Chapter 277

Otherwise, just the five aircraft carriers alone would cost at least $50 billion.

The entire five carrier battle groups would surely amount to $200 billion.

In reality, as Long Country watched the DWS Platform continuously launch salvoes with its Type 55 destroyers,

they all felt the pain in their hearts.

Because at Long Country's cost price, this single salvo of over 400 missiles

amounted to nearly one and a half billion dollars,

and after just a few such rounds, the cost would equal that of a Ford-class aircraft carrier.

How could Long Country not feel the pain? To be honest, even they would not dare to use these missiles in such a manner.

Of course, they had to admit that using them this way was incredibly spectacular and possessed immense destructive power.

Had they not seen that after just a few rounds, various regions of South Korea were paralyzed?

Every base scattered across South Korea suffered attacks from dozens of medium-range missiles,

leaving many bases unrecognizable, with huge craters dotting the ground.

Furthermore, major government departments in South Korea were completely paralyzed.

All naval bases suffered devastating strikes.

Under the assault of F-35 carrier-based aircraft and Yingji-18 missiles, ship after ship sank.

As for air defense systems,

South Korea had fired almost every piece of ammunition they could launch,

yet it produced virtually no effect.

On the contrary, although the short-range Tianma system intercepted some Yingji-18 missiles, it had no impact on the overall battle situation.

Moreover, this rate of consumption was astonishing.

Having made no preparations, South Korea ran out of ammunition in no time.

What awaited them instead was even more missiles.

A soldier operating an air defense system watched a missile flying toward him.

He only had time to utter one phrase:

"Xi Ba!"

Then he was blown sky-high.

After South Korea exhausted its air defense ammunition, what brought even greater despair to its people was

six B-2 bombers descending from the clouds.

Surrounding them were at least twenty F-22 fighter jets providing escort.

Upon seeing these B-2s, everyone, including the South Korean government, fell into complete despair.

However, these aircraft did not bomb; they merely circled the capital once before departing.

Clearly, their message had been conveyed.

Subsequently, the DWS Platform issued a statement:

Given South Korea's unfriendly actions, if South Korea was willing to pay $10 billion in compensation

and hand over the involved coast guard personnel to Long Country,

the matter would end there. The DWS Platform was an organization that loved peace

and did not wish to cause excessive slaughter.

The fact that the DWS Platform had not attacked civilians up to this point served as proof.

After the DWS Platform released this statement,

South Korea agreed almost without hesitation, after all, if the opponent's B-2 bombers were to unleash a frantic bombardment on the capital,

the losses would far exceed a mere $10 billion.

Thus, after securing Long Country's consent, they obediently transferred $10 billion to the DWS Platform.

Only then did everything come to an abrupt halt.

Large numbers of carrier-based aircraft immediately departed from South Korea.

However, basically, little of South Korea's navy remained.

It could be said that, overall, South Korea's situation was now similar to that of Britain.

This left South Korea with tears but no voice to cry.

Having already suffered such massive losses, they were still required to compensate the other party $10 billion.

If this was not banditry, what was?

It could be said that from now on, besides the Ugly Country,

there was another bandit in this world.

Moreover, this bandit was even more ruthless and more frenzied than the United States.

To be honest, after this incident, South Korea would never again provoke the DWS Platform.

They were truly not a small nation capable of provoking such an entity.

Furthermore, after this event, those within the country who harbored hostility toward Long Country people would likely restrain themselves.

After all, no one wanted such an event to happen again.

Seeing the fate of those coast guard personnel, surely no one would want to visit Long Country either.

Soon, in the capital of South Korea, apart from billowing thick smoke and fires breaking out everywhere,

with fire trucks frantically battling the blazes,

everything seemed to begin settling back into calm.

Meanwhile, the women of the Stick Nation trembled as they emerged from the air raid shelters,

then gazed upon the city, now a scene of utter devastation.

"Those people from DWS have really left!"

"It seems so; after all, the government paid ten billion US dollars!"

"Sigh, if only we had known this earlier, why would we have provoked the Dragon Nation in the first place?"

"Never mind, regardless of how this happened, being able to settle matters for ten billion US dollars is something for which we should thank heaven and earth!"

"Indeed, when I saw the B2 bombers, I nearly wet myself in fear; if those things had unleashed a frenzied bombardment on the capital, the losses would have been terrifying, far beyond what a mere ten billion US dollars could cover!"

"Thank Buddha, thank God, now that this matter has passed, from this day forward I will never again harbor hostility toward the people of the Dragon Nation,"

"their true strength is too terrifying; I estimate that even the Ugly Nation must now be filled with dread!"

"Actually, I long felt that the rise of the Dragon Nation was inevitable, yet the government insisted on erasing Chinese characters, creating such a huge rift between us and the Dragon people!"

"Yes, and the cause of this entire affair lies with the government..."

Following this attack, many in the Stick Nation no longer blamed the people of the Dragon Nation.

Instead, quite a few Stick Nation citizens felt that the root cause of this incident was the fault of their own government.

If they had handled this matter reasonably, how could the Stick Nation have provoked such a powerful Dragon Nation?

Some scholars even argued that with such a vast disparity in power, for the Stick Nation to still provoke the Dragon Nation

was extremely foolish.

However, these same people had never considered that before this attack,

they themselves had been everywhere boycotting the Dragon Nation and were staunch supporters of the government's absolute refusal to compromise.

But after a single attack,

the attitude of the Stick Nation's populace underwent a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turnaround.

The Dragon Nation citizens who had previously suffered discrimination within the Stick Nation were now greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm by the Stick Nation people.

And all of this was due solely to a brief war.

In truth, this is quite understandable.

The people of the Stick Nation are simply the type who bully the weak and fear the strong; previously, they looked down on the Dragon Nation in every way

because the Dragon Nation adhered to a peaceful foreign policy.

No matter what the Stick Nation did, with their Ugly Nation father protecting them,

the Dragon Nation could do nothing to them.

Yes, precisely because of this, the Stick Nation could act without any scruples.

But now? After a brief war,

the Stick Nation finally understood the terror of the Dragon Nation.