[{"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-208":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},2079100,3287,"Chapter 208","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-208",208,"\u003Cp>Thick smoke billowed across every corner of the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just this single wave, the British coalition forces suffered nearly a thousand casualties from explosions and debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the surviving soldiers were each in a state of utter disarray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some, in their rush to dodge attacks, could not even locate their own weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, two South Korean soldiers, Jiang Jiang Enbiao and Shen Rirong, survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, their condition was far from good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blast waves had injured them both, leaving their faces covered in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, compared to some other South Korean soldiers, they were much better off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jiang Enbiao had personally witnessed a soldier who had just been speaking with him inside a troop transport.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That soldier lost half his head instantly when a steel plate flew in from nowhere and sliced through him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The look of terror on the man's face remained frozen there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sight filled Jiang Jiang Enbiao with immense fear, let alone the timid Shen Rirong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Rirong was so frightened he collapsed to the ground, scrambling backward repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In merely ten-plus minutes, this unit had completely lost its will to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, for some unknown reason, perhaps due to the enemy exhausting their ammunition,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the missile bombardment finally ceased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling the overwhelming missile strike from moments before, these soldiers all felt a sense of having survived a calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, experienced officers still felt uneasy in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They found it hard to believe the enemy would launch so many missiles for only a single air raid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Jiang Jiang Enbiao and several other South Korean soldiers noticed the ground trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Small stones were vibrating on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without any hesitation, Jiang Jiang Enbiao roared at the timid Shen Rirong,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run!! It's a massive armored force!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What!\" Shen Rirong still did not understand what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people, looking through binoculars, already saw clouds of dust rolling in just a few kilometers away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the dust, large numbers of M1A2 Abrams tanks could be seen intermittently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, in the sky, large formations of fully armed Apache attack helicopters appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground tremors just now were caused by these heavy weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this, many also spotted soldiers with stern Asian features, hidden within the dust cloud, rapidly approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clutching their firearms, they were speeding forward behind the tanks and armored vehicles, closing in on this position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, many British soldiers still wished to resist, but in an instant, they realized their own heavy weapons were mostly destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting against such a steel torrent with only their machine guns would be like striking a rock with an egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention, the enemy combined tank and infantry tactics, supported by large helicopter formations in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Flee!\" This was the only word in everyone's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking through binoculars, the South Korean soldier Shen Rirong was terrified into stupor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing those Asian soldiers, his first instinct was that they were absolutely not military personnel from Japan, Southeast Asia, or North Korea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soldiers from those forty-four countries simply did not possess such formidable spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are these all regular troops from the Dragon Nation? Has the Dragon Nation dispatched Volunteer Army units to join the fight again...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Rirong shrieked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, South Koreans generally looked down upon the people of the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because during the 1960s and 70s, South Korea's economy developed rapidly, creating the Miracle on the Han River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South Korea was listed as one of the Four Asian Tigers, with a GDP several times that of the Dragon Nation at the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief after being bullied by the Dragon Nation for thousands of years, South Korea even began to act arrogantly and flaunt its power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, good times did not last; the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis caused a massive economic regression in South Korea, stripping away the halo of the Four Asian Tigers long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the rise of mainland Dragon Nation made South Korea feel an overwhelming sense of inferiority once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lacking greatly in history and culture, and in order to realize their dream of becoming number one in the world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South Koreans fantasized that they were the orthodox inheritors of Chinese civilization, claiming that many things belonging to the Dragon Nation were actually South Korean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was nothing more than wishful jealousy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enraged and humiliated by this, South Korea self-righteously believed that the Dragon Nation had stolen their culture since the Qing Dynasty, thus harboring particular hatred toward the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South Korea still lives in the delusion of the Miracle on the Han River to this day,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>believing the Dragon Nation remains a backward, poor, and ignorant country, utterly unwilling to open its eyes to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there is one thing South Koreans fear greatly about the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is the Korean War; no matter how much South Korean movies and TV dramas later whitewashed their own bravery,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the fact remains that they were routed and shattered by the Volunteer Army back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these Dragon Nation soldiers bearing the title of Volunteer Army, South Koreans harbor a fear engraved in their very souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is why Shen Rirong was so terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Jiang Enbiao beside him felt the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two exchanged a glance, then ignored their injuries entirely and broke into a run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the South Korean officer responsible for supervising the battle, he shouted loudly, trying to order the soldiers to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet not a single soldier listened to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining soldiers from the Stick Nation wished they could grow an extra leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene closely resembled the sight from years past, when the Dragon Nation's Volunteer Army pursued the soldiers of the Stick Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I beg for flowers, tips, and rating tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the steel torrent of tanks rolled forward,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their equipped M256A1 smoothbore cannons began firing rapidly from two kilometers away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a hundred 120mm tank cannons were absolutely terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The destructive radius of the M256A1 smoothbore cannon was basically a circle with a 25-meter radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within this range, once the shells landed, survival was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the barrage from a hundred cannons instantly claimed hundreds of British lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, following behind the tanks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were one hundred M109A6 \"Paladin\" 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, one could see an area subjected to carpet bombing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive fireballs rose accompanied by thick black smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the British soldiers, lacking heavy weapons, had no courage left to resist;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they simply turned and ran.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, how could legs possibly outrun tanks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, after several rounds of shelling, the tanks caught up from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the tank commanders remotely operated the 12.7mm heavy machine guns,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>which, combined with the 7.62mm machine guns fired by the loaders, began spewing tongues of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must understand just how terrifying a 12.7mm heavy machine gun is;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>its ammunition possesses extreme penetration power, capable of inflicting massive damage in a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When striking the side of a vehicle consecutively, it leaves multiple bullet holes of varying sizes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>demonstrating the immense destructive power of these bullets when penetrating objects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, after such caliber bullets pass through a human body, resistance and tumbling cause them to create even larger wounds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>potentially damaging the body's structural integrity, even severing people in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, the entire battlefield was awash in flying blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many John Bull soldiers were blown into misty sprays of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in the sky, the Apache helicopters were equipped with the even more powerful M230 30mm automatic cannons,\u003C\u002Fp>",1267,"2026-06-16T04:15:31.334Z","2026-06-16T04:35:04.683Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","ba42abd3ddda1c65dffcefee0b89e0d099bdb495996b873d424c40b33eec0b54","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-209","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-207",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]