“In 1945, the Allied forces launched a counter-offensive against Germany.”
“On the Rhine River, only one bridge remained—the Remagen Bridge.”
“Cross this bridge and advance on Berlin!”
… …
This battle between the *Warzone* development team and the players randomly selected the [Battle of Remagen].
This map is very special.
It is the only campaign map currently online where the territories of the north and south sides are separated by a wide river, connected only by a single steel bridge.
Even a complete novice, upon opening the map and seeing this bridge, would immediately realize:
This bridge is the key to this battle!
Whoever controls this bridge controls the initiative!
Both sides in this battle were clearly aware of this, and charged straight for the bridge in the middle of the map as soon as the battle began.
On the German side, Xu Meng also squeezed into the troop transport, ignoring the [Point D] and [Point E] waiting to be occupied, and headed straight for the bridge.
The tanks also started up, following closely behind.
Unsurprisingly, when they arrived at the bridgehead, they also saw the opposing player team.
The driver quickly braked to make way.
The tank behind them fired a shot without saying a word, as a greeting to the other side.
As it turned out, the opposing players were thinking the same thing!
The tanks fired almost simultaneously!
Two shells met in the middle of the bridge, colliding and exploding in a violent burst of impact and fire.
Xu Meng and his teammates jumped out of the troop transport, intending to charge and seize the bridge.
But before their feet could even step onto the bridge deck, the tank's thick barrel roared again!
Another shell screamed out!
If the other side had wanted to hide behind cover, or even hesitated for a second, they would have been hit head-on by this shell.
But the result was—
This shell once again collided with the opposing shell!
—The opposing players actually made the exact same choice, firing a second shot without moving!
Another violent explosion.
“?” Xu Meng and his teammates turned their heads to look at the tank barrel.
Another head-on collision!
But this time, the gunner on the player's side seemed to be a little slower, and the explosion was closer to the other side of the bridge.
However, this small advantage was reversed in the next explosion—
The explosion occurred less than 20 meters from the German bridgehead, and the strong impact and shell fragments even threatened the infantry!
Xu Meng, who was surrounded by his employees at the front of the team, was undoubtedly hit in the head by a fragment, and died on the spot.
The employees looked at their boss lying on the ground, stunned for a moment.
Then someone reacted:
“Medic! Where's the medic?”
“Hurry up and save him!!”
… …
Outside the arena, the host was still explaining seriously:
“The situation you are seeing now is unlikely to happen in reality.”
“Because the M26 heavy tank used by the Allied forces and the Tiger heavy tank used by the German forces do not have exactly the same loading time.”
“However, *Warzone* does not pursue complete realism, so after the loader position was removed, the loading time was also unified.”
“Therefore, as long as the gunners on both sides have enough tacit understanding, they can achieve this incredible effect.”
The host was working very hard, but unfortunately the audience didn't care about this at all.
Everyone had entered a purely hype phase:
“Awesome! Wonderful! They went straight for the ultimate move at the start!”
“How could it be so coincidental! You guys didn't rehearse for a long time to perform for us, did you???”
“From now on, victory or defeat is no longer important! They are completely head-to-head!”
“This is too tacit, I suggest the gunners on both sides get married on the spot.”
“Just now… hahaha, did Xu Meng fall?”
“It's him, no mistake! This show-off even created a high-precision face model for himself!”
“As expected of the boss, he gave away first blood right away! He really is the god in charge of the show's effect!”
… …
Xu Meng was stabbed in the kidney with a needle and resurrected on the spot.
After being resurrected, he retreated behind the crowd without saying a word.
“I'm a medic, I should stay in the back, you guys go first.”
“Hahaha, boss, this is based on luck, it's the same no matter where you stand.” Xiao Qian, the best shooter, complained.
“Is that so? Then you take the lead and charge.”
“I don't mind, but this bridge is randomly exploding, you can't charge…” Xiao Qian shook his head.
As soon as he finished speaking, this outrageous tank sniper battle suddenly came to an end—
The shells on both sides missed each other and failed to collide, but hit their intended targets.
Both tanks exploded at the same time.
“Finally exploded! Charge, charge, charge!” Without Xu Meng urging, Xiao Qian couldn't wait to charge.
Xu Meng also followed along.
This steel bridge was really not wide. Besides the two railway tracks, there were only narrow sidewalks on both sides.
Even though Xu Meng and his team only had 14 people including the driver, it was still a bit too crowded on this bridge.
Although the *Warzone* mode doesn't have a commander, so there's no need to worry about suddenly being bombed.
But Xu Meng still felt uneasy and subconsciously slowed down.
But he seemed to be overthinking it. They didn't encounter any strong resistance all the way across the middle section.
—The other side seemed to have decided to hide behind the bridgehead and fight a defensive battle.
Because the distance was still far, they weren't even very active in shooting.
Xu Meng then relaxed, threw out two medical packs, and subconsciously glanced at the outer edge of the bridge.
—In order to enhance the fun and competitiveness, this bridge was designed as a two-layer structure.
In the middle of the bridge, there was a layer of iron frame under the bridge deck.
Infantry could go down to this iron frame, avoiding the artillery fire and bullets on the bridge deck while quickly approaching the other side of the bridge.
No enemies charged up the iron ladders on the outer edge, and there was no movement under his feet either.
So Xu Meng withdrew his gaze and concentrated on healing his teammates.
The team crossed the center line all the way without encountering any decent resistance.
Everyone in the team voice chat started to feel strange:
“Is the resistance this weak?”
“Could it be that they were too close just now and a group of people were taken away by the tank explosion?”
“The remaining people don't have very good shooting skills either?”
“It's normal for the level of random passersby players to be uneven.”
… …
Xu Meng had to suggest: “How about… we go easy on them?”
After all, they were his own players, and it wouldn't be good to abuse them too badly.
“I think it's okay.”
“It should be, but we can't go too easy on them, let's play a bit more loosely.”
“I just happened to bring a broadsword, wait and watch my performance!”
“What about you, boss? You are the main target of the audience's attention, aren't you going to do something?”
“…”
“…”
“Boss?”
“Boss???”
The employees hiding behind the steel frame and firing stopped and curiously turned back to look for Xu Meng.
But there was no one behind them.
Xu Meng had disappeared.
—
Xu Meng never expected that the dozen or so people on the other side, using the explosion as cover, had rushed to the lower level of the steel bridge, but instead of taking advantage of the situation to attack them, they quietly squatted on the lower level without moving!
Even when the development team ran past above their heads, they remained indifferent.
Until Xu Meng, who adhered to the principle of "gou" (hiding and surviving) and was always at the back, throwing medical packs from afar, appeared in front of them.
A burly man, meters tall, suddenly jumped out, grabbed Xu Meng's shoulder, and gave him a wild body slam!
—Many players have not yet realized that although *Warzone* can be played using computers, consoles, and synchronized motion-sensing devices, and it is even easier to play on a computer, the existence of synchronized motion-sensing devices is not just to provide immersion.
The operations that computer players can use are all set by the development team.
They cannot transcend the framework set by the development team.
But using a synchronized motion-sensing device is not subject to this restriction and can perform many actions that the development team never designed.
What you get from this is not only immersion but also a high degree of freedom!
—Just like this body slam!
The big guy grabbed Xu Meng's shoulder with one hand and held him under his armpit with the other. With a twist, he threw Xu Meng off the bridge.
Xu Meng himself only felt his shoulder muscles tighten.
Before he could react to what had happened, his perspective was spinning!
When his perspective stabilized again, he was lying on the steel frame at the bottom of the Remagen Bridge.
All he could see were the mottled rust on the back of the bridge and a circle of more than a dozen faces squeezed together.
“?”
Xu Meng subconsciously pulled out his Colt M1911 self-defense pistol and, based on muscle memory, chambered a round.
—In the *Warzone* mode, you don't need to chamber a round to fire.
Of course, this was no longer important.
Because just as he raised the pistol and hadn't figured out who to aim at, everyone around him drew their guns at the same time!
The barrels of twelve rifles were all pointed at Xu Meng's face!
“Um… I surrender.”
Xu Meng immediately let go and dropped the Colt in his hand.
“But, you should know that this game doesn't have a prisoner-of-war mode, right?”
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