Chapter 660: The Great Earthquake
The movie kicked off with a family photo, followed by a family portrait, followed by the appearance of the family, parents, Zhang Ran's brother, Zhang Jingchu's sister-in-law, sister Wang Luodan, brother-in-law Cao Bingkun, younger brother Ji Chen, and a pair of lovely children. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This day is the day when Wang Luodan returns to the door, except for Jichen in the army, the family gathers together, happy and happy, and the whole scene is warm and moving.
But no one in the audience laughed, everyone pursed their mouths tightly, and their hearts were tense. The yellow smoke from the burrows, the sudden increase in the number of fresh fish sold on the streets, and the flying dragonflies all indicate that a major earthquake is coming, but the people on the screen, as they did thirty years ago, are unaware of nature's warnings.
After the banquet, Wang Luodan and Cao Bingkun went back to their home, Zhang Jingchu received a telegram that her mother was seriously ill, and took her daughter Song Zuer to board the train in a hurry and rushed to Chengde's mother's house.
It was early morning on July 28, and the big clock on the roof of the train station pointed to three o'clock.
The whole city is quiet, and under the hazy street lamps, a few cleaners sweep the streets.
In the silence, a dull voice came from the depths of the earth, the sound was getting closer and closer, louder and louder, as if a giant beast of the wilderness had woken up from ancient times, rolling from the sky, and like thousands of airplanes roaring, the tranquility of the entire city was instantly shattered into pieces.
The darkness of the sky appeared, like lightning flashing in the air, but the light was colored, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, all kinds of colors mixed together, turning into a strange blue, enveloping the whole world.
After a strong blue flash, the earth shook violently with a loud roar. The camera pulls to the air, and the audience in front of the screen sees a shocking scene, the calm earth seems to come alive, rolling like water waves, surging wave after wave like ocean waves, and countless houses swaying and high-rise buildings collapse wherever the earthquake waves go.
Wherever the seismic waves passed, the railroad sleepers were blown off, the rails were twisted into twists, and the bridge over the river was like sugar cane, broken into sections.
The water of the Steep River Reservoir is like a boiling cauldron, tumbling and roaring, constantly pounding the dam. At this time, the dam was like a small boat in a huge wave jolting and trembling, accompanied by a terrifying sound, the dam was torn open a huge opening, like a dark snake, swimming in the dam, leaving a huge crack that made the soul fly.
Zhang Ran was woken up by the earthquake, shouted that the earthquake was there, picked up his son and wanted to go outside, but before he opened the door, he only heard a bang, and a broken floor slab rolled down and smashed into the box next to the bed, smashing the cabinet in two. Immediately afterwards, the floor slab above his head began to fall, and at the moment when the collapsed floor slab hit Zhang Ran, he pushed hard and pushed his son under the bed. Then the entire building collapsed and was reduced to rubble.
Zhang Jingchu, who was far away in Chengde, was woken up by a strong earthquake, and in the dark, she shouted "Earthquake, earthquake", picked up Song Zhuer and rushed out of the room, and then called her father, who was a little dazed, and ran downstairs together.
The building where Wang Luodan's house is located is relatively strong and has not collapsed, and she and Cao Bingkun ran out intact. They stood on the playground and looked around in a panic, and found that the buildings around them were still collapsing, tearing away the good image of the past little by little.
The camera zooms into the air, and at this moment the whole of Tangshan is shrouded in a fog, which is a gray-yellow fog of death mixed with dust, fireworks, and the death material produced by the destruction of the entire city.
There is no music, no sound, countless buildings are silently collapsing, and entire cities are being destroyed.
The camera pushes from the air to the ground, and the streets are empty, with almost no people in sight, only the ruins and broken walls, and a cry in the ruins, approaching more and more, getting louder and louder, and finally the city is turned into a heart-rending wail of the whole city.
From the beginning of the movie, when the city in memory appeared in front of them, many viewers wiped their tears, and at this moment, tens of thousands of spectators cried to the sky, and the entire sports center turned into a sea of tears.
Wang Luodan and the others stood on the playground in shock, wearing only pants and vests, and many people around them didn't even wear shoes, and ran out barefoot. They listened to the groans and cries of pain coming from all around them, and looked at the bloody hands stretched out from the ruins, and their minds went blank and they didn't know what to do.
Finally, someone in the crowd shouted: "Stop standing, hurry up and save people!"
The people in the courtyard finally reacted and ran towards the ruins of one of the buildings that shouted the loudest.
Cao Bingkun and the others had no tools, so they used their hands to lift their shoulders and struggled to rescue the injured. There are constantly people being rescued, and there are constantly people dying in the process of excavation, they have no time to mourn, no time to suffer, everyone has only one thought, hurry up and save people.
The cry of a child came from a building that was mostly occupied, and Cao Bingkun looked at the dangerous building that was crumbling in the aftershocks, risked the danger and rushed in, following the cry. He pushed open the badly deformed door and found the weeping child, whose mother had been hit by a falling prefabricated slab and was dead, but the child in his arms was unharmed. This mother, with her own life, turned into a wall to guard her daughter's safety. Cao Bingkun assured the child, jumped out of the windowsill, and handed her over to Wang Luodan.
Wang Luodan wiped the tears on the little girl's face, and asked softly, "What's your name?" The little girl said timidly: "Little light!"
Han Shanping nodded slightly, if there is a lamp, there are people, and if there are people, there is hope, this little girl called Xiaodeng symbolizes hope!
The camera switched to Chengde, Zhang Jingchu and her family were standing in the courtyard in shock, the people around them said everything, the atomic bomb exploded, and Su Xiu called. Suddenly, the radio went off and the news was broadcast that the epicenter of the earthquake was in Tangshan, which had become a ruin. The scene was quiet for a few seconds, and then there was a cry, especially when some relatives cried even more in Tangshan.
Zhang Jingchu didn't cry, rushed into the building with cracked walls, took out the salute, said hello to her father, and took Song Zhu'er and walked out.
Song Zhu'er asked as she walked, "Mom, where are we going?"
Zhang Jingchu only said four words: "Let's go home!"
The camera switches to the troop camp, and Ji Chen and the soldiers of the troop have assembled. The battalion commander stood on the platform and said heavily: "Comrades, there was an earthquake in Tangshan, affecting Beiping and Tianjin, and the higher authorities ordered us to go to the disaster relief, and now all companies will set off immediately!"
After getting into the car, a soldier who was also from Tangshan asked Ji Chen for comfort: "Squad leader, you said that our family will be fine, right?" Ji Chen nodded: "They must be fine." ā
In Tangshan City, Wang Luodan held a small lamp and followed Cao Bingkun to the community where his parents were. Wang Luodan held the stones, stood on the ruins and beat them vigorously, shouting vigorously: "Dad, Mom, brother, Mingming!" There were constant wails and all kinds of shouts around, but Wang Luodan did not get an answer from his relatives. To the back, Wang Luodan stopped knocking, and picked up cement blocks with Cao Bingkun.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the sky began to rain heavily, washing away the ubiquitous blood and masking the wails in the sky. Cao Bingkun saw that the rain was too heavy, so he said: "You can hide from the rain for a while!" Wang Luodan shook his head firmly: "I want to dig them out as soon as possible, I don't want them to lie down, how dark and cold it is down there!"
The camera cuts to the train, which is driving into the city of Beiping. Zhang Jingchu got out of the car and took Song Zhuer straight to the ticket hall. What awaited them was news that the train to Tangshan had stopped. Zhang Jingchu didn't want to wait, so she took her daughter straight to the bus station, ready to take a long-distance bus home.
The ticket hall of the bus station was crowded with people, and Zhang Jingchu heard people passing through Tangshan saying that the whole city had been razed to the ground, and the city was full of ruins, and the citizens suffered heavy casualties. Zhang Jingchu's heart couldn't help falling, and her willingness to go home became more and more urgent.
When Zhang Jingchu came to the ticket window, the conductor told her that the long-distance bus to Tangshan had stopped, and now the farthest could only go to Sanhe. Zhang Jingchu immediately bought a ticket to Sanhe, as long as she could be closer to home, even if it was a step.
Just as Zhang Jing first boarded the car to Sanhe, the camera switched to Ji Chen's unit, which had already driven into the outskirts of Tangshan, and their wheels were stuck in a huge crack in the ground. The highway was torn open by the earthquake, and the widest part was one meter deep, and it was bottomless, like a big mouth that devoured life, which made people shudder. Ji Chen and the others struggled to lift the car out of the crack, and when the other soldiers got into the car, Ji Chen stood in front of the car to guide and direct the driver to drive through the crack carefully.
On the way in, the military vehicles came from time to time carrying dead people on the side of the road, and from time to time people came up to stop the vehicles, hoping that they would save people. Ji Chen and they have a task on their bodies, so they can only keep persuading: "Our mission is in the epicenter, and there are other teams behind us, they will come to save you!"
When the troops finally entered Tangshan, Ji Chen and the others were all stupid, and the entire city was completely in ruins, and they couldn't even see the remnant wall that was more than 1.5 meters high. The soldier, who was also from Tangshan, asked with a crying voice: "Squad leader, where is this? Why can't I recognize it?"
Ji Chen shook his head with red eyes, he had lived in this city for more than twenty years, and he was familiar with every street and even every building in the city, but now he couldn't tell where it was. He looked up at the ruins on both sides of the road, thought of his home, and silently looked forward to the safety of his family in his heart.
The troops drove to the designated place, and Ji Chen and the others immediately jumped out of the car and began to rescue people. They have no experience in earthquake rescue, and they are in a hurry, not to mention large machinery, not even shovels, so they can only pick up cement blocks, lift floor slabs, and drag steel bars with their hands. Soon the hands of the warriors were worn out, their nails peeled off, and their hands were bloody and blurry. Just hearing the moans and cries for help, they didn't have time to pain, they didn't have time to think about their personal safety, they pursed their lips and grabbed the cement blocks like steel and iron with their bloody hands.
The constant uprooting of the living, the constant rescue of others, is the greatest comfort to them.
Ji Chen and a few soldiers in the squad were picking, and they heard someone shouting in the ruins: "Comrade, there are five of us here!" When the soldiers heard that there were five people, they hurriedly launched a rescue, smashed and broke the floor, and made a hole about seventy or eighty centimeters wide, and then sent a small soldier nicknamed "Little Sichuan" to drill down.
Just as Xiao Sichuan was about to pick up the little children inside, aftershocks came. The earth shook, and the floor slabs on the ruins collapsed, and they were buried in the ruins along with Xiao Sichuan.
Ji Chen and the others shouted "Xiao Sichuan", and they went crazy to pick up the ruins and carry Xiao Sichuan out, but he was no longer breathing. The warriors couldn't hold back the sadness in their hearts and wept bitterly.
Ji Chen's heart was dripping blood, but he knew what to do at this time, and yelled with a crying voice: "What are you crying about!
The earth shook, the aftershocks continued, and the warriors, undaunted, rushed to the ruins once more.
The audience on the screen did not have any disguise and reserve, and countless people were crying.
Zhang Ran wiped his moist eyes, and remembered a sentence from the Tangshan Earthquake Monument, more than 100,000 PLA troops galloped through the starry night, arrived in the city for the first time, sacrificed their lives and forgot their lives, rescued people, built houses in vain, and made great achievements in the world.