50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 232 Annan's First Big Gain

After leaving the border village, Sun Zhiwei headed west through the jungle.

As he walked, he kept thinking about what a local should look like, and he began to adjust his posture accordingly. Gradually, he started to look more and more like a local.

In fact, he didn't need to make this trip at all. He had read the data in his previous life about how many pieces of each item Annan had received. He still clearly remembered how many pieces of each item there were.

However, we still have to go through the motions.

Otherwise, where did he get his data? It couldn't have been just something he imagined. There has to be an investigation process, otherwise the higher-ups won't believe it.

The main problem is that the US military left behind so much stuff that it's astonishing.

If he doesn't have solid evidence, no one will believe the information he brings back.

He's thinking about a problem now: it's been almost six months since the US military withdrew, and their equipment should have been taken over by Annan.

The most accurate equipment statistics should be at their headquarters, and the Annan logistics department must also have backups.

On the contrary, the US military, which abandoned its equipment, probably did not have as much detailed data as Annan had compiled.

After setting his goal, Sun Zhiwei began to reorient himself and then ran towards a nearby city.

In Annam, buses only run between cities. If he didn't take a bus, he would have to walk, which would be foolish.

At that time, China and Annan had not yet fallen out, and Annan was still receiving aid from China every year.

It was initially to fight a common enemy, and later to support their national development.

In previous years, although we did not directly send infantry to participate in the war, we still provided substantial financial support to Annam.

They not only provided money and supplies, but also dispatched an anti-aircraft artillery regiment of 15 men to assist in air defense.

There are also more than 10 engineering troops responsible for building defensive facilities, clearing mines, and constructing oil pipelines, railways, highways, power plants, water plants, and schools.

Over the course of nearly thirty years, we have provided more than $200 billion in aid to Annan, and most of it was in the form of grants.

其中，光军事援助就包含了213.8万支枪、子弹12亿4440万发，7万余门炮、炮弹1807万发，176艘舰艇、552辆坦克、320辆装甲输送车、170余架飞机、1.6万辆汽车等等。

物资援助更有1117万套军服、500万吨粮食、200万吨石油、20万辆永久自行车、10万部电台、3.5万辆汽车、600多艘船只。

Given our current resources, these supplies were practically extracted from the Chinese people, penny by penny, which is truly an act of utmost generosity.

Without our aid, Annan thought he could defeat the United States? Dream on.

Unfortunately, effort doesn't always guarantee a return.

Sun Zhiwei believes that countries should talk more about interests and less about feelings.

More than 200 billion US dollars, and that's still the US dollar, which is still not decoupled from gold. Just thinking about it makes Sun Zhiwei's heart ache so much he can't breathe.

One day later, Sun Zhiwei, like an ordinary resident, leisurely arrived in Liangshan and boarded a green train bound for Hanoi.

This railway was built with our help in Annam. It uses the same gauge as in China, with the same green locomotives and carriages. There are also various branch lines around it, totaling more than 500 kilometers.

Liangshan is more than 160 kilometers away from Hanoi, and it only takes a few hours to get there.

The General Logistics Department of Annam is located at No. 7 Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, within the Annam Ministry of National Defense compound.

Sun Zhiwei was unfamiliar with the area and had to find it using a map he got from China. Worried that his still-developing disguise might give him away and lead to him being reported, he decided against staying in a hotel and instead settled into an empty house.

Annam has been at war for years, and even in the capital, the population remains small, with many vacant houses.

The house Sun Zhiwei found was an empty courtyard with a spacious cellar. He cleaned it up a bit and moved in.

It was only a few hundred meters from the Ministry of National Defense. He spent a day digging a tunnel leading to the Ministry of National Defense, and then began a long search.

The General Logistics Department had a lot of information, and he wasn't very fluent in Vietnamese. It took him five or six days of stumbling and searching before he finally found a report on the captured supplies.

Although he already knew, he was still secretly alarmed when he saw the exact equipment figures in the report.

The record shows that there were nearly 200 million infantry weapons alone.

Among them, there were 165 million M16 rifles and CAR-15 carbines, more than 10 machine guns, heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and grenade launchers, and countless ammunition.

There are also 1.3 artillery pieces, including even 155mm heavy howitzers that can fire at a range of 15 kilometers.

The number of vehicles was also staggering, with thousands of armored vehicles alone, and tens of thousands of other trucks and jeeps.

There were also more than 550 tanks, and what was special was that these tanks were specially designed by the United States for jungle warfare, and were very suitable for Annam's climate and terrain.

In addition, over a thousand surface ships were left behind, including more than 50 warships with a displacement of over 1000 tons. This is several times the number of ships in the country.

最让人羡慕的是各式飞机了，计有：F-5战斗机有73架，A-1攻击机36架，UH-1直升机430架。

These helicopters are especially good compared to those in China. They are well-suited for jungle terrain, and if fully armed, they would give our infantry an overwhelming advantage.

There are also 36 CH-47 Chinook heavy transport helicopters and 10 C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

These two behemoths can airlift tanks. The CH-47 has a payload of 11 tons, and the C-130 has a payload of 35 tons. None of ours can compare to them.

Oh, no, he remembered that a few months ago, Annan sent the wreckage of a Chinook to the country, along with several TOW anti-tank missiles.

Calling it a gift is an understatement; it truly opened the eyes of domestic weapons experts. After disassembly, the parts filled three warehouses, and the blueprints took three months to complete.

The final result was a blow to the head. The tandem rotor technology required the two propellers to not interfere with each other and to be precisely synchronized. Even the torque parameters of the screws were a mystery.

Furthermore, the material formulas and processing techniques of various core components are completely impossible to replicate, which is very frustrating. In the end, we could only send it to a museum.

The balancing algorithm for tandem rotors is like a "mystical art," with material processing being a bottleneck.

These challenges led domestic weapons experts to realize a crucial lesson: innovation is worse than imitation; only by changing course can one overtake others.

So, not long after, we learned from the wreckage and developed the HJ-8 anti-tank missile, which exported 20 rounds and became a global bestseller.

It also forced the development of our Z-8 and Z-20 helicopters.

Looking at the report in his hand, Sun Zhiwei couldn't help but marvel at Annan's luck; it was like becoming rich overnight.

No wonder there were reports in my past life that Annan had been consuming this wealth for 50 years without fully digesting it.

However, every blessing has its curse, and it seems that precisely because of this, they lost their ambition and rested on their laurels, with no motivation for independent research and development in China.

(End of this chapter)