Chapter 219: Ice Age 1 (Part II)
"Well, I've been there for a few years." Wang Xingguo replied modestly.
"Then you are really a genius, you can do anything," Robert Li said with a smile, and stretched out his hand towards Wang Xingguo, "Robert Li, my ancestral home is Shandong, China, but I was born abroad, I have a Chinese name called Li Ruyi, I have participated in the French Foreign Legion, and I have been to Iraq and Afghanistan. ”
"It's a wonderful life!" Wang Xingguo shook hands with him and said approvingly.
"You can just call me by my Chinese name, or call me Li." Robert Lee smiled: "Wang Xingguo, do you think these explosives are enough?" ”
Wang Xingguo looked at the explosives that had been moved down, there were about 30 kilograms, and it was impossible for this explosives to blow up this boulder of several hundred tons.
Wang Xingguo looked at the boulder, looked around again, and said, "If my calculation is not wrong, it should be enough." ”
"What are you going to do?" Robert Lee asked.
"There...... Since the stones are tumbling down from above, the geology there is unstable, and I blast it open, and the gravel and the ground can make a slope. Wang Xingguo pointed to the permafrost high up.
"If you're not a good sapper, you're definitely a good special forces!" Robert Lee gave Wang Xingguo a thumbs up.
"Then let's calculate the angle and yield of the explosion." Wang Xingguo said with a smile.
When Dick learned that there was only a little bit of explosives, he was worried that he would not be able to shake the blocked boulder at all, but after Wang Xingguo stated his plan in detail, he was very satisfied. Then there was the question of how to install the explosives on the cliffs, which required accurate calculations and a delicate location where the explosives could be placed, otherwise there would be enough rocks to make a ramp out of the explosives.
However, Wang Xingguo also considered this problem, and now he has assigned people to collect snow, and he plans to use snowflakes to fill the void part in case there are not enough stones, and then turn part of the snow into water, and use the cold to freeze to make a slope.
I didn't expect to be an explorer who also knew how to use explosives, and even had a little knowledge of construction engineering.
The boulder across the road was four or five meters high, and Wang Xingguo carefully calculated the amount of earthwork needed, and he had to place explosives about five meters below the top of the ravine, so that the frozen soil and gravel falling from it could provide enough material.
The men had to climb to the top of the ravine, and then hang the rope in mid-air to plant the explosives, which neither the mechanical nor engineering crews could do, so Robert Lee had to have his men put on their claws and carry ropes to the top.
According to the plan, when the permafrost layer was blown down, the personnel went up to clean it up and pad out a slope, through this boulder, Robert Lee's people were indeed professionals, they were very skilled in placing explosives in the permafrost according to Wang Xingguo's requirements, and after Wang Xingguo blew up this place, the material was enough to pad out of the slope.
The rest of the people collected snow as a backup plan according to Wang Xingguo's request, snow is not a rare commodity here, and the snow plough trucks have piled up huge piles back and forth.
Xia Ruobing fell asleep in a daze, and woke up when she heard the noise outside, and when she got out of the car, Wang Xingguo had already climbed to the top of the ravine with explosives with the security team.
"What is this for?" Xia Ruobing slept a little dazed and asked.
"The rocks are blocking the way for cars to pass, and he's going to blow that roof down and make a ramp." Sherpa said.
"Huh?" Xia Ruobing saw the flashlight flashing in the middle of the cliff in the dark night, and felt that this was a little incredible.
After a while, Xia Ruobing saw a flashlight waving rhythmically, and Robert Lee, who had been observing, shouted: "The vehicle personnel retreat, the vehicle personnel retreat!" Get ready to blast! Get ready to blast! ”
The explosives were planted by the people who had roped down the cliffs, and the waiting vehicles heard Robert Lee's order and restarted, and people hurriedly got into the vehicles and evacuated to a safe area.
"Count the number of people in each group! Confirm the number of people! "Robert Lee is also a very experienced security expert, and he wants to make sure that everyone is not in the blast area.
"When everyone gets to the vehicle, watch out for splashes! Get ready to blast! Get ready to blast! After Robert Lee confirmed that everyone was there, he asked everyone to evacuate to the vehicle and use the vehicle as cover to block the possible flying stones.
"Detonate!" Robert Lee gave the order, and the Demoman pressed the detonation button.
"Boom...... Rumble...... The explosives detonated one after another, and large chunks of frozen soil fell down in the smoke, and it was impossible to see how they landed in the dark, but you could feel the ground shaking one after another.......
"Unlucky!" Robert Lee had been counting the sound of explosives exploding, and he felt that there was one missing.
"Demoman, blast again!" Robert Lee is a little worried, will the fuse fail because of the bad weather?
"Detonate!" The Demoman shouted and pressed the detonation button again, but still didn't hear the explosion as it should be.
"This sucks!" Robert Lee secretly exclaimed in his heart, this explosive that did not detonate is even more terrifying, because you don't know where it is, and you don't know why it didn't explode.
"Wang Xingguo!" Robert Lee shouted that he needed someone to consult.
"One shot less!" Wang Xingguo is also aware of the seriousness of the problem.
Robert Lee scolded and ordered, "Turn off the detonator, no one is allowed to get out of the back of the vehicle without my orders." With that, he unloaded the gun from his body, handed it to the security guard next to him, turned the flashlight to the brightest brightness, and ran towards the rocks.
Seeing this, Wang Xingguo also followed, and Robert Lee was going to find the unexploded ordnance to be eliminated.
"What is Wang Xingguo going to do?" Sherpa was not very familiar with explosives, and when he saw Robert Lee running out in a hurry, Wang Xingguo followed, and the beams of two flashlights were moving in the dark night, he asked Chen Badai.
"Haven't seen a bomb disposal expert?" Chen Badai gave Sherpa a blank look.
"Ahh Sherpa didn't know what to do with unexploded ordnance in a mine, but he knew it was a dangerous job.
Robert Li and Wang Xingguo ran to the "construction site" a hundred meters away, Wang Xingguo's calculation was quite accurate, the falling earthwork was covered on the boulder, and a slope could be formed as long as a little leveling work was done, but the explosive that did not explode was a huge threat, and if it was buried in the ground by the falling earthwork, it was almost impossible to find.
Robert Lee and Wang Xingguo searched the "construction site", hoping that the unexploded bomb had not been buried, otherwise it would be a mine that threatened at any time.
"Here!" After searching for more than ten minutes, Wang Xingguo finally found a small half of the explosives exposed under a stone, and the stone in his heart finally fell, as long as the explosives were found, then only need to dispose of it.
But there is still trouble, the explosive was pressed to the ground by the stone, perhaps because the fuse was blown off when the other explosives exploded, the bomb did not explode, but the fuse was partially blocked by the stone, when the stone fell down, it flattened the body of the explosive, at this time no one knew whether it would explode when it was shaken, and the stone weighing hundreds of kilograms could not be moved away by one or two people.
"I have a way." Wang Xingguo said.
"But I've run out of the last explosives." Robert Lee knew that the easiest thing to do was to detonate it with another explosive, but now he had no more explosives.
"But we can make our own." Wang Xingguo reminded.