Chapter 32: The Road to Rescue
In the depths of the leylines of the Qilian Mountains, the three gods still continued to exert their strength, forcibly suppressing the irascible magma and stabilizing the leyline layer.
Yan Tianlin and all his recruits got on the green military trucks and were running at a speed of 120 per hour on the highway.
The night shines on the road light, and a thousand roads are difficult to travel.
At this moment, hundreds of military trucks lined up in a long line and advanced at high speed on the highway, heading straight to the destination - the earthquake-stricken area - Lu County, Beichuan City.
In the car, Wang Meng's squad leader briefly talked about the basic situation of the earthquake in Lu County, because of this earthquake, the incident happened suddenly, the situation was urgent, there was no warning sign at all, and no one knew the specific situation.
Obviously, none of the recruits knew what was going on in front of them, and no one knew what would happen to them, only that there was a big earthquake in Lu County, and maybe this night would be a night they would never forget.
Obviously, many of the recruits in the car began to get nervous and scared.
At this moment, Gu Li tugged at the corner of Yan Tianlin's clothes and asked softly, "I'm a little nervous now... Tianlin, are you afraid?"
Yan Tianlin replied in a whisper: "I'm afraid, when the disaster comes, everyone is afraid, and I don't know if the disaster area is serious?"
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At this time, Wang Meng's squad leader shouted:
"Yan Tianlin, Gu Li, what are you muttering? Be quiet and serious. ”
The two immediately didn't dare to make a sound.
All the rescue officers and soldiers were nervous, excited, and urgent, thinking about the disaster situation in the disaster area of Lu County ahead.
It was already past four o'clock in the morning.
The military truck drove on the highway for more than an hour, getting closer and closer to Lu County.
Suddenly, all the cars that were moving stopped and it seemed that the road ahead had encountered an obstacle and had to stop.
There was a noise everywhere outside the car, and the recruits began to get nervous.
At this time, a middle-aged officer outside with a loudspeaker shouted at all the military trucks:
"Listen, everyone, because the road in front has been damaged by the earthquake, the vehicle can not move forward, all the officers and soldiers, all get out of the car, run lightly to the disaster area, here is 18 kilometers away from Lu County, hurry up and get off quickly. ”
At this moment, the officers and soldiers got out of the car one after another, each carrying his own backpack, lined up in front of the truck, waiting for orders.
It was surrounded by mountains, pitch black, more than four o'clock in the morning, it was still in the hazy night, and it was impossible to see the surrounding scenery clearly, and it would be dawn in another hour and a half.
on the highway.
At this time, there are car lights everywhere, and the roar of various cars, as well as the sound of construction machinery working, and the sound of helicopters constantly hovering back and forth in the sky.
Obviously, the road ahead, due to the earthquake landslide, huge earthwork, several kilometers of highway buried under the soil, it seems that the construction machinery operation will not be cleaned up for a while and a half, and can only open up a green pedestrian channel.
At this time, the middle-aged prefect continued to shout loudly with a loudspeaker:
"Quick... Fast... Take the squad as a unit, each squad leader manages his own people, pays attention to safety, takes a flashlight, carries a military bag and shovel, and walks lightly, there may be aftershocks from time to time, so everyone must be very careful, follow the large army, and do not leave the team without authorization. ”
In this way, a class followed a class, lined up in a long line, each with a flashlight in his hand, constantly shaking forward, like the light of the dragon in the sea of stars around the mountain, marching towards Lu County.
At this moment, Gu Li, who was nervous and curious, asked Yan Tianlin as he walked, and said in a whisper:
I heard that Lu County is now an abandoned city, and there will be aftershocks from time to time, which is dangerous and terrifying, I don't know if we are going to Lu County, or rescue in the surrounding villages, hoping to stay away from the epicenter. ”
Yan Tianlin replied: "There is no order yet, I don't know where we are going, in short, we are going to rescue, no matter where we go, we must do our best to save more lives......"
Guli asked again, "Why is there an earthquake?"
Gu Li's question made it difficult for Yan Tianlin to answer him, and said:
"It's so hard for me to answer your question, why do you say it's raining?"
"I don't know. ”
Yan Tianlin replied: "That's it, the same reason. ”
At this moment, squad leader Wang Meng seemed to hear someone whispering in front of the team, so he shouted:
"Everyone, be serious, don't speak, be quiet, concentrate on your journey, watch out for the dirt under your feet, and be careful of falling. ”
Yan Tianlin and Gu Li immediately shut up, concentrated, and followed the large army.
In the sky, helicopters constantly hovered back and forth in the air, making a roaring sound, transporting the vanguard troops and supplies to the disaster area.
Due to the traffic road leading to Lu County, some sections of the road landslide, the ground is broken, the rescue soldiers can only walk, while opening the road, to determine the safety of the premise, and then continue to move forward, all the way forward with difficulty.
Under such difficult and dangerous circumstances, thousands of soldiers continued to advance in the dark night with flashlights in their hands, walking for more than an hour and a half.
At this time, it was past five o'clock in the morning, the sky was beginning to brighten, and the surrounding things began to blur into view.
As the sky gets brighter and brighter, landslides, boulder wreckage, broken trees and branches can be seen everywhere on the road.
After running for more than two hours in the middle of the night, without rest or eating, everyone was in the same mood as heavy, nervous and urgent, hoping to reach the scene of the earthquake-stricken area as soon as possible.
Not far away, a small village came into view of Yan Tianlin's eyes.
But there is no village to be seen, all the houses, all the houses have collapsed, the earth is cracked, there are ruins everywhere, there are wreckage everywhere, there is a mess.
And a big mountain in the south of the village, a huge landslide crater, sitting on a hundred feet, bright red soil, into the eye, dazzling, full of 20 football fields as big, you can imagine how big the destructive power of the landslide was at that time.
At the foot of the mountain, there are no fields, houses, or trees in sight, and everything is buried in the reddish dust.
The soldiers all looked at the huge crater not far away, looking at it with fear and fear, a huge mountain, now only half a mountain remains, the power of nature is terrifying, you can imagine.
Hundreds of houses in the small village were reduced to rubble overnight, houses were destroyed and trees fell, and many were buried in the rubble.
The earthquake instantly turned heaven into hell, tall buildings into ruins, and smiles turned into grief.
Not far away, more than a dozen middle-aged men covered in mud, with no tools or machinery, kept digging on the crippled ruins, thinking of their relatives buried under the rubble, but they couldn't do anything.
On the spacious ground, there were several cold corpses, motionless and covered in blood.
An old grandmother, in her eighties, covered in blood, was hugging a young man who was unconscious, hugging her head and tearing her heart and crying bitterly, old tears flowing, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person.
There was a little boy squatting on the side of the road, his face was covered with mud, his whole body was muddy, he was crying all the time, his left hand seemed to be injured, it was bloodstained, the blood was flowing, the ground was stained red, and at the same time, it was also stained red by every rescue soldier who passed here.
The middle-aged woman on the side was covered in mud, as if she had just crawled out of the rubble, her palms were worn out, her fingers were bleeding, the blood was blurred, her expression was frightened and desperate, and she hurriedly tore off the cloth of her clothes and bandaged the little boy's wounds.
At this time, in the small village, rescue soldiers began to try their best to save lives, and Yan Tianlin and them continued to run.
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Looking at the tragic situation after the earthquake, the rescue soldiers were grieving and heartbroken as if they had been stabbed by countless sharp knives.
While running, he kept waving tears from his eyes with his hands, maybe no one wants to see such a scene, such a purgatory on earth.
The tragic scenes came into view, Yan Tianlin couldn't hold back his tears, his left hand kept waving away tears, and his right hand held the flashlight.
Coulee also kept waving tears.
And Liu Ji couldn't cry at this time.
Xiao Minghai, who has always been calm, is also moist at the moment.
What brings tears to the eyes of all rescue soldiers?
And what made them wipe away their tears and move forward?
Obviously, after running for more than an hour, the rescue soldiers did not feel a trace of tiredness, and the invisible force drove them to speed up their progress.
At the fork in the road, a soldier in military uniform first saluted, and then made a standard move to point to the road leading to Lu County as a large force.
Because Lu County is mostly mountainous, this earthquake landslide and mudslide blocked all traffic, many vehicles could not reach and enter, and all rescue workers could only be transported by foot or airplane.
At this moment, squad leader Wang Meng received an order from his superiors, and all the recruits and recruits went to Luoxi Town, Lu County, to rescue.