The Mi-171 took off, and the landing gear tires were pulled out of the snow. The snow on them was blown away by the wind, and waves of snow dust were raised along with it.
Li Hai, Lieutenant Colonel Xie and the sniper team stood by the woods and watched the helicopter leave.
Lieutenant Colonel Xie asked for a Type 05 silent submachine gun from the observer and asked, "Can you use it?"
"Yes." Li Hai hesitated and said, "Leave it to the observer."
The observer said, "I still have it."
As he spoke, he pulled out an assault rifle that was exactly the same as Lieutenant Colonel Xie's.
Li Hai didn't delay any longer. He took the gun and hung it around his neck. He also kicked several live ammunition magazines handed over by Lieutenant Colonel Xie into the side pockets of his flying pants and zipped them up.
"Really good at using it?" Lieutenant Colonel Xie was a little surprised.
Li Hai said, "This gun is the standard weapon for our naval sea and air crews."
"I remembered, you used to use the 56 and a half short gun." Xie Zhongxi suddenly said, "Do your pilots also need to use this? We only have army aviation pilots who can use this gun."
Li Hai said, "We also have three months of recruit training to learn basic combat skills for individual soldiers. There is nothing special about pilots, they are all combatants."
"That's true. As long as you are a soldier, you can pass three months of recruit training." Lieutenant Colonel Xie nodded.
Which soldier in the army doesn't know how to fold a quilt, walk in a queue, or know how to live in a day's time? Whether it's feeding pigs or singing, driving a tank or a plane or a boat, or "delivering express", there are no exceptions.
Lieutenant Colonel Xie knelt down and spread out a blueprint on the snow. Li Hai squatted down and took a look. It turned out to be a hand-drawn topographic map with very detailed annotations.
The two soldiers in the sniper team spread out in tacit understanding and squatted down to guard the surroundings.
"Two of my soldiers are trapped in the first line of defense of the target camp. Their situation is very dangerous. Time does not allow for waiting for reinforcements. I need you to cooperate with me to attack and rescue them." Lieutenant Colonel Xie said.
Li Hai frowned and said, "I have no relevant ground combat experience."
"No need." Lieutenant Colonel Xie's finger slid south from the red circle and stopped on the orange circle. "There is a helicopter here. There is a weapons station on the side of the door. The pilot died. He made an emergency landing before he died. The aircraft should still be there. It works. You provide us with air cover and fire suppression, and we attack in to rescue people."
Li Hai felt very heavy. The pilot sacrificed, and it must have been two pilots who sacrificed their lives. Perhaps what they were thinking about at the moment before they sacrificed was to make the plane crash land and save the lives of others.
"Understood, what is the battle plan?" Li Hai took a deep breath to keep himself calm.
Lieutenant Colonel Xie called the sniper team over, and the four gathered together to determine the combat plan.
The helicopter equipped with the weapons station made an emergency landing at the southwest corner of the Snow Valley, just on the reverse slope of the hillside, about six kilometers from their current location. The target camp is on the top of the mountain on the north side of Snow Valley, about eight kilometers away.
After confirming the time, Li Hai and Lieutenant Colonel Xie took action separately.
Li Hai wanted to arrive at the helicopter emergency landing point before 11:00 and launch an attack on the target camp before 11:10 to attract the target camp's attention. Lieutenant Colonel Xie formed an assault team of three people and took the opportunity to attack the red circle position and rescue the people trapped there. Two warriors.
This is a great test for Li Hai's physical strength. You must know that this is in a mountain full of primitive trees, not a track on a training ground.
The physical fitness of pilots is of course very good, but it is not as good as that of special forces, let alone mountain special forces who are active in the mountains all year round.
Li Hai is familiar with the special forces of our army. Every boy has a dream of special forces. When he was very young, he thought that the special forces are the most powerful people in the world. One can beat ten of them. In a simple and crude comparison, There is nothing that special forces cannot do.
As I grew older and entered high school, as my understanding deepened, I gradually lost my blind admiration and turned from curiosity to study, and then to academic research. I haven’t done much research since I was recruited to fly.
Therefore, he knew which special forces team was in the Northeast, but Lieutenant Colonel Xie and the others were obviously not special forces stationed there.
Then the answer is almost out. Lieutenant Colonel Xie and the others come from a very high-level, more mysterious, and more powerful special force.
Li Hai felt a rush of blood in his chest. He didn't want to be embarrassed in front of his brothers. After seeing those young comrades covered in injuries, he had to try his best.
His comrades were fighting and he was watching from the side. It was a very torturous feeling.
Wearing a flight helmet used by helicopter pilots, he followed the guidance of the Beidou system terminal to the helicopter's emergency landing point. After climbing up a ridge, he took off the skis he was carrying, folded two branches to serve as booster poles, put on the skis, took off his sunglasses, pulled down the windshield, pushed hard, and suddenly went up. The mountain slid down.
Lin Xiaotong's recommendation of him for this mission was obviously not a random decision. He knew that he was familiar with the Daling Mountains and that he had rich experience in snow survival.
If you walk, it will take at least an hour and a half to cover the six kilometers. You must know that most of the snow on the surface is now twenty to thirty centimeters thick.
After adapting for a while, Li Hai regained the feeling of skiing, and then accelerated his speed. From time to time, he looked at the Beidou system terminal tied to his left forearm to confirm that the direction was correct.
Snow brings many problems, but it also greatly improves the movement speed of individual soldiers, provided they can ski. In the presence of snow, many places where walking was impossible became flat, allowing Li Hai to move in a basically straight line toward the emergency landing point.
In just twenty minutes, Li Hai saw the helicopter parked quietly on the snow. This is a Z-20 tactical utility helicopter with a very special coating, a snow camouflage coating. The tricycle landing gear has all been submerged in the snow. Judging from the thin layer of snow covering the fuselage, it seems that the emergency landing has been here for at least several hours.
Li Hai quickly put away his skis, pulled up his windshield, and climbed up from the wide open left hatch. The crew cabin was stained with blood and there were a large number of bullet casings. The right hatch was closed, and there were two holes on one side of the door. The text on the fixed long wooden boxes told Li Hai that one box contained a general-purpose machine gun and supporting ammunition, and the other box contained a 35mm grenade launcher and supporting ammunition.
He was familiar with both types of weapons, but he had never seen one with this kind of packaging.
He came to the cockpit, cleaned the glass shards on the seat, thought for a while, and used a Type 05 micro-flush to knock off the remaining front windshield, and also rotted the glass window on the captain's side.
Seeing the blood stains on the seat back and cushion, Li Hai's heart ached.
Sitting on the captain's seat, Li Hai took a deep breath and recalled the skills that Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian had taught him. He first found the instruments that must be used for flight control, and then found the switch that controls the weapon station.
It’s enough to understand these two big pieces!
Even though he had never seen what a real Z-20 aircraft looked like before!
He found that the captain's joystick was integrated with the control function of the weapon station. It was a control ball similar to an old radar. It was the same as the small ball at the bottom of an old mouse. The thumb controlled the six-tube 7.62 on the weapon station by sliding the ball. The millimeter rotating machine gun rotates in four directions, up, down, left, and right. If you want to design, you only need to press the ball lightly.
The weapon station has a coaxial real-view sight, which acts as the shooter's eyes and can provide a 120-degree wide-angle field of view. The captain can use this sight to find the target and aim at the target to confirm the shooting effect.
This thing is as easy as playing a shooting game!
Li Hai was in a surging mood, and he already had the image in his mind of the target camp trembling and screaming under his ferocious firepower.
Turn on the backup power supply, power appears smoothly, and then start the two engines in sequence, and all drive smoothly!
What is certain is that the sacrificial crew tried their best to save the aircraft and other people on the aircraft at the last moment of their lives, so that this Z-20 tactical general helicopter had the ability to take off again!
Li Hai wiped his tears, checked the instruments, powered on the weapon station and checked the control function. After confirming that there was no problem, he got up and went to the left hatch to check the ammunition reserve of the weapon station. He found that Not much left.
When he was in trouble, he remembered that there were canvas bags beside the two long boxes.
He immediately opened the canvas bag, and what appeared in front of him was full of bullets, including 7.62 mm machine gun bullets suitable for use in 6-barrel rotary machine guns.
If it were behind enemy lines, this plane would have been blown up by our own people long ago, but this is our own home, so we have no other worries.
He quickly filled the ammunition box of the six-barrel rotating machine gun. This process took nearly ten minutes.
"Flying Eagle, I am Snow Leopard. I have arrived at the designated location. Please report your situation. Over." Lieutenant Colonel Xie called him.
Li Hai brought the individual radio station they used and was able to maintain contact with Lieutenant Colonel Xie's three-man assault team. Lieutenant Colonel Xie told Li Hai that the Z-20's radio is set with two sets of wave numbers. Wave number one is the aviation communication channel, and wave number two is the mission channel. Of course, the wave number of the general channel is unchanged and is the same all over the world.
"Eagle is ready to take off, Snow Leopard, can I change the code name? Over." Li Hai was about to enter the cockpit when he suddenly stopped and his eyes fell on the two long boxes.
These two things are useless if you don't use them.
"Agreed, what's the code name? Over." Lieutenant Colonel Xie agreed readily.
"A flying shark in the air and sea that leaves no ammunition, finished." Li Hai said.
At this time, Li Hai had already opened two long boxes and combined the two weapons!
Lieutenant Colonel Xie's forehead was full of question marks, "A flying shark in the air and sea that leaves no ammunition? The code name is so long. Over."
"Okay, it's over." Li Hai said.
Lieutenant Colonel Xie nodded, "Agreed, over."
The two soldiers couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, the navy pilot who looked quite serious was quite humorous.
Li Hai placed the light machine gun using a drum magazine on the floor between the two seats, placed the 35mm grenade launcher on the passenger seat, found a rope to secure it, and then closed the window on the passenger side. Smash it, both weapons are loaded!
"Snow Leopard, a sea-to-air flying shark without ammunition is taking off now. It is expected to reach the target airspace in five minutes. Over!"
Li Hai put on his seat belt and gradually increased the throttle. The main rotor speed increased rapidly and the fuselage vibrated. Suddenly, the fuselage lifted vertically, the landing gear pulled out of the snow, and the helicopter rose vertically staggeringly. .
Li Hai was startled and quickly operated the control stick. The helicopter swayed left and right and climbed up as if he was drunk.
When the movement became slightly larger, the main rotor almost hit the tree crown on the side. Li Hai controlled the tail wing and tried to turn. Unexpectedly, he used too much force and the helicopter spun in a circle.
He hurriedly stabilized himself. After his previous attempt, he probably knew what was going on.
Soon, the Zhi-20 lowered its head and steadily accelerated forward. Li Hai did not climb up rashly, but flew along the snow valley for a short distance in the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Xie's assault team. After confirming the direction of the target camp with Lieutenant Colonel Xie, and checking the time, Li Hai raised the nose of the aircraft and climbed vertically.
Without the front windshield, the cold wind blew in, and the biting chill enveloped Li Hai. His heart was hot. He wanted to return to Danfengchang Station and drive his Su-30MK2 with 8 tons of ammunition. Destroy the target camp.
But he knew it was impossible.
The people in the target camp were criminals at best. They fled into the deep mountains and forests and built such a camp secretly, hoping to avoid being hunted by the harsh winter climate in the area. Fighting against such people doesn't require fighter jets, otherwise Lieutenant Colonel Xie and the others wouldn't be here.
Li Hai marked the locations of the two trapped soldiers. They all had Beidou locators on them, and the green dots that were always on were them.
Because drones were dispatched for reconnaissance in advance, and the map on the tactical HUD has been marked based on the intelligence, it is certain that the target camp has an air defense position with the ability to attack drones, as well as the ability to attack drones. Helicopter capabilities.
It should be an anti-aircraft machine gun position, otherwise how did the Z-20's injuries and the pilot's sacrifice come about?
Lieutenant Colonel Xie and the others probably didn't know that the other side had such strong firepower, so the Z-20 was caught off guard. It was probably when they were unloading troops and equipment on the ground that they were shot by an anti-aircraft machine gun from a long distance. The attack must be very sudden, otherwise with -20 firepower, it would be able to suppress the target camp and wreak havoc!
Li Hai first needed to get rid of the threatening anti-aircraft machine gun position.
He had a plan.
After arriving at the west side of the target camp, Li Hai suddenly climbed up and accelerated towards the target camp, flying over the target camp at a high speed at a relative height of about 500 meters.
A tongue of flame spurted out from the ground. It was very sparse. It should be a single-barreled 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun.
After Li Hai confirmed the location of the anti-aircraft machine gun position, he quickly dropped altitude and made a sharp turn to start circling at low altitude.
In the sky, there are two types of aircraft that once they start circling, it means doom will befall the people on the ground. One is a tactical general-purpose helicopter like the Z-20, and the other is an aerial gunboat converted from a tactical transport aircraft.
Because the weapons they carry are all mounted on the sides, the sides of the fuselage are tilted downward when flying in circles...
