Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 543: End of the battle

After simply passing on the attack order, Lawrence immediately activated the emotional magic once again to provoke the emotions of the attacking goblin on a large scale, but unlike just now, his current target of casting is mainly the whole goblin army outside. The magic that those goblins cast at the same time is basically a magic that inspires courage.

The reason for this is that the bloodthirsty of war magic disappeared after the altar and the priests were all killed, and almost all the goblin leaders were killed together with the priests at that time.

. The direct consequence of all the command cores of the local spirits being reimbursed at the same time is that if there is no accident, the goblins are likely to recover their original timid and fearful nature in a short time and disappear.

At that time, even if the human legion can kill the goblins crowded in front of the battlefield, at least 13 goblins in the rear will be able to successfully withdraw from the battlefield.

If this is the case, humans may need to spend a lot of time, energy and resources to fight a jungle war with these **** goblins in the next time.

You know, the reason why Lawrence mobilized so many manpower and resources in this war is to eliminate the active power of the goblins in this area as much as possible at one time. Avoid dragging the battle into a long and cumbersome security battle. So in any case, he must try to keep the goblins on the small plain in front of this fortress.

Fortunately, the soul magic he newly mastered had an unexpected effect. Taking advantage of the magical effects on the opponent's body, Lawrence smoothly caused the group of goblins outside to fall into a frenzy again, and went crazy. He rushed towards the human position.

These rushing goblins drove the herd mentality in the daily habits of the surrounding goblins. Soon, the confused goblins stopped the state of hesitation because of the disappearance of the magical skills and rushed to the front line as crazy as before.

In this way, the goblins who were originally frightened by the human firepower in front and the horror of the rapid deaths of several parties kept retreating, under the suppression of the goblins behind them, they had to move step by step towards the area of ​​the fire.

At this time, the front line has completely turned into a huge flesh-and-blood mill. With the full pouring of various firepower, the goblins at the forefront of the exchange of fire between the two sides fell one by one, and a large number of whole or broken corpses were laid on the ground. on. But this hell-like ground was soon overwhelmed by goblins coming from behind.

In the early days of cold weapons and gunpowder weapons, this goblin-like charge was still quite lethal, because the long-range weapons of that era lacked sufficient penetration capabilities and had a low rate of fire.

This also led to the fact that long-range firepower can only simply weaken the outermost layer or two of the goblin army in the face of such centralized monsters, and then they can drown those who fight with them with their absolute number advantage. The enemy is.

But with the birth of gunpowder weapons, the crowded tactics and dense queues that goblins are good at immediately became very outdated. For example, in some densely populated places, one shot of heavy mortar shells fired from warships in the river can kill or wound nearly a hundred goblins, completely losing their combat effectiveness.

"We must retreat." Just when the group of goblins rushed to the front position as crazy as before, Lawrence suddenly issued an order, because at this time the bodies of the goblins in front of the pile piled higher and higher, even the goblins on the battlefield. The blood flowed out into the trenches, so that the soldiers' ankles were drowned in the stench of goblin blood.

However, it was precisely because there were too many goblins that died, so a goblin corpse nearly one person tall was piled up in front of the trench where Lawrence and the others were, which seriously affected the display of human firepower. Under such circumstances, Lawrence also had to issue an order to make all soldiers retreat to the last defensive line that had just been temporarily built on the river bank.

Fortunately, as the directional mines were detonated in batches, the goblins that rushed wildly and the large swarms of wild boar-like beasts raised by the goblins were emptied. The goblin survivors who were frightened and fled madly blocked the charging path of other goblins behind, making the entire battlefield more chaotic.

For the goblins, the only lucky thing is that Lawrence, out of the idea of ​​enticing the enemy to go deeper, ordered the artillery to shoot far away from the line to intercept the goblins who were constantly rushing towards the position, so they did not care about them for the time being. This group of guys huddled together in front of the battlefield.

"We will retreat to the river if we retreat." After everyone was ready and evacuated the second trench, Syfiel, covered in blood, brought his team to Lawrence's side and said "Now can you tell me when we can fight back?"

"Wait, it's not the time yet." Lawrence carefully observed the situation in front. At this time, there were only more than 10,000 goblins still alive on the battlefield, but the goblins in the rear that were affected by Lawrence's magic were crazy. They still entered the trench where Lawrence and the others evacuated just now, and the trench was almost filled in less than a minute.

Seeing the goblins rushing out of the trenches, everyone immediately started shooting. However, compared to the trenches and barbed wire fences just now, there are now only some wood and sandbags on the parapet. It is difficult to defend here for too long. Fortunately, the machine guns on the ship that could not shoot because of the terrain just now can provide them with enough help.

But even so, the goblins successfully crossed the small hillside between the trenches and the beach and rushed to the human army under the hillside, and the goblins that were hit even rolled all the way to the piles in front of the human positions. The front of the parapet was gathered into a small pile.

"It's okay now." The officers at the back of Lawrence said as the goblins rushed ten meters away from the parapet. Then a young officer took out the flare launcher and launched two blood reds into the sky. Flares. Just before the signal flare fell, the trench exploded like a volcanic eruption.

The directional bombs previously buried in the trench walls were all detonated ~lightnovelpub.net~Because there is no plastic, Lawrence's practice of replacing the shell with wood instead played a special role in camouflage at this time.

After all, the goblins who had faced the directional bomb charge at close range in the battle before were all dead, and the remaining goblins rushed into Xuanhao and apparently used the directional mine wooden cover panels inlaid on the wall as reinforcements for the trenches. Wooden planks for walls.

The result of this is that most of the directional mines were successfully detonated except for a small number of directional mines that were squeezed and displaced in the crowd because the lead broke and failed to detonate. In addition, dozens of small explosives placed at the bottom of a small pit under a pile of rubble were also detonated in the same batch.

In an instant, iron beads, broken wood chips and gravel quickly took away the lives of the goblins near and inside the trenches, while the goblins farther away were interrupted or injured. In this way, he fell on the battlefield soaked in blood and completely lost his combat effectiveness.

"Charge—" After the explosion, the goblin army on the scene immediately became two stages, and suddenly entered chaos. Behind this scene. Lawrence immediately gave the order to attack. Then three consecutive red signals bounced into the air.

After seeing the signal flare in the sky, the human army immediately began to walk out of the temporary fortifications on the bank of the river in a group formation, and then steadily fired while pushing forward.

At the same time, Nora, who had cleaned up the group of goblins in the forest, also flew out of the jungle, and then fell into those goblins to create a group of flesh and blood storms.

"Then it's time to clean up the mess." Lawrence said after looking at the situation on the field. "I hope there won't be too many goblins to run out."