Chapter 209: [Three-time Bombing of Water Gate Bridge] (4k)

Following the end of the Xiaogaoling plot.

The video of the Battle of Xiaogaoling was quickly topped to the headlines of the Polar Star official forum.

And the popularity is growing like a rocket, even rushing to the hot search of the Federal headlines, already showing signs of breaking out of the circle.

Many people who haven't even played the Polar Star game clicked in out of curiosity.

They all want to see what kind of battle it is that makes the popularity so explosive.

And this is also the first time Blue Star players have watched the Volunteer battle perspective at close range.

The questions that were previously confusing also have answers.

Why the Volunteer troops, with backward equipment, and some ambush locations with fewer people than the Federal main force, are able to block and delay.

And even cause huge casualties to the Federal troops.

And all of this.

Was answered in the battle of the Xiaogaoling position by the soldiers of the 3rd Platoon, 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 172nd Regiment, led by Company Commander Yang Gensi.

Relying on the Xiaogaoling position, this commanding height with a small area.

With only a platoon of troops, they repelled 8 charges by the Federal troops, dragging the Federal main force retreating for several hours at Xiaogaoling.

What is even more shocking is that facing the Federal's frantic bombing.

The Volunteer soldiers erupted with unimaginable resilience, displaying the words "As long as one lives, the position lives" to the fullest.

Especially the 9th charge of the Federation.

When only 3 people remained, Company Commander Yang Gensi ordered the two wounded soldiers to take the machine gun and retreat from the position, and then he himself rushed toward the Federal troops with an explosive pack.

Fighting to the last person, also wanting to perish with the enemy.

The Volunteers' fighting will makes Blue Star netizens feel shocked.

Even knowing that this is a game developed by Polar Star, they also feel deeply shocked by the 【Republic】 in the game and the soldiers of this nation.

Because this is just a corner displayed at Xiaogaoling, what about looking at the entire peninsula battlefield?

There are such soldiers everywhere.

Battle of Qingchuan River.

With only 30 soldiers left, the Volunteer soldiers faced a charge of nearly a thousand people from the Australian battalion of the British 27th Brigade, and charged with bayonets.

With a desperate will, they hard-heartedly broke the morale of the nearly thousand-man Australian battalion and counter-charged.

Battle of Gari Ridge.

The Turkish brigade of over 5,000 people was divided and slaughtered by a battalion of Volunteers, and in one night, the Turkish brigade was beaten down, with casualties as high as over 3,500.

Songgufeng Blocking Battle.

To prevent the US 2nd Division from fleeing south, the 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 335th Regiment, 112th Division of the Volunteers held Songgufeng with the strength of one company.

Facing the frantic bombing of US aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery, the 3rd Company soldiers held the position; after the bullets were exhausted, they fought with bayonets, stones, and even teeth.

Blocking the US 2nd Division's strength of over 10,000 for over 10 hours with the strength of one company, successfully delaying until the Volunteer main force surrounded them.

And the Ice Sculpture Company on Dead Eagle Ridge.

All officers and soldiers of the 6th Company, 177th Regiment, 59th Division of the Volunteers sacrificed due to severe cold while lurking, but maintained the charging posture of holding guns and aiming until death, that kind of determined fighting will.

One could feel the shock from the original Federal perspective, but after having the Volunteer perspective.

Looking back at these Federal perspectives, one has a more intuitive feeling.

They are facing a nation that has just stood up, facing a group of soldiers who have engraved the four words "Protect the home and defend the country" into their marrow.

And these cannot be counted by data.

When those Federal staff officers calculated the victory or defeat of the war with steel production.

They could never quantify how the Volunteer soldiers of only one platoon on the Xiaogaoling position relied on rifles to repel their 8 offensives of mechanized armored units.

And they could never use cold data to quantify how the Volunteer soldiers of one company on Songgufeng blocked the strength of an entire division of the Federation and could not break through.

And what supports all this is the Volunteers' will.

Suddenly.

Blue Star netizens thought of the sentence played everywhere in the country when facing the nuclear threat in the previous 【Republic】 promotional CG:

"Any nuclear threat cannot scare the 【Republic】 people who have stood up!"

Blue Star netizens seem to understand a little.

Why the Volunteers' rifles could repel tanks, why frozen fingers could still pull the trigger, why burning bodies could still charge.

Because behind these soldiers is a nation that has just broken free from a century of humiliation, a group of soldiers who would rather die in battle than live on their knees again.

For the Federation, this might be a war.

But for the newborn 【Republic】, this is not a war, but the awakening and revival of an entire nation.

It is the newborn 【Republic】 declaring to the world: "We are no longer slaughtered."

It is the newborn 【Republic】 proving to the world: "We have stood up, and we will never fall down."

It is the newborn 【Republic】 showing the world: "We have not only stood up, but will also stand forever!"

On one side is a war machine calculating steel production and ammunition consumption.

On the other side is a nation with five thousand years of civilization, shouting the three words "Stand up."

When the two collide.

What both sides possess cannot be quantified by data, but the battles on the peninsula seem to have already determined the outcome of this war.

They will never understand how that company of troops blocked their mechanized armored units of nearly 10,000 on the Songgufeng position.

And this is also the outcome that Blue Star players inexplicably felt.

Although the war has not ended, the result seems to be clear.

The Volunteers' fighting will has become the focus of Blue Star players' discussion, because soldiers with such a will, unless they are all wiped out.

Otherwise, the final victory will definitely be the Volunteers'.

Because they cannot imagine how the United Nations troops, who were beaten down by the Volunteers' 30-man hand-to-hand combat, can defeat such Volunteers.

Following the spread of the Xiaogaoling battle video.

Polar Star seems to have opened the Volunteer camp, and more and more players or streamers have triggered the Volunteer perspective.

It also let Blue Star players experience the predicament faced by the Volunteers.

When the players with Federal identities, who were drinking hot coffee and playing cards, were killed by Volunteer soldiers, and then randomly assigned to the Volunteer camp after restarting.

These Blue Star players, after being randomly assigned to the Volunteer identity, originally wanted to show off their power.

But they couldn't even survive that cold snowy night.

Blue Star players only then knew how difficult the Volunteers' situation was.

And such a difficult situation actually made the Federal east and west line troops retreat across the board.

This also further stimulated the challenge idea of Blue Star players.

Many people are constantly restarting, wanting to be randomly assigned to the Volunteer identity, to challenge the limit of will.

And while Blue Star players are challenging enthusiastically.

In the first batch of battlefields, the Federal troops have already begun to retreat from Xiajieyuli, although they were repeatedly blocked by the Volunteers on the way, they are after all a mechanized armored unit with a complete formation.

Already slowly retreated from Xiajieyuli to the "Water Gate Bridge," the key point of the eastern battlefield.

Many Blue Star players were also attracted by the battle at this critical point that was about to begin.

At this time.

Inside Li Ran's live stream room.

As a soldier of the main force of the 1st Marine Division, after retreating from Liutanli to Xiajieyuli, when retreating to the rear, naturally, they also served as the vanguard to set out.

At this time, they have already arrived here at the Water Gate Bridge.

But unfortunately, the Water Gate Bridge has already been blown up.

Li Ran hides at the tail of the stalled truck, trying to dodge the bullets shooting from who knows where in all directions.

It has been over an hour since the fierce battle started.

If it were daytime, it would be fine.

But unfortunately, this is night.

It is the Volunteers' home field; Li Ran looks around at the battlefield on both sides of the road.

Although the number of Volunteers on the positions on both sides is not large, that fighting style makes the Federal troops helpless.

Their mechanized armor, which they are proud of, is of no use in this situation.

The only role, perhaps, is to let the soldiers hide behind those tanks to block the bullets from the opposite side.

After all, the thickness of the armor is still okay.

Besides that, there is absolutely no other way.

Howitzers, aircraft bombing, these tricks that are tried and tested on other battlefields, don't know why, when used on positions with Volunteers, it is as if they have never blown anyone to death.

Whether it is daytime bombing or night bombing.

Bombing for half an hour, an hour, or even two rounds of bombing, for a full two hours.

When they rushed up.

They would always be beaten down by waves of Volunteers standing up.

This makes the Federal troop commanders at a loss.

Mechanized armor doesn't work, bombing doesn't work, and if heavy machine guns are used, the opposite position cannot be hit, and once they get close, the other side forces them into hand-to-hand combat.

Then they are beaten down again and again, repeating like this.

Just like now.

Suddenly.

A shout from Federal soldiers comes from the distance:

"Three o'clock direction!"

Li Ran turns his head to look, only to see several blurred figures moving quickly down from the hillside, rushing toward the distant Water Gate Bridge.

The Water Gate Bridge has already been blown up once.

The current bridge deck is temporarily built with wooden boards; Li Ran even doubts that if a tank drives on it, the bridge will collapse, but he didn't expect the Volunteers to still want to blow up such a big bridge.

Several waves of charges have already been organized, and the surrounding firepower is all covering the suicide squad to blow up the bridge.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Federal howitzers aim at the vaguely moving figures on the hillside and bombard them; the explosions spread on the hillside, and several Volunteer figures roll out.

However, before the Federal soldiers could be excited, they saw those figures that rolled out stand up again.

And they still rushed quickly toward the Water Gate Bridge.

"Fire! Fire!"

"God, why are they not afraid of death?"

"Damn! That bridge is now as fragile as my sister's building block toy!"

"Can't let them get close to the bridge!"

"All heavy firepower, concentrate it for me!!!"

Li Ran fires blank shots as if paddling, while his gaze is fixed on the few figures vaguely rushing toward the bridge.

The voices of the surrounding Federal commanders are becoming more and more urgent.

Watching those quickly moving figures rush under the bridge.

"Oh, no!"

"Stop! Stop quickly!!!"

Boom—!!!

The Federal commander cannot help but collapse, his face twisted:

"F.. k!!!"

"They are all crazy!"

"A broken bridge, is it worth it?!!!"

But no matter how they curse.

The fact that cannot be changed is... the bridge was blown up again, and Li Ran uses the zoom function to look, this time it was blown up even worse, even the bridge foundation was blown down.

Following the second destruction of the Water Gate Bridge, this time even the bridge foundation was blown up.

The surrounding Volunteer covering firepower is quickly retreating, leaving only the Federal commander roaring at the sky in the wind and snow.

Inside Li Ran's live stream room.

Looking at this scene, the Blue Star netizens are quite happy.

【Textbook-level enemy rear insertion, three-time bombing of Water Gate Bridge!】

【Flesh and blood, blowing up the steel barrier.】

【The entire battlefield is quiet, the Federation has no way, right?】

【It's already the third time, don't know if there will be a fourth time.】

【Laughing to death, the mechanized armored unit was beaten like this, why does it feel so miserable but I want to laugh.】

【That's right, look at the expressions of those Federal soldiers, they have also collapsed.】

The barrage in the live stream room doesn't stop, while the battlefield gradually falls silent.

The Federal soldiers collect the surrounding corpses, as for other places, they can only wait until tomorrow.

Li Ran finds a corner and closes his eyes.

The skip button quickly pops up.

Following the click to skip, they have already arrived at the next morning.

Li Ran opens his eyes and looks at the situation around him.

They arrived here in the middle of the night yesterday and were blown up by the Volunteers not long after, so he didn't know the situation around him; at this time, looking at the surroundings and the distant "Water Gate Bridge."

Li Ran only then knew why the Federal commander was cursing last night.

It is called a bridge, but it is actually a building similar to a dam.

It's just that there is a built passage next to it.

This passage is currently the only road; below is a steep cliff, above is a rugged hillside, and one can only march across the bridge.

And now this "Water Gate Bridge" has been blown up, that huge gap.

Can no longer be repaired with wooden boards.

Even the bridge foundation has been blown down, such a big gap.

No matter how big the wooden board is, it is impossible to bear the weight of armored vehicles and tanks driving over such a big gap.

Not to mention that it is bare here, and even wooden boards cannot be found.

Li Ran receives the order to clean up the battlefield, follows other Federal soldiers, climbs to those hillsides, looking for the Volunteer corpses that attacked last night, as well as traces.

Although it looks like there is no one around now, they all know that the Volunteers must be watching them somewhere.

Everyone's movements are also cautious.

And the repair of the "Water Gate Bridge" is slow; Li Ran follows the subsequent troops continuously arriving at the Water Gate Bridge.

But the progress of the repair has not made much progress.

The engineers are still repairing the bridge foundation, and the road is crowded with Federal soldiers wanting to retreat, but the gap on the bridge has blocked their retreat.

One day...

Two days...

Three days...

Until the fourth day.

From the second time it was blown up until now, it took nearly four days for the "Water Gate Bridge" to be barely repaired.

However.

Before the Federation could organize a large force to cross the bridge, night fell... the Volunteer troops quietly surrounded them again. ===== CHAPTER 210 =====

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