Chapter 276

Of course, they wouldn't dare go to any tall buildings.

Most people would choose open ground. After all, if missiles were involved, the chance of open ground being bombed was much lower.

At this moment, seeing this scene, Brother Long was utterly thrilled.

"What's wrong? Speak up, you Korean bastards, keep provoking! Now you've messed with someone you shouldn't have. DWS Platform, I support you! I'll tip three months' worth of my salary to you, just because you vented the anger for us Chinese."

"Holy crap, is DWS Platform this powerful? Then who should we Chinese fear in the future? Even if the Americans come, we'll still take them down!"

"DWS Platform, you're too wicked! How can you attack Oppa's country like this? We should love peace!"

"How did the person upstairs even get in? Dox them immediately! At a time like this, you're still saying 'Oppa, Oppa.' When those Oppas insulted us, why didn't you say anything? When those coast guards shot our fishermen, why didn't you say anything? Now that the Koreans are about to be bombed, you run over here talking about peace?"

"I don't even know if you're Chinese. You might as well go to Korea and eat kimchi!"

"That's right, the Koreans are disgusting. I never expected there would still be people licking Korean boots!"

Although most Chinese people supported DWS Platform in teaching the Koreans a lesson,

voices also appeared online saying,

"This is going a bit too far."

"We are a great nation; we must have magnanimity!"

"Killing will not earn respect!"

There were even celebrities writing their accusations on Weibo,

claiming Korea was innocent, that DWS Platform had committed war crimes,

and that the state should immediately intervene to stop DWS Platform's attacks on Korea, and so on.

However, at this point, no one within the country could stop those missiles that had already been launched.

Although Korea possessed equipment similar to the Cheongung air defense system and Hyunmoo air defense missiles,

the Cheongung system was a short-range air defense system, while the Hyunmoo air defense missiles—

among them, the "Hyunmoo-1" missile, which appeared in the 1980s, was essentially an outdated American-made "Nike" air defense missile fitted with a ground-attack warhead; it had a range of about 180 kilometers and a warhead weight of 480 kilograms—

even compared to the massive "Scud" family in the North,

this thing was so ugly and shabby it was a joke.

As for the "Hyunmoo-2" missile, it was divided into three models: A, B, and C, which had been successively equipped from 2001 to the present.

For a long time, external speculation held that the "Hyunmoo-2" missile was actually a Korean-made version of the "ATACMS" short-range tactical surface-to-surface missile purchased from the Americans.

But in reality, the entire "Hyunmoo-2" series had a length of 7.3 to 8.7 meters and a diameter of about 1 meter, nearly double the 3.9-meter length and mere 60-centimeter diameter of the "ATACMS," making it impossible for them to be the same type of missile.

In fact, during its development, the "Hyunmoo-2" received technical support from Mao Xiong,

and its warhead's long conical aerodynamic configuration bore a striking resemblance to Mao Xiong's "Iskander" series.

However, against the Chinese Yingji-18 interception, such missiles were utterly futile.

The ship-borne version of the Yingji-18 adopted ultra-low-altitude flight throughout its entire trajectory; the booster pushed the missile out of the launcher, and after turning to the designated direction in mid-air, it ignited its jet engine to complete the majority of the flight path.

But when approaching within 40 kilometers of the target, the Yingji-18 would jettison its jet engine and use a rocket engine inside the warhead to accelerate to Mach 3, conducting a high-speed penetration.

Thus, the Hyunmoo-2 and the Yingji-18 seemed like products of two different eras.

Therefore, at that time, hundreds of Yingji-18 ground-attack missiles flew into Korea.

Neither Korea's Cheongung air defense systems nor its Hyunmoo-2 missiles had any effect.

One could only watch as these missiles swiftly streaked across the sky, plowing through every base within Korea.

Fortunately, the American soldiers in these bases had evacuated in advance;

otherwise, the casualties would have been unimaginable.

However, before Korea could even breathe a sigh of relief,

hundreds more missiles were launched again.

If the previous batch of missiles was meant to destroy all bases across Korea, then what about this one?

Soon, the people of Korea found out.

At this moment, they were truly terrified.

DWS Platform showed not the slightest hesitation;

these missiles began falling upon Korea's capital.

Various important government organs, possible ammunition depots, and more were all targeted without mercy.

Even the office building where the Korean President was located collapsed halfway under several missiles.

Fortunately, the President and government officials had already taken shelter in underground fortifications.

Otherwise, Korea would likely have lost its central command.

However, this was not all.

Soon, the President received reports that including the Jeju Island base,

all Korean naval bases were under fierce attack, and many docked vessels suffered devastating losses.

Ironically, these attacks were carried out by F-35 fighter jets employing beyond-visual-range strikes.

These fighter jets were once the dream of Korea.

But now, they were being used by the enemy to annihilate Korea's navy and air force first.

Although at this moment Korea's air defense systems were fully activated, with countless missiles launching into the sky,

and the air force taking off plane by plane,

the losses still did not decrease.

And after the second wave paralyzed Korea's government institutions,

a third wave of Yingji-18 missiles soared into the sky once again.

This time, the targets were various possible air defense and radar installations.

Chapter 207: The Rods Submit! Compensation of 10 Billion USD

However, what drove the people of the Rods Nation to even greater despair was this.

This time, those Type 55B destroyers actually launched three full waves in direct succession.

To be honest, even Lin Yi, the instigator of it all, felt immense heartache watching it.

Even though the system catalog listed the price of a single Yingji-18A at only 250,000 USD.

A single full-load attack wave consisted of 480 missiles.

That meant one wave alone cost 120 million USD.

As the saying goes, when cannons roar, gold flows by the ten thousand.

Such consumption is something no ordinary nation could bear.

With the entire fleet launching five waves in total, 600 million USD had just vanished.

Even though Lin Yi held the title of Ugly Nation Base Destroyer, which allowed him to deduct 5% of the cost when purchasing weapons,

that still amounted to 570 million USD.

Adding to that the two Borei-class submarines and five Ford-class aircraft carriers purchased this time,

along with nearly 300 various carrier-based aircraft and assorted warships,

Lin Yi's expenditure for this operation had already exceeded 4 billion USD.

As for how he managed to operate five carrier battle groups with only 1,000 people,

the truth was that these formations were not controlled by mercenaries, but by the system itself.

The "447" mercenaries merely handled navigation maintenance and inputting missile coordinates.

Even reloading was automated, occurring immediately after the missiles were launched from the ships.

Therefore, the missile launch speed of the carrier fleet was incredibly fast, capable of firing wave after wave.

But each wave cost 120 million USD.

Even Lin Yi could not afford such expenses; fortunately, he had just extracted 6.4 billion USD from John Bull,

otherwise, he would never have undertaken this operation.

The 10 million USD from the Dragon Nation merely covered the hiring of 1,000 soldiers from various branches of the military.

If one calculated the actual costs, that amount wouldn't even cover the hair on the hide.

This was only possible because the prices for various weapons in the system catalog were far lower than the manufacturing costs of other nations.

— Author's Notes —

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