radicalducati #568 - The Strange People of the Bear Family
#568 - The Strange People of the Bear Family
And just like that, more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
Now, the time had reached the spring of 1918.
At this time, the territory of Tsarist Russia was a scene of freezing cold and snow, but the atmosphere of war was intensifying, entering a white-hot stage.
After paying the price of nearly three hundred thousand people in succession, and experiencing several massacres, the joint regime of Tsarist Russia finally quieted down.
Although they didn't admit it verbally, and still clamored that the righteous cause would not stop, that they would rise up and pursue, and eventually wipe out the evil invaders within Russia's vast territory…
If, at the beginning, the Soviet Red side hadn't thought much of this wave of invaders from China and only sent a group of mixed troops…
Planning to easily sweep everything away and then settle accounts with China afterward…
Then later, as time went on, their multiple military forces were invested, but failed to achieve anything.
In most cases, they couldn't even get combat intelligence from the opposing side.
The emergence of this situation finally made the Soviet Red side gradually feel that something was wrong and realize the seriousness of the situation.
Therefore, in another batch of Far East recovery army, there finally began to appear the figures of several bear 'Adepts'.
There were a dozen or so gray-robed clergy, knights in half-body armor, and mages leaning on wooden crutches, similar to druids.
Unfortunately, the arrival of these people didn't cause much trouble for Liang Yue and the others.
Although they were mixed in with an army of tens of thousands of people, looking inconspicuous at first glance, as soon as these people stepped into the detection range of the panoramic sandbox, they were immediately identified.
To be precise, they were identified by the intelligent brain, Xiao Wu.
The obvious energy aggregation phenomena, different from ordinary people, made these bear Adepts like fireflies in the night, inherently emitting unusual light and heat, making them hard to miss.
Immediately afterward, they were targeted by Liang Yue and the others.
From a distance of twenty or thirty kilometers, Xiao Wu controlled the electromagnetic cannon and blasted them into piles of slag…
However, these Adepts from within the bear nation were, after all, somewhat capable.
In the end, the existence of Liang Yue and others could no longer be concealed, and was soon exposed to the Tsarist Russian regime.
Therefore, in the next wave of expeditionary forces, there appeared a group of relatively powerful bear Adepts, both male and female, all wearing classic and gorgeous professional attire.
Knights, archers, mages, pikemen, clergy…
There were as many as a hundred people, looking like a mercenary adventure group from another world.
At first, these people wanted to negotiate with Liang Yue, setting out rules and clauses, claiming that they, as super-powered beings, should not intervene in the wars of mortals.
Unfortunately, Liang Yue wouldn't talk such nonsense with them.
If they really had to abide by the rules, the former Qing Dynasty wouldn't have fallen into such a miserable state.
So, with one meeting, more than half of these people were eliminated by Liang Yue.
Among the remaining survivors, another half or more were wiped out by Xiao Jingang in a burst of charging and killing, while Saeko-senpai, Nari-kou and others followed closely behind, ending with a melon-cutting-vegetable-like sweep.
Speaking of which, when it came to combat power, these Adepts from the bear nation, although much stronger than the surrounding ordinary people, were completely no match for Liang Yue and the others.
At best, they were equivalent to a group of second or third-rate martial arts experts.
The strongest of them was probably at the level of a first-rate martial artist, but he was still cut in half by Liang Yue's sword at the very beginning.
In terms of the overall combat capabilities of these people, they were actually not as troublesome as a group of well-trained soldiers armed with guns.
Of course, for Liang Yue and the others, neither this group of bear Adepts nor the subsequent tens of thousands of bear elite soldiers posed much of a threat.
If Liang Yue and others' current level of power is considered to be in the high-level of mid-martial and mid-magic, then the level of these Russian Adepts can only hover in the low-magic range at most.
Although they occasionally had moments of exceeding their limits, able to display one or two good magic tricks, the preparation time was too long.
Unless they could use god-summoning techniques like Divine Striking, otherwise, no matter how many came, they would just be delivering food.
And since then, the Soviet Red side's attitude towards Liang Yue and others has obviously become much more cautious.
Successively, they sent several more batches of elite and Adept-mixed teams to attack several times, but the result was still a complete annihilation.
So they temporarily abandoned the idea of continuing to advance into the Far East, and instead focused on defense.
They directly emptied a small town a dozen kilometers away, invested a lot of troops, and built solid defensive buildings.
By the way, it seems that a group of clergy was also sent to perform some kind of blessing ceremony on this small town, rune carvings and other strange Adept methods.
And their actions were naturally exposed to the surveillance of the panoramic sandbox.
However, Liang Yue and the others didn't care at all about their actions.
If he really wanted to continue pushing the battle line forward, this small city would not be enough.
A meteorite, a ground subsidence, a magical blizzard, or a lava lake suddenly emerging from the ground, a doomsday volcano, and so on.
As long as a large-scale skill was smashed down, these defensive works painstakingly constructed by the bear Adepts would immediately collapse.
However, the outcome didn't even require Liang Yue and others to take action personally~
Regarding the Soviet Red Army's advancement plan in the Far East direction, the Tsar's side had actually been paying close attention and had been accumulating strength, waiting for an opportunity!
When this Far East offensive and defensive battle lasted for several months, and Liang Yue and others silently consumed nearly 300,000 Soviet Red troops, the Tsar's side seemed to feel that the time was ripe.
Therefore, on the eve of the completion of the defensive works of that small city, a combat squad composed of elite Adepts sneaked into the garrison at night, set fires everywhere in the city, and created chaos.
After that, the Tsar's army also arrived, using established artillery units to conduct carpet bombing.
It took about three days to raze the entire small town to ruins.
Immediately afterward, large-scale group operations were launched on this vast plain, with artillery fire filling the sky and smoke billowing.
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The Tsar and the Soviet Red, the original combat direction was mainly concentrated on the Western Front.
At the beginning, because the Tsar refused to give up his status as a member of the Entente, and had to insist on the Allied front while fighting the civil war.
With two-line operations, one in the south and one in the north, they inevitably fell into a passive situation.
Fortunately, the Entente also made timely adjustments internally.
In order to ensure that Russia would not completely lean towards the Allied Powers, while increasing the offensive against the Allied forces on all fronts, it also deployed a large number of reinforcements and support materials to the territory controlled by the Tsar through sea, land, and air transportation.
In addition, the existence of Liang Yue and others did put considerable pressure on the Soviet Red from the Far East.
After the Soviet Red took the initiative to choose a hostile attitude, they began to continuously bleed them, which can be described as a thorn in their side, making it impossible for them to completely concentrate their forces and focus on fighting the Tsar.
After such a stalemate for several months, the collapse of the 300,000-strong army finally allowed the Tsar and the Allied reinforcements to recover and launch a counter-offensive against the Soviet Red.
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