What should we do now?
Mo Xiaomo was a bit flustered.
Seeing the barrage of suggestions, she hurriedly followed suit and ordered:
"Quick, let the border troops counterattack!"
"Do not let the Imperial Army break through the defense line!"
"Right, weren't there still hundreds of planes?!"
"Quickly send them out to bomb them."
"Let all the troops from the second line of defense support the first defense line."
The immersive plot of Blitzkrieg Poland is all unfolding as originally intended.
However, the commands given by the players who replaced the Polish Prime Minister will affect the original development, though such developments might be insignificant since Zhao Ming's storyline was set to dawn on the day of the Blitzkrieg.
Although the players are alert at this time, the air force is basically out of action because the Empire's assault is already on its way.
As for the Empire's actions.
It will be based on the players' operations, using Zhao Ming's transcriptions from the Earth Database with the complete biographies and thought patterns of all the Empire's high-ranking officials, simulating corresponding thoughts and actions to issue commands.
This is equivalent to Blue Star's players confronting the Imperial marshals and World War II generals live.
And Mo Xiaomo here wanted to Blitz the Empire.
Ordering the soldiers to be awakened in advance meant that her 'Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth' wasn't too passive, sustaining significantly fewer casualties during a sudden assault.
Furthermore, not all of the over four hundred planes were lost; more than a hundred managed to take to the skies.
But it wasn't the same in other livestreams.
Many streamers were shocked by the sudden assault and switched through various rooms in the Celestial Shark Live's game section.
You'd see streamers playing World War II: Empire's Rise getting overwhelmed in the Prime Minister's office, listening to reports from their staff, their faces disbelief:
"What? The airports are all bombed? Not a single plane left???"
"Is the Empire cheating?!"
"My cavalry brigade was wiped out in a face-off?"
"Those are cavalry?! Can't they flee if they can't fight? What's happening ahead?"
"Quick, quick, let the second line of defense troops reinforce!"
"What? The railways are bombed too? They can't support us? Then damn it, drive and advance by road!"
"Damn it? Who planned this timeline?!"
"Dawn ah!!!"
The streamers across various channels were rapidly losing their nerve.
Because of the different starting times, the progress of the storyline varied too.
Some were already confused, with planes and railways destroyed, and the cavalry brigade lost contact in a single encounter, not knowing how it happened.
Some, having just entered the game, quickly organized an attack upon hearing reminders from viewers.
However, facing the Empire's long-planned conspiracy and the command of Guderian, the founder of modern 'Blitzkrieg' and a World War II hero, they could only barely resist for a moment and couldn't stop the collapse of the defense lines.
The players playing as Prime Ministers could only issue order after order, trying to halt the Empire's offensive.
But most were wrong commands, or even futile efforts.
Instead, they accelerated the collapse of the first line of defense.
And the duration of the battle was long, impossible to sync with real-time.
So Zhao Ming designed it such that every time a player issued a command, the game would simulate it, shortening the time proportionally based on the battle time, then NPCs would reply to the players.
If the Imperial and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces clashed.
A six-hour battle would be accelerated to twenty minutes, with NPCs replying with the battle results afterward.
In Mo Xiaomo's stream.
At this moment, Mo Xiaomo was looking at the map in despair.
Under the instructions of many viewers in the stream, she continually issued commands, and time accelerated, as in two short hours of the stream, already four days had passed in the game, and the map's territory was shrinking continuously.
It turned out to be even faster than the fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on original Earth.
The first line of defense was already breached, the border completely lost.
The reinforcement troops from the second line hadn't even reached the first line before they almost encountered the Imperial Army.
Mo Xiaomo was numb, questioning life and constantly looking at the map:
"Is this reasonable?"
"Are the hundred thousand troops holding guns?"
"I don't understand?!"
"Not to mention the border lost in four days, but in a few more days they're at the Capital?!"
"Did the eighty thousand from the Empire fly over?!!!"
It's no wonder Mo Xiaomo collapsed; the Imperial Army's advance never stopped.
Even when she issued an order to resist the Imperial Army, a few minutes later, her subordinates reported that the troops lost contact and that the Empire had already reached the next city?!
Really?
Was there really a fight?
Mo Xiaomo questioned reality.
The Imperial Army was just in this city, and she ordered an interception.
But when news came again, not only had this city fallen, but the Imperial Army had reached the next city.
Is it the Imperial Army being too strong?
Or is the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's army too weak?
How can one million against eighty thousand be at such a disadvantage???
Seeing Mo Xiaomo's breakdown.
The viewers were amused.
[LOL, weren't you going to Blitz the Empire? Now you're withdrawing.]
[Amazing, Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg... it's indeed fast.]
[Honestly, did the Empire toggle cheats? You capture one city, and then before even hearing the news, they're at the next city, and so many people flew over?]
[As expected, seeing the Normandy Landing battlefield's difficulty, we knew Zhao Ming wouldn't let you play easily.]
[Even if it's not easy... don't set it on hell difficulty?!]
[Is this even playable?!]
[I'm curious if Mo Xiaomo will be hanged by Imperial soldiers after the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth falls.]
[Impossible, such a pretty female Prime Minister, if I were an Imperial soldier, I'd certainly... hehe.]
[Hey, you perv~~~]
[Hehehe, same here~ same here~]
[Don't panic; another streamer has already surrendered, the Empire executed him, and he restarted as a soldier.]
[Well, you still have to die....]
[What else? The Empire's not losing, right???]
The discussions in the stream were lively, but the discussions outside were even livelier.
Many streamers' fans found Zhao Ming's account on Celestial Shark Live, starting a spree of scolding, and the Polestar Game Company account on Federation Headline was also inundated with ranting fans, wanting to vent their anger about the game's difficulty.
As a result, Zhao Ming set the account to require a follow to comment.
In no time.
Many critics grudgingly followed Zhao Ming and then started venting.
The rapid follower increase of the Polestar Game Company account.
Even alerted the Federation Headline head, who thought an anomaly occurred, only to find out it was caused by Polestar Company's follow-to-comment trick, astonishingly respecting their tactics.
Using haters to gain followers, it's indeed the first.
Polestar Game Company.
The phone in the office was ringing off the hook.
As a customer service, Chi Xue was apologizing while hanging up, but as soon as it was disconnected, it rang again.
Frustrated, pulling her hair, she could only go to Zhao Ming's office for help.
"Boss, the game's too difficult, the players are in an uproar!"
"Quick, think of a solution!"
"If nothing's done, someone might come for you!"