After arriving at the airport in the provincial capital of Sichuan, Li Qingshan specially arranged for a military vehicle to come and pick up Li Ying and them to the military region's station, where they were ready to wait to follow the next batch of troops stationed in the disaster area into Beichuan City.

When they were about to arrive at the military region's station, Li Ying and the others immediately felt a tense atmosphere: they saw that in the northwest direction of the highway, groups of military vehicles were like long dragons, circling and winding towards the city of northern Sichuan. Banners reading "Earthquake Relief" were hung in front of each vehicle, and rows of soldiers stood solemnly on military vehicles, many carrying or carrying search and rescue tools. In a military camp not far away, a large number of soldiers are rapidly gathering, and it is estimated that this is the next batch of rescue troops to set off. At the same time, at the nearby military airfield, from time to time, reconnaissance planes and military transport planes "rumbled" into the sky and flew over their heads......

After arriving at the military region headquarters, more than a dozen people rested for a while, and Li Ying walked into Li Qingshan's office alone and asked Li Qingshan to follow the next group of troops into northern Sichuan City.

Li Qingshan said to Li Ying: "You can't enter North Sichuan City yet. Now, we have 50,000 troops gathered on the outskirts of the disaster area and are rushing to repair the road leading to the city of northern Sichuan. In the next two days, we will gather more troops in the disaster area, and it is estimated that more than 100,000 troops will participate in the earthquake relief by then. However, at present, the city of northern Sichuan is still an isolated island, and there is no news from the inside, and the troops outside cannot enter. For this reason, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, we are prepared to send airborne troops into the urban area of northern Sichuan before 12 o'clock tomorrow at noon to find out the disaster situation there, understand the casualties, grasp the key disaster areas, and set up an information channel for internal and external contacts to provide basic information for our follow-up personnel, materials, and equipment to intervene in the disaster areas on a large scale. At the same time, they also have to contact the local government to organize self-help work. Therefore, you must wait for our airborne troops to enter the city of northern Sichuan to find out the situation inside, and at the same time, you must wait for our engineers to repair the road before you can enter it to carry out search and rescue work. ”

After Li Ying heard Li Qingshan's words, he was anxious: If you calculate it like this, their team will not be able to enter North Sichuan City until at least two days later. By that time, it was already the fourth day after the earthquake, and the golden time for rescue had already passed. In these two days, it is not known how many people will die due to the lack of timely rescue. Among them, it is likely to include Su Xiaodan and Gu Liming......

So, he asked Li Qingshan: "Uncle, I want to follow the parachute of the airborne troops into northern Sichuan City." If I went in an hour early, I would probably have saved a few or even a dozen more people who were dying. At the same time, I have to rush to Xiushui Town as soon as possible, find the place where Su Xiaodan and the others are staying, and see if she is still alive. ”

Li Qingshan was taken aback, looked at him with strange eyes, and said: "Xiaotian, what are you kidding? Do you know the risks of this parachute landing? First of all, the airborne landing site is in a plateau area, the terrain and climatic conditions are very complicated, and it is estimated that it can only parachute from a height of about 5,000 meters, which is very difficult; second, this is the first time since the establishment of our army's airborne troops that there is no ground command and guidance, no ground markings, and no ground markings. Third, the city itself belongs to the plateau area, with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and if it is airborne at 5,000 places above it, it is equivalent to an altitude of 8,000 meters above sea level, which is not much different from the altitude of Mount Everest. The average person will have a severe lack of oxygen on it. Moreover, at such a high altitude, it will freeze. Finally, the main thing is that you don't have any experience in skydiving, you don't even have the slightest basic knowledge of skydiving, and you can't afford to take this risk in such complex terrain and climatic conditions. ”

Li Ying remembered that Su Xiaodan might be under some ruins now, waiting for others to rescue her, and her heart felt a pang of colic—although she may have long since died, and she may have died the moment the earthquake occurred. However, he preferred to believe that she was alive. As long as she is alive, with her strong and unyielding character, she will never give up the desire to survive. And this is crucial for people who are in desperate situations. A person who is always hopeful and always full of the will to survive will often survive longer in the same predicament than those who are weak-willed and self-defeating......

Therefore, after hearing Li Qingshan's advice, he said resolutely: "Uncle, no matter what the situation is this time, no matter how much risk I will encounter, I will save Dandan and other people who need to be saved." I have considered the risks you mentioned, and for me, it should not be a big problem: I have practiced Xiaoyaogong, and there is no problem at all with high oxygen and cold, and my true qi is enough to ensure that I can cope with these difficulties; although I have not jumped the parachute, I have excellent psychological quality, and I will never panic in the air, as long as the instructor tells me how to pull the parachute line and successfully open the parachute, I can land safely, which you can rest assured. ”

At this time, Li Ying's father, Leng Jidao, heard that Li Ying had come to the military region, so he rushed over from Li Qingshan's house to meet his son. After asking about the basic situation, he learned that Xiaohuzi's mother was still uncertain about her life and death in the earthquake-stricken area, and she suddenly became anxious, and said to Li Qingshan: "Brother, don't stop laughing." It's rare for him to have this affection. Regardless of the final outcome of Xiaohuzi's mother, you let him do his duty. Besides, he has such good kung fu himself, no matter what else, self-protection should be no problem. ”

Li Qingshan heard Leng Jidao say the same, and it was difficult to stop him again, so he had to call a staff officer and ask him to send Li Ying to the airborne division overnight, and arrange for him to become the first batch of personnel to parachute into northern Sichuan City.

Li Ying returned to the place where the detachment lived and told them that he was going to follow the airborne troops into North Sichuan City first, let them wait for news here, and wait for the road to North Sichuan City to be cleared before entering with the large army. He will come to them then.

Before leaving, Li Ying took out 100 bottles of "Easy Dew" from the 2,000 bottles and put them in his backpack, ready to be used for first aid after parachuting.

The next day, more than thirty airborne troops began to wait at the airport at eight o'clock in the morning. However, the news from the front was that the visibility in the air was too low, and there was no gap in the clouds to see the ground, so it was not suitable to carry out parachute operations.

From time to time, Li Ying looked up at the dark and oppressive clouds in the sky, wishing that as he had said when he was a child, he just pointed his hand at those dark clouds, and silently said a few more times in his heart: "Go away, go away!" and then the clouds really dispersed - unfortunately, this was just a trick played by adults to tease children. Although he practiced Xiaoyaogong, he had nothing to do with the black and oppressive clouds.

Finally, at 11:40 a.m., there was finally good news ahead: in the sky above the city of northern Sichuan, a very narrow gap was revealed between the clouds that could overlook the ground. Although this gap is small, as long as the pilots are skilled and adopt the method of parachuting in batches, it should be possible to send a part of the airborne troops to parachute.

Therefore, these more than 30 airborne troops, together with Li Ying, under the leadership of the director of the Airborne Forces Research Institute named Zhang Bo, carried all the parachute equipment and communication equipment and ran to a large military transport plane that had already been parked in the airport and was ready to take off at any time. He was accompanied by reporters from two military district newspapers, who were running towards the plane while turning back from time to time to take pictures.

Zhang Bo, the commander of this parachute, knew that Li Ying was Commander Li's own nephew, so he took special care of him and instructed two experienced and physical paratroopers to take care of Li Ying. However, in the process of running towards the plane, the two paratroopers found that Li Ying's speed was much faster than them, and they immediately left them behind, and followed Zhang Bo to board the transport plane first.

Soon, with a deafening roar of motors, the transport plane glided and took off. Two minutes after takeoff, the plane rose to an altitude of almost five thousand meters.

In the cabin, the instructors began to check the parachute equipment and other tools of the fighters one by one. Zhang Bo seized this opportunity to give his final advice to the soldiers: "Comrades, through satellite cloud image observation, the gap in the clouds above our airborne landing point is very small. At the same time, because the ground at the airborne landing point where we landed is very uneven, with hillsides, stones, and a river nearby, we must pay attention to grasp the following landing points, pay attention to the ground conditions, and prevent accidents. In addition, we should be careful not to stretch the distance between each other too much, and regardless of our height difference, we must try to walk together without spreading out the formation. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

The fighters, who were undergoing equipment checks, shouted in unison.

At this time, due to the lack of oxygen in the cabin, many fighters began to feel chest tightness and dizziness, and their faces showed uncomfortable expressions. Only Li Ying was casual, without any uncomfortable reaction.

Soon, Zhang Bo received an order: "The plane can see the ground target and can carry out parachuting!"

After hearing Zhang Bo's instructions, a commander stood at the door of the cabin and began to mobilize before the war: "Comrades, the time has come for the party and the people to test us! The disaster situation is an order! The common people and the masses in the disaster area are looking forward to our rescue! After we jump down, we must do our utmost to find out the situation in the disaster area and give feedback to the leaders at higher levels, so that the leaders of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission can know the situation here, make decisions in a timely manner, and send emergency detachments over to rescue the masses in the disaster areas!" Do you have the confidence to win?"

"Yes!"

Although the soldiers were all very uncomfortable from the lack of oxygen and cold, this answer was all sonorous and powerful, and the deafening roar echoed in the cabin for a long time