After the brief mobilization, nearly two thousand sahuagins took off their disguises and revealed their original appearance. Then they gathered with the loka fish who had taken out weapons and headed towards the back of the resort, the only place that could go deep inland.
They rushed through the passage. While charging, they also threw some kind of flammable objects at the resort buildings in an attempt to cause chaos.
"I think our side is the real main direction of attack. Quickly send a telegram to the general headquarters to request preparations." Looking at the fire and yellow smoke rising from the resort's buildings, Lawrence suddenly realized that this time
The position where you attack is the direction of the opponent's main attack.
After all, sahuagin are a group of aquatic creatures. Unless they had planned ahead and made full preparations, they would never be able to carry so many fire starters with them.
To carry so many fire starters and still want to hide them from Lawrence, the resources they need to use are definitely not small. If it is just to attract Lawrence's attention, the other party does not need to spend such a large amount of money. Therefore, Lawrence immediately judged
The bay you are facing is the direction of the opponent's main attack.
"Those murlocs are attacking us." A sentry shouted. After hearing this, Lawrence immediately lowered his head and looked down the cliff.
As a result, I saw that some of the group of Loka fishmen who had just swam towards the entrance of the bay to the sea also removed their disguises and returned to their original sahuagin appearance. They rushed ashore and cut off the plank road originally built on the cliff.
The temporary defenses built with sandbags and wooden planks were built at the bay entrance platform, which had been deserted due to previous troop deployments.
Seeing this, the soldiers on the cliff began to try to shoot and throw bombs at the fishmen. Unfortunately, the mountain was rugged. So after a rough fight, they found that most of the bullets and cannonballs fell into the water.
It was unable to cause much damage to the sahuagin who washed ashore in the first wave.
Only some of the Loka fishmen who had not yet had time to come ashore were killed and severely injured by this firepower.
However, these attacks seemed to have reminded the sahuagin. After consolidating their occupied area, this murloc army of more than 1,000 people extracted nearly 200 elite sahuagin using various tools such as activation ropes.
A type of magic began to climb all the way up the mountain, seemingly to clear the defenders on the two cliffs and completely open the way into the harbor from the outer sea.
"As expected, they are all elites." Lawrence also admired from the bottom of his heart as he watched the four-armed sahuagin nobles and some sahuagin who were clearly extraordinary warriors climbing up along the rope.
After all, these guys with webbed hands and feet are actually not very suitable for fighting ashore from all angles, let alone climbing those cliffs along the rope. But these guys below really rely on themselves
With his physical strength, he quickly climbed up to the top of the cliff.
Unfortunately, this nearly vertical rock wall is too advantageous for the defending side. Dozens of rat-man precision shooters arranged around set up a firepower net. They used the expensive magic rifles in their hands with enchanted bullets.
He easily knocked down the sahuagins who were hanging in the air by ropes and had nowhere to hide.
At the same time, the six cannons previously deployed on the cliff also began to roar. One after another, the cannonballs fell into the sea water and blew up the Loka fishmen who had not had time to land into pieces.
Although this group of sahuagins suffered a setback in the battle at the entrance to the sea side of the bay, the march to the coastline on the other side of the bay went surprisingly smoothly. Because Lawrence had previously sent most of the troops originally stationed there.
Because of the transfer, this mixed fish-men army did not encounter resistance until they reached the exit of the entire harbor.
The one who carried out the blocking battle was a mounted infantry regiment on the island. Although it was called a regiment, due to the general chaos in the colonies, the entire regiment only had more than 200 people. Therefore, when faced with the overwhelming force of more than 10,000 murlocs, they
All you can do now is try your best to protect yourself and delay.
Fortunately, this cavalry is considered an elite unit on the island, so not only does everyone have a rifle and a revolver, the entire army is also equipped with four 60mm light mortars produced by Lawrence's Bofors factory. More importantly,
It was because they knew Lawrence and their plans in advance and had enough discipline to carry out the mission.
Therefore, after the grain transport team left the road, they built a lot of fortifications under the cover of the resort buildings in the harbor and planted a batch of explosives on the roadside.
Therefore, this defense line, which is only 30 meters wide at the narrowest point of the road, failed to be captured by the fishermen in several assaults. Instead, the open space in front of the position was covered with their own corpses. Even if they were at the front during these charges,
They were just some Loka cannon fodder, but the huge disparity in numbers between the two sides was enough to show how brave and adept this group of mounted infantry was.
However, as the sahuagin, especially those sahuagin extraordinary people in the team, quickly moved forward, the battlefield situation immediately changed. Because those extraordinary people used stone shaping scrolls to cast spells on both sides of the road to let the entrance
The stone walls on both sides have changed, so that the passage that was only 30 meters wide suddenly expanded to 50 meters.
After seeing this scene, the officers who realized that they could not hold on at all immediately mounted their horses and rushed towards the inland area with the soldiers. Before retreating, the leading officer detonated all the remaining explosives in front of the previously deployed positions.
Killed nearly a thousand murlocs who swarmed up in dense formation after seeing the mountain pass widen.
"——Damn it, chase!" After seeing this, the one who was commanding was a four-armed sahuagin noble whose eyes were cracked. Because everyone just thought it was the last blow, many of the troops sent were elite.
The sahuagin.
As a result, the vanguard of this group of sahuagins lost more than 300 people in this big explosion, which was nearly 1/5 of the number of sahuagins who launched the attack deep into the island.
"Charge according to the original plan and don't chase those cavalry." Just when the fish crowd was about to follow the group of human cavalry who retreated along the side path of the main road and chase them, a sahuahua who was the commander-in-chief of this operation
The voice of the human priest rang in their ears.
"Your Excellency, our loss this time -" After hearing this, the four-armed sahuagin nobleman who was the vanguard commander turned his head and said to the sahuagin priest who came from behind with an expression of disbelief.
However, before he could finish his words, he was slapped back by the sahuagin priest.
"Stupid, don't forget why we came here this time?" the sahuagin priest said, tapping the cane in his hand vigorously.
"Do you think it's only your subordinates who are losing? All of us are losing. But if we can't seize key points on this road as soon as possible to open a channel for follow-up troops and block the continuous flow of human reinforcements, then what we have paid now will
All the sacrifices made would be meaningless.”
"Also, I hope you can change your mind and carry out the next actions exactly according to the plan. Don't just think about retaining your own strength. Otherwise, I don't mind changing a lord for Ziya Trench." After saying this, the sand man
The Chinese fishman priest stared angrily at the fishman noble who almost did something bad, and then walked forward with the large army.
It is a pity that this army did not go very far after breaking through this key point before hitting a stronger line of defense: the White Eagle Federal Standard Light Infantry Battalion that was previously transferred from the resort was at the exit of this mountain road.
Defensive positions were deployed everywhere.
Judging from the positions composed of trenches, bunkers, barbed wire and a series of fortifications, this army is not the kind of army that rushes to fight in a hurry, but has been prepared in this place in advance.
After discovering this, the morale of the murlocs suddenly dropped, because now they did not seem to have launched a successful raid, but instead seemed to have fallen into a trap. But at this time, from the harbor,
The sound of artillery fire also stopped.
"The landing point is now under our control, and powerful reinforcements will arrive soon. So we can win as long as we charge forward." The sahuagin priest immediately waved his cane to boost morale. "Charge, don't be afraid of sacrifice.
Our gods are watching over us!”
Hearing what he said, the low morale of the fish people became high again. Then they formed a yellow crowd and rushed forward against the intensive firepower of the human army in front.