After the Wenchuan earthquake, the 15 airborne soldiers sacrificed their lives to jump blindly, how

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-01-31

On May 12, 2008, Wenchuan broke out in a huge **, just a few minutes, 40 kilometers away from Wenchuan Maoxian became an island, because the roads to the outside world were all destroyed, the trapped people reached as many as 100,000, if these people are not rescued, maybe there will be greater losses.

As the disaster continues, the land rescue team has no way to enter Maoxian, and the trapped people cannot get out, and their hearts are also terrified. Because only the airborne troops can bring food and other supplies into the trapped areas, the masses can relieve hunger and grief.

However, the geographical environment of Maoxian County is relatively special, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, coupled with the best reasons, which makes the situation in Maoxian more complicated, and it is still relatively difficult to rescue in such a dangerous environment, because of the first disaster, which has caused many landslides, coupled with roads, houses collapsed, even if it is sent to the airborne troops, the risk factor is still relatively high.

But no matter how dangerous it is, someone has to go on it, so who should carry out such a task?In the end, Li Zhenbo was asked to go, he was 48 years old at the time, although he was older, but his experience was relatively old, and he was very suitable for this task, so after Li Zhenbo received the task, he immediately led a team of airborne troops to Maoxian County to carry out the mission.

However, on the plane, Li Zhenbo was already formulating the airdrop plan for Maoxian, you must know that this airdrop is like opening a blind box, and it will be carried out without any guidance, which is undoubtedly a suicide, but even so, they must still jump, because this is where the duty lies.

But the safety of the soldiers, Li Zhenbo also needs to consider, after all, he can't let the innocent soldiers die before they enter Mao County, this is the last thing he wants to see. Although the task was complicated, the experienced Li Zhenbo still thought of a way, he changed the round parachute he usually used for skydiving into a powered parafoil, which would be safer, maneuverable, and less prone to problems.

However, this kind of parachute is not controlled by everyone, after all, the resistance in the air is relatively large, and the slightest carelessness may be blown away, and later Li Zhenbo also selected 22 people in the team who are better at controlling the parachute, let them perform the task, and also selected 7 reserve members.

In fact, everyone doesn't want to be a member of this reserve team, they all want to go into the disaster area to carry out rescue, so that the trapped people can be safer as soon as possible. However, Li Zhenbo has his own criteria when choosing a skydiver, and only those who meet the criteria can participate in this skydive.

Later, under Li Zhenbo's arrangement, the first wave of 14 parachute jumpers included Li Zhenbo, Li Zhenbo was 48 years old at that time, and it stands to reason that the 45-year-old Air Force could not carry out parachuting missions, but because Li Zhenbo has rich experience, only if he takes the parachute jump, the superior leaders can rest assured, so Li Zhenbo did not refuse, and he does have a lot of experience in this area, otherwise he would not have made a parachute plan so quickly.

These paratroopers wrote their suicide notes before they parachuted, and they knew that the task was extremely dangerous and that they could die if they were not careful, so they made their last words clear before that. In this way, after everyone was ready, the team jumped from a height of more than 4,000 meters.

At the moment of getting out of the cabin, everyone was worried about the 15 people, after all, parachuting in such a situation, it is really unknown, I don't know if it can be successful, but such a task must be carried out, fortunately, ten minutes later, the news of the safe landing of 15 team members came, which made everyone's hanging heart finally be able to put down.

After seeing the 15 team members, the local people are cheering for the savior, this is their hope, after seeing Mao County suffer such a big disaster, these 15 team members are particularly sad, but what they have to do now is to send the situation here out, and then transport the materials in, so that the people can be saved. Later, the people of Maoxian County were saved, and these 15 team members also returned to the team smoothly, and only 4 of them continued to serve in the army, 9 retired, and one retired.

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