CHAPTER 549: CHAPTER 262: [COMMANDER YANG JINGYU] (4.1K)

[This was the largest active offensive campaign on the Eastern behind-enemy-lines battlefield, involving 105 regiments, with a battle line stretching thousands of kilometers, and lasting three and a half months of intense fighting, with both sides deploying about 400,000 troops.]

[In the campaign, the People’s Army suffered around 17,000 casualties, while approximately 25,000 enemy troops were killed or captured or injured. Countless railways, highways, bridges, and strongholds were destroyed, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy’s arrogance.]

[This campaign greatly boosted the nation’s confidence in resisting aggression, shattered the enemy’s scheme of "fighting a war with war," and was hailed as "a proactive, positive, large-scale offensive campaign."]

[Note: In the Hundred Regiments Offensive, successfully eliminating important enemy strongholds or destroying critical transportation lines, and participating in at least two major battles, surviving until the end of the campaign. (Awaiting storyline activation)]

[Note: The Hundred Regiments Offensive, a bloody raid! Our flag will never fall!]

Seeing the introduction of the Hundred Regiments Offensive, Fang Ming was somewhat surprised:

"What the...?"

"Is this the Republic’s National War Dungeon?"

"Alright then."

"Looking at this introduction, it seems to be a very important campaign."

"When will Polestar open this National War Dungeon?"

The words were barely spoken.

Comments filled the live stream’s chat:

[Only 7 days left, very soon.]

[Not just this, Polestar has also automatically updated a lot of stuff, you can check it on the official website.]

[Polestar platform has a campaign library, all the World War I and World War II camps participated will be displayed there, you can also get a unique experience code for experiencing them, and invite friends.]

[That’s right, now to experience any battlefield, just find a friend with that campaign’s unique experience code.]

[Streamer, quickly check which campaigns you’ve experienced!]

Reading the comments, Fang Ming also discovered the new campaign library.

Clicked to enter.

Photos of battlefields filled the screen, with the names of each campaign written beneath.

Some were highlighted, some were not.

The highlighted means once participated in, while the non-highlighted ones allow friends with a code to invite you for experience.

Fang Ming clicked on one.

It was the introduction of the once participated [Bloody Battle of the Xiang River].

[Bloody Battle of the Xiang River]

[This was the most brutal breakthrough battle on the Long March, where the Red Army soldiers used their flesh and blood to create a Steel Defense Line to protect the central organs from encirclement.]

[This was a crucial battle concerning the life and death of Huaxia’s revolution, five days and nights of bloody fighting reduced the Red Army from 86,000 to over 30,000, staining the banks of the Xiang River red with blood.]

[In the battle, the 34th Division and other blockage troops were almost entirely wiped out, with commanders like Chen Shuxiang heroically sacrificing themselves, crushing the enemy’s encirclement plans at a huge cost.]

[This battle shattered the reactionaries’ arrogant plans, proving with blood the invincible will of the People’s Army, known to later generations as "the most tragic monument of the Red Army spirit."]

[Note: In the Xiang River battle, participate in rear blocking missions and successfully break through or have your troops complete the determined blocking time, experiencing at least three bayonet charges. (Storyline activated)]

[Experience code: **** (View?) ]

[Unlocked storyline CG: Click to view]

[Note: Bloody Battle of the Xiang River, magnificent spirit! Our will, never extinguished!]

Looking at the introduction of the Bloody Battle of the Xiang River, Fang Ming wanted to click in to view the already unlocked CG, but his hand stopped there.

It was truly too brutal a battle of the Bloody Battle of the Xiang River.

Just recalling the scene, Fang Ming did not wish to revisit it again.

Ultimately, he did not click to view the unlocked storyline CG.

However, Fang Ming quickly diverted his attention elsewhere.

Because he had many activated storylines, not just the [Bloody Battle of the Xiang River]. His eyes glanced over the list, passing through one storyline after another.

Very soon.

He saw the unlocked [Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front].

[Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front]

[This was the most arduous struggle behind enemy lines in China’s history of resistance against Japan, where the Anti-Japanese soldiers built an indomitable Great Wall of flesh and blood in the bitterly cold, desperate landscapes.]

[This was China’s longest-lasting armed struggle against Japan on the Northeast land, fighting for over ten years, the 11 armies of the Anti-Japanese Forces successively maneuvered across the White Mountains and Black Rivers, containing hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, leaving the invaders sleeplessly anxious.]

[In the battles, generals like Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi heroically sacrificed, countless soldiers died of freezing and starvation still clutching their rifles, writing the most tragic anti-Japanese epic with the resolve of "warming the chest by the fire, cold by the wind behind."]

[The persistence of the Anti-Japanese Forces crushed the enemy’s illusion of "consolidating their rear," preserving the spark of national resistance, praised by the people as "the sharp knife inserted into the enemy’s heart. "]

[Note: In the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front battles, participate in more than three winter guerrilla operations, or successfully attack enemy strongholds and seize supplies, and persist in fighting after 1940. (Storyline activated)]

[Experience code: **** (View?) ]

[Unlocked storyline CG: Click to view]

[Note: The spirit of the Anti-Japanese Forces, immortal!]

Looking at this introduction, Fang Ming’s gaze turned to the already unlocked storyline CG.

Not just him.

This was also what many Blue Star netizens wanted to see.

Because under such encirclement, the Anti-Japanese warriors were almost fighting individually, totally unaware of what happened later.

Unknown if the storyline CG would provide the answers.

Fang Ming clicked to open the CG.

The screen flickered.

What appeared was an endless snowy plain, with cold winds howling and snowflakes swirling, and in the center of that snowy land, there was the silhouette of a staggering figure advancing.

Looking at the tall and skinny back of that man, Fang Ming’s pupils shrank suddenly:

"Commander Yang?!"

It was Yang Jingyu, the First Route Army Commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front in the storyline, whom Fang Ming had followed before but later got separated during the Japanese siege.

Ultimately, Fang Ming froze to death in the mountains, while Commander Yang Jingyu’s situation remained unknown.

Watching the screen now.

Fang Ming held his breath.

In the screen.

Commander Yang Jingyu, wearing tattered clothes riddled with bullet holes and clutching a rough wooden stick, was trudging with difficulty through knee-deep snow.

His face was frostbitten to a blueish-purple, and his eyebrows and beard were covered in frost, yet his eyes were astonishingly bright.

Apparently, having sensed something, Commander Yang Jingyu in the screen suddenly drew a rust-covered pistol from his waist, not knowing how many bullets remained.

The scene abruptly switched to a distance.

A group of Japanese soldiers dressed in thick uniforms appeared at the edge of the snowy field, leading a hound, and heading towards Commander Yang Jingyu.

Commander Yang Jingyu apparently heard the approaching enemy, but he did not panic.

Instead, he calmly observed the terrain, trying to hasten his steps into the distant forest for refuge.

The chase scene in the CG continued playing.

This pursuit progresses quickly, with Commander Yang Jingyu in the frame maneuvering using the terrain to evade the enemy, narrowly dodging bullets several times.

But he always managed to escape harm.

Until after half a day.

Commander Yang Jingyu leaned against a huge rock, panting heavily.

His lips cracked from freezing, his fingers blackened from frostbite, he laboriously raised his fingers to retrieve a ball of cotton from inside his coat, stuffing it into his mouth and chewing arduously.

He grabbed a handful of snow with shaking hands and stuffed it into his mouth.

Closed his eyes, stubbornly swallowing it down.

Yet.

This could not resolve hunger, nor replenish energy, Commander Yang Jingyu dug grass roots from the snow, chewing on them persistently.

Then forcing himself up, looking back.

Exerted his last bit of strength to engage the enemy anew.

Until he was encircled completely.

The leading Japanese officer wore a smug smile, seemingly persuading surrender or boasting.

But Commander Yang Jingyu’s reply was resolute beyond doubt:

"With mere four islands of Japan, you cannot defeat my China."

"Though I, a mere man of Huaxia, stand seven feet tall, my belief in resisting Japan to save the country is steadfast as rock."

"Today, to shed my blood for my land, I am fulfilled!"

With that, he raised his rifle and aimed at the Japanese soldiers opposite.

The scene abruptly switched to the skies over the snowy plains.

Bang bang bang bang—!

A haphazard array of gunshots resounded, and then the screen darkened gradually.

Until it brightened again.

A tray containing bunches of blood-colored cotton, some partially digested bark, and grass roots already turned to mush.

The air was silent.

Earlier, the Japanese officer’s voice, disbelief threading through, trembled:

"Impossible! This is impossible!"

"Humans can’t possibly rely on these to fight us for five days and nights!!!"

The trembling voice carried an indescribable fear.

The scene slowly concluded.