Bai Yi is excited, excited.

He did not hesitate to press all the inflatable false targets and building block-like false targets newly developed by the Baiyun Factory, and mobilized artillery infantry, artillery, air defense, and aviation to help.

Because Bai Yi is very aware of the role of helicopters in future wars, since the US military has put helicopters into the Korean battlefield, why not take the opportunity to get a research and research, even if there is no way to immediately come up with imitations, but at least it can train a group of relevant technical personnel.

And why wait until the mid-fifties, relying on the aid of Soviet people?

So in the spirit of doing it himself, Bai Yi felt that it was still necessary to take a risk, but his target was the H-5 helicopter that the United States is currently commonly equipped with.

But he never expected that the U.S. military cleared six German-made 150mm guns and spent such a large amount of money to send all the H-19 helicopters that had just been developed, which made Bai Yi suddenly feel like he had won the 5 million grand prize.

Others may not know, but as Bai Yi, he knows that the H-19 transport helicopter of the US military is a classic, with a simple three-bladed propeller, a nose star engine, and a wide cabin are all templates in the field of transport helicopters in the next 20 years.

Some European countries even used this layout until the 80s, the most typical is the British Wessex helicopter, which is based on the British imitation of the H-19 helicopter, replaced with a more powerful turboshaft engine, as for the layout and structure and the prototype of the H-19 helicopter has not changed substantially, but it supports the British army's low-altitude assault capability, especially in the Falklands naval battle in 1982, it is the main force of air transport for amphibious landing, and the performance is particularly outstanding.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, did not get the general recognition of the Soviet military after the first practical helicopter Mi-1 was put into service, so it set its sights on the H-19 helicopter in the United States, so the KGB did everything possible to get one back, and after a series of reverse studies, finally developed the foundation model of the Soviet transport helicopter, the Mi-4.

After that, the Mi-4 helicopter and related technical data were provided to China together with other Soviet aid projects, and China copied it on this basis, which is the Z-5 helicopter that laid the foundation of China's helicopter industry.

It can be said that an H-19 helicopter in the United States has borne fruitful results in both the East and the West, and its influence has lasted from the early 50s to the end of the 80s, and even in the 10s of the 21st century, there are still H-19 helicopters soaring in the sky, which shows the excellent quality of the H-19 helicopter.

Bai Yi's original plan was to use the captured helicopters to train a group of China's own helicopter professionals, and after the Soviet Union's 156 projects were launched a few years later, these talents would be able to better digest and absorb the technical information and physical objects provided by the Soviet Union, so that China would not be blinded in the field of helicopters, and thus gradually deviate from the mainstream development track of helicopters.

Now, the expected H-5 has become the more advanced H-19, and Bai Yi's previous steady development route has been somewhat loosened, because the design concept and overall structure of the aircraft are enough to support China's technology consumption for ten to fifteen years.

Thanks to the wide range of applications of the new magnesium alloy, the H-19 helicopter fuselage is extremely light in its own weight under the condition of solid structure.

Because of this, although the R-1340 star engine used has only 550 horsepower, it also gives the H-19 helicopter more load capacity and greater range.

Not only that, but the engine is also very compact, robust and resilient, making it a classic of the star piston engine.

More importantly, the 500-horsepower aero engine is also in line with China's weak industrial base, although it is still technically difficult, but it is no problem to grit your teeth and come up with a mature imitation in a few years.

In contrast, the Soviet Mi-4 helicopter developed on the basis of it did not learn the combination of the light structure of the H-19 helicopter and the appropriate engine power, but clung to steel and aluminum alloy in accordance with the consistent military thinking of the Soviet Union, so that the empty weight of the Mi-4 was particularly large.

When its own weight is large, it must be equipped with a more powerful engine, so there is a 1770 horsepower star piston engine, but this engine is not very ideal in terms of overall life, maintenance interval and basic structure in addition to its high power.

What's more, high-power aero engines have higher requirements for materials and processing technology, and even industrial powers such as the Soviet Union have been able to sacrifice their overall life to ensure power, let alone China, which has weak industrial technology.

Therefore, Bai Yi would rather choose the H-19, which is slightly weaker in terms of engine power, and take it back for a little research, and will not go to the cottage according to the extensive Mi-4, not to mention anything else, but as far as the magnesium alloy body on the H-19 is concerned, it is not comparable to the aluminum alloy skin of the steel structure on the Mi-4.

Because of this, when Bai Yi determined that the H-19 helicopter was on the mountain, he immediately organized people to rush down the wreckage, and at the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the rescue, Bai Yi also personally talked to the air force instructor Lukotsev, and at the price of five catties of Moutai, Lukotsev reluctantly agreed to extend the air alert time in the Lenghuangshan area for one and a half hours.

Fortunately, Bai Yi made full preparations here, and the time of one and a half hours was a little tighter, but the 100th people went on together, and in less than an hour, the wreckage of the H-19 helicopter that fell halfway up the mountain was moved by the officers and soldiers of the Logistics Department of the Volunteer Army, like ants, and all of them were dismantled and transported.

When the US Air Force fighter plane flew to the crash site of the H-19 helicopter with trepidation, except for a few pine trees that they had hit, they saw black oil stains on the ground, and the rest did not even see a single screw.

When the news reached the counter-battery command post in the rear, Heidenberg rolled his eyes and fainted.

There was no way, the losses of the "Predator" operation were too great, not to mention the newly developed H-19 helicopter and infrared detectors, not to mention that they were all captured, and they also boarded a 12-man paratrooper squad and several combat aircraft.

More importantly, their goal of destroying Chinese artillery was not achieved, resulting in a worsening trend in the situation on the Tieyuan front, rather than changing.

In the face of such a result, the officers and men of the US counter-battery command post were all silent, thinking that the original name of the predator was enthusiastic, the meaning of which is self-evident, but now they find that this code name is a great irony, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a predator.

However, at this moment, the officers and men in the counter-battery command post did not even have the strength to laugh at themselves, because General Van Vliet, the commander of the Eighth Army, who was furious, ordered the revocation of the counter-battery command post and officially conveyed it, that is, from this moment on, the counter-battery command post was officially disbanded.

As for the commander Colonel Heidenberg, who had fainted, he was thrown into the ambulance like a dead pig by several medics who had heard the news, and left in the dust under the panicked gaze of everyone......