Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 545 - 260: The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Frontโs Difficult Path
The belief that was originally supporting him to persist in this part of the storyline completely dissipated after seeing the burned village.
His body uncontrollably collapsed. ๐๐ง๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ธ๐๐๐.๐๐๐
At this moment, his body was no longer enough to support him to go to the next possible location that might have people.
With a thud.
Fang Ming fell into the snow.
Looking at the burned village in the distance, he unwillingly sank into darkness.
The screen returned to the main interface.
Fang Ming came to his senses and rubbed his face:
"Iโm really... these damn Japanese are brutal."
Since itโs a village burned after the snow fell, there is no doubt it was burned to capture them.
Even the people in that village must have met with misfortune.
Although knowing this is a storyline, Fang Ming felt a sense of powerlessness because he didnโt know how to resolve it.
Those damn Japanese will go to any lengths to capture resistance fighters.
Just because they might go there.
They burned the village in advance, not giving resistance fighters any chance to survive.
Fang Ming chose to start again, challenging survival in the Northeast.
This challenge was initiated by Duan Yu.
Since it attracted a group of Blue Star netizens who liked to watch this survival challenge after finishing the challenge in Leningrad.
Only other regions or battlefields didnโt have these conditions.
Until the Republic faction in the Awakening Era DLC of the World War I series opened, Duan Yu learned of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front.
Then he started the challenge from 1931.
However, because this challenge was so difficult, Duan Yu, who trained to have skills to survive in such dire situations, even living on tree bark for days.
But he died three times in the Northeast Region before experiencing the storyline until 1940.
Then he returned to the World War II section to continue experiencing it.
And because the World War II series had the most Blue Star players, Duan Yuโs side became popular again as more people saw it.
This inspired many streamers to follow the challenge.
Fang Ming was one of them.
For this, Celestial Shark Live even set up a special survival challenge section.
This side.
In Duan Yuโs streaming room.
Since heโs been challenging the storyline starting from 1931, Duan Yu knows more about the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front than other Blue Star players.
And each time he restarts, he can quickly integrate back into it based on the information in his mind.
At this moment, Duan Yu was hiding in a temporary shelter he built on the mountain.
Called a shelter.
But it was simply put together with sticks because he had to move soon.
Not only were other Blue Star players in other streaming rooms struggling, but even Duan Yu, the master trained in survival skills, could only chew on tree bark now.
Thereโs no other way.
Since the beginning of 1940, due to a traitorโs betrayal.
The survival bases of the resistance fighters were increasingly compressed, forcing them to escape to the mountains, where besides tree bark and belts, there was nothing to eat.
Duan Yu chewed tree bark expressionlessly, as if it were normal food.
In reality, he had gotten used to eating it in the storyline.
Just waiting to recover some energy, he had to immediately transfer.
Many Blue Star netizens in the streaming room were there because they failed their challenge, wanting to see how Duan Yu survives.
And some asked how Duan Yu survived so long.
After barely swallowing the chewed tree bark, Duan Yu took a deep breath, ready to rest a little longer before evacuating, and replied in the streaming room:
"To survive this long, you have to start by understanding the development of resistance against Japan in the Northeast."
"Only then can you understand who are in each location, which is occupied by Japan, and which are resistance fighter teams."
"After the September 18 Incident, besides part of the original Northeast Army, there were fighters sent by the Reds, and self-organized guerrilla teams and volunteer armies by the people, which constituted the force resisting Japan in the Northeast region."
"The first resistance was led by Ma Zhanshan, the commander of the cavalry in Black Province."
"Which fired the first shot of resistance."
"Engaging in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in many places like Tailai and Jiangqiao, but ultimately due to exhaustion of ammunition and food, he feigned surrender to the Japanese in February 1932."
"However, very quickly in April 1932, he defected from Japan."
"He tricked large amounts of equipment and funds from Japan, about 2 million silver dollars, over 300 warhorses, and more than a dozen trucks of munitions."
"Realistically speaking."
"Japan was laughable on this point."
"Being tricked consecutively without learning their lesson."
"Later, Ma Zhanshanโs unit resisted continuously but, with more Japanese soldiers, they retreated into the Soviet Union after armed struggle for a period."
"Pause for a while."
"But the resistance in the Northeast didnโt stop."
"Besides the civilian volunteer armies, the Reds also sent cadres to the Northeast early on, and after the September 18 Incident, red leaders like Yang Jingyu and Zhao Shangzhi led the creation of guerrilla teams in Panshi and Zhuhe."
"These are also the predecessors of todayโs Northeast Anti-Japanese United Front."
"Conflict intensified thereafter."
"In 1932, Japan supported the puppet Manchukuo, and a large number of Japanese Kantou Army poured in."
"Civilian volunteer armies lacked unified leadership and command, most resisted independently, so their numbers dwindled under Japanese encirclement."
"At this time, the Red-led guerrilla teams gradually stood out, attracting many people."
"When most civilian volunteer armies were encircled, the prominent Red guerrilla teams gradually became the main force of resistance."
"Subsequently, as numbers grew more and more."
"The Red guerrillas were officially reorganized into the Northeast Peopleโs Revolutionary Army, and by 1936, when the Anti-Japanese United Front was formally established, its troops had grown to 6 armies."
"Japanโs Kantou Army had about 300,000 regular soldiers during this period, but the Anti-Japanese United Front directly tied up more than 100,000 of them."
"But precisely because of this."
"Japan launched a series of genocidal actions to annihilate the Anti-Japanese United Front."
"The most genocidal were the Three Alls Policy and the Group Tribe Policy."
"Many are aware of the former, but surely there are things you donโt know, like Japan once massacred all villages within 80 miles of the โOld Black Gorgeโ area."
"Creating a vast uninhabited zone."
"And beginning in 1937, to cut off supplies to the Anti-Japanese United Front, forcibly relocating millions of civilians to concentration camps."
"Thatโs why you see itโs sparsely populated in the Northeast in this timeline, despite its vastness; this is why."
Duan Yu explained, and Blue Star netizens in the streaming room realized.
Indeed, although the land in the Northeast cannot be harvested multiple times a year like in the south, it bears abundant crops, and once is enough to eat, how could there be so few people, where finding a village is tough.
The root cause lies in the massive forced migration of civilians, creating vast uninhabited zones.
The purpose of this is to cut off supplies to the Anti-Japanese United Front and prevent them from developing recruits.
Duan Yu rested for a while, then stood up and said:
"This kind of operation has been ongoing for several years."
"Although the Anti-Japanese United Front troops engage in guerrilla warfare with the Japanese, they can farm but have no land to plant, relying only on hunting or buying supplies from civilians."
"But from 1937, Japan has been expanding this concentration camp-style forced migration."
"Making hundreds of miles around empty."
"The situation is increasingly severe, and by the time the storyline reaches 1940, the resistance fighter troops can only fill their stomachs with roots and tree bark."
"Plus, with traitors betraying them, they can now only stay in the mountains, surviving as long as possible."
"Donโt bother looking for villages, itโs most likely fruitless."
"Unless youโre near the Soviet Unionโs side, but thatโs too far from here; eating roots and tree bark canโt sustain evacuation there."
Saying this, Duan Yu had already walked out of the temporary shelter, ready to leave.
Canโt stay long.
Otherwise, who knows when the Japanese will come searching.
And Blue Star netizens in the streaming room suddenly understood.
No wonder so many streamers failed in the storyline one after another; seeking villages is futile, Japan has been implementing forced migration since 1937 till now.
Places likely to have resistance troops would have already been relocated.
This makes it impossible for Blue Star players and streamers to find supplies in villages.
