The rope in Li Zheng's backpack was only 30 meters long. Bai Aote stretched his head and glanced down the cliff, and couldn't help but feel worried.
Originally there was an escape rope in his backpack, but it is gone now.
The height of the cliff here seems to be a full fifty meters at the highest point, and the rope seems not long enough.
Li Zheng said while adjusting the rope: "Just find a relatively low place later."
Baiot asked: "Where is the seat belt?"
There are two types of safety belts he mentioned, one is the sitting type and the other is the full-body type. Due to weight issues, most of the individual soldiers in the squad carry sitting type safety belts.
This thing is directly put on the two thighs and waist. After being put on, the buttocks are like sitting in a rope harness. There is no need to use another rope to tie a safety belt.
What's more, there are simply not enough ropes now. How can there be enough rope to tie seat belts?
"I use the eight-figure ring."
These words made Baiot feel a little touched again.
If you don't use comfortable equipment like a seat belt and only use a figure-eight ring, it means that it will be a big test for Li Zheng's physical fitness.
There are many modes of rappelling. Many people see scenes in movies or news reports of special forces sliding down quickly from helicopters or rooftops.
That's called fast abseiling, and it has pros and cons.
Rapid rope swimming is also divided into many modes, with different postures, but it is a great test for people's physical fitness. All the focus is on the hands, knees and feet, and it is very susceptible to interference from the surrounding environment.
For example, Bald Eagle's "Operation Erin" in Somalia ended up failing because a young ranger was carrying too much equipment and was nervous because of the intense gunfire surrounding him while he was rapidly swimming down the rope from a Black Hawk helicopter.
As a result, he lost his grip and eventually fell from mid-air, which affected the rhythm of the entire operation. The entire operation team fell into a passive state of being beaten. In the end, dozens of people were killed and injured before they could escape.
Although no one has found Li Zheng and Bai Aot yet, they have to prepare for the worst.
Because ADF militia hunting teams have appeared around.
If he is discovered during the descent, he has to free his hands to fight back with his gun. This is a very big challenge for Li Zheng, who only relies on the figure-eight ring to slow down. He will fall directly into the lake in minutes.
Even the best special forces will face huge risks when faced with a lack of equipment.
Li Zheng didn't even raise his head. After quickly arranging the ropes, he walked along the edge of the cliff and found a drop of about 30 meters. He pointed down and said: "Go down from here."
He found a thicker tree, fixed it, then tied the seat belt to the rope with a buckle, and said to Bai Aote: "Come here, put it on, you get off first."
In fact, rappelling is a special skill that every special forces soldier must master. It generally refers to using a special rope to descend to the ground from a high place. It requires professional equipment, special training, and long-term training to maintain the ability of rappelling.
Rappelling requires not only strength, but also excellent skills, equipment, psychological quality and other factors.
Strength is the foundation, especially upper limb and hand grip strength.
Skills include rope skills and equipment use. This requires a lot of professional knowledge. Commonly used knots include bow knots, eight-knot knots (there are also single figure eight knots and double figure eight knots), fisherman's knots, Italian knots, and French knots.
Knot, Prussian knot, etc.
Rappelling is definitely not as simple as it seems. If someone without professional training gives you a rope to slide down several floors, you may slip halfway and your hands will slip and you will fall down and fall into a box.
As for the equipment, it is also professional. The equipment for rappelling includes a fully adjustable half-body safety belt; the main rope (static rope) is 30-50 meters long, has a specification of 12.5mm, and a pulling force of at least 40KN. It must be a rope with high temperature resistance and wear resistance.
, the most common one is a sandwich safety rope with a loose fiber cluster in the middle and a braided rope sheath on the outside. This kind of special rope will not kink or expand when used.
In addition, it is best to have a power rope as a protective rope, and then a hand ascender, descender, figure eight ring, main lock, rope cover, downhill gloves, etc.
Unfortunately, one piece of equipment is used by two people, and the ropes and tools are all in short supply. They can only rely on the superb skills accumulated through daily training to make up for it.
What the veteran said is right.
In the subject of rappelling, strength and skill are the two ends of the seesaw. If one end is lighter, the other end must be heavier.
If you don’t have good equipment, you have to have excellent skills to make up for it.
Bai Aote could tell from Li Zheng's determined eyes that the latter had received very solid special training. Otherwise, he would not have given up the seat belt to him so lightly without the skills to back him up.
In fact, what he didn't know was that Li Zheng actually felt a little guilty.
After all, he didn't rappel such a high gap with so little equipment, which requires a strong psychological quality.
It goes without saying that special forces must have strong psychological factors.
Many people feel dizzy standing at the window and looking down, let alone grabbing a rope and leaning on a figure-eight ring to slide down.
Even if a commando member of the special forces like Li Zheng has the strength, skills, equipment, and psychological quality, after professional training, can rappelling be guaranteed to be foolproof?
not necessarily!
In previous years, special forces had accidents and fell to death during rappelling training every year, and it was not uncommon at home or abroad.
After everything was ready, Li Zheng disguised the length of rope tied to the root of the tree on the cliff, covered the traces, and then said to Bai Aote: "You get off first."
Baiot is a wounded person, so it makes sense to go down first.
When Baiot began to slide down about four meters, Li Zheng checked the fixed rope knots and found that there was no problem. He also started to slide down.
Now, he is only worried about two things. One is whether the patrol members will find out, and the other is that the quality of this rope should be high enough to easily prevent the two of them from breaking even when they encounter trouble.
The cliffs were covered with shrubs and weeds. Li Zheng carefully controlled his body and slowly slid down through these plants.
Although the weeds cut his face and made him feel very uncomfortable, Li Zheng liked them very much at this time.
There is no other reason. These shrubs and weeds provide enough cover for himself and Baiot. If the entire area is exposed to the naked eye, it will be really bad.
Less than ten meters after sliding down, I suddenly heard voices coming from the cliff, as if someone was talking.
"Someone!"
Li Zheng lowered his head and made a silencing gesture towards Bai Aote, who raised his head and also heard the voice, and pointed upward to indicate that someone was there.
I am really afraid of what will happen.
Neither lucky nor unlucky.
Fortunately, if he comes down later, he will definitely encounter a search team; unfortunately, he is hanging on a twenty-meter-high cliff. If he is discovered, the only option is to cut the rope and jump off the cliff.
Twenty meters...
It's seven or eight stories high. I hope I don't fall to my death.
Li Zheng felt that dense beads of sweat had appeared on his forehead, and they were falling down.