Chapter 168: The Oppression of the [Three Major Campaigns], Blue Star Netizens: Can This Be Won

After understanding Shen Qinghan's idea, Zhao Ming also began to study it.

After all, if the troops of the six major federations didn't beat the game NPCs, it would definitely trigger heated discussions.

And it was proposed by the Federation and voted on by the public.

At that time, no matter how the major federations complain, it can't be blamed on them.

But if it's a vote, the rules still need to be formulated in detail, otherwise everyone will vote for 【Republic】.

Zhao Ming pondered, calling up the backend data of "World War II: Rise of Empires."

He began to search for some battles that players hadn't experienced.

After all, "WWII" has been open for so long, many plots have been experienced by players; taking experienced battles as challenge levels, what's the difference between that and rehearsing a script?

Zhao Ming screened battles in the backend database.

And the major federations at this time.

Also released the announcement of the joint military exercise on their own official accounts.

Because it was the first time to conduct a military exercise in the game, and it was chosen by netizens, it triggered a lot of heated discussion for a while.

Especially Polaris company, which was still the focus of discussion.

Many netizens rushed to the Polaris official website or official accounts, asking for the voting link.

The Polaris official website soon posted the voting page.

At the same time, Zhao Ming also shared the link on his account and tagged the official accounts of the six major federations, and the official accounts of the six major federations also forwarded it one after another.

Tian Sha live streaming platform.

In Fang Ming's stream.

Fang Ming, who had just gone online, was urged by the friends who poured in to ask which country on 'Earth' he voted for; Fang Ming appeased the friends in the stream:

"Vote?"

"Of course I voted for 【Republic】."

"After all, this one hasn't been opened before."

"Everyone who hasn't voted yet, come and click too."

Fang Ming opened the voting page of the Polaris official website, and the friends in the stream looked at the account Fang Ming logged in with, which indeed showed he voted for the Republic.

And other friends in the stream also started voting under his guidance.

Fang Ming explained to some friends: "According to the rules released by Polaris."

"This six major federation 'Joint Military Exercise' has three levels."

"Which battlefield on 'Earth' is used for these three levels is all chosen by netizens' votes."

"Currently... 【Republic】 has the highest number of votes, followed by 【Empire】, 【Soviet Union】, 【American Federation】."

"From this, it can be seen."

"The top three countries with the highest votes will be selected, and then battles will be drawn."

"Everything will be conducted publicly after the voting ends."

"And it will be monitored in real-time by the official photon supercomputer to ensure there is no black-box operation."

"This arrangement feels okay."

"And because it's held in the game, there's no fear of death."

"So you can clearly see the gap in combat effectiveness of the major federation troops."

The Blue Star netizens in the stream couldn't help but agree.

Indeed.

The reason why previous military exercises were not attractive was that besides the major federations showing off various high-tech weapons, the competition was just a formality, and it was scoring-based.

Of course, no one watched the semi-performance format.

But now that it's moved into the game, there's no need to fear injury, as they are all virtual anyway.

But the viewing experience has increased several times.

And it's voted by the players themselves, so isn't it however they want to vote?

Fang Ming looked at the number of votes.

【Republic】 naturally goes without saying, leading other countries by a wide margin.

Behind it is 【Empire】, and then 【Soviet Union】, 【American Federation】; these two superpowers 'post-WWII' have votes going back and forth, constantly changing.

Fang Ming was about to exit the Polaris official website to find Yu Feng to team up.

A new announcement suddenly popped up on the Polaris official website.

【Explanation of 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】 and Map Data Download】

It immediately attracted Fang Ming's attention:

"Huh?"

Fang Ming clicked on the new announcement and entered the page.

What caught his eyes was a short introduction, and a data package link below.

Fang Ming clicked to download the data package and looked at the announcement while telling the friends in the stream:

"Polaris says 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】 is absolutely real."

"As long as a player triggers the plot, the CG will be opened."

"But they also invite players to experience it, and currently, part of the data package is open."

"Inside is the complete topographic map of 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】, as well as all data of the blue side troops, from generals to soldiers."

"Players can use the photon supercomputer to render and challenge it themselves."

"Hiss—"

"Polaris is challenging the whole internet."

Previously, there were quite a few who questioned the authenticity of 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】, but Polaris directly opened the data package for 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】.

As long as you download it and connect it to the photon supercomputer, you can render the complete battlefield.

"There are nearly 200 million players globally for 'World War II: Rise of Empires'."

"How can there not be some who can pass it?"

Fang Ming felt Polaris was a bit arrogant.

But little did he know.

He still underestimated the gold content of the 'most impossible battle on Earth'.

After reading the announcement, Fang Ming also finished downloading the data package.

He opened the personal version of the photon supercomputer and said to the Blue Star friends in the stream:

"Brothers, let me challenge it first."

"Those interested can also go download it."

"With nearly 200 million players, how can there not be a few geniuses who can pass it?"

Fang Ming threw the data package to the photon supercomputer for rendering; because the data package was all set, the photon supercomputer finished rendering in less than five minutes.

A five-pointed star icon appeared on the virtual desktop, and Fang Ming clicked in.

The main interface that caught his eyes was similar to WWII, except there were only 【Start】 and 【Settings】 buttons.

Fang Ming clicked on settings and took a look; it was the same as WWII, about pain, touch, or body fine-tuning, these were of little use.

Fang Ming exited and clicked 【Start】.

Then switched pages.

What appeared in front of him was a topographic map, and the layout was that of Crossing the Chishui River Four Times.

It's just that all the blue army units on the map were there, while the original red side's position was left empty, marked as being able to freely choose a location within the range.

Fang Ming clicked in the center of the original red side.

After choosing the initial location, the page flashed.

A settings page appeared, and this page made Fang Ming's eyes light up.

Because although the setting was still 30,000 people, the choice of equipment was much freer; Fang Ming quickly finished equipping his side.

After finishing.

The page flashed again, but this time it was an introduction to the blue side troops, for example...

【Chang Kaishen (Blue Side Commander-in-Chief)】

【Personality: Arbitrary, suspicious and fickle, both wooing and guarding against local warlords.】

【Military style: Micromanagement master, heavy troop encirclement, wary of warlords.】

【Wang Jialie (Commander of the Guizhou Army)】

【Personality: Indecisive, addicted to opium, dissatisfied with relying on the Central Army, but must obey orders.】

【Military style: Passive defense, less coordination.】

【Zhou Hunyuan (Commander of the Central Army's Second Column)】

【Personality: Cautious and conservative.】

【Military style: Firmly defending and waiting for orders, relying on superiors.】

Looking at these introductions, Fang Ming was half-understanding:

"Polaris is... giving the personality and style, letting us find a breakthrough from this?"

"For example, for the cautious and conservative ones, can we set up a false formation?"

"But I always feel something is wrong."

"Whatever, let's start first."

Saying this, Fang Ming clicked again, and this time he completely entered the game.

The screen flashed.

Appearing in the mountains surrounded by mountains, Fang Ming called up the screenshot of the map, looked at it in the stream, and commanded the troops to set off.

Time passed bit by bit.

Until noon, a confused voice came from Fang Ming's stream:

"Wrong, wrong."

"Again."

"This time I'll arrange more heavy weapons."

Another afternoon passed.

Watching himself being kicked back to the main interface, Fang Ming rubbed his face:

"No."

"Too many heavy weapons slow down the march; there's a gap in the southwest, I'll try to break through from there."

After saying this, he started again.

It wasn't just Fang Ming who was challenging.

Just in the 'WWII', 'WWII', and 'Sequel' sections of the Tian Sha live streaming platform, nearly one-third of the streamers were challenging.

However, they fought for a whole day.

At first, they had a little confidence because they could freely choose locations and weapons.

After experiencing a day of blows, everyone went crazy.

Some players felt that Polaris wouldn't do things without reason, so they used the photon supercomputer to throw the data of dozens of blue side generals into the photon supercomputer.

Wanting to use this method to find a breakthrough.

But the photon supercomputer that hadn't simulated this kind of thing was also a mess in analyzing personalities like "arbitrary" and "firmly defending and waiting for orders."

Some photon supercomputers that had just been renewed used up the month's computing power in half an hour, and didn't calculate a result.

You know, this computing power was enough to imitate and manufacture dozens of "World War II: Rise of Empires," but now it was consumed by a battle inside...

For a time, the whole internet was discussing it.

If it weren't for Polaris's reputation, some people would have already started cursing.

It was precisely because of Polaris's reputation that Blue Star players were still self-doubting: am I really too noob?

But damn, the photon supercomputer calculated until the virtual pod was almost burned, and it couldn't calculate the possibility of winning.

Little did they know...

Although the photon supercomputer's computing power was very strong, if the generals inside said one word or made one movement, the photon supercomputer could calculate hundreds of thousands of possibilities.

And these hundreds of thousands of possibilities.

Combined with the personalities of those generals like "arbitrary," "firmly defending and waiting for orders," "passive defense," etc., it was unknown how many millions of possibilities there were.

Although the virtual somatosensory pod had a high configuration, it couldn't withstand such consumption; although the photon supercomputer's computing power was infinite, the virtual pod hardware had an upper limit.

For a time.

On the Federation headlines, besides the Federation military exercise, 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】 was the topic with the highest heat.

Because currently, more than 20 million players had challenged it, and none had succeeded so far.

Seven days later.

Tian Sha live streaming platform.

In Mo Xiaomo's stream.

At this time, Mo Xiaomo was wearing a camouflage short-sleeved shirt and tactical gloves, looking very professional in the stream, chatting with friends:

"Invitation?"

"Received it, it's still me and Tianji."

"When the time comes, I'll go to the scene to unlock it for everyone, hhhhh."

"I feel like I can go take a professional host certificate~"

"Hehe~"

"Voting is almost over."

"The first two have no suspense, just the last one left."

"Brothers of the Soviet Union and American Federation, charge!"

"Only three minutes left!"

At this time.

In Mo Xiaomo's stream, the voting page of the Polaris official website was hung up.

Besides the first place 【Republic】 having no suspense, the second place 【Empire】 was also certain, leaving only the third place for players from the Soviet Union camp and American Federation camp to compete.

Almost every two or three seconds, the third place position would change.

Either it changed to 【Soviet Union】 or it changed to 【American Federation】.

Mo Xiaomo had long voted for 【Republic】.

At this time, watching the players from both sides compete for third place, it was also quite interesting; she cheered for the players on both sides in the stream, watching the third place on the page change constantly, Mo Xiaomo said:

"After determining which three countries."

"Polaris will start a live stream to draw the battlefield, live streaming the whole process."

"A bit looking forward to it."

"However, most of the battles in Empire and Soviet Union should have been fought."

"Don't know if Polaris will draw a repeat one."

As the words fell.

Some netizens in the stream directly retorted; after all, if it's repeated, what's the difference from copying the answer.

Mo Xiaomo thought about it, and it was...

Then she stopped worrying, but looked at the ranking; time passed bit by bit, and soon only 10 seconds were left.

"Ah! Soviet Union is charging, more than 100,000 votes more."

"Three seconds, two seconds!"

"Wait! American Federation stole the home!"

"Fixed!"

Mo Xiaomo also felt a bit exciting; it was already the last ten seconds, and the Soviet Union suddenly led by more than 100,000 votes, but in the last two seconds.

The American Federation stole the home.

As the voting page froze, the three battlefields were determined.

The three squares on the page 【Republic】 【Empire】 【American Federation】 suddenly floated up, then rotated and merged.

Suddenly pulled outward.

A live stream square appeared in front of everyone.

What came into view was the Great Xia Federation, the Photon Supercomputing Center in East Sea City.

At this time, Zhao Ming was on the side, greeting the friends in the stream, and then connected the device in his hand to the official photon supercomputer center in Donghai City.

Seeing this, many Blue Star netizens nodded.

After all, although it was a municipal photon supercomputer center, it was connected to the entire Great Xia official database, so there was absolutely no possibility of cheating.

As the device was connected, the equipment at the photon supercomputer center read it instantly.

Then a prompt that it could start popped up, and then under the eyes of everyone, Zhao Ming clicked the start button.

The country flashed on the left, and the battle name flashed on the right.

Basically, they were all ones that Blue Star players hadn't seen; those well-known battles like the Battle of Stalingrad, Blitz into France, etc., were not among them.

Clearly, Polaris also considered this point.

Then an official staff member of the Great Xia Federation in the screen pressed the stop button.

Dong!

【Empire】

【Battle of Tobruk】

The first level was determined, it was the Empire's 【Battle of Tobruk】.

Many players had never heard of this battle.

Some directly started to check, and in Yu Feng's stream, because they had fought in the 【North African Battlefield】 for a long time, they recognized this battle:

"This battle is the famous battle of the Empire's famous general Rommel."

"It's also because of this battle that Rommel is called the 'Desert Fox'."

"Don't know?"

"It's normal not to know; that was when the 【North African Battlefield】 was just opened."

"Almost no one has fought this battle."

"I remember that players in Tobruk at that time were basically trapped in the city and starving, until they starved to death and restarted, without even seeing Rommel's face."

Just as he was speaking, the staff in the stream pressed the second button.

Dong!

【American Federation】

【Battle of Luzon】

Tian Sha live stream, in Yu Feng's stream.

Yu Feng looked at this battle, frowned slightly, recalled in his mind, and shook his head:

"No impression."

"But let's check it."

Saying this, he opened the player forum and searched, and soon found some information.

"This is a battle of the American Federation attacking Japan's territory in Southeast Asia."

"The commander is... MacArthur?!"

"A big shot in the Hall of Fame, that five-star general of the American Federation."

Dong!

【Republic】

【Battle of Tashan】

Seeing the frozen screen, everyone watching the stream couldn't help but shout, and the barrage flew wildly.

【Damn? Battle of Tashan?!!!】

【Really? I want to give this little brother a gift!】

【Awesome!!!】

【Although we didn't get "Crossing the Chishui River Four Times," "Battle of Tashan" is also okay!】

【Six six six, so soon to unlock the Battle of Tashan?!】

Although the information on 【Republic】 was very little.

But because of that super short introduction, the heat of 【Battle of Tashan】 was no less than 【Crossing the Chishui River Four Times】, and now that such a battle was drawn.

Naturally, it made Blue Star players happy.

Zhao Ming was also surprised; after all, out of dozens of battles, he drew 【Battle of Tashan】 which had high heat, this luck...

Watching the staff finish drawing, Zhao Ming walked up, already having a rough plan in his mind, and said:

"Alright, the three major battles for this year's 'Federation Military Exercise' have been drawn."

"Next, Polaris company will release CG materials and the main confrontation mode of the battlefield three days before the 'Military Exercise' starts."

"Everyone, please look forward to it."

Zhao Ming's words made the Blue Star netizens watching the stream pleasantly surprised.

Didn't expect there would be exclusive CG materials.

After all, Polaris's CG was flawless, and the first two were fine, but the third one became the focus of discussion among Blue Star players.

【Republic】 【Battle of Tashan】 【CG】

These words, each could trigger the discussion of "WWII" players, not to mention combining them together.

And other netizens, although they hadn't played Polaris's games, as members of the Alliance, watching the voting and speeches of many players, couldn't help but pay attention.

Soon.

Three days passed.

Blue Star players were also squatting on Polaris's official website, waiting for the release of the new CG.

At this time.

Tian Sha live streaming platform.

In Mo Xiaomo's stream, Mo Xiaomo refreshed the page twice to ensure there were no problems, so she could watch the CG as soon as it went online:

"Half a minute left."

"Don't know what kind of CG it is, feel like it should be similar to the previous big battle ones?"

The friends in the stream didn't know either, but during the time they were talking, Polaris's page had already popped up the CG playback box.

Mo Xiaomo's eyes lit up.

Immediately clicked on the CG, then enlarged it to full screen in the stream, and watched it with the friends.

The CG screen slowly brightened, floating a few large characters.

【Tobruk】

In the boundless desert, the heat waves distorted the horizon, and the sky-filling yellow sand swept the whole world under the blowing of the strong wind, rendering the whole world yellow.

The perspective pulled down, and an armored cluster drove in the desert.

The perspective suddenly switched to the inside of the tank; the roar of the engine roared in the cabin, and the soldiers' clothes soaked in sweat could show how bad the environment was here.

And the perspective pulled up.

A man wearing an officer's uniform stood in the open turret, his upper body sticking out of the tank, completely exposed to the sandstorm.

In his left hand wearing black leather gloves, he held a pair of binoculars in front of his eyes, his gaze seemingly wanting to pierce the distance.

Suddenly.

A muffled sound came from afar.

A few seconds later.

Boom—!

Boom—!

Artillery shells exploded on the side of the tank cluster, but the man holding the binoculars showed no fear, his left hand lowered, revealing his complete face.

Blue Star players recognized it, it's Rommel?!

At this time, the corner of Rommel's mouth curled up, and his right hand picked up the walkie-talkie:

"Full speed ahead! The sandstorm will cover us!"

As the words fell.

The engines of the entire tank cluster erupted with wild roars, and thick black smoke sprayed from the exhaust ports; the perspective gradually rose, only to see a row of tanks spraying black smoke.

Rushing toward the city 【Tobruk】 across the yellow sand.

Previous Polaris official website CGs were mainly big battlefields, and this was a rare one with an individual as the protagonist; players who were indifferent to Rommel before.

After watching the CG, they only felt the feeling of a rebellious and cunning beast rushing toward them.

Suddenly, Blue Star netizens understood why he was called 【Desert Fox】; there are really only wrong names, no wrong nicknames...

Just as this thought flashed through their minds.

The CG screen switched.

【Luzon】

The drizzling rain beat on the sea surface, dozens of landing ships swayed in the dark green waves; in front of the landing ship's cabin door.

American Federation General MacArthur, with a pipe in his mouth, narrowed his eyes.

Boom—!

Boom—!

Japanese coastal artillery shells exploded on the sea, attempting to prevent the American Federation soldiers from landing on the island.

But because of the rainy weather and strong wind, they couldn't hit it for a long time; as the first landing ship landed, it was like Normandy.

The charging soldiers were not afraid of death, engaging in battle with the defending Japanese army.

The screen flashed quickly.

The Japanese army on the shore clearly couldn't defeat the American Federation, and the entire beach was gradually occupied by the American Federation, and the landing ship where MacArthur was also landed.

However, before the landing ship stopped steadily, MacArthur pushed open the cabin door and walked down directly.

The CG perspective followed the military boots as they landed, stepping into the seawater; MacArthur stepped on the seawater that didn't cover his military boots, walked onto the island with shiny military boots, gorgeous military uniform, and couldn't wait to land.

The perspective slowly pulled up, and the corner of MacArthur's mouth with the pipe curled up:

"Philippines, I'm back."

The tone was full of confidence and arrogance.

The perspective continued to pull up; on the coast where artillery fire was everywhere, MacArthur stood there, like a lion patrolling its territory, so flamboyant, so arrogant.

Blue Star netizens couldn't help but be immersed in it.

The individual style was too obvious; should they suggest to the Polaris official website to make exclusive CGs for all famous generals?

They hadn't realized Rommel and MacArthur were so awesome before?

This CG was beyond the expectations of Blue Star players.

Immediately after.

The screen flashed again, and Blue Star players held their breath.

Is 【Republic】 coming?!

In the screen, a few characters slowly emerged.

【Zhangwu Railway Station】

The sun hadn't fully risen, and the morning frost mist shrouded the entire station.

The majestic armored train was like a dormant steel dragon, waiting on the tracks, and the white mist sprayed by the locomotive pressure furnace impacted the platform.

A figure in a military overcoat paced back and forth on the platform.

Click, click, click—the sound of leather boots crushing stones was clear in the absolute silence of the station, like some kind of countdown.

No artillery fire.

No shouting and killing.

But every detail swept by the camera—on the steam locomotive, the pointer of the pressure gauge trembled in the red warning zone.

The waiting soldiers were frozen like sculptures, even their breathing was suppressed to the lowest, and the translator in the telegraph room had his fingers hanging over the telegraph key.

Cold sweat slid down his temples...

The entire station, except for the roar of the steam engine, had no other sound.

Everything was silently declaring that this was the most suffocating tranquility before the storm.

Looking at the scene in the CG, an invisible oppression impacted the minds of Blue Star netizens.

Although there was no fighting, no artillery shells exploding.

But it was more oppressive and captivating than that thrilling battlefield.

The perspective circled the entire station.

Until two people got off the train and walked up to the figure pacing back and forth, saying something.

The pacing figure stopped, not responding immediately.

There was only three seconds of absolute silence.

Finally, he spoke slowly, re-arranging the mission.

A moment later.

The three turned and walked toward the train.

Suddenly.

The general behind, also wearing a military overcoat, paused and looked to the side:

"I'll add one point."

"Put all the artillery columns and tank detachments in the direction of Jinzhou."

As the words fell.

The general beside him looked forward with the notebook in his hand, and the general who spoke also looked forward; the figure in front turned his head slightly, his voice as cold as stone carving:

"It's settled."

As the words fell, the screen suddenly went black—Dong!!!

A loud sound like a war drum.

Four scarlet characters, like blood, emerged in the darkness: 【Liaoshen Campaign】

Thus.

The CG ended.

And the Blue Star netizens watching the CG hadn't come back to their senses yet.

【Damn? What just happened?】

【This drum sound, scared me!】

【Hiss—】

【This sense of screen is absolutely stunning.】

【My god, this oppression! I didn't even dare to breathe just now!】

【I thought Rommel's style was like a beast and very strong, but MacArthur was like a lion, I thought MacArthur was very strong, but this... my god!】

【To be honest, just these three CG data clips.】

【How come I feel that the six major federations don't seem to be able to beat these 'Earth' generals.】 ===== CHAPTER 169 =====