Struggle in the Steam Age

Under normal circumstances, the siege party with more people in the siege of a city will have a greater advantage in terms of material and psychology. Because according to tradition, the attacking side often occupies the initiative in the war. Therefore, it is natural to obtain more resources than the defensive side.

But the situation in the siege of the fortress at the Blue Mountain Pass is just the opposite. The goblins, especially the goblins living in the tropical rainforest, basically don't 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 keep them alive, and there is no need to store food at all.

But when this group of goblins gathered together and launched a siege to the fortress, problems suddenly appeared. In the first day or two, they could still rely on the small amount of food they carried on their bodies and obtain food through hunting and gathering around. But just a few days later, there was a serious problem with the food supply.

After all, the carrying capacity of these wild tropical rainforests is still limited. If it is only for a few surrounding tribes with a total of one or two thousand people, it can barely supply it, but an army of tens of thousands of people will definitely be useless. So on the third day after the siege began, the goblins had to send a large number of people to further places to collect supplies.

So 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 were not able to supply this legion for too long, and this forced the goblins to send a large number of people to farther places to collect resources.

So 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 break through from the positions on the side of the attacker and enter the fortress smoothly at a low cost and extremely fast.

As the guardians, the human side did a much better job than the goblins in this respect. Not only did the optical telegrams not stop, but also because the besieging goblins had no water power and were unable to block the river.

Every few days, ships will come from the direction of New Sauer Port to replace part of the personnel and send in supplies, so the overall atmosphere of the entire fortress is good now. According to a soldier, they can defend the attacking goblins in this fortress. I can't bear it until I can't bear it.

This is why Lawrence and the others sent reinforcements into the fort one day in advance. Cheering for the people in the fort is only a very minor reason. If the fortress is located, there will be a large number of reinforcements in a short period of time.

After discovering human's plan, the goblin really gathered the people who were scattered all over the place to collect resources, as Lawrence had guessed before, and concentrated all their strength to create a large number of crude weapons and armors ready to compete with humans. A large-scale decisive battle head-on.

Because for the goblins, if they are not willing to fight hard at this time, then they can only give up the fertile land they occupy.

After all, human bunker advancement tactics are too restrained for their small-scale attacks. And if they can severely injure the human encouragement troops and pull out the Blue Mountain Pass Fortress, then they can prevent human beings from encroaching on their living space step by step for a long time.

Although the goblins are relatively timid. But their morale is still high when they feel that their side has an advantage, especially in numbers. But now the army on one side of the island is a little over 2,000 people even if humans are added. The goblins feel that they have a 20 times advantage in numbers, and their morale is naturally extremely high.

After learning that the reinforcements would arrive at noon tomorrow, the fortress immediately launched harassing shooting outside the city in shifts. The infrequent but constant stream of shells and bullets immediately annoyed the goblins.

Although not many people were killed by each shell or bullet, the practice of randomly picking one or a group of lucky goblins to invite them to eat bullets or shells kept the goblins in a state of tension.

The reason why the guards of the fortress did not carry out this kind of attack before was because they considered that their own manpower was insufficient. If the group of goblins did this to them, it would be much more difficult for them to defend the fortress than it is now. But now that human reinforcements are coming soon, the goblins can only endure these casualties silently.

Because if it was at this time that they couldn't bear to attack the human fortress, the situation would probably turn into a situation where their own side took down the dilapidated fortress after paying heavy casualties and watched the fortress defenders leave by boat. Then in the early morning of the next day, use the broken and exhausted army to face the main force of human beings.

But this practice of only being beaten but not fighting back still greatly damaged the morale of the goblins, so the goblins had to pull out their camp overnight and leave the previously built camp to hide in the woods farther away from the fortress. This directly led to the fact that it took longer for the goblins to react when Lawrence landed on a large-scale fleet with 1,700 reinforcements the next day.

It seems that everyone is doing very well. Through the telegram, Lawrence already knew about the harassment operations launched by the guards last night. And now, after watching those goblins hurried out of the queue from the woods, he immediately realized that the effect of the harassment operation last night was far better than what he had imagined before.

What should we do next, or should we push it flat like the previous plan? Looking at the enemies constantly pouring out of the woods, Nora, who is now flying in the air, asked Lawrence to update the situation on the battlefield in real time through the soul connection. Situation side asked. I see that the other party is leaving the camp now, and 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 in his mind for a few seconds. Indeed, if we make a surprise attack at this time, we can directly defeat the goblin army, but in the future, we will probably hide and seek in the woods with tens of thousands of goblins.

Compared to that situation, I really think it's more appropriate to fight those goblins directly on the frontal battlefield.

Well, you're right. Nora nodded after hearing Lawrence's words, then lowered her flight altitude and searched towards the goblin's line and camp by hiding her figure with those branches. Soon, she discovered that the group of goblins had left a hand in the formation.

Consider that Ursines are no better than normal Goblins against those bullets and shells, even because they are bigger and easier targets on the battlefield. Therefore, except for a very small number of bear goblins with relatively good weapons and a few scattered hobgoblins who provided bodyguards for those chiefs and priests, most of the bear goblins were sent to the front line as grassroots officers.

In this way, although the goblins who walked out of the jungle looked decent, in fact, there were not many elite troops among the goblins. And the true elite of the goblins are hiding in camps in the woods, ready to run. If an attack is launched at this time, the goblins will definitely disperse, and then humans will have a long-term jungle security battle.

Soon, the first batch of goblins completed the whole team and rushed towards the human line of defense. On the other hand, under Lawrence's order, the human side weakened their firepower, and even let some goblins rush to a place more than ten meters away from the front of the position.

After seeing this scene, the morale of the goblins increased even more. 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 organized from a scattered charge at the beginning, launching wave after wave of charge like a tide.