120: Chapter 120 The Livestream's Soaring Popularity

It was nothing more than artillery bombardment followed by infantry advancement.

However, General Huang Wei had to admit.

Although this tactic was obvious at a glance, for the Chinese side in the game, there was no way to counter it.

The Japanese soldiers were relying purely on equipment superiority.

While clichéd and unoriginal, it was incredibly effective.

It was also the simplest tactic.

Even so, it was stronger than the tactics used by the Chinese side.

Because the Chinese side could only resort to human wave tactics.

It wasn't that human wave tactics were powerful, but rather that it was a choice made out of helplessness.

With insufficient firepower on their own side, they had to fill the gap with lives.

If there were sufficient firepower, who would want to send their own soldiers to charge?

To pit flesh and blood against a torrent of steel.

A tenacious, fearless spirit is fine, but it is best not to sacrifice anyone if it can be avoided.

Equipment can be rebuilt if lost, but once people are gone, they are truly gone.

Compared to the costs of training soldiers and providing pensions, the cost of equipment is negligible.

At this moment, the artillery shells from the Japanese heavy artillery unit blanketed the entire area of the Purple Mountain Observatory.

All positions were subjected to artillery strikes.

The basement of the observatory where General Huang Wei was located was very safe, and there was no need to worry about the Japanese artillery fire.

This fortification was a permanent structure capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 200mm heavy artillery shell, and it also served as the Command Post for the entire Training Corps.

As long as there were no internal issues, it would be quite difficult to breach this fortification from the outside.

As for the Japanese heavy artillery bombardment and aerial bombing, they were nothing to worry about.

The Japanese bombing only stripped away a layer of concrete from the outer layer of the fortification and had no effect.

However, the situation at the other positions was not so optimistic.

The shelling caused heavy casualties among the Chinese Soldiers at the other positions.

The shelling lasted for over an hour.

On the front lines, the Chinese Soldiers were battered and dazed by the explosions.

They had never experienced shelling of this scale before.

Previous drills had not featured artillery attacks of such magnitude.

Now, with so many shells falling from the sky, many Chinese Soldiers had their games ended before they could even react.

At this moment, one Chinese Soldier stared at the pitch-black panel in front of him.

He was completely stunned.

"Are you kidding me? I only lasted half an hour after the shelling started."

"This fight is just too frustrating; I didn't even see a single enemy?"

This Chinese Soldier couldn't help but complain.

However, what he didn't know was that his complaints were being broadcast to the entire internet.

The livestream view had just happened to be from his perspective.

Inside the livestream room, many Netizens who had been whipped by the Battle of Zijin Mountain burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, that's exactly the flavor!"

"As expected, no matter who comes, if they're unlucky, they die quickly."

"I dare say, even a top-tier soldier wouldn't be of any use here."

"That's too exaggerated; it's impossible for a top-tier soldier to be sent to trench warfare."

"Why is it impossible? Top-tier soldiers are forged in battle."

"Top-tier soldiers are also carbon-based lifeforms; how could they not be afraid of artillery shells?"

The livestream room was very lively, and the livestream view soon shifted away from this Chinese Soldier's perspective.

It switched directly to a god's-eye view.

In the god's-eye view, the livestream showed the entire Purple Mountain Observatory position.

At this moment, countless explosions rang out, and the smoke and dust kicked up by the blasts filled the positions.

The sound of artillery fire was extremely dense.

Less than half a minute after one round of shelling, the next one began.

Many viewers in the livestream room were stunned when they saw this scene.

It was their first time watching a war from this perspective.

Many of them had never played this game; furthermore, they hadn't even heard of it.

Many of them were older and rarely engaged with games.

But today, several major military regions began broadcasting simultaneously.

Every online platform was pushing it aggressively.

After all, this was an official livestream.

If other game streamers were broadcasting, the platform would only push their streams to people who played the game or liked playing games.

But military region livestreams were different; the platform pushed them to everyone except minors.

This was the first time they were seeing such war footage, which was incredibly realistic.

Even the bloody scenes were broadcast.

Of course, these scenes were not shown without restraint.

Scenes that were too bloody were still blurred.

And when they realized that the Chinese Soldiers inside were soldiers from their own country, their hearts tightened immediately.

They felt some worry for the safety of these Chinese Soldiers.

"My god, this artillery fire is too dense."

"This whole area is filled with explosions; how many people must be dying?"

"Does this kind of war really exist? This looks too tragic."

"How could it not exist? You can go watch videos of this game; it's all this tragic."

"Are the Chinese Soldiers inside okay?"

"This footage is truly heart-wrenching!"

Just then, a death toll suddenly appeared in the upper left corner of the screen.

The number soared rapidly from one to two or three hundred.

"Wait, is that death toll in the upper left corner of the livestream real or fake?"

"Is it really that exaggerated? It's already two or three hundred after just a little while?"

"It must be fake, right? How could the death toll jump so fast?"

"It shouldn't be fake; this is a military livestream, how could they mess around?"

"If this is true, that's too exaggerated. They haven't even seen the enemy yet, and so many people have already sacrificed their lives."

"It's normal. Those who think it's exaggerated can buy the game and experience it for themselves, then they'll know if it's exaggerated or not."

The discussions in the livestream room were very lively.

Countless barrage comments refreshed every second.

At this moment, the other military region livestream rooms were experiencing the same scene.

The game was already quite popular to begin with.

Now, the military region livestream had directly raised the game's popularity by another huge margin.

Previously, only those who frequently followed games would pay attention to the anti-war game rankings.

Those who didn't follow games wouldn't even bother to learn about it.

But now, with the military's promotion, those who didn't play games or weren't interested in games had also stumbled upon the livestream.

Thus learning about "wwii: eastern meat grinder".

Zhou Yang, who had been watching the military livestream, hadn't expected the popularity of several military regions broadcasting simultaneously to be this high.

Now, not only had gamers learned about this game, but those Chinese people who didn't play games had also learned about it.

In this way, his initial idea of promoting the Chinese history of his past life had been fulfilled.

Perhaps they wouldn't have much of a sense of immersion, but his idea was simply to show them this history and to promote the heroic deeds of the Chinese ancestors from his past life in this world.

Clearly, these deeds now had sufficient reach.

Being able to leave behind the history of these ancestors in this world made his arrival in this world worthwhile.

The history of this world over the past few hundred years was too bland.

The peace had lasted so long that, in Zhou Yang's view, it was quite inconceivable.

Regarding the warmongers in this world, Zhou Yang could only say that he didn't quite understand them.

They didn't want a good peace, but insisted on fighting wars.

For ordinary people, war always brings more harm than good.