Lawrence agreed to take on the seemingly thankless perimeter blocking task, on the one hand, because the game is only temporary, and the entire New World young elite will participate in this game. Selling them a good personal relationship can reap more tangible or intangible benefits than victory in the game for a long time to come.

On the other hand, Lawrence felt that the guy who could think of hiding his main force would never fail to see the difference between the strengths of the two sides, and would never be so stupid to sit and wait to die. Therefore, it seems strange to gather together for pure passive defense like this, he is worried that there may be some situations that he does not know.

So for this reason, he naturally agreed to everyone's request as the captain to lead the interception team. In any case, this position gives him the greatest degree of freedom. Allow him to do what is most in line with his own interests when he encounters a problem.

What Lawrence did not expect was that his team members and Zhu Yan were willing to give up the seemingly handy benefits and choose to work with him to do these seemingly boring and probably not very rewarding work.

Of course, this is not a bad thing. After all, the entire team has only 20 people, and the addition of the two teams makes Lawrence's own people accounted for half of the intercepted team. This allowed him to control the team the most among the three teams.

A day training will not have much effect. But with the help of his own people, Lawrence can at least make the entire team do simple orders and prohibitions, and this is enough for him.

Lawrence took their team to set off at the beginning of the next morning, because their team had to travel the farthest distance today, so they set off earlier than the others.

As they climbed down the low wall at the entrance of the river valley, a tree in the distance shook, and then a dark shadow slipped down from the tree.

"There seems to be a kobold scout?" Lifting the rifle in his hand and looking through the scope on the gun, Zhu Yan easily judged what the shadow was moving just now. "Do you need me to kill it?"

"I don't think it should be necessary." Lawrence said with a slight pressure on the muzzle. "I bet there are more than one kobold investigators around here. It doesn't make sense to kill it. Let's go."

The kobold scouts lying in ambush outside the camp were just a small episode. Soon everyone walked out of the jungle along a path, and then walked along the black gravel at the junction of the jungle edge and the volcano to the side far from the fortress.

These kobold tribes were built around this volcano, but only the side where Lawrence and the others are now can allow kobolds in other places to support the fortress under the mine. Because the structure of the volcanic hillside on the other side of the fortress is extremely unstable, hot black rocks often roll down the hillside and drive the rocks and soil on the hillside to form a black mud-rock flow, which is like a sky grab for those who do not have the ability to fly. The same cannot pass at all.

The place where Lawrence and the others are going is to follow this dividing line for more than two thousand meters and then deep into the jungle five or six meters to the edge of a wetland, where there are many footprints of the kobolds. You can even see the traces of the kobolds putting some stones and branches on the pit to clear the way.

"This is really a good place to stop the kobold reinforcements." After coming here to observe for a while, a soldier from the White Eagle Federation in the team sighed. "On our right is a huge wetland, and on the left is thick volcanic ash. Only the width of less than ten meters under our feet can be easily passed by."

"Yes, this is indeed a good place for defense, but we can't take it lightly." As John took out a shovel from his pocket, "Well, we'd better build some before the enemy comes. Fortifications. After all, we have only 20 people here. If there are too many enemies, standing on the ground to fight against us will easily hurt us."

The construction of the fortifications was also a plan that everyone discussed yesterday, so John just said that everyone took out the tools from the space bag and got busy. And as the only two of these people who have experience in the military, John and the soldier from the White Eagle Federation rushed around and instructed everyone on how to build these fortifications.

Everyone present at this time must obey their dispatch and command, and the two of them are also assigning work to everyone reasonably according to each person's characteristics. For example, spellcasters like Lawrence were given preferential treatment. He and another druid were assigned a very simple job, which was to set up some traps on the road before the fortifications being built.

It is said to be a trap, but in fact, neither the terrain nor the time of this place is enough to dig out the huge trap for catching wild boars that Lawrence dug when hunting with his adoptive father in the small town. So what Lawrence digs here are small horse traps specifically for the shape of the dog's head.

And the druid next to him was not idle. In addition to laying some poisoned hardwoods on the ground to make triangle nails, he also put a half-length chopstick in it every time Lawrence dug a small hole. Poisonous wood sign.

Those wooden triangle nails that are only the size of a large pinball are not very useful when facing humans, because they are so small that the length of the thorns simply cannot penetrate the soles of the shoes that people wear now. But these things are definitely a weapon against kobolds who walk like humans without wearing shoes.

Just when everyone was working in full swing for about half an hour, a ranger who had been arranged to take turns looking into the distance before jumped from the tree beside him and shouted. "The red plume, I saw the red plume."

According to the previous agreement, this red plume of smoke means that all personnel in the camp have left the camp and are ready to launch an attack. Obviously, such a large-scale move cannot be hidden from the kobold. Only less than 30 seconds after the red plume rose, a black plume rose in the direction of the fortress.

"We need to speed up~lightnovelpub.net~ The battle may break out at any time." Lawrence immediately shouted to everyone who was busy after seeing the two parallel pipes. After all, the participants in the camp just set off at this time. It must be the kobolds themselves who can light up the smoke in the fortress. And the only function of the smoke column they lit at this time is to use the smoke column as a signal to transmit a message to the surroundings.

"No problem. Actually, we have almost repaired the fortifications." John raised his head and shouted, "At most there can be some trenches that are not deep and a parapet wall, because the soil is too soft and the groundwater level. It’s also a bit high."

Despite all the difficulties, when the first brown-red kobold emerged from the forest. They have built three fortifications with parapets, trenches, traps and organs on the road.

Seeing the fortifications and enemies suddenly appearing on the route, the kobold carrying a bronze spearhead javelin immediately retreated, and at the same time he made a barking noise to warn the team behind.

In an instant, the messy footsteps behind the monster stopped, and then there was a barking voice. Although a dense vegetation blocked Lawrence and their sight. But Lawrence and the others could also guess from these movements that the kobolds discovered that the situation was not right and prepared the whole team to attack.

However, this also provided Lawrence and the others with a precious preparation time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, all the people who had set up traps before the fortifications withdrew behind the parapet, and then each took up their weapons and prepared.

"Boom—boom—boom—" With the sound of drums, a group of brown-red kobolds with bows and arrows in their hands exposed from behind the bushes, and along with the drums they marched towards Lawrence where they are now.