Traveling through Xueba is full of blessings

Chapter 319
The [-]nd Regiment arrived at Tangzhuang within six hours, but was delayed for a long time because of two broken bridges. The soldiers scratched their heads at this situation, and their regiment leader Ye Boxuan was even more irritable.

However, there are still more troops arriving one after another, still following the old path of the [-]nd Regiment. Those roads leading to Tangzhuang must be blocked. Difficulties and dangers.

It was already late at night when the [-]nd Regiment actually entered the Tangzhuang area, the visibility was basically zero, and it was raining heavily. Under such weather conditions, Ye Boxuan knew that it would be unrealistic to immediately carry out search and rescue in the dark environment. up.

Ye Boxuan ordered the communications soldiers to contact the Kyoto headquarters for instructions on the next action, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to set up rainproof tents and start a fire to cook immediately.

Everyone must stay away from the building to prevent aftershocks, but Ye Boxuan himself stood in the rain, thinking about the problem.

For a whole day, the soldiers had no water or rice.

The cooking team set up a cauldron under a row of rainproof shelters built by the roadside.Zhai Yuanfang directed all officers and soldiers to rest in place.

The soldiers of the [-]nd Regiment were in dire straits, and each soldier acted in unity. They were wearing heavy raincoats, sitting down on the wet ground, taking off their helmets and drinking from the rain.

A large pot of rice porridge was cooked quickly, and the rain gradually became lighter.

The lads took out their tea mugs one after another and looked at the steaming cauldron with longing eyes, as if they were in a paradise on earth. They eagerly waited for the moment of happiness and prepared to drink a bowl of hot porridge to warm their bodies, but at this moment, Suddenly someone shouted:

"Look!"

Ye Boxuan was also reminded by this voice, stopped talking with Zhai Yuanfang who was beside him, and looked into the distance.

Zhai Yuanfang suddenly opened his eyes wide, and Ye Boxuan squinted at...

I saw a group of vague figures not far away, swaying in the rain and moving towards them.

Those figures were still in shock and staggered, like groups of sleepwalkers thrown to a strange planet in a trance.

All their actions are numb, they neither cry nor cry out for pain.

Ye Boxuan pointed at the group of figures: "Send me an order to turn on the headlights of all vehicles to illuminate the road for these people!"

Approaching, the soldiers were shocked.

They discovered that the refugees in the disaster area were covering their bodies with various clothes.

There are fat foreign pajamas with strange styles produced by clothing factories, as well as various Peking opera costumes.A shriveled old man, even wearing a floral skirt.

These scenes are enough to show the urgency and embarrassment of the people when they fled.

And behind these adults, followed by a group of children in scantily-clothed clothes.

These children's faces were covered with blood and dust, staring into pairs of terrified eyes, sobbing silently.

When these figures stood in front of the soldiers, they looked at the hot cauldron, and the longing in their eyes was evident.

The children no longer cared about being scalded, instead of struggling to move like before, the light in their eyes was rekindled, and they trotted to the side of the pot, swallowing non-stop.

The soldiers couldn't eat any more, and distributed the porridge in their hands to the hungry children.

The cooking class boiled another pot, and everyone distributed the steaming porridge to the rest of the adult victims.

The shriveled old man finished drinking a mug of hot porridge, his body was warmed up, and he stood in front of Ye Boxuan wearing a floral skirt while leaning on a wooden stick.

The old man bowed to Ye Boxuan, and Ye Boxuan hurriedly dodged to support him.

The uncle choked up when he opened his mouth: "The people of Tangzhuang will never forget, and the children and grandchildren of Tangzhuang will never forget. Thank you, thank you. If you come, we will be saved!"

The old man in a flowered skirt cried, crying mournfully, and his face was wrinkled from crying.Seeing the green military uniform in the wind and rain, the uncle couldn't control himself.

Ye Boxuan and Zhai Yuanfang looked at the dark and damaged city in silence, they only had one belief in their hearts, no matter how difficult it is, we are here, we dare to compete with the sky and the earth!Go and help the people of Tangzhuang!

The third pot of porridge in the cooking class was ready soon, and the orderly filled a teapot for Ye Boxuan.Ye Boxuan sighed, and then began to drink the porridge with his neck up, thinking to himself: "Just let the soldiers rest while they sip the porridge, it's time to move forward..."

Just as he was thinking, he heard a mournful roar in the air:
"Run away, the Tushui River is about to burst!!!"

Ye Boxuan shook his hands, the teapot of hot porridge almost spilled all over his face.

Ye Boxuan frowned, put down his rice bowl, and called a company commander over:
"Take a few soldiers to see what's going on? Call that person over, and see who knows the specific situation, and call them all to talk about it. By the way, telling them to stop barking is enough to panic Yes! What’s wrong with not being lively enough!”

Not long after, several scouts brought a middle-aged man who was naked and barefoot, covered in mud and blood, with a mournful face.

When the muddy man saw Ye Boxuan, he grinned and began to cry:

"Are you the leader? Leader, we look forward to the stars and the moon, and finally our People's Liberation Army is looking forward to it!

Huh... You guys need to save Tangzhuang, the Tushui Dam is about to burst, and Tangzhuang is about to turn into a vast ocean, what a disaster!Why are we so miserable... woo woo..." The mud man burst into tears.

Ye Boxuan frowned slightly: "Comrade, calm down! Even if it's an urgent matter, you have to make it clear first!"

The muddy man wiped his face and sniffed his nose, feeling that it was still not enough, rubbed his face up and down vigorously with his dirty hands, and then he calmed down a little, and began to speak three words in two.

Ye Boxuan understood.This mud man is a staff member of the Tuhe Reservoir Management Office.

The Tuhe Management Office is responsible for the daily maintenance of the Tushui Reservoir located 15 kilometers northeast of Tangzhuang.

Because of this earthquake, the entire reservoir sank more than one meter deep, and the main dam had a large longitudinal crack, and horizontal fractures every tens of meters, with dozens of cracks.

Coupled with another day of torrential rain, the water level rose sharply, and the dam was in danger.

The bottom elevation of the entire reservoir is more than ten meters higher than Tangzhuang, and now it has stored nearly 4000 million cubic meters of water.

It is conceivable that once the embankment breaks, a lake of water will be poured on the heads of the people of Tangzhuang, and the shattered city of Tangzhuang will be completely submerged in the flood.

Once this secondary disaster breaks out, it will be as devastating as the earthquake itself!
Ye Boxuan did the same as that muddy man did before, he rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, and quickly called Zhai Yuanfang:

"Old Zhai, it's an emergency. It's too late to report to the superior. I'll take the first battalion to the reservoir for emergency rescue, and you will take the rest of the troops to stay and wait for orders. Let's keep in touch!"

The common people heard that they were fleeing, but the green uniforms put down their rice bowls and stood up in a unified movement without slogan orders.Waiting for orders.

Ye Boxuan put on his military cap: "The first battalion, follow me!"

(End of this chapter)