Chapter 407: Chapter 407
"The... the main... forces!"
Chi Feng felt a sharp pain in his heart as he listened to the old squad leader’s words.
Looking at the old squad leader’s murky eyes, which flickered with their last bit of determination.
Around them, the enemy forces were still advancing.
Chi Feng’s eyes burned, and his throat felt as if a hot coal was lodged there; he clenched his teeth tightly and leaned down to the old squad leader’s ear:
"They’ve crossed the river!"
"The main forces have crossed the river!!!"
Chi Feng’s words were like a shot of adrenaline.
The old squad leader’s scattered pupils suddenly brightened for a moment, and his lips seemed to tremble slightly, as if he had let go of some immense burden.
Chi Feng felt his ankle loosen as the iron grip of the old squad leader’s hand completely lost its strength.
Chi Feng could now move his feet, but the old squad leader and his comrades had stayed here forever. Chi Feng cautiously extracted his foot.
Looking at the distant enemy forces attacking their position, Chi Feng gripped the rifle tightly.
He charged at the place where the enemy was ferociously attacking, bayonet ready.
The plot triggered by Blue Star players, the [Blood War of Xiangjiang], came as a surprise to everyone.
As a soldier of the Red 34th Division and the first streamer to trigger the [Blood War of Xiangjiang] plot, he only managed to hold out for half a day.
The character he controlled died on the battlefield.
Whether the main forces crossed the river and where, the Blue Star players did not know.
Because the only streamer to have triggered the plot so far only survived on the battlefield for half a day.
The various aspects of the [Blood War of Xiangjiang] plot also sparked discussions in the player forums.
Whether it was the old squad leader’s past, the story of the young soldiers, or the villagers coming from the mountain turn to see the Red Army off, it all felt like more than just a game.
It brought more reflection to the Blue Star players.
The streamers triggering the plots of ’the Fourth Encirclement and Suppression/Counter Encirclement’ and ’the Fifth Encirclement and Suppression/Counter Encirclement’.
The plots had also reached mid-way.
The Fourth Counter-Encirclement was successful, but during the Fifth Counter-Encirclement, many Blue Star players sensed something was amiss.
The two plot triggers happened almost simultaneously.
So in both streaming rooms, events played out almost in sync.
In the synchronized viewing environment.
There were significant differences in combat styles between the Fourth and the Fifth Counter-Encirclement streaming rooms.
But Blue Star netizens also didn’t know why.
They could only continue watching the plot.
In terms of the timeline, after the [Blood War of Xiangjiang], it’s [Four Crossings of the Chishui River].
Blue Star players were still waiting for someone to trigger [Four Crossings of the Chishui River].
Unexpectedly, someone triggered the plot after [Four Crossings of the Chishui River] first.
In the Celestial Shark Live Platform, in streamer Liu Chen’s channel.
Also starting from the game’s launch, choosing 1931, and continuously skipping plotlines to try and trigger [Four Crossings of the Chishui River]. Read complete version only at n̷o̷v̷e̷l̷f̷i̷r̷e̷.net
But he hadn’t encountered the Red faction’s forces.
With more revelations, Liu Chen headed to the Suzhou District, but he overestimated the Republic’s transport capabilities at that time.
After skipping over and over, he finally reached the Suzhou District.
The Red faction’s forces were already surrounded by the Blue faction, and there was no way to get in.
He could only wait outside.
He ended up encountering the Red faction forces coming out after finishing [Four Crossings of the Chishui River].
Introduced by the local villagers, he joined the Red faction forces.
Then it was a journey westward.
Once inside Liu Chen’s live stream perspective, they were on the march.
In the stream, a map was displayed as Liu Chen explained:
"Currently, the Red faction forces, having finished [Four Crossings of the Chishui River], have broken out from the direction of Guiyang."
"They’re about to reach the vicinity of Kunming."
"But taking another turn, they’re preparing to cross the river."
Liu Chen marked the Red faction’s route out of Guiyang on the map in the stream.
After breaking out from the Guiyang area, they headed west.
Now they’ve reached near Kunming.
Soon after, Liu Chen began marking the surrounding enemy forces on the map.
This marking was quite revealing.
Tens of thousands of Blue Star viewers were astonished.
Turns out, after [Four Crossings of the Chishui River], there were still so many enemy forces?
Not only were the enemy forces in pursuit.
But also the blue-colored cities marked around had local forces aiding the pursuit.
In the stream, as Liu Chen rushed forward, he spoke:
"Currently, I’m with the core detachment."
"Preparing to head to Jiaoping Ferry."
"Ahead is the Jinsha River."
"There’s a [Skilled Crossing of the Jinsha River] time on the Polestar Official Website’s preview page."
"Maybe we can trigger it once we arrive."
"But the Blue faction probably won’t leave us any boats or bridges since it’s a river... shouldn’t be easy to cross, right?"
"How exactly would this crossing work?"
As Liu Chen spoke, Blue Star netizens were pondering as well.
Just look at the current map, even breaking out from Guiyang is almost all enemy forces.
Densely spread out, even several divisions of enemy forces on the opposite bank after crossing the river.
How could the Blue faction leave boats and bridges for the Red faction?
How skillful could it be... wouldn’t there be twenty to thirty thousand troops on this march?
What kind of skilled crossing could there be?
Aside from defying physics, how could they cross?
For the moment, Blue Star players speculated, but they could not figure it out.
Some players even used photon supercomputers to calculate different methods.
With twenty to thirty thousand troops and the enemy right behind them, how to cross the river with practically no boats or bridges?
Yet almost all answers resulted in impossibility.