CHAPTER 625: CHAPTER 300: [REPUBLIC: THE THREE-STEP BANDIT SUPPRESSION]

A few days ago, we just saw the Liberation Army making a decisive strike.

They smashed a large bandit stronghold.

Now, watching the subsequent zonal clean-up and deep purges, which completely uproot the social foundations the bandits depended on, one can’t help but admire the resolve of the Liberation Army and the Republic.

After all, arming the populace.

This task.

How many dare to undertake it?

But to eliminate the banditry that has persisted for thousands of years, the Republic truly did it.

The Liberation Army united with the local populace.

Thoroughly eradicating the bandits’ foundational support, the locals who were once ignorant or fearful can now take up arms and resist.

And when the people know how to resist, where would the bandits have any space to survive?

Though the bandit suppression has just begun at this moment.

But through observing these areas, it’s clear that the bandit menace can indeed be completely eliminated.

Upon learning the methods from the Liberation Army here.

Fang Ming took a stroll on the Polestar forum.

At this time.

The plot in the [Bandit Suppression Chronicles] DLC is proceeding smoothly.

And many Blue Star players.

Have started discussions on attack and defense battles based on some powerful bandits in the game.

Especially those that are situated in rugged, hard-to-capture terrains.

Which have even made it onto a ranking list created by Blue Star netizens on the forum.

Fang Ming clicked in, curious to see what was so troublesome about these bandits, but just seeing the terrain of the bandit stronghold ranked first left him speechless.

"What the hell?"

"What is this?"

"This terrain, isn’t it absurd?"

Fang Ming was left dumbfounded.

The top-ranked place, called Eight-sided Mountain, came into view.

What kind of mountain is this?

This is not a natural fortress?

You can see that Eight-sided Mountain lives up to its name, with nearly vertical cliffs rising straight up, and a flat plain on top.

What’s more absurd is that clouds and mist actually surround the mountainside.

Compared to the small hills that barely reach the foot of Eight-sided Mountain, one can imagine how tall Eight-sided Mountain is and that entering from any other direction is simply impossible.

There is only one mountain path to reach the top.

If the bandits above were to guard this place, even reaching the top would come at a great cost.

Previously, Fang Ming didn’t pay it any mind.

He wondered what was so dangerous about the bandit stronghold that it deserved a ranking?

But after seeing it now....

Fang Ming could only say.

It makes sense.

Many Blue Star viewers in the live chat were also perplexed:

[Can anyone actually capture this?]

[What the hell, at this height, you can’t even climb up from the cliff.]

[That’s right, this height is at least 1500 meters minimum.]

[Even a special forces team couldn’t climb it.]

[Not just 1500, I saw the data; it’s over 1800 meters.]

They weren’t wrong, and the Blue Star players in the live chat didn’t argue.

After all, they had served as special forces.

In the [World War II] series or during the [Republic]’s resistance era, they did a lot of this kind of cliff-scaling surprise attacks.

But....

Those cliff heights were at most tens of meters, a hundred meters at most.

Climbable with effort.

This, what?

This damn thing is over 1800 meters.

Not even considering whether it’s scalable, even if you climb up, you likely wouldn’t have the strength to fight the bandits.

Your arms would be overstrained.

The forum was buzzing with discussions too.

Because it’s nearly impossible to climb up from below with the endless cliffs, and the few paths leading to the summit of Eight-sided Mountain are only one meter wide.

And this one-meter-wide ladder isn’t even a straight line, but winds its way up.

One careless step and you could fall off the mountain.

In such a situation, how can you attack into Eight-sided Mountain and eliminate those bandits?

After all, watching the Polestar Official Website’s live broadcast at this time.

There are quite a few bandits in the Eight-sided Mountain area, even divided into different groups, all entrenched on Eight-sided Mountain.

Looking at this terrain.

The Blue Star netizens in the live chat also found it absurd.

This situation.

Never mind the difficulty of climbing up.

Getting down is just as hard.

These bandits really don’t mind the trouble.

Just think about it.

Every time they descended the mountain for a raid, they had to wind their way back up.

On the Eight-sided Mountain, which stands at over 1,800 meters above sea level, if they didn’t loot enough supplies on this trip down.

It might not even cover the cost of a round trip.

Even players on the forums have conducted investigations to provide more detailed information.

Compared to other regions.

Most of the bandits and tyrants in other places are just Blue Star players disguised and strategized, but Xiangxi’s bandit problem has been an age-old tradition.

In other words.

Hundreds of years ago, this place was already a den of bandits.

You could say the bandits here.

Are the most ferocious and authentic bandits in the historical legacy of Huaxia.

The extent of their fierceness is, of course, imaginable.

The key is the Eight-sided Mountain, a lair that’s been passed down for centuries.

No matter how many have died or how many new ones have come over these hundreds of years, these bandits continue to develop Eight-sided Mountain, which is naturally easy to defend and hard to attack.

Not to mention the terrain of this natural fortress.

The Blue Star players have, based on the terrain and known data, created this kind of map in custom mode to simulate the offense and defense.

There’s quite a crowd of challengers now.

However, some players have discovered that the routes up the mountain are not just those few.

It’s just that those few are a bit wider, so the bandits use them often, making it appear as though there are only those paths.

In fact.

If one were to search within these deep mountains, many small paths leading up the mountain could still be found amidst the thickets.

But these small paths can only be traversed by lightly equipped personnel.

In some places, even those slightly larger or heavier can’t pass through.

Moreover, in the many villages at the foot of the mountain.

Some villagers also know certain secret paths unknown to others.

But the Blue Star players have tried.

No one dares to speak.

After all, they are individual players, how could they inquire and get results?

If discovered by the bandits while climbing the mountain.

If they anger the bandits.

And reveal who they learned the paths from, it could endanger the entire village.

So even if Blue Star players coax the old hunters or villagers, they gain nothing.

Perhaps only when the Liberation Army presses close, providing enough sense of security, would the villagers dare to speak.

Though hidden paths and bandit defense information remain out of reach.

Players can still gather quite a bit of intelligence on things like water sources.

But using this intelligence alone, there’s no way to conquer the Eight-sided Mountain.

Some Blue Star players are already impatient.

They have created some World War II units or Imperial elites in custom mode, trying to attack the Eight-sided Mountain.

But they have generally suffered significant setbacks.

After all, with just those few paths up the mountain, if the bandits blockade them, attacking is like becoming a sitting duck.

Moreover.

Blue Star players also found these bandits to be incredibly ancient.

During an attack.

They not only faced archaic methods like rolling logs and stones.

There were also fire attacks combined with arrows.

If it weren’t for the sound of machine guns and rifles, Blue Star players would have thought they were attacking a bandit’s mountain stronghold in the ancient Huaxia series.

The methods may be old.

But guarding critical mountain paths, those narrow one-meter stretches provide no cover for Blue Star players, leaving them with few options.

Except for a full assault.

But the losses would be too great.

....

On the other hand.

At the Polestar Company headquarters.

In the president’s office.

Zhao Ming watched the battles organized within the 2022 timeline by the Six Major Federations while browsing the game forums.

He felt somewhat surprised by the Blue Star players’ challenge against the Eight-sided Mountain.

Given that it was standard data settings, he didn’t expect so many to be interested in the challenge.

Zhao Ming simply released all the bandit information from the Eight-sided Mountain.

This made it easier for Blue Star players to immerse themselves.

Then.

Zhao Ming looked at the projection within the 2022 narrative.

The Federations that purchased agency rights had deployed their troops into the game.

They have become familiar with their locations and received new tasks.

From Zhao Ming’s omniscient perspective, the major federations were on a collision course. However, due to certain hidden elements added during the scenario setup.

It’s not just collisions between the Six Major Federations of Blue Star, but also with Earth NPCs.

For example, troops from the Free Star Cluster Federation are about to collide with the local ’Russian Federation’ forces on Earth.

The Great Xia Federation’s all-purpose special operations brigade is about to encounter the armored special operations brigade of the Antarctic Star Cluster Federation.

There are face-offs between the Six Major Federations of Blue Star and clashes with ’indigenous’ forces on Earth.