up from behind through the gaps in the messy bushes. At first, they felt that Saphiel was coming up from behind.
Phil and his small group of goblins also wanted to break through this seemingly thin defense line and break out into the jungle inside the island. However, their progress was soon blocked by a large number of cannonballs falling from the sky.
Then Saphiel saw that while the group of goblins were forced to disperse due to shelling and bullet fire, he summoned the phantom pony and rushed out with Nora, and then successfully killed the goblin chief and witch doctor in the chaos, allowing
These goblins have completely lost the last part of their commanding power.
Although this method of taking the head of an admiral among thousands of troops sounds very difficult, it is not that difficult when facing the goblins now. Because these goblins are in a mess due to the shooting of artillery and bullets, and
The goblin leaders are also easily recognized with their feathers on their heads and some kind of robes woven from bark and rattan.
Although the feathers are not very bright and the size is small, and the robes are rough, but compared with the ordinary goblins around them who only wear a little textile around their waists or even nothing at all, their appearance is like standing out from the crowd.
It's so obvious that it's easy to spot even if there's smoke around.
More importantly, because the number of these goblin tribes is too small, the strongest among these tribes are not as good as Saphiel in terms of extraordinary level. Not to mention that these wild creatures are basically wild creatures.
In this kind of chaos, there is no match for the professionally trained Saphire.
After losing all their leaders, this group of goblins all respected their instinct and ran away from the artillery and bullets. As a result, they finally rushed to the beach in a mess. When most of the goblins came to the beach
Only when the way was blocked by the sea water did I notice the boats floating on the sea.
But at this time it was too late for them to escape. Under Lawrence's order, all the ships poured their firepower onto this beach. And on this unobstructed beach composed of black gravel, those cannon fire
The destructive power has been greatly enhanced? A large number of stones were blown up and the goblins who had nowhere to hide were hit with broken bones and muscles.
Later, when Lawrence and the others were cleaning up the battlefield, they found that most of the goblins on this plain had been cleared out in this battle. In the end, no more than 100 goblins could escape. And this also means that in the next battle,
Basically no monsters will appear on this land for a period of time.
"I feel much better after moving my hands and feet today. Seriously? It's much better than squatting in the office all day." At this time, Saphiel brought her part of the army to join Lawrence? They just now
This force has been intercepting the escaping goblins, and because of their efforts, the number of fleeing goblins has been reduced from three digits to two digits.
Yes, if there is a chance, I will try my best to take you to participate in this type of action."
"That's good." Saphire smiled after hearing Lawrence pat his chest and assured him, and then he and Lawrence inspected the land under their feet, because she had previously handled various administrative affairs on the island on behalf of Lawrence? So she
The land's most serious problem was soon discovered.
"It seems that the salinization of this land is quite serious." Saifeier picked up a handful of soil from the ground and looked at it carefully and said? At least near the seaside, the degree of salinization of the soil has reached a level that can be seen by the naked eye.
Visible. At least now, Lawrence could see that there were some white salt-alkali particles in the handful of soil in Saifei's hand.
Considering that the local precipitation is not very small, seeing various particles on the ground is very telling. Therefore, under this situation, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and think about it? There was also worry on my face.
But soon, an Agricultural Church priest who came with the team discovered this situation.
"Your Excellency, you don't need to worry too much." The priest just returned here after a brief exploration of the surroundings. He happened to meet Lawrence and Saphire looking at the soil samples with worried faces, so he stepped forward to explain.
, "It only takes a year at most? This land can be turned into land suitable for farming."
"Really? How is that done?" Saifei said with some confusion. "I think the degree of salinization here should be very high? It doesn't seem like it can be improved in a short time."
"What you said makes sense, but the situation here is not entirely the same." When talking about his professional field, the face of the priest of the Agricultural Church immediately showed a rather proud expression. "The salt of this area is
Alkalization is mainly caused by the overall low-lying nature of this area, coupled with the intrusion of seawater from several grooves on the coastline. The difficulty of improving this secondary saline-alkali land is relatively simple."