Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign-Chapter 613 - 294: [’Eradication of Banditry’] (4.1K)
These were bandits who received orders, purely for destruction’s sake.
Ordinary bandits wouldn’t pass on food.
After all, bandits don’t produce anything, they rely on seizing food and plundering.
But these bandits didn’t even care for the food, taking only some gold and silver jewelry, and after destroying a few bags of grain, they left.
The bandit leader cast his gaze towards the Blue Star streamer.
At this moment, the Blue Star streamer was still held down by two bandits, and as the bandit leader approached, the streamer struggled to get up in anger, only to be spat on by the leader.
Then the knife was raised and fell.
Swish!
The live stream went dark, returning to the main interface.
The streamer, regaining control, swung a punch, in-game character mimicked, accompanied by a loud bang.
Clearly, the Virtual Body Sensing Pod was also punched by the enraged streamer:
"I’m so pissed off."
"These damn bandits, damn it!!"
"It’s just disgusting!"
"No, I can’t go with the militia camp."
"I want to choose the Liberation Army camp."
"None of these bandits should survive!!"
"Damn it!!!"
The enraged streamer began smashing things in the live stream room.
This kind of scene was not an isolated case.
After the new DLC was released, Blue Star Players watched through CG, and collected information in-game, witnessing the crimes of the bandits on the official website.
But they had never seen it firsthand, maybe it was shocking, but it didn’t invoke empathy.
Until now.
They personally participated in the Republic’s anti-bandit story.
Personally feeling how brutal and ruthless the bandits were, they finally understood why the Republic was determined to eradicate them.
Even after the Peninsula War started, the effort to eliminate bandits didn’t weaken, instead, it intensified.
The bandits were indeed too brutal.
Furthermore, the people on the Republic’s land had suffered from bandits for too long; since the bandits were to be eradicated, they must be thoroughly wiped out.
Fang Ming switched to another live stream room after restarting with the streamer in this one.
The contents in the live stream were equally brutal, more unbearable to watch.
The old locust tree, having stood in the village for hundreds of years, now had struggling villagers hanging from it.
The villagers’ bodies were covered with burns, knife wounds, and more whip marks.
Clearly, the bandits in this live stream room enjoyed tormenting civilians.
The helpless villagers were suspended on the tree, while below were the restrained militia and streamer.
The bandits gathered under the old locust tree, lit a bonfire, roasting the leg of a black dog seized from some villager’s home, surrounded by burning houses and the laughter of bandits.
This wasn’t hell.
But it looked crueller than hell.
The actions of these bandits were beyond human, they were like demons from hell.
How could human hearts be so cruel?
The weight of the words "eradicate the bandit scourge" became clearer at this moment.
If such demons continued to appear on the Republic’s land.
How could the Republic ever find true peace and tranquility?
Fang Ming watched several live streams, some featured pure bandit actions, while others showcased the atrocities caused purely by the blue side.
Watching the bandits’ actions in each live stream’s story.
Blue Star viewers in the live stream rooms were all cursing.
With practices and malicious intentions like this, losing is no surprise.
The brutal bandits in each live stream had done everything imaginable and unimaginable.
Brutal killings were child’s play.
Some forced villagers to kill each other for fun.
Even worse, bandits forced children to run, then organized newly recruited bandits to shoot at the panting kids.
Forcing new recruits to kill, turning them into hellish demons like themselves.
Such scenes were unfolding across the Republic.
The bandits, without mercy, demonstrated all the terrible ideas humans could imagine.
Fang Ming rubbed his eyes after watching for a while.
He only wanted to choose the Liberation Army camp and join the larger forces to rid those damned bandits.
But the story wasn’t over, he couldn’t just quit midway.
Better watch others for now. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
With that in mind.
Fang Ming found some live streams of the Liberation Army camp and clicked into one of them.
As soon as he entered the live stream.
He heard the powerful bugle call of a charge echoing in the mountains and forests.
Then the Liberation Army slowly surrounded the bandit’s lair.
They wore the Eight-One Red Star, moving swiftly, the rifles and light machine guns in their hands spitting fire, suppressing the fragile resistance of the bandits.
Shells, with a sharp whistling sound, rushed towards the center of the bandits’ stronghold.
Boom—!
A loud explosion, and chaos erupted among the bandits within the mountain stronghold.
On the Liberation Army’s side, soldiers advanced in groups of three, teams of five, alternately covering each other as they surrounded the bandit fortress.
Gunfire, explosions, and shouts of combat echoed through the forested mountains.
Fang Ming watched through the live stream as those soldiers moved forward without hesitation, some were shot and fell during the charge but still gritted their teeth and continued crawling.
Until they got close enough to toss grenades and destroy the bunkers the bandits had meticulously constructed.
The battle was a complete one-sided affair.
Ordinary people or village militiamen might struggle against the bandits.
But now these bandits were facing the Liberation Army, the force that drove out invaders, drove out oppressors, and fought guerrilla warfare for over a decade to claim the land.
What the bandits once took pride in now seemed utterly fragile.
Confronted with absolute power and tactics, the bandits were panic-stricken, fleeing in terror, some begging for mercy on their knees, others trying to jump off cliffs to escape, only to be precisely shot down.
As the advance continued.
The bandits in the mountains were gradually pushed to the highest peak, where they made a desperate last stand.
The Liberation Army sent people to call on them to lay down arms and surrender.
But the bandit leader, who had lost an eye, raged like a madman, brandishing a pistol and shouting insults at the Liberation Army negotiators:
"Surrender? My family has been bandits here for three generations!"
"Even if we surrender, we won’t survive!"
"Even if I fall today!"
"Eradicate bandits?"
"Hahahahaha!"
"For hundreds of years!"
"The emperor never managed it! Old Jiang couldn’t handle us either!"
"And you think you can?!"
"More than 100,000 bandits in Xiangxi!"
"I’ll be waiting for you below! Let’s see how many you can eliminate!"
"Hahahaha!"
"Fire!!!!"
Bang bang bang!
Tatatata—!
The arrogant bandit chief uttered his last words, only to be met by precise volleys of gunfire and machine gun bullets that shredded him like a rag.
Eventually, the bandit leader tumbled down the cliff.
Seeing this, the remaining bandits raised their hands in surrender, giving up their resistance.
The bandits hung their heads low as they were marched down the mountain in custody.
But the words of that bandit leader lingered in the minds of the streamer and Blue Star viewers in the live stream.
Indeed.
Can these bandits truly be completely eradicated?
For thousands of years, they have never been completely wiped out, let alone during the Blue Star era.
Although now the Republic has been established.
But thinking back to the map and number of bandit hotspots seen earlier.
This....
Is a difficult process that must be carried out nationwide.
What’s even harder is the uneven distribution of these bandits, making them easy to scatter and hide.
The difficulty of eradicating the bandits is greatly increased.
Seemingly noticing the streamer in the live stream dazed, a Liberation Army platoon leader came over:
"Soldier, what’s wrong?"
"What are you thinking about?"
Hearing the officer’s words, the streamer snapped out of it, looked at the platoon leader’s rank, and quickly replied:
"Nothing, Platoon Leader."
"I...."
"I was just thinking about what the bandit said just now."
"Can we really eliminate them all?"
As the words fell.
The tens of thousands of viewers in the live stream fell silent, all staring at the platoon leader’s expression and response through the streamer’s perspective.
As if waiting to see the thoughtful expression and answer from that platoon leader.
But it left Blue Star viewers disappointed.
Because the platoon leader simply smiled back after hearing the streamer’s question and replied matter-of-factly:
"Of course we can."
"This is an order from Central."
"’Eradicate bandit scourge’ is a directive."
"We can definitely accomplish it."
"And you’ve seen it, these bandits are no match for us."
"Stop overthinking it."
"Good days are still ahead."
