CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 76: OFFICIAL INTERVIEW FOR "ANTI-WAR COMPETITION

Inside Fang Ming’s live stream room.

The game interface had returned to the main menu, but Fang Ming was still in a daze.

It was too sudden.

One second he was strategizing, and the next, he was gone without a trace, with no time to react.

Thinking that all his skills had been reduced to being a human bomb.

In the end, he didn’t even become a human bomb, as an Imperial tank found him and blasted him away....

Why does it feel even more frustrating?

Fang Ming snapped out of it, rubbed his face, and looked at the live stream room:

"Damn!"

"This game is really something."

"Guys, I’m already dead, no way around it."

"Let’s watch the battle outside instead."

He said.

Fang Ming enlarged the real-time map, looking at the area where Shi Jun was, completely surrounded.

And the encirclement was getting smaller.

Shi Jun’s two cavalry brigades were already wiped out, without achieving anything, Fang Ming double-clicked to zoom in on the front view, only to see dead horses lying on the ground.

A despairing number of tanks bypassed those horses and charged towards the four infantry divisions under Shi Jun’s command, with support from the Stuka Dive Bombers.

A completely one-sided battle.

The situation changed too quickly, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had no power to counterattack, already on the verge of collapse, with soldiers starting to flee.

Watching this scene, a word appeared in Fang Ming’s mind.

Strategic collapse.

Just like Guderian’s hidden plot mentioned, tanks are just conduits, the mental collapse is the blitzkrieg, and now there’s no doubt, it’s been broken.

The army group under Shi Jun’s command, trapped in a vicious circle.

An original force of sixty to seventy thousand, now only over twenty thousand remaining, and this number is continuously decreasing.

Fang Ming exited the perspective of the Polish side, opened up the information on the Imperial troops, and after clicking several, couldn’t help but laugh:

"No way....Shi Jun, this guy, was talking about how the ’Blitzkrieg’ was ineffective or something."

"Look at some of the units on the Imperial camp."

"It’s neither Guderian nor Rommel, but some Imperial generals not even in the Hall of Fame."

Then Fang Ming displayed the Imperial forces surrounding the army group, showing them to his viewers.

It really is....

Turns out they didn’t even use Guderian, Rommel, those famous Imperial generals.

A background NPC took care of that Shi Jun guy?

The live stream comments were scrolling.

[I’m dying laughing, how did this guy become a military expert?]

[With this performance, even I could do it.]

[Wasn’t he supposed to be an expert at simulation games, but now he’s showing his true colors.]

[Ask him later, how he came up with the idea of charging a tank with cavalry?]

[No need to ask, this guy’s already passing the buck.]

[What???]

[Hilarious, check his headline, this guy has already quit the game.]

Fang Ming also noticed the scrolling comments.

Immediately exited the game, opened Federation Headline, and searched for Shi Jun’s account:

"Damn, let me see what this guy is saying?"

"It’s just a game after all."

"If it weren’t a game, with the human bomb tactic, I don’t know how many people would want to kill him."

Clicked into Shi Jun’s headline account for a look.

[Shi Jun Talks Military: Apologies, for not living up to everyone’s expectations, intended to present a vivid and realistic battlefield duel, but due to various reasons....]

Attached were some screenshots, including some of soldiers charging tanks on horseback, where only a few tanks were damaged, yet a field of horse corpses was shown.

[My tactical layout could never be completed due to some ’uncontrollable’ reasons.]

[Step slower, step by step slower, which also led to my subsequent layout being ineffective, causing the commanded troops to collapse, I am truly ashamed....]

An apology that looked like a full-blown blame-shifting article was posted.

The core criticism was directed at those ’uncontrollable’ factors, yet the netizens weren’t buying it.

[Damn you, human bomb, you even thought of that.]

[Why don’t you take the bomb and blow up the tank yourself?]

[’Uncontrollable’ reasons? You should check out other instances of ’Blitzkrieg Poland’, your instance has fallen the fastest, guess whose fault it is?]

[In other instances, the ’Poznan Army Group’ has launched a counter-offensive under NPC control, you’ve been annihilated and dare to say anything?]

[Rumor has it that Shi Jun’s wargame championship was bought....]

[Hilarious, he can’t even play as well as an NPC.]

The comments were entirely negative; a glance over revealed not a single positive comment, even Shi Jun’s fans didn’t dare to defend him, as the moves were truly too poor.....

Shi Jun successfully dominated the hot search list, but it was all criticism.

And the most criticized was the order to have someone charge with explosives at the tanks.

It had even been reported, with suspicions mounting if this guy was a terrorist, such an order was conceived by a ’military expert’.

Online historians were feeling vindicated, while the military experts who previously supported Shi Jun were frantically deleting their posts.

All scolding Shi Jun internally.

They originally just wanted to pick a side to ride the hype, but ended up in a mess, what was this psychopath thinking?!!

Human bomb? Was he a terrorist?

Military experts who initially stood by Shi Jun were now terrified they’d be too slow to delete and end up being targeted by netizens.

And as for the other focal point in the public opinion, Polestar Games.

At this moment.

Inside the company’s office.

Zhao Ming was on the phone with the Anti-War Competition official, after listening to the other side, Zhao Ming spoke:

"So.... approximately when is this interview?"

"Do we need to prepare anything?"

The staff member from the Anti-War Competition official on the other end said:

"Once you prepare the materials and agree, our staff will depart, traveling from the Capital to the East Sea on the float train, a journey taking only half a day."

"The materials needed are the hot questions collected by Anti-War Competition official from the internet."

"For example, the background of ’Earth’ you created, the origins of ’World War II’, etc., your game is very popular."

"But the background information is too fragmented, players cannot get the full picture."

"If possible, you could organize the complete background material of ’Earth’, after the interview airs, it can not only promote the game but also boost its popularity."

Zhao Ming nodded, glancing at the time, it was already afternoon:

"Alright, I’ll organize the background material of ’Earth’ and the game development."

"Let’s schedule the interview for tomorrow."