Chapter 84: [Battle of Songgufeng] (3.5K, thanks to alliance leader sfqk
Such a miserable and embarrassing scene almost made Shen Yan laugh to death.
Qu Guang also showed a smile, his tone somewhat emotional:
"Not everyone brushes it casually like us, speaking of which... having someone is different."
"If we encountered [White Death] when live streaming..."
Other Federations encountered [White Death] and were caught off guard, only to be abused.
They, on the other hand, because they had the key, simply treated [White Death] as a training ground. After practicing for so long, the individual combat quality had almost doubled.
This treatment is not something other Federations can compare to.
If they encountered the [White Death] dungeon when live streaming, it definitely wouldn't look that ugly, and it wasn't impossible to counter-kill. At least they succeeded many times in training.
By then, once compared, they would take off directly.
Shen Yan also nodded.
But Shen Yan was no longer interested in [White Death]; his main energy was now on [Battle of Songgufeng].
He originally wanted to lead people to clear it himself, but now the order from above had come down.
Shen Yan pondered and decided to experience it with the Republic Volunteer Army first, to see what they were missing before the live stream, because there was no other way in this kind of battlefield situation except to hold on hard.
And all the data of the Republic Volunteer Army given by Polar Star were the most real human data. No matter how the photonic supercomputer analyzed it, they were ordinary humans.
But why could the Republic Volunteer Army hold on, and they couldn't?
Where exactly is the difference?
Shen Yan pondered, watched the live stream for a while, and said to Qu Guang:
"You take the 2nd Special Battalion to start the live stream first."
"I'll have Polar Star open the data for [Battle of Songgufeng], and I'll come to swap with you in the evening."
?
Qu Guang had no objection:
"Okay."
"But aren't you going to rest?"
Shen Yan shook his head:
"If I don't clear [Battle of Songgufeng], I can't sleep."
On the other side.
Polar Star Game Company.
Zhao Ming was also watching Sky Shark Live.
He hadn't expected the major Federations to intervene.
It was mainly because he was looking at the promotion time order of the "Anti-War Competition" official, and it hadn't been their turn yet, but because the Antarctic Star Federation official account live streamed it, the popularity exploded directly.
The recommendation hadn't started yet, but the game had already exploded.
In just one morning.
More than four million accounts were added, and this number was still growing. It was estimated that it would break ten million by the evening.
Even Shen Qinghan was alarmed and hurriedly mobilized all resources, changing all servers and equipment to the top-tier ones in two hours.
Now the server could accommodate eighty million people without any problems.
Although Zhao Ming felt it was too much, after all, the highest online number of "Earth" wasn't that high,
but thinking about Blue Star, whether it was land area or world population,
it was far beyond "Earth," eighty million... it seemed reasonable.
Zhao Ming opened the official website and looked at the real-time map.
At this time, Kiev was almost surrounded, triggering the [Battle of Kiev], the largest encirclement battle in Earth's history, followed by [Battle of Leningrad], [Battle of Moscow], and [Battle of Stalingrad].
These battles, except for the [Battle of Kiev],
were all battles with quite long time spans. If he wanted to make them into national war dungeons, he could only choose a time period and make it into a dungeon for players to enter and experience.
After all, like the [Battle of Leningrad], the siege lasted for 872 days, causing millions of casualties, but many of them starved to death.
You can't let players starve inside for 872 days... [Battle of Moscow] and [Battle of Stalingrad] were the same, needing to choose a time point to make into a dungeon.
It's just that there were too many time points, and Zhao Ming hadn't chosen yet, or... making multiple dungeons at different time nodes seemed possible.
Just as he was thinking.
Zhao Ming received a message from Shen Qinghan. Zhao Ming looked at it, opened the database for [Battle of Songgufeng], and then notified Shen Qinghan.
Then he called up the database for [Battle of Songgufeng], somewhat surprised:
"Already held out for 5 hours and 17 minutes."
But thinking about it, it made sense.
The 7th Special Operations Brigade was, after all, a special operations brigade, and they were the elites of the Northern Army. Their combat effectiveness was definitely not a problem.
If there was any difference from the Republic Volunteer Army... perhaps it was only willpower or belief.
Noon.
Shen Yan, who had just rested for half an hour and had a meal,
led the soldiers of the 1st Special Battalion into the room for [Battle of Songgufeng], then entered the key and chose to start.
The screen gradually turned black, then lit up.
The familiar front line met his eyes, the words [Battle of Songgufeng] appeared before his eyes, and then slowly dissipated.
Shen Yan just wanted to speak, but was somewhat stunned, because there were only ten people beside him, and the others were Republic Volunteer Army soldiers.
"Where are the others?"
Shen Yan and the others didn't know that due to the participant limit of [Battle of Songgufeng], the other 140 soldiers were all in groups of 10, starting in new [Battle of Songgufeng] rooms following the Republic Volunteer Army.
And suddenly, the voice of a Republic Volunteer Army soldier sounded beside him:
"Everyone, prepare for battle!"
"Absolutely cannot let these foreign devils pass!"
Shen Yan also immediately entered a combat state.
After so many battles, he was basically familiar with the US military's routes and thoughts.
Because they couldn't break through Sanso-ri, the US military wanted to retreat from Longyuanli. To go to Longyuanli, they had to pass through Songgufeng, the only way.
They had to block the US military here firmly, so that the Republic Volunteer Army troops on the outer circle would have time to implement the encirclement and annihilate these US troops here.
Shen Yan quickly arrived at the predetermined position, holding his breath and looking at the corner of the road below.
Bang—!
Accompanied by a gunshot:
"Fire!!!"
Shen Yan and others scattered on the small hill started attacking the US vanguard troops below.
For a time, the sound of gunfire was endless, and the US troops who hadn't reacted were suddenly surrounded, but the tanks in the rear had already turned their turrets.
Aimed at the hillside.
And the demolition team of the Republic Volunteer Army ambushed below had already quietly touched the rear of the tanks.
Taking advantage of the turrets aiming at the hillside, they successfully blew them up and paralyzed them.
But this... was just the beginning.
There were still more than five long hours left.
2nd hour.
After repelling the US attack several times, the US side had already started to adjust its strategy.
First, they used artillery fire to cover the entire front line, then ordered the tank troops to surround and bombard the front line, and then the infantry touched the hillside.
The 10 people Shen Yan brought, because of the bombardment, gradually dispersed into the 7th, 8th, and 9th squads, blocking the enemy from three directions together with the Republic Volunteer Army.
They repelled five small-scale charges in a row, seeing that the enemy had retreated.
The Republic Volunteer Army hurriedly dug trenches during the air raid, but the US bombers in the sky had already flown over their heads.
The bombing, which lasted for more than twenty minutes, shaved off at least half an inch of the ground.
When the air raid ended, Shen Yan shook the dust off his body and stood up.
In the sky.
A sharp whistle of a shell suddenly came.
Boom—!!!
The shockwave of the explosion spread in the center of the small hill, and Shen Yan, who had just stood up, and two Volunteer Army soldiers were directly blown away by the bomb.
"Those foreign devils are charging up again!"
"Quick!"
"Hand grenades!!!"
Shen Yan shook the dust off his body, his ears buzzing, picked up the rifle in his hand, and started point-shooting at the US troops charging down the hill.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Almost every shot would take a head, but there were too many US troops on the opposite side. Just the vanguard alone had two thousand people... The battle lasted for more than an hour before repelling the US attack.
However, Shen Yan's heart grew colder and colder.
4th hour.
Shen Yan moved his body, hiding behind the bunker.
The entire hillside had been plowed countless times by artillery shells, and there were dense craters everywhere. Shen Yan suddenly thought inexplicably:
"Damn..."
"Don't even need to dig trenches."
Some deep craters were enough to bury a person.
Shen Yan took advantage of the short air raid rest to observe the situation of the Republic Volunteer Army around him, and his heart sank. They had already lost more than half.
This casualty rate seemed no different from the 7th Brigade under his command.
But there were still more than two hours... Shen Yan took a deep breath, shook his head, and prepared to calm down and fight.
At this time.
The roar of planes in the sky sounded again, Shen Yan cursed secretly:
"Damn!"
Hurriedly hid in the trench. The bombers in the sky dropped bombs. This time there were many incendiary bombs.
The bombing lasted for more than ten minutes.
The entire 3rd Company front line turned into a sea of fire.
5th hour.
The shelling finally stopped.
On the entire hillside, there was only the crackling sound of burning, twisted gun barrels, charred corpses, and thick black smoke billowing toward the sky, obscuring the sunlight.
There were corpses everywhere, and the air was filled with a pungent burnt smell.
Thump!
A US corpse was pushed away. Shen Yan stretched out his hand, trembling, trying to support his body, wanting to stand up with difficulty, but failed several times.
At this time.
His body was suddenly pulled, and a slightly immature voice sounded in his ear:
"Are you okay, get up quickly."
Then he helped Shen Yan up. Shen Yan turned to look; it was a Republic Volunteer Army soldier, but combined with that immature voice, Shen Yan was somewhat surprised.
After supporting his body and sitting well, before he could ask, he saw the little Volunteer Army soldier hand over half a pancake:
"Eat quickly."
"Eat well to fight those foreign devils."
A smile appeared on Shen Yan's face:
"Thank you."
Shen Yan took the pancake and took a bite, then looked at the surrounding front line. Can this really hold for another hour?
At this time.
Suddenly thinking of something, Shen Yan looked at the little Republic Volunteer Army soldier and asked:
"Little brother, how old are you?"
The little soldier was wrapping bandages around his leg. Hearing Shen Yan's question, he looked up and said:
"I'm 17."
Hearing this, a flash of surprise crossed Shen Yan's eyes:
"So young?"
In Blue Star, there are no children of this age in the army.
At this time, they would still be in the Federation's compulsory education school, not to mention that no parents would be willing to let such a young child enter the army.
The little soldier smiled:
"Not small anymore, I can even get married."
Hearing this, Shen Yan was also happy:
"Do you have anyone you like? How is it going?"
The little soldier was a bit embarrassed:
"Not yet."
"Wait until we finish fighting the American devils, otherwise even if I get married, I won't have peace."
Shen Yan didn't understand. What does fighting the American... devils have to do with getting married, so he couldn't help but ask:
"Fighting these American... devils? What does it have to do with getting married?"
The little soldier said:
"Our company commander said, if we don't fight this war, our descendants will have to fight it."
"Thinking about it, it makes sense."
"We can't get married, have children, raise them with difficulty, and when we look forward to getting married and having children and holding grandchildren, the foreign devils come again, letting the children go to the battlefield."
"We have suffered enough of this rot, we can't let our descendants suffer this rot again."
"Only by winning can we live a stable life, farm, get married, and have children."
Listening to the little soldier's words, Shen Yan seemed to have realized something, opened his mouth, wanting to say something.
But the words reached his lips, and he didn't know what to say, only that sentence kept echoing in his mind.
If we don't fight this war, our descendants will have to fight it...
Shen Yan seemed to sense the long-term peace in Blue Star, which made them different from these Republic Volunteer Army soldiers.
At this time.
The roar of the bombers in the sky sounded again.
(9.5k achieved~ Thanks to alliance leader sfgk, the outline is not enough today, will make up the extra update tomorrow!!!)
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