Chapter 123: Frequent Accidents
This journey has been extremely difficult.
Because the car follows the direction of the mountain col, and the mountain col follows the direction of the mountain range.
The car went around and around in the mountains, and Li Aiguo quickly lost his sense of direction and could only sit where he wanted.
After five or six hours, the large truck finally stopped.
After getting out of the car, Li Aiguo realized that he had not reached his destination.
The steep and rugged mountain road ahead has a huge stone on both sides and a narrow passage in the middle.
Even the crawler liberation truck has no way to pass.
The rescue team and local comrades seemed to be well prepared.
The exploration and rescue excavation equipment is divided into two parts: the power part and the excavation part.
Then they found a steel pipe and carried it manually.
Li Aiguo gasped as he watched.
You must know that the exploration and rescue excavation equipment weighs ten tons.
Even if divided into two parts, each part weighs four or five meals.
When shared among everyone, the weight is at least three hundred kilograms.
Those rescue team members and local comrades carried a weight of three hundred kilograms and walked on the rugged mountain road without feeling any difficulty.
A few of them were smoking cigarettes and humming songs leisurely.
Compared with them, those muscular men in the gyms of later generations can only be regarded as show-offs.
Through the rugged mountain road, the front suddenly becomes clear.
The first thing I saw was the continuous field tents in the mountain col. They were large and small, like countless Mongolian tents. They did not look like a rescue base at all, but more like a field army station.
The comrades in the camp had been looking forward to it for a long time. When they saw the rescue team coming back, they immediately rushed to help.
The excavation equipment was transported to the base. After the rescue team rested for a while and ate some dry food, they immediately started the rescue mission.
The collapsed cave is in a mountain stream two or three kilometers away from the base.
Lao Mao returned to the base and after assigning tasks to the five-person team, he disappeared.
As a non-staff member of the investigation team, Li Aiguo, together with Yanzi, is responsible for monitoring the entire rescue process.
Of course, before setting off, he also received a May 4th-style pistol.
“Can you use it?” Yanzi asked curiously.
"Crash"
Li Aiguo unloaded the bullet, pulled the slide, reloaded the bullet, loaded the chamber, turned off the safety and stuck it in the holster on his waist. .
“We are sharpshooters!”
"Bragging, if there is a chance, let's try it out."
Yanzi put the pistol on his waist, lifted up the cover of his clothes and put it on, and stepped out of the tent, his twin ponytails turned pale gold in the sun, Quite a bit heroic.
When he came to the mountain stream, Li Aiguo discovered that it was a large structural cave, which was like a crack and was thirty meters wide.
A concealing canvas was placed at the entrance of the hole, but at this time the canvas had been torn apart and piled on the ground in a mess.
The location of the collapse was more than ten meters away from the entrance of the cave.
The rescue team members were busy arranging equipment. Li Aiguo walked through the chaotic crowd and came to the collapse location.
It happens to be a narrow area, like a human throat.
The entire cave entrance has been blocked by large and small stones.
Looking up and down for a moment, he frowned.
It stands to reason that collapse will rarely occur in this kind of place because the force on the top rock is relatively small.
No wonder Lao Mao thinks there is something fishy about this collapse.
Li Aiguo frowned and walked around the rocks. Because his throat was blocked by the rocks, he couldn't see anything, so he could only go back outside.
The exploration and rescue excavation equipment has been assembled, and the rescue team is undergoing final debugging.
Li Aiguo observed for a moment and burst into laughter. In fact, the so-called exploration and rescue excavation equipment is a large drill bit installed horizontally on the power equipment.
There is no way to compare it with the shield machines of later generations.
“Report, test completed!”
After receiving the report from the rescue team, Commander Zhang issued the order without hesitation. "Operation, rescue our comrades."
"Boom, boom, boom"
The exploration and rescue excavation equipment roared, and the drill bit rotated rapidly, aiming at the collapsed Rock ran.
The moment the drill bit touched the rock, there was a harsh sound in the cave and bursts of smoke rose.
This kind of smoke is called wolfsbane smoke by the railway soldiers who dig tunnels. It is full of poisonous gas. Within half a minute of inhaling it, a person will fall into coma.
The rescue team members took out gas masks from their backpacks and put them on their heads.
Li Aiguo didn't even know they had this kind of equipment, and was about to retreat when faced with the wolfsbane smoke coming from the shop.
“Go on.”
Yanzi got a gas mask from somewhere and threw it to him.
At this time, the air was already a little choking. Li Aiguo took the gas mask and quickly put it on his head, and his breathing became smoother.
The excavation speed of the exploration and rescue excavation equipment is very fast.
It only took half an hour to dig a distance of three to four meters.
Seeing that the collapse area had not been penetrated yet, Commander Zhang’s brows knitted into knots.
Because the exploration and rescue excavation equipment is specially designed to deal with short-distance collapses. Once the collapse distance is too long, it is easy to cause problems during excavation.
“Back up, back up quickly!”
Mr. Zhang Before the commander could finish his thoughts, he saw Li Aiguo jumping down from the rock and running towards the tunnel boring machine operator.
The operator was concentrating on operating the tunnel boring machine and did not notice the surrounding situation at all.
The signalman closest to the operator saw Li Aiguo. He subconsciously opened his arms and tried to stop Li Aiguo.
Although Commander-in-Chief Zhang didn’t know what happened, he also knew that Li Aiguo was so anxious that something big was going to happen.
"Zhang Lanshan, get out of the way!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs. Unfortunately, his voice was instantly drowned in the roar of the drill bit cutting into the rock.
Something is going to happen! Something is going to happen!
Commander Zhang instinctively ran towards the tunnel boring machine and stopped after just two steps.
Because he saw Li Aiguo reaching out and pulling away the signalman's arm, quickly rushed to the tunnel boring machine, and kicked the operator away.
He jumped on the tunnel boring machine and pulled the control lever. The drill bit of the tunnel boring machine stopped rotating and the tunnel boring machine retreated rapidly.
Li Aiguo's actions were completed in one go, taking place in a flash of lightning.
The surrounding rescue team members noticed that the tunnel boring machine had retreated five meters away.
“What are you doing!”
The rescue team member who was working drew out his gun and pointed the black muzzle at Li Aiguo.
What surprised them was that Li Aiguo was not afraid, let alone defensive. He just looked at the cave just excavated indifferently.
The rescue team members followed Li Aiguo's gaze and saw that the cave was filled with smoke and dust, making it difficult to see clearly.
"You'd better give us a clear explanation, otherwise"
The cold voice has not yet fallen.
A trivial sound came from the cave, which was the sound of fine rocks sliding down.
The rescue team leader closed his mouth, as if he remembered something, and his face turned pale.
Now all the rescue team members have noticed something is wrong, with ugly expressions and their eyes fixed on the cave.
The trivial sounds are getting louder and louder.
With a final "boom", the top and surrounding rocks collapsed.
The rocks just excavated were completely buried.
The rocks fell to the ground, and thick smoke rushed out from the cave, but the rescue team members did not retreat.
The scene was silent, and everyone was frozen in place.
Commander Zhang felt a sense of fear.
If Li Aiguo had been just a little bit later, this valuable exploration and rescue excavation equipment would have been buried under the rocks.
Also buried were the lives of more than a dozen people below.
(End of this chapter)