Chapter 481: Chapter 481

Li Ran focused his attention there, and the Blue Star viewers in the live stream also noticed something amiss.

Looking at the calm senior officers of the US Marine Corps 1st Division, many speculated whether there was another trump card?

Blue Star players had various guesses.

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How could they possibly withdraw in such a situation?

Could it be that the US brought in a large number of planes? But there’s no airport?

However, these speculations only lasted half a day.

Because the game’s storyline reached the second day, and the Blue Star netizens’ doubts were clarified.

There were no massive planes, and no new routes.

The US side air-dropped eight sets of M2 tread bridge components from Japan, all made of steel, and started installing them after deployment.

Directly spanning the ’Water Gate Bridge.’

And being steel components, there was no need to worry about supporting armored tanks.

Only then did Blue Star netizens remember.

Although the US had been getting beat ever since the Volunteer Army joined the war, and had been embarrassed in the Changjin Lake battle, many people overlooked the US’s strong logistics.

No one expected to repair the ’Water Gate Bridge’ in this way, a dimensional reduction strike of industry.

Even the Volunteer Army had no solution.

Because steel components don’t need bridge foundations, their strength is sufficient for armored tanks to pass.

And other bridge foundations are now guarded by the US, making them impossible to destroy.

US troops began to withdraw slowly.

And soon, it was the vanguard of Li Ran’s side.

As he crossed the Water Gate Bridge, Li Ran looked back.

The mountains on the other side still showed no signs of the Volunteer Army, but on the ’real-time map,’ he could still see many small Volunteer units watching this direction.

After passing through the Water Gate Bridge area, the 1st Division joined the other US forces.

In response, the Volunteer Army also gave up pursuing further as most of the 1st Division’s main force had crossed the bridge.

Li Ran followed the large force of the US to the port, leaving the area.

The second campaign ended.

From the Bloody Battle of Sanshuli on the Western Front, the Songgufeng Sniper Battle.

To the total destruction of the ’Arctic Bear Corps’ at Changjin Lake on the Eastern Front, the Xiaogaoling battle, triple bombing of the Water Gate Bridge, etc.

It was the first time the Volunteer Army demonstrated its power worldwide, shocking the world.

The joint forces of the US overall withdrew south, being pushed from the Yalu River to south of the 38th parallel.

In some personal storylines synchronized with the {Battlefield of the United States} time.

Blue Star players collected news from around the world about the US’s defeat in the second campaign and reports on the Volunteer Army.

The US ’New York Times’:

"In the frozen hell of the northeastern peninsula, the US Marine Corps 1st Division faced the most brutal battle since its founding..."

"...They wore thin cotton clothes and rubber-soled shoes, yet could lie in wait in the snow for ambush overnight..."

"Washington acknowledged that the losses in this campaign exceeded expectations..."

The British Commonwealth ’The Times’:

"Once assured by General MacArthur that ’there would be no large-scale intervention’...now crushed the United Nations forces with lightning speed."

"Their infantry could traverse mountains at night that the US forces considered ’impossible to pass’..."

The French Federation ’Le Monde’

"The Oriental ’Verdun’? — The Far East battlefield has fallen into a brutal war of attrition."

"The peninsula war is turning into a horrific tug-of-war."

"Participation of the {Republic} allowed the United Nations forces to suffer ’the worst setback since the Pearl Harbor incident’..."

{Republic} ’People’s Daily’

"Volunteer Army scored consecutive glorious victories; US imperialist invaders fully retreat!!!"

"Our Volunteer Army annihilated the US ’Arctic Bear Corps’ in the Changjin Lake area, and inflicted heavy blows on the fleeing enemy at Sanshuli and Songgufeng."

"Enemies abandoned a large number of weapons and equipment, fleeing embarrassingly south of the 38th parallel."

"This great victory heavily struck the arrogant atmosphere of US imperialism and demonstrated the resolute determination of Volunteer Army soldiers to defend the homeland!"

Blue Star players posted the newspapers collected in their respective storylines on the forum.

At this moment within the ’Earth,’ the US defeat stirred huge waves, with various federations and nations reporting on this matter.

The US’s retreat not only represents a reversal in the peninsula battlefield situation.

It also prompts federated nations worldwide within the ’Earth’ to reassess the power balance in the Far East Region.

One must understand that a single Soviet Union was already hard to deal with.

Now there’s another more capable opponent... who even truly defeated the US.

Nations must seriously consider their stance toward the ’Republic.’

And not only does the ’Republic’ rise abruptly.

The US’s military prestige is also rapidly crumbling.

If they can’t quickly counter and recover, then MacArthur’s assertion of ’ending the war before Christmas’ will become an international joke.

Many European nations privately began to consider the Asian Region’s situation, with some even lessening support for the peninsula’s supplies.

After all, as the French Federation ’Le Monde’ stated correctly.

This Oriental ’Verdun’ is indeed a meat grinder quagmire, unfit for small countries to participate.

The British Commonwealth is speeding up its withdrawal from the Asian Region.

Because if the ’Republic’ has the power to resist the US, then the US being dragged out implies no opponent for the Soviet Union in Europe.

Due to concerns about the Soviet Union Federation’s uncertainty.

The British Commonwealth began a mass troop withdrawal from the Southeast Asia Region for European defense, further destabilizing its colonial system in Asia.

Observing the storyline, as the Volunteer Army pushed the US south of the 38th parallel, causing such a domino effect.

Blue Star players couldn’t help but marvel.

Never imagined there would come a day when a battlefield would change the entire world’s circumstances within the game.

The Western countries within the game’s ’Earth’ seemed overly reactive.

But in reality, it wasn’t.

It’s not their overreaction, but genuinely someone taking action.

Who are the British Commonwealth and French Federation afraid of?

Why did the British Commonwealth relocate massive troops back from the East Asia Region to defend Europe?

There’s only one answer.

Soviet Union Federation.

After the ’Republic’ pushed the US south of the 38th parallel, the Soviet Union Federation saw the ’Republic’ could hold off the US, and even win.

Changed its attitude, not only providing air cover but also supporting with a large amount of heavy weaponry.

And while supporting the ’Republic.’

The Soviet Union Federation increased military exercises in Europe, probing the reactions of European countries, which was the reason for the British Commonwealth’s massive troop deployment back to Europe.

Who dares gamble that the Soviet Union’s exercises are merely drills?

What if they suddenly march west?

Especially with the Soviet Union’s history, can one count on their charitable nature?

Everyone from World War II knows what they did, doesn’t everyone?

Constant military exercises.

Who dares to bet they won’t act?

The leadership of the British Commonwealth and French Federation won’t forget how the Soviet Union ’liberated’ Europe after World War II.

First, tanks rolled in, then puppet governments were set up.

And one by one, countries became Soviet satellite states.

There were... but they died when the tanks rolled in.

Therefore, one must be cautious.

Although the peninsula war is not over, European countries can assert that should the US truly sink into the peninsula quagmire, the Soviet Union won’t wait for tomorrow—they’ll invade.

Worldwide attention is now focused on the peninsula.

Everyone wants to see if the situation will have the US counter successfully, or sink deeper into the quagmire.

As this might decide the fate of the European Continent.

If the US is dragged into the peninsula.

They seem to see all of Europe bowing at the feet of that greedy giant bear.

And at this moment, on the 38th parallel.

Gunfire shattered the dawn’s silence.

After the ’Second Campaign (November 7—December 24, 1950),’ only 7 days later, the Volunteer Army launched the ’Third Campaign’ offensive.

The ’Republic’ decided to push past the 38th parallel!

Shattering the US’s "cease-fire then negotiate" pretense.

Not giving the enemy a chance to catch a breath but also aiming to secure greater initiative in the forthcoming negotiations.