Chapter 257: 【Republic

Hearing the words of this platoon leader, the streamer in the stream and the Blue Star streamers watching were all stunned.

This...

An inexplicable shock impacted everyone's soul.

Watching the back of the platoon leader walking away.

That streamer moved his mouth, seemingly wanting to ask why?

But in the end, he didn't open his mouth.

Because if he substituted into the perspective of these 'Republic npcs', perhaps it would really be like this.

It was just that they had been playing with a game mentality for a long time.

Thinking of the path the red side had walked over these years, if they were 'Republic npcs', they would certainly believe that the red side would do what they said.

The shock was still continuing.

However, Fang Ming had already exited the stream of that streamer, looking for a new stream that was still fighting.

The scenes in each stream were different, but in the streams distributed all over the Republic, battles were breaking out almost every moment.

Fang Ming was dazzled.

At this time.

Someone in the stream said that the Polar Star official website also started streaming.

Fang Ming searched.

Sure enough, he saw the stream of the Polar Star official website.

Click to enter.

The scene in front of him suddenly opened up.

Because what came into view was a huge strategic map, and it was real-time dynamic.

Floating before Fang Ming's eyes.

The huge strategic map was semi-transparent blue, clearly marking all the bandit areas, among which key areas like Xiangxi, Northwest Guangxi, and North Sichuan had deeper colors.

Then there were the red arrows representing the Liberation Army, like several huge iron pincers from all directions, steadily closing toward the center.

And below the map, the real-time arrows advancing synchronously moved slowly.

These were functions unique to some official streams.

They could provide each viewer with an individual stream.

Of course.

The virtual somatosensory cabin was the best for this effect, followed by some daily useful watches, communicators, and other equipment that could also project and watch individually.

However, the effect was very average.

When not clicked, the bandit areas on the map were replaced by battle scenes.

And as Fang Ming clicked on the 【Xiangxi】 area.

The battle scenes floating on other areas disappeared, and the strategic map also shrank accordingly.

And the 【Xiangxi】 area here expanded to the size of the original huge strategic map, with battles currently in progress in various areas floating on it.

Fang Ming looked at several areas where fighting was currently taking place.

He clicked on a mountain peak where fighting was taking place.

The perspective of the scene pulled down, and soon the sky above the mountain peak appeared, and the scene of the Liberation Army and bandits fighting below also appeared before Fang Ming's eyes.

Looking at the mark on the head of a soldier in the Liberation Army camp, there was the name of the stream.

Fang Ming understood that these battle scenes were battles currently taking place in individual streams on the Tian Sha platform.

At this time.

The bandits on that mountain peak below were relying on the steep mountain terrain and solid wood and stone fortifications, shooting downward with earth guns, birds, and even bows and arrows.

One can imagine how long the history of these bandits really was.

Looking roughly.

There were quite a few bandits holding bows and arrows.

And their way of counterattacking might have been used since hundreds of years ago.

Even after having firearms, there was no change.

But...

What they encountered was the Liberation Army.

It was a regular troop.

Not the soldiers who couldn't pull a bow in the Qing Dynasty, nor the soldiers under the warlords of the Republic of China who only knew how to oppress the people, but a battle-hardened people's army.

When the bandits were still fighting to the death.

Boom!

The artillery roared.

The mortars and infantry guns brought by the Liberation Army issued a roar.

The shells tore through the air, carrying a sharp whistle, accurately smashing into the buildings and stockade walls of the bandit stronghold.

That wooden bandit stronghold, which didn't know how many years old it was, was blown to pieces by the shells.

A bright hole appeared before everyone's eyes.

The bandits who were just arrogant and domineering were all stunned at this time, and the bandits closer to the explosion point were even more full of confusion and fear in their eyes.

They were perhaps wondering why these 'government soldiers' didn't play by the rules this time.

Normally, shouldn't they have fought for a long time, failed to attack for a long time, and then both sides retreated?

Why did these guys actually use artillery to attack them.

And they fired as if it didn't cost money.

Those 'government soldiers' were simply like crazy, desperately wanting to rush over, and before they could react.

The bugle for the charge sounded suddenly.

The soldiers were in groups of three, covering each other, clearing the remaining enemies; it looked as if this wasn't a battle, but an efficient harvest.

A bandit-clearing operation against the bandits was launched.

In the captured stronghold, bandit corpses lay horizontally and vertically, and there were also some young soldiers who fell during the charge.

But the bandit nest that had been entrenched here for decades, regarded as a 'tumor', with a scale of 300 people.

Was just wiped out and shattered like this.

As the battle ended, the scene here shrank and changed back to the map of the 【Xiangxi】 area, but the bandit nest marked there had changed color.

And the Liberation Army that captured the bandit nest extended an arrow, slowly pointing to the bandits in another place.

Obviously, the next target of this troop was the bandit nest there.

Fang Ming's gaze swept across the 【Xiangxi】 area.

The area representing the Liberation Army's color continued to spread and consolidate, and one after another black marks representing bandits either had battle intersection icons appearing above them.

Or red crosses appeared, and then slowly turned into the Liberation Army's area color.

Looking at the map.

The Liberation Army was almost clearing the bandits in the 【Xiangxi】 area at the same time.

And there were also some blacks representing bandits, after the large forces were destroyed, dispersing into several small bandit forces, fleeing outside the Liberation Army's encirclement.

It was clearly visible from the perspective of the stream.

But the flight of these small forces couldn't distract the Liberation Army's attention.

Because the weight of these four words 【Clearing Bandit Troubles】.

Would never delay the overall situation because of a few small enemies.

The thunderous momentum on the map was still continuing.

The original 【Xiangxi】 area, where the bandit trouble was serious, was now like a big fist hitting the map under the Liberation Army's attack.

Smashing the dense bandit forces in the entire 【Xiangxi】 area into pieces, smashing them into powder.

Large blocks of black were shattered.

The entire 【Xiangxi】 area was now torn apart from the original whole piece of black, and the places that were torn apart were all areas where the Liberation Army captured and wiped out the bandits. 【257-

Some bandits in large black-colored areas were still thinking about running away.

But little did they know.

Looking at the map.

Almost all the bandits in the Republic had been surrounded by the Red Side with absolute force.

Run?

Where could they run to?

Unless they could run out of the Republic.

Otherwise...

There was only a dead end.

These "bandits," who had existed on the land of China since ancient times, still harbored delusions of surviving by relying on the advantages of the mountains and forests.

But they were wrong.

They were facing the most peak infantry in the history of the land of 【China】.

Looking from the map.

Countless arrows did not stop after eliminating the bandit dens, but continued to set off toward other places; these countless arrows of the People's Liberation Army troops swept across the entire Republic.

Wherever they went, the banditry in that place was eliminated.

Fang Ming zoomed the map back to the size of the whole country.

At this time, battles were also being fought in various parts of the Republic, as if to signal that under the four words 【Eliminate Banditry】, all bandits would be uprooted.

The fighting was swift, and the advance was steady.

For a time.

The Blue Star players who had downloaded the 【Republic's Bandit Suppression】 DLC were all paying attention to the "real-time battle situation" in the livestream room on the Jixing official website.

Everyone was looking forward to the day when the Republic would completely suppress the banditry.

However, regarding this.

Many Blue Star netizens also raised doubts in the forum, because according to the current situation.

Although the troops on the Republic's side were striking very quickly, they had destroyed many large bandit dens just in the initial stage.

But these large bandit dens had many people, and many of them ran away.

Unlike those small bandit dens that were completely wiped out after being surrounded.

These large bandit dens, after being shattered, dispersed into many small groups of bandits and ran off.

Especially those large bandit dens.

Often, after one was taken out, a dozen or so small groups of bandits would appear, scattering from the map.

Running toward the outside of the encirclement.

If it were just one or two places, that would be fine, but looking at the whole country, it was almost all like this.

So this also made the Blue Star players worry.

After all, the scale of bandits nationwide exceeded 1 million.

Even if most were taken out, the remaining hundreds of thousands of these small groups of bandits would go to grab and recruit people again; in that case, the number would not decrease, and perhaps it would even be higher.

Thinking of this, many Blue Star players were also very worried.

After all, this was the result of a thousand years of accumulated banditry and the deliberate sabotage caused by the Blue Side.

Could it really cleanse the universe?

These Blue Star players did not know yet, because the current bandit suppression had just begun.

And there was still half a year left before the start of the Peninsula War.

Although the Blue Star players knew a lot of intelligence through the subsequent timeline, knowing that the banditry was also finished in 1953.

But limited by the constraints of the era and the poor flow of information.

They did not know the specific results.

They only knew that the national bandit sweep ended in 1953.

Because of the victory in the Peninsula War that year, not many Blue Star players paid attention to the bandit sweep.

This also led to the Blue Star players not being clear about the situation when the bandit suppression ended in the 1953 period.

Many Blue Star players guessed.

According to the rigorous attitude of the Red Side, the bandits in the 1953 period should have been mostly wiped out.

But whether they were completely eradicated was unknown.

They could only wait for the plot here to advance and watch it themselves, the Blue Star players.

Fortunately, there was the real-time map on the Jixing official website.

The movements of the People's Liberation Army camp and the movements of the bandits were all crystal clear to the Blue Star players.

The next day.

There was one more day until the revelations from Yu Feng's side.

And Fang Ming also discovered some novel plot here.

Fang Ming's livestream room was broadcasting the content of another livestream room.

And this streamer was from the People's Liberation Army camp.

Because of an injury, they had remained in the rear and were currently allocating rear affairs.

Fang Ming was also explaining to the new Blue Star friends in the livestream room.

This was an area controlled by landlord bullies through superstition.

After driving away the landlords and bullies here, the People's Liberation Army side prepared a meeting to break down superstition, held in the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

On the stage.

Some victims who had been cheated by "experts" into having their families broken and killed were complaining on the spot.

At the same time.

The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army stood on the stage and publicly exposed the scams of curing diseases by floating water, as well as divine descent arts, diamond-like invulnerability, ghost shadows, and other tricks that fooled the world.

These explanations were all told to these people in plain, easy-to-understand language.

At the same time, they also brought the confidants of those landlord bullies onto the stage.

Letting them publicly expose the rumors that those landlord bullies had colluded with "experts" to create.

The common people under the stage looked at each other.

Their faces were full of expressions of shock at these pieces of news.

Because they had completely not expected that the landlord master, who was usually a "great philanthropist" and would even reduce rent during disaster years, was actually colluding with bullies and "experts" in secret to trick them.

They subconsciously suspected it was fake.

Because this overturned their understanding of the past ten or twenty years.

However.

The landlord's confidant on the stage was not fake, and the things he said were not fake either.

It was just that the common people in the past did not know the inside story.

Now, listening to the many inside stories exposed by that landlord's confidant, many people's expressions were already wavering.

Until the landlord's confidant on the stage said another crime of the landlord.

A young man below erupted with a hateful roar:

"You beast! My younger sister was beaten to death by him?"

"She was only 14 years old!!!"

"Didn't you say she died of a plague?!"

"You tell me clearly! You beast!!!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

That young man angrily wanted to rush onto the stage.

The landlord's confidant being held on the stage was startled, his body couldn't help but shrink back, but being held by two soldiers, he couldn't move at all.

And the young man under the stage was also blocked by two soldiers.

The landlord's confidant then breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly continued to say:

"It's true!"

"I guarantee! I guarantee to the People's Liberation Army!"

"It's all true!"

"It was because he wanted to force himself on your sister and failed, so he was so angry that he whipped her all night and beat her to death!"

"I guarantee it's all true!"

"I confess for leniency, I want lenient treatment!"

Hearing this.

The angry young man was furious:

"Ah ah ah ah, I want to kill him!!!"

The crazed young man desperately broke free from the two soldiers' obstruction and rushed toward the landlord's courtyard in the village, but at this time, the landlord's courtyard had already been taken over by the People's Liberation Army.

The landlord was being held there.

Several People's Liberation Army soldiers hurriedly chased after him.

And at this time, the common people under the stage already believed it 90 percent, discussing it in disbelief:

"Erya was actually beaten to death? This living beast."

"Poor brother and sister."

"Who's to say not? Their parents died early, and Da Chui had a hard time raising Erya to 13, only to have her caught by Master Huang as a maid during a disaster year."

"I thought the brother and sister had finally made it through, as no one could starve to death in the landlord's house."

"Who could have thought..."

"What landlord master! That's a living beast!"

"No."

"I watched that child Erya grow up, and today, even if I risk my life, I'm going to stab that beast a few times."

"Hey! He hasn't finished speaking yet!"

"Let's see what else that beast has done!"

"I'm not watching! I'm going to kill that beast!!!"

Following the landlord's confidant's confessions one by one.

The onlookers could no longer control themselves, let out angry roars, and rushed toward the landlord's confidant on the stage; at this moment, everything collapsed.

The so-called "experts" and the so-called "philanthropists."

Were nothing but the disguises of those oppressors.