Ch. 25 - Mo Xiaomo: One Million Against 800,000, The Advantage Is...
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Mo Xiaomo surveyed the map and her strong army of a million soldiers with great satisfaction. The territory sizes were fairly comparable, and her entire force stood assembled along the border defense line adjacent to the Empire. But why should she avoid confrontation with them? What made the Empire so special anyway? What if she struck first and won with a blitzkrieg?
Regarding the Empire's blitzkrieg of Poland, Mo Xiaomo and her livestream viewers only understood fragments from the background information, lacking detailed explanations of the specific situation. Just like in the medal collection and Hall of Fame, many introductions described various World War II events—battles and biographies—but didn't provide detailed results.
Even though they'd started playing the immersive storyline, their understanding of the game's story outcome remained about the same as players constantly charging on the “Normandy Landing” battlefield. They only knew that “Normandy Landing” was one of World War II's most brutal battlefields, but not the outcome. Here they only knew about the blitzkrieg of Poland, without knowing how long the Empire took or how quickly they fought. Seeing Mo Xiaomo's bold declarations, the bullet comments in the livestream filled with amusement.
[LMAO just became Prime Minister and she's already power tripping?]
[Classic Mo move, blitzkrieg the Empire—genius plan. Did you already forget how you got rekt at Normandy?]
[Trust me, just call the Soviet Federation for help. The lore says Poland got steamrolled, you're probably cooked too. Better get backup.]
[For real. How many strategy guides have you even read and you wanna blitzkrieg the Empire?]
[Wait... what even IS Blitzkrieg? Anyone actually figure it out? I'm still confused. I only know the name—how do you 'blitz' in war?]
[Don't worry, with Mo's skills, the Empire's gonna blitzkrieg straight to her basement.]
[Sounds like fast warfare or something, but Poland has 11 cavalry brigades and 400+ aircraft. If they move first, they could flip the script—might actually work.]
[Don't jinx it, seriously don't... First send aircraft for air superiority, then cavalry charge for rapid advance—could be legit.]
Everyone in the livestream strategized for Mo Xiaomo, providing various brilliant approaches. Blue Star hadn't fought in this kind of large-scale war, so many players were operating on half-knowledge and hypotheticals—those who knew anything about command had learned from other virtual games. Knowing the Empire was going to attack, Mo Xiaomo felt no doubts about the Polish Federation's current setup—all forces were arranged in two defense lines facing the Empire to the west, with no rear defenses. Even the live stream viewers thought this was normal. After all, from the CG, the Empire was clearly the biggest aggressor. The Soviet Federation behind them should be in the same camp as the Polish Federation—why defend against your own people?
Looking at the second defense line constructed along the Vistula River on the map, Mo Xiaomo's eyes rolled as she decided to adopt the viewers' strategy. This way, if she failed later, she could shift the blame.
Hehe hehe hehe~ I'm really a genius~!, she thought.
After thinking things through a bit more, Mo Xiaomo pretended to ponder for a moment, then slammed the table with heroic spirit. "Brothers, I've decided to adopt your strategy. I'll use aircraft to clear the way first, cavalry brigades to advance, then tanks and the million-strong army to press forward and directly blitzkrieg the Empire!"
She glanced at the clock on the wall—it was past 4 AM. Though it seemed strange why this storyline’s timeline was set so early in the morning, Mo Xiaomo didn't think too much about it and called her subordinates. She issued orders that shocked her subordinates.
"Huh? But... Prime Minister? We're going to attack the Empire? And at this time... aren't the soldiers all sleeping?"
Mo Xiaomo was somewhat surprised that this NPC could be intelligent enough to question her, then said, "That's right. It's precisely because everyone's sleeping that I want to attack the Empire. This is called seizing the initiative. I've already received intelligence that the Empire is preparing to use force against us, so we need to strike first and attack them.
Go quickly, wake up all the troops, have all aircraft fly across the border and bomb the Empire's defense lines. All armies move out—from three directions, surprise attack the Empire border."
Mo Xiaomo pointed to three directions. Since she hadn't had time to study the map in detail, she chose the three locations with the most troops, then ordered surprise attacks along the nearest straight-line distances—with this many people, she could overwhelm them through sheer numbers. Her subordinate's face showed alarm as he hurriedly said "Yes!," and rushed off to relay the orders in panic.
[LMAO this NPC is actually talking back.]
[Prime Minister Mo getting owned by an AI—embarrassing.]
[Prime Minister Mo: Where's my respect?!]
[Nah she should've had him executed on the spot!]
[Wait! Check if there's other stuff in the office to explore.]
Following one of the viewer's reminder to check the surrounding office, Mo Xiaomo reacted.
"Right! This game is made so realistically, I should be able to find some useful information!"
This was the Polish Federation Prime Minister's office, after all. This could benchmark against the Empire Führer and British Federation Prime Minister leadership from the game CG—there should definitely be quite a few useful things! Indeed, with this search, she really found quite a bit of world and national information. Mo Xiaomo carried a stack of books to the Prime Minister's desk.
"Brothers, I found some world information and national data to study. Let me perfect the game background. But seriously... being able to create even these books, Polar Star Games really put in the effort."
The livestream continuously agreed.
[It's all about the budget. With photon supercomputing clusters, they can make anything.]
[Facts. Just from trending topics alone, Polar Star Games Company probably spent tens of millions of Federation coins. Their boss has deep pockets. This level of detail is standard—games compete on how polished they are now.]
[True, most games I've played just have fake books—open them and it's blank pages.]
[Money talks. For good games, you gotta go with the big studios.]
[Polar Star Games isn't even that big, but their boss is loaded. Smart NPCs and detailed books like this? I've only seen this in those mythological games with hundreds of billions in funding.]
[Just wait till the competition ends. With a game this sick, who's gonna waste time on “Wasteland Future” picking up trash to make flashlights?]
While the bullet comments chatted, Mo Xiaomo flipped through the world map and introductions, studying them.
Half an hour later, she spoke, "Huh, is this game background based on our Blue Star background?"
The livestream filled with question marks as Mo Xiaomo pulled out the complete world map. "It's quite similar to our Blue Star. Polar Star Games Company made this game where this planet is called Earth. We have Six Major Federations, they have seven continents. We have five oceans, they have four oceans. One more here, one less there. But this world doesn't have the kind of technology and energy we have on Blue Star, so it should all be wars launched to fight for resources. Looking at it this way, our Blue Star is still quite blessed—at least there's no war, no need for so many people to die."
Thinking of her scene being blown up in “Normandy Landing,” Mo Xiaomo shivered. Anti-war, anti-war, firmly anti-war! Being blown up was too painful—it could kill you. Then Mo Xiaomo continued looking at the map and introductions of various countries. "British Federation, French Federation, and Soviet Federation... hiss— The Empire is surrounded by federation countries. With so many federation countries, how did the Empire clear the field against all of them? Too incompetent, right? Wait. Italy next to them is a kingdom, it seems to be in the Empire camp. It doesn't say here, but kingdoms and empires should be together, right?
My god. The Empire's forces... two million troops? The Empire's territory is only 95,000 square kilometers larger than my Polish Federation? How do they have a million more troops than me?! Oh, they have to defend against the Anglo-French Federation side. Let me look at the map... defending my side is probably only about 800,000 troops. One million against 800,000—the advantage is mine! This is an instant win!!! Too bad this game doesn't have real-time map features. Don't know where my armies have reached. Hard to command."
Just as she was speaking, Mo Xiaomo's subordinate rushed in frantically. "Prime Minister! This is bad! Empire forces have crossed the border and are attacking!!!"
Mo Xiaomo's eyes widened. It wasn't even 5 AM yet, the moon outside hadn't even set—don't the people of the Empire sleep?! Wait! Seizing the initiative?! Mo Xiaomo's heart skipped a beat. Oh no... The Empire Führer had the same idea as me?!