"The hero returned to Meishan Xiu, still spring wind and grass and trees." This is a sentence in the Yuan Dynasty Tian Xi in "Crossing the Tomb of the Eastern Slope". This poem contains praise and admiration for the heroes.
People often say that "the times make heroes", many people are not born to be the one who saves the world, they are also ordinary people, but when they have to, they choose to sacrifice themselves.
"Where the years are quiet, but someone is carrying the weight for you." This sentence is exactly what those heroes are talking about.
In 1972, the news of the death of a PLA soldier spread throughout China, and for a while countless people felt sad in their hearts. After the soldier's sacrifice, even the body was not preserved, and the last thing left to the world was a smooth and cold "bridge pier".
This is the once sensational Nu River Bridge incident, which is closely related to the roaring Nu River...
The Nu River Bridge incident in 1972
When mentioning the Nu River, it may be more appropriate to use the term "Graben", which originates on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is one of the famous rivers in the southwest region. It has always been said that "ten miles are different days, and everything is in a mountain", which is enough to prove the grandeur of this river.
After the founding of New China, in order to strengthen the ties between Tibet and other regions, the first thing China wanted to solve was Tibet's traffic problem, and the most insurmountable solution to the traffic problem was the Nu River.
In 1950, Chen Mingyi, commander of the 18th Army of the Southwest Military Region, received an order from the central authorities to form a road construction unit, the main task of which was to conquer the construction of roads on the Sichuan-Tibet Line, including of course the Nu River.
In the process of building the road, Chen Mingyi faced a huge problem, and on this road, they truly experienced the sentence written by Li Bai in the poem" "Shu Dao is difficult, it is difficult to go to Qingtian". But this is only the external difficulties, they themselves face the cold and biting wind and the vertigo of altitude sickness.
In the process of road construction, any slight inattention of these two points will lead to their deaths, which is why the military was chosen to build the road in the first place.
In such a harsh environment, if it is not a person with tenacious willpower, it is difficult to persevere. However, our soldiers have always been brave in the face of difficulties and have never flinched, and this time is the same!
In the face of the high altitude and severe cold, they were like a group of fierce tigers, standing proudly in the roaring north wind, and finally completed most of the work in three years, and the entire road part was successfully repaired by them, but what awaited them was the more dangerous and hurried Nu River.
Repairing to the Nu river section, they stopped working because the undercurrent of the river made it impossible for them to start, and it was difficult to find a way to complete the work.
So the troops immediately held a meeting to study, and the plans appeared one after another, but they were all rejected one by one. The reason is that in the midst of this mighty current, it cannot be achieved.
For a moment, the whole team was worried about this matter.
Finally, under the collective wisdom of everyone, a one-size-fits-all strategy that can be accepted by the vast majority of people is adopted.
This method is simply to use an iron cable to connect the two banks of the Nu River, and the workers work through this iron cable.
As soon as the plan was finalized, the troops resumed work. Sure enough, the effect was remarkable. The difficult problems that plagued Chinese and foreign experts were thus solved by the soldiers of our country.
The smooth construction of the start also laid the groundwork for the Nu River Bridge incident that later caused a sensation in the country.
Through the efforts of the soldiers of the army, in 1972, the nu river bridge had completed the construction of the main body, and after these things were completed, only the last stage could be delivered.
This final stage is "cement irrigation".
After careful study, the troops chose to use cement tankers to water the piers.
The piers are high and strong, and in order to prevent the phenomenon of cement dry crack faults during watering, several vehicles are required to work continuously, and it is at this time that an accident that shocked the whole country occurred.
Earlier, the troops were worried that the newly built Nu River Bridge would be damaged by some people with ulterior motives, so they specially arranged officers and soldiers to guard it at that time.
In order to make way for the cement tanker trucks, the soldiers chose to stand guard at the edge of the bridge. It was this act that made the young soldier stay alive at this moment forever.
The most terrible thing about the plateau environment is the "high reaction" and the "severe cold", these two harsh conditions appear at the same time, and few people can get through it.
A soldier appeared high, his head was getting heavier and heavier, coupled with the cold, let his consciousness gradually blur, at that moment, the cold wind flew past his ears, he vaguely seemed to hear the cries of his comrades, perhaps he realized that he was constantly falling under the bridge.
Altitude sickness
But he was powerless, and his comrades stopped the cement irrigation in time, hoping to have a glimmer of life, but it was too late, he had fallen into the poured pier, and the tons of cement instantly drowned it.
At that time, the cement did not solidify, but the pressure between the cement made him unable to breathe quickly, coupled with the serious "high reaction", his body was already in a state of overload, he was confused, and he did not even know what he was about to usher in, until the comrades saw that he did not move, and his body was swallowed up by the cement little by little. A message appears in everyone's mind.
"He... Sacrificed!"
A young soldier accidentally fell into a poured cement pier during a mission, and his body will remain with the pier from now on.
A large number of armed police guards, in exchange for peace for the hero
The comrades watched as the soldier's body was submerged in concrete, and there was nothing they could do to rescue him except for helpless cries and cold tears.
The soldiers, once ordered, had only one thing to do, and that was to accomplish the task, and these officers and men knew what other tasks they had, even if the man below who had been irrigated with cement into the piers of the bridge was the brother they had talked and laughed with, but they could not be decadent.
If the problem of the bridge is not solved, more and more people will face danger, so in order to avoid such casualties, they choose to grit their teeth and continue to complete the task.
This time, they turned on the switch of the cement irrigation truck by hand and completed the watering before the cement below had completely solidified, avoiding faults after the cement dried. Because once there is a fault, then all the construction work of the Nu River Bridge will be in vain.
With the continuous efforts of these heroes, the Nu River Bridge was finally completed, and this war without smoke of gunfire was finally won.
The bridge was built, but the soldier remained on the bridge forever. Just as the so-called "draught water does not forget to dig wells", this kindness, everyone will remember. To this end, the locals deliberately built a monument to the hero.
There, the local people would go there with flowers every Qingming season to thank the little warrior who sacrificed himself to build the road...
Today, the bridge on the Nu River that connects the two sides of the river has been rebuilt, and this time it is stronger and wider than before, and even oversized trucks can walk across the bridge calmly.
The local economy has also changed dramatically because of the existence of the bridge, and the problem of children going to school has been solved, and there is no longer any need to cross mountains or cross the Nu River as before.
In this renovation, basically all the original piers were demolished, but only one stood there.
That pier is the place where the soldier died, people choose to keep it, so that future generations can remember there, now near the Nu River Bridge stationed a large number of armed police, they not only guard the peace of one side, but also ensure that the sacrificial hero can be a quiet place.
The local government has also introduced a relevant policy to prohibit photography on this bridge, in order not to disturb the sacrificial soldiers, this place has obviously become a military powerhouse, and because it has been managed by the army, the bridge has always been damaged.
But this still can't stop people's admiration and nostalgia for heroes.
When you walk across the Nu River Bridge, you will find that not far from the bridge, there are flowers and some fruit offerings, all of which are sent by passing tourists.
Even after all that time has passed, people still remember the soldier who died, and whenever you pass there, the proud pier is the best proof of this.
Everyone knows that it was the soldier who sacrificed himself, watching the increasingly powerful motherland getting better and better, and watching the future generations live happier and happier.
Driving across the bridge, car drivers involuntarily slow down, pedestrians slowly turn their heads, and they pay tribute to their ancestors with their own eyes.
Now people always like to use "carrying the weight forward" to describe these sacrificial heroes, in fact, they are not other people's children, other people's fathers, other people's husbands?
It's just that some responsibilities tell them that they can't back down, because behind them is their own little family, a country with more than a billion people, and if they are afraid, then no one will dare to come forward and continue to fight.
The soldier who fell into the cement would actually be afraid, but he still chose to continue the mission in the case of serious high reaction, because this is his mission, the mission of a soldier!
When the cold north wind blew through his face, how did he endure the piercing pain, and how did he overcome the strong feeling of suffocation under the severe high reflex?
All this is because he and his comrades know the importance of this bridge, as a bridge connecting the two sides of the Nu River, it represents a deeper strategic significance, although many people hope to be able to repair this bridge, but some foreign elements with ulterior motives are looking at this bridge.
Whether it is strategic or in life, the completion of this bridge will greatly affect the local development,
In addition to ensuring the safety of the bridge, it also allows the sacrificial soldiers to have a quiet environment.
In order to build the motherland, the predecessors did not hesitate to throw their heads and spill their blood, and the descendants used their youth to change a quiet and peaceful environment for them to sleep.
This is the most beautiful fairy tale, a fairy tale between men with iron bones.
Qingshan buried loyal bones everywhere, why should Ma Ge wrap the body back
Nowadays, when people praise this warrior buried in cement, they can't help but lament that the hero ended up with no bones, and even death did not fall to the roots.
In China, the return of fallen leaves to the roots is a very important thing, and the saying of death is how helpless every hero sometimes seems, but their identity is special, and they have to do it for future generations.
Countless heroes have sacrificed themselves in other countries because of war, or because they have helped build other countries, just like those heroes who built Pakistan's roads, their deeds are worth remembering for future generations.
In the recent fire of the film "Chosin Lake" about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, both children and the elderly rushed to the cinema to watch, and there is a very good line in it: "If we do not fight this battle, we will leave it to our descendants to fight, and for the happiness of future generations, we must fight." ”
The reality is this, if it were not for the volunteers who crossed the Yalu River to win that difficult war, how could there be a peaceful and prosperous world now, and the soldiers who built the bridge must also have such thoughts in their hearts.
The construction of the Nu River Bridge and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway is not a war without smoke of gunfire, for their enemies are no longer those enemy troops with guns, but the harsh environment of the fierce wind and fury.
If they do not overcome the difficulties and complete the repair of the Nu River Bridge, then this matter will be left to future generations, and future generations will have to suffer the hardships they have endured and experience the difficulties they have experienced, which is the simplest and noblest idea of the heroes.
This can't help but remind people of the soldiers of the Ice Sculpture Company who shocked the enemy in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, who faced the extremely cold weather, they held their positions, and waited until the snow covered their whole body with extraordinary courage.
Although they did not wait for the arrival of the enemy, they waited for the courage and integrity of Chinese, so that the enemy could see the integrity of chinese soldiers.
The Chinese nation is a dignified nation, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we did not have atomic bombs, in the case of foreign experts sneering, stunned that they themselves researched the mushroom cloud that bloomed in the sky.
This kind of quality is innate to the ancestors, because they know that some roads have come out on their own, and future generations will not have to suffer like them.
From ancient times to the present, this integrity exclusive to the Chinese nation has not been lost, and the five-thousand-year history of China has been passed down to the present, whether it is the story of resisting foreign enemies and warriors, or the ancestors who contributed to the construction of their hometown.
Their sacrifice is worth remembering, "Qingshan is buried everywhere loyal bones, why should Ma Ge wrap the body back." "Our descendants cannot let the bones of heroes be exiled to other places, but we will certainly let them return to their hometowns with honor and see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland today."