Chapter Ninety-Five: The Great Flood
The heavy rains over the past few days have caused the water level of the Yokogawa River to rise sharply, and the already dangerous levee is vulnerable to destruction and collapse.
After the raging river hit the embankment 1,632 times, the embankment was torn apart like a piece of tissue paper.
Immediately after, the turbulent torrent swallowed the entire embankment like a ferocious beast in an instant.
After the flood broke through the levees, it roared straight towards the vast plain irrigated by the Yokogawa, and the rushing water was like the roar of death, constantly reaping the lives along the way, and chaos and despair permeated the Yokogawa.
The flood swept away tens of thousands of houses, swept away countless civilians, and swept away everything that could be seen in the land.
The flood rushed across the plain and into the fortified cities that stood on the Yokogawa Plain, and if it were not for the thick walls to resist it, I am afraid that the entire city would be uprooted.
But even so, the flood overflowed the houses in the city, and the big and small cities were reduced to Ze in an instant.
The mob that was raging everywhere was ruthlessly swept away by the sudden flood, and in the face of natural disasters, no matter what hatred, no matter what status, it was all the same end.
In this great flood, in addition to the people who hid in high places barely survived, there were also a group of survivors on the embankment built by Wencheng.
The flood failed to break through the embankment carefully reinforced by Wencheng, although the surrounding embankment was washed away, but with the resistance of this embankment, the turbulent flood did not have time to overflow this side, and was crowded forward by the flood from behind.
As a result, the only remaining levee and the land behind it became an isolated island under the flood.
The news of the devastating flood in Yokogawa soon spread to Shangjing, and Kuang Hua urgently convened a court meeting with his sick body and immediately organized a disaster relief team to solve the flood.
As for the previous riots of the Yokogawa workers, it is natural to mention them in one stroke.
The disaster relief team, which was personally commanded by Kuang Hua himself, Wen Dao and a group of cadres, drew up a disaster relief plan very efficiently and sent people to the rescue on the same day.
Han Ming was a member of this group, his qualifications were not enough, and it was Kuang Hua who transferred him to it exceptionally.
Han Ming fully expressed his views at the disaster relief meeting, including the aftermath of the disaster relief, which surprised everyone.
Thanks to his extraordinary memory, Han Ming at this moment has a heavy responsibility, and after preparing to go home to explain some things to Ye Die, he organized the city defense battalion to prepare for rescue.
As soon as he arrived home, Ye Die cried and found Han Ming.
"Woo, male...... Childe, I heard, I heard that there was a major flood in Yokogawa?"
Han Ming looked at Ye Die, who was raining pear blossoms, and felt distressed for a while, so he hurriedly hugged her and comforted her gently: "Don't cry, your father is fine, Wen Cheng told me that thanks to your father, he was able to catch Cao Jie, a big corrupt official." ”
When Ye Die heard this, she stopped crying and raised her head with a puzzled expression.
"And where is my dad now?"
"I heard Wen Cheng say that your father was on the embankment he was building at the time, and when he came back, your father had to take care of a few people, so he didn't come back with him. Although the flood is ferocious, the embankment repaired by Wencheng is still very strong, and your father should be fine there. ”
Ye Die heard this, and her hands kept tearing at the corners of her clothes.
"But Childe, I'm still a little worried about Daddy. ”
"Okay, listen to me, your father is fine, it just so happens that I have to deal with the aftermath of the disaster area in a while. When the time comes, I'll bring your father to you in its entirety. Han Ming comforted.
"Hmm. ”
Ye Die nodded, barely calming down the anxious emotions in her heart, she and her father have been dependent on each other since childhood, if anything happens to her father, she doesn't dare to think about it, now she can only keep praying that her father is safe.
During this time, Han Ming also began to raise supplies.
It didn't take long for the flood waters to reced, revealing a devastated land and the entire Yokogawa basin in shambles. Among them were debris of buildings that had been washed away by the flood, tree trunks that had been uprooted, and corpses that had been soaked up by the flood.
Fortunately, although the flood was fierce, it also receded quickly, and if it did not recede, the people surrounded by the water would begin to fall into the most unbearable hunger.
As soon as the water receded, a large number of troops rushed to the Henghe area from various places to carry out rescue work in several counties and counties, and large quantities of grain were transported from all over the country to the disaster areas. The people who had just been rescued all cheered, rejoicing that they had survived the disaster.
The survivors came down from the rooftops of the city and the surrounding mountains, and everyone was amazed by the sight of the land, which was desolate and the flood that had robbed the whole land of life. As far as the eye can see, there is no superfluous color, as if God is punishing the world.
Some people are glad that they have survived the disaster, but most people are immersed in grief, losing their loved ones, losing their land, losing their homes on which they depend, and living is no better than dying.
Ren Feng's whole person seemed to have lost his soul, he remembered that he was originally working in Mrs. He's house, and later heard that the government was going to renovate the embankment, as long as it was done, he would be paid, thinking that it was better than doing it in the landlord's house, so he came to the embankment.
The work was easy, and he didn't do anything for a day, but it always made him feel unsteady.
This feeling did not last long, and the problem came, and he heard from his co-workers that the government was prepared to pay them for their debts, and sent people to watch them so as not to make trouble.
Hearing this, it is a clay man who also has three parts of anger, even if Ren Fengdang is angry, he is waiting to take the money back to pay off the debt, let himself work in vain for so long, if he goes back and does not pay the account, his own land will be taken to pay off the debt, that land is the lifeblood of their Ren family for generations, if it is lost in his hands, even if he dies in the future, what face does he have to go to see his ancestors.
In addition, I don't know who made the first move against the officers and soldiers, and the two sides contradicted each other, and the civil unrest began.
In fact, Ren Feng didn't want to do this in his heart, but at that time, anger had already overwhelmed his mind, and his reason had already been burned out by anger, and he participated in the workers' riot.
Ren Feng followed the rioting workers to first smash the county government, and then was coerced by the raging mob, coupled with the emotional infection of the surrounding workers, and his hatred of the landlords. In this way, he followed everyone to the landlord's compound and ransacked the landlord's house.
But the riot didn't last long, and just as he was thinking twice about how to take the next step, the flood came.
He didn't have time to think about it, so he found a high place and climbed up.
When the flood waters receded, he hurried in the direction of his home without caring for anything else. Along the way, he kept worrying about his wife at home, praying that his wife would survive the flood.
But the moment he returned home, he felt as if he had been suddenly struck by lightning as he watched the houses on his land turn into a barren land.
Then he went crazy and searched for his wife, convinced in his heart that she must not be dead, and that she must be hiding somewhere, waiting for him to save her.