The night before the actual jump, the entire company attended a meeting in the conference room. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Yan. The main purpose of the meeting was to emphasize the precautions, arrange the specific procedures for tomorrow's actual jump, and finally announce the boarding order for the next day.
and arrangements.
This airborne landing was divided into 6 sorties. Each sortie consisted of 15 people in a group, and the female soldiers were in a separate group.
Everyone must mark their group and order, sit down in this order after registration, and then exit the cabin and disembark in this order.
The first flight was assigned to the first sortie, and Fatty Wei was lined up behind Li Zheng. Li Zheng was numbered 3, and he was numbered 4.
After turning off the lights, Li Zheng was lying on the bed with no one around him, feeling a little inexplicable excitement in his heart.
After tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, he discovered that there were rustling sounds coming from the beds around him. He couldn't help but poke half his head out of the mosquito net and whispered to Yang Hui in the bed opposite: "Old Yang, you sleep
Can’t catch it?”
"ah……"
Soon, Yang Hui also stuck his head out of the mosquito net opposite.
"Are you nervous?" Li Zheng asked.
Yang Hui nodded and said: "Yes, a little bit. In the past, I have studied the theory of skydiving a lot, but this is the first time I have actually jumped..."
As soon as the two said it was no big deal, other recruits who couldn't sleep immediately popped their heads out to participate in the discussion.
Fatty Wei said: "I'm telling you, Li Zheng, don't scare me. You will be in front of me tomorrow. If you are nervous, don't worry, you will jump and block the door and not go out. You will scare me too."
Li Zheng said: "Okay, you should worry about yourself. In the past, when you skydive, someone tied you up and jumped together. This time, you jump by yourself. Just don't let your legs get weak."
Ma Teng said: "Well, I have never flown on a plane when I have grown up, but I have never flown halfway..."
Everyone was stunned at first, then understood, and then burst into laughter.
"Aren't you even sleeping?!"
The door to the small private room suddenly opened.
Tong Zhi appeared at the door with a flashlight.
Everyone immediately crawled back into their beds like frightened mice.
Tong Zhi took a flashlight and walked around the row house twice, then stood in the darkness and said: "After parachuting tomorrow, you can say that you are a man in the military camp."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to the small private room.
Li was lying on the bed, and the bright moonlight outside the window spilled into the room and shone on his mosquito net.
Military man.
He pondered and savored the word.
I thought about it, pondered over it, and fell asleep before I knew it.
Early the next morning, before the sun appeared in the horizon, the reveille bugle blew everyone awake.
Today is different from the past.
There is an indescribable sticky atmosphere in the air, like glue that is too thick to melt away.
Everyone got dressed carefully and went out to gather. Then according to the arrangement last night, they went to the equipment warehouse to get the parachute bag, put on their life jackets, lined up to board the bus, and drove to the airport.
After arriving at the airport and getting off the car, Tong Zhi directed the whole company to run into the planned boarding position, spread out the tarpaulin on the open ground of the airport, everyone put their own parachute bag on the ground, started to check their own parachute bag, and placed all kinds of parachute bags.
Parachuting equipment.
Demon Tong was particularly serious today, and kept telling him: "...Check every detail, see if there is any problem with the parachute rope, see if there is any problem with the spare parachute bag, and also, insert your paratrooper knife, that thing
It can save lives at critical moments..."
A round of golden color gradually appeared on the horizon, and the plain land had a vastness and desolation that was unprecedented in the south.
The weather is a bit cold, the temperature is only 19 degrees today, but there is sweat on the tip of Li Zheng's nose.
Demon Tong came over and checked the parachute bag for him. After making sure it was OK, he warned: "Remember, I will get on the plane with you. Don't panic. Jump boldly. If you jump, you will be a man!"
After speaking, he patted his shoulder heavily and went to check the next one.
After the parachute bag was packed and it was not time to board the plane, the company leader Ji asked Tong Zhi to take everyone to run around the cement road near the tarmac for a few laps and then do a hundred push-ups when they came back.
"Keep moving, keep your blood flowing, and don't get on a plane until your feet are numb from fear!"
The soldiers laughed when they heard this.
They all felt that the company commander was worrying too much.
Now that we've reached this point, who else is scared?
But it was really dawn and boarding started. Not to mention, Li Zheng felt really guilty.
Class 1 was the first to board the plane, and soldiers from other classes and platoons lined up next to the tarmac and shouted——
"come on!"
"Rise up!"
"brave!"
This can be regarded as cheering up the comrades boarding the plane.
The first class who boarded the plane had smiles on their faces but panic in their hearts.
Before boarding the plane, Fatty Wei looked at the large transport plane parked in the distance, and suddenly asked Devil Tong, who was checking the parachute bag for the last time, curiously: "Platoon leader, why don't we take a big plane instead of a small one like this?"
airplane?"
In fact, what he meant was that there are many people in a big plane, and the large number of people can embolden people. It is at least much more lively and practical than a dozen people flying on a small plane like the Yun-12.
What's more, looking at the small body of this aircraft, I wonder how wobbly it will be when you get up there, right?
Tong Zhi almost kicked Fatty Wei on his butt. How long has it been since he asked such an idiot question?
"Do you want to fly on a large transport plane? When you have jumped more than 20 times, you can jump complex parachute types, and you can jump other subjects. Then think about big planes. Do you think there is no fuel and no cost in flying? What you are jumping now is the most
Basic subjects, see how good you are! Hurry up and catch up, or I'll kick you!"
Boarding finally begins.
After two months of ground training, all the procedures were practiced in the simulated cabin to the point where I was thoroughly familiar with them.
Each time you go up, read a number until you reach 15, which means that this group is not missing.
In fact, Li Zheng had a strange thought in his mind when he was counting. Could it be that by counting like this, he was afraid that someone would miss boarding the plane? Or maybe it had happened before that someone hid before boarding and did not dare to get on the plane?
We got into the cabin, which was not very spacious, and sat down on the seats which were not very comfortable. Everyone was now carrying two large bags, with a backup parachute in front and a serious parachute bag in the back.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! These two umbrella bags were folded out with one hand, one foot, one rope and one line. I heard that the American company uses mechanical automatic folding umbrellas, and this one
Bian follows the most primitive principle - folding umbrellas by hand.
This rule has never been broken to this day. Even if the general wants to parachute from the plane, he still has to fold his own parachute, and no one is allowed to help.
The hatch was closed, and the Y-12 began to glide slowly on the runway, getting faster and faster, and finally soared into the sky.
The moment he left the ground, Li Zheng felt that his feet were empty, and his whole body was lifted up by the Internet. This lift lifted his heart up and hung it in the air.
Demon Tong looked calm. He helped each soldier hang up the parachute, and then took the trouble to check everyone's parachute bag again. After checking one, he patted the backup parachute hard and gave a thumbs up.
Say: "Okay!"
The person being photographed should also give a thumbs up and reply: "Okay!"
There is a porthole next to Li Zheng's seat, and through the window you can see the landing gear of the plane.
He felt that the landing gear was like an eagle's talons, and now they were on the eagle's belly. The distance to the ground was getting farther and farther away, and the scenery was getting smaller and smaller. Later, some thin white mist even drifted under the belly of the plane.
When the plane ascended to an altitude of nearly 800 meters, the warning light in the cabin came on for the first time.
This means that the specified height is almost reached.
Demon Tong stood up and shouted to everyone: "What are we going to do today!?"
Everyone replied: "Skydiving!"
"What to do?!"
"I want to skydive!"
Demon Tong gave a thumbs up: "Brave!"
Everyone replied: "Be brave!"
"brave!"
"brave!"
When the altitude reached 800 meters, the lights came on again and the hatch opened.
Demon Tong stood at the front of the cabin, stretched out his two forearms, palms upward, and made a standing gesture: "Stand up!"
I don't know if it was the cold wind blowing in from the cabin or some other reason, but Li Zheng felt that the hairs on his cheeks stood up.
"Prepare!"
All the soldiers lined up at the door of the cabin, bent down, and prepared to leave the cabin as they had been trained in the rehearsal.