"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

Zhuangyan was a little at a loss and didn't know how to comfort this woman who cried bitterly.

Jiang Wenying continued to cover her face and cried: "My uncle, second master, third master and his family are still inside, and they haven't even come out..."

Zhuang Yan didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him: "Sister, your old man is auspicious and heavenly figure, so it's definitely okay... Look, so many of our troops are searching and rescuing here, and they can be found soon..."

Jiang Wenying said: "I advised them before the dam breaks, asking them to go to the relatives' house in the county to avoid it, but they just don't listen... Just a few days ago, there was a pipe rush on the dam here. Later, the People's Liberation Army came to block it. When the People's Liberation Army left, we were all very scared, afraid that there would be a pipe rush. Unexpectedly, something really happened..."

Zhuang Yan asked: "Is there no one here responsible for the inspection?"

Jiang Wenying said: "Yes, but it doesn't work. The junction is between two villages, but the number of local emergency teams organized is not enough. If you have any questions, you will notify the People's Liberation Army. If you don't come, the embankment will be broken..."

Zhuang Yan suddenly took a breath and asked, "Sister, do you know how many PLAs have entered today?"

Jiang Wenying wiped her tears, thought about it, and suddenly she cried again, saying, "I asked the people who escaped here. They said that two PLA troops had entered before the breaking of the dike, and there were about a few hundred people. I guess the mouth broke before the dike was reached..."

The hearts of the soldiers on the ship suddenly became cold.

Under such a large-scale breach, people work part-time in the face of floods, and cars can flood you, let alone people.

The flood flows quickly when the dam breaks, almost like a huge wave. This...

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan quickly grabbed his thoughts.

He didn't dare to think about it, nor did he want to think about it.

In the dark night, facing the flood that swept across the sky, how many opportunities do the hundreds of comrades have to survive?

Now, not only the troops where the solemn are located, but also the surrounding troops, as long as there are assault boats, come here.

But more than five hours have passed since the breakup at 8:20.

Can they last for more than five hours?

...

There were also troops of different military branches running away at night with Zhuang Yan and others.

Different convoys started to Jiayu County from all directions.

All rescue forces were mobilized around the flood area.

At midnight, 70 officers and soldiers of the Hubei Provincial Fire Brigade of the Armed Police arrived with 6 assault boats...

At 3:30, a unit of the Broadcasting Brigade of the Military Region of G arrived with 68 latest field assault boats and quickly launched rescue.

At 4 o'clock, the local government directly mobilized more than a dozen barges and drove them to different locations in the flood area to pick up and drop off rescued personnel...

A certain unit of the Army Aviation Corps took off three batches of helicopters that night, arrived over Paizhou, and urgently dropped 30,000 life jackets into the water.

It was just a sleepless night, and it was also the most tragic night in the 1998 flood fighting.

That night, the troops invested a total of more than 3,000 rescue troops.

Every soldier or local cadre and masses who participated in the rescue were praying silently in their hearts.

In order to save the position on the assault boat, we can save more people or comrades as soon as possible. Ma Dezhong, the black-faced deputy brigade commander who is responsible for the rescue front, said to the more than a hundred reporters who have gathered on the embankment without any reason, and shouted with red eyes: "The reporters can't all get on the boat! Those who are disobedient will tie them up!"

These uncrowned kings holding cameras and camera materials suddenly became quiet in front of this black lieutenant colonel, and only sent a few representatives, and the rest were all on the shore waiting for news.

Before the rescue troops arrived, there were already scenes of life and death in the flooded flood area.

At 19 o'clock that night, I received an emergency request from the local defense chief. 199 soldiers from a battalion of the Zhouqiao Brigade of the G Military Region and 176 soldiers from a battalion of an anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Air Force completed the boarding and departure within 3 minutes.

15 cars set off in a storm, and water gradually appeared on the road surface, and ordinary people kept running in opposite directions from both sides of the road.

"The dam breaks! Run!"

Someone shouted in panic in the darkness.

However, the convoy did not turn around, but rushed towards the earth along the established route.

At 8:25, the convoy met with the 55-year-old Major General Dai Yingzhong, the director of the Political Department of the Provincial Military Region, near a highland in Paizhou.

General Dai looked around and knew that the Paizhou embankment was in an extremely dangerous state of pipe surge at this time.

But shouldn’t soldiers be in the most dangerous place when disaster strikes?

What's more, the Defense Chief has issued an order.

Soldiers, obeying orders is their duty!

He gritted his teeth and ordered: "Follow the Zhouqiao Brigade to go up quickly. There are road signs on both sides of the road. You can reach the embankment along the road signs and block the pipes!"

The convoy once again advanced along the already soaked dirt road towards the embankment.

Get in!

Keep driving in!

All the soldiers in the car held their tools tightly, held their breath, and were ready to go!

As long as you arrive at the embankment, start rescue immediately!

I am a boatman, and I do the work of building bridges and building roads and blocking dams. This is my old job.

At 8:30 pm, just as the convoy was approaching the embankment and was less than two hundred meters apart, the already shaky dike finally collapsed after the pipes kept pumping away the mud and sand!

The dam! It collapsed!

At the breach, the water level drop of a full ten meters generated huge kinetic energy. It was like a flood discharge gate being opened. The river water roared out of the original river like a beast breaking free from the chains, and rushed out of the original river channel, rushing towards the thousands of acres of fertile fields in front of it!

In the convoy, the Hongyan brand heavy tractor weighing more than ten tons was lifted up by the flood like a matchbox and turned over several times.

A few hours later, the Yangtze River water became like rows of waves here, tearing a full thousand meters apart!

The flood that was venting wildly flooded the entire Paizhou Dakou and swept away all the PLA officers and soldiers who came here to rescue.

As the flood just came, the commander in the car issued an order almost at the same time: "Take off the camouflage uniform and abandon the car and go into the water!"

"Put your belt across your body, so that it will be easier to rescue!"

"Everyone is paired up, and the good swimming people are paired up and the poor swimming, so help each other!"

"Comrades, you must maintain your strength, and someone will come to save us soon!"

A series of instructions that remain calm in the face of danger were issued.

The soldiers organized five people who climbed onto the car into the warrior rescue team, and the driver gave all the only car sponge pads in the cab that could be used as a lifesaving purpose to a mother and daughter.

At the time of life and death, the spirit of sacrificing one's life and sacrificing one's life and mercy that soldiers cultivate from their bones is fully reflected.

Afterwards, the five people and the mother and daughter were finally rescued safely.

That night, when the flood came, when 15 military vehicles sank into the water, no one shouted out any bold words. However, the principles of being a human being, the responsibilities of soldiers, and the interests of the people, burst out in the hearts of every officer and soldier in an instant.

Before the soldier Zhu Haiping went into the water, a mother who was trapped with the officers and soldiers entrusted his 3-year-old daughter to him.

Zhu Haiping took off his life jacket and put it on the girl without thinking. However, when he found that it was impossible to do it in the water, he simply made the life jacket into a boat, put the little girl on the life jacket, and held it all the way to swim towards a big tree by the side of the road...

What would you say?

Is it just a life jacket?

When the flood had already hit the front, a life jacket was a life! It was hope for rescue!

Give the hope of life to others and leave the difficulties of facing death to yourself.

This is the soldier of the Chinese People's Liberation Army!

Later, someone interviewed the soldiers rescued from the flood in Paizhou, saying that since the informed people and villagers were running outside the Dakou, why did your People's Liberation Army still rush up the embankment?

The answer is simple, but also profound.

The soldier said, "Don't we always say 'Dangerous situation is an order'? We went to the embankment just to block the breach!"

This is the People's Liberation Army!

This is the soldiers!
Chapter completed!