After waiting for three days, Lawrence and the others finally arrived at the fully loaded ships that had returned from the battle against the sahuagin. The reason for the delay was that after destroying the opponent's main force and most of the living forces, they used this
Chance spent some time destroying those settlements using magic and explosives.
According to the report of the captain of the Enterprise, during this operation, we destroyed a sahuagin city, eleven sahuagin towns, and more than thirty sahuagin villages. It can be said that the previous one
The forces under the sahuagin prince took advantage of this battle and were wiped out in a short time.
During this process, the subordinates who originally belonged to the sahuagin royal court and two other princes had some small-scale conflicts with this human fleet. However, after the conflict, the sahuagin became quite unusually proactive.
We gave in, so everyone did not encounter any big difficulties in the next actions.
Lawrence felt that this might be because the prince and the forces under his command were declared blasphemers, so even friendly forces in the same kingdom were unwilling to do something that might cause misunderstandings with their own gods at this time. Otherwise,
, with the character of the sahuagin, this war can still be fought.
As for the human side, they were planning to harvest the spoils, so they did not continue to pursue the sahuagin after seeing the retreat. Therefore, with both sides choosing to give in, the salvage could be said to have been extremely peaceful in the past few days, until the humans left.
The sahuagin people rushed over to grab the territory in a hurry.
"What are our casualties?" Lawrence was the first to ask after listening to the captain's general introduction to the battle situation. "I heard on the phone that the sahuagins launched a short but intense night battle on the first night of the pursuit.
We attacked, and even used the few remaining giant sea beasts to sink a warship. In this case, what is the situation of our three ships?"
"Only five or six people were injured, but one rat warrior lost his left leg below the knee while fighting the sahuagin. Considering the situation that night, this is already pretty good," said the captain of the Enterprise.
"As far as I know, the sunk warship lost half its men."
From the following description of the captain, Lawrence finally figured out what happened that night. Although he had sent a telegram to everyone to be more vigilant, because the ships came from multiple forces, there was only one ship that night.
The regular troops on the island, the Navy of the Republic of New Zealand, and Lawrence and others maintained the highest alert status.
As a result, when the sahuagin gathered the few remaining magic scrolls to cover their elites in launching a surprise attack, they attacked in the first round the armed merchant ships assembled by various forces on the island that had gathered together at night for unknown reasons.
That group of warships.
Although the rat people raised the alarm in time, some ships were still directly destroyed because the ship crews were not prepared at all and there was no one at their posts.
And this attack also caused the unprepared armed merchant ships to become completely chaotic. They were scurrying around on the sea, and even affected the formation of the warships. Fortunately, the federal navy directly used artillery and extraordinary people to execute the battlefield
Discipline was able to calm down the riot in a short period of time, and then organized everyone to completely annihilate this group of sahuagin.
However, due to the initial chaos, many elite sahuagins took this opportunity to climb onto the deck and engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with us. Fortunately, our three boats had been hovering outside the team because they were fast boats.
At the same time, due to the high level of alert, the boiler was kept at high pressure, so the ship was accelerated immediately and threw away most of the pursuers.
"Thanks to your warning in advance, we were able to respond correctly as soon as possible." The captain looked at Lawrence and said seriously. "During the attack that night, it was obvious that the sahuagins who were able to climb onto the deck of our ship were
There are a lot fewer than those on other ships, but correspondingly, the sahuagin who can come up are all elite."
"Our losses mainly occurred at this time. Facing the extraordinary close combat of the sahuagin people, it is basically difficult for ordinary sailors to defeat them. The only good thing is that before departure, each ship had a weapon made of bull heads.
The elite were composed of humans, rat-men, and our human extraordinary beings, so they quickly blocked those sahuagins."
"After all the sahuagin groups were wiped out, we used the hedgehog bombs installed in advance on the ship and cooperated with other ships to launch an attack on the sahuagin army, successfully wiping out the group of sahuagins in a short time.
Chinese fish people." The captain finally concluded.
"At least after experiencing this war, I think there should be some permanent elite teams and extraordinary beings on the ship. Because the extraordinary beings among the enemy are likely to launch an attack under certain circumstances. If there is no targeted force, it is easy to
Suffered serious losses. For example, an armed merchant ship that went out this time was killed by several sahuagin nobles and nearly half of the people on board——"
"Yes, you are right. This is indeed the case. After we return, we need to consider setting up an elite team stationed on warships." After hearing what the captain said, Lawrence nodded thoughtfully. Indeed,
The extraordinary beings unique to this world will bring some unexpected variables to the war.
It's just that because of certain traditions related to extraordinary beings in this world, other navies often only temporarily use extraordinary beings to strengthen the force on warships before war. Lawrence, on the other hand, did not use it for a while due to some habits in his previous life.
I never thought of these things.
But now that he mentioned it, Lawrence suddenly thought that it was imperative to organize a specialized team.
Fortunately, with the development of Sauer Island, the strength of this territory has gradually been strengthened, so not only has there been enough money to purchase some extraordinary items, but it has also begun to attract some low-level extraordinary people to immigrate to this island. Therefore, such an organization has been formed.
It can be said that the foundation for an army is already in place.
Just as Lawrence was thinking about how to organize such an army, Saphire read the voyage diary that the captain handed her before, and then showed a very shocked expression. "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, this is what is in the voyage diary."
Are the numbers real? Did we really seize close to $13.5 million in federal wealth?"
It is normal for Saifei to be so surprised, because the interest-free loan Lawrence received from the emperor after receiving the title was only equivalent to 10 million federal dollars, and including the various supplies, it was barely close to 12 million.
Under such circumstances, she naturally felt a little unbelievable when she heard the amount seized.
"Of course it's true. Those trophies filled almost every inch of free space in the cabin of our warship." The captain of the Enterprise showed a proud look on his face.
"Because we achieved an extremely brilliant victory before, this time we successfully evacuated most of the wealth in a sahuagin city and its subordinate territories, so everyone expected that we would gain so much.
among.”
You must know that what they obtained this time was the wealth accumulated by a sahuagin kingdom for hundreds of years. Even if this wealth is not the entire wealth of the kingdom, it is enough for all human parties as the victors of the war to gain a sum of money.
A trophy that is enough to satisfy most people.
"It's great to have so much money." Nora said next to her at this time. "At least in my opinion, with this money, we will be able to advance several projects at the same time, instead of being limited by resources like now.
Due to the tension, many construction projects had to be postponed, and even affected the development speed of the entire island."