Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign

"Sigh...I heard that many of our brothers guarding the bridge were either killed or injured. The Japanese firepower was too strong—they used machine guns and cannons, while some of our men didn't even have guns, rushing in with machetes..."

"What is Japan trying to do? Are they really planning to attack Beiping?"

"What should we do? Run?"

"Run? Where to? Tianjin isn't safe either!"

The atmosphere at the tea stall grew increasingly heavy, with some cursing softly and others sighing.

Meanwhile, Shi Rui, after collecting information throughout the night, has temporarily understood the current situation in Beiping. He hung the organized map in the live-stream room and said to the viewers:

"This is the information about the current 'Republic' that I gathered last night."

"It is indeed just as the nearby NPCs said, not peaceful anywhere."

"Take a look at the map."

Saying this, Shi Rui enlarged the map in the live-stream room.

Shi Rui pointed at the map and said:

"This is the year 1937."

"To the north of Beiping, from Juyongguan of the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan, is controlled by the Japanese Army."

"The southern passage is blocked by Yongding River, and to the east is the Bohai Sea with the Japanese fleet."

"The Lugou Bridge to the west is a significant passageway, serving as an important entrance and exit for Beiping."

"Once the Lugou Bridge is controlled."

"It could be said that the entrance and exit to Beiping is completely locked down."

"Completely blocked in all directions."

Seeing the map drawn by Shi Rui, the Blue Star viewers in the live-stream room nodded in agreement.

Indeed.

Looking at it this way, there's no way out.

The entire southern passage of the Pingjin Region is blocked by that Yongding River.

No wonder the Japanese Army is striving to seize control of the crucial traffic hub, the Luding Bridge.

Shi Rui is currently on the southern side of the Yongding River, unable to enter the Beiping side, and obviously can't get in now as it's completely sealed off by the Japanese Army.

There's no way to see what's inside.

Primarily because too few have jumped to the 1937 timeframe.

The previous streamers who skipped ahead were aiming to trigger the Four Crossings of the Chishui River event and the subsequent Long March, with most currently at the 1935 timeframe.

Only a few streamers, due to their identity issues, didn't join the Red side and kept skipping the storyline.

It wasn't until Shi Rui skipped from 1935 to 1937 that this storyline was triggered, indicating the difficulty in triggering it.

Nevertheless, it successfully generated a wave of enthusiasm.

After all, in "World War II: Empire's Rise," the Polestar never opened the storyline for the [Republic] area.

Now they're involved too.

This stirred many streamers to change direction, preparing to trigger storylines based on Japan-related events and locations.

There were many discussions in the Polestar forum.

At this moment, Blue Star players finally shifted their focus from the Red-Blue sides to the Japanese invasion here.

Only then did they realize, without even noticing, that Beiping was nearly occupied by Japan.

When did things escalate so quickly?

In fact, most players don't skip the storyline like streamers do, so they don't feel it as they play slowly, while those streamers skipped too quickly with their focus on the south.

They didn't notice the Republic's situation at the time.

But with the onset of the [Lugou Bridge Incident], Blue Star players suddenly grew curious about how long Japan had been developing.

Many players started fresh to explore the Northeast Region for answers.

In another live-stream room.

The streamer managing the Blue side archives, Gao Bo, also began searching for information regarding Japan under the strong request of Blue Star viewers, leveraging the convenience of his identity.

Looking at official archival management is certainly faster than other players finding records from various time points.

Gao Bo agreed and quickly sorted out a pile of documents.

However, as Gao Bo perused the war documents of the past decades, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Netizens in the live-stream room asked one after another seeing Gao Bo's expression.

With a furrowed brow, Gao Bo said:

"Japan over here..."

"I think I know why the Republic's storyline wasn't opened during World War II."

"Everyone remembers the [Republic] being introduced during World War II's conclusion, mentioning over 35 million casualties during the War of Resistance, right?"

The barrage of comments in the live-stream were somewhat unclear, but most knew about it.

Gao Bo took a deep breath and pulled out several documents:

"These documents are about Japan's actions after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894."

"1894, following the Sino-Japanese War, the Jinzhou Massacre resulted in approximately two thousand civilian deaths, followed by the Port Arthur Massacre, causing around twenty thousand civilian deaths."

"Tianzhuangtai...about 2,200 civilian deaths."

"Xiaolong Incident...approximately 27,000 civilians."

"Triangle Burst...approximately 20,000 deaths."

"Yunlin...a retaliatory sweep, burning 56 villages, about 10,000 civilian casualties."

"There's also the August report in [The Times]: Japanese soldiers' violent insolence was shocking, killing and burning recklessly, sparing neither the elderly, women, nor children."

"Jinan...about 17,000 military and civilian casualties."

"Shanghai [January 28 Incident]: over 12,600 victims."

"Pingdingshan...over 3,000 civilians."

"Xinbin...about 10,000 victims."

"Yucheng...2,000... Linjiang...8,000...Yilan...over another 20,000?!"

"Damn?!"

"What on earth is the Blue side doing?!"

"The last few even occurred last year!!!"

The timeframe Gao Bo was following was for pursuing the Red side's Four Crossings of the Chishui River, corresponding to the 1935 timeframe, with the newest data only going to last year, 1934.

But what shocked Gao Bo and Blue Star viewers was.

Starting from 1894, Japan had already killed so many civilians on Huaxia Land?!