CHAPTER XLII
The villagers have passed safely, we have climbed over one by one, it can be said that everyone has pinched a sweat for themselves, to the other side, the excited villagers have held our hands: "Thank you to the People's Liberation Army, thank you to the People's Liberation Army"....
That time passed quickly, only more than an hour before and after, but I still remember it vividly, and I still remember the eyes of the crowd with ardent hope and tearful faces. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
What shocked me the most was the moment when we all lay down and built a bridge without hesitation, at that time, I truly realized what greatness is, not my own greatness, but the greatness of the People's Liberation Army.
If it were me, I might not be able to do it, and the spirit of the Iron Fist has become a brand.
For the sake of the people, we can sacrifice everything, even our own lives, and this is a kind of iron fist spirit and the spirit of the entire PLA.
After a short break, we walked to the next town, which was large but still in shambles, and there were already rescue teams from other units in the town, and we were ordered to clean up the rubble of a street and search and rescue it.
It was the afternoon, and there was still a lot of standing water on the streets, and each of our four teams was patrolling their respective areas on a stretcher from a medical team, searching and rescuing, shouting, "Is there anyone, is there anyone?"
Finally, under the ruins of a dilapidated three-story building, we heard exciting voices again.
It was the voice of a girl, her head covered by a stone slab, but her whole body under the broken wall, obviously not lightly injured, and we moved the stone slab away and looked at her bloodstained face.
Zhou Hao asked, "Fellow, is there anyone else next to you?"
The girl didn't seem to recover from her fear, staring at us with wide eyes, her lips moving slightly, and then nodding vigorously.
Zhou Hao comforted her: "Fellow, don't be afraid, we are here to save you, we are the People's Liberation Army, I declare, you are safe now."
The girl's faint voice came: "People's Liberation Army"?
Zhou Hao replied vigorously: "Yes, the People's Liberation Army." As she spoke, she pointed to her clothes, and when the girl heard this, she smiled, she knew that she saw the hope of life.
We didn't hesitate any longer, and the nine members of the class began to dig desperately again, and there were three broken walls pressing down on her, and the broken wall at the bottom of her body was almost impossible to lift by human power.
We found four pieces of wood, He Fang, Chen Cai, Zhou Hao, and Liu Weiguo respectively lifted the wood, and slowly lifted the broken wall, and finally, with their best efforts, the broken wall was lifted by one centimeter.
However, the broken wall was indeed very heavy, and the four of them could hardly support it, so Qian Jin and I hurriedly stepped forward to prop up the wood and desperately used all our strength to resist it.
Then, Fang Qiming and Zhou Hao gently dragged her out, the girl had almost collapsed, we carried her on a stretcher, looked at her away, but still didn't feel at ease, because there were still people behind her!
Behind the ruins, there are scattered prefabricated slabs and broken walls, stacked together in a disorderly manner, several people from the professional rescue team ran over, and the life detector in their hands showed signs of life here, under the ruins where a broken wall and prefabricated slabs overlapped, the life detector showed that there were six people buried here!
Qian Jin leaned down and shouted under the ruins, "Is there anyone inside?"
At this moment, a few faint cries came from under the ruins, and we began to quickly lift the stone slabs above, the prefabricated slabs, and as a prefabricated slab on the penultimate floor was lifted, six people appeared in front of us, either head or foot.
"They are still alive", Chen Cai shouted with joy, and we and a few people from the rescue team continued the previous method, supporting the last layer of stone slabs with wood, and there were actually a bunch of staggered tables and chairs underneath, and the six people were caught in the pile of tables and chairs, unable to move.
The rescuers brought hydraulic pliers, cut all the iron shelves on the tables and chairs, pulled them out one by one, and threw them aside, and then the first man was rescued, the second, and the third.
We laboriously dragged the fifth person out and carried him onto the stretcher, but found that about seven or eight meters in the innermost place, the sixth person was almost unconscious and became an endangered wounded!
There was no way out, we had to get the slab open, we brought a hammer and started smashing it, we wanted to smash it and transport it out piece by piece.
This project is long, and we have no intention of stopping, because we know that this time is the real race against life, and one more second, maybe the person inside will have one more chance of survival.
It took more than half an hour for us to finally smash the stone in front of us and carry it one by one, but what stood in front of us was still broken bricks and broken walls, and the place where the person was located was still more than four meters away from us.
We continued to dig, and at that time, I felt like my whole body was full of strength, because, the person in front of me, as soon as we rescued him, we really pulled a person back from the line of death.
As time passed, finally, under the many broken walls that had been erected, we saw his presence.
Only one hand was exposed, and his whole body was still under the broken wall, which was several meters high, broken in half from the middle, and next to it was a dilapidated three-story building, and the stones on the upper floor were crumbling and dangerous.
We knew that even wood could not support the broken wall, and we all reached the point where we were helpless, and who brought a crowbar and tried to pry the broken wall up, but the result was in vain.
"I think if we all work together, we might be able to pry up the broken wall and drag that person out," Qian Jin said to us and the rescue team.
Now, I was the only one who was desperate to pull out the wounded, and the others brought crowbars and wood, all of which found a fulcrum in front of them, and with the shouts of one, two, three, everyone worked together, and the broken wall was slowly lifted.
We almost blushed and used all our strength, but although the broken wall rose a little, the crowbar slowly bent down, and the thick wooden stick in Zhou Hao's hand was also broken by the pressure.
Suddenly, the pressure on our hands increased again, and with Qian Jin's shout, I rushed to pick up other wood and crowbars, and then everyone shouted in unison again, and the broken wall was half up again.
I hurriedly stuffed the wood under the broken wall, stuffed it straight in, then picked up the sledgehammer, knocked it in hard at the root of the wood a few times, and then hurriedly stuffed the next wood, and did the same thing, finally, the pressure of the crowd was relieved, and then two people were freed up to look at the broken wall with me, and a few more pieces of wood were punched in.
At this time, the broken wall was finally supported, but it seemed that the situation could not last long, except for me, the rest of the people still held the wood and crowbar tightly, because since the broken wall was up, it must not fall down again, otherwise it would cause secondary damage to the wounded person below!
I saw the man, and he seemed to feel the light, and slowly opened his eyes, but, then, and then closed them again, and I hurriedly took his hands and dragged him outward, inch by inch, and I did not dare to use too much force, for I was afraid of causing him other damage.
However, all of a sudden, there was a faint shaking of the earthquake, and we were all shocked, and the rescuers shouted: "It's an aftershock, go quickly", and only half of the calf was left before the person dragged out of the stone slab.
I didn't have time to think about it, so I leaned over and dragged the man out, but due to the excessive force, half of my body rushed to the bottom of the broken wall, and there was a violent shaking, and dozens of supporting logs broke in response, and a piece of wood was bounced out and hit my back hard, and at the same time, the broken wall also fell down in everyone's exclamations, and it was firmly pressed against me.
I lost consciousness, and it seemed that in my vague consciousness, I seemed to hear someone shouting: "Platoon Commander Lin"!