After hearing the explosion, the wilderness races operating in the surrounding area immediately gathered to see what was going on here.
However, the Jackal team that arrived early found nothing except a pile of their own corpses and some traces of explosions. Only the Harpy who came from behind saw something flying away in the sky not far away.
Several of the harpies who arrived here first tried to chase Nora, but Nora easily shot those harpies out of the air with some silver-green light balls before they could bring themselves into range.
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After all, the carrying capacity of these harpies means that they cannot have sufficient defense while carrying weapons, and not everyone can have magic props. That's why they are like this when facing Nora's magic attack.
Vulnerable.
After those harpies that were chasing too close were shot down, the remaining harpies suddenly slowed down.
As a result, Nora led the three survivors of the reconnaissance force into Pine Valley under the long-distance escort of more than a dozen harpies, and then successfully landed in the open space inside the Pine Valley Field Hospital.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Because Nora had previously notified Lawrence that there were seriously injured people through soul contact, Lawrence specially sent an emergency medical team to wait here.
After the gondola fell to the ground, the medical teams rushed forward immediately and placed the wounded on stretchers, and then carried them into various tents for treatment.
"What happened over there?" In the tent where minor injuries were treated, Major Louis and Lawrence led a group of officers and began to inquire about the situation of this low-level soldier.
"Why are those wilderness races trying so hard to kill you this time? You were able to go out to those areas a few days ago."
"We actually don't quite know what happened." The noncommissioned officer, who was being bandaged by a medical staff, told the officers.
"Everything went well at the beginning of the operation. As usual, we successfully broke through the opponent's outermost mobile sentry defense position. But when we continued to move forward, we unexpectedly found that the enemy patrols in front were getting denser and denser."
"After realizing that the situation was a little different from usual, we immediately prepared to retreat according to the original plan, but what we didn't expect was that when we were retreating halfway, we were suddenly pursued by a group of gnolls led by the dark elf."
"The noses of those beasts are very sharp. Even if we prepared something to avoid enemy detection, they could not hide their whereabouts. If we had not found the cave later, we might not have been able to wait for the support to arrive."
"The encounters of the other two reconnaissance teams should be similar to theirs, but their luck is not as good as theirs." After the master chief, who was a low-level transcendent, told the situation they encountered, Nora also reported.
About what I just discovered during the investigation.
"Near the place where the other two reconnaissance teams disappeared, I found some traces of the battle left on the tree trunks and the ground, as well as - and not too much blood stains."
Having said this, Nora sighed helplessly. The other officers present also lowered their heads. Because they knew that once they were defeated when facing these wilderness races, especially the jackals, the other party would not only take away
All the equipment on his body, and he even eats corpses.
So now, the traces of battles and the warheads found on trees or under the ground that Nora found are basically the last traces left by those brave scouts in this world. This is why Nora said
After that, everyone present fell silent.
"It is now certain that those wilderness races are likely to launch a full-scale attack on us when the sun disappears after sunset today."
As a front-line officer who has been working in the command post, Major Louis quickly judged the wilderness race's next action target based on his own experience.
Lawrence and Nora also nodded after hearing this judgment, because Nora had just discovered several traces of large-scale mobilization of wilderness races through the oblique detection method.
The most important thing is that the little doll was able to rescue those survivors so smoothly just now, probably because the wilderness race's operation has reached the final stage, so there is no need to continue to block the battlefield as before.
"The emergency telegram comes from the general headquarters." At this moment, a young officer suddenly ran out of the tent and said, then he opened the tent curtain and walked in and handed the two telegram newspapers to each other.
Lawrence and Major Louis.
After receiving the telegram, Lawrence discovered that the telegram from the headquarters was to inform each defense point that the wilderness race had begun to attack some transportation lines, so all locations were required to enter a first-level combat readiness state.
"It seems that it has begun." After reading the telegram, Major Louis and Lawrence immediately exchanged a military salute. Then they each began their own preparations.
Soon, several hand-cranked alarms in Pine Valley rang. Then the local troops quickly began to take action.
Just when Lawrence was directing the entire field hospital to move into full swing, he suddenly heard a banging sound coming from outside the tent.
Then through Nora's sight, he saw two steam puppets with white smoke coming out from the outside. Each puppet was equipped with a steam machine gun and a heavy mortar.
"What's going on?" After finishing the matters at hand, Lawrence went out and asked Lieutenant Colonel Chen, the top commander of the combat engineers who was also stationed near the field hospital as the general reserve team during the war. "Why are we here?
Assigned to two steam golems?”
"Because the field hospital is located in the center of Pine Valley, if these steam puppets who are good at close-range and high-speed shelling and our reserve teams are placed here, then we will be able to respond as quickly as possible after problems arise with the surrounding defense forces.
Quickly reinforce those places." Lieutenant Colonel Chen explained.
"That's right." After Lieutenant Colonel Chen said this, Lawrence immediately understood the layout here.
If we say that in wars within civilized races, it may be necessary to consider rules of engagement such as not being armed in areas such as hospitals. Then in the war with wilderness races, both sides go all out and leave no room behind.
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Since wilderness races will not abide by the war principles of not attacking medical facilities in wars between civilized races, then the civilized race will naturally choose to arm all key areas, including medical institutions, to ensure that
These core areas will not be harmed during the war.
Because of this tendency toward all-out war, in addition to arranging various treatment preparations, Lawrence also asked the officers of the subordinate guards to arm all the wounded who could move to serve as a reserve force.
Fortunately, because Lawrence asked Nora to transport a large amount of additional weapons and ammunition, there are now sufficient weapons to provide these temporarily armed wounded and sick patients.
"Because a group of cured people just returned to the team in the morning, we don't have many wounded here now." A tauren lieutenant reported to Lawrence after completing the grouping inside the hospital: "There are wounded who can be armed.
172 people, and the remainder are more than 100 seriously injured people who are temporarily unable to move."
"That's enough." After listening to the lieutenant's report, Lawrence nodded with satisfaction.
In his opinion, the field hospital where he is located is located in the center of Pine Valley Camp, so it should be considered the safest place in Pine Valley. Theoretically, no matter how fierce the war situation is, it will not be affected.
As for Lawrence preparing weapons for the wounded, it was just out of the idea of taking precautions, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with the fact that the number of people who could be armed was relatively small.