Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign

At this moment.

In the livestream room of host Shi Rui on the Sky Shark Live Platform.

Shi Rui is hiding behind a dirt slope, observing the situation at the Lugou Bridge in the distance, while livestreaming to the Blue Star netizens in the room:

"Hiss—"

"Guys, finally caught a plot event, huh?!"

Originally, Shi Rui, like other hosts, was constantly skipping through plots, trying to trigger the 1935 Four Crossings of the Chishui River.

However, due to not having prepared his identity and other aspects properly at the start, he almost got suspected as a spy when he arrived in the Suzhou District.

Naturally, he couldn't join in.

He initially came to trigger the [Four Crossings of the Chishui River] plot, but because of the identity issue, it was clearly not possible to join the red side anymore.

Therefore, the plot related to the red side couldn't be triggered.

But restarting would waste too much time, so Shi Rui turned his attention to other events on the Polestar Official Website [Republic] timeline.

Apart from the red side, there were still many major events in the [Republic] at this time.

So after the 1935 time point, Shi Rui kept traveling to different places, to see if he could trigger any plots.

Just....

It still depends on luck.

He traveled from the Suzhou District to Beiping, intermittently jumping from the 1935 time point to the 1937 time point.

Yet, nothing was triggered.

Until tonight, when he intended to travel from Lugou Bridge to Beiping, but upon arrival, he found the atmosphere wasn't right.

Shi Rui quickly ducked behind the dirt slope and peeked out, using the magnifying function of the livestream room, looking at the Lugou Bridge.

Indeed.

Soon after, a squad of Japanese soldiers went up the Lugou Bridge and started talking to the 29th Army soldiers on the opposite side.

Shi Rui was watching when he suddenly saw the Japanese soldiers start shooting at the 29th Army soldiers:

"The Japanese attacked directly?"

Shi Rui was a bit suspicious and uncertain, talking to the viewers in the livestream.

The Blue Star viewers in the livestream room were also watching intently.

Right now, the defenders at the Lugou Bridge were counterattacking against the Japanese troop's aggression, but it was apparent the Japanese were prepared. As the side defending the bridge,

they should have had the advantage, but were surprisingly suppressed by the firepower.

At this moment.

A comment flashed across the screen.

[Photon Supercomputer read out what the Japanese soldiers were saying, something about a missing soldier?]

The comment passed, and the screen in the livestream room was filled with question marks.

[???]

[A missing soldier? That excuse is outrageous!]

[This is clearly an act of the devils causing trouble, host, you better run.]

[Those devils are always like this, didn't you learn that while playing [World War II]?]

[The [Republic] wasn't open in [World War II], now we can finally understand this part of the war.]

[Seriously? Is there a lightbulb under the eyebrows of the devils? Coming up with such a ridiculous excuse?]

Shi Rui looked at the comments and nodded.

He turned his gaze toward the distant Lugou Bridge, saying:

"Indeed."

"Damn, what an outrageous excuse."

In the distance, Lugou Bridge.

Spanning over the Yongding River, it's only about 200 meters long, with no travelers at night, and the bridgehead was already fortified by the 29th Army, clearly wary of the Japanese.

In such a situation.

A bridge just over 200 meters, with defensive structures on both sides.

Could a living person go missing on this?

Especially a soldier?

Could they come up with anything more far-fetched?

Do they really think everyone is blind?

But clearly, even the 29th Army soldiers didn't expect that sometimes, no reason was needed.

The Japanese troops were obviously premeditated.

This was just an excuse.

It seemed like they were waiting for the 29th Army soldiers to refuse.

As soon as they refused to search, the Japanese troops opened fire, temporarily suppressing the 29th Army soldiers defending the bridge.

However, the 29th Army soldiers quickly recovered, using the strong firepower at the bridgehead to stop the Japanese temporarily, but the Japanese had more than rifles and light machine guns.

Soon.

In Shi Rui's perspective, a few Type 92 infantry guns were rolled out by the Japanese.

And started bombarding the 29th Army's defensive positions at the Lugou Bridge.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—

All of a sudden.

Shells rained down on the 29th Army's defensive positions.

Taking advantage of the firepower suppression.

The Japanese advanced in a dispersed formation, shooting alternately in groups of three, using the long range and accuracy of the Type 38 rifles, targeting the 29th Army machine gunners at the bridgehead.

In Shi Rui's livestream view.

Watching the Japanese troops rapidly advance, some even reaching the 29th Army's positions on the opposite side.

Compared to the Japanese troops.

The 29th Army's equipment was scattered and varied, and some even lacked weapons.

When the Japanese soldiers attacked, they fought back with sabers.

Shi Rui watched as a 29th Army soldier slashed two Japanese soldiers, then as he tried to cut the next one, he was shot down by machine gun fire, falling with resentment.

The powerful Japanese firepower quickly breached the Lugou Bridge's defenses.

And they advanced towards Beiping.

Watching the continuous stream of Japanese forces crossing the Lugou Bridge and heading towards Beiping,

for a moment,

Shi Rui didn't know where to go.

After thinking about it.

He could only head back first to observe the developments here.

...

The next day.

In Shi Rui's livestream room.

Shi Rui is currently sitting in front of a tea stall, listening to the surrounding discussions about last night's events.

"Have you heard? There was a fight at the Lugou Bridge last night!"

"Yeah! My cousin works in Wanping City and was woken by the gunfire in the middle of the night, saying it was the Japanese who fired first!"

"The Japanese? Isn't it said that we fired first?"

"Don't listen to those Japanese lies! Those damned Japanese just made a move to occupy Beiping."