Chapter 314: Chapter 170: [Sarajevo Incident · Choice of Fate] The Enraged Blue Star Streamers (7k Double Chapter)
Seeing the words appear on the screen, the Blue Star players reacted.
This is one of the deadliest battles of Earth’s ’World War I’ period, the ’Battle of Verdun’.
Although there is no specific data.
But in the World War II plot, the Blue Star players collected information on World War I, which included information about this ’Battle of Verdun’.
It is said that in this battle, the ’meat grinder’ claimed the lives of a third of the men in France.
When they first heard this information, the Blue Star players couldn’t believe it.
A third of the men dead in battle?
Is France that tough?
They had played the plot of [Blitzkrieg France], where the so-called strongest army in Europe, France, surrendered to the Empire after just 39 days.
This shocked many Blue Star players.
Is this the strongest army in Europe?
However, as they continued to gather information, they learned that a third of French men were killed in World War I.
When the Blue Star players heard this, they felt it might be like the ’strongest army in Europe’, just a boast from France itself.
But at this moment...
Seeing the battlefield scene in CG, the Blue Star players couldn’t help but believe it.
Only because below the battlefield...
Pale yellow clouds of poison gas spread, following the dense and twisted trenches like blood vessels all over the battlefield.
And in those trenches, soldiers from both sides kept popping their heads out to shoot.
Though differing somewhat from the World War II period, through flags and features, the Blue Star players could still discern that it was French and Imperial soldiers engaged in battle.
Shells would occasionally fall on the battlefield below, tearing the little figures into pieces.
Mud mixed with bright red blood splattered around.
As the perspective gradually elevated, the Blue Star players couldn’t help but hold their breath.
This scene should not appear in reality.
At this elevated height, one could see the surrounding circumstances more clearly.
Pale yellow poison gas filled the battlefield, and the artillery turned the battlefield below black, with thick black smoke rising in some corners.
Unburied bodies piled up in a massive crater, and the water in the crater had turned a blue-purple color, and craters like this dotted the battlefield.
Even due to the weather, some corpses in the craters exposed ghastly white bones.
Everything about this was like hell.
Yet at this moment, on this ’hell’, soldiers from both sides were fighting.
This environment, even for Blue Star players who had experienced World War II, was alarming, as the battles of Stalin and Moscow were brutal.
But the environment was never this harsh.
During the Moscow and Stalin battles, at least it was winter; bodies wouldn’t be like those at Verdun below.
No one collected the bodies, just left soaking in crater water.
Soaked to the point of turning blue-green, and the entire battlefield was shrouded in pale yellow poison gas, holy shit...
Turns out France wasn’t exaggerating, they were really that tough during World War I.
If a French soldier were to jump out asking who’s the coward, the Blue Star players would definitely say they are, this environment is too harsh.
The CG scene shifts.
Appearing above a plain.
Smoke and leaden gray haze permeated the battlefield, seen from above, this vast plain resembled the surface of the moon, pockmarked with craters.
And the water in the craters seemed to come alive under the sunlight as the CG perspective moved.
In the scene, several large words slowly appeared.
[Somme River Plain]
On the battlefield below, everything was charred black, there were no covers, so sandbags and corpses piled together served as defensive works.
Soldiers from both sides were directly lying on those sandbags and corpses of unknown death time, shooting at enemy troops.
And these craters were distributed two or three per meter on average.
In fact, peculiar green flames were burning in various parts of the battlefield, which the Blue Star players knew were phosphorescent fire, self-ignited hydrogen released from bodies.
The Blue Star players drew in cold breath.
Hiss—
This is hardly better than ’Verdun’.
As the CG perspective swept across the Somme River Plain.
The scene shifted once again.
Perhaps related to the climate, what came into view was another muddy battlefield.
Gray-green mud, pale corpses, tanks bogged down in quagmire, formed a despairing tableau, and the most terrifying aspect of the tableau was.
Those bottomless quagmires devoured everything.
Charging soldiers accidentally stepped in, struggling desperately, but the sinking speed only increased until the last raised arm also sank into the quagmire.
Completely disappeared from the battlefield.
And the surrounding soldiers noticed nothing, or even if they did, they didn’t care.
Many might not survive the next second, who would have time to save others?
And as the dense artillery shells from both sides fell, colorful poison gas spread, causing those watching the CG to change their expression.
The viewer didn’t know what kind of virulent poison gas it was.
As it spread instantly on the battlefield, soldiers on both sides with inadequate protection were convulsing dead on the ground in seconds.
This scene left viewers in a daze.
It seemed to strip away humanity’s masquerade of ’civilization’, turning them into beasts without moral concepts, using any means to achieve victory.
Perhaps this is the essence of war.