Chapter 331: Chapter 176: [Republic] Major Events Timeline (7.2k Double Release) (Part 3)
[Also regarded as a classic 20th-century battle case in world history.]
Yu Feng then looked at the yet-to-be-unlocked storyline below.
With a click, an introduction box popped up, and the background image was a plain.
[Tashan Defense Battle]
[Tashan, no danger to defend. (Pending unlock)]
Just a few simple words and a name made Yu Feng and the Blue Star fans in the live stream pause in surprise. Yu Feng clicked twice again, and it was still the same:
"That’s it?"
"Is that all the introduction?"
"No way."
"Could this background image really be Tashan?"
"Where’s the mountain?"
Yu Feng suddenly remembered something, looking at the background image.
Because the background images of the previous introduction boxes were generally related to the introduction, for example, the one for [Restoration of the Empire] was a photo of a warlord Yuan Shikai, and the warlord melee was a fictional map.
And the background image for this [Tashan Defense Battle]... was a plain?!
Hearing Yu Feng’s words, the Blue Star netizens in the live stream also looked at the background image and were all dumbfounded.
[What the hell? Where’s the mountain? Doesn’t Tashan have a mountain?]
[Goodness, this terrain is too plain, the steel torrent will just push straight through.]
[What’s the deal with this ’Tashan Defense Battle’? Who’s attacking and who’s defending?]
[That old rascal Zhao is just being stingy, giving no data.]
[Damn... There’s truly no danger to defend, a plain as far as the eye can see, unless it’s the mountain at the end.]
The background image showed a background, on one side was a village, on the other was the plain’s crops, the only thing that might relate to a mountain was... that patch of woods in the middle?
It indeed seemed a bit higher than the surroundings...
But this thing... doesn’t look higher than the [Mamaev Kurgan] in Stalingrad.
[Mamaev Kurgan] at least has an elevation of more than 100 meters, that patch of woods is only slightly higher than the surroundings, probably not even reaching 60 meters, right?
Fighting crossfire on a plain here?
Over 100,000 died on the [Mamaev Kurgan] on the Soviet Union side, how intense does it have to be here?
Unbeknownst to many.
The reason it’s called [Tashan Defense Battle] is because the village under that woodland is called [Tashan Village], and there’s actually no mountain there at all.
As the Blue Star netizens in the live stream speculated about the situation of this defense battle.
In the bullet screen, suddenly many people were flooding the screen.
[Quick, go look at the Four Crossings of the Chishui River event!]
[Four Crossings of the Chishui River! Four Crossings of the Chishui River!]
[Damn, Zhao definitely designed it with excitement!]
[Quick, click on Four Crossings of the Chishui River! I can’t be the only one confused!]
Seeing the densely flowing bullet screen, Yu Feng and Fang Ming were a bit puzzled, quickly sliding forward on the [Republic] timeline.
Found the [Four Crossings of the Chishui River], Yu Feng clicked in:
"What’s going on, so many people talking about this event, let me see... Damn?!!!"
[Four Crossings of the Chishui River (January 1935 - May 1935) was the most thrilling strategic maneuver battle during the Long March.]
[Facing the encirclement and pursuit of 400,000 enemy troops, the instructor commanded 30,000 soldiers to traverse the Chishui River on the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border four times, using the tactic of "feigning one direction to attack another" to reverse maneuver and command the enemy forces.]
[In the end, the Four Crossings of the Chishui River jumped out of the encirclement, with highly flexible "hit-and-run" maneuvers to reverse a desperate situation, creating a miracle in war history where the few defeated the many.]
[Note: Recognized by the ’Earth’ world war history as the most impossible battle.]
Just above the short introduction, it was the background image that was most jaw-dropping.
Looking at the introduction.
Yu Feng was thinking of what kind of battle it must have been to be called the most impossible battle in the ’Earth’ world war history.
But seeing the background image... Damn? This is impossible!!!
For the first time.
The dense army, clearly separated in red and blue.
Yu Feng and the Blue Star netizens had a direct concept of the 400,000 and 30,000....
It had to be direct, there was no other option.
The blue was indeed too many, looking at it, there was almost no place to set foot.
Could this encirclement really be broken?
At this point.
Not only the players watching the live stream were shocked and confused.
#Four Crossings of the Chishui River#
This entry quickly rose to trending.
Leaving all the Blue Star people bewildered.
Because of the past half a year since the popularity of "World War II: Empire’s Rise," many people had started to play war games, let alone the World War II players.
More or less, they understood a bit.
But upon seeing the [Four Crossings of the Chishui River] image, they were just confused.
Many speculated, did Zhao go overboard during the design?
Even many players, based on the map layout, created their own map simulations, the result being that even with infinite firepower cheats, they couldn’t get through.
Not even Photon Supercomputing could do it.
400,000 troops against 30,000, even in a war of attrition, it couldn’t be sustained.
Photon Supercomputing, cheating, couldn’t get through...
The combination of these words left many Blue Star players puzzled, some even doubting if they were looking at it wrong, blinking several times but unable to confirm.
Not until they watched the simulation video played by the player did they truly believe it.
A new question was soon born.
Is it reasonable?
Many rushed to Zhao Ming’s account to remind him to quickly adjust it reasonably, to avoid tarnishing his reputation.
However.
This is the actual situation; how could Zhao Ming change it...
....
On another side.
Great Xia Federation, Northern Army.
Songgel Ice Field, Seventh Special Operations Brigade.
With the joint military exercise approaching, there was less than half a month left before the start.
Because it is the first competition within the game, the Six Major Federations spent a lot of time setting rules and negotiating, but it also gave the various federations plenty of time to prepare.
In the training room.
Shen Yan was training inside the game when he suddenly received a reminder.