CHAPTER 73: CHAPTER 73: PLAYERS BEING WRAPPED IN DUMPLINGS

The Blue Star players hiding on the hillside, ready to spring an ambush, were frozen in shock.

They watched helplessly as the tank below effortlessly rolled over a slope and charged forward without the slightest pause.

Not only that, but it also increased its power and continued to advance.

Before long, it fell into another slope, and just like before, without stopping, it pressed hard against the trench and emerged over another slope.

The Imperial tank convoy from behind followed suit, crushing all the way through.

From a distance.

The Imperial Tanks, rising and falling like waves, crushed the trenches painstakingly dug over two days by the Blue Star players in the game.

Watching as these tanks rolled past half of the trenches.

The shocked Fang Ming finally came to his senses:

"This is freaking ridiculous?!"

Fang Ming looked down at the soil beneath him, thought for a moment, and dug with his hand.

The loose soil clutched in his palm felt no different from real dirt.

Fang Ming thought about the soil clinging to the tank’s body.

With such soil quality, there’s nothing really wrong with the tank climbing up, is there???

Fang Ming’s mouth twitched, looking around him, noticing that not only were the Blue Star players bewildered, but even the NPCs on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth side were stunned.

It seemed it was the first time they had seen such a situation.

What Fang Ming didn’t know was.

What shocked the soldiers of Poland were the tanks of the Empire that shattered their understanding of tanks, different from the light tanks they were equipped with?

Their division’s only armored tank company (ultra-light tanks) during training didn’t have such terrifying capabilities, right?

This thing can climb out of a pit?

So, they were all stunned.

The sight of the massive armored tank units of the Empire violently crushing the trenches struck everyone’s worldview directly.

The Blue Star players were being refreshed on their gaming knowledge.

It turns out tanks can climb out like this, trenches can be flattened....

So next... how to fight?

At this moment.

Inside the command center.

Shi Jun, not only watching the live broadcast but also having it on screen, broke into a cold sweat as he watched the first trench line being crushed by the tanks.

Damn?!

Can this be for real???

Shi Jun almost yelled out, but remembering he was live, he forced it back.

While maintaining a calm appearance, the shock in his eyes and the subtle movements of his facial muscles indicated something to those in the livestream room.

Compared to the stunned Shi Jun, the players watching the livestream of "World War II: Empire’s Rise" were feeling quite triumphant.

Though bewildered themselves, their hands didn’t stop, and the chat in the livestream room exploded.

[LOL, why isn’t this guy commanding? The Imperial tanks will break the line soon.]

[Hahahaha, probably confused.]

[Honestly, not just him, I’m confused too, but it makes sense.]

[Exactly, the game’s detail is unbeatable, if tanks can break through, it means in reality, they could too, unlike in other games.]

[Thinking about it, in other games, a forty to fifty-ton tank at full power crashes into a trench, the trench doesn’t change shape at all, is that realistic?]

[Whoa, when you put it like that... it really is?!]

In the livestream room on Polestar’s Official Website.

It seemed as if to prevent anyone from claiming there were issues with the game data.

Suddenly, detailed data on the terrain, soil, temperature, and humidity at the combat location appeared on the livestream page, along with the Empire’s tank model used, weight, maximum horsepower, etc.

With these data, any online free simulation software could model and simulate it.

Instantly silencing everyone, especially Shi Jun’s fans.

They were just about to rush to Polestar’s official site to rant about game bugs, but with the detailed data available, ranting now would make them look like clowns.

Unless they could present contradicting simulation data to argue further.

But the numbers, from a professional’s glance, seemed problem-free, giving Shi Jun’s fans no chance to find fault, stifling their words bitterly...

As the soil and tank data popped up, Shi Jun quickly recovered.

Realizing the Imperial forces were about to smash through the first line, without further delay, he ordered an artillery barrage at the first line.

Then, watching the real-time map in the livestream.

A flicker of determination crossed Shi Jun’s eyes; escape was not an option, the entire group army had been surrounded.

It would be better to attack ferociously in one direction, defeat as much as possible.

Previously, Shi Jun had meticulously set up this area into an extensive ambush zone.

So upon realizing the Imperial assault plan was changing with the game and the player resistance progress, Shi Jun hesitated.

Having completed the ambush setup, changing the previous arrangements would make it all void.

So, knowing that the Empire intended to cut off their retreat and encircle, Shi Jun stubbornly held position, aiming to use the ambush to severely damage the Empire, then break through to escape.

However, he hadn’t expected the first trench direction to be breached so easily?

The imagined scene of a large number of Imperial tanks bogged down didn’t appear, and half of the artillery setup became useless, watching as the Imperial tanks were about to roll over the trench line.

He could only hurriedly order the artillery to fiercely shell at the first trench position.

The original plan was to have the artillery completely destroy the Empire’s bogged tanks, but now half that plan had already collapsed....

Subsequently, he began mobilizing three divisions and two cavalry brigades originally lying in ambush on the third and fourth defensive lines to the first line.

At this moment.

At the first defensive line, on the hillside.

Fang Ming lay on the ground, watching the Imperial tank units below, as some crushed through the trench line, yet orders had not come through.

Did Shi Jun give up?

Fang Ming was contemplating.

Suddenly, a faint muffled sound came from afar, and shortly after, the sky filled with a dense whistling sound, countless small black dots descended, diving towards the trench line.

Boom——!

Boom——!

Boom——!

Shells rained onto the trench line, explosions sending earth skyward.

Some shells hit the Imperial tank body, detonating them, and the ammunition inside the tanks exploded, turning the Imperial tanks into a mass of fireball spewing black smoke.

Imperial soldiers shouted below, and the advancing tank units began to disperse.

Clearly.

The Empire also understood, with these senseless trenches and the artillery landing points—they didn’t need to guess—the artillery would surely target the trench’s center in the next wave.

So, they charged toward the flanks.

While Fang Ming received orders, everyone was to attack as the Imperial Army looped around from both sides.

Fang Ming held his breath.

The Imperial troops below wound around both sides of the trench line, getting visibly closer to their position, until they were within shooting range.

A Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth officer NPC nearby suddenly ordered to fire.

The Blue Star players and soldiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lying in ambush on the hillside all pulled their triggers at the unsuspecting Imperial soldiers below.

Bang bang bang bang!

Tat-tat-tat———

The dense rattle of rifles and machine-gun fire instantly filled the battlefield, and the unprepared Imperial soldiers below were turned into sieves in a flash.

Uttering only a fleeting scream, they fell silent.

However.

This firepower was only effective against soldiers, as the dense bullets hitting the Imperial tanks below made a constant pattering sound, sparking upon impact.

But it caused no damage at all; instead, the gun barrels of the Imperial tanks turned deliberately toward the hillside.