Chapter 179: 【The Encirclement of a Million-Strong Army】 The CG that is about to shock the Blue Star (6k)

At this moment.

The Red Side's plan truly stunned the people of Blue Star.

Whether it was the generals of the various Federation troops, the military experts in the civilian sector, or the many Blue Star players who had played the 【WWII Series】 games.

Everyone believed this plan was far too risky.

Whether in WWI or WWII, there were rarely such extreme operations even on the 【European Battlefield】.

Most players entered the game through the 【WWII】 series.

Therefore, they were not very certain if such tactics and plans from the Red Side would work.

Although on the 【Republic】 timeline, the Red Side still had many events ahead, it was certain that the Red Side would not perish here.

But this plan was still too risky.

It drew the attention of the entire Blue Star internet to the in-game plot at this moment.

However, there were also quite a few players of the 【Huaxia】 history series who felt it was feasible.

Because such things... were truly not rare in the 【Huaxia】 history series, summarized in seven characters:

"Place oneself in a desperate situation to survive."

Xiang Yu had done this, Han Xin had done this, and even Liu Bang had experienced many events of finding survival in desperate situations.

The Red Side forces were also facing such a situation.

But with so many examples before them, it was clear that the Red Side would be victorious.

This could at most be considered a small difficulty; the Red Side would definitely be able to overcome it.

The players of the 【Huaxia】 series were adamant, but many others retorted.

They were looking at the problem from the perspective of later success.

How could such a situation be a small difficulty?

When Liu Bang was being hunted by Xiang Yu, in order to make the carriage run faster, he even pushed his own son off; did he know at the time that he would defeat Xiang Yu later?

In that situation, in order to survive, he even pushed his own son off.

One can imagine the crisis at that time.

Just like now.

More than 30,000 Red Side troops were blocked at Gaoxingxu, surrounded on all four sides by enemy elites, with ammunition and food about to be exhausted.

Inside Liu Xu's stream room.

The wounded were packed into makeshift grass sheds, while more people slept under the trees, not daring to reveal a single trace.

Because in the sky, the Blue Side's reconnaissance planes whistled past from time to time, and the shadows they cast shrouded this narrow area like a nightmare; every day, soldiers killed or injured by airstrikes were carried into the grass sheds.

Constructing solid defensive lines, they had completely sealed off the Red Side's retreat.

In such a situation.

Even if one could not empathize, just by looking at Liu Xu's stream room.

One could understand how desperate this situation and this scene were; how could such a crisis be dismissed with a lighthearted "small difficulty"?

The Blue Star players were arguing endlessly, while also paying attention to the situation in the stream room at this moment.

But no matter how the Blue Star players communicated and argued.

The Red Side forces at this time had already begun their action.

Inside Liu Xu's stream room.

Night had already fallen.

In the pitch-black night.

The Red Side soldiers did not even dare to light a lamp; all shovels, guns, and everything else were wrapped in cloth, fearing to make the slightest sound, as they conducted a forced march on the rugged mountain roads.

Under the silent night, there was only the rustling sound of straw sandals stepping through the grass.

And looking at the movement trajectories from both sides, it was truly thrilling.

Because the map in the stream room also changed in real-time as information was updated.

At this moment, the Red Side troops almost bumped into the Blue Side troops.

The Blue Side troops at this time, according to the information uploaded by Jiang Yu.

The 61st Division, 60th Division, 52nd Division, and 9th Division near Gaoxingxu were surrounding Gaoxingxu, attempting to block the Red Side forces at Gaoxingxu.

And the Red Side took advantage of the gap between the 52nd Division and the 9th Division.

Before they had completely closed in, they moved toward the northeast to cross this narrow gap.

The atmosphere of the march in the stream room was heavy and tense, not daring to make a sound, and the watching Blue Star netizens also held their breath; if they were discovered, it would be all over.

Even Liu Xu and Jiang Yu were nervously watching the movements on the map.

Unlike Jiang Yu.

Liu Xu was truly in the middle of the troops, watching the Blue Side's movements, and as the distance between the two sides grew closer, Liu Xu was also extremely worried.

And when the distance on the map was at its closest.

One could even see the faint lights in the distance; that was the position of the Blue Side troops.

Everyone dared not make a sound; the entire troop was silent.

Only the legs kept moving.

When the sky gradually brightened, and the last soldier crossed this gap of death, the sky had already turned a pale white.

Standing on the high mountain.

Liu Xu looked back at the enemy positions at Gaoxingxu, and could even see the cooking smoke slowly rising.

But not a single enemy soldier had discovered them.

At this moment, the enemy was still fantasizing about surrounding Gaoxingxu and annihilating them all.

Completely unaware.

Just after this tense night of marching, the Red Side's main force had already completely transferred out.

And the Blue Star netizens finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Just watching it was heart-stopping.

After the Red Side forces passed through the enemy's encirclement, they kept moving toward the north, going straight to beat up the "soft persimmons" among the Blue Side's blocking troops: the 54th Division and the 47th Division.

And just as envisioned.

Facing the suddenly appearing Red Side troops, the Blue Side 47th Division's subordinate troops, who were the first to make contact, collapsed at the first touch.

Immediately after, the nearby 54th Division joined up with the 47th Division headquarters, holding their ground and calling for reinforcements.

It was only when the 54th and 47th Divisions called for reinforcements that the Blue Side was stunned, especially the four divisions surrounding the Gaoxingxu area, who were scolded bloody by Principal Huangpu in the Nanchang Command Headquarters.

Four divisions, tens of thousands of people, did not keep an eye on the Red Side's main force.

They didn't even know when they had run out; a bunch of rice buckets!!!

It is said that the conference room was smashed...

However.

Facing the request for reinforcements from the 54th and 47th Divisions, Nanchang had not yet made a directive, and the Blue Side 8th Division next door actually retreated before fighting, turning around and running to the east.

Leaving the Blue Star netizens dumbfounded.

Good heavens, they didn't even save them.

No!

It was that they didn't even bother to act anymore!

They didn't even pretend, just turned around and ran.

Those were friendly troops.

The Blue Star netizens initially only thought the Blue Side's factions were complex, but they didn't expect it to be to this extent.

No matter what, they were colleagues.

Just next door, being surrounded, and they actually turned around and ran.

If the Blue Side's troops were all like this...:

Unaccountably.

The Blue Star netizens seemed to know why these people lost.

Never mind the factions.

Even between each division and brigade, there was no unity; this damn...

Looking at such a situation.

The Blue Star players didn't know what to say for a moment, just looking at the retreating 8th Division, feeling a bit speechless.

However, the Red Side in the plot did not stop.

Knowing that the 8th Division had fled to the east, the Red Side made a prompt decision, leaving behind a portion of the troops to feign an attack, while the main force pursued them.

The completely unaware 8th Division had just fled to Huangpi.

When they were caught up by the Red Side main force pursuing from behind; the 8th Division's force of over 10,000 people only held out for an hour before surrendering in large numbers.

Completely lacking any fighting spirit.

However, perhaps it also had to do with the Red Side's policy of treating captives well.

Because the Red Side truly had preferential conditions.

Holding a gun meant being an enemy, and there was only a dead end.

But putting down the gun meant you could receive travel expenses, receive dry rations to go home, and those willing to accept reform could stay.

And so.

Of the 8th Division's 10,000+ people, besides the soldiers who died in battle and those who fled.

Just those who chose to surrender and become captives numbered over 6,000.

This number accounted for more than half of the 8th Division's full strength.

Watching the scene of those Blue Side soldiers scrambling to surrender.

The Blue Star netizens were all stunned.

This is the real 【Psychological Warfare】, right?!!!

Holy crap?

Fake psychological warfare: "Pre-war 'Letter to All National Soldiers', success or death, 300,000-strong army pressing on the border..." attempting to shock the opponent.

Real psychological warfare: "Preferential treatment for surrendered captives", the 8th Division's full strength was only 10,000+, and 6,000+ surrendered collectively...:

This wave belonged to a direct psychological warfare beatdown.

Fake psychological warfare, attempting to pressure the Red Side's high command.

Real psychological warfare, just the words "preferential treatment for surrendered captives" made so many soldiers who wanted to live put down their weapons.

Inside the stream room.

Never mind Liu Xu, even Jiang Yu on the Blue Side, watching the scene next door, couldn't help but marvel:

"Amazing."

"Reasonably speaking, the Red Side's psychological warfare is invincible."

"Do you know why the Blue Side's soldiers don't like to fight?"

"Because they receive military pay, which is also embezzled from time to time, and some were even grabbed during chaotic times and have tried to go home many times only to be caught back."

"How could soldiers in such a situation truly sell their lives?"

"And here, after letting you put down your gun, they even give you dry rations and travel expenses."

"This condition."

"For those soldiers who were grabbed as forced labor, there is no need to say how much temptation it has."

"Too amazing."

Saying this, Jiang Yu sighed again.

At this moment.

The battle situation in the game, following the annihilation of the 8th Division, saw the Red Side troops, whose positions were exposed, gradually being surrounded by the surrounding Blue Side troops.

Even if Principal Huangpu was crushed by the Red Side's tactics, after all, the 300,000-strong army had the advantage in numbers.

Even if the Red Side annihilated the 8th Division here.

The surrounding troops joining up also made it impossible for the Red Side to confront them head-on.

Regarding this.

The Blue Star netizens were also analyzing the battle situation, where to break out.

But no one expected.

That the Red Side would dare to use the same penetration tactic a second time.

This is truly not treating the Blue Side as people.

As the Blue Side surrounded them.

The joined Red Side main force split off the Red 12th Army to act as a feint troop, moving north to feign an attack on the Blue Side's supply city.

The main force remained in place, waiting for an opportunity.

The same operation as before.

The result... was also the same.

It is hard to imagine.

The Blue Side's troops, from the highest command to the lower divisions and brigades, really stepped into the same pit over and over again.

Because of the Red 12th Army's feint, the surrounding Blue Side troops were indeed attracted away.

And the main force that remained in place.

Was hidden in the mountains and forests, waiting for the right moment.

The distance between the two sides grew closer; looking at the march route on the map, it was practically a head-on collision.

But under the gaze of tens of millions of netizens in the various Federation stream rooms on the Blue Star side.

They just passed by like that.

Yes.

The two sides brushed past each other again.

At the closest point, the two sides were only separated by a few kilometers of mountain forest.

But they just passed by like that.

This extremely bold operation, which one thought would be enough once, unexpectedly happened a second time.

It refreshed the worldview of the Blue Star netizens.

At the same time, it also vividly taught a military lesson to the generals of the various Federations.

After all, such a situation.

The first time, they didn't dare to do it, but the Red Side's leader ordered it, and it succeeded.

The second time, they still didn't dare to do it, but the Red Side's leader gave the same order, and it succeeded again.

It had to make the generals of the various Blue Star Federations marvel and study it.

Even holding meetings to discuss it.

And in the game.

Following the second brush-past, the Blue Side at this moment had not realized that the Red Side's main force had already hidden and rested again.

They were still chasing the Red 12th Army, treating the Red 12th Army as the main force.

The pursuit by over a dozen divisions behind them also turned the Blue Star netizens' eyes to the Red 12th Army, not knowing how things would develop next.

But being able to become a feint troop, the Red 12th Army naturally had special capabilities.

The soldiers of the Red 12th Army were mostly mountain people born and raised in the Gan-Dong and Min-Xi regions; facing the Blue Side's encirclement, they drilled through mountain roads and took dangerous paths all the way.

This was an easy task for the Red 12th Army soldiers.

But for the soldiers and troops transferred from various places by the Blue Side, it became a quite difficult task.

Seven or eight divisions of troops chasing the Red 12th Army's feint troop simply couldn't catch up.

Until they were dragged on for a full half-month.

The Blue Side finally discovered that this was just a feint troop.

And what about the Red Side's main force?

They had lost them again...

As of the Blue Side's discovery, this "Third Encirclement/Anti-Encirclement" had been going on for nearly two months, and nearly ten days had passed in reality on the Blue Star side.

In just ten days, the Blue Star players watched it with heart-stopping excitement.

And the Blue Side NPCs in the game were filled with resentment, low morale, and did not want to fight anymore.

For no other reason.

Nearly two months of time.

The 300,000-strong army had almost never encountered the Red Side troops head-on.

They had been led around like fools, climbing mountains in the Soviet area for two months.

To this day, they didn't know where the Red Side's main force was, and the only 8th Division that had faced the Red Side's main force head-on was crushed in an hour.

6,000+ people surrendered.

How to fight this?

And not only that.

The Whampoa Principal has stirred up too much momentum this time, especially with the "Proclamation to All Soldiers of the Nation" before the battle; everyone knows that Nanjing has mobilized a great army of 300,000 to encircle and suppress the 30,000-plus Red side soldiers.

However.

With such a big commotion.

They fought for more than two months.

Not only did they not annihilate the Red Side forces, but they were instead annihilated as a complete unit, the 8th Division.

This was a disaster.

The eyes of the whole country were gathered here.

Although they had just won the Central Plains War, there were many who were unconvinced; after all, the intervention from the Northeast belonged to foreign aid, a last resort.

And now.

Principal Huangpu had mobilized a 300,000-strong army, was dragged here for more than two months, and even had a division annihilated as a complete unit.

This kind of combat power... it was hard not to make the warlords next door have ideas.

So while Principal Huangpu in Nanchang was still trying to find ways to encircle the Red Side forces.

The warlords next door, in order to seize the Hubei-Hunan border area, launched an attack.

Seeing this situation.

Principal Huangpu, who had been encircling the Red Side forces for two months, had to mobilize his great army to the south for the sake of the big picture.

Thus.

The "Third Encirclement/Anti-Encirclement" plot in the game finally came to an end.

While the Blue Star netizens watched with heart-stopping excitement, they also felt unsatisfied.

Because looking back at this plot.

300,000 against 30,000.

Even if a single mistake was made, the history of the future 【Republic】 would be rewritten.

But the two penetrations where they brushed past each other, at the closest only separated by a few kilometers, were equivalent to dancing on the blade of death, yet they both succeeded.

And finally, because of the warlords' ambition, Principal Huangpu had to give up continuing this encirclement.

These various situations were as if destiny and fortune were bestowed upon them, as in a storybook novel.

Even if the Blue Star netizens didn't believe it.

But the Red Side's performance in this plot was too similar.

The Blue Side's third encirclement failed.

Principal Huangpu's pre-war "success or death" was also not fulfilled.

At this moment, Principal Huangpu had already begun to deal with the warlords next door for the sake of the "world".

In a situation of occupying the moral high ground, who would dare to mention pre-war matters?

With the complete process of the "Third Encirclement/Anti-Encirclement", many Blue Star players went to the region to join the Red Side troops after starting the game, participating in the plot.

Originally, there was only the single perspective from Liu Xu's side, but with more and more players triggering it, the perspectives also increased.

There were perspectives of becoming a soldier in the main force attacking the 8th Division, and perspectives of becoming a Red 12th Army soldier in the feint main force, leading seven or eight Blue Side divisions around the mountains.

And even more, because of the Red Side's counterattack this time, the astonishing extreme command opened a new world for the Blue Star netizens.

Blue Star players who became officers and generals in the 【WWII Series】, 【WWI Series】, and even 【Huaxia】 history series games.

Began to see an increase in the mortality rate of their commanded troops.

Whenever there was a little room for operation, they all wanted to replicate the Red Side's extreme operations during the "Third Anti-Encirclement", and then achieve a stunning comeback.

It's just that in many situations of advantage, they insisted on doing this kind of extreme operation.

And then...:

The outcome of the entire army being wiped out or crushed made the Blue Star players gradually realize that such extreme operations were not something that could succeed just by being imagined out of thin air.

Behind this, what was needed was a precise grasp of the battlefield situation, precise calculation of the enemy and our strength, and most importantly, an army with an iron will.

Until this moment.

The Blue Star players, looking back at the Red Side's tactics, finally understood the Red Side's greatness.

From the beginning of choosing an opponent, the subsequent direction was decided.

If they chose to attack Nanjing's elite troops, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties, but if they caught a troop that had already been scared out of their wits by the Red Side and hammered them hard.

The chain reaction caused would be like this, affecting the entire battle situation.

And with the advancement of the plot, based on the reaction from the Nanjing side this time, the netizens on the Blue Star side had already vaguely guessed what the situation of the subsequent 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】 would be.

It was clear that there would be more encirclements launched later.

And the Red Side's forces were far less powerful than the current Blue Side; even the simplest war of attrition would slowly wear the Red Side to death.

The Blue Star netizens thought about the fact that Nanjing would continue to launch encirclements later.

Just didn't expect the scale to be so large...

Four days later.

Someone on the Blue Side side triggered the "Fourth Encirclement Operation".

Nanjing mobilized a 400,000-strong army.

Once again surrounding the Soviet area; this number made the Blue Star players nod, because according to the order of guessing, it was also this much.

Just the next day.

Someone on the Red Side side triggered the "Fifth Anti-Encirclement Operation".

This time...

The Blue Side launched a full 1,000,000-strong army, surrounding the Soviet area, and adopted a conservative tactic of "fortress blockade", through the 1,000,000-strong army.

Slowly nibbling away at the Soviet area, compressing the living space of the Red Side troops.

The thing the Blue Star netizens were worried about finally happened.

Compared to the Blue Side, the Red Side's weakness was the war of attrition.

The Blue Side went from a 100,000-strong army, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, and now to a 1,000,000-strong army, and also possessed airplanes, artillery, machine guns, and sufficient supplies, showing its strength.

And the Red Side could only develop among the people, strengthen themselves, and their weapons were mainly rifles, with a lack of ammunition.

In such a situation, the hardest thing for the Red Side to fight was a war of attrition.

And the Blue Side, after failing four times, finally realized that in terms of combat and command, they were not on the same level as the Red Side, and could only conduct encirclement in this way.

And this happened to be the most effective way.

Because facing such an encirclement, the Red Side forces, which had developed in the plot to only have 100,000+ soldiers.

Obviously, it was impossible to confront the Blue Side's 1,000,000 people head-on; it was just that they didn't know what to do yet.

And the Blue Star netizens, just looking at the map in the plot, felt numb; looking at it, it was all troops, an encirclement circle formed completely by troops.

With this kind of encirclement method, there was truly no way.

Many people had already begun to study the 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】 plot in advance; after the 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】 data pack released by Polar Star Company was downloaded.

To this day, no one had cleared it.

However, with the plot during the "Third Anti-Encirclement", the Blue Star players who had figured out some things also improved quite a bit.

On the other side.

At Polar Star Company.

Watching the successively triggered "Fourth Anti-Encirclement" and "Fifth Anti-Encirclement" campaigns, Zhao Ming searched the backend to see if there were any other campaigns about to be triggered.

As the command was entered, the data of one player after another popped up.

According to different progress, the predicted trigger times were also different.

Zhao Ming looked at it and arranged the trigger times for plots like 【Bloody Battle of the Xiang...】, 【Flying Capture of Ludingqiao】, 【Crossing the Snowy Mountains and Grasslands】, etc., in order.

Some of these plots were before 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】, and some were after 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】.

He slightly adjusted the predicted trigger events for these dungeons, moving them forward a bit, basically being able to trigger one plot a day.

Subsequently, Zhao Ming opened the 【Republic】 timeline; Zhao Ming had previously created the small events on the 【Republic】 timeline.

But the game CG and player plots had not been integrated into it; looking at plots like 【Bloody Battle of the Xiang...】, 【Flying Capture of Ludingqiao】, Zhao Ming prepared to first create some plot CGs to release.

Other large and small event CGs would be gradually filled in later.

The next day.

The Polar Star official website announced some CGs for plots like 【Bloody Battle of the Xiang...】, 【Flying Capture of Ludingqiao】, 【Crossing the Snowy Mountains and Grasslands】. ===== CHAPTER 180 =====