At 17:10 on the 14th, the Guangdong Fire and Rescue Team, which was conducting search and rescue activities along the Jiang'an River in Dujiangyan City, received a "report" from residents.
Firefighters from Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhongshan and other places then rushed to the scene at 141 Guanjiang Road, life detector surveyed a PLA soldier trapped on the second floor of the collapsed house, part of his upper body was sand and gravel pressure, has been trapped for nearly 50 hours, but the physical condition is still in good condition. Firefighters opened a small hole on the second floor next door near his head, moistened his lips with a wet towel and asked medical personnel to give him an IV. Rescue team that the temporary not suitable for rescue, everything just wait for dawn to rescue.
15 8:00 rescue repeatedly blocked
15 8:00 a.m., dawn, Guangzhou special brigade captain Luo Zhiyong with a few firefighters began to act. Firefighters dug out some of the sand and gravel with their hands and found that the stranded PLA was more than two meters away from the kitchen, and could easily be covered by the falling sand and gravel if they dug in hastily. Shenzhen Fire Brigade's Lieutenant Wu came up with an idea, looking for a handle with more than two meters of the big hoe, reach in to the sand will slowly dig out and then save people. However, an hour later, when the homemade hoe almost dug to the side of the trapped PLA, there is a pile of very loose masonry, if you hastily continue to dig, it is very likely to cause a landslide.
At 10:30 a.m., the rescue team decided to change the rescue program, cut a piece from the roof of the house, and then use a crane to clean up the collapsed building piece by piece, and pull people out with ropes. This rescue program did not pass the "test", more than an hour later, although from the roof of the building can be seen trapped People's Liberation Army soldiers, however, a large beam across the top of it.
15 13:50 aftershocks again get people
13:20, people trapped for nearly 70 hours. In the second floor of the collapsed building kitchen, Shenzhen Fire Brigade Lieutenant Wu still did not "give up" the initial rescue program, with a large hoe constantly trying to dig out the rubble on the PLA, however, the sand and gravel is still from time to time down.
13:50, just when the firefighters have the PLA soldiers on the sand and gravel almost all dug out. Dujiangyan suddenly again aftershock, rescue scene of more than ten firefighters were forced to evacuate to the open ground to take refuge.
After the aftershock, firefighters went back up to the kitchen on the second floor only to find that the mud and sand brought by the aftershock had buried the PLA soldier again, but fortunately the firefighters had already protected the chest and head of the PLA soldier before, and he wasn't injured because of the aftershock. Rescuers immediately supplied him with oxygen to ensure his safety.
Warrior successfully rescued at 15:00 on the 15th
At 14:20, just as the firefighters succeeded in digging out the PLA warrior to the point where only one leg was left trapped, the commanding officer, Liang, director of the political department of the Guangdong Fire Brigade, received a directive from his superiors requesting that 400 officers and men from the Guangdong Fire Brigade rush to the Mianyang disaster area to take part in the anti-earthquake relief efforts immediately. Although the military order is difficult to disobey, but the director of Liang decided to leave a team of six people at the scene to continue to rescue, the other personnel immediately went to the front line of Mianyang disaster relief.
At 14:50, the six-member team finally used a small shovel in the kitchen of the collapsed building to remove the bricks around the PLA soldier one by one, and a smaller firefighter, crawling into the hole to slowly pull the PLA out.
At about 15:00, the PLA fighter who was trapped for three days and three nights was finally backed out of the rubble by firefighters and carried to the ambulance.
The crowd of onlookers at the scene cheered.
After the Wenchuan earthquake on January 12, Chen Hong, a third-ranking sergeant and party team leader of a tank repair brigade of the military region living in the worst-hit area of Hongbai Town of Shifang City, has been anxious, thinking of what his mother-in-law once told him, the geological conditions of Hongbai Town are poor, and the worst thing that can happen is to run into an earthquake and this kind of natural disaster. Chen Hong was so anxious that he repeatedly called home, but has not been able to contact.
Just as he was about to take leave to go home to visit the disaster, he learned that the battalion near the division of the ancient town elementary school more than 100 students were buried in the rubble of the collapsed school building, the brigade to select the commandos to go to the division of the ancient town elementary school to start the rescue.
"I'm a party member and a hygienist, the most needed person in the disaster relief, it's not appropriate to leave at this time!" Chen Hong thought. He put down the idea of taking a leave of absence and was the first to apply to the brigade to join the commando team and was approved.
Chen Hong and the brigade officers and soldiers with ambulances, cranes and other equipment quickly went to the division of the ancient town of elementary school, with hand planes, shovels with engineer pickaxes, cranes, stretchers to lift ...... after more than seven hours of effort, from the rubble of the collapsed school building rescued more than 60 seriously injured.
12:00 p.m., the brigade officers and men tired of a day of heavy steps back to the camp, comrades will soon fall asleep, but Chen Hong heart but can not rest assured. Thinking of his son at home just over 10 months, he could not sit still, found the brigade political commissar Tang Lin explained the situation, asked for leave overnight to go home to explore the situation. Tang political commissar would have liked to let him go home the next day, but looked at Chen Hong in front of him, agreed to his request.
It was pitch black in the disaster area after the earthquake, and Chen Hong, armed with a flashlight, hurried to his home more than 50 kilometers away. Along the way, he saw that some injured people were constantly being carried out from the disaster area, and he became more and more panic-stricken and couldn't help but run.
After more than four hours of trekking, Chen Hong finally arrived home. On the hand electric light, he was stunned by the tragedy in front of him: only to see the home of the original five-storey building all collapsed into a pile of rubble less than two meters.
"Wang Dan, Ziheng ......," he shouted the name of his lover Wang Dan and son Chen Ziheng, but no one has ever promised.
Neighbors told him that his family was buried in the rubble when the earthquake struck, and may have been killed. Thinking of his wife and son in the ruins, Chen Hong heart like a knife, he cried out the name of his loved ones, around the collapsed house I do not know how many circles, crouched in the rubble for a long time to listen to, hoping to hear even a trace of the cries for help, but nothing can be heard.......
Loved ones and his son is certainly already dead. Chen Hong thought to himself, during the day the troops will still have to go out for disaster relief, instead of grieving here, I would rather go back and save a few more wounded, so that I can also console the souls of my lover and son in heaven. He bowed to the ruins and set off on the road back to the army with a heavy step.
May 13, about 10:00 pm, Chen Hong rushed back to the troops in the rain, the situation at home to the leadership of the brigade reported. At this time, just in time, the troops are ready to set off to Shifang City Longju Center Elementary School disaster relief. Chen Hong didn't bother to take a break and applied for a second time to go to the front line of the disaster relief. The leader of the brigade asked him to take a rest in the camp, but he refused to do so and squeezed into the relief vehicle.
In the Longju Center Primary School, Chen Hong learned health knowledge plays a big role, in the heavy rain, he used the weak flashlight for the wounded bandage, artificial respiration, hanging liquid ...... busy sweating. Comrades repeatedly advised him to take a break and then dry, he said with tears in his eyes, "I can not save his wife and son, let me save a few more wounded, only then, the pain in my heart to alleviate some." After rescuing more than 30 wounded from the Longju Central Elementary School, Chen Hong and his comrades rushed to Waidi Middle School to start the rescue, until more than 10:00 p.m. before returning to the troops.
May 14, Chen Hong finally got through to his father-in-law, Wang Anxin, who works in Hongbai Town, and learned that, in addition to his lover and son, the earthquake was his cousin's house guests were also killed, in addition to his uncle, cousin, nephews also lost their precious lives in the earthquake. A series of bad news like a hammer on the head of Chen Hong, his tears could not stop flowing out .......
Around 7 p.m. on the 14th, the tank repair brigade received a distress call from President Wang of the People's Hospital of Shifang City, informing him that the earthquake had caused a power outage at the hospital, but a large number of seriously injured people who had just been transferred from the disaster area were in urgent need of surgery, and the hospital requested the troops to support lighting equipment and field tents.
Disaster is an order. The officers and soldiers who have just returned from the disaster area of Lushui Town are once again urgently combined. After listening to the brief mobilization of Tang political commissar, Chen Hong took the lead for the third time to apply to the hospital to participate in the disaster relief. He and his comrades quickly carrying a power generator and equipment field repair lights to the hospital emergency sped to the hospital, quickly set up more than 20 field tents and power generation equipment, to help the doctor will be more than 100 seriously injured transferred to the tent, Chen Hong and busy with the doctor, for the wounded infusion, bandage wounds, the doctor to see that he is very skillful, and the leadership of the brigade to discuss, will be integrated into the medical care group, to participate in the treatment of the wounded.
May 16th afternoon, when I rushed to Shifang City People's Hospital to find Chen Hong, he was in the tent for the 85-year-old Feng Dama bandaged wounds. Speaking of relatives killed at home, Chen Hong's eyes red, hands unconsciously clenched into fists. He took out his cell phone, turned out more than a month ago to his son and loved ones in the army lawn photo to the author to see, the photo of Chen Ziheng in his mother's arms smiling, meaty smile face fascinated into a seam. Looking at the photos of his lover and child, Chen Hong finally could not help it, tears flowed down the corners of his eyes ......
He said, "Whenever I think of my lost loved ones, especially my son, who is just over 10 months old, my heart is bleeding. I really want to personally dig out their remains, but I am a party member, a soldier, there are many people waiting for us to save, I can not be absent in this battle of disaster relief. I believe that they will support me to do so in heaven." He told the author.
While I was interviewing him, Chen Hong received a phone call from his younger brother Chen Wenjin, who was far away from Guizhou, saying that he had already bought a ticket and was ready to come to the unit to visit him. Chen Hong politely rejected his brother's good intentions, persuaded his brother not to come. He said to his brother: "There are still many people waiting for us to rescue, now the troops are in full swing to rescue the victims, there is no one to receive you. Tomorrow, our troops will be heading for a new disaster area, and we won't be able to see you even if you come." In order to reassure his brother, he asked the author to help him take a photo of himself with his cell phone and send it to his brother by MMS. When the author took the picture, Chen Hong deliberately straightened his hair and wiped his hands on his face a few times, trying to make a smile.
Hearing that we are here to publicize him, Chen Hong shook his head and refused, he said: "In this earthquake disaster, like me, the family suffered a lot of people, I am now doing this is any soldier should do." After saying that, he rushed to go with his comrades to help the ambulance just transferred to the new wounded went.
It is understood that from the May 12 earthquake to the present, Chen Hong and his comrades have been continuously in the front line of disaster relief fought for more than 90 hours, and successfully treated more than 1,000 wounded.
Our mission is to map out the situation along the way, rescue the sick and injured and open up landing sites for helicopters for subsequent rescues in the shortest possible time." Huang Changqing, the regimental commander who will lead the Red Battalion on the expedition, said.
The 50-kilometer road from Yingxiu to Caopo is known to the public as the "line of death". Landslides on both sides of the Minjiang River flooded the original National Highway 213. Until the evening of May 14, there are two Aba State Teachers College students from Wenchuan through the Cao Tang to Yingxiu. In order to explore this non-existent channel, there have been two soldiers and several people sleep on the rescue route.
"Even if there is no road, the People's Liberation Army has to step out of the way. When you go in, the tens of thousands of people along the way will have confidence and hope." Aba Prefecture Party Secretary Shui Jun said emotionally that after the earthquake, Shui Jun rushed to Yingxiu to sit in command, and did not sleep once in a few days.
The heavy responsibility, once again fell on the Iron Army. This from the Nanchang Uprising, Autumn Harvest Uprising all the way to the victory of the division, after more than 3,000 battles, participated in the strong crossing of the Dadu River, the Luding Bridge and surprise attack on the heavenly danger of the Lazikou and other famous battles, the 1997 reorganization of the People's Liberation Army's first light mechanized infantry divisions, has become a real "Division of Steel".
The Iron Army mobilization meeting, followed the troops on foot into the Yingxiu division commander Yang Jian said, "Iron Army can be from small to large, from weak to strong, can not be separated from the support of the people. Now that the people are in danger, the Iron Army must not shy away from hardship."
The heavy responsibility was once again given to the Red Battalion of the Autumn Harvest Uprising Regiment.At 4:41 a.m. on May 13, the Red Battalion set off from Sanmenxia in Henan Province and drove 1,300 kilometers by motorcycle, arriving in Pengzhou County after 27 hours. After resting for just one hour, the battalion rushed to Dujiangyan, from where they marched into Yingxiu town to take part in the rescue operation.
In the red battalion mobilization site, the reporter saw the officers and soldiers each loaded with more than 10 kilograms, is helping the soldiers to organize the red company instructor Zhang Xiongfei said, "Despite days of fatigue marching, but the soldiers are in a very high mood. Our slogan is 'Never abandon, never give up; never call it a day until we win the battle against the earthquake'."
Zhang Xiongfei, a delegate to the 17th Party Congress, said there were 20 party members among the 75 officers and men who participated in the battle in Red Company I. This is a heroic company with a glorious tradition, and at the time of the Three-Wan reorganization, Chairman Mao personally developed six party members in Red Company I, establishing the first party branch at the Red Army company level.
"Depart!" At 9:15 a.m., with Huang Changqing's order, the 300 warriors of the Red Battalion embarked on the journey to conquer the "line of death".
At 13:26, a strong aftershock lasted nearly ten seconds in the disaster area. The reporter obviously felt the earth shaking, saw some of the surrounding hillside stones continue to roll down. Due to poor communication, it is impossible to know the news of the Red Battalion.
A People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer, in order to save a reporter who was almost swept by the tail of a helicopter, the reporter was saved, while the officer, who traded his life for a life, could never come back.