The train driver in the courtyard

The jeep sped along the street, not towards the weather station, but towards the outskirts of Beijing.

The car was very quiet, with only the sound of the engine.

In the somber atmosphere, the middle-aged man listened to the old cat's introduction and gave an awkward laugh.

"You misunderstood. The environment in Southeast Asia is complicated, and I can't adapt to being back home right away."

The middle-aged man turned sideways and extended his hand to Li Aiguo from the front row: "Wu Dezhi, take charge of the work at Monkey's house."

"Hello, Comrade Wu."

Li Aiguo felt the calluses on the other person's tiger's mouth and confirmed that this person was their contact person on the monkey's side.

This contact is indeed in a confidential sequence, and the level of confidentiality is relatively high.

However, due to the high risk of working away from home for extended periods, some special information needs to be isolated.

"Comrade Wu, what brings you here?" Li Aiguo asked directly after confirming the other party's identity.

Wu Dezhi adjusted his glasses, glanced at Lao Mao, and after Lao Mao nodded, he lowered his voice and said, "It's like this, there's been fighting in Southeast Asia recently. Xiao Mei's wild boars are too fierce, and our team has suffered heavy losses."

Wild boar?

Li Aiguo paused for a moment before realizing that Wu Dezhi was referring to Xiao Mei's UH-1 "Huey" transport helicopter.

The front of this thing looks exactly like a wild boar's face. When it swoops down from the air, it looks just like a wild boar charging towards you. In later generations, it was called the Wild Boar Helicopter.

"You continue."

"This is the first time our team has encountered a helicopter equipped with a machine gun. It's also the first time the Russian instructors have seen one. They tried several new tactics, but the results were not good, so they thought of coming back to China. Staff Officer Ruan is currently waiting over there."

Because it involved classified information, Wu Dezhi had to think things through before speaking, which made him seem hesitant and he didn't explain some details clearly.

However, Li Aiguo still understood.

The northern monkeys were stunned by the attack from the American's armed helicopters and asked the Russians for help. The Russians didn't know anything about this either, so they thought we should step in.

However, we have already determined the general direction and have our own things to do. We don't have the spare energy or the willingness to provide support.

However, considering that everyone is part of a large family, it wouldn't look good if they didn't help, so they thought of Li Aiguo, an expert in armed helicopters.

The person in charge of this trip was Comrade Ruan, who had personally met with the staff officer of Xiaomei's armed helicopter.

To avoid suspicion, they did not come in an official capacity and were accommodated in the suburbs after arriving in the capital.

This must be the territory of the Beijing garrison. People stopped the jeep from a distance, and after some inspection, the jeep drove into the compound.

Li Aiguo met Comrade Ruan in an office.

Like most Southeast Asians, he had a dark complexion, strong facial features, slightly prominent cheekbones, and a slightly wide nose.

None of that was the key point. What caught Li Aiguo's attention the most was the gauze wrapped around his left ear, with bloodstains faintly visible.

When Comrade Ruan saw Li Aiguo enter, he was very excited. He stood up, put his feet together, and saluted Li Aiguo: "Hello, Comrade Expert."

Li Aiguo only remembered that he was now an armed helicopter expert when he heard this title.

"Hello." Li Aiguo returned the greeting, glancing curiously at his left ear.

"injured?"

Comrade Ruan grinned and said, "I was ambushed by Xiao Mei's wild boar the other day. That thing is too fast. Before I could even react, my ear was gone."

The UH-1 "Huey" transport helicopter is equipped with a 20mm triple-barreled cannon loaded with 20mm high-explosive rounds. If it were attacked from the air, it would be very lucky to only lose one ear.

The office was simply furnished with just a table and a few stools.

Comrade Ruan clearly came prepared. After inviting the group to sit down, he took out a stack of documents and placed them on the table.

The information is very comprehensive, including details of the helicopter raid on Xiaomei's house and photos from the scene.

Li Aiguo picked it up and flipped through it, praising it repeatedly in his heart.

You can say Xiaomei's family is bad, but you can't say they're bad at cooking.

The moment the concept of armed helicopters emerged, they devised the classic leapfrog tactic.

In a recent battle, 150 soldiers were deployed in batches by eight UH-1 helicopters, raiding deep into enemy territory and completing the deployment of a company-level force in just minutes.

When Comrade Ruan received the notification and arrived with his troops, the UH-1 aircraft, equipped with rockets and door machine guns, formed a formation to carry out the "Iron Hammer Tactics"—the wingman provided fire support while the lead aircraft rapidly deployed troops.

Under the combined suppression from the ground and the air, Comrade Ruan's entire regiment, despite having dozens of times the number of people as Xiao Mei's family, was defeated.

In another battle, the helicopter was spotted in advance.

Comrade Ruan led his men to organize an ambush and launched an attack on the helicopter as it was being dropped.

They thought they could annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

After being surrounded, the UH-1 continued to break through the fire network, delivering supplies and reinforcements into the encirclement and evacuating the wounded.

The UH-1, equipped with a 40mm grenade launcher and an automatic machine gun system, forms a fire network in the air to suppress enemy advances.

Xiao Mei's family suffered dozens of casualties, while Comrade Ruan's side suffered hundreds of casualties.

In this battle, Comrade Nguyen charged ahead and lost his ear.

"It's terrifying. Those wild boars are terrifying. They can fight, they can run, and they can land without being restricted by the terrain. Our people have no way to deal with them."

Comrade Ruan was a veteran with rich combat experience, but at this moment he was dejected.

Although Comrade Ruan has a small number of anti-aircraft guns, it takes time to reload them.

Furthermore, the helicopters chose to attack locations far from air defense positions, leaving the enemy helpless to watch the helicopters wreak havoc.

"Comrade Aiguo, I heard you know a lot about armed helicopters. Do you have any good ideas on how to deal with them?" Comrade Ruan's eyes were full of expectation.

Li Aiguo did not answer Comrade Ruan immediately, but looked at Lao Mao instead.

Old Cat spoke up: "Comrade Ruan is now a brother on the same side, and the higher-ups are paying close attention to this matter."

This statement contains two layers of meaning.

The first layer is helping Comrade Ruan deal with Xiao Mei's helicopters, which can improve our status in the camp and also weaken Xiao Mei's forces. The second layer is that just because we're brothers now doesn't mean we'll be brothers in the future.

To handle this matter well, it is necessary to grasp these two meanings and master the appropriate balance.

Li Aiguo is very interested in war movies, the kind that are real war movies, where men fight each other with big guns, don't get the wrong idea.

Later in the war, Comrade Nguyen's side also invented several tactics that caused the American helicopters to suffer heavy losses.

Since the tactics will be developed sooner or later, we might as well develop them now and exhaust the US's resources.

Li Aiguo pondered for a moment and said, "The advantages of armed helicopters are obvious. They have low requirements for terrain, but precisely because of this, they are also vulnerable to air defense fire."

"But the anti-aircraft gun positions cannot be moved," Comrade Ruan said, somewhat frustrated.

"Where's the heavy machine gun?"

Li Aiguo reminded, "The effective range of the Russian DShK heavy machine gun is 1500 meters, which is sufficient to defend against low-altitude attacks."

On the northern battlefield, we used the DShK heavy machine gun to deal with American aircraft, and it worked well. Later, we even copied it and produced the Type 54 anti-aircraft machine gun.

It's just that the Northern Monkeys are clearly trying to get something for nothing, so Li Aiguo won't bring up the Type 54 anti-aircraft machine gun.

"That's a good idea. I'm sure my elder brother will lend a hand." Comrade Ruan immediately wrote this down in his notebook.

Li Aiguo then explained some techniques for using the DShK heavy machine gun.

For example, forming a tactical team of ten people, divided into different groups, can cover a sufficient area.

Once the helicopter is spotted, the various teams will adopt a group-based tactic and concentrate their fire to attack it.

At the same time, they could also obtain some RPGs and 23mm artillery from the Russians, and redeploy them in circular or triangular formations every day, making the wide range of threats even more complex.

"Heavy machine guns weaving a net of fire? Brilliant! When the wild boar dives, its belly becomes a live target!" Comrade Ruan nodded repeatedly as he realized that this was a complete tactic for countering armed helicopters.

"You can also set up more barbed wire in the jungle, and the machine gunners should try to hide behind the barbed wire and fire at the helicopters," Li Aiguo added.

"Yes, yes, helicopters are afraid of barbed wire."

Comrade Ruan was a veteran who had personally experienced helicopter raids, and he immediately realized that the plans proposed by Li Aiguo were all very practical.

Don't underestimate a few words; if placed on the battlefield, they might save tens of thousands of lives and change the course of a war.

Comrade Ruan, filled with excitement, wrote down all the information and then shook hands with Li Aiguo: "Comrade Aiguo, thank you for providing these solutions."

"You're too kind, we're all one family."

"Comrade Patriot, you just mentioned 'several' heavy machine guns... How many are you specifically suggesting? And how many RPG firing positions should be assigned to each group?"

Li Aiguo paused for a moment, then mumbled, "Just adjust the quantity flexibly according to local conditions."

"Understood!"

Comrade Ruan nodded vigorously, then lowered his head and quickly copied out a "List of Equipment Requirements" on a blank page.

"Since it's a 'flexible adjustment,' we need to prepare several backup plans. We need to rotate more heavy machine guns. RPGs are prone to problems, so we need at least twice the number to meet the deployment density per square kilometer..."

Comrade Ruan carefully folded the newly transcribed list and hid it in his inner pocket. He then checked the contents of the notebook again, asked about a few details, and then hurriedly left the capital.

"Patriotism, what if we use helicopters to fight them, and they use your own tactics?"

On the way back to the Qianmen Locomotive Depot, Lao Mao remained silent for the entire journey before finally asking a question.

"Helicopters vary greatly. These tactics might work against the makeshift armed helicopters that the US has assembled, but against the helicopters we're actually building... hehe."

Li Aiguo didn't continue, and Lao Mao understood what he meant: these tactics were useless against the armed helicopters we were about to develop.

Li Aiguo wasn't boasting.

The attack helicopter currently under development already surpasses the Apache in terms of speed and lifting capacity alone.

This simple tactic might work against these unprofessional armed helicopters, but against real armed helicopters, it would only result in them being beaten.

More importantly, the supplies needed by the Northern Monkeys to carry out these tactics.

The Northern Monkeys are having a tough time. Apart from being able to produce barbed wire, they need support from the Russians for RPGs, heavy machine guns, and mortars.

Since you're reaching out so far and want to continue being the big brother, then you'd better spend some money.

Things went as Li Aiguo had predicted.

After returning home, Comrade Ruan reported on the anti-helicopter tactics that Li Aiguo had devised.

The Northern Monkeys, having been decimated by armed helicopters recently, reacted as if they had struck gold and immediately organized personnel to analyze the situation.

These tactics were developed through their own experience in battle, so there's definitely nothing wrong with them.

The Northern Monkeys identified anti-helicopter tactics as their primary tactic and quickly sent people to the Russians' home.

"Big brother, good big brother, I've been stunned by the helicopter attack and now I need a batch of weapons. Do you think you can provide some support?"

When the Russians saw the list, they cursed inwardly: 50,000 DShK heavy machine guns, 15,000 RPGs, and countless mortars and ammunition.

This is to empty his weapons depot.

If Li Aiguo knew about this list, he would definitely give the Northern Monkeys a thumbs up. When it comes to getting things for free, you guys are the experts.

The old Russian felt a little sorry for the man, but the northern monkey kept calling him a good older brother, so he couldn't refuse.

In the end, only more than 10,000 DShK heavy machine guns, more than 5,000 RPGs, mortars and a large amount of ammunition could be allocated.

Northern Monkey felt that the older brother was being a bit stingy, and after arguing with him for a while, the older brother could only add another batch of San Dezi Iron Fist 100s that had been discarded on the battlefield.

Before leaving, the old Russian asked the northern monkey, "Little brother, your tactics are pretty good. You have some talented people in your family!"

"It was Dongda University that helped with it."

Old Russian: "."

He felt like he had been framed.

(End of this chapter)