After ending the contact with the little doll, Lawrence did not stop, but came to a semi-underground building in the middle of the peninsula. The height of this building above the ground was only about a person's waist, and it was basically covered by a lot of people.
It is wrapped in vine-like plants, and there is an earth wall blocking the entrance. It is basically difficult to find this place if you don't know it in advance.
This building is one of the core buildings built on the mountain after Lawrence and the others came here. In addition to the short-range telegraph assigned to the island, they also moved a long-range telegraph from the ship, so it can serve as a link to the urban area.
The main position, those warships and armed merchant ships temporarily operated by the navy, and the functions of Sauer Island.
Therefore, under this circumstance, this building is naturally under key protection. In addition to using a small number of allocated steel plates for reinforcement, there are also more than two meters of heavy civil structure and low-rise buildings outside the temporary communication station.
shape.
Even in order to prevent this place from being discovered by the sahuagins, they specifically asked the priests of the Agricultural Church to take time to temporarily cultivate a batch of plants, disguise the building as a small ordinary hill, and strictly enforce light control.
For those telegraph machines, the most difficult thing to hide is the tall antenna. This is especially true for the ones used for long-distance communications. Fortunately, this small peninsula was only built on the top of the peninsula before.
Apart from a fortress, everything else remains original, so there are many trees in this area.
So Lawrence and the others briefly thought about it and decided to disguise the communication tower as trees and mix them in the surrounding woods. This would basically ensure sufficient concealment in the battle against the fishmen. Anyway, for this war,
It is basically impossible for fishmen without radio detection equipment to find this place.
"Now send a report to the city, saying that our department has discovered that the large force of sahuagins is still more than 30 kilometers away from our island. If there are no accidents, they will meet with us in three hours.
The outer defense line collides——"
After entering the communications room, Lawrence quickly sent the intelligence detected by Nora to the main position in the city through the telegraph operator on duty. Then he began to wait for a call back from the headquarters.
Ten minutes later, Lawrence received an order from the port requiring all armed personnel to enter the position. So under Lawrence's order, a hand-operated siren placed at the highest point of the peninsula was quickly sounded. Then the alarm located in the barracks tent
The soldiers quickly packed their equipment and began to enter the fighting position.
Because of everyone's many previous drills and the mixing of different races, the troops on the peninsula arrived at their respective combat positions in a short time with extremely scarce lights under blackout conditions.
In comparison, the direction of the main position in the port area seemed a lot chaotic. Even standing in the observation post on the top of the small mountain range on the peninsula, Lawrence could see the somewhat messy lights in the direction of the port city and the noisy sounds of personnel and weapons being mobilized.
,
At the same time, the logistics office was also busy. Lawrence had prepared two field cooking trucks and started cooking breakfast with all his strength. Considering that the sahuagin attack was likely to last for a long time, Lawrence felt that this
It is best for everyone to have a full breakfast first, so as not to reduce their combat effectiveness due to hunger during the battle.
"Prepare meal number two. Pour in the floss and cheese we brought before, and remember to add more spices." Because Nora was monitoring the sahuagin army in real time, Lawrence seemed to be relatively calm in the battle arrangements.
After inspecting the front line, he came to the cooking squad to inspect.
Lawrence's request is very normal, because according to tradition, everyone must eat a good meal before going to the battlefield. Not to mention that the sahuagin attack often starts with a climax, so if he does not consume enough calories at one time, he will still
I'm really worried that everyone won't be able to hold on under the premise of high-intensity activities.
If it were wartime, Lawrence and the others would make a large amount of high-calorie paste and send it to the front line to save time on meals. They might even consider letting the soldiers eat the compressed biscuits they carry with them. But considering that it is still far from the battle,
It's about three hours, so everyone has enough time to have a formal breakfast.
Yes, you read that right, there are already compressed biscuits in this era. It has not been that difficult to make since the invention of the steam engine. It is different from the compressed biscuits purchased by the general military that only have flour, water, salt and vegetable oil.
Lawrence, who chose to be an elite soldier, added meat floss, dried fruit and a large amount of milk powder to the compressed biscuits distributed to the army.
According to the conclusions of the soldiers who tried it before, this simple version of compressed biscuits in Lawrence's eyes tastes very good and is very filling. The only disadvantage is that it is not suitable for long-term consumption due to the lack of vitamins and unbalanced nutrition.
Otherwise, it may lead to a series of negative consequences caused by vitamin deficiency.
Fortunately, the compressed biscuits used as emergency food are only used for a short period of time during combat, so the problem is not too big.
After all, compared with the logistics food that most human armed ordinary soldiers only have dry flour bread and pickle and salty broth, Lawrence's logistics, which is equivalent to the level of World War I, is enough to be called a luxury, at least it is not as luxurious as
Some armies, like the army, can produce a lot of scurvy patients.
As a standard keyboard military expert in his previous life, Lawrence could be said to have a good understanding of various military theories. But the corresponding actual military command level was limited to causing chaos. So now he simply handed over the frontline command tasks to
He left behind those professional officers and focused his energy on boosting morale.
As for boosting morale, nothing can boost morale more than a good meal at this time. Although this island is located in a tropical area and the temperature is not very cold, it is very humid because it is on the seaside.
Considering this reason, Lawrence ordered spicy spices to be added to the high-calorie canned meat and stir-fried vegetables to remove moisture.
In addition, Lawrence also used the black tea he carried to boil several large pots of tea and sent them to the position along with bread, stir-fry vegetables and thick soup. In fierce battles, these foods may overload the stomach and be detrimental to combat, but
Now we still have more than two hours, which is enough for everyone to digest.
Sure enough, after this batch of hot food was delivered to each fighting position, the morale of the soldiers was greatly improved. Especially now that many people are a little groggy because they just woke up from sleep, these hot food helped them very much.
Let them wake up quickly.
After eating, they began to conduct the last weapons inspection before the war under the arrangements of the officers. At the same time, they began to take a temporary break to recharge their batteries.
After inspection, Lawrence found that the people under his command were in very good condition. After all, this world is not the stable world that Lawrence had in his previous life. If you leave a certain distance from the settlement of civilized creatures, you will encounter various deadly enemies. Therefore,
Basically everyone present has war experience against those savage creatures, and overall morale is relatively high.
This is true even for armies like ratmen and tauren that have many temporarily recruited militias. Unlike humans, the environment they live in forces them to be in a state of war all the time. In terms of combat experience, it may even exceed Lauren's men.
That professional soldier.
Because among this group of professional soldiers, only veterans have experienced previous large-scale battles, while the new recruits, apart from training, have only participated in the mission of encircling and suppressing scattered goblins.
The next step was to wait, so Lawrence and Saphire entered the observation station at the highest point on the island and began to observe the surrounding movements, and sent the contents of Nora's observations to the main position via telegraph every 15 minutes.