Chapter 269: Chapter 158: [Market Garden Operation] God of War Montgomery (6.1k Double-Length)
Looking at the internal notifications of the Empire.
Cheng Yu and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream couldn’t understand. With the situation already so dire, why was a general like Manstein replaced?
No wonder those streamers experiencing the [Normandy Landing] plot are reporting that the Soviets are almost reaching the original Polish border.
So, Manstein was dismissed at the beginning of the year?
Currently, the fastest timeline is for those streamers and players experiencing the [Normandy Landing] plot because they skip forward, directly to the second half of 1944.
But for people like Cheng Yu, who proceed step by step, the time in the [Immersive Plot] mode is only the beginning of 1944.
By skipping the plot too quickly, a lot of information was missed, and all that is known is the comprehensive defeat of the Empire on the Eastern Front.
But for those who skipped more slowly, the plot reveals some intelligence at this point.
The Blue Star netizens in the livestream urged Cheng Yu to look for other information. Although Cheng Yu didn’t know many people, he could learn about some notifications.
As he went to the headquarters and chatted with some senior generals of the Empire.
After half a day.
He did gather quite a bit of intelligence.
When Cheng Yu returned to his corps, he began to share the compiled intelligence with the new livestream audience.
These newcomers were also attracted by the news of Manstein’s dismissal.
They had not seen Cheng Yu probing the situation at headquarters earlier.
At this point, Cheng Yu pulled out a piece of paper and listed some items, sharing them with the new Blue Star friends in the livestream:
"Manstein was dismissed mainly because of disagreements with the Imperial Leader."
"It is said that at the beginning of the year, due to unfavorable warfare, Manstein attempted to counterattack to slow the advance of the Soviet Union."
"But the orders from the Imperial Leader were to defend at all costs, focusing on defense."
"Such orders from the Imperial Leader are common because, from the European Battlefield to the North African Battlefield, no withdrawal orders were ever given."
"Even if annihilation was imminent, orders were to hold the line."
"However, holding the line conflicted with Manstein’s principles, one being the commander of the Eastern Front, and the other the supreme ruler of the Empire."
"The conflict between the two halted progress on the Eastern Front."
"The accumulated disagreements led to Manstein’s direct dismissal, and the entire Eastern Front campaign began to be directly intervened by the Imperial Leader."
This intelligence was compiled by Cheng Yu from his inquiries and everything else in other players’ plots online.
After reading this intelligence.
It was hard to judge, and it was impossible to say who was right or wrong, after all, one was the Empire’s commander, and the other the Imperial Leader—they couldn’t possibly both want to lose.
However, orders could only be followed from one person.
Originally, military campaigns were planned after discussions among various generals, with the Imperial Leader making the final decision.
Now the Imperial Leader was directly intervening.
It wasn’t a matter of mistrust towards the Imperial Leader, but because it is said that during the First World War...he was just a common soldier.
Could he really command the entire battlefield well?
Manstein couldn’t hold on in this situation.
This was the question that flashed through the minds of Cheng Yu and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room, but it seems they didn’t need to ponder it further since the Soviets hadn’t yet reached Poland.
But those who skipped through the plot quickly were already in the second half of 1944 in their [Immersive Plot] mode of the streamers.
The Soviet Union had already reclaimed all territories and was preparing to attack the original Polish territories.
It shows that within the past half a year, even with a change in command and the direct intervention of the Imperial Leader, the entire European battlefield situation deteriorated rapidly.
There was simply no way to salvage the situation.
The situation on ’Earth’ collapsed in the blink of an eye.
Many Blue Star players didn’t have time to react.
Only now are they starting to take it seriously.
Many started collecting information from various sources to see where the Empire began to fall apart.
On the other side.
In many streamer livestream rooms that skipped the plot, the timeline is in the second half of 1944.
Since they had already passed the [Normandy Landing] plot.
They no longer skipped, but also started collecting the information they missed over the past half year.
In Yu Feng’s livestream room.
At this time, because Yu Feng died during the [Normandy Landing], he had to start over, only this time he started as a native merchant of the British Commonwealth.
Although he didn’t have direct messages from the frontline phone.
But fortunately, because he had money, he could collect a lot of newspapers and gather information from various countries.
Yu Feng was sitting in his office at this time.
Newspapers collected by his employees from all over London were delivered to his room, piling up half of the room.
Yu Feng flipped through the newspapers, and the livestream also showed this, as he sighed:
"The Empire is really at the end of its rope now."
As he spoke, he picked up a newspaper, which had the British Commonwealth’s propaganda about the Empire’s current situation, and due to insufficient resources, the Eastern Front was in comprehensive defeat.
It seemed that the British Commonwealth was about to invade the Empire’s homeland tomorrow.
Though exaggerated, it was something to be wary of.
But within these reports, there should be some truths, such as the current difficult living conditions of the Empire’s citizens, and the insufficient supply on the Eastern Front.
These can be verified from other players’ livestream rooms.
The Empire’s defeat over this half year.
Was due to insufficient supplies. The new commander, Model, though he employed flexible tactics to resist several Soviet Union advances.