mtl008 Chapter 263 Rescuing Qing Lingping Underwater
Chapter 263 Rescuing Qing Lingping Underwater
Without saying a word, Li Yonggang turned around and paddled to continue rescuing other trapped villagers.
At the same time, other team members paddled onto the ruins of the broken bridge, found survivors one after another, and successfully rescued them onto the assault boat.
Just as Li Yonggang led his team to rescue the last villager, a sudden accident occurred.
The broken bridge on the north side collapsed in an instant. The villagers who were standing on the broken bridge and desperately calling out the names of their relatives who fell into the water fell along with the rubble and were buried under the rubble and flowing water.
At this point, the commandos were exhausted, but they gritted their teeth and continued to do their best to rescue the fallen villagers.
From four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yonggang led his team to work continuously for a full thirteen hours, until the rescue operation was completed at five o'clock in the morning.
Five assault boats carrying thirty-nine personnel returned along the river.
In a short while, almost all the team members collapsed in exhaustion in the cabin of the assault boat and fell asleep next to each other.
Li Yonggang and several grassroots cadres were also extremely tired and sleepy, but they did not dare to sleep for fear of unexpected accidents.
Qing Lingping and five other medical staff, like the commandos, fought for a full thirteen hours.
They were all extremely tired and sleepy, and they all fell asleep next to each other in the cabin.
At this time, the sun had not yet risen and the vision on the river was blurry.
The commando responsible for driving the assault boat for the five medical staff was also exhausted.
His eyelids were drooping, but he held them together with strong willpower, preventing himself from falling asleep.
During this year's severe river flood, many ships sank in the Yangtze River.
Unfortunately, the assault boat carrying five medical staff collided with a sunken ship!
By the time the commando driving the assault boat discovered the mast of the sunken ship in front of him, he could no longer drive the assault boat to avoid the sunken ship.
boom!
The assault boat paddled past the side of the sunken ship and hit the side of the huge sunken ship.
The assault boat suddenly lost its balance and turned upside down in an instant!
Due to the huge inertia, Qing Lingping and five other medical staff, as well as the commandos driving the assault boat, were thrown out of the assault boat.
They all seemed to be dragged into the turbulent river by an invisible devil's hand.
Qing Lingping and the other five were still immersed in their sleep, completely unaware of what was happening.
It was not until the cold river water mercilessly submerged them that they opened their eyes in horror and realized that they were already in the dark river water.
The river water was chaotic and surging, as if it was going to swallow everything.
They were swept into the waves and couldn't breathe.
The special forces soldier had undergone rigorous and formal swimming training. He was not afraid of armed swimming in the sea, and the turbulent river water could not do anything to him.
No matter how hard the five medical staff struggled, their bodies were involuntarily swept away by the water, as if they had entered an endless whirlpool.
Suddenly, boundless despair and the fear of death followed them like a shadow, tightly enveloping them.
Especially the four women, they felt like powerless duckweed, being ruthlessly manipulated by the waves of fate.
At first, they were not far apart, but the amazing force of the undercurrent pushed them violently apart.
They were scattered, lost contact with each other, and were swept in different directions.
In the endless darkness, they didn't know how much river water had poured into their stomachs. Their hearts were filled with loneliness and helplessness, and they gradually lost consciousness.
The commando driving the assault boat paddled hard and finally reached the upside-down assault boat that was drifting with the current, climbed up the assault boat and jumped onto it.
He stood on the bottom of the rickety assault boat, waving his arms and shouting at the top of his lungs—
"Captain! My assault boat capsized! Everyone on the boat fell into the water, hurry up and save them!"
Li Yonggang was the first to hear it. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw the commando and the upside-down assault boat drifting in the dim light. He was startled: Five medical staff fell into the water?!
He didn't panic. He immediately picked up his handheld loudspeaker and ordered the commandos on the four assault boats that were operating normally: "Five medical personnel have fallen into the water! Start the rescue immediately!"
The commandos on the four assault boats woke up from their dreams, regained consciousness in an instant, and immediately jumped into the water to search for the five medical staff who fell into the water.
After Li Yonggang gave the order, he immediately took off his life jacket, jumped into the water and searched for the people who fell into the water.
The river was surging like an angry dragon, and the turbulent waves were hitting the hull mercilessly, making bursts of roars.
The commandos swam with difficulty in the surging river, their figures appearing and disappearing in the waves.
Li Yonggang was the first to be hit. He opened his eyes wide underwater, staring closely at the objects in the turbid river water, not missing any corner where someone might have fallen into the water.
He would occasionally surface to breathe and then dive back under the water.
Every time he dived underwater, he faced the huge risk of being swept away by the rapids, but he was not afraid at all. He had only one firm belief in his heart: he must find those five medical staff!
Time passes during the tense rescue, and every minute and second seems extremely precious.
The commandos were already exhausted, and fighting against the river water, their strength was gradually being depleted.
But none of them gave up easily.
They encouraged each other, gritted their teeth and persevered, continuing to search in the river.
Finally, in a turbulent whirlpool, Li Yonggang keenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow.
His heart tightened and he swam hard in that direction.
When I got closer, I saw that it was indeed a drowned medical worker.
Li Yonggang didn't know who it was, but he stretched out his arms without hesitation and hugged the other person tightly.
The other person's body was so soft that she felt like she had grabbed a life-saving straw. She immediately wrapped her arms around Li Yonggang's neck and never let go.
"She's still alive!"
Li Yonggang used all his strength to lift it out of the water.
At this time, the sun had risen from the east, illuminating the river surface, and Li Yonggang discovered that it was Li Fang.
At this time, Li Fang's eyes were closed and his face was pale. It was unknown how many souls were left in his body.
Seeing this, the rescue personnel on the assault boat floating downstream immediately operated the assault boat to come over and worked together to pull the drowning person Li Fang onto the assault boat.
At the same time, other team members rescued Feng Lifang and several doctors and sent them to the assault boat.
The only person missing was Qing Lingping, the head of the medical team!
Li Yonggang and his team members, exhausted, continued searching for Qing Lingping in the river.
They followed the river and kept diving underwater to search.
After searching for five or six miles downstream in the river, Qing Lingping was still not found.
A thought flashed through Li Yonggang's mind. Something wasn't right. After Qing Lingping fell into the water, she must have struggled desperately. She shouldn't have rushed out so far.