Traveling Back to the 1960s: The Entire Internet Teaches Me How to Build Missiles

Following Ye Ling's instructions, Tian Fulin immediately deployed his troops from the surface-to-air missile test unit into a large-scale search and investigation of the Gobi Desert around Xinxi Temple.

After finding several smoking pieces of aircraft wreckage, they finally assured Ye Ling that the U-2 reconnaissance plane had indeed been shot down by a missile.

The news quickly spread throughout the entire Dongfeng base, bringing a sense of pride and joy to everyone!

This should be the most morale-boosting thing since Suriname broke the alliance and withdrew its experts a while ago.

Especially these days, with the disaster worsening, the famine has caused immense suffering for the soldiers at the base.

In addition to high-intensity training and labor every day, they also had to go out to hunt gazelles and dig for wild vegetables. To fill their stomachs, they would make cornbread mixed with barley flour and camel thorns. After cooking, it looked and tasted exactly like cow dung.

With these kinds of cornbread, each person could only get less than six a day, and many people lost 50 pounds in just six months!

Even Zhou Yunxiao, a man from Yimeng who was over 1.8 meters tall, should have been tall and strong, but when he transmigrated, he was only 90 pounds and as thin as a woman!

If it weren't for the many merits he'd made and the extra money he'd gained during this period, he'd be afraid he'd starve to death in the base a second time.

Add to that the pressure from Suriname, especially the escalating conflict between the Steel Sect and the Rice Sect. At the East Peak Base, it might just be a matter of whether the experts from the two factions help with the research or not.

However, from a macro perspective, this involves the question of whether or not to pursue the collection of a "military loan" amounting to 35 billion yuan.

Those Katyusha rockets, airplanes, tanks, and other equipment sold at low prices to Changjin Lake during the Steel Industry era were all used to pay off debts.

350 billion is approximately 142 billion US dollars, which is an astronomical figure...

Zhou Yunxiao privately calculated that at that time, it only cost the United States $7.25 million to build a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...

That's equivalent to sending 20 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to Suriname!

For the East, which was in dire need of rebuilding and struggling to survive, this was a heavy debt.

Of course, it wasn't just the so-called Big Brother playing the underhanded trick; the already hostile United States also launched a relentless propaganda offensive of nuclear blackmail, and even openly threatened to find their secret bases and carry out surgical strikes!

Therefore, this dual pressure, both physiological and psychological, makes it hard to breathe.

Even though Political Commissar Sun did ideological work with everyone every day, mobilizing comrades to grit their teeth and overcome difficulties together, morale was still lacking.

And now, the Third Division has shot down the U-2 reconnaissance plane!

They used their Red Chess No. 1 missile to shoot down the most evil, most shameless, and most cunning nationalist wolf on earth, the United States' so-called most advanced high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft!

What a gratifying thing!

It turns out their missiles can also fly into the sky.

So this is what an ambitious wolf is really like.

It turns out that the big boss of the evil forces has a health bar and can also get hurt.

The comrades cheered and rejoiced, celebrating yet another decisive victory since the signing of the Panmunjom agreement.

In the following days, in order to collect the wreckage and fragments of the U-2 reconnaissance plane as soon as possible and hand them over to the relevant units for "reverse engineering", Ye Ling ordered all the unemployed personnel from the First Division, Second Division, Third Division and Fifth Surveying Division to be mobilized.

More than 20,000 people, including motor transport soldiers, railway soldiers, engineers, power plant workers, and even communications soldiers, launched a search operation with a radius of 100 kilometers centered on the crash site.

However, the Badain Desert was too vast, and searching for mountains was exhausting. Therefore, Tian Fulin, who was in charge of the search, consulted with Ye Ling and then applied for the intervention of the Jincheng Garrison and local authorities.

Jincheng mobilized a large number of personnel to seal off the perimeter of the desert, and the local government successively mobilized more than 200,000 people around the Badain Desert to assist in the search for debris. In the end, more than 300 pieces of wreckage were recovered, barely reconstructing the appearance of the U-2 reconnaissance plane before the explosion!

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Soon, new questions arose.

Xu Rufeng, the head of the base's security department, reported to Ye Ling that after several days of thorough searching, they still had not found the body of the pilot who flew the enemy plane, and suspected that the pilot had parachuted to safety.

Upon hearing this, Ye Ling's expression immediately turned serious, and he took the matter very seriously.

He looked at the crash site marked on the map, rubbing his hands together in anticipation:

"Hmph, can a living person sprout wings and fly? How far could they possibly go by parachuting from here? They'd definitely still be in the desert. Make sure you find them!"

Director Xu nodded. He also understood the significance of capturing an American pilot alive; a living person was more valuable than a corpse.

Before leaving, Ye Ling instructed, "Have the comrades take their guns and load up the bullets. This foreigner is probably armed, so don't let your guard down. Also, pick another translator from the base who understands English!"

The confidentiality department immediately began making arrangements.

However, these days, it's really not easy to find someone who understands English.

After all, everyone hates the evil, ambitious wolf, and learning English is like bringing shame to one's ancestors. Instead, people are eager to learn the elder brother's Russian, as they know more Russian.

Besides, studying abroad is going to the Big Brother's country, so learning Russian will always come in handy. What's the use of English?

This put Xu Rufeng in a difficult position. Tens of thousands of people had been dispatched to the Gobi Desert, searching high and low for foreigners. What if they found them and things went wrong?

He originally had a preferred candidate, Xu Haifeng, who assisted in the development of Red Chess No. 1.

This is a PhD in engineering from the University of Maryland. He returned on the same ship as the renowned Dean Qian, so his English proficiency is naturally excellent.

But ever since the successful test launch of the Hongqi-1A type and the shooting down of the U-2, they just packed up and went back to the fourth division—Huludao—to continue researching ship-to-shore missiles!

Fortunately, perseverance pays off, and someone volunteered to act as an English translator.

Upon seeing the newcomer, Xu Rufeng clicked his tongue in surprise and said, "What, it's you again, Comrade Xiao Zhou? Aren't you a Russian expert? When did you become an English expert?"

Zhou Yunxiao chuckled. The one who understood Russian was his predecessor, while the one who understood English was himself; they were two completely different things.

After all, he was a graduate student at Beihang University before he transmigrated, and English was a basic skill. How could he study cutting-edge foreign literature if he didn't learn English well?

Zhou Yunxiao believed that he had no problem having basic communication with foreigners.

So, in response to Director Xu's question, Zhou Yunxiao gave a vague explanation, saying that the library of the Moscow Aviation Institute had some English materials, and he had studied them in his spare time, so his level was decent.

Director Xu didn't think much of it and agreed to take him along to search for the foreigners. Before they left, he also gave Zhou Yunxiao a sidearm.

"Take it with you, just in case. This foreigner is always cunning. If he tries to harm you, don't hesitate, just draw your gun and shoot him. Your personal safety is the most important thing!"

Once on the GAZ-69, the vehicle began to bump and jolt across the Gobi Desert.

With a handkerchief in his mouth, Zhou Yunxiao ignored the fact that his buttocks were shaking violently and touched the gun with great affection.

The classic Big Black Star with a 7.62mm caliber!

In the center of the black grip, a five-pointed star with the number "81" gleamed with a cold metallic luster in the sunlight. He examined it for a long time before reluctantly stuffing it into the brown leather holster.

In his previous life, Zhou Yunxiao was a fine young man in an era of gun prohibition. Although he had never touched a gun, since transmigrating, he had occasionally gone out with Jiang Weimin and others to hunt wild sheep and had pulled the trigger of a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle a few times, so he was not a novice.

Therefore, when they try to persuade the foreigner to surrender, if this guy dares to have any wicked thoughts, they are really willing to give him a headshot!

However, in the vast desert, with its golden sand dunes undulating like waves, finding a living person was incredibly difficult. A whole week had passed without a trace of the pilot.

Director Xu even suspected that a spy had infiltrated and taken the foreigner away.

Fortunately, good news came back soon—

When the quartermaster of the government canteen went out to purchase supplies, he passed through Hongliu Village in Jinta Town and inadvertently learned that a homeless man had come to the village. He seemed to be mute and could only beg for food, but he had a pair of gray-blue eyes.

Upon hearing this, Director Xu slapped his thigh excitedly:

"Damn it, isn't that a foreigner? I didn't expect him to be in the Golden Pagoda area. He's really good at moving around! Assemble at the Security Bureau!"