[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-111":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077490,3287,"Chapter 111","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-111",111,"\u003Cp>With the decoy flares exhausted, the pilot had no way to evade.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Amid an explosion and a burst of fire, he was reduced to fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, the situation for the last three remaining aircraft was no better.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They too were being pursued by several missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was as if Xuzheng Prefecture's surface-to-air missiles cost nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, these current surface-to-air missiles were far more advanced than previous models.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although they were also launched from the S-300 system, their speed was incomparable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In addition, they possessed advanced infrared guidance capabilities; although, being on the S-300 launch platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they lacked more advanced fire-control processors, four-band search and stealth-detection facilities, and counter-high-performance electronic warfare systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, they were sufficient to deal with the non-stealth F\u002FA-18E Super Hornet.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One of these three aircraft was destroyed, while the pilot of another ejected immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The last one narrowly avoided the S-400 missiles by using decoy flares.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Afterward, daring not to make any further moves, it fled in a sorry state.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As it scrambled away in disgrace,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the soldiers of Xuzheng Prefecture immediately cheered, especially the air defense troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every member of this unit felt immensely honored.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because they had annihilated the invading enemy; although one fish had slipped through the net,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>this achievement should surely be enough to silence those nations that had underestimated Xuzheng's military strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So what if it was the Ugly Country?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Their advanced warplanes had also met their end at the hands of Xuzheng's military forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, this was not the end of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On the Red Sea, two aircraft carriers were sailing through the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Suddenly, the command center received a terrified report from the fighter squadron dispatched for the bombing mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This is James Squadron, repeat, this is James Squadron... We have come under attack by Xuzheng Prefecture's air defense systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Two aircraft lost, requesting immediate return, requesting immediate return...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Before the carrier command center could even respond,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the other side fell completely silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Along with it, other aircraft also went silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Realizing the gravity of the situation, the command center immediately reported upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Commodore Captain of the carrier reported to the homeland while ordering the command center to continue calling.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What they needed to know now was exactly what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Finally, after a while, a somewhat terrified voice came over the communication device.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This is James Squadron, repeat, this is James Squadron, I am Captain Luo Luo Bote... Captain Luo Luo Bote!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Thank God, Captain Luo Luo Bote, you are safe. This is the command center. Can you tell us exactly what happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, Captain Luo Luo Bote recounted his encounter with a more advanced air-defense missile whose speed was unimaginably fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From the other party's account,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the Commodore and ship captain surmised that the Xuzheng Prefecture side might not be using the old-style S-300 air-defense system,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>but rather the more advanced S-400 air-defense system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>According to the understanding of the U.S. military,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>this air-defense system was developed by Mao Xiong to counter stealth fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Its targets were the F-22 or the F-35.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The F-18's performance was relatively weak, so it was not too surprising that it was hit by such an air-defense missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, the incident itself was no small matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On one hand, the destruction of an F-18 would naturally draw global public opinion's attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The invincible image of the U.S. would be called into question.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On the other hand, Mao Xiong providing the S-400 air-defense system to the Xuzheng Prefecture at this time\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>raised the question: did this mean Mao Xiong also intended to intervene in this war?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Furthermore, if the Xuzheng side possessed such a formidable weapon as the S-400,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the deterrent power of the F\u002FA-18E\u002FF, as carrier-based aircraft, would be far too low.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As long as the opponent had a sufficient quantity of such missiles, it would pose an enormous threat to the U.S. Air Force.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Conducting airstrikes as recklessly as in the previous two instances was now impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unless the U.S. could destroy the Xuzheng Prefecture's S-400 air-defense system or exhaust the opponent's missile supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, neither of these options was easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, the U.S. had never truly engaged the S-400 air-defense system in direct combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although F-22 stealth fighters could be launched from some bases in the Middle East,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>once the F-22 Raptor, representing the pinnacle of U.S. technology, was destroyed,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the unblemished aura of U.S. military power would be utterly shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was absolutely no minor matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Since World War II, the U.S. had been able to dominate the world and act as its policeman,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>relying above all on its invariably victorious military might.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Once this invincible aura was broken, the consequences would be profoundly far-reaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course, all this was not something a mere carrier captain needed to consider.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He simply reported the matter truthfully up the chain of command.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He awaited discussion among those generals in the Pentagon and high-level government officials\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>regarding what actions to take next against the Xuzheng Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, at this moment, the ship captain had no idea\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>that not far from their location,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the Hu Sai armed forces in Yemen had already located and found news of one of the U.S. carriers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on a stretch of open ground along the coast of the Red Sea,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>at least dozens of missiles lay quietly on launcher vehicles, facing the direction of the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These missiles were naturally the Yingji-18, the most advanced anti-ship missile still in the testing phase by Long Guo.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In this transaction, because the Xuzheng Prefecture side had learned the carrier's location in advance from media within the U.S. homeland,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they did not take delivery of the Yingji-18.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Instead, they made contact with the Hu Sai armed forces in Yemen, who had also suffered bombing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>All fifty Yingji-18 missiles were delivered to the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was because they were closer to the location of the U.S. carrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Hu Sai armed forces in Yemen had also monitored the carrier's movements during this period using disguised surface vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Finally, tonight,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they ascertained the carrier's precise location,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and so, shortly after this U.S. setback in the Xuzheng Prefecture,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>along the coast of the Red Sea, streaks of fire shot skyward with a \"whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Like meteors, they swiftly vanished over the sea surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As a new type of subsonic-supersonic combined anti-ship missile, the Yingji-18\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>could adapt to sea conditions, conducting ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming flight at 0.8 times the speed of sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Its flight altitude could be said to be the lowest in the world, and its anti-jamming capability was also extremely strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In this flight mode, the Aegis ships of the U.S. carrier battle group surprisingly failed to detect anything at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Two hundred nautical miles... one hundred nautical miles... fifty nautical miles...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>(PS: Seeking flowers, tips, and review votes for the new book; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1141,"2026-06-16T04:12:22.327Z","2026-06-17T08:50:51.634Z",1,"Qwen3.5 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