[{"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-161":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},2077940,3287,"Chapter 161: Hamas's Mercenary Request","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-161",161,"\u003Cp>However, shortly after Lin Yi finalized the order with Dragon Country,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he subsequently received a mercenary commission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The client commissioning the mercenaries was the Gaza organization Hamas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although at this time Hamas was well-stocked with weapons, excellently equipped, and numerous in personnel,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and furthermore united as one,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while also having adopted strategies such as surprise attacks right from the outset of the war,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas was thus advancing rapidly on land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, they had already passed Gat Village northeast of Gaza and invaded southern Palestine, specifically entering Hebron, a city in the Israeli West Bank region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This city is located 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hebron is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East and also one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a capital of the ancient Canaanites, and according to archaeological discoveries, the city may have been built in the 35th century BCE.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel effectively controlled the West Bank region, including Hebron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of Jewish settlers began to settle in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, after the Oslo Accords,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After the Hebron Protocol was signed in early 1997, the city was divided into two sectors: H1 and H2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The H1 sector was home to 120,000 Palestinians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when Hamas attacked Hebron,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it immediately drew a warm welcome from many Palestinians in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>01 Although this city had always been ruled by Israel, in reality,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Israel was deeply unpopular there; the Palestinians of this city had risen up in revolt several times, but all were suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, many Palestinians suffered collateral consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This further deepened the hatred between the two sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas's assault on Hebron gave these Palestinian civilians a glimpse of hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For decades, there had never been a single day when Palestinian armed forces could advance this far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, this place was only 30 kilometers from Jerusalem, the holy land in the hearts of the Palestinians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once Hamas could capture this southern strategic stronghold,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their next target could point directly at the holy city of Jerusalem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, for Israel, Jerusalem was also a holy land they could absolutely not lose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, although Israel's capital was Tel Aviv, in the hearts of Israelis, Jerusalem was their true capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, only a few countries worldwide, such as the United States and Guatemala, acknowledged this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, in Hebron, Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces engaged in fierce combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Israel possessed advanced equipment like Merkava main battle tanks and ATMOS 2000 self-propelled artillery systems,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with support from Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas was no longer the poor underdog limited to using seamless steel pipes and gas canisters as weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Hamas was fully re-equipped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although most of their arsenal consisted of cheap firepower like RPGs and Katyushas,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seeing how Syria had humiliated the United States, the high-morale Hamas inflicted significant casualties on Israel with just this level of firepower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a month since the outbreak of hostilities,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>over a thousand Israeli soldiers had been killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that Hamas had fully demonstrated Palestinian bravery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, more and more Palestinians began joining the organization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Hamas unprecedentedly powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the battle unfolded, even Fatah, the other Palestinian armed group, began to join the fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, regarding this action by Hamas, or the Palestinians in general,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Israeli authorities had completely failed to anticipate it, leading to severe unpreparedness in the early stages of the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was why Hamas could sweep through and capture the southern strategic stronghold of Hebron with such ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, Israel had severely underestimated Palestinian armed strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They believed that by blockading Gaza, where even essential supplies like water needed to be provided by Israel,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Palestinians would be unable to organize any resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Israel clearly never expected the emergence of the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its appearance gave the Palestinians true hope for resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, lacking guns and ammunition, Hamas could only resort to crude methods to manufacture seamless steel pipe rockets,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which had very limited lethality and would invite severe retaliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike now, in urban warfare, these Palestinians feared the Israelis not at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both sides engaged in fierce contention in Hebron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with tanks and other heavy equipment, Israel gained no advantage against Hamas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, among the stockpiled munitions of Hamas, the most abundant were RPG rockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing they might need to ambush Israeli armored units,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas had purchased large quantities of PG-7VL warheads; these warheads were larger and more powerful,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>capable of penetrating approximately 500 millimeters of RHA, roughly double the armor-piercing capability of the original RPG's PG-7V rounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even against the Israeli military's Merkava main battle tanks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a single hit would basically reduce them to scrap, turning them into iron coffins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And such weapons, on the DWS platform,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>cost less than 200 US dollars per round plus the RPG launcher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This asymmetric warfare\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>allowed Hamas to continue fighting even against the well-equipped Israeli military.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing Hamas remained powerless against, however, was\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Israeli Air Force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever came up with the idea, in order to hinder the Palestinian advance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Israeli Air Force began frequently bombing the Gaza Strip, especially targeting hospitals and schools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This caused a massive humanitarian disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, facing accusations from nations around the world at the United Nations,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Israeli representative's statement at the UN General Assembly was:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is merely so-called retribution for what Hamas has done... As for the so-called humanitarian disaster, they should be looking for Hamas!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response, the representative of John Bull expressed support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ugly Country also indicated its agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Chairman of Euro-Meng stated that this was Israel's right to counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing Israel's arrogant aggression,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and with many Batan warriors particularly worried about the safety of their rear lines,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas had no choice but to follow Syria's example, hoping to hire the DWS Platform to intervene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To teach those Israeli Air Force pilots a lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing this ten-million-dollar hiring commission,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi pondered for a moment and agreed that Israel indeed deserved some teaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, Lin Yi still remembered Israel's provocation against the Dragon Country at the Lianheguo Assembly meeting last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he did not care about the ten million dollars, as an arms dealer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what he feared most was the tipping of the scales of victory toward either side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ground combat between the two sides depended on tactics, courage, and equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In these aspects, Hamas lacked neither courage nor tactics; the only deficiency was equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if quality was lacking, quantity could make up for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas had also found a method to deal with Israel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By using RPGs costing less than two hundred dollars to exchange for a latest-model Israeli Merkava main battle tank,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at such a rate of attrition, even if the Israeli military had endless money, they would struggle to sustain the burn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regarding the one thing: Israel's Air Force,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hamas had absolutely no solution,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and for Hamas, having lost air superiority was extremely disadvantageous to the overall war situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Israeli military were allowed to continue attacking Gaza indefinitely, Hamas's morale would inevitably be affected,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>possibly leading to a total collapse and handing over such a favorable situation on a silver platter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some thought, Lin Yi decided to accept this hiring commission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this time he did not plan to use the Lin Lin Jian-20 from last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he would use the Ugly Country's 2020-model F-22 fighter jet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined with his ten percent title bonus from \"True Arms Dealer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Ugly Country itself had not yet fully equipped the F-35C fighter jet, Israel currently, in terms of air power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>possessed only a batch of F-16C\u002FD\u002FI and F-15A\u002FB\u002FC\u002FD\u002FI fighter jets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was only a pile of F-16C\u002FD\u002FI fighters and F-15A\u002FB\u002FC\u002FD\u002FI fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1305,"2026-06-16T04:14:27.492Z","2026-06-16T04:35:02.051Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","176d205d75621e393d36ee2578964d63d23dc5a4fcfc0e9c0f589074466d8f1b","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-162","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-160",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]