Chapter 51: The Boulder Falls Off
Chapter 51: The Boulder Falls Off
Liu Yang and his side are busy like a raging fire, and the drainage work on the east side has also intensified. Just when Liu Yang and the others excavated the roadway to more than 50 meters, two large water pumps started to operate there.
The water in the alleyway was slowly falling, but whether it was the seventeen people on Lin Xiaobing's side or the hundred or ten people on Wang Zengtian's side, they had all reached the limit of their lives.
Five days have passed since midnight on the 23rd.
It takes only three days for a person to be in danger of life without eating or drinking. And now, five full days have passed, 120 hours, is there anyone alive inside?
Those strong young men who followed behind could almost fall asleep leaning against the wall now, their faces smeared in black and gray, and pairs of deep-set eye sockets, all silently told that they were exhausted limit.
There are still twenty meters...
Qiu Huiquan pointed to the blueprint and said to Liu Yang: "Through the investigation just now, this passage can be opened up to 20 meters away..."
This old man has always been regarded as a national treasure giant panda. When people like Liu Yang are working, they don't let him get involved at all. When others work, he rests. He is only invited to come forward when encountering technical problems. It stands to reason that he should be the most energetic of the fifty or so commandos below, but now Liu Yang looked at him with a somewhat sluggish expression. The words of complaint rushed to the edge of his mouth and swallowed back.
Grandma, didn't you say that it was only 60 meters when you rowed and pulled for me? Why is there still 20 meters left after digging more than 50 meters?
Come on old guy, your increase of ten meters by ten meters will kill people.
If this is on flat ground, let alone the distance of 1 meter, even if it is a steel mountain of 20 meters, I will not take it seriously, but this is nearly 700 meters underground, and every meter you advance requires Paying the price of blood and sweat, this is no joke.
Looking at the blueprint in Qiu Huiquan's hand, Liu Yang asked him: "I was thinking, is it possible to drill a small hole in the roadway in front of me, even though people can't crawl out, it would be good to find a way to send air in, if we can It would be better to send water and food through pipes, which would buy more time for rescue.”
Qiu Huiquan shook his head, and said solemnly: "This idea is good, but it is almost impossible. If you drill the hole according to your idea, you will need to use a large drilling machine, but you also know..."
Qiu Huiquan stopped talking at this point, and Liu Yang looked at the dark cave in front of him, and couldn't help showing a wry smile. Because the roadway was opened by tying, the road they excavated has become trumpet-shaped.
At the beginning, the passage could still be kept at two meters wide and 1.76 meters high. But the further you go inside, the width and height become smaller and smaller, and now there is only a little over one meter in height, and the width is less than half a meter.
In such an environment, it is just enough for people to drill in it, and it is impossible to change to a larger electric drill.
"I think that if we reduce the amount of medicine and narrow the hole a bit, we can speed up the progress... However, in that case, the strength will increase for those who transport the cinders. Now the big guys use The shoulders were worn out by carrying coal in the bag, but the general headquarters said there was no replacement for us, I'm afraid those boys won't be able to hold on..." Qiu Huiquan glanced behind him, and behind him, those black-and-white Some of the lads were already snoring against the walls.
"This is a problem, but since there is a ray of hope, we still have to try our best. Those people who are trapped inside are all our brothers." Liu Yang glanced at the rescue team behind him. , said in a low voice.
Qiu Huiquan reached out and patted Liu Yang's shoulder, and said affectionately: "Brother, as the head of a county, you are a man of action, and you didn't come down to show off. I can see all of this. If you didn't rush to the front , Our laneway simply cannot be dug so fast, now, you still need to stand up and speak out."
"Hey, Mr. Qiu, don't praise me. I'm just doing things with my conscience." Liu Yang said, pulling himself together and standing up, rubbing his temples vigorously with his hands full of scum in the depths , Shouting loudly: "Everyone wake up..."
The distorted sound of "crackling" and "squeaking" from the pillars could not be heard in both ears, and from time to time there were "bang tom...dang" small coals and gravels smashing on the top of the head. The sound on the ceiling. All the people collected and planted in front of Liu Yang, and the expressions on the faces of all the rescue team members became very solemn.
This is a test of blood and fire, a contest between fear and professional ethics. The power of role models is infinite. It is precisely because Liu Yang rushed to the front that none of these rescuers became deserters.
However, these people are not stupefied young people like Liu Yang. They are already recognized as being selected to participate in this rescue activity. They are all top-notch in this industry and the backbone of their business proficiency.
They understood very well that this was the first time they had been digging a tunnel like this. Every step forward requires the test of blood and fire, and a hundredfold courage.
"Comrades, I don't hide from everyone. Just now our chief engineer Qiu told me that after his detailed calculations, there is still a distance of 20 meters ahead, and we can open up this passage of life. Inside, one hundred and three More than a dozen lives are waiting for us to rescue. Going forward, there is danger, but there is also the hope of rescuing those workers. Going backward, the safety of us can be guaranteed, but those more than 100 lives will be lost forever. They were buried underground in the darkness of more than 700 meters deep. Think about the worried and desperate eyes of their wives, children, and children outside the mine gate. Comrades, it is heartbreaking. What do you think we should do?" Liu Yang also imitated Qiu Huiquan began to mobilize before the battle. He knew that if he didn't mobilize the enthusiasm of the rescue team and erase the fear in their hearts, there would be no way to win this battle.
"Magistrate Liu, just give the order, we will definitely complete the task." Although these voices were deep and hoarse, they spoke with firmness.
Finally got a response from the team members, and Liu Yang felt relieved.
Turning his head, he said to Qiu Huiquan: "Chief Qiu, I will leave the professional matters to you. We will do whatever you say. I will be with everyone. As long as there is one person who does not go up here, I will not go up." will leave. Just give your order!"
Qiu Huiquan was also agitated, and shouted loudly in his old voice: "Major Liu, don't worry, if you don't get the people inside out, I'm not raised by my parents. I said, I'm so trapped inside. They are all the same people who went down the mine like us. The county magistrate Liu could have sat in the office and drank big tea. Why is he standing here in spite of the danger? Isn’t it for us miners who work hard? The four of us together Groups, each group takes turns working for half an hour, resting and resting electric drills, drill bits, water pipes, detonators, and explosives are all ready, let’s do it now..."
As he said that, Qiu Huiquan began to roll call and group, and was the first to pick up the electric drill.
The vibration of the electric drill made the lumps of coal on the top of the head fall more densely, and some of them hit the hard hat Qiu Huiquan was wearing with a thud, but Qiu Huiquan remained motionless, still holding the handle of the electric drill tightly.
At the beginning, the drilling and shooting went smoothly, but when the excavation was more than three meters ahead, new problems appeared on Liu Yang's side. When a young man held an electric drill and drilled at a point for five minutes, the drill bit couldn't get in no matter what.
Tried another location...it's still the same. Qiu Huiquan took a pickaxe and planed out a row of sparks on the dark wall. This phenomenon told everyone that there was a hard rock ahead.
No wonder every time the electric drill was turned on, the hands of the rescue team member holding the electric drill were numb from the shock, but the drill rod did not advance any further.
How to do? Just stopping like this is really frustrating. But everyone knows in their hearts that drilling on rocks is more than a hundred times more difficult than drilling on coal seams.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and no one could speak for a while. Liu Yang, who just went down to take a rest, got the news and rushed over from behind again, and said loudly: "Change the drill bit, let me try..."
Liu Yang reached out to take over the drilling rig, and held the handles on both sides tightly with both hands. After pressing the power switch, a huge rebound force was transmitted along the drill pipe. Liu Yang stepped forward and pushed forward with both hands. electric drill.
One minute...ten minutes...the electric drill finally moved forward a little bit. Half an hour...an hour... Liu Yang drilled with the electric drill for a full hour and a half in this position, except that he took out all the drill pipes and changed the drill bit in the middle.
Finally, feeling the loosening of the front end, the electric drill no longer suppressed its neighing, as if it had been relieved, it began to beep cheerfully again.
"Magistrate Liu, take a break, I'll drill." How much effort does it take to drill through such a hard rock?
Qiu Huiquan knew it well, and so did the other rescue team members. At this moment, the eyes of the rescue team members looking at Liu Yang have changed. Could it be that this person really can't be beaten by cast iron?
There were two rescuers standing behind Liu Yang, waiting for Liu Yang to get out of the way, and they would immediately fill in to take over. However, none of them felt that because Liu Yang had drilled a hole for a while, just above their heads, a piece of rock that had already been loose finally couldn't bear the gravity of the earth's center and fell down.
"Go away..." With Liu Yang's yell, the rock cracked open with a loud crash. The big black rock fell down on the three people standing below.
When ordinary people encounter danger, their first reaction is often to be motionless and in a daze. It is precisely because of this instinctive reaction, that is, the stupidity of a few tenths of a second, that it will kill people...
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