Chapter 322: Chapter 172: [Stunned by the Melee, Off to the Marne]
Han Hao was hiding behind some cover and did not go out.
But the surrounding soldiers were all listening to the officer’s orders, preparing to charge.
At this moment.
From all directions outside the camp, many Imperial Soldiers suddenly rushed in with bayonets, storming into the camp en masse. This forced the France soldiers in the camp to engage in bayonet combat.
But the panicked France soldiers couldn’t hope to match the Imperial Soldiers who had been eyeing their prey for some time.
The slaughter with blades piercing flesh spread across the camp.
The France soldiers could only rely on instinct to counterattack with difficulty, but the effect wasn’t very ideal.
Han Hao, hiding behind cover, was also taken aback by this scene.
Including the Blue Star viewers in the livestream room.
Bayonet combat?
This is beyond the syllabus?!
Han Hao also had a look like he’d seen a ghost. No one mentioned bayonet fighting during World War I, right?!
There was no such practice during ’World War II’ either!
Indeed.
No wonder Han Hao and the Blue Star netizens in the livestream room were dumbfounded.
During ’World War II’, it was mainly airplanes and artillery, steel torrents; battles charging into camps were largely solved with rifles and submachine guns.
Who could have imagined.
That during World War I, countries still engaged in bayonet combat?
When artillery bombardment and machine gun sweeps were prevalent.
The France commanders were still foolishly directing troops to gather and prepare to charge.
In such a short time, they sent them all away.
Then the Imperial side charged in with bayonet combat.
Truly shocking the jaws of a group of Blue Star viewers in the livestream room.
Not to mention bayonet combat is bayonet combat.
But the issue is...
Han Hao didn’t engage in this kind of bayonet fighting scene during ’World War II’ either.
Countless Imperial Soldiers charged into the camp from all directions, thrusting with bayonets at anyone they saw; some even had intestines spilling out.
In the ’World War II’ Battle of Stalingrad, although there were also many bayonet fights.
But not with hundreds or thousands of people stabbing each other with bayonets like this, it’s too outrageous?!
Han Hao, for a moment, didn’t know what to do.
The main issue was he only had a rifle, not a machine gun, and shooting might cause accidental injuries. Yet without shooting... he couldn’t fight with bayonets either?!
Han Hao looked at the chaotic fighting scene around him, and his breath quickened.
To be safe, he bent down to take out a bayonet and affixed it to his rifle.
Suddenly.
Footsteps came from behind, Han Hao was startled and turned sharply.
He saw an Imperial Soldier who had discovered Han Hao hiding there, coming at him with a bayonet, looking fierce.
Han Hao rolled on the spot, dodging that bayonet.
Just as he was about to get up, he was suddenly kicked by the Imperial Soldier, sprawling on the ground.
Thud! Thud!
Before Han Hao could adjust himself, he was stabbed by a bayonet, and then he felt the cold steel stirring in his abdomen, a severe pain hit him, Han Hao wanted to speak but blood kept gushing out of his mouth.
"Cough cough... ha..."
The control over his body grew weaker and weaker.
Finally, he lay helplessly on the ground.
The scene before his eyes gradually blurred, and then...
Swish!
He returned to the main menu of the game.
At this point, Han Hao was still dazed, not yet regaining his senses.
Movies are all lies.
All that crap about dodging and then flipping over to counter-kill, it’s all nonsense.
The Imperial Soldier had him pinned with one kick.
There was no time to react before being stabbed in the belly four or five times with a bayonet, although he didn’t see the condition of his abdomen.
But that cold touch and easy feeling... his intestines were probably poked out.
There’s just no way he could have survived.
Han Hao took a moment to regain his composure, looking at the [Immersive Plot] mode button, feeling inexplicably apprehensive. Bayonet combat is simply too outrageous.
But he had to continue livestreaming, so Han Hao gritted his teeth and started again.
Practice in the game.
However.
The screen flashed.
What came into view... was the street of Paris, France.
This time, he didn’t start on a battlefield.
Han Hao felt relieved inside, but when he looked down at his clothes, they were still a military uniform.
He probably couldn’t escape.
Just didn’t know how the frontlines were, the Arden Forest should have been breached by the Imperial forces, right?
Han Hao looked around the street, preparing to find a newspaper stand.
...
...
On the other side.
The Imperial Camp’s streamer, Kong Yang.
After an entire afternoon’s intense fighting in Blue Star’s reality, two days’ worth of game plot had passed inside the game.
The France troops stationed at the Arden Forest had already begun retreating.
And the votes in the livestream room, along with the passing of time, slowly went by the second day as well.
France held on until the third day, but probably won’t last past the third day.
Kong Yang was also helpless, saying in the livestream room:
"Pretty much as expected."
"But France held on for a bit longer."
"My little shark has lost, though."
"But it confirmed one thing, that although the soldiers on the France side haven’t surrendered."
"Their fighting power is still inferior to the Imperial forces."
"But this is just one battle, it doesn’t mean much, especially since it was a surprise attack combined with bayonet combat that broke France’s forces."
"But to be honest...."
"I’ve considered all sorts of combat methods, but bayonet combat was truly unexpected."
"Just absurd."
Clearly.
As a player from the Imperial Camp, not a native NPC of ’Earth’, he was also taken aback by this bayonet combat tactic.
Who could have imagined with such superiority in artillery bombardment and machine-gun fire, the commanders would actually order bayonet combat; they must have been used to fighting like that before and hadn’t changed it.
This playstyle is indeed different from ’World War II’.