After the old shaman on the field finished explaining the history of the Tauren, the field was quiet for a while. Seeing everyone looking a little frustrated, Lawrence immediately encouraged everyone, "I think our action this time will definitely not
Like before, because this time everyone is truly united and no longer fighting alone like before."
"Yes, it is indeed the case." Everyone talked at once. After hearing what Lawrence said, everyone present immediately seemed to be much more energetic. Because everyone realized that the Tauren had many times in the past.
Although failure sounds indeed depressing, since Lawrence and the others landed, the goblins who seemed invincible have been completely defeated like frost under the scorching sun.
After all, times have changed, and gunpowder weapons can easily erase the numerical advantage that the goblins are proud of. At the same time, the large number of tools and weapons brought by humans have also doubled the combat effectiveness of the tauren. Those who are well-dressed
Armored and armed with various weapons, the tauren can easily beat three or four of themselves with bare hands.
For this reason, after Nora proposed to retake the meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountains, the Tauren, although they were hesitant because of their previous failure, quickly decided to join the action. Then everyone began to discuss it.
Details about this operation follow.
After summarizing the previous records of the tauren losing the meadow, they found that there was only one thing in common with the previous failures, which was that they fell into a long guerrilla war. For these tauren, there was no point in gathering together.
There are many ways to carry out production activities, but if they spread out and put into production, they are likely to be submerged by the goblin sea. In this contradiction, the tauren were naturally unable to hold on to the Blue Mountain Meadow and were driven out by the group of goblins.
But since the emergence of silage technology and various disinfection technologies in animal husbandry, the Tauren have been able to turn the original nomadic herding into a combination of nomadic herding and fixed herding. In this case, Lawrence and the others can completely use that method.
The practice of establishing various strongholds and passages on each meadow divides the entire grassland to ensure the safety of each stronghold.
At least based on the level of goblins on this island, it can be said that it is basically impossible to kill a fortified fortress with a large number of gunpowder weapons and personnel with sufficient combat effectiveness. Therefore, as long as the first batch of fortresses are built, this land should be able to
Able to be liberated from goblin rule.
"This alpine meadow obviously has enough water." After determining the general direction of the next action, Nora took out a thin wooden stick from her body and pointed at the hand in front of her that she had woven with silver light.
The stereoscopic projection sand table said, "So I think our first step should not target the entire meadow, but should proceed step by step in a down-to-earth manner."
"It is indeed a good idea to advance step by step. I think the reason why we failed in the past may be that we were a little too impatient." A tauren warrior nodded and said. "But there are many small mountains and small mountains on this meadow.
It’s a small piece of territory divided by a river, so which place should we attack first next?”
"Personally, I think this place is more suitable." Nora said after a quick communication with Lawrence through soul connection, and pointed to a location on the sand table. "This place is called Blue Mountain Pass, which is where we enter the grassland.
It is the only way to pass through Dian, and the waterhole next to it, as one of the important sources of the river that connects the hilly area and New Sauerport, can not only provide water for our stronghold, but also facilitate the transportation of materials."
What Nora didn't say is that if the pond continues to move upstream, although the river will still exist, due to the terrain and huge drop, the river here is completely different from the river downstream. Not only is the river narrow, the water flow is turbulent, but there are also
With a large amount of stone, there is no way to develop shipping.
Therefore, even if it is just for transportation convenience, a strong material transfer center needs to be established here. However, considering that it is difficult for a single fortress to hold on for a long time, of course Lawrence and his team's first phase of the project cannot be just like this.
It is located in a military fortress, but covers a lot of meadow area.
The biggest trouble with this meadow is that although it is called a meadow, 3/4 of the area is forest, and only 1/4 is grassland. The biggest problem that the tauren encountered before was that although they could easily kill them in the grassland
Goblin tribes on the grassland, but will those goblins flee to the mountains to hide and connect? Then they will gather in huge numbers and swamp the tauren tribes who later came to develop animal husbandry on the grassland.
Therefore, their first goal this time is to use the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass as the main fortress and clear out two hundred square kilometers? That is, 1/5 of the entire land as the first step of development.
What is different about this meadow as a whole is that the grassland area of these two hundred square kilometers occupies more than 130 square kilometers? It is almost half of the grassland area of the entire meadow? It can be regarded as the most essential part of the meadow.
After all, the entire alpine meadow is distributed along the Blue Mountains, so the terrain is naturally more complex the higher the altitude. The lower the altitude, the flatter the terrain. And Lawrence and the others’ plan this time is to occupy this alpine meadow.
The only large piece of flat land is to capture the maximum benefit while spending the least possible resources.
As everyone discussed, they decided to build 18 armed settlements using local wood and stone in the meadow, except for the transit center at the mountain pass. In addition, there will be another 12 outposts.
and towers were built on the edge of the land to monitor the surrounding situation.
"Except for the lack of manpower, this plan is perfect." After formulating the plan, both the humans and the tauren said how much power they could mobilize. It turned out that the two sides combined could only mobilize a total of 200 professional armed personnel, including 120 humans.
, there are 50 tauren, which cannot even fill half of the planned sentry towers, let alone those armed settlements.
If they act in full accordance with the plan, they will station a 50-man troop at each armed settlement? 30 troops will be stationed at each outpost. 200 troops will be stationed at the Blue Mountain Pass Fortress, plus five patrol teams each
30 people. A total of 1,610 people? And this is obviously far more than the island can bear.
Considering that the regular army currently in Lawrence's hands only has 1,200 infantry, 50 cavalry, 300 guards, 150 garrison troops scattered in various important areas, and a navy of more than 800 people. Therefore, it is simply impossible to spare more than 1,600 people to station in the
On this meadow, what he didn't expect was that the tauren had even fewer armed forces.
"Actually? It's enough to leave five or six people in each armed colony." A tauren shaman said. "Your Excellency, Lord? You have to know that even if we tauren are ordinary people, as long as we can be equipped with insufficient weapons,
You can become a warrior. So those fortresses only need some professional soldiers as guidance."
"He is right." A human officer who was previously posted here to teach the Tauren how to use new gunpowder weapons said. "The same is true on the human side. In addition to the new immigrants who followed you across the sea, most of the local veterans
Life before immigration was full of constant battles. In fact, after the militia training organized by you, I can assure you that the adult people on the island can be used as militiamen with strong combat effectiveness."
As a pioneer lord, especially one with a military factory, Lawrence naturally spared no expense in training his subjects. Although most people still use old-fashioned flash cap muzzle-loading guns due to cost issues,
At least it can be ensured that everyone is proficient in using firearms, and at least their combat effectiveness in the fortress is no less than that of ordinary soldiers.