In addition to preparing two fortified advancing territories, the preparations for inland development are also limited to about 100 people, and try to choose young adults. Only in this way can it be ensured that people in these territories can get enough time for the arrival of support when they encounter the plague or goblin.

Out of consideration for territorial expansion, the two territories that Lawrence chose were all some distance away from the hills where the tauren people lived. But every territory is where the tauren can reach in half a day. In this way, once there are police, they can quickly get the support of the tauren tribe.

In addition, Lawrence during this period of time through the relationship of Aunt Mia in the capital of Elysion Ilysia shot a batch of jewelry seized in the previous adventure. Then the money was ordered at the Golden Horn Shipyard in Ilysia for eight unarmed Class 75 pure steam inland river and port patrol boats. With these patrol boats, Lawrence and the others will be able to support the two pioneers on the upper bank of the river from the Port of New Sauer at any time.

Of course, it is impossible for Lawrence to use these 75-ton boats as troop carriers. According to the plan, these ships will undergo a simple modification after arriving at Sauer Island, and a hand-operated multi-barrel machine gun will be installed in the front and rear of the ship. In addition, two parallel 82mm mortars will be installed on a small platform in the middle of the hull that can turn 360 degrees.

In this case, the entire ship can not only transport a heavily armed squad at a time to various forts on the river. At the same time, it can also be used as a fire point for river activities. Considering that all the settlements will be distributed along the river, these boats should be able to play a very good effect.

Although this kind of ship is basically impossible to use for surface combat, according to the records of various churches, goblins can use canoes to fight on water only in rare cases. Most of their only water combat methods are swimming over. All the tools on the back, even the claws and teeth, tried to destroy the ship, so it was not too difficult to deal with. 0

This kind of small boat is especially fast for the Golden Horn shipyard in Elsion, because the ship that Lawrence needs can be seen as a variant of the 75-ton multifunctional barge commonly used in ports. The small shipyard has produced a lot of them in batches, and it only takes more than a week to make a targeted transformation and leave the weapon inlets.

It's just that Lawrence didn't receive the cargo until nearly a month later. Relative to the rapid construction speed, how to get these ships to New Sauer Island is an important issue. Considering that the ships need to move in the shallow waters of offshore and inland rivers, and will not go to the open sea, the ability of these ships to resist wind and waves can be said to be extremely flawed. In this case, they can only find as much as possible to find those routes along the coastline and in better conditions.

These ships came with Viscount Doropia to ship cotton textiles to the island as agreed, which was part of the agreement when Lawrence resolved their cotton field pests. As for why it took so long to come here, it was mainly because although Lawrence and the others removed the supernatural pollution, the real insect plagues still kept them busy, so they have only solved the problem and sent people to deliver to New Sauer Island.

And as an old-school nobleman, Viscount Doropia has his own moral bottom line. For example, he is rarely willing to promise anything, but once promised, he will do a good job instead of just do it in a perfunctory manner. Under such circumstances, in order to ensure that this textile market can continue to operate for a long time rather than a short-lived, he specially sent people to visit some settlements on the island and surrounding areas to investigate the market situation.

During the investigation, they unexpectedly discovered that the sale of textiles to Neusauer and surrounding islands is actually a profitable business. Because there is neither a textile industry nor cotton cultivation in this area. The only plant that can be used for textiles is palm, but the thing that can be worn on the body is the princess, so all the local textiles can only be purchased from those irregular liners, so the price is not only high but also There are few styles.

On the other hand, from the perspective of market demand. The dispatched investigation team found that at least on New Sauer Island, because of Lawrence's profit-sharing policy, those under his rule had accumulated a portion of their wealth and had an extremely strong desire to purchase textiles.

Therefore, during this period of time, they also need to deploy a variety of goods based on the results of the survey, so that they can open the market as soon as they arrive on the island and give this business activity a good start. So they naturally spent a lot of time carefully preparing the goods according to the content of the previous investigation.

When they prepared all the goods to go to New Sauer, they happened to meet the small batch of steam that was about to be shipped, so they came together. At this time, Lawrence had just completed the next step of planning for the island and the preparation of materials for some of the development operations. So I just took Safir and Nora to the dock to meet them.

As a result, when they arrived at the pier, they discovered that their batch of ships did not arrive alone. I don’t know if it was due to better luck. There was also another ammunition ship that he had been waiting for for a long time. On the ship were a series of weapons ordered by Lawrence from his Bofors munitions factory and the engineers he had invited.

Although there are some engineers on the island now, those professional military engineers and ordinary mechanical engineers are completely two concepts. To give the simplest example, installing weapons on a ship still requires some professional personnel, otherwise it would be difficult to solve the problem of the center of gravity.

Because the weapon and the ship arrived on the island at the same time, they immediately started the modification work after a welcome banquet with a simple greeting. Fortunately, after a while of hard work, Lawrence and the others built a simple ship repair yard by the river. Although there is still no way to repair ships like the Enterprise or the steam sailing ships that were captured before, the slipway can provide simple repair services for three ships under 100 tons at the same time.

So after a simple reception, in the afternoon Lawrence and the others pulled half of the new ships on the berth and began to rebuild it~lightnovelpub.net~ Fortunately, these ships went very well on their first voyage. Although the difficulty of this journey completely exceeded the design limit of these offshore vessels, due to the caution of the driver and the correct choice of the route, these boats are in good condition and only need a simple routine maintenance. x

In only three days, all eight ships were armed as planned. This was mainly because the ship had previously left a variety of upgrade spaces during the construction, so they only needed to install those weapons in the remaining empty slots as designed before. ⿴x33 novel mobile terminal: tts:ヽ.

At the same time, another engineer belonging to the Bofors factory instructed the workers to build a mine slide and mine warehouse in the fortress at the entrance of the port. According to the statement he conveyed to his partner, the dwarf Eugene, Huguang City has ordered a batch of light mines to defend against murloc invasions, but because there are not many actual combat records, those targeting ships and large transcendent creatures Not many people order large mines.

Therefore, he now sends all the large mines produced to Lawrence. I hope he can find actual combat opportunities on this island as soon as possible.

Sure enough, even the dwarven arms dealer is an arms dealer. In this respect, there is no loyal and honest nature of dwarves. But this is a good thing for Lawrence, because only in this way, his investment in the arms factory can make better profits. div

Struggle in the steam age https://