Under normal circumstances, in a siege of a city, the besieging side with more people will have a greater advantage both materially and psychologically. Because according to tradition, the attacking side often takes the initiative in the war. Therefore, it is natural to
Can obtain more resources than the defending side.
However, the situation during the siege of the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass was exactly the opposite. Goblins, especially those who live in tropical rainforests, basically do not store food.
For this kind of creature that can eat almost anything, the food that can be found in the surrounding woods is enough to sustain their lives, and there is no need to store food at all.
But problems suddenly arose as this group of goblins gathered together and launched a siege on the fortress. In the first day or two, they were able to rely on the small amount of food they carried with them and obtain food through hunting and gathering in the surroundings.
But just a few days later, there were serious problems with the food supply.
After all, the carrying capacity of these wild tropical rainforests is still limited. If it is just for a few surrounding tribes with a total of one or two thousand people, they can barely supply it, but an army of tens of thousands will definitely be out of the question. So after the siege began, on the first
Within three days, the goblins had to send a large number of manpower to farther places to collect supplies.
As a result, this group of goblins plundered all available materials around them like locusts, and at the same time caused almost devastating damage to the surrounding environment.
But even so, the resources in the nearby jungles could not supply this legion for too long, which forced the goblins to send a large number of people to collect resources further away.
Therefore, when the first batch of reinforcements arrived, there were only about 20,000 goblins besieging the city, so many defensive positions could be said to be extremely empty. This is why the supporting army was able to attack from those positions on the side of the attacker at a small cost and at extremely high speed.
The reason for achieving a breakthrough and successfully entering the fortress.
As the defenders, the human side did much better than the goblins in this regard. Not only did the telegraph communication not stop, but also because the besieging goblins had neither water power nor the ability to block the river.
Every few days, ships will come from the direction of New Sauer Port to replace some of the personnel and bring in supplies, so the overall atmosphere of the entire fortress is now good. According to a certain soldier, they can defend the attacking goblins in this fortress.
Until I can't bear it anymore.
This is why Lawrence and the others sent reinforcements into the fortress one day in advance. Cheering for the people in the fortress is only a very secondary reason. The most important reason is that the goblins attacking the city realize that not only will humans not give up on this
If you are in a fortress, you will receive massive reinforcements in a short period of time.
After discovering the human plan, the goblins gathered the people who were scattered around to collect resources just as Lawrence had guessed before, and concentrated all their strength to create a large number of crude weapons and armors to prepare for a battle with the humans.
A large-scale frontal decisive battle.
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Because for the goblins, if they are not willing to fight hard at this time, they will have no choice but to give up the fertile lands they occupy.
After all, the human bunker advance tactics are too restrained from their small-scale attacks. And if they can severely damage the human encouraged troops and pull out the Blue Mountain Pass fortress, then they can stop the human step by step for a long time.
eroding their living space.
Although the goblins are relatively timid, their morale is still very high when they feel that they have an advantage, especially in terms of numbers. And now the army on the island only has a little more than 2,000 people at most even if humans are included. The goblins
Feeling that our side has a 20 times numerical advantage, morale is naturally extremely high.
After learning that the reinforcements would arrive at noon tomorrow, the fortress immediately started harassing shooting outside the city in shifts. Those infrequent but continuous shells and bullets immediately annoyed the goblins.
Although not many people were killed by each cannonball or bullet, the practice of randomly selecting one or a group of lucky goblins and asking them to eat bullets or cannonballs kept the goblins mentally tense.
The guards of the fortress did not carry out such an attack before because they considered their own manpower shortage. If these goblins tried to do this to them, it would be much more difficult for them to defend the fortress. But now, whatever
As human reinforcements are about to arrive, the goblins can only endure these casualties silently.
Because if you can't bear it and attack the human fortress at this time, the situation is likely to become that your side will take over the dilapidated fortress after paying heavy casualties and watch the fortress defenders leave by boat. Then early the next morning
Use the broken and exhausted army to face the main human army.
However, this approach of only being beaten but not fighting back still greatly damaged the morale of the goblins, so the goblins had to break camp overnight and leave the previously built camp to hide in the woods farther away from the fortress. This directly led to the situation where Lawrence led the troops the next day.
When 1,700 reinforcements landed in a large fleet, it took the goblins longer to react.
"It seems that everyone has done a very good job." Through the telegram, Lawrence already knew about the harassment operation launched by the guards last night. But now when he saw the goblins hurriedly walking out of the queue from the woods, he immediately realized
Last night, the effect of the raid was far better than the best imagined.
"What should we do next, or should we push forward like the previous plan?" Looking at the enemies that were constantly pouring out of the woods, Nora, who was now flying in the air, updated Lawrence on the battlefield in real time through the soul connection.
He asked while looking at the situation. "I see that the other party is leaving the camp now. It feels very chaotic. If we take the initiative to make a surprise attack -"
"It's not appropriate to raid now." Lawrence said after looking at the data sent by Nora for a few seconds in his mind. "Indeed, if we raid at this time, we can directly defeat the goblin army, but then we will probably have to fight with the numbers.
Thousands of goblins are playing hide and seek in the woods."
"Compared to that situation, I really think it would be more appropriate to fight those goblins directly on the frontal battlefield."
"Okay, you're right." Nora nodded after listening to Lawrence's words, then lowered her flying height and used the branches to hide her figure and searched in the direction of the goblin's front and camp. Soon,
She discovered that the goblins had left something to be desired in their formation.
Considering that the performance of bugbears is not much better than that of ordinary goblins when facing those bullets and cannonballs, even because they are larger, they are more likely to become targets of fire on the battlefield. Therefore, except for a few who are better armed,
In addition to bugbears and a few scattered hobgoblins providing bodyguards for the chiefs and priests, most bugbears were sent to the front lines as low-level officers.
In this way, although the goblins walking out of the jungle look impressive, in fact there are not many elite goblin troops inside. The real elite of the goblins are hiding in the camp in the forest, ready to run away at any time. If this
If they launch an attack at the right time, the goblins will definitely disperse in a rush, and then humans will have to engage in a long jungle security war.
Soon, the first group of goblins completed the team and rushed towards the human defense line. The human side, under Lawrence's order, weakened its firepower and even let some goblins rush to a place more than ten meters away from the front of the position.
After seeing this, the morale of the goblins became even higher. In just a few minutes, the goblin teams that had been sorted out one after another began to charge towards the front of the main human army.
As more and more goblins entered the battlefield, they gradually became more orderly from the scattered chaos at the beginning, launching wave after wave of charges like a tide.