"Sam, this isn't just a battlefield," Wu Heng said softly. "It's a demonstration."
"Do you know what a demonstration is?"
"It's showing Heaven, Hell, and every supernatural being still watching from the sidelines that humanity is no longer just a pawn on the board."
"This will become a land of faith."
Wu Heng turned back and sat down at his desk, looking at the map before him. "During World War II, the German army launched a blitzkrieg attack on France. The French forces rapidly collapsed, and under Prime Minister Pétain's leadership, they planned to surrender as a nation. At the time, support for surrender reached 85%.
The reason they surrendered was that World War I had been too devastating. Though France had won that war, 13% of its young and middle-aged men had died in battle—equivalent to one out of every eight. Among the entire group of young and middle-aged men, 40% were either killed or wounded. That was why they began to fear war.
Yet Charles de Gaulle, then Undersecretary of State for National Defense and War, was the only one who firmly opposed surrender, isolated and without support within the government.
Having long foreseen that France would lose this war, he had warned the government in advance, but no one paid attention.
But he did not give up.
When the French government decided to surrender to Nazi Germany, he fled France alone and went into exile.
In London, England, he issued a call to his countrymen, declaring, 'The flame of French resistance must not go out, and never will go out,' and launched the Free France movement, continuing to carry the banner of France's resistance against fascism.
It was precisely because of his core base of operations in London that he successfully gathered sparks enough to start a