Chapter 7 6. Grouping

At that time, there were a total of 23 people belonging to the exploration team. Four teams formed a total of four teams. equipment. In the organizational system at that time, the number of a class was variable. Here we need to make a distinction. In fact, the exploration team is a special technical unit and belongs to the geological exploration engineering brigade, while the engineering unit belongs to the army unit and is managed by two systems.Relatively speaking, we are naturally much more comfortable than engineers. We usually don’t have many rules and regulations in the army, and we all have military ranks.

The technical arms were still established in the regular army back then, and we also received strict training when we joined the army.However, despite this, it is impossible to maintain that kind of physique after working intensively for the past few years. It is still necessary to have engineers by his side.Especially for cave exploration, the weight of the rope is very heavy, and when encountering underground cliffs or geological fissures, it consumes a lot of energy. A few more people with ropes can allow us to go further in the early stage. In addition, they obviously brought some things they arranged themselves. The recruits who are often trained can march for more than 30 kilometers with a weight of 20 kilograms. Although I don't know what they are carrying, it is relatively relaxed to see their expressions.

At that time, I was thinking about what the old cat said, and I wanted to mix in with the people in the reserve team, so I would sit and see the situation first.The bad thing is that when we lined up in groups, they were grouped according to age. I was considered the youngest in the group and was assigned to the second group. In the same group as me were Wang Sichuan and two people from Shaanxi, one named Pei Qing, One named Chen Luohu. I am no stranger to these two people. We were already comrades-in-arms during the Karamay Petroleum Conference. After that, we often met in places, but we were not in the same unit. We usually came to meet them, and we didn’t remember each other when we met.This time, there was finally an in-depth exchange.

Pei Qing is a young man with a fair face and looks very young, but his hair is grey, and he looks bitter and bitter.He is a bit proud. It is said that he has a high degree of education and is the technical backbone of the unit. He usually speaks very little, and it is said that he is also a provocateur. Chen Luohu is just the opposite of him. He is a grassroots person who does not speak Mandarin well. Sometimes we tell jokes, and he listens to whatever he listens to.Very interesting.It's a pity that this person is a bit cunning, and he can be seen to be very careful. He is the kind of villain in the organization, and we don't like him very much.

As for the engineering soldiers, we were joined by five people from the fourth squad of the Sixth Company of the Inner Mongolia Engineering Corps at that time. The deputy squad leader seemed to be called Anti-Americanism. They saluted each other and recognized their faces. In terms of weapons, the deputy squad leader was wearing a Type 56, and the other four were wearing a Type 54 submachine gun with enough bullets.Wang Sichuan told them that it was too exaggerated. There may be wild animals in the caves in the south. Here, there are at most bats.The temperature in the cave here is too low, cold-blooded animals cannot stay firmly, and it is impossible for bears and the like to climb into such a deep cave. The only thing to worry about is warmth and oxygen, but in these aspects, the engineers seem to be indifferent focus on.

Of course, these soldiers couldn't listen to us. We all refused to carry guns, but just put on armed belts.The equipment is classified into each person's body. I brought tools such as geological shovels and geological hammers. I feel lucky. These things can be used for self-defense without being too heavy.Wang Chuanchuan carried a few pieces of tableware on his back, clinking, and he had great opinions on the organization. After getting ready, we were hoisted down from the hole one by one by the tractor.I still have fresh memories of that experience. It took a lot of time to hang down more than 200 meters, little by little, just like swinging on a swing. It really killed me.I'd rather swing down by myself with a rope than hang like this.To be honest, climbing cliffs is a common thing for me. More than 200 meters is really not that deep. Climbing cliffs in Shandong is much more difficult than here.

Because the entire speaker hole is tortuous, there was still sunlight at the beginning, and it began to turn dark when it went down to 30 meters, the direction of the hole changed, and it entered a state of darkness after only five or six meters down. There are lights coming up from below. I took a cursory look at the rock wall along the way, and it was obvious that the Cambrian Ordovician limestone, obviously this cave is a composite cave, which must have the characteristics of both karst caves and structural caves. Soon I went down to a position where I could see the scene below. The bottom of the hole was the size of a standard playground, and the bottom was full of water, which was flowing slowly.This is indeed an underground river, but it is so common in karst caves that I am not surprised at all.

I also saw a lot of temporary iron shelves underneath. I don't know if they were left by the Japanese or we erected them ourselves.A few large gas lamps and the things transported earlier were all piled up on the shelf, and the engineers were taking out the things inside, and they were all folded rafts one by one.A few have been inflated and floated on the water. The water didn't seem to be deep, and many people were standing in the water wearing rubber shoes. Wang Sichuan went down before me, even lit a cigarette, and stood on the side using a flashlight to shine on the inner wall of the cave.

I went down to the iron shelf at the bottom, out of professional habits, my attention was immediately attracted by the situation in this hole, I turned on the flashlight, and looked at the surrounding rock walls with others. When I first joined the work a few years ago, I felt that caves have a very special charm, especially the unknown mystery, which always makes me feel that I have come to a place that does not belong to the world.Our prospectors often compare caves to the blood vessels of mountains. When walking through them, sometimes you can clearly feel a strange breath, and you will naturally realize that the mountains are alive.

But now I look at it just like a gynecologist looks at gynecological diseases, I only look at what I should look at. I have encountered such a cave in Shanxi before. Many places call this kind of hole a tiankeng. It is said that it is a hole made by God. Most of them are extremely deep. However, this hole is different from ordinary tiankengs. It's much more complicated. Tectonic karst complex cave is a complex cave formed by the simultaneous action of geological structure and water erosion. It has not only the terrain trend of thousands of ravines and strange rocks, but also an extremely complex cave system.To put it simply, the general trend of water-soluble caves is relatively stable. If you take a leather raft all the way down the underground river, there will be no major problems, but geological structural caves are likely to have very outrageous faults, which may drift along the current. At a certain place, suddenly there is an underground waterfall with a drop of 100 meters, and there is no chance of survival.We generally avoid in-depth exploration of this kind of cave.

But this time there is definitely no way to escape. I turned my head and wanted to remind the engineer that it is best to tie stones to the ditch anchor to increase the weight.But when I looked back, I found that Chen Luohu was already doing these things. I jumped into the water, the water didn’t reach my knees, and it was so cold. There are caves on both sides of the place, and the water flows out from one side and flows into the other side. I watched and watched. I walked behind Wang Sichuan and saw him concentrating on it. Looking at the rock wall on one side. When I walked over, he spotted me and motioned me to look there. I also shone the light with my flashlight, and found that the rock wall where he was looking had been polished, as if it was covered with a layer of wax. Then he pointed to a few places with a flashlight and showed me that there were similar marks.Immediately, I felt very strange. I looked at him and winked at him, meaning to ask him: "What do you think?" He said softly: "This is the phenomenon of glazed glass. There may have been a violent explosion in this cave."