Chapter 244: 【Republic

Hearing the words of this platoon leader, the streamer in the live stream and the Blue Star streamers watching were all stunned.

This...

A strange shock impacted everyone’s soul.

Looking at the back of the platoon leader walking away.

That streamer moved his mouth, seemingly wanting to ask why?

But in the end, he didn't open his mouth.

Because if he substituted himself into the perspective of these "Republic npcs," perhaps it would really be like this.

It was just that they had been playing with a game mentality for a long time.

Thinking of the path the red side had taken over the years, if they were "Republic npcs," they would definitely believe that the red side would do what they said.

The shock was still continuing.

However, Fang Ming had already exited this streamer’s live stream and was looking for a new live stream that was still fighting.

The screen of each live stream was different, but in the live streams distributed across the Republic, there were battles breaking out almost every moment.

Fang Ming was dazzled.

At this time.

Someone in the live stream said that the Polar Star official website was also live streaming.

Fang Ming searched.

Sure enough, he saw the live stream of the Polar Star official website.

Click to enter.

The scene in front of him suddenly opened up.

Because what caught his eye was a huge strategic map, and it was real-time dynamic.

Floating in front of Fang Ming.

The huge strategic map was translucent blue, clearly marking all the bandit areas, among which key areas such as Xiangxi, Northwest Guangxi, and North Sichuan had darker colors.

Then there were the red arrows representing the Liberation Army, like several huge iron pliers, steadily closing toward the center from all directions.

And below the map, the real-time arrows advancing synchronously moved slowly.

These were functions unique to some official live streams.

They could provide each viewer with an individual live stream.

Of course.

The virtual somatosensory cabin was the best for viewing this effect, followed by some daily useful watches, communicators, and other equipment that could also project and view individual ones.

However, the effect was very average.

When not clicked, the bandit areas on the map were replaced by battle scenes.

And as Fang Ming clicked on the [Xiangxi] region.

The battle scenes floating on other regions disappeared, and the strategic map also shrank accordingly.

And the [Xiangxi] region here expanded to the size of the original huge strategic map, with battles taking place in various areas floating on it.

Fang Ming looked at several areas where fighting was taking place.

He clicked on a mountain peak where fighting was taking place.

The perspective of the screen pulled down, and soon the sky above the mountain peak appeared, and the scene of the Liberation Army and bandits fighting below also appeared in front of Fang Ming.

Looking at the label on a soldier in the Liberation Army camp, there was the name of a live stream.

Fang Ming understood that these battle scenes were all battles taking place in individual live streams on the Tiansha platform.

At this time.

The bandits on that mountain peak below were relying on the steep mountain terrain and solid wood and stone fortifications, shooting downward with local guns, bird guns, and even bows and arrows.

One can imagine how long the history of these bandits was.

Looking roughly.

There were quite a few bandits holding bows and arrows.

And their way of counterattacking might have been used since hundreds of years ago.

Even after having firearms, there was no change.

But...

What they encountered was the Liberation Army.

It was a regular troop.

Not the soldiers in the Qing Dynasty who couldn't pull a bow, nor the soldiers under the warlords in the Republic of China who only knew how to oppress the people, but a people’s army that had been through hundreds of battles.

When the bandits were still resisting stubbornly.

Boom!

Artillery roared.

The mortars and infantry guns brought by the Liberation Army let out a roar.

The shells tore through the air, carrying a sharp whistle, and accurately smashed into the bandit lair’s buildings and walls.

That wooden bandit lair, which had existed for who knows how many years, was blown to pieces by the shells.

A bright hole appeared in front of everyone’s eyes.

The bandits who were just arrogant were all stunned at this time, and the bandits closer to the explosion point were filled with confusion and fear in their eyes.

They were perhaps wondering why these "government soldiers" didn't play by the rules this time.

Normally, shouldn't they fight for a long time, fail to attack for a long time, and then both sides retreat?

Why did these guys actually use artillery to attack them?

And they fired as if it didn't cost money.

Those "government soldiers" were simply like crazy, desperately wanting to rush over, and before they could react.

The bugle for the charge suddenly sounded.

The soldiers were in groups of three, covering each other, clearing out the remaining enemies; it looked as if this was not a battle, but a highly efficient harvest.

A bandit suppression operation was launched.

In the captured bandit lair, bandit corpses lay everywhere, and there were also some young soldiers who fell during the charge.

But the bandit lair that had been entrenched here for decades, regarded as a "tumor," with a scale of three hundred people.

Was just like that, destroyed and wiped out.

As the battle ended, the scene here shrank and turned back into the [Xiangxi] region map, but the bandit lair marked there had changed color.

And the Liberation Army that captured the bandit lair extended an arrow again, slowly pointing to the bandits on the other side.

Obviously, the next target of this troop was the bandit lair there.

Fang Ming’s gaze swept across the [Xiangxi] region.

The area representing the Liberation Army’s color continued to spread and consolidate, and one black mark representing bandits either had a battle icon appear above it.

Or a red cross appeared, and then slowly turned into the Liberation Army’s area color.

Looking at the map.

The Liberation Army was almost suppressing the bandits in the [Xiangxi] region at the same time.

And there were also some black marks representing bandits that, after the large forces were destroyed, dispersed into several small black forces, fleeing outside the Liberation Army’s encirclement.

It was clearly visible from the streamer’s perspective. [257-79

However, the rout of these small bands of forces could not distract the People's Liberation Army.

Because the four heavy characters of "Clearing Out Banditry" weighed too much.

The advancement of the overall situation would never be delayed by a few small groups of enemies.

The thunderous momentum on the map continued.

The Xiangxi region, originally black with severe banditry, was now, under the offensive of the People's Liberation Army, like a map being struck by a giant fist.

It smashed the dense bandit forces across the entire Xiangxi region into pieces, shattering them to dust.

Large swaths of black were pulverized.

The entire Xiangxi region, once a solid patch of black, had become fragmented, and those fragmented areas were all regions where the People's Liberation Army had conquered and annihilated the bandits.

Some large black regional clusters of bandits were still thinking of fleeing.

But they did not know.

Looking at the map.

Almost all the bandits in the entire Republic had been surrounded by the red side with absolute force.

Run?

Where could they run?

Unless they could run out of the Republic.

Otherwise...

There was only a dead end.

These "bandits," who had existed on the land of Huaxia since ancient times, still harbored delusions of surviving by relying on the advantages of the mountains and forests.

But they were wrong.

They were facing the peak of infantry in the history of the Huaxia land.

Looking at the map.

Countless arrows, after wiping out bandit dens, did not stop but continued to set off toward other places; these countless arrows of the People's Liberation Army units swept across the entire Republic.

Wherever they went, the banditry in that place was wiped out.

Fang Ming zoomed the map back to the national scale.

At this moment, battles were also taking place in various parts of the Republic, as if signaling that under the four characters of "Clearing Out Banditry," all bandits would be uprooted.

The fighting was swift, and the advancement was steady.

For a time.

The Blue Star players who had downloaded the "Republic Bandit Suppression" DLC were all paying attention to the "real-time combat situation" in the Jixing official website's live broadcast room.

Everyone was looking forward to the day the Republic completely suppressed the banditry.

However, regarding this.

Many Blue Star netizens also raised doubts in the forums, because according to the current situation.

Although the Republic's troops were striking very quickly, destroying many large bandit dens in just the initial phase.

But these large bandit dens had many people, and many ran away.

Unlike those small bandit dens that were completely wiped out after being surrounded.

These large bandit dens, after being shattered, dispersed into many small groups of bandits and ran off.

Especially those large bandit dens.

Often, after one was taken down, a dozen small groups of bandits would appear, scattering from the map.

Running toward the outside of the encirclement.

If it were just one or two places, that would be fine, but looking at the whole country, it was almost all like this.

So this also made the Blue Star players worry.

After all, the scale of bandits nationwide exceeded over 1 million.

Even if most were wiped out, the remaining hundreds of thousands of these small bandit groups would go on to seize and recruit people; in this way, the number would not decrease, and perhaps it would even be more.

Thinking of this, many Blue Star players were also very worried.

After all, this was the result of a thousand years of accumulated banditry and the deliberate sabotage by the blue side.

Could it really cleanse the world?

These Blue Star players did not know yet, because the current bandit suppression had just begun.

And there was still half a year until the start of the Peninsula War.

Although Blue Star players knew a lot of intelligence through the subsequent timeline, knowing that the banditry was also finished in 1953.

But limited by the constraints of the era and the lack of information flow.

The specific results were unknown.

They only knew that the national bandit suppression ended in 1953.

This year, because of the victory in the Peninsula War, not many Blue Star players paid attention to the bandit suppression aspect.

This also led to the Blue Star players being unclear about the situation when the bandit suppression ended in 1953.

Many Blue Star players speculated.

According to the rigorous attitude of the red side, the bandits in the 1953 period should have been mostly wiped out.

But whether they were completely eradicated was unknown.

They could only wait for the plot here to advance and watch it themselves.

Fortunately, there was the real-time map on the Jixing official website.

The movements of the People's Liberation Army camp and the movements of the bandits were all clear to the Blue Star players.

The next day.

There was one more day until the revelations from Yu Feng's side.

And Fang Ming also discovered some novel plot developments here.

Fang Ming's live broadcast room was playing the content of another live broadcast room.

And this streamer was from the People's Liberation Army camp.

Because of an injury, he had remained in the rear and was currently distributing tasks in the rear.

Fang Ming was also explaining to the new Blue Star friends in the live broadcast room.

This was a region controlled by landlord bullies through superstition.

After driving away the landlords and bullies here, the People's Liberation Army prepared a meeting to break down superstition, held in the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

On the stage.

Some victims who had been deceived by "experts" into losing their families and fortunes were complaining on the spot.

At the same time.

The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stood on the stage and publicly exposed the scams of healing by floating water, as well as tricks like divine possession, invulnerability, ghost shadows, and other stunts that fooled the world.

These explanations were all told to the masses in plain, easy-to-understand language.

At the same time, they also brought the henchmen of those landlord bullies onto the stage.

Letting them publicly expose the rumors created by those landlord bullies in collusion with the "experts."

The villagers below looked at each other.

Their faces were full of shock at these pieces of news.

Because they never expected that the landlord master, who was usually a "great philanthropist" and would even reduce rent during disaster years, was secretly colluding with bullies and "experts" to cheat them.

They subconsciously suspected it was fake.

Because this overturned their perceptions of the past ten or twenty years.

However.

The landlord's henchman on stage was not fake, and the things he said were not fake either.

It was just that the common people in the past did not know the inside story.

Now, listening to the many inside stories exposed by that landlord henchman, many people's expressions were already wavering.

Until the landlord's henchman on stage mentioned another crime of the landlord.

A young man below erupted with a hateful roar:

"Beast! My younger sister was beaten to death by him?"

"She was only 14 years old!!!"

"Didn't you say she died of a plague?!"

"You explain it to me clearly! Beast!!!"

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

The young man angrily wanted to rush onto the stage.

The landlord's henchman being held on stage was startled, his body shrinking back involuntarily, but held by two soldiers, he could not move at all.

And the young man below was also blocked by two soldiers.

The landlord's henchman breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly continued:

"It's true!"

"I promise! I promise the People's Liberation Army!"

"It's all true!"

"It was because he wanted to force himself on your sister and failed, so he was so angry he whipped her all night and whipped her to death!"

"I promise it's all true!"

"I confess for leniency, I want lenient treatment!"

Hearing this.

The angry young man was furious:

"Ahhhhh, I want to kill him!!!"

The crazed young man desperately broke free from the two soldiers' obstruction and rushed toward the landlord's courtyard in the village, which had already been taken over by the People's Liberation Army.

The landlord was being held there.

Several People's Liberation Army soldiers hurriedly chased after him.

And at this time, the masses below already believed it nine-tenths, discussing in disbelief:

"Erya was actually beaten to death? This living beast."

"Poor siblings."

"Who's to say not? Their parents died early, and Da Chui worked hard to raise Erya to 13, only to have her caught by Master Huang as a maid during a disaster year."

"I thought the siblings had finally made it, as no one could starve the people in the landlord's house."

"Who could have thought..."

"What landlord master! That's a living beast!"

"No."

"I watched Erya grow up too, today even if I risk my life, I have to stab that beast a few times."

"Hey! He hasn't finished speaking yet!"

"See what else that beast has done!"

"I'm not watching! I'm going to kill that beast!!!"

As the landlord's henchman confessed one thing after another for leniency.

The onlookers could no longer control themselves, letting out angry roars and rushing toward the landlord's henchman on the stage; at this moment, everything collapsed.

The so-called "experts" and so-called "philanthropists."

Were nothing but disguises for those oppressors.