In the following period, the entire Sauer Island entered into a booming construction. In addition to the underwater construction of the newly arrived Loka fishmen, whether it was several armed farms in the upper reaches of the river or the alpine meadows under the Blue Mountains,
All construction plans were advanced very smoothly, and the first batch of fortifications were successfully built as planned.
Of course, during this process, the goblins in the morning launched many counterattacks against these fortresses, and the island could only maintain a defensive state because Lawrence had taken away most of the mobile troops. However, because there were enough defenses
and weapons, so the island still successfully defended the newly built fortifications.
Due to the limited ecological carrying capacity of the jungle area, there were not many goblins attacking the two armed farms placed by humans in the upper reaches of the river.
So before Lawrence and the others returned, these goblins, which totaled less than 2,000, were quickly wiped out under the double-faced attack of those fortresses and the nearby tauren who came to support them.
Unlike the tauren who only had animal skins and stone tools in the past, now even the tauren militia left behind in the tribe are armed with leather armor inlaid with steel sheets, steel weapons, and firearms and grenades specially made for them.
The combat effectiveness is completely different from before.
When they relied on their familiarity with the surrounding jungle to touch the side of the goblin camp and launched a surprise attack at the moment when the goblins attacked the fortress. After two days of storming, they did not even touch the wall of the fortress. The goblin coalition collapsed immediately, even if
The number of tauren is only 1/5 of theirs.
After taking a while to annihilate the goblins here, the Tauren tribe dispatched more than 200 people and more than 100 human guards to rush to the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass. When they took an armed barge and entered the place along the river
After the fortress, the garrison of the fortress suddenly increased to 670 people.
Although it is said that the goblins who attacked this fortress were a coalition organized by the goblin tribe on the meadow and some goblins in the jungle below the mountain, there were about 50,000 people, and there were also some tamed beasts and nearby ones.
Thousands of bugbears can be regarded as the most powerful fighting force that the goblins on the island can gather in a short period of time.
However, because their equipment was too crude and humans cleverly used the terrain to build extremely strong fortresses and prepared powerful firepower, after facing the island's defenders who were only about 1/10 of themselves and attacking for several days, this group of goblins
In addition to leaving behind four to five thousand corpses, they did not even clear the wooden obstacles on the outermost edge of the fortress.
The gathering of these goblins also gave Lawrence and the others an excellent opportunity. If they were eliminated all at once, it would be much easier to develop the meadow in the future. At least in the first phase of their plan.
When implemented, it can basically avoid the interference of goblins.
Therefore, while Lawrence was arranging the next work of the Loka fishmen, the returning troops immediately devoted themselves to the encirclement and suppression of the goblins after three days of rest.
Because all the strongholds prepared by Lawrence were placed along the river, the military was able to quickly mobilize troops by towing barges with armed motorboats.
Obviously, the goblins who have never had much water power in history did not think of Lawrence's move at all. When the goblins besieged those strongholds before, they also tried to use their own methods when they found that there were fewer defenders on the water side of the fortress.
The canoes or wooden boats attacked through the water, but the result can be said to be a complete failure.
Some of the rafts tied with straw ropes were scattered into a lot of broken wood as soon as they were launched into the water under the impact of the current. The goblins on them naturally fell into the water. Because they are not very good at swimming, except for a few
Some of them flopped ashore, but most of them drowned in the river.
The goblins whose boats had no problems did not fare much better. As they were not good at maneuvering boats, it was difficult for them to maintain their direction and speed in the river. Therefore, they became targets on the unobstructed river.
As long as the humans guarding the fortress kill one or two goblins paddling desperately, the boat they are riding in will soon be overturned due to the change in propulsion force, and then the river water will be able to help the humans complete the rest.
things.
As a result, the goblins gave up the coordinated attack from the river and instead attacked the human defenses from the front. Later, they stayed away from the river bank because of the shooting of the ships coming to supply. In this case, they
There was no timely feedback to the army coming from the river.
So when a large number of cannons on ships were shooting at the river bank and covering the landing army's attack, the goblins were just waking up from their dreams and organized to attack the human landing site. Unfortunately, by this time they were already too late, and the supporting army had already succeeded.
We boarded the river bank and established a crude but comprehensive front-line starting position.
As a recognized cancer of the civilized world, goblins have been entangled with humans for thousands of years without being completely solved. This means that they still have some specialties. For example, they have strong environmental adaptability, and they have otherworldly reproductive capabilities.
, they make up for their lack of strength through numbers, just like molas.
For humans and other intelligent races, these guys who hide in the wilderness, can breed a large group of people in a short period of time, and have a certain level of civilization are really a tough group of enemies.
Not to mention that those wilderness areas can erase the advantages of human beings in terms of weapons and strength. Just the fact that you can’t make money by killing them is enough to make everyone lose interest in fighting them. According to a certain boss,
The profit from killing a goblin is not even worth the bullets that killed it.
But when they ended their dispersion and walked out of the jungle, all their advantages disappeared in an instant. Their weak strength and crude weapons made them like living targets on the battlefield. They could often kill two people after one shell dropped.
Thirty goblins huddled together.
Because the goblins had an absolute numerical advantage at the beginning, more than 3,000 goblins, inspired by the magic of shamans and tribal elders as well as some special mushroom powders, rushed directly to the landing site, trying to kill only them 1/
Less than 10 human support troops rushed down the river.
However, when this group of goblins rushed to a place about 20 meters away from the human position and prepared to throw their javelins, the reinforcements hiding behind a series of temporary bunkers made of wooden boards and the gunboats on the river immediately launched all their own firepower.
As rows of rifle bullets, mortar shells, and the Gatling bullets fired by several tauren held in their hands swept across the front of the position, the goblins were knocked down in pieces by various ammunition like wheat.
On the ground.
"Keep moving!" After only seven or eight minutes, this battle, or rather this massacre, ended. The goblin army of more than 3,000 people was completely wiped out. Then the reinforcements directly broke through the siege defense line outside the goblin.
They entered the fortress that had been besieged for nearly half a month.
The arrival of the reinforcements once again boosted the morale of the defenders in the fortress. Especially this batch of reinforcements and the previous telegram confirmed that the main mobile force from the previous expedition had returned, and a thorough general attack would soon be launched to clear these sieges
of enemies.
For the defenders of a fortress under heavy enemy siege, weapons, men, food and water are all important, but most important is communication with the outside world and the hope that communication contains.
Fortunately, the defenders on Lawrence's side are very good in this regard. In some ways, they are even better than the goblins besieging the fortress outside.