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Chapter 197 [Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang] A Faith That Shocked the Blue Star (4.9k)

The official website of Polaris has updated with a new CG expansion, which has naturally attracted the attention of many streamers.

TianSha Live Streaming Platform.

In Fang Ming's live broadcast room.

After being blown up by the Japanese while painstakingly transporting weapons in the game, Fang Ming was so angry that he didn't play the game for more than a week until he calmed down and resumed streaming recently.

at this time.

The live stream interface was set to Polestar's official website.

This is the trailer page for "Crossing the Chishui River Four Times".

The page has the words "[Four Crossings of the Chishui River]" in the center, with a picture of the Chishui River in the background. However, it is displayed in gray, which means that this information has not yet been made available.

The events preceding and following this are several story events along the [Republic] timeline.

Arranged in chronological order.

Currently, only the expansion pack "Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang" is displayed.

The subsequent storylines, such as "Crossing the Wujiang River," "Crossing the Chishui River Four Times," "Seizing the Luding Bridge," and "Crossing the Snow-capped Mountains and Grasslands," are still grayed out.

Since it just started airing.

There weren't many people in the live stream yet, so Fang Ming didn't watch it beforehand.

Meanwhile, the viewers on Earth in the live stream had just woken up and were unaware that the Polaris official website had released a new CG expansion pack. They were waiting in the live stream to watch it together.

However, some impatient people have already left the live stream to watch it themselves.

Shocking comments occasionally floated across the screen below:

[Go watch it now! The bloody battle of Xiangjiang River CG!!!]

[Hey streamer, don't just stand there! Click to watch!]

Holy crap! This cutscene is brutal! My hands are shaking!

This CG is brutal!

I cried so much watching this! You guys have to go watch it!

After watching this, I'm completely numb!

This CG is too powerful. I need to catch my breath!

Although the live stream chat didn't explicitly say so, the reaction made people curious about what kind of CG it was that was so tragic that viewers' hands were shaking while watching it.

Are people all numb?
Is the aftereffect really that strong?
These comments also piqued the curiosity of other viewers in the live stream, including Fang Ming himself.

Seeing the urging from the live chat, Fang Ming glanced at his screen and saw that the number of viewers had already reached tens of thousands.

"Okay, okay, I'll open it now."

"Brothers, stop rushing us."

"But what kind of CG is it that has elicited such a strong reaction from you all?"

Fang Ming clicked on the CG of "Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang".

Then click to expand, and the CG perspective is instantly immersed in the virtual immersive cabin.

The screen slowly lit up.

A bird's-eye view swept across the scene, revealing thick smoke billowing along both banks of the Xiang River below, with densely packed troops engaged in combat, while the river itself resembled a winding ribbon of blood.

Upon seeing this scene, no one in the live stream had a chance to react.

But the next second, he gasped in shock, staring in disbelief at the blood-red Xiang River.

The blood-red river below is clearly stained with blood!
How many people must have died!

The opening screen alone left the players on Earth completely bewildered.

suddenly.

The roar of airplanes filled my ears.

The viewpoint slowly rises.

A group of bombers flew over from the sky at almost the same height as the viewer's eyes, heading towards the opposite bank of the river.

From Qi Gao's vantage point, the bombs mounted on the fuselage are clearly visible.

The field of view drops rapidly.

They arrived at the front line of the river crossing and landed among the Red Army troops.

Then, as if possessing a soldier, the camera pans and you can see the soldier loading his gun, then raising it to fire at the enemy.

You can tell from his tender yet rough hands that he is a boy.

far away.

The roar of airplanes could be heard from the sky opposite.

It was the bomber formation that had just been seen from high altitude, and the boy in the first-person perspective who was possessed looked up and saw a dense array of black dots on the horizon.

Chu tu tu tu——

A sound of flesh being pierced rang out, and Fang Ming almost had a shock.

But then I realized it wasn't in the game.

This is playing a CG.

The viewers on Earth in the live stream were also taken aback.

The possessed soldier's perspective went dark instantly.

It lit up again the next second.

However, it was no longer the same soldier as before, because from this new perspective, the soldier in front was looking up at the sky, with several bloody holes in his body, falling backward.

thump!
They were piled on top of the corpses.

boom! boom! boom!
The shells exploded on the river surface, sending up plumes of water.

boom--!
Suddenly, a shell exploded right next to him the instant he landed.

The last thing you see is the scattered corpses around you, blown apart by the explosion.

The perspective shifts again.

The viewers in the live stream were holding their breath.

And the new perspective was indeed from the soldiers in the back.

Because the shockwave from the explosion appeared in a new perspective, and that new perspective was thrown out by the shockwave before it could even get up.

boom! ! !
Another shell landed, and the view went dark.

The bomber formation on the horizon had not yet arrived.

In the ten seconds or so before the bomber group arrived, the single perspective had been switched more than ten times.

In other words, in just over 10 seconds, more than 10 soldiers had died.

Almost every second someone is dying, and this is just a single switch. If you look at the overall picture, the number of people dying every second is at least in the two or three digits.

And when the bomber arrived over this area.

The constant explosions caused the view to flicker, and it became impossible to count how many times the perspective had changed.

The deafening roar lasted for several seconds.

When the screen lights up again.

The smoke of battle has not yet dissipated on both banks of the Xiang River.

The air was thick with the pungent smell of blood and gunpowder. The river water was no longer its usual emerald green, but a chilling dark red.

The view sweeps across the river.

The once turbulent river now seemed unusually heavy, with countless bodies floating on its surface.

Some of them had turned white from being soaked in the river water.

Some of them still maintained their fighting stances, as if they were still charging forward.

An octagonal cap adorned with a red star drifted along with the current, and the young face beneath the brim looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old.

shore.

Several shallow areas were piled up with corpses, forming a "human dike".

Dozens of soldiers' corpses were piled up behind the fortifications, and because there were so many corpses, they even exceeded the height of the fortifications.

tragic.

It was extremely tragic.

It was beyond description; even the murky river water was stained dark red, which shows how many soldiers fell here.

The scene shifts to the riverbank.

Before it got dark, a group of ragged villagers quietly watched this place. After observing for a long time, a few of the bolder ones stepped forward.

After confirming that there were no enemy troops.

He waved quickly behind him, and the group of ragged villagers carrying simple tools appeared.

There were shovels, straw mats, and several elderly people who came with incense, candles, and paper money.

Upon seeing the scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood before them, everyone trembled involuntarily. Several villagers carrying straw mats even collapsed to the ground, wailing and crying.

These few rolls of straw mats are simply not enough to collect the bodies of these soldiers.

An elderly man with white hair, holding incense, candles, and paper money, looked at the countless young faces before him, his voice trembling:
"These are all dolls."

"That white dog is a monster!"

The white-haired old man shakily lit the paper money and incense, waved the burning paper money around, and then looked at the people around him:

"Quickly, collect the body."

"Collect all the bodies before those white dogs arrive."

"Find a good place to bury him."

"They died for us, we can't let them be insulted by those white dogs."

A group of villagers sprang into action, carefully carrying each body towards the back of the village.

They were afraid the white dogs would find out.

During this period, the White Dogs hated the Red Army soldiers to the core, and they didn't even want to let go of their corpses. Anyone who collected the corpses of Red Army soldiers would be executed.

The villagers' actions also carried the risk of losing their heads.

But no one backed down.

The video is streaming rapidly.

From dusk till dawn, the group of ragged villagers carried the bodies of the Red Army soldiers to the graves they had dug in the ravine behind the mountain.

There were no coffins, no tombstones, only hats burning with blood and sewn with five-pointed stars.

Yesterday, the white-haired old man lit three incense sticks and led a group of villagers to pay tribute to the fallen Red Army soldiers.

The camera zooms out rapidly.

Then it falls and the image reappears.

They were already inside the blue team's headquarters.

Boom boom boom!
A rapid knocking sounded, and when the word "come in" was given, the communications soldier, his face filled with shock and fear, pushed open the headquarters door and rushed in:

"Report! Urgent telegram from Xiangjiang!"

"Commander Chen Shuxiang of the 34th Division has been captured!" The voice trembled slightly.

An eerie silence suddenly fell over the entire headquarters.

He Yingqin suddenly stood up, a look of joy on his face:
"Read!"

"Read it aloud, without missing a single word!"

The signalman picked up the telegram, his hands trembling uncontrollably.
"The enemy's 34th Division Commander, Chen Shuxiang, has been seriously wounded and captured, and is currently being escorted to Daoxian County."

He Yingqin frowned deeply:
"But what?"

The signalman's hands trembled even more violently:
"But he took advantage of the guards' inattention and cut off his own intestines, thus dying."

The words fell.

The communications soldier looked up, his face pale, as if he had been frightened.

The headquarters fell silent for a moment.

Swish!
The scene suddenly switched.

In a marching procession, an officer walked beside a stretcher and advised:

"Commander Chen, surrender."

"The Chairman said that as long as you surrender, you can be spared."

"They might even be promoted and given a higher rank."

The heavily wounded Division Commander Chen Shuxiang, lying on the stretcher, merely responded with a cold laugh and closed his eyes.

See this.

The officer also gave a cold laugh:
"Why are you pretending to be tough?"

"You'll be in for a world of hurt once you get to the interrogation room."

He's seen far too many people like that.

But few could survive the interrogation room. After a disdainful sneer, the officer turned and left.

As the marching troops rested, seemingly realizing that the seriously wounded Red Army division commander had no chance of escaping, the guards around them relaxed their vigilance.

Commander Chen Shuxiang, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, but the soldiers around him had not yet noticed.

With a determined look in his eyes, Commander Chen Shuxiang slowly moved his arm and reached towards his abdomen.

The movements were slow, yet went unnoticed.

Seeing this, netizens on Earth were still unaware of what was about to happen, while those who had already watched the video were frantically flooding the screen with comments:
【No!!! Commander Chen!!!】

My hands are shaking! I can't watch anymore.

His hand is moving! His hand is moving!

[Where's the guard?! Stop him!!!]

This is the real tough nut to crack.

As Division Commander Chen Shuxiang's hand reached the wound on his abdomen, the soldiers guarding nearby noticed and immediately went on high alert.

"What are you doing?!"

This loud shout drew the attention of the surrounding soldiers, who furrowed their brows and became on high alert.

Several soldiers were even sweating profusely, their eyes darting around frantically, trying to recall if they had thoroughly searched the bodies and found no weapons on them!

The two guards next to him wanted to step forward, but then Commander Chen Shuxiang suddenly laughed.

Bloodstained fingers had sunk deep into the bandages covering his abdomen.

As Commander Chen Shuxiang exerted his strength, the bandages burst open, and the pupils of all the guards contracted simultaneously.

That wasn't a struggle.

Rather, it is a resolute and chillingly precise exertion of force.

Poof——

A dull thud came from the tearing of flesh.

The clear sound was more shocking to the live stream than any gunfire. Tens of thousands of viewers in the live stream inexplicably felt a pain in their abdomen and couldn't help but feel weak all over.

thump!
A guard slumped to the ground, raising his trembling hand:

"He he he he he! He's tearing at himself... Ahh ...

A piercing, horrified scream echoed throughout the camp.

I was so scared I broke down.

The officers in the distance rushed over, but when they arrived, one glance was enough to make them feel nauseous with fear, and they looked at Division Commander Chen Shuxiang in terror.

His eyes couldn't hide his horror:

"you?!!!"

Division Commander Chen Shuxiang gave a weak smile, clenching his teeth as the excruciating pain made him tremble all over.
"For the revolution."

He mustered all his strength and twisted it down hard:
"what--!"

With a muffled groan, blood gushed out.

The officer could no longer control himself and crawled backward.

"madman!"

"They're all crazy!!!"

The surrounding soldiers also ran away in terror, not daring to stay there.

The perspective suddenly shifts.

The figure fell to the ground, the scene before his eyes gradually blurred, and the blurry images of the fleeing guards around him gradually turned into a series of images flashing by.

The voices of my comrades and the roar of the bugle call could be heard in my ears.

Inexplicable.

Netizens on Blue Star felt that Commander Chen Shuxiang was smiling at this moment, a very happy smile.

Just a few seconds.

As the sound of the bugle call faded away, the screen gradually went dark.

Long live the Red Army!

The screen went completely dark.

At this moment, the people in the live stream were completely stunned:
[He was really laughing at the end. He was laughing, laughing despite the unbearable pain!!!]

Long live the Red Army! (I cried so much I could barely see the screen)

The bugle call in the background was probably the last song he heard.

[Does the scene in the slideshow include the sunrise over Jinggang Mountain?]

This is not scientific! It's impossible!

The scene of the guard escaping was absolutely stunning. Faith can truly terrify the enemy!

[That blue team officer's face was swollen from being slapped!!]

Please remember: On December 18, 1934, a 29-year-old division commander taught us what it meant to be "tough as a rock."

However.
The video is not over yet.

As the screen lit up.

The netizens on Blue Star couldn't help but hold their breath, because the pursuit by the Blue Team continued.

The turbid river water, carrying tattered military caps, straw sandals, and corpses, surged past the camera, indicating that a large number of troops had already crossed the Xiang River.

However, the extent of its devastation is self-evident.

On the only remaining pontoon bridge in the middle of the river.

The last three hundred Red Army defenders were using their bodies to stabilize the swaying planks, but the pursuers were already upon them.

A thin bugler suddenly turned around, grabbed a grenade, and charged at the pursuers.

The tattered bugle at his waist drew an arc in the setting sun, but machine gun bullets swept across from the opposite bank, instantly piercing the bugler's body and riddling him with holes.

The childlike face, played in slow motion, appears in a flashback, and that brief flashback is of the meeting with Commander Chen Shuxiang somewhere.

That is
The rising sun over Jinggang Mountain.

boom!
The screen fell into darkness.

The perspective suddenly shifted to the opposite bank, where the enemy troops were unable to pursue them due to the bridge being blown up.

The Red Army general, soaked to the bone, clutched half of the military flag tightly.

As he looked back at the river, the burning remains of the pontoon bridge flickered in the water.

On the cliffs on the opposite bank.

Beneath an old pine tree scorched by artillery fire, several tender green shoots stubbornly push through the charred soil, gazing at the troops crossing the Xiang River.

The battle has just begun.

Boom-!
The Battle of Xiangjiang River

Four bold, powerful characters pierced the screen, each stroke seemingly carved with a bayonet, leaving the viewer mesmerized.

Only heavy breathing could be heard in the live stream room.

After a long while, Fang Ming's voice finally came through, as he took a deep breath:

"Bros."

"Let me take a break."

No one in the live stream was urging them to hurry up.

Because they were also stunned, especially by Commander Chen Shuxiang's resolute decision.
The power of faith
Long live the last Red Army!
The shock to netizens on Earth who are unfamiliar with this history is no less than that of a magnitude 10 earthquake.

Fang Ming paused for a moment, his voice still trembling slightly:

"This plot."

"Unbelievable, truly unbelievable."

"The plot of Polaris is absolutely brilliant."

"It refreshes my worldview every time."

Looking at the replay button, Fang Ming took a deep breath, but hesitated to click it.

Make sense.

Polaris has so many CGs, and many of them are watched repeatedly, but Fang Ming didn't dare to watch this one a second time.

After a few minutes of mental preparation, I ultimately gave up on watching it again.

Fang Ming rubbed his face and let out a long sigh:

"Brothers, let's check the forums and relax for a bit."

However, as expected.

At this time, the forum was filled with posts expressing amazement at the CG.

The history of 'Earth' is truly awe-inspiring, especially that of the [Republic], which always brings a unique kind of shock to this planet.

But soon
One post was featured at the top of the forum.

The CG on the Polaris official website seems to be a preview, because shortly after the CG was released, a streamer on the Tiansha live streaming platform triggered the "Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang" storyline.

(End of this chapter)