PLA soldiers bear the stretcher of an injured villager to slog over the wildness through the mountains, in Mianyang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 24, 2008. It took some 9 hours for the 22 PLA soldiers to tramp over the hill and dale to transfer three bone-fractured villagers of Huangjiacun Village, Yingxiu Township of Wenchuan County to Dujiangyan City, of the quake-shattered southwest China's Sichuan Province, for medical treatment.

PLA soldiers bear the stretcher of an injured villager to scale the mountain slope, in Mianyang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 24, 2008.

A PLA solider bears an injured villager on the back to slog over the wildness through the mountains, in Mianyang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 24, 2008.

PLA soldiers bear the stretcher of three injured villagers to slog over the wildness through the mountains, in Mianyang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 24, 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2008)