There was no ceremony when these eight boats were launched, but they were put into use directly. In addition to the eight small boats, the Enterprise and the four temporarily rented sailing boats were also operating together. According to the plan, these ships will carry an 800-man troop to initiate the clearance of Mangrove Beach and complete the corresponding occupation.

Of course, these 800 people are definitely not professional soldiers. After all, there are only more than 800,000 people on the entire island. Even if Lawrence’s direct and indirect manpower is now at most 600,000, the number of regular troops on the island is just as much as the conventional two-thousandth military ratio. Can be a little more than this amount.

In fact, all of these people are armed immigrants except for two hundred of them in the regular army. According to the plan, they will be able to evacuate the regular army after they have cleaned up the formed goblins in the Mangrove Beach area. All subsequent work, similar to the construction of fortifications and the cleaning of the remaining goblins, will be completed by these armed immigrants. 0

The Mangrove Stall is one of the two landing sites that Lawrence and the others planned when they first came to this island. The entire plain is about 25 square kilometers, but unlike the Niujiao Bay that Lawrence and the others chose in the end, this piece of land is a piece of land with no development potential. Big land. Because this piece of land is surrounded by small hills that continue from the central mountain range of the island, and the land itself has some salinization.

Because of this, the vegetation on this land is not very lush, and there are few goblins in this area. According to Lawrence's observations using paper people, there are only three small goblin tribes on this land, and even with the scattered goblin tribes, there will be no more than 1,700. Moreover, because of the sparse local vegetation, these goblins can't hide and seek with Lawrence's small army, and in face-to-face battles, fully armed humans can easily kill several times their own goblins.

The ensuing battle seemed a bit lackluster. According to the plan, Safir and Nara brought more than 300 people and 12 mortars from the edge of the flat land to the rear of the tribes, and waited for them to be in place. . At the first moment, all firepower broke out at those goblin tribes.

In an instant, several flowers of steel and flame exploded in the goblin tribe. Then puffs of white smoke and flames spread from the drop point of those shells to the surroundings. Since Lawrence used the incendiary bomb filled with white phosphorus this time, the rapid firing of the mortar caused a large number of difficult to extinguish fire points in the goblin tribe, and the toxic smoke produced after the white phosphorus was ignited made these themselves lack of discipline. The sexual goblins thoroughly fried the pot.

Because there was not enough vegetation in the area to use as cover, the goblins quickly discovered Sefiel and the troops under them from behind in the chaotic bush gaps. At the beginning, the few goblins who thought that Syfiel and the others wanted to break through this seemingly not thick line of defense to break through the jungle inside the island. But soon they were blocked by a large number of shells falling from the sky.

Then Syfiel saw that while the group of goblins were forced to disperse due to shelling and gunfire, they summoned a phantom horse and rushed out with Nora, and then succeeded in beheading the goblin chief and the witch doctor in the chaos. These goblins have completely lost the last part of their commanding power.

Although this approach of taking the first rank of the generals among the armies sounds difficult, it is not that difficult when facing goblins now. Because these goblins were in a mess because of artillery and bullet shooting, and those goblin leaders with feathers on their heads and some kind of bark and wicker robes were easily recognized. x

Although those feathers are not very bright, they are also small. The robe was rough and messed up. But compared with the ordinary goblins around their waists with a little textile or even nothing, their dress is as obvious as a group of chickens, even if there is smoke around it, it is easy to be recognized.

More importantly, because the number of these goblin tribes is too small. Therefore, the strongest among these tribes is not as good as Saifeier in terms of transcendent level. Not to mention that this kind of wild animals are basically wild roads, and in this chaos, they are not the opponents of professionally trained Syfiel at all.

After losing all the bosses, all these goblins respected their instinct and ran away from the artillery and bullets. As a result, they rushed to the beach in a mess. When most of these goblins came to the beach and were blocked by the sea, they noticed the floating ships on the sea.

But at this time it was too late for them to escape. Under Lawrence's order, all ships poured fire onto this beach. And on this unobstructed beach composed of black gravel, the lethality of those artillery fires was greatly enhanced by the large number of blown up stones, those goblins who had nowhere to hide broke their bones.

Later, when Lawrence and the others cleared the battlefield, they found that most of the goblins on this plain had been cleaned up in this battle. In the end, no more than 100 goblins can escape. And this also means that basically no monsters will appear on this land in the next period of time.

"After moving my hands and feet today, I feel that the whole person is much better. To be honest, this is much better than squatting in the office all day." At this time, Syfiel brought her part of the troops to meet Lawrence just now. The troops have been intercepting the goblins who escaped scattered and scattered, and because of their efforts, the number of those fleeing turbans has dropped from three digits to two digits.

"Okay, okay." Hearing what Seifer said, Lawrence immediately understood what his fiancée meant to express. "I promise you that I will never arrange so many things for you in the future. Also, if If I have the opportunity, I will try my best to take you to participate in this type of action."

"That's good." After listening to Lawrence patted his chest to ensure that Syfiel smiled, and then he and Lawrence checked the land under his feet, because she had replaced Lawrence in handling various administrative matters on the island before, so she was very The most serious problem in this land was soon discovered.

"It seems that the salinization of this piece of land is quite serious." Saifeier took a handful of the soil from the ground and took a closer look and said that at least in places near the sea ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ the degree of salinization of the soil. It has reached a point where it is visible to the naked eye. At least for now, Lawrence can see some white salt-alkali particles in the mud in Syfiel's hands.

Considering that the amount of local precipitation is not small, the fact that various particles can be seen on the ground is very telling. Therefore, in this situation, he involuntarily raised his brows and thought about it, with a worried look on his face. But soon, an agricultural church priest who came with the team discovered this situation.

"Your Excellency Lord, you don't need to worry too much." The priest just returned here after a brief survey from the surroundings. He happened to meet Lawrence and Syphile looking at these soil samples with worry and stepped forward and explained, " It only takes up to a year for this piece of land to become suitable for farming."

"Really? How did that happen?" Saifeier said with some incomprehension. "I think the salinization level here should be very high, not like it can be improved in a short period of time."

"You have a certain truth, but the situation here is not exactly like that." Speaking of his professional scope, the priest of the agricultural church immediately showed a rather proud expression on his face. "The salinization in this area is mainly caused by the relatively low-lying area in this area, and the intrusion of seawater from several grooves on the coastline. The difficulty of improving this secondary saline-alkali land is relatively simple. Kind."

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