Chapter 301: 【Blue Star People Shocked by the Republic Everywhere】 (4.2k)

As the players' progress gradually caught up.

They successively arrived at the time point of 1937.

Some Blue Star players in other provinces had plot time points that had already passed the Battle of Songhu, and the surroundings were also quietly changing.

700,000 soldiers from all over the Huaxia land used their flesh and blood to shatter Japan's "three-month delusion," and in those difficult three months, they traded space for time.

Factories, schools, and political forces on the Huaxia land completed their strategic westward migration, serving as the final guarantee.

They reconstructed the key core of the Republic.

Now it had turned from a local war of resistance to a situation of comprehensive war of resistance.

In Shi Rui's livestream.

After sneaking into the Sihang Warehouse and recording the shocking twenty-meter close-range shooting of the Central Army.

Shi Rui was swept by bullets in the chaos and had now restarted.

Fortunately, the official Jixing opened the timeline at this time, so he could directly choose the 1937 timeline, which meant he didn't have to keep skipping the plot.

At this time.

Shi Rui chose the identity of a reporter.

Since livestreaming for so long in the Battle of Songhu under the guise of a reporter, Shi Rui had also grown to like this profession; when he restarted, he simply chose to be a reporter.

And the current time point was after the Battle of Songhu.

Shi Rui was currently in the Shanxi region.

Following the soldiers of the red force's 129th Division, preparing to ambush the Japanese army.

Shi Rui was lying on a high ground far from the position, introducing the situation to the Blue Star water friends in the livestream:

"Brothers, we are currently here in the Taihang Mountains."

"The red force just sent people to raid the Japanese stronghold in Licheng, north of Shentouling."

"The Japanese army's nearest support can only come from Lucheng in the south, so they are currently preparing to ambush the Japanese soldiers heading to Licheng for support at Shentouling."

"Let's see if we can catch a big fish."

After briefly introducing the current situation, Shi Rui continued:

"After the Battle of Songhu ended, the entire Republic is currently conducting resistance against Japan with different styles."

"Shanxi is mainly Mobile Corps Commander warfare and ambush warfare carried out by the red force."

"Relying on the mountain terrain to harass the Japanese army with small units, cooperating with the construction of base areas to form a persistent resistance posture."

"That is the 'Protracted War' that the red force mentioned before."

Just as Shi Rui was speaking, a Japanese reinforcement unit heading to Licheng appeared on the road in the mountains of Shentouling.

Looking at the long Japanese team, Shi Rui used the photon supercomputer to estimate that there was about a company's strength, and the supply trucks the team was heading to were moving slowly.

Looking at this scene, the Blue Star netizens in the livestream were somewhat suspicious:

【Are the Japanese trucks this slow? It wouldn't be bait, right?】

【Possible, there's probably a large force behind.】

【*Hiss—*, streamer, remind them quickly.】

【Not necessarily, the Japanese team is stretched so long, are they willing to use so many people as bait?】

【I don't think so either; the Japanese army seems a bit too relaxed, right?】

Looking at the danmu in the livestream, Shi Rui explained:

"Normal."

"Because this is the place where the Japanese army least expects an ambush."

Saying this, Shi Rui swept his gaze over the Shentouling area in the distance.

Only after seeing the full outline did the Blue Star netizens in the livestream understand why Shi Rui said this was the place where the Japanese army least expected an ambush.

Because this road was on an open mountain ridge.

There was no cover on either side, just a downward slope, looking like a single-plank bridge.

Who would set an ambush under a single-plank bridge?

Perhaps the Japanese army had this idea, which was also the reason why the marching troops were so relaxed and indifferent, because they fundamentally didn't expect anyone to set an ambush here.

But the red force really did it.

With the help of this reverse thinking, the red force used camouflage works for concealment; the Japanese army had walked halfway, and still hadn't discovered the red force soldiers hidden at the entrance.

And at this time, the Japanese unit had already entered the encirclement.

As they passed halfway, the first Japanese truck ran over a landmine buried overnight by the engineering company.

*Boom—! *

The deafening explosion echoed in the mountains, "Fire—!!!"

Accompanied by a roar echoing in the mountains, hundreds of grenades flew up at the same time, pouncing on the Japanese convoy in the middle of the road from both sides.

A Japanese soldier had just jumped off the truck.

*Boom! *

He was blown to death by the explosion of the grenade; some grenades detonated the Japanese trucks, the road instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the sound of gunfire on both sides of the road kept ringing out.

Suddenly suffering an attack, the Japanese command was chaotic and couldn't respond in time.

The battle quickly entered the white-hot stage; the Japanese army desperately charged toward the high ground, wanting to occupy a high ground, but the red force soldiers also blocked the Japanese daredevil squad without fear of death.

On the hillside on the other side, Shi Rui was livestreaming this blocking battle to the livestream.

Someone was curious about who the commander of this red force unit was, because after the Long March, many Blue Star players were attracted by the Battle of Songhu and didn't pay much attention to the red force.

They didn't know what it had developed into.

Shi Rui looked at the questions in the livestream and introduced:

"The one ambushing the Japanese below is the red force's 129th Division; the division commander is Liu... the deputy division commander is Xu..."

"The 386th Brigade under the 129th Division is the main attack, the north is the 771st Regiment, and the west is the 772nd Regiment."

"By the way."

"Mobile Corps Commander Chen of the 386th Brigade is also Whampoa Class 1..."

Shi Rui introduced while observing the battle situation below.

And the Blue Star netizens in the livestream also widened their eyes with these introductions; good fellow, they are all big shots of the red force, no wonder they have such combat power and tactical crushing.

On the other side.

After the security regiment from the small town in the Northwest was reorganized to support the Battle of Songhu.

Streamer Li Ran, who died in battle, restarted and chose the Great Northwest again; this time the identity was still a soldier of the security regiment, but the mission was different.

Between the gullies of the Loess Plateau, Li Ran followed the team to escort a mule and horse team westward.

The mules and horses were carrying heavy machine parts, and the man driving the cart shouted from time to time, urging the horses to move forward on the rugged mountain road; Li Ran looked at those parts in a trance.

Because when he entered Shanghai before, he happened to run into that factory relocation.

Now that he had restarted and returned, the factory equipment that had retreated in the Battle of Songhu had appeared on this vast Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest.

With the fall of the eastern coastal areas, the strategic value of the deep inland Great Northwest became prominent at this time.

Originally, he didn't feel anything.

But with in-depth analysis, Blue Star netizens felt more and more that the Huaxia ancestors were amazing.

The vast land area allowed the nation living on this land to have extraordinary fault tolerance; after the economically developed areas such as the eastern coast, North China, and East China fell one after another.

The Loess Plateau in the Northwest became a strategic rear area supporting the protracted war of resistance.

The complex terrain of the Loess Plateau and Qinling Mountains in the Northwest inland made the Japanese army's mechanized troops completely ineffective, greatly limiting the Japanese army's offensive capability.

International aid could also reach the Loess Plateau directly through the western passage, becoming another road of life.

And the Guanzhong Plain and the Hexi Corridor in Gansu were also important grain-producing areas, supplying the daily food needs of the army and the people.

If there was no geographical advantage of the Northwest region.

Then the "Republic's" economic and social structure would likely have collapsed rapidly within a few years after the Battle of Songhu.

But with the support of the Northwest land.

By trading space for time, the vast Northwest land could not only accommodate hundreds of universities, but also the relocation of hundreds of factories, refugees, troops, etc., could all be accommodated.

Becoming a material supply base, military buffer zone, and international aid channel in the war of resistance, etc.

It was these that supported the existing social system and structure from collapsing.

The important value of the Northwest might not be seen in peacetime, but it became particularly important during wartime.

Streamer Li Ran stayed locally to continue observing the changes in the Great Northwest after the Battle of Songhu after escorting the factory machinery.

On the other side.

Streamer Xia Jie, who was in the Northeast region.

Was following behind a 30-person team; the team was walking with difficulty on the snow at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and the white air exhaled was on their eyebrows,

And ice dregs had formed on their hair.

The livestream was very quiet; although there were many people watching, the danmu was sparse.

Some newcomers who didn't know why were sending question marks, while the old water friends in the livestream explained:

【New water friends, the streamer is not mute, he just needs to save energy and can't talk.】

【It will be fine once they find the camp; they just went through the devils' mopping-up, and the situation is very difficult.】

With the explanation of the old water friends in the livestream, the new water friends also learned a lot.

In streamer Xia Jie's plot.

Having just experienced the Japanese army's "Winter Mopping-up," the team had suffered heavy losses; through the perspective in the livestream, one could see that the cotton clothes on everyone were already tattered.

Various knife cuts, bullet holes, and black-brown bloodstains were all over the cotton clothes.

Not long ago, the news of the failure of the Battle of Songhu came, which also caused a not-small blow to the Anti-Japanese Allied Army soldiers persisting in these white mountains and black waters, plus the devils' "Winter Mopping-up."

The original team of nearly a hundred people now only had these 30 people left after fierce fighting.

Ahead.

Captain Zhao, who was leading the way, turned around and shouted hoarsely toward the back:

"Brothers! Persist a little longer!"

"Taojingou has our secret base, there should still be some food hidden there!"

"Persist!!!"

In the ice and snow of minus 30 degrees, this sentence was quite encouraging; having food meant having a way to live.

But when the team arrived at Taojingou after half a day of trekking.

The scene in front of them made everyone's heart sink.

More than half of the village had been burned, and it was silent; obviously, there was no one left.

The crowd did not go to the village again.

Instead, they followed Captain Zhao to the secret base; the base was a collapsed mine cave that had not been discovered by the Japanese army, only the entrance had collapsed.

It took a lot of effort for everyone to clear the rubble and dig out half a bag of grain to cook into porridge; only then did everyone come back to life.

But after finishing the porridge, thinking of the tragic scene in Taojingou, everyone fell silent.

Inside the half-collapsed mine cave, the cold wind outside kept blowing into the cave; the Northeast night of minus 30 degrees was not easy to endure.

Streamer Xia Jie could only curl up in the corner and say in a low voice about the current situation:

"This should be the most difficult Anti-Japanese team in the 'Republic'."

"The temperature in the Northeast region at night in winter is basically minus 30 or 40 degrees, and the winter lasts for half a year."

"Under such circumstances, the Anti-Japanese soldiers still don't have a stable base."

"From time to time, they have to fight and transfer according to the Japanese army's mopping-up, just like the team I'm in now."

"In the battle with the Japanese army during the Winter Mopping-up, they were reduced from over a hundred people to 30."

"And once they transfer."

"It means using willpower to fight against nature."

"Today they found the secret base, otherwise a group of people would have to endure the night in the snow."

"Enduring the night outside in such a temperature... I estimate they would all be frozen into ice lumps."

"The winter in the Northeast lasts for half a year, and the Anti-Japanese soldiers have been fighting for six whole years from 1931 to the current 1937."

The new Blue Star netizens in the livestream all fell into silence.

Many people have played 【WWII】 games, and have participated in the 【Battle of Moscow】 and 【Stalingrad】 campaigns; they experienced that kind of cold winter for four or five months.

They felt that kind of situation was already very difficult.

But at this time...

A winter of minus 40 degrees Celsius, a winter spanning half a year, and they had already carried it for six whole years.

How exactly did they carry it down?

The Blue Star water friends in the livestream pondered this question.

The howling wind outside the cave howled.

This added a few more degrees of chill to the cold, dark night; no one dared to sleep, fearing that if they were not careful, they would never wake up again, so they all huddled around the fire, striving to warm themselves for a while longer.

Suddenly.

I don't know who asked in a low voice:

"Captain... I heard that in Songhu inside the pass... failed?"

Captain Zhao looked at the fire.

The reflection of the flames jumped in his eyes; Captain Zhao was silent for a moment and said:

"Not a defeat, it's a retreat."

"Last year, the Central Army and troops supported from all over the country fought in Shanghai for three months; the whole world saw our determination, and instead, the Japanese's 'three-month plan' failed."

Saying this, Captain Zhao took out something wrapped in cloth from his bosom and opened it carefully, revealing the thing inside; it was a small booklet that was almost worn out.

Everyone looked curiously at the captain's treasure.

And Xia Jie and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream recognized the four characters on the cover of the small booklet.

"On Protracted War"

Captain Zhao opened the small booklet by the firelight, and his hoarse voice sounded:

"The War of Resistance Against Japan is a protracted war."

"We are not afraid of sacrifice, not afraid of difficulties, persist in the war of resistance, persist in the united front..."

Outside the cave.

The north wind howled.

Inside the cave.

Thirty starving and cold soldiers huddled together, listening to the captain reading "On Protracted War," and many soldiers' eyes reignited with the fire of hope.

Xia Jie suddenly understood why in this ice and snow.

The Anti-Japanese soldiers could persist for six years, and perhaps even longer in the future, because they possessed an incomparably firm faith.

That was something the Japanese would never understand, something hotter than minus forty degrees.

Blue Star players were experiencing the "Republic" at this time from the Huaxia land in the 【Awakening Era】 DLC.

It's just that the limit of the 【WWI】 series was 1939; at this time, the plot timeline was opened to after 1937, and the progress of the Blue Star players accelerated a lot.

Jixing Company, in the President's Office.

Zhao Ming looked from the backend and saw that in about a week, players would be able to finish experiencing all the plots of 1939.

Later, more and more players would finish experiencing it.

And the 【WWII】 side had also started the great power game war; by the way, this batch of 【WWI】 players would be diverted to 【WWII】 to continue experiencing the plot after 1939.