Doctor, I'm really strong!

This book has now become the most important intellectual resource within the community. Any bookstore must display it in the most prominent position. As the number of children receiving education continues to increase, the sales of this book are also rising sharply.

However, when the community was still the Red Guards, it operated in a very low-key manner. These books were circulated internally and borrowed in limited quantities from libraries. As the Red Guards gradually gained control of the entire Far East region, the restrictions were relaxed. Once the community was established and Liu Jiuli completely broke with the old forces, these books began to spread widely.

It spread to the point that even Therese could get his hands on it.

The only thing that bothered Therese was that he only had the first volume, while this book was a three-volume set. However, he could still see many things between the lines, especially something called faith.

Transcending the constraints of time and space, he felt as if someone was standing right in front of him, confronting him directly.

Even more amazing is that this person's image exists in the collective consciousness of the Sarkaz, possessing a concrete form—an existence that is not a Demon King, yet is recognized as one.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

Therese pressed a button on the desk, and the office door opened automatically. Manfred walked in carrying a file folder.

"Your Highness, here is what you requested."

Manfred placed the file folder on Therese's desk.

"Thank you for your hard work." Theresis nodded, then pointed to the book in her hand and asked, "Have you read this book?"

The book in Theresis's hands was obtained by Manfred through other channels, because Theresis wanted to understand what kind of demon king Liu Jiuli was, so she naturally had to understand his thoughts first.

The simplest way is to talk to him face-to-face. If that's not possible, then try other channels, such as his works.

The fact that Liu Jiuli is writing a book is very beneficial to Therese, as it means that she can learn about him through his writing.

In response to the Regent's question, Manfred replied respectfully, "Yes, I have seen it."

What do you think of this book?

“It’s very appealing, especially to those who are suffering.”

Theresis nodded, then sighed: "The entire Sarkaz race is suffering right now."

The implication is that the book's appeal had a double effect on the Sarkaz.

Manfred thought for a moment and said, "We can stop the book from spreading, after all, many people here are illiterate."

Therese smiled wryly and said, "Yes, most of our people are illiterate, while Liu Jiuli is busy eradicating illiteracy in the community. Who do you think is right?"

Manfred fell silent, a troubled expression on his face.

Therese raised her hand: "Speak plainly."

Manfred replied earnestly, “In the long run, the community’s approach is correct.”

Therese's expression remained unchanged, gesturing for Manfred to continue.

Manfred continued, "As a soldier, I want my soldiers to be excellent, preferably well-educated. This greatly reduces personnel training costs, and such soldiers can understand complex orders and execute more complex combat missions. Once they grow up, the threat they pose to the enemy is incomparable to that of illiterate soldiers. Nowadays, the weapons and equipment of those major powers are becoming more and more advanced and complex, and the requirements for soldiers will also increase accordingly. This is a major trend."

Therese: "So if we step outside the military framework, what do you think the use of compulsory education is? Don't hide it, you have this talent, you can think this way."

Manfred organized his thoughts before speaking: "Better workers, better farmers, better social structures, but in return, the whole society will have to pay a high price for it, a price we cannot afford at this stage."

Tracy added, "There's another point: people won't just be satisfied with their current living conditions; they want more and better treatment, and this demand will force the government to make concessions or take the initiative to improve. It's a mutually reinforcing process, and even if that process isn't so friendly, it's still much better than what we're experiencing now."

Manfred nodded, completely agreeing with the Regent's judgment.

People who have grown up will never accept a regression in their lives; it's either move forward or be shattered to pieces. There's absolutely no way they can go back to their comfort zone.

From the perspective of civilizational development, this process is called "a spiral of progress," which is a form of advancement.

Even if technology regresses, some things will always take a big leap forward. Moreover, technology is not as fragile as humans imagine. Since humans are well aware of the weaknesses of their technological system, how could they not make corresponding preparations?

Just like the five permanent members of the UN Security Council all have reconstruction plans in the event of a nuclear war.

"That's why he was able to become the Demon King. We're so outdated," Theresis lamented.

Manfred immediately replied, "Your Highness, you are not out of touch with the times."

Therese shook her head: "I mean, our system is outdated. Royal family, regent, these ancient terms are going to fade away with the old era."

Manfred said somewhat anxiously, "Your Highness, you didn't..."

Therese interrupted Manfred with a smile and said, "The system is outdated, but it can still serve some purpose. Besides, people can learn and improve. I haven't given up yet, so it's necessary to learn from my competitors."

Manfred paused for a moment, then understood Theresis's thoughts, and whispered, "Your Highness, shouldn't we participate in the joint declaration by the Ursus Empire and Letania to unite other countries to attack the Community? Many people say this is a good opportunity for the Sarkaz to return to the international stage."

Therese said dismissively, "Returning to the international stage? We'll be forced to crawl back by others. Only the real powers have the right to bargain. People like us who have nothing but a title are just pawns on their chessboard, the easiest to be sacrificed. We're not getting involved in this mess."

After saying this, Theresis leaned back and said with some anticipation, "I'm really looking forward to seeing what kind of flowers Liu Jiuli's dream blueprint will bloom on this cannibalistic land. If he succeeds, wouldn't that be another option for us Sarkaz?"

Section 201: The Roar of Artillery Fire

(Three chapters today! Where are everyone's rewards? (?ω?))

Therese is a man of vision, but not everyone is as visionary as him.

Under the natural barrier of class, more merchants and nobles chose to oppose the community and began to purge all communal ideas within their own countries, even to the point of obsession, which shows how much they feared it.

What has spread so far is merely liberation theology, not orthodox common thought.

Moreover, some things are best not done in a big way, because the more you forbid them, the more curious people will become about them.

Admittedly, there are no shortage of ambitious people and scoundrels among these people, but once their minds are armed, then holding a steel gun is only a fine line away. They don't need to aim the gun at the enemy; as long as the gunshot rings out, victory is assured.

After this period of development, four countries have responded to the Ursus Empire and Letania: Colombia, Victoria, Casimir, and Rembito. Even if countries further away respond, they will not send anyone. However, these countries are genuinely prepared to participate and contribute manpower, money, and resources.

Colombia, needless to say, is a completely capitalist country, inherently hostile to shared ideas. The Casimir regime is in a similar situation, except that they also have the desire to reclaim their lost territories, while the Uzbek Empire made concessions on this issue.

The premise is the complete annihilation of the Terran Peoples Community. But the question is, once the community is destroyed, will the Ursus Empire, with no more worries about the future, still fulfill its promises? This is an interesting question, much like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Rembitox wants to move into Kazdel, where there are good mineral veins, and they have a strong desire to monopolize the East-West trade route. Now is a good time to make a move. At the same time, they do not want their shared ideas to spread to their own people.

This is the case in countries with sharp internal conflicts.

Although Victoria responded, it was more accurately a duke's response rather than the entire nation's response. Nevertheless, a considerable number of troops were deployed, and they were elite troops, demonstrating the extent of the nobility's hostility towards the shared ideology.

Due to the isolation created by the Terra People's Community, Yan Kingdom and Dong Kingdom are currently unaware of the situation outside. However, this situation will not last long, but they can delay as long as possible. Liu Jiuli does not want to fight on two fronts.

On July 15, 1100 of Terra, a coalition of six nations—the Ursus Empire, Letania, Victoria, Columbia, Casimir, and Rembitox—launched an attack on Steelgrad.

Because this is a crucial node connecting the north and south of the community, breaking through here would mean the community would be divided in two, leaving each side to fight its own battles. This would allow for encirclement and annihilation of each other.

Both sides committed more than one million troops to this battle, which is known as the "Battle of Steelgrad".

The first to launch the attack was the 1st Division of the newly reorganized 4th Army of the Ursus Empire. Their original plan was to start from Kharkiv in the north, break through Kharkiv, and then outflank Stalingrad from the rear. To this end, the 4th Army concentrated 57 land-based ships and arrogantly crushed Kharkiv with a sense of certainty.

Ukrainian General Pavel declared boldly: "The battle will be over in three hours, the war will be over in three months, and then we will drink together in Steelgrad."

At this time, Kharkiv had no land-based ships; they could only rely on their land defenses and the mobile city itself.

But if you think Kharkiv's defenses are weak because of this, you would be sorely mistaken.

Centered on this mobile city, the defensive line extending outwards stretches for 150 kilometers. The Kharkov defense line is under the command of General Khlag. Although this old general has little experience in defensive warfare, building strongholds and fighting protracted battles do not require any complicated technology. As long as you are united and have enough resources, the rest is just about layering armor.

Thus, Kharkiv's defense line consisted of three systems: a delaying zone, a defensive zone, and a support zone, with a total depth of over thirty kilometers. Although ordinary trenches, minefields, and barbed wire were useless against land-based ships, deep pits could be dug.

In the Gundam Gravity Front, Zeon dug deep pits in Odessa to block the Federation's attack. The same principle can be applied to mobile suits. Mobile suits are not as large as mobile suits, and if a mobile suit that big makes a mistake, it really can't get back up. If it is used with tons of high explosives, the shock can be so intense that the enemy will question their existence.

In an attempt to deceive the enemy, the Terra Red Army launched a large number of smoke grenades and tear gas at the start of the battle, completely obscuring the entire battlefield. The enemy could not see the way ahead at all, but with great confidence in their landships, they still charged forward recklessly, only to fall headlong into a pit.

A simple and effective tactic, but the premise is to eliminate the enemy's eyes and prevent them from knowing our defensive deployment.

Before the actual battle even began, the reconnaissance units on both sides were already engaged in fierce combat. The Terra Red Army, with its resolute counterattack and iron will, relied on advanced weaponry to keep the enemy's eyes at a distance, completely unaware of the true situation of our defenses. Their drones were either jammed and rendered blind or shot down by anti-aircraft machine guns. Over time, the enemy's reconnaissance soldiers began to slack off, clearly lacking any fighting spirit.

Or rather, they felt that any defense against land-based ships was utter nonsense.

Everything will be fine as long as our land-based ships launch an attack.

The land-based ships have launched their attack, but the actual situation is slightly different from what they imagined.

A series of screams over the radio alerted the landship behind to the situation ahead. However, the landship's enormous size and mass were a given. Even a bicycle will slip when braking if you ride too fast, let alone a landship. It wasn't something you could stop whenever you wanted.

The result was that this small, somewhat shrewd defensive measure caused twelve landships of the Ursus Empire to fall into the pit. Then, tens of thousands of tons of explosives buried in the pit were detonated. At the very beginning of the battle, the twelve landships of the Ursus Empire's newly established Fourth Legion were permanently decommissioned.

The enraged Ukrainian commander ordered the land-based ships to move to both sides, turning their main guns towards the Red Army positions and beginning a barrage of fire to clear the area.

But what happened next left the Ukrainian army speechless.

On the opposite Red Army's position, countless shells rained down, and these were all support barrages from large-caliber artillery, deployed in artillery positions ranging from ten to thirty kilometers behind, with more than three thousand artillery pieces of caliber 100mm or larger.

Terra Red Army also has a technological advantage, namely that the weapons structures of the two sides are completely different.

The main cannons, also known as gun cannon systems, which are crafted using Originium Arts and Originium Craftsmanship, are the main source of long-range firepower on the Terra continent. These cannons are characterized by long cooldown times after firing and require complex servo systems. Even field artillery-level gun cannons have a firing rate of only two to five rounds per minute.

For the Terra Red Army, a rate of fire of 5 is the standard for a 240mm fortress gun; 155mm guns nowadays all use magazine feeds.

Even disregarding accuracy, the rate of fire could be further increased if only firepower coverage is considered.

In addition, our army has more artillery, with longer range and faster rate of fire. Often, for every shot fired by the Ukrainian side, hundreds of shells would fly over from the Red Army's positions, and these were all armor-piercing, high-explosive, incendiary shells specifically designed to target land-based ships.

In an instant, all of the Ukrainian army's land-based ships were ablaze, with flames shooting into the sky.

Section 202: Exploring Terra History Using Bilibili

(Let's get started (～￣▽￣)～)

Hello everyone, this is Xiumu. The long-awaited 20th anniversary main story of Arknights has finally been updated. Compared to the previous alternate history without the Terra People's Community, our real history is like a wish-fulfillment novel. Indeed, reality is more outrageous than the game.

In the previous ten chapters of the fictional main storyline, Hypergryph sent away almost all of the Reunion Movement cadres, which added to the mental pressure on the players. Seeing that all their previous efforts had almost gone to waste, Hypergryph, do you still have enough mailboxes to hold razor blades?

To be honest, Arknights, as a tower defense mobile game with an alternate history theme, really breaks down your defenses with this kind of storyline design.

However, there's no need to be too sad, because Frostnova in real history did not die. On the contrary, she became one of the important generals of the Red Army of the People's Republic of Terra, and later served as the Director of the Education Bureau of the People's Community of Terra, which is now Director Yelena. Isn't it amazing to see the hero from the game living in reality and in the same era as us?

Fortunately, Hypergryph also knows that it's wrong to constantly manipulate players, so they redesigned a real-world historical storyline in addition to the original alternate history storyline. For those who were tormented by the plot in the alternate history storyline, go to the real-world storyline to soothe your soul.

Without further ado, let's get to today's main content: an analysis of the PV for Chapter 3 of the Arknights historical storyline.

First of all, in terms of music quality, Sound Corner lives up to its reputation as an early work with consistently high-quality music. It is full of dynamism and has a grand and majestic feel that is about to bring a storm, making it very easy to get hooked. Each PV scene is also rich in historical details. Now let's enter the PV "The People's Kharkiv".

The first scene at the beginning of the PV is the "Joint Declaration" signed between the Ursus Empire and Letania in history, also known as the "Anti-Community Declaration". There is a detail here: there is a red eye symbol in mid-air at the meeting where the declaration was signed. This eye is not a theological symbol, but represents that there are comrades of the Community among the people present. In other words, the information of the meeting was fully monitored by the Community from the beginning, and the enemy did not know that they had been seen through.

The following scene shows the flags of six countries: Victoria, Letania, Ursus Empire, Rembiton, Casimir, and Colombia, representing the six countries that first participated in the encirclement of the community. I don't know if you noticed, but there are also the flags of Yan and Dong in the corner of the PV. Because these two countries joined the war later, the historical six-nation alliance was only in the early stage, and in the middle and later stages it became an eight-nation alliance.

The third scene is set on the outer defensive positions of Kharkiv. I have to say that the details are really well done. I have an aerial photo of the outer defensive positions of Kharkiv that I found online. Comparing it with the scene in the PV, it's not exactly the same, but it's at least very similar. The art style of turning 3D into 2D is amazing.

The fourth act features Kharkov's commander, Hrag. The old man was once a general of the former Ursus Empire, but after witnessing the development of the community, he resolutely chose to stand with the people and became the commander of our army in this important battle. This PV corresponds to the scene of the old man observing the enemy's situation on the battlefield. There is a corresponding photo in junior high school history textbooks. We pay tribute to the people's heroes.

The fifth act depicts the Ursus Empire's land-based naval fleet charging towards Kharkov. This scene can be considered the climax and essence of the entire PV, especially when paired with the exclusive animation for the "Battle of Kharkov." The sense of oppression is overwhelming. Imagine a land-based naval vessel pressing towards you, while you remain calmly smoking in the trench. If it were me, I would definitely have wet myself on the spot. Here, I pay tribute to the heroes. Without their sacrifices back then, we would not have the happy life we ​​enjoy today.

The sixth act is a tribute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives in Kharkiv, with contrasting animated and real photographs, a wall of martyrs' names inscribed with their names, and veterans standing at attention before the monument. We know your names, and your deeds will live on forever.