Chapter 212 Emergency Rescue
"The third squadron! Let's set off immediately! The other squadrons are led by me and will immediately go to the levee to carry out emergency rescue!"
After the captain Wen Zhixing finished speaking, he immediately asked the squadron leader on duty to take the first and second squadrons away.
In the third squadron, all kinds of low-key discussions immediately came.
"How did we separate from the first and second squadrons?"
"Are we going somewhere else?"
"have no idea……"
Everyone's heart was once again hung at the highest point.
Wen Zhixing walked to Zhou Huping, the captain of the third squadron, and whispered: "Come on the car immediately, and then take your troops to the temporary stationing point of the division headquarters, where you meet with the engineering battalion and the bridge. If you have an urgent task, hurry to Paizhou immediately!"
Zhou Huping heard the heavyness in Wen Zhixing's tone and asked quickly: "Captain, what happened?"
Wen Zhixing said: "Two hundred kilometers away from us, the downstream Paizhou broke the entrance. There were tens of thousands of people trapped there. Deputy Commander Gong of the Military Region issued an order and rushed to Paizhou to rescue people at all costs! The assault boat of the Zhouqiao Company was ready, but they needed some help. Commander Zhang ordered our brigade to send a squadron to cooperate with the engineers to rescue people."
Zhou Huping suddenly shuddered and said, "Are there any people from our army?"
"Yes..." Wen Zhixing's face turned dark and his tone became heavier. "Many troops who went to the local rescue site had encountered floods before they arrived at the rescue site... Director Dai of the Political Department of the North Hubei Provincial Military Region also lost contact, including the anti-aircraft artillery regiment at a base of the Air Force..."
Zhou Huping, who was the calmest in the world, couldn't help but feel a few shocks in his heart.
This is the most feared situation in flood control and rescue. You don’t know that the dam has broken down ahead and are rushing towards the dam with your troops. When you encounter a flood of floods...
His heart suddenly became thrust.
"Okay! I'll set out right away! Ensure the task is completed!" Zhou Huping saluted Wen Zhixing, turned around and left.
"Remember!" Wen Zhixing shouted Zhou Huping: "No cost! Save every crowd and comrade-in-arms!"
"Captain Don't worry! We teach the brigade to complete the task absolutely!"
A few minutes later, Zhuang Yan was already sitting in the truck.
He has been taking a car since yesterday.
As a soldier, he is actually more eager to rush to the embankment like the armed police lieutenant to participate in reinforcement and plugging of leaks, rather than being transferred here and there now.
"Squad leader, what are we doing?" Zhuang Yan was a little unhappy and asked Lao Qi: "Others have gone to rescue. We are here and there, and today we are all sitting in the bus until we are blooming."
Lao Qi glared at Zhuang Yan: "You are just Zhuang Yan talk a lot! What do you want to ask for? You can do whatever you want to do! Don't you see that we are going to the division headquarters now? There must be a task."
When we arrived at the division headquarters, we all came down to gather.
Zhuangyan saw that there was already a long convoy in front of her, with three assault boats being carried on each car. The soldiers of the engineering battalion were running around, jumping up and down in the car, and fixing the assault boats in the heavy rain.
"Squadron Captain!" Zhang Wei, the company commander of Zhouqiao Company, jogged over and saluted Zhou Huping, "We will set off immediately in half an hour. How many people have you brought here?"
Zhou Huping said: "Everyone is here, one hundred and twenty-three people."
Zhang Wei wiped the rain from his face and said loudly: "Okay! Enough! We will go to Paizhou later. You will send 80 people on board, each assault boat will release two soldiers. Our soldiers will be responsible for driving, yours will be responsible for saving people, and the remaining soldiers will serve as logistics support teams on the shore. When people come back, they will be responsible for helping to carry them to nearby temporary resettlement sites, or handing them over to the medical team."
Zhou Huping nodded and said, "Okay, now our squadron is following your command. This is your old job, we are just cooperating!"
Due to sea training, there are many assault boats carried by the boat bridge, so this flood fighting came in handy.
An hour later, the convoy began to set off.
Zhuangyan sat in the dark carriage again.
In addition to his comrades, there were also several more engineers from the boat and bridge company on his car.
Everyone was talking about where to go and what to do.
Save people?
When he learned about the nature of the mission, the solemn blood heated up again.
But when he learned about the situation on Paizhou, his heart sank again.
So many troops and local people were washed away by the water, and they were in the disaster area where they could not see their fingers.
Needless to say, the dangers here are something that everyone can imagine.
The fleet's speed has been accelerated as much as possible.
However, due to days of heavy rain, some national highways were even flooded, and they swayed in the carriage for more than three hours before the rescue teams of the engineering battalion and the teaching brigade arrived at Paizhou.
The convoy stopped by a Jiangdu wharf.
All the headlights were turned on, and the cranes of the engineer battalion began to lift one after another and slowly put them into the water.
There are people everywhere on the pier.
Other troops arrived earlier than Zhuang Yan and others, and some assault boats even drifted one after another.
Each assault boat was filled with people, reaching the limit of crew.
The troops' assault boats usually can only sit 12 people, but some assault boats that came back from the breach area actually squeezed into the assault boats.
The water level line almost reached the top of the charge ship's side, causing Zhuang Yan to take a breath of air conditioning.
However, he could not see fear from the soldiers of other troops.
Perhaps, everyone has forgotten their fear.
Every minute, more people will lose their chances of life in the entire breach area. This is racing against time and against death!
"Soul, Wang Datong!" Zhou Huping pointed the names of the two.
"arrive!"
"Remember to obey the command of the engineers, you just cooperate with them and obey the orders!"
"yes!"
Without any bold words or time to explain details, time is life.
The two jumped onto the boat immediately.
The boatman in the engineering battalion immediately twisted the handle. With the roar of the motor, the bow of the assault boat was gently raised and drove towards the depths of the darkness.
There were a total of five people on the ship, two soldiers from the engineering battalions, and one local female cadre.
The five people quickly introduced themselves on the boat.
The soldier in charge of the boat was a top-notch soldier named Qin Yanming; and the other sergeant squad leader was Huang Hanrui, and the local cadre was from Paizhou, named Jiang Wenying, who was a female cadre and the women's director of a local village.
"Squad Leader Huang, Director Jiang, what are you looking at?"
"The map of this area." Huang Hanrui pointed to the map and said: "Director Jiang said that in this area, the assault boats of other troops have just searched there. According to the scope we are responsible for, the location is here-"
He turned the military map to the solemn face.
Zhuangyan studied military terrainology and saw the dense marks on it, she immediately took a breath of air conditioning.
According to the calibration on the map, it turned out that there were farmland and houses here, but at this time, where was the shadow of farmland? What can still be seen on the water are some roofs and tree canopies. The water depth is at least three or four meters...
Moreover, the water flow is very turbulent, and the water level above the ground of the Yangtze River is constantly surging out through the breach.
Qin Yanming must control the assault boat well, not fast or too slow.
If it is too fast, it is easy to hit underwater obstacles, causing the ship to be destroyed and people to die; if it is too slow, it will be pushed back by the current of water and cannot move forward at all.
"What kind of sin did this really happen..."
Chapter completed!