Chapter 18: Getting Out of Trouble (Part II)
The taste of a cold is so unpleasant, dizzy and groggy!
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This tornado lasted for more than three hours before it slowly subsided.
During this time, Mo Yanran has been at the entrance of the cave, observing and recording the changes in the strength of the tornado, and then recording it on an instrument. After the tornado had completely subsided, she ran to the edge of the lake and extracted some water for testing.
During this time, several technicians set up communication facilities, so that they could get in touch with Aya outside the cave, so that the sinkhole was completely freed from the difficult situation of communication isolation.
Aya outside the sinkhole, they had already been in a hurry, and during this time, Mo Yanran, who had already been contacted, lost contact again, making them worry that something was wrong with her, but fortunately, Mo Yanran had ordered her in advance, so they had been waiting anxiously.
For three hours, Aya had several blisters on the corners of her mouth because she was anxious, and kept listening to the communication with Mo Yanran, hoping to get in touch with them.
"Engineer Ai, there's a signal." Just when Aiya was extremely anxious, a soldier who was in charge of monitoring the communication band with Mo Yanran quickly rushed over and shouted excitedly.
When Aya heard this, she hurriedly rushed to the front of the instrument, and flipped the button on it, and Mo Yanran's cold voice came out from inside, "Aya, Luo Xiao is all safe, you send a helicopter immediately, be quick!" ”
Aya stood up and shouted at the soldiers of the Huya Special Operations Brigade on the side, "Commander, they're fine, hurry up, send a helicopter to the designated coordinates." ”
When the fighters of the Huya Special Operations Brigade heard this, they were all very happy, and one soldier immediately went to the place where the helicopter was parked, and soon an armed transport helicopter took off into the air and flew towards the outside of the valley.
The place where Mo Yanran is located is a mountain range about ten kilometers away from the valley, where there is a bottomless canyon, surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, so there are almost no human tracks, I didn't expect such an amazing situation to exist below.
In the sinkhole, Luo Xiao and the other soldiers had already assembled, they were waiting for the arrival of the helicopter, everything here had been dealt with, and now all that was left was the arrival of the helicopter and the transport of the people away.
Mo Yanran walked up to Luo Xiao, who was wiping the gun, sat down, and looked at his focused face, "Luo Xiao, everything is arranged." ”
"Well, we've gained a lot this time." Luo Xiao stopped moving, then looked at Mo Yanran, "Have you collected all the information you need?" ”
"After the collection is completed, you just need to go back and analyze it, and then you can establish the required bridge boundary." Mo Yanran clasped her knees in her hands, sat beside him, and looked at the calm mirror-like lake in the distance, "Maybe you will be able to achieve what you have been thinking about when the time comes!" ”
"Yes, how many times have I dreamed of being able to make this wish come true, but I didn't expect that there would be a chance to make it happen." Luo Xiao smiled and nodded, then stood up and raised his head to look at the sky.
The rumbling helicopter roared, and a small black dot appeared in the sky, and then it quickly expanded, getting closer and closer, and soon the sturdy helicopter figure could be seen.
At the bottom of the sinkhole, Mo Yanran asked the soldiers to put away all those instruments and prepare to load them and take them away, these are all important information, very important!
The helicopter landed slowly, then stopped in a cleared area, and then opened the hatch, and several soldiers of the Huya Special Operations Brigade jumped down from it and came to Luo Xiao and raised their hands to salute, "Commander." ”
Luo Xiao returned the salute, and then said, "You guys are here just in time, help everyone load these things onto the helicopter." ”
The people worked together to load these things onto a helicopter, then to another helicopter, and then they took off into the air and flew up the sinkhole.
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At the same time, in the Lugou Bridge area on the outskirts of Beiping, a war is on the verge of breaking out, and the two sides of the confrontation are the Chinese army and the Japanese army!
Lugou Bridge, also known as Lugou Bridge, is located on the Yongding River in Fengtai District, about 15 kilometers southwest of Beijing. It is named after crossing the Lugou River (i.e., Yongding River), which was built in the 29th year of Jin Dading and rebuilt in the ninth year of Ming orthodoxy. Qing Kangxi was destroyed in the flood in 1697, Kangxi rebuilt in 37 years, the east of the bridge is Wanping County, built in the 11th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.
The total length of the bridge is 266.5 meters, the width is 7.5 meters, and the widest point can reach 9.3 meters. There are 10 piers, a total of 11 holes, the whole bridge body is a stone structure, the key parts are connected by silver ingots and iron tenons, it is the longest ancient stone bridge in North China.
The most distinctive thing is the construction method of the bridge piers. The lower part of the pier is in the shape of a boat, and the surface of the water is made of a water-dividing tip, which is shaped like a pointed bow, and its function is to resist the impact of flowing water.
The stone carvings on the bridge are very exquisite, the stone carving guardrail of the bridge body is expected to be 281 pillars altogether, the column height is 1.4 meters, the column head is carved with a rosette, the seat is a lotus leaf pier, and the top of the column is carved with many stone lions. The pillar is carved with countless stone lions of different sizes and shapes.
There is a folk saying after the break: "The stone lions of Lugou Bridge - innumerable", and the Ming Dynasty's "Imperial Beijing Scenery and Things" also has a record of "inexhaustible" stone lions of Lugou Bridge. Many tourists try to figure out the number, but the count comes and goes, and they are dazzled, and finally they have to give up.
In 1962, the relevant departments specially sent people to carry out an inventory, registered one by one, and counted 485 large and small stone lions.
Unexpectedly, in the 1979 review, 17 more were found, so that the total number of large and small stone lions should be 502, whether it will be found in the future, no one dares to draw this end.
Mr. Luo Zhewen, a famous architect, has a very vivid description of these exquisitely carved and vivid stone lions in his article "The Famous Lugou Bridge at Home and Abroad":
“…… Some hold their heads high and look up at the clouds; Some eyes are fixed, staring at the bridge deck; Some turn their heads sideways, facing each other in pairs, as if they are talking; Some are nurturing lions, as if they are calling softly; On the eastern side of the south side of the bridge, there is a stone lion with one ear pricked up, as if listening to the murmuring water under the bridge and the conversation of passers-by...... It's really a thousand postures, and the expressions are vivid. ”
The world's famous bridges are good at winning the field, but the Lugou Bridge is famous at home and abroad for its superb bridge building technology and exquisite stone lion carving, which is a great wonder in the ancient and modern world.
The name of Lugou Bridge also has a great origin, according to legend, there was no Lugou Bridge in the past, there was only one ferry, there was a Shanxi person surnamed Lu who was doing business near the ferry, and the business was very prosperous. In the autumn of one year, he took the money and took Tian's ferry boat to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, who expected that Tian saw that Lu had a lot of money, and suddenly became ill-willed, turned Lu into the Yongding River and drowned, took the silver dollar for himself, and also started business.
The following year, Tian gave birth to a son, when the son was 10 years old, he had to hit Tian three times a day, and he would cry more than if he was not beaten.
The old monk said to the Tian family, your son is the reincarnation of the Lu family who was killed, and he will settle accounts with you. When Tian heard this, he was frightened and begged the old monk to save his life.
The old monk said, "It is not difficult to save you, as long as you take out all the money you have stolen and build a bridge, so that passers-by will no longer be harmed by you people." ”
Tian listened to the words of the old monk, invited a lot of craftsmen to build a bridge, after the bridge was repaired, Tian asked the old monk for the name of the bridge, the old monk smiled and said: "You are paying off the Lu family's account, I think it will be called Lugou Bridge!" ”
The legend of the Lugou Bridge has been passed down to this day.
From ancient times to the present, there is a "legend that the big water can not be filled with Lugou Bridge", it is said that the Yongding River is the iron bottom of the copper gang in that year, the bridge hole of the Lugou Bridge is a duck egg type, there is a water platform in the north of the eleventh hole of the bridge, the dragon sword, the design is thorough, and the flowing water is smooth.
The Jade Emperor, who was in charge of the heavens and the earth, heard from the local Chenghuang Land Lord that the bridge was built beautifully and magnificently, and it was built overnight by Lu Ban's youngest daughter and sister-in-law.
He was very happy and appreciative of it, and said, "It's amazing that there is such a powerful girl's family in the world, and it seems that the water can't fill the bridge." ”
When the Jade Emperor heard this, the gods all nodded in agreement. However, the dragon king who was in charge of the sea river was shocked when he heard this, and thought to himself, the words of the Jade Emperor were the decree of the law. He said that the water could not overflow the bridge, but if the flood overflowed the bridge, would I be derelict in my duty?
The dragon king returned to the Dragon Palace, preoccupied and depressed. I thought to myself, every year in the rainy season, the rain from all directions is collected in the river, and the waves are surging. In the event of a cloudy day and heavy rain, this will dare to guarantee that the water will not be able to fill the bridge. The bridge is well built, but if the embankments at both ends of the bridge are washed away by the flood, the bridge will be finished.
When the Mother of Dragons knew of its worries, she gave it an idea, saying, "There are many people and many ways, so it is better to gather the main stewards of the palace and the nine sons and three daughters together, and work together to discuss this matter, and maybe come up with a good idea." ”
The Dragon King nodded in agreement. So immediately the order went down, and after a while, everyone arrived one after another. But everyone talked nonsense for a long time, and they didn't come up with any good solutions. At this time, I saw the smart third princess whispering something in the ear of the mother of dragons. The dragon king couldn't help but be a little angry when he saw it, and thought to himself, everyone is in a hurry to find a way, your mother and daughter are whispering, it really makes sense. The dragon king was about to get angry, and the dragon mother said to the third princess, "Tell your father what you think." ”
The third princess said her method like this, and the dragon king was very happy when he heard it, and even praised the little girl and the third princess for her clever method, and ordered her to hurry up and do it.
The third princess returned to the harem and immediately mobilized the palace maids to weave copper and iron nets. The embankments on both sides of the river are protected by the woven copper net, and the woven iron nets are laid at the bottom of the river to prevent the water from washing, which is the copper gang iron bottom that people later legend. The fourth prince and the fifth prince, who are kind and filial, see that the little sister can solve problems for her father, and she also has to share your worries for the king. So, every flood season, his brothers automatically lie on the bridge hole to absorb water and protect the bridge. To this day, there are still two faucets in the bridge holes that are absorbing water.
Since then, there has been no major flood on both sides of the Yongding River, and the saying that "the copper gang has an iron bottom and the big water can't fill the bridge" has been passed down to this day.
Who would have thought that on the side of this beautiful scenery and charming Lugou Bridge, a war would break out that shook the whole country.
It was a turning point!
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