Chapter 81: [Blitzkrieg on the Soviet] (3.8k)

The old hunter looked anxious and turned to look at Duan Yu:

"Little Olga, go notify the people in the village to hide."

"I'll stop them!"

This made Duan Yu stunned:

"You'll stop them?"

You don't look like you can fight tanks either?

The old hunter had no time to pay attention to Duan Yu, dragged his crippled leg and walked quickly into the wooden hut, rummaging for something. Duan Yu came to his senses and ran toward the village.

After running less than a hundred meters, he could faintly hear the old hunter's curses behind him.

Bang!

A gunshot startled Duan Yu, and he turned back to look.

He was stunned.

He saw the old hunter's wooden hut was already ignited, with thick black smoke rising straight into the sky.

The old hunter beside the wooden hut was holding the worn-out old gun he had used since participating in World War I, aiming at the distant tank armored cluster.

Bang!

The old hunter fired another shot, cursing loudly, seemingly trying to attract the attention of the Imperial tank cluster.

The rapidly moving tank armored troops in the distance also discovered the abnormality here and slowed down, seemingly thinking about something.

But just a few seconds later, the dense tank armored troops continued to accelerate forward.

Seeing the Imperial tank armored troops speed up and drive toward the depths of the border,

the old hunter raised the gun in his hand, cursing, and was about to pull the trigger.

Boom—!!!

A tank shell directly hit the burning wooden hut, the explosion spread, directly extinguishing the flames of the wooden hut, and the old hunter's figure was instantly torn to pieces.

The huge tremor also startled Duan Yu back to his senses.

He never expected this game plot to be so outrageous; one second he was roasting a deer leg, the next second he was playing a life-and-death escape?

What the hell is this?

Seeing a tank break away from the team and charge toward him, Duan Yu couldn't care about anything else and scrambled toward the village.

A muffled sound.

The shell hadn't arrived, but the sound had already struck.

The next second.

The scorching heat wave of the shell passing through the air brushed past Duan Yu's ears, making his hair stand on end:

"Damn!!!"

The huge impact exploded less than ten meters in front of him, and Duan Yu followed in the old hunter's footsteps, torn to pieces... The game screen went black, and he returned to the main interface.

He was not the only streamer to encounter this.

Returning to Sky Shark Live, Gaming Section, in the "World War II: Rise of the Empire" category.

At this time, you could see many streamers who were live streaming suddenly look terrified, and then the screen went black, but they were almost all players from the Soviet Federation.

There were also some players who were also from the Soviet Federation, but nothing happened to them.

In "World War II: Rise of the Empire," this sudden scene directly exploded on the player forum, and many people had already been killed by the Imperial army.

At this time, clicking on any post asking what happened, they were all players with confused faces.

[WTF? What exactly happened?]

[Why were so many people killed?]

[Game bug? NPCs rioted?]

[Damn, how could such a thing happen.]

[Damn it! I was just trying to use flirting techniques on an NPC girl in the game, and a tank shell landed.]

[Laughing to death, living and dying together, blessings.]

[Polar Star official website updated, go check it out!!!]

Hearing someone say this,

players rushed to the Polar Star official website to see what happened.

Just entering the official website,

there was no update announcement, only a live map in the upper right corner. If you clicked to enlarge it, you would find the huge outline of the color representing the Empire.

It was penetrating deep into the Soviet Federation border.

And on the map, small dots were lighting up, then displaying player information, and the map at the lit-up dots gradually became clear in detail.

Soon, players realized that these were players submitting data.

Then players uploaded their death locations and information to the Polar Star official website one after another.

As more and more information was submitted, a battle line stretching more than two thousand kilometers from south to north, covering the entire junction between the Empire and the Soviet Union, gradually became clear on the map.

A chat function was also added to the live map.

In the chat room below, players looked at the map with constant subtle changes and were shocked:

"This battle line is too long, right? Can Blitzkrieg be played like this?"

"I'm still a bit confused, Blitzkrieg on such a large territory as the Soviet Federation, outrageous?!"

"The point is not whether it's outrageous, but that they really broke in."

"The Soviet Federation hasn't organized an effective defense yet, the Empire is advancing too fast."

"What about supplies for such a long battle line? Is the person who came up with this attack plan a genius or a madman..."

"All-out combat, three main attack directions, this is to take out the Soviet's main cities in one go."

"By the way, how can there be no military experts to analyze this kind of war situation? @Shi Jun Talks Military'"

"Laughing to death, this guy can't even beat an ordinary Imperial general, can he understand the map?"

"So the people who died were all at the Soviet Federation border?"

Players had already realized why so many people died.

It turned out they were all at the Soviet border, but it looks like... those inside are also coming soon, the Empire's advance speed is too fast.

At this time.

Inside Polar Star Company.

[Emotional value +28419.]

[Emotional value +31812.]

[Emotional value +248...]

The Empire's sudden action generated a large amount of emotional value from the players.

Obviously, they were caught off guard.

And Zhao Ming updated the brief information of "Operation Barbarossa" on the official website.

[Operation Barbarossa]

[Operation Barbarossa was an invasion launched by the Empire, aiming to quickly defeat the Soviet Federation through Blitzkrieg, occupy the vast territory from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, and seize the resource-rich Ukraine and Caucasus regions.]

[The Empire committed about 3.2 million troops, attacking simultaneously in three army groups (North, Center, South), intending to capture Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev before winter.]

The plot timeline in the game during this period gradually unified to one day, so when the base of immersive players was sufficient, Zhao Ming unlocked the progress.

And because they were all single immersive plot modes,

even if he opened the real-time map, Zhao Ming didn't worry about changes in the game plot.

The "Eastern Front" in World War II would see millions of people die in a single major battle.

The role of a single person in the game is too small, so small that they can only go with the flow, and might even be blown up by Imperial shells before seeing the Imperial army.

You can't beat them, but the discussions about the Empire and the Soviet Federation will definitely not stop.

Now the player forum is all starting to discuss the outcome of this war.

Because players are scattered everywhere in their respective immersive plots, there are people almost everywhere, so as long as someone dies, they upload information immediately.

Players can see the changes in the map.

At this time, the border defense line of the Soviet Federation has been completely torn open.

That battle line stretching more than two thousand kilometers makes people's scalps tingle; how crazy must one be to formulate such a plan.

And it's not just players watching and analyzing.

Great Xia Federation.

Songger Icefield, 7th Special Operations Brigade.

Looking at the live map on the Polar Star official website and the Empire's combat plan, Shen Yan had Chief of Staff Qu Guang called over.

Qu Guang walked in:

"What's the situation, Old Shen."

Shen Yan turned the live map in the projection over:

"Look at this."

"This Soviet Federation has such a huge land area, the Empire has stretched the battle line so long, guess which side will win?"

This Empire is truly crazy, stretching the battle line for two thousand kilometers.

Qu Guang glanced at it and said:

"That depends on the Empire's logistics capability."

"If they can't break through the Soviet Federation in one go, according to the Empire's expansion speed, they probably won't be able to supply it later."

"Did the game update again?"

Qu Guang looked over curiously.

Shen Yan shook his head:

"Not quite sure."

"This is something that is suddenly being hotly discussed online, I'm just following along."

Qu Guang rolled his eyes at Shen Yan:

"You should think about how to clear the [Battle of Songgufeng] instead."

"Since it was unlocked a few days ago, not a single battalion has been able to hold out for 6 hours."

By gathering elite forces, they successfully completed the holding mission in [Bloody Battle of Sanso-ri], but the difficulty of [Battle of Songgufeng]

is simply not something humans can complete.

Shen Yan also had a toothache:

"The intensity of [Battle of Songgufeng] is too high."

"But we can't keep asking Zhao Ming for data to see how the Republic Volunteer Army fought it."

"Let's practice first."

"Didn't the 1st Special Battalion hold out for 5 hours and 13 minutes."

"I'll lead the team to practice during this time."

Qu Guang nodded upon seeing this, and then sat down to analyze the war situation with Shen Yan.

At this time.

Sky Shark Live, Gaming Section.

Someone is live streaming the battle against the Empire.

In the live stream room.

The time in the game has reached the second day of the Empire launching "Operation Barbarossa."

Brest Fortress.

The smoke of war in the fortress has not yet dissipated, and the roar of Stuka bombers has not gone far, but the Soviet soldiers lying on the ground quickly stood up.

They could already feel the trembling of the earth; it was the Empire's tank armor.

Duan Yu also followed and stood up.

He patted the dust off his body, looking melancholy.

This game is toxic; get blown up and restart.

And ended up on the front line of the battlefield again; is this intentional?

No time to think.

Duan Yu followed other soldiers to ambush, the sound of tank tracks outside getting closer, seemingly about to enter the encirclement.

Suddenly!

An iron can was thrown in, followed by pungent smoke.

The soldiers nearby were choked and kept coughing, directly exposing their positions.

Duan Yu, who was in the back, cursed secretly:

"Damn!"

"Is this toxic? Using all kinds of dirty tricks?!"

Seeing it was a poison gas bomb and there was nowhere to hide, Duan Yu could only stand up and run backward, but he hadn't run far.

Boom—!

A loud noise came from behind.

The wall where everyone was ambushing was blown to pieces by a shell, and the violent shockwave killed all the surrounding soldiers, causing them to bleed from their ears and noses.

Duan Yu rolled to the ground, the sound of tank tracks coming from afar, Duan Yu immediately held his breath, not daring to stand up to look.

He just quietly shrank his body, wanting to hide under the stone slab as much as possible, while also using some rubble to block the front.

In this environment.

Even knowing it's a game, Duan Yu couldn't help but have his heart racing and his breathing quickening.

It's really thrilling.

The sound of tracks in his ears sometimes got louder, sometimes quieter, and there was the sound of dense motorcycles passing by. Duan Yu lay there motionless.

Until the sky gradually darkened.

Only then did Duan Yu quietly crawl out from under the stone slab.

What met his eyes was a ruin, completely different from when he had just respawned and started in the morning.

In the morning, it was still a complete fortress building, but now he couldn't find a single place similar to his memory.

He didn't know if anyone was still resisting, but the occasional gunfire in the distance showed that the battle was still continuing.

Duan Yu picked up a gun and looked at the ruins around him with a hint of bewilderment.

In just half a day, everything was destroyed.

Then he shook his head, Duan Yu looked around, not knowing where to go.

This game didn't have any hints.

Duan Yu stood in place and thought for a while, looking at the live stream chat.

Finally, he decided to walk in the direction of the Soviet Federation. Mainly, going toward the Empire would be pure suicide, right?

Walking out of the broken fortress, the sunset sunlight shone down.

It brought a hint of warmth to Duan Yu's body, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face:

"Although this game is a pit, the scenery is really good."

"If I record this sunset and upload it to the Polar Star game official website, do you think I can win..."

Click—!

A crisp sound came from under his feet.

Duan Yu had a face full of question marks, just about to look down, the landmine under his feet exploded.

The screen in the game instantly turned black due to the impact.

In the main interface.

The smile on Duan Yu's face hadn't faded yet, it was already frozen, and then he gritted his teeth and said:

"This damn game... I don't believe it?!"

"Again!!!"

Can I be that unlucky every time???

Re-entering the game to start.

This time it wasn't a war zone, but a city that hadn't experienced the flames of war. The construction in the city was magnificent, but the accent was still from the Soviet Federation side:

"This start is not bad."

However.

The live stream chat had already started to remind him.

[Not bad my ass, run quickly.]

[You are in Kiev... right in the center of the Empire's attack route.]

(Still 500 words short of 8k, can't finish a plot, will make it up tomorrow. Today, including the extra update, 11.7k! Will try to make up double tomorrow!)