Chapter 245 New Camp

"This place is not suitable for camping. The terrain is too low."

Chang Heng stepped on the soft and moist ground. The soil here was as wet as if it had just rained. He turned around and looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the camp. They were grouped in groups of five with bayonets fixed to check if there were any survivors.

From time to time, screams and gunshots were heard. It was the musketeers who were helping them return quickly.

Due to an ambush while cleaning the camp, the expedition team was injured and three were killed.

According to the number of remaining equipment on the ground, this battle killed about 300 enemies, most of whom were lizardmen with fine scales, long tails and snake pupils. They were ruthlessly thrown behind the central hall of the camp by the elves, fighting with the fully armed musketeers with the simplest iron tools.

Some elven guards who could not evacuate also hid in the ruins and waited for an opportunity to ambush.

The throwing objects of the lizardmen slaves and the magic arrows shot by the injured elven guards who could not evacuate were quite deadly.

The musketeers without any armor would be stabbed to the bone if they were hit.

But most of them didn't live to use their weapons, because the first wave of cleanup was not just musketeers with flesh and blood.

Instead, they were shaking steam automatons, which indifferently spewed high-temperature and high-pressure steam into every building. The steam penetrated all the gaps in the building and burned the target, and then the musketeers rushed into the room to end their suffering amid their painful wails.

Fighting is fighting, and the soldiers have no hobby of torturing their opponents. Doing their best to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible is the greatest respect for them.

Chang Heng looked at the equipment piled up in the middle by the soldiers, picked up a piece of green grass and chewed it to offset the lingering smell of gunpowder and blood in the camp.

In front of him lay a pair of blood-stained arm armor, which was left after his broken arm disappeared. The hunters without the assistance of hunting spiders could not exert their combat effectiveness in the forest. A hasty pursuit would only cause his troops to suffer more losses. If this batch of troops carried hunting spiders, he was confident that he could use the air-to-ground advantage of the airship to go deep into the forest and wipe out all these elves.

It was a pity that he didn't kill them with one shot.

He was thinking about whether to suggest to the lord to make a drink made of grass juice, which was refreshing and delicious, and could offset the pungent smell of gunpowder.

"Collect all the resources, and the airship will take off to conduct a reconnaissance of the area with a radius of 15 kilometers. We must find a campsite with higher terrain before nightfall, or at least camp there first."

The equipment from other lords is also a valuable asset for them. At least it can be used as a simple raw material resource to supplement the camp, and at most it can be used to obtain useful technologies in the territory through reverse research and development.

The soldiers who received the order returned to the airborne carrier and let it rise slowly, overlooking this vast sky island world like observation balloons rising from the ground.

Through their observation, a new vision map also appeared on Ji Lin's map panel, with rivers, fields, green trees, and mountains.

Mineral veins and local biomes.

It was like a new ecosystem full of vitality.

He now had to face a difficult decision, whether to gradually move the facilities of the small sky island to the large sky island, where the outposts on the large sky island could best play their role.

By moving, he could build a defense line on the sky island at a very fast speed to maintain his control.

At the same time, he could quickly replenish the lost troops for the expedition team and transport equipment and ammunition supplies to the territory.

A medium-sized floating stone vein can produce four units of floating stone per day, and about 120 units per month, which is almost the sum of the floating stone output of the entire small sky island. And there are no less than five such medium-sized floating stone veins in the entire large sky island where they can be observed.

Too big, too wide, too many dense forests.

To maintain control, too many resources need to be invested. The current 10,000 people in the territory want to conquer this sky island that is endless and may be counted in hundreds of square kilometers.

There is no possibility.

Not to mention that they can only send 300 troops, and another 300 are in training.

If they do not move, they can keep the materials invested in the construction of the small sky island.

The price is to maintain a supply line for up to two days. It takes a day for the Seagull-class airship to reach the large sky island, and the return trip will be faster.

But a round trip cycle also takes two days.

Ji Lin rubbed his eyebrows, and the tip of the pen crossed the paper, writing the plan on the paper.

Of course, there is also a best of both worlds plan - that is, to drive this small sky island directly to dock with the large sky island, so that they do not need to give up the accumulation, defense buildings, farmland, and composting field on the small sky island.

But the thrusters needed to move this entire sky island... He couldn't find them at all, and that level of energy was simply not something he could solve.

Even the future lords who build floating fortresses will not dare to push a floating island of several square kilometers around so carelessly, as it consumes too much energy.

He decided not to move the core of the outpost for the time being, and wait until the first landing troops gain a foothold before making a final decision. Jumping to a large sky island is already a very risky thing.

If the core of the outpost is moved again, one wrong step will lead to a complete loss.

Once the core of the outpost is destroyed, it will take a month to rebuild.

One month of development stagnation.

However, the good news from Chang Heng that they had killed 400 enemies in the offensive battle, with only 11 casualties, really lifted his spirits in his busy work.

It seems that the military construction of the territory has been very effective.

Ji Lin breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the pile of documents and reports in front of him that needed to be handled. That was another good news: the middle and grassroots government officials had completed the initial training and internship.

But this did not mean that Ji Lin could immediately become a hands-off boss.

He still had to be bound to the position of the highest administrative chief for several weeks. When his subordinates were familiar with their business and could handle related issues by themselves, the bureaucratic system of the territory would be considered initially completed.

As long as he could get through it, he would be liberated after getting through this period of time.

At least that's what Chongshan told him.

The third week since Jeanna left, I miss her.

Ji Lin looked at the reports on the table that needed to be handled by him sadly and sighed.

He also wanted to go out and breathe fresh air and taste the creatures of the Sky Island world.