Chapter 585: The Shadow of Light That Ended the War(1/2)
war.
The most tragic disaster in human history, causing the largest number of deaths,
none of them.
Collectives, groups, organizations, nations, factions, countries, governments, in other words, human beings themselves engage in violence, attack, and killing each other, using the most extreme political and diplomatic means to achieve their goals.
Even if this process will use rotting corpses soaked in the tears and blood of countless people's despair, it will leave a heavy and gloomy mark on the monument of human progress.
Now there is such a war, breaking out at the end of a century, pushing human history vigorously towards the next century!
——The First World War!
The reason for its outbreak is very simple,
The world has been divided up.
The intensification of the contradiction between old and new colonialism, the uneven resource economy of the major empires, and the disdain and dissatisfaction of latecomers towards the pioneers have caused the world's most powerful countries to launch a world-class war around global hegemony.
The war was divided into three stages, and there was one year that was regarded as decisive by both sides...
1916.
Three major land wars broke out one after another!
On the Eastern Front, the Russian army launched a summer offensive against the German-Austrian Allied Forces, involving millions of people!
The Western Front, the most destructive and longest-lasting ‘Meat Grinder of Verdun’!
And the largest of all battles in World War I, with over a million casualties...
——Battle of the Somme!
Artillery fire roared across the battlefield, and the smoke filled the ground leaving scars. Every moment, every portion, and every second, people were dying. They died easily, they died like dust, and they died worthless...
Aircraft, tanks, cannons, machine guns, rifles...weapons came into being in this battle and were upgraded on a large scale.
The hills of the Somme are littered with the scars of war.
Her light and shadow appeared in the real world, passing through the battlefield, passing through the artillery and the rain of bullets, watching such a scene in the sky, and witnessing the most brutal and bloody fighting of mankind.
This war is wrong.
This is not a just war.
She knew this from the beginning, she knew this from the beginning,
But she couldn't stop it.
Artillery shells were annihilated around her, explosives poured from planes disappeared around her, and machine gun bullets could not penetrate the air in front of her. Nothing in this bloody war could hurt her, and no 'person' was her opponent.
.
She can easily stop the firing of artillery, and can also freeze the movements of aircraft and tanks. With just a wave of her hand, she can block attacks and save the lives of many people, which may be ten, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
s life...
but...
There are now more than 1.5 million people on this battlefield!
Even if she could stop it for a day so that no one would have to die,
But there’s still tomorrow! The day after tomorrow! A week! A month! Even a year!
And what makes people feel most helpless and hopeless is...
This is not the only battlefield.
Behind the bloody and cruel battlefield in front of her were the conflicts between huge empires. She had never realized so clearly before.
What a huge difference one person makes to a world war.
Facing a world-class carriage carrying countless interests and desires, individual strength alone is so insignificant that it is impossible to stop the huge wheel of war.
how should I do,
Can we stop this war for those innocent people?
Her sighs and whispers floated silently in the sky, she raised her gaze and slowly closed her sad eyes.
When I opened it again, my determination was calm again and unwavering.
Finally, she took a deep look at the cruel battlefield in front of her. She didn't know how many people died today. She looked at it all, as if she was looking at the roots of this battlefield hidden in another world.
Since the core battlefield cannot be wiped out, we should start to differentiate from the edges.
No matter how much it costs,
I also want to end this war.
Then she turned around and the light disappeared, and a fanatical sneer seemed to come from the battlefield of the Somme.
...
....
near the Isonzo River, Italy,
The light dissipated, and she stood on a hill overlooking the Isonzo River plain. She opened her eyes, and the light and shadow solidified and returned to her true form.
The bright golden patterns are reflected in her white gown, her platinum waist-length hair is slightly swaying, and her face is so beautiful that it seems to be hazy in the pure white light.
I don't know what words to use to describe her figure and appearance.
But she just stood there quietly, elegant, holy, glorious, pure, selfless, dedicated, compassionate...
All these similar feelings pour into your heart from the moment you see her, like an eternal light that people want to follow from the bottom of their hearts.
It's just that she is now looking at the plain battlefield of the Isonzo River, watching Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire each sending their hands to clean up the battlefield. Human corpses are piled together like garbage, making everyone who sees her eyes at this moment.
Thinking absentmindedly,
How should she describe the look in her eyes that made her sad for those who died when she saw all this?
The arcane light formed a magic circle and lit up behind her. A complicated and elegant women's dress and a white aristocratic dress, two beautiful figures that were also beyond ordinary women appeared from the arcane magic circle.
"You are here."
She turned around and looked at 'Sharon' and Alleria's soft voices, which were incredibly soft.
"Greetings to you, Your Excellency."
The elegant smile that was always twitching at the corner of her mouth became quieter for a while. 'Sharon' lifted up her skirt, closed her eyes and greeted her with the most perfect etiquette.
"Sorry, I kept you waiting for a long time."
Alleria, who had a more serious personality, explained the reason and bowed in greeting while caressing her chest.
Because this is an honor that they are willing to serve.
"I've said it many times, you don't have to do this all the time."
She didn't want them to treat her in this way, so she looked helplessly at the outstanding, perfect figures with different personalities in front of her.
"You don't have to mind, this is just a voluntary and spontaneous move on our part."
The smile returned, and 'Sharon's' brisk tone was still elegant and charming, while Alleria on the other side raised her blue eyes and said:
"Your Excellency, I have learned the time when the Kingdom's military will launch the next war. In the recent period, the decadent nobles are still optimistic and incompetent about the war. The battlefield in Italy must still be a stalemate."
"I have already dealt with the internal affairs of Germany and Austria-Hungary. I am trying to incite some working class and anti-war parties,"
Her golden amber eyes were also serious. 'Sharon' followed her words and shook her head with a slight regret:
"But unfortunately, neither side is willing to stop here. Under the impassioned speeches of the leaders, the emotions of the vast majority of the people have been tilted towards war."
"Is it..."
As if she had expected it and was not surprised by this development, she turned around and continued to look at the battlefield on the Isonzo Plain.
"But I also received good news from him. There are already many internal contradictions in Tsarist Russia. The premise for revolution has been formed. It won't be long before that side will withdraw from the stage of this war."
With a slight smile on her lips, 'Sharon' reported to her:
"Your Excellency, we have achieved the first step towards ending this war."
After hearing the news, she finally had a look of relief on her face.
"Have you finally completed the first step..."
I don’t know how many arrangements, how much guidance, like getting answers from invisible questions, finding the most correct way in a turbulent society that is like fog and can’t see the way forward.
I don’t know how many people are fighting for it, and I don’t know how many people are burning their faith in it. The flame of revolution is finally warming up.
A piece of the puzzle about the end of the war finally appears.
"Let him come back after the fall of Tsarist Russia."
"Aren't you going to let him be on guard until the end?"
Somewhat surprised by this unsafe decision, 'Sharon' asked softly and doubtfully. She shook her head when she saw the figure, and then smiled softly at them.
"Conduct the flame, and the people of that land will themselves light up their motherland,"
To be continued...