Riverside Police.

It was dawn, and the river near the breach was full of boats!
There were more than 20 motorboats, small tugboats and small passenger boats urgently called by the Hanwu Navigation Office, and five large tugboats and ten [-]-ton flat-bed barges arrived overnight from the Yangtze River Shipping Company.

There are eight 1000 to 1500-seat passenger ferries led by the leaders of Hanwu Ferry Company, the Etu 307 fleet of Beihu Jiangxia Shipping Company, the fleet of Changhang Group, and the small on-board boats urgently called by the county. Even nearby fishermen came in small fishing boats.

Looking around, there were more ships than there were in the riverside waters during the "Eel Hunting War". Xu Mingyuan felt that more than half of all Hanwu's ships were here.

However, the water flow at the breach was turbulent, and a sill was formed between the breach and the embankment, preventing ships from entering or leaving.

There is a vast ocean in the Minyuan, and at least [-] villages have been flooded!
The river embankment was covered in darkness, and thousands of people who had fled to the embankment were urgently waiting to be transferred.

More than 20 machine barges from Hanwu took advantage of good stability, shallow draft, and flexible operation, and quickly approached the river embankment, and one ship after another transferred the shocked victims on the embankment to the anchorage three kilometers upstream of the breach. On six deck barges and ferries, the fleet and ferries of CSC Group transferred the victims to Panjiawan Town, more than [-] kilometers upstream of the breach.

The fleet involved in the transfer of the victims did everything possible to vacate the space, vacate the cabins, and vacate all the places where people can stand to transfer the victims.

Compared with the victims on the embankment, there are more victims trapped in the vast ocean inside the embankment!
Other ships could not get in, but the assault boats, power boats and rescue boats of the Linghai Reserve Battalion and several other People's Liberation Army pontoon troops who came to rescue could go in.

Small boats have become the main force for rescue.

Xu Mingyuan took the newly vacated section of the embankment as a "barge point", and organized various search and rescue teams to transport assault boats and fiberglass boats to the embankment, put them on the water surface in the embankment, and drive straight to the roofs that can be seen nearby. , tree crowns, search and rescue people who have not had time to transfer to the embankment.

In fact, there is no need to search, only rescue.

There were too many trapped people, and each team drove less than one kilometer out of the embankment, and there were people on the roofs, tree crowns and higher ground as long as they could be seen.

"Comrades, don't rush, don't squeeze, our assault boats and fiberglass boats can't carry too many people, the elderly and children come up first!"

"We sent the elderly and children to the embankment and came back to pick you up. Please don't be afraid, don't worry, we will definitely come back. The superior mobilized all the forces that can be mobilized to save everyone!"

"Comrade PLA, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"No trouble, slow down."

"Sit down, kid, and hold on to the rope."

Xu Mingyuan's group had too many people to save.

The same is true for Xiao Yu and Xiao Gu. They connected a few ordinary people to the fiberglass boat and said eagerly: "Comrade, there are more people waiting for us to rescue. You people come up first, and the things will be transported later."

"Comrade People's Liberation Army, can I just bring a TV, I'll hold it!"

"No, there are too many people, and we are a small boat. It is not safe to carry too many things, and it is easy to capsize."

"Comrade PLA, please."

"You put it on the roof first. The water doesn't rise so fast, so it won't be submerged. I'll help you transport it back."

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The house was flooded, and valuable things could no longer be flooded. Everyone wanted to take more with them, but the assault boats and fiberglass boats were too small to carry so many things. Besides, saving people was the most important thing now, and the things outside the body could only be discussed later.

One after another, in less than an hour, the water search and rescue company rescued more than 500 people from the "Wang Yangzhong".

The commander in charge of rescue and the two deputy commanders divided the work.

The commander-in-chief is the secretary of Yujia County, who is responsible for directing the personnel and ships organized by the county to carry out the rescue.

The leader of Beihu Provincial Shipping Bureau is responsible for organizing and commanding the personnel and fleet convened by the province and Hanwu City, and Deputy Director Yuan of Hanwu Port Supervision Bureau is responsible for commanding the fleet of the long-term voyage system.

The Linghai Reserve Battalion not only owns half of the long-term aviation system, but also the reserve battalion of the transportation system, so it is natural to be under the command of Bureau Yuan.

Yuan Ju did not stay on the supervision boat, but stood on the embankment, raised the walkie-talkie and commanded the fleet of the Changhang Group to come and transfer the victims rescued from the embankment by the Linghai Reserve Battalion.

Political Commissar Yang stood beside Yuan Ju and asked anxiously, "Comrade Ming Yuan, have you seen the air force officers and soldiers supporting the rescue?"

"No, our search and rescue range is less than two kilometers!"

"Okay, let's search and rescue quickly."

Xu Mingyuan waited for the last victim to be pulled onto the embankment by the staff of the long-distance navigation system, and immediately adjusted the course with the joystick, and continued to "pick up" people in a vast ocean.

The efficiency of the small fish group is also very high, filling up the tank and setting off quickly.

He and Gu Gang drove less than 800 meters away when there was a sudden roar in the sky.

Looking up, a dozen helicopters flew overhead.

Immediately afterwards, three more transport planes flew towards the embankment.

Flying very low, you can clearly see the red August [-]st military emblem!

"Team fish, look, the air force is here, the air force is here..." Xiao Gu burst into tears with excitement.

Xiaoyu was astonished, but now he didn't care about watching the excitement, he held the joystick tightly and said, "What Air Force is here, aren't you the Air Force?"

"I mean the plane is coming!"

"What's the use of a plane coming, and it can't land on the water to save people."

"Fish team, the plane is dropping!"

Xiaoyu looked in the direction of Xiao Gu's finger, and suddenly found that the three transport planes were actually dropping emergency relief supplies, but they were far away from their current search and rescue area, so it was impossible to go there to see what was being dropped.

In a blink of an eye, he was at the top of the village he had been to before.

Hundreds of ordinary people were waiting to be rescued, and Xiao Yu hurriedly "received" them regardless of the surprise.

Assault boats tend to overturn, and fiberglass boats are not very stable.

Xiao Gu carefully picked up a few people on the boat, and eagerly asked: "Comrade, we have a unit here to rescue you, have you seen them?"

"I've seen them. Their epaulettes are blue like yours. Are you from the Air Force?"

"Yes, we are all airmen. Comrade, do you know where they went?"

A crowd subconsciously touched the life jacket on their body and said with tears in their eyes: "I only know that they went to save people. The last time I saw them was last night when they broke their mouths. They took off this life jacket and gave it to me."

"Do you know which direction they are going?"

"It seems to have gone to Zhongbao."

The breach is the embankment section of Zhongbao Village!

Thinking that the officers and soldiers of the Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment went to the most dangerous place at the most dangerous time, and gave up the life jackets to the masses, Xiao Gu burst into tears.

The superior wanted to know the news about the Air Force Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, and Political Commissar Yang also told Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu is also worried, but now he really can't take care of so much, the only thing he can do is to save people one after another.

At 10:45, Xiao Yu and Xiao Gu finally received a slightly relieved news after sending the twelve people who had just been rescued from the flood to the embankment.

Five minutes ago, several leaders in charge of organizing and directing the rescue took a ferry to check the water situation at the breach. Seeing that the water level drop was getting smaller and the flow rate slowed down, they decided to organize a machine barge under 5 tons to rush into the breach to rescue people!

As the "Hannanhang No. 1" and other eight aircraft barges rushed into the breach, the search and rescue efficiency increased rapidly. After all, a large ship can support dozens of assault boats and glass boats.

As of 11:21 a.m., the first batch of 9 barges, including the first batch of 30 barges from Hanwu Municipal Transportation Commission and 80 barges that came from Hanwu for reinforcements, totaled more than 100 barges of [-] to [-] tons entered the civil embankment and set out In each village, individual combat is practiced.

Due to the depth of the water, there are still many places where machine barges cannot get through.

The water search and rescue company was divided into parts according to the requirements of the superiors, and they split up to cooperate with the machine barge operation, and searched by pulling nets on the roofs, platforms, and branches of Hezhen Embankment, Paizhou Town, and Zhongbao Village.

These more than 30 barges are well-deserved main forces of the search and rescue. While searching and rescuing one after another, they also picked up the victims rescued from all directions by officers and soldiers of several pontoon bridge forces driving assault boats and local fishermen driving fishing boats. Ships, one after another, rushed out of the gap and were transferred to the ferry and deck barge moored on the river.

Last night around eight o'clock, the people in the embankment had no time to escape, and there was no time to eat. They were very hungry after boarding the boat.

The crew gave all dry food and water to the victims.

The "Supervision 47" boat where the commander-in-chief was located gave the only three boxes of instant noodles to the hungry old people and children, and the crew of "Yangtze River 2516" kept cooking porridge for supply.

The fleet led by Liu Wei arrived at noon. Like Chen Zikun, Xiao Gong and others who arrived before, they were under the command of the Hanwu Port Supervision Bureau, and together with more than 300 crew members and port supervision staff of the long-term navigation system, assisted Relocate the victims and distribute the supplies brought by Han Yurang.

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Just as Xu Mingyuan, Ma Jintao, and Liu Wei were overwhelmed with work, the emergency rescue project on the Jingjiang embankment was coming to an end.

Han Yu drove the excavator all morning, and as soon as he returned to the command and dispatch room on the second floor of the barge, Deputy Director Yu held the phone record and said solemnly: "Secretary Han, the Yangtze River Defense Command called Xugong to inform that the embankment section of Zhongbao Village in Hezhen The breach was caused by piping."

Before Han Yu could speak, the chief came in and said, "The breach of Anzao embankment was caused by piping, and so was the breach of Paizhou Bay. It's all piping!"

"The report said that it was discovered on the morning of July 7, and the water gushing mouth was about 31 meters away from the foot of the embankment. After the discovery, the town organized forces to rescue it until 40 am on August 8. The danger was basically under control. , but there is still a small amount of sand."

"And then?" Han Yu asked in a low voice.

Deputy Director Yu took a deep breath, looked at the phone records and said: "Then continued to rescue, and continued to rescue for more than ten hours, until about 8:100 last night, there was a gap of more than one meter in the embankment. It collapsed quickly to both sides before it was too late to block the opening, and it expanded to more than [-] meters in a blink of an eye."

There is some truth in saying that the dike of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest.

Who would have thought that a piping would cause the levee to burst.

The chief couldn't help thinking of Du Yuan, a soldier from the 105th Division of the 404th Army, and secretly thought that if Du Yuan was there at that time, he might be able to protect him.

Han Yu didn't know what the chief was thinking, so he asked, "Apart from the flood report, is there any other news?"

"Have."

Deputy Director Yu looked at the phone records, and quickly said: "The Yangtze River Defense Command and Jingzhou Defense Command forwarded a copy of the National Defense Command's "Emergency Notice on Timely Transferring Personnel from Dangerous Areas to Strengthen Levee Defense", requiring us to ensure the safety of the people's lives. Putting it first, transfer the people in dangerous areas in a timely manner, and at the same time highlight the key points, and effectively strengthen the defense of the Yangtze River embankment, key polder embankments, and important urban embankments."

"Whether to transfer or not is not up to us to decide."

"But it has something to do with us."

"what relationship?"

"It is still raining in Xichuan and Shancheng. The fourth flood peak will soon form upstream. Due to the downstream flood, the water level of the Jingjiang River will not drop. The forthcoming fourth flood peak will be more difficult to deal with than the previous three. Xi Gong It is said that the higher-level research decided to let Shishou City transfer the people of Hekou Town, and pick up the mouth to store and discharge the flood.”

"So the 127th regiment will be withdrawn."

"Not only the 127th regiment, but also the first and second Jingzhou detachments of the armed police, and a regiment that just arrived the day before yesterday."

"Another regiment went to the river mouth?"

"Jiao Yang called to ask in the morning. It was a regiment of the army, and the situation of that regiment was quite special."

"Special forces?"

"Just special, not special forces."

"Why is it special?" Han Yu asked puzzled.

"Jiao Yang said that the regiment was about to be disbanded. The farewell ceremony with the military flag was held just now. Most of the cadres were about to change jobs and the soldiers were about to leave the army. They were busy packing their bags and backpacks to go home when they suddenly received an order to rush over to fight the flood. Emergency."

Deputy Director Yu paused, then continued: "That regiment is quite famous, and their origin has something to do with your hometown."

Han Yu subconsciously asked, "What does it have to do with our hometown?"

"They are the 'Shajiabang Regiment'. Their predecessors were the New Fourth Army that fought guerrillas in your hometown. Didn't Mrs. Ah Qing cover more than [-] wounded in the Peking Opera Shajiabang, and several of the wounded were from their regiment. fighter."

"I know Shajiabang, but I didn't expect there to be a Shajiabang regiment. Is the Shajiabang regiment an honorary title?"

"I don't know that."

"It's nothing, even the Shajiabang regiment has nothing to do with us. Shajiabang belongs to Shuzhou, we are Linghai, and we are separated by a river."

"Aren't you fellow villagers?"

"It was, but it wasn't."

The hometown of Linghai people can only be Linghai people and Donghai people. How could Shuzhou be a fellow villager? Considering that this common sense is difficult for Beihu people to understand, Han Yu simply changed the subject: "How about Paizhou Bay, Yang Did the political commissar and Xu Mingyuan make a phone call?"

Deputy Director Yu was indeed confused. He couldn't figure out why Shuzhou, which is across the river from Linghai, and Shuzhou, which had even delivered emergency supplies with Secretary Wang last time, was not a fellow of Linghai, so he simply forgot about it. , Hastily said: "Commissioner Yang called, but Teacher Xu was busy with rescue and didn't call."

"What did Commissar Yang say?"

"One piece of good news, one piece of bad news."

"Bad news!"

"An anti-aircraft artillery unit of the Air Force rescued in Paizhou Bay was also flooded. As of an hour ago, the remains of six officers and soldiers had been searched, and there were more missing officers and soldiers. The superiors are organizing forces to search and rescue."

It has been confirmed that there are as many as six officers and soldiers who died!

Han Yu was stunned, the chief took off his hat, tears rolled in his eyes.

Deputy Director Yu was silent for a moment, and then said: "The good news is that the water flow in the breach is gradually slowing down, and the water level difference between the river and the embankment is not as large as before. Aircraft barges under 100 tons can rush into the embankment for search and rescue."

"That's good news."

Han Yu took a few deep breaths and raised the walkie-talkie strapped to his chest: "Battle Commander Li Battalion Commander Li, I am Han Yu, please answer!"

"Got it, Secretary Han, please tell me."

"From now on, rescue and protection of pipeline dangers must be the first priority. Let Du Yuan go to each team to pick people. We need to expand the grouting rescue team and have the ability to rescue three to four pipeline dangers at the same time!"

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PS: Although many social activities have been rejected, there are some activities that must be attended.

I’m going to the capital for a meeting tomorrow, I’m leaving today, I’m going home the night after tomorrow, there are only two chapters today, I don’t know if I can keep updating tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I’m hereby asking for leave, and I sincerely ask for your forgiveness.