Struggle in the Steam Age

After the alarm sounded, Nora immediately took to the air to carry out reconnaissance missions.

Although it is said that there is a four-member Dragonhawk squad belonging to the elves and two observation balloons belonging to the artillery, but when a large number of vampire bats and harpies come over like dark clouds, the entire Pine Valley Only the little puppet can guarantee their safety in action.

"Damn it, all the wilderness races around are crazy." After quickly avoiding two vampire bats rushing over and killing the third one, Nora quickly reported to Lawrence through the soul connection.

"In the forest area 5-7km away from us, there are currently 14 underground world exits that can be confirmed. A large number of wilderness reinforcements are pouring out of those exits. I have seen more than 2,500 people. , and the number is increasing."

"Okay, I understand." Through the soul connection, find out the military dispatch points of those wilderness races in the surrounding area, and let the book charm who is also connected to the soul network mark these points on the map. Lawrence asked next.

"Apart from the opponent's soldiers, have you noticed any heavy weapons in the opponent's camp?"

"I haven't found it yet." Nora replied after carefully observing the situation on the wilderness race's position while quickly passing by the front of the position at a high altitude and cutting all the enemy air forces that passed through her route and surrounding areas into pieces.

"However, I saw that the other party dispatched a large number of people to cut down trees, and it seemed that they wanted to clear a road."

"Road?" After hearing Nora's report, Lawrence was keenly aware of the problem.

Because if the group of wilderness races were just infantry or cavalry, they didn't need to log and level the land to build roads, and now this approach clearly shows that there are some big guys on the other side who need to pass.

"It may be the dragon cannon on the gray dwarf side, the dwarf rocket. It may also be the heavy blade wheel ballista or bee stinger ballista of the dark elves."

After Lawrence took the newly obtained information to the command post next door to report on the investigation just now, Major Louis who received him analyzed it.

"Compared to those gnolls or goblins, gray dwarves and dark elves are the real big trouble. Although they are not as good as ours in terms of conventional artillery, after combining a variety of magic and extraordinary powers, their The lethality of those war machines is no worse than our heavy artillery."

"By the way, can you ask your puppet to continue to investigate for a while." Finally, Major Louis said to Lawrence, "The hot air balloon has no way to go up, and the dragon eagle knights of the elves can only be in the valley for the time being." Patrol above. So now the only one who can get information from farther away is your puppet."

"Nara is willing to take on this task." After communicating with the puppet through the soul connection, Lawrence gave an affirmative answer to the major in front of him.

"And she also said that she can monitor the enemy's position in real time, and at the same time provide guidance for which of our artillery."

"Can you still guide the shelling? That would be great." After hearing what Lawrence said, Major Louis showed a look of surprise on his face.

Although the intelligence of ordinary extraordinary people and even those familiars or puppets around the caster is not very high, Major Louis has also seen some puppets around the caster are almost as smart as humans.

But today he really didn't expect that the puppet next to Lawrence could be so omnipotent. Not only could it be cute, it could fight, it could heal, and it could even guide artillery to shoot.

"She has actually cooperated with the artillerymen under me several times." Lawrence said with a smile, "so I will ask Nora to give you the data and let her direct the four artillerymen under me to fire some Signal flares, so that they can assist those novice artillerymen to shoot."

Although Pine Valley has some defensive artillery as an important location, those artillery are not only small in number, but also far less elite than the artillery on the front line.

Fortunately, after Lawrence invented the mortar, units similar to the combat engineers of the New Island Republic had added mortar units to their troops.

However, these mortar soldiers who are directly assigned to infantry or even cavalry units have many differences from traditional artillery. For example, many of them shoot purely based on intuition rather than various data.

So after Nora sends back the signal, these skilled hands from Sauer Island need to fire shells to guide them.

"Lieutenant Colonel Han told me that there are several artillery gunners there. The gunners only know the most basic shooting principles, and the angle of the artillery when supporting them is completely based on the feel of the hand."

Having said that, Louis shrugged his shoulders as a traditional officer. "Actually, I admire their courage, because in that case, the probability of a shell hitting one's own head is not much lower than the probability of hitting someone else's head."

"But I have to say that in an emergency, the fire support speed of shooting the front by feeling is much faster than the traditional artillery method of calculating a series of data and then firing."

Lawrence felt that he had to speak a few words of justice for Lieutenant Colonel Chen and the others at this time. "Especially for combat engineers like them, who usually have a short combat distance, sometimes they have to pay the price of being accidentally injured to obtain fire support."

"You're right, at least they are the only ones who can play with those grenadiers in Pine Valley." Major Louis also realized the difference between the combat engineers of the New Island Republic and ordinary troops. "For them, even a melee fratricide is better than no fire support."

While they were chatting, part of the artillery placed on the position started firing, but because it was a tentative shooting.

So Lawrence and the others heard the sound of the artillery firing intermittently, and could see the impact of the shells fluctuating from far to near, without any concentrated firing.

Considering that the enemy was approaching Pine Tree Valley, Lawrence returned to the field hospital to receive patients after explaining to Louis the two new points that Nora had discovered in the sky during this period.

As the wild race continued to approach, Lawrence also heard the sound of shooting from the front line. However, unlike what he had imagined, these shooting sounds have been scattered all the time. The sound of intensive shooting did not come as soon as Lawrence had imagined.

"The wilderness races are sending a group of people to shoot at us from a long distance. It feels like they are delaying time." After condensing a large group of vampire bats to the front line with light into a large net, they all cut into pieces, as reported by Lawrence .

"However, I think the casualties on both sides should be very small now, because the other side is in the woods, while our side is in the trenches and fortifications."

"It seems that the group of guys should be waiting for the night to fall." After hearing what Nora said, Lawrence immediately guessed what the group of wilderness races were planning.

Like the wilderness races that Lawrence encountered before, as long as their brains were not flooded, they would realize that they were born with dark vision, which was far more advantageous at night than during the day.

At least in the dark night, it is difficult for the artillery fire of civilized races to shoot accurately. In this way, they can help them offset the firepower advantage of the civilized race to the greatest extent.

After realizing what the other party was going to do, Lawrence immediately ordered the precision shooters under his command to join the front line to help. After all, in this kind of sniper combat, snipers trained based on the knowledge in Lawrence's mind and a lot of actual combat experience are more suitable for this kind of precision shooter combat.

Not long after a few small-scale precision shooter troops left the field hospital and went to the front line, some wounded came to the hospital scatteredly, and soon the field hospital was operating at a high speed.