Chapter 230: 【Armistice Negotiations】(4k)

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In Yu Feng's livestream.

Many Blue Star players addicted to Polar Star Company's games had already developed a habit similar to chasing dramas.

Every day as long as they had free time, they would click into Yu Feng's livestream to take a look.

Because it was constant fighting on both sides, there was no option to skip the plot.

Yu Feng livestreamed for a day on Blue Star, and the plot in the game walked through at most two or three days, because the fighting on both sides almost didn't stop.

After the American Federation occupied the position during the day.

The Volunteer Army would fight back when it got dark, retaking the position, so there was no free time to skip the plot at all.

And the Blue Star players also witnessed with their own eyes how this battle expanded step by step.

Fighting until now.

Half a month had passed in the game's plot.

The small highland in front of Shangganling, which originally only had 2 companies guarding it, now gathered the main force of the American Federation's 7th Division and the main force of the Volunteer Army's 15th Corps.

Both sides opened a tragic battle for contention.

In Yu Feng's perspective.

At this time, in the distance in front of Shangganling, in the American Federation's base, military trucks were transporting artillery shells and supplies, preparing to launch a new round of attacks.

Yu Feng said:

"The American Federation is moving artillery shells from other regions."

"According to the internal news I collected here."

"The American Federation has fired no less than 1.9 million artillery shells in this half month, but it still hasn't destroyed the Volunteer Army's defense system; the Volunteer Army's defense is too strong."

"The American Federation soldiers or high-ranking officials must have collapsed, right?"

"Who still remembers the American Federation's purpose at the beginning?"

"That's right."

"The American Federation is paving the way for the upcoming federation election."

"The commander-in-chief of the American coalition forces, Clark, the commander-in-chief of the American Federation's 8th Army, Van Fleet, and the commander-in-chief of the southern puppet army, these three people inspected the front line several times."

"They studied and came up with such a weak point in the Volunteer Army's defense."

"Originally wanting to capture the position for public opinion propaganda, but 1.9 million artillery shells didn't destroy the Volunteer Army's defense."

"Who wouldn't collapse at this?"

"There's even more outrageous news."

"I only knew about it last night."

"It is said that before the 'Showdown Action' started, the American Federation's high command gave a casualty limit."

"How many people do you guess?"

Looking at Yu Feng's appearance of selling a pass, the barrage in the livestream guessed one after another:

【20 people?】

【50, after all, the Volunteer Army's combat power is obvious to all.】

【？？？】

【You really don't treat those 18 artillery battalions as people? 10, right.】

【Many American Federation soldiers died after the first wave of bombing the highland, 50, right.】

Everyone sent barrages saying.

Yu Feng waited for a while, until the discussion dissipated a bit, before continuing to say with a smile:

"200 people."

As the voice fell, the livestream was silent, followed by a full screen of question marks.

【？？？？】

【How many? How many did you say?】

【Is the American Federation that unconfident in its own troops? 200 casualty quota?】

【Damn, this is a bit too conservative, right?】

【18 artillery battalions supporting, fighting 2 companies, and there's actually a 200-person casualty quota?!】

【Too outrageous!】

Yu Feng said with a smile:

"That's right."

"You didn't hear wrong, it's a 200-person casualty quota."

"In the American Federation's plan."

"18 artillery battalions supporting, 200-plus sorties of aircraft bombing, 2 regiments of troops attacking the Volunteer Army's 2-company position, the American Federation can have a 200-person casualty quota."

"As long as the position is captured, and the number of casualties is within 200."

"The American Federation can let reporters hype it up."

"This is their victory, they defeated the Volunteer Army without any pressure."

"But everyone has seen the process."

"They didn't succeed."

"Now the situation is that the American Federation can't get off the stage, constantly reinforcing, and the Volunteer Army is also constantly reinforcing."

"The number of casualties has long exceeded 200."

"Just in this half month, the number of casualties on the coalition side has already reached over 3,000."

"The artillery fire bombing has already far exceeded the peak value of the World War during World War II."

Yu Feng looked at the distant battlefield; at this time, both sides were still fiercely fighting for it.

On the two small highlands in front of Shangganling, the surface position had been lost; of course, it was really impossible to continue defending. Looking at the magnified perspective from Yu Feng's livestream.

On the two small highlands in front of Shangganling, after experiencing half a month of frantic bombing.

The surface rock layer had basically been blown into powder.

When the American Federation soldiers walked up, it was like stepping into a quagmire, one foot could sink 30 centimeters deep, and the surface position's trenches and fortifications had long been destroyed.

The American Federation occupied the surface position, but the Volunteer Army didn't know how many tunnels they had dug.

Every night they would come out from everywhere to engage in fierce position contention with the American Federation.

Both sides refused to give an inch.

And the originally planned propaganda was also postponed again and again.

Because fighting to this extent, if they didn't push past the Shangganling position or defeat one of the Volunteer Army's corps, it wouldn't count as a victory.

After all, the American Federation's casualties were too large.

Originally it was just a small battle.

But fighting to this extent, they must completely destroy the Volunteer Army's defensive line opposite to count as a victory.

But...

The two small highlands in front of Shangganling hadn't been taken, let alone destroying the defensive line.

Yu Feng continued to livestream.

The tug-of-war between the two sides lasted until early November, because November 4th was the day of the American Federation's election.

If they could obtain a victory on that day and transmit it back to the American Federation in time, then the American Federation that had fought until now wouldn't count as a failure, so the American Federation's offensive was even fiercer on this morning.

It was just a pity that it had no effect.

As the American Federation's offensive stopped abruptly at noon.

The Volunteer Army might not have been able to figure out what was going on.

But Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream were clear, because the American Federation's election ended at noon, and the results were already out.

This was originally a battle to create momentum for the election; continuing to fight was useless.

Because they had already lost.

Immediately after, the American Federation's units began to withdraw, but the American Federation didn't intend to just leave like this; after all, leaving in a dejected manner was still too shameful.

They ordered the southern puppet army units to continue attacking the Shangganling position.

The American Federation provided artillery support, but the American Federation's own soldiers had already withdrawn to the rear to drink coffee, leaving only the southern puppet army soldiers to fight for their lives with the Volunteer Army under the American Federation's orders.

Seeing this scene.

Many Blue Star netizens in the livestream couldn't help but sigh again that war is a game of great powers.

Just like in World War II.

Even Poland, which possessed a million-strong army, was a presence that could be kneaded at will by the Empire and the Soviet Federation, and even after the Empire failed, Poland was arbitrarily manipulated by the Soviet Union and had its life and death completely controlled.

Look at the southern puppet army units now.

At the American Federation's order.

The southern puppet army didn't dare to retreat at all, and could only fight to the death with the Volunteer Army, while the American Federation's own soldiers had already withdrawn to the rear to drink coffee.

The subsequent battles, although Yu Feng was still livestreaming, were more about collecting data.

As time passed.

In the plot, the American Federation announced the failure of the "Showdown Action" one week after the election ended, but didn't report too much.

Clearly, the American Federation also knew this was a shameful thing.

Under the American Federation's orders, the southern puppet army held on and fought for another half month, and only then did they withdraw under the American Federation's orders, and the Shangganling battle

The flashback begins.

The American Federation only wanted a victory to support the federal election, and they were so well-prepared that they even set a casualty quota of 200 men, considering it a victory as long as casualties remained within that number.

But the result.

Third-party statistics put the total casualties of the Allied forces at over 24,000.

The American Federation internally claimed that, including the puppet troops in the south, there were about 19,000 casualties.

Although the American Federation's internal statistics were 5,000 lower.

Their original goal was just to capture two small positions for propaganda purposes, with casualties controlled within 200; no one expected that the final combat casualty ratio would be higher than that of Iwo Jima during World War II.

In Yu Feng's 【Single-Player Story Mode】, after the Battle of Triangle Hill ended, he returned to the American Federation side.

At this time, the new leader of the American Federation had already taken office and was cleaning up the mess left by the previous administration.

After all, the Battle of Triangle Hill was launched specifically to create public opinion momentum; now that it had failed and the casualties were so high, the domestic public opinion in the American Federation could not be suppressed at all.

Yu Feng, inside the newspaper office, collected the situation within the American Federation for the month following the end of the election, and after reading it, he said to the Blue Star friends in the live stream:

"The impact of the Battle of Triangle Hill is still too great."

"It's been over a month, and the public opinion within the American Federation can no longer be controlled."

"Now, the newly inaugurated leader of the American Federation has only two choices."

"First, expand the war and continue fighting until victory suppresses domestic public opinion."

"Second, negotiate a ceasefire, finish the talks quickly to end the war, and then reorganize the interior of the Federation."

"Based on the information I have, the second option is more likely."

"After all, the previous American Federation administration chose war, which is why they launched 'Operation Showdown' during the election to build momentum."

"But they lost the election, which shows that the people of the American Federation are more on the side of ending the war."

"Once I start skipping the plot, the results will be out soon."

As Yu Feng said this, the Blue Star friends in the live stream nodded in anticipation.

Soon.

Just as it was evening meal time on Blue Star, the 【Single-Player Story Mode】 on Yu Feng's end had already fast-forwarded to receiving the latest news.

At this moment.

In Yu Feng's story, it was already the end of January 1953, and the new federal president of the American Federation was also hoping for peace talks.

Judging from various internal orders, the process of promoting peace talks was already underway.

Yu Feng continued to skip the plot.

But suddenly, an unexpected piece of news instantly detonated the "Earth" of that time.

As Yu Feng in the 【Single-Player Story Mode】 skipped the plot to February.

The leader of the Soviet Federation suddenly passed away.

This news swept across the globe rapidly; even Yu Feng did not dare to continue skipping the plot, immediately sending people to collect all kinds of news, fearing he might miss a single detail.

The Blue Star players in the live stream also gasped.

Damn.

The turmoil this would trigger is likely no less than the Empire's leader starting World War II.

Since the victory of World War II, the Soviet Union's hardline policies toward various countries on the European continent were obvious to all, and the initiator of all this.

Was that person from the Soviet Union.

Now that they had suddenly passed away, the Soviet Union's subsequent actions would concern the situation of the entire world.

Would the Soviet Federation continue to maintain its hardline policy? Would domestic chaos be triggered? Would the surrounding satellite states develop other ideas?

These were all uncertain variables.

Yu Feng increased his reporter staff to collect information and intelligence from all over the world.

At the same time, he used the newspaper's funds to offer rewards for collecting all kinds of gossip.

However, although the actions were fast, they were still not as swift as official actions; after Yu Feng spent an afternoon arranging and sending people out.

He hadn't even waited for news yet.

The American Federation's official newspapers had already begun public opinion propaganda, using various speculations and the American Federation's various actions to confuse and pressure.

Although many looked fake at first glance.

But at this critical point.

When the Soviet Union had no leader, no one dared to bet on what the American Federation would do next.

Those fake news stories also became half-true and half-false.

Becoming a psychological tactic launched by the American Federation against the Soviet Federation.

A few days later.

Yu Feng truly felt the unease within the Soviet Federation, because although they had previously facilitated negotiations, the Soviet Federation had not been in a hurry.

But now, only a few days had passed.

The attitude of the Soviet Federation changed, as if they wanted to end the Peninsula War as soon as possible.

They also began to promote the ceasefire negotiations on the peninsula.

Now.

The American Federation's new federal government pushed for a ceasefire, the Soviet Federation pushed for a ceasefire, and the Republic, needless to say, had always had a strategy of fighting while talking.

Now that they still held the upper hand, they could naturally negotiate.

Thus, countries around the world discovered that with the intentions of these three parties aligned, the negotiations resumed so smoothly.

Without a single ripple.

This scene.

Left the Blue Star netizens with strange expressions.

This...

In the end, it's still about the strong being respected.

So many countries—European, East Asian, the victorious powers of World War II like the British Federation, and so on.

Had pushed for a ceasefire for two years without any progress.

Now, with the three parties having the same goal, the negotiations resumed surprisingly smoothly, as if the previous conflicts had never happened.

The negotiations on the peninsula began to resume.

But the election within the Soviet Federation had not yet ended.

Because no successor had been designated, this period of the Soviet Federation's election also gave the American Federation an opportunity to stir up trouble in secret.

And although the new leader was continuing the previous policies.

The methods toward various countries in Europe, especially the satellite states, were much milder.

After all, the Soviet Federation could no longer afford major turmoil.

And this short month also allowed the American Federation to see the problems within the Soviet Federation.