Under the attention and supervision of the central government, municipalities directly under the central government, and provinces, the earthquake prevention work in Beijing, Tianjin, and Tang has been done carefully and meticulously, mobilized in place, and the top and bottom are unanimous, with one heart and one mind, in the face of the tremendous pressure of the earthquake, all the people have given up the philosophy of struggle, cooperate with each other, support each other, a major earthquake has united the hearts of the people, everyone has done all their ability to do a good job, and all the work has been done relatively satisfactorily, although there are some things because the time is too short, the gap in the construction of the earthquake-proof shed is not small, and they can only ask the troops for help. A large number of military tents have been supported for standby, but the collection of disaster prevention materials is not enough, and there are still a lot of machinery, equipment, and materials that have not been moved.

July 27 is finally going to pass, everywhere is still brightly lit, there are still many people busy, this time Zhao Weidong also moved out of the guest house, living in the earthquake shelter of the earthquake headquarters of the prefectural party committee, this time is next to Fu Guangcan, secretary of the prefectural party committee, when he saw the watch, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, so he reminded:

"Secretary Fu, it seems that it is the last moment, I ordered all the people who are still carrying the materials to stop carrying them and withdraw to a safe place, no matter how important the materials are, no one's life is heavier, send a team to conduct the final inspection, and forcibly take away a few people who do not leave."

"Yes, human life is at stake, immediately call the whole area to carry out the final inspection, everyone starts the earthquake prevention operation, no one is allowed to be missed, notify immediately, and follow up the implementation." July 28, 1976, 3 a.m. Beijing time.

Time passed unconsciously, Zhao Weidong was sweating, the temperature was particularly high this night, the weather was sultry, and there was an indescribable depressing atmosphere. At 3 a.m. on the 28th, a light rain fell from the sky. Zhao Weidong looked at Tangshan City under the cover of night in front of him, all the sounds were silent, although they were all the same, the Tangshan earthquake in history took the lives and happiness of countless people, but the Tangshan City in front of him was an empty city, all that was destroyed was some empty houses, all the people were looking at the family circle where they had lived and worked, and their eyes were full of attachment and reluctance.

Zhao Weidong looked up at the sky, feeling gloomy, the sky was still floating with a strangely shaped colored cloud, said red is not red, said purple is not purple, the sky curtain appears particularly dim, and then there was a piercing "click" sound in the sky, and then, the thunderous sound followed, at this time, with the strong light appeared, reflecting the sky and the earth were red, at 3:42:53.8 in the morning, if 400 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploded suddenly in the crust 16 kilometers above the ground! Before the people could wake up from these few short seconds, the ground quickly rose upwards and began to jolt and shake violently, and all of them could not stand on their feet, and all of them rolled to the ground, unable to hold themselves up. In the darkness, all the people only felt that the earth was swaying, everyone was falling into an abyss, Zhao Weidong only saw the sound of the house collapsing but could not hear the roar of the collapse at all, only saw the shadow of the boundless city's tall and low buildings, just now it was still there, it was gone after a while, the sky was rotating, the earth was shaking, the houses of the whole city were collapsing in the strong shaking, the streets, railways, and buildings were dislocated, deformed, and collapsed in the strong shaking, and turned into ruins in an instant. The earthquake zone includes almost all the buildings in the 47 square kilometers on the north and south sides of the Jingshan Railway, and an 8-kilometer-long and 30-meter-wide seismic crack zone cuts across walls, houses, roads, and canals. Zhao Weidong also saw a fireball flying into the sky from the city, red and dazzling, flying into the air before extinguishing. In the earthquake area and its surrounding areas, there are a large number of fracture zones, water and sand sprays, blowouts, gravity collapses, rolling rocks, slope collapses, ground slides, foundation subsidence, karst cave collapses, and coal mine goaf collapses. The sky over Tangshan was flashing with lightning, thunder and thunder, and the wind was howling on the ground, and in the strong shaking, this city of a million people was razed to the ground in an instant.

Zhao Weidong knew that at this time, there was a loud noise of houses collapsing in Tianjin, and former Australian Prime Minister Whitlam, who was visiting the city, was awakened, and terrible cracks had appeared in the hotel where he was staying. Beijing also shook non-stop, the Monument to the People's Heroes was trembling, and on the brick and wood structure of the ** city tower, the thick beams and columns made a "quack" sound as if they were about to break. In the land of China, from Harbin City in the north, to Bengbu in Anhui Province in the south, to Qingjiang in Jiangsu, to Dengkou in Inner Mongolia and Wuzhong in Ningxia in the west, and to the islands of Bohai Bay and the border in Northeast China in the east, the entire land of North China is trembling violently, and the people in this vast area are feeling the extraordinary shaking. And powerful seismic waves have long been spreading across the globe at speeds and in ways that people can't feel.

In a short 23 seconds, a city disappeared in front of him, followed by five or six consecutive large-scale aftershocks, people couldn't stand at all, all the people were on the ground without an image, or hugged their own side can hold your things, Fu Guangcan, the secretary of the prefectural party committee, was also rolling on the ground, Zhao Weidong could have saved himself from this crime, but he thought to himself that saving people this time must make people question, why can it be so accurate, don't do anything different, roll on the ground like everyone, But seeing so many people survive is all worth it.

After the most urgent wave of the earthquake passed, all the people got up from the ground one by one, but none of them looked embarrassed, but they were all happy, if they didn't leave, how many people could survive in the basically destroyed city, the first thing Fu Guangcan, the secretary of the prefectural party committee, did when he stood up was to come over and hold Zhao Weidong's hand tightly and said:

"Comrade Weidong, thank you so much, in fact, I want to thank two people, one is your uncle, the other is you, you rushed thousands of miles to Tangshan to save the lives of the people of our city, without your arrival we can say that we can not rise this earthquake prevention and disaster reduction battle, the vast majority of our people will be destroyed in this earthquake, I never thought that the power of nature is so huge, you are my savior, is the savior of the people of our whole Tangshan area, thank you! Thank you! ”

"Secretary Fu, now all the lives are saved, but there are still a lot of aftershocks in the future, this earthquake is a relatively rare big earthquake from the scene feeling and destructiveness, I estimate that it is about 8 magnitude, such a large earthquake needs to release the energy is very huge, although the aftershocks behind it cannot be so big, but there is still a possibility of aftershocks of about 7 magnitude, and the destructiveness is also very huge, these days can not enter the dangerous house, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties."

The sky gradually brightened, and for the first time Tangshan lost its dawn, and it was shrouded in mist. Lime, loess, coal dust, soot, and the dead matter produced by the destruction of a city are mixed into a gray mist. The thick fog was pervasive, floating, rising piece by piece, wisps, and wisps, like a curtain slowly suspended in the air, silently enveloping this ruin, shrouding this empty and silent city of doom. The loud sound of a nuclear explosion during the great earthquake and the deep gasps of the earth as it shook were no longer audible. Just a few hours ago, Tangshan was like a complete leaf, shaking in the wind; Now, it is crippled and dying. In the gray-white mist, only a mysterious and terrifying battlefield remained, and all the sounds were gone. Tangshan, in the faint morning light, the fine dust, one by one, drifts slowly, and in the fog, the former Tangshan is gone. The first floor of the three-story reinforced concrete structure of the library library of Tangshan Institute of Mining and Metallurgy shears and slides to the west, and the original three-story building seems to be swallowed up by the earth's crust and is shortened out of thin air. The twisted railroad tracks of Tangshan Railway Station, the eastern railroad track is serpentine and curved, overlooking its silhouette like a flat iron gourd; The seven-story building of Kailuan Hospital has become a triangular leaning tower like a mound, and only two ward-sized buildings remain at the top, trembling diagonally on a remnant wall that may collapse at any time, and the balconies of all the balconies have collapsed, and the balconies of the three-story building have smashed vertically on the balconies of the second-story building, and they are not falling.

One wall of the dormitory building of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee was torn down, and the side of the three-story building exposed six small black open spaces; At the guest house for foreign guests at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, only an empty frame remains of the two-story restaurant, and the gorgeous wall lamps are still faintly visible on the walls that have not collapsed; The cement road of Tangshan No. 10 Middle School was broken by the barrage, one to the left and the other to the right, and the Kailuan Mining Bureau Hospital, a guest house in Tangshan after the earthquake, was dislocated by as much as 1 meter; The trees on both sides of Jixiang Road, at the moment when the earth shook, seemed to have wanted to avoid it, and some trees had "escaped" away from the tree rows, but they were pulled to death, and the dislocated trees were 1.5 meters away from the tree rows; in the health center of Yejituo Commune in Qian'an County, one side of the door buttress slid to the south and leaned on the other door buttress; and the high gate buttress of the gate of the Kaiping Chemical Plant seemed to be broken by a pair of giant hands at the moment of the earthquake, and it turned left and tilted; what was even more alarming was that in the place where the ground fissure of the "7 and 28" earthquake passed, The Party School of the Tangshan Prefectural Party Committee, the Dongxin Street Primary School, the Regional Agricultural Research Institute, and the entire Lunan residential area have all disappeared as if they had been erased by a pair of giant hands. It was as if a black demon was wreaking havoc here, and it was it that had leveled the streets, broken bridges, snuffed out chimneys, and pushed trains off the tracks. A mischief of nature has left Tangshan unrecognizable, with scattered concrete beams and columns, cold machine wreckage, diagonally tilted telephone poles, and half-cut water towers, lying sideways and vertically. The slabs that were about to fall but did not fall, the one or two bent steel bars hanging in the air, and the yellowed earthen walls of the white and cracked highway seemed to push a body with skin and flesh to the point of clarity.

In this earthquake, although the city was destroyed by the earthquake, not even everyone was destroyed together, and no one died because of the earthquake, which is the biggest gain. However, there are still some people who have been injured in the earthquake, but in general it is not serious. A large number of materials were rushed out in time, which greatly reduced economic losses. Zhao Weidong's trip changed their fate: 242769 people were killed, 164851 were seriously injured, more than 700,000 people were slightly injured (the above figures include the Beijing and Tianjin areas), 15,886 families were disintegrated, 7,821 wives lost their husbands, 8,047 husbands lost their wives, 3,817 became paraplegics, 25,061 people were crippled, and 4,204 children under the age of 10 had no parents. Zhao Weidong's trip changed the major loss of residents' property and production equipment, in the last world's earthquake caused 55% of the production equipment to be destroyed, this time the production equipment was damaged no more than 10%, because the ones that could be moved were moved out, and the ones that could not be moved belonged to large machinery and equipment, which were not easy to be damaged, and the same residents' property was also moved out. In terms of transportation, in response to the damage of roads and railways after the earthquake, a special committee has been set up to organize repairs immediately after the earthquake, in terms of water supply, backup water sources have been selected in advance to ensure water supply after the earthquake, emergency power supply has been prepared for use after the earthquake, and radio communications have been prepared for the problem of all communication interruptions, and the losses caused by the disaster have been reported to the higher authorities in a timely manner after the earthquake. In short, the scheduled tasks were successfully completed, and they were exceeded.

It's time to say goodbye, Zhao Weidong thinks that leaving now is mainly to solve the problem of transportation, it is impossible to leave without transportation, now the conditions should be good, and the property of residents has been effectively preserved, but in this era, private individuals do not have cars, vehicles are all units, and it is impossible to rent a car even if they have money, they originally wanted to leave quietly, it seems that it is difficult to do it, only to find Secretary Fu.

When he came to the headquarters and saw that Secretary Fu was busy, Zhao Weidong saw that when Secretary Fu was free, he stepped forward to greet Secretary Fu and said:

"Secretary Fu, what are you busy with?"

"Comrade Weidong, I'm sorry, there have been a lot of things in the past two days, and I don't have time to take care of you, what do you want me to do when you come here today?"

"Secretary Fu, I do have something to do with you today, I have been away from home for almost a month, and now that the matter is done, I want to go back, you can help arrange a car."

"Why are you leaving so soon, we haven't thanked you properly, the current conditions are not permitted, you can stay for a while."

"Secretary Fu, we will come to Japan for a long time, I will graduate from high school next year, I still want to study at Tsinghua University, I am afraid that I will not have a chance, I will make a special trip to see you then." You're still busy from now on, so I won't bother you. ”

"Okay, I'll make arrangements for you, I think so, tomorrow the central leaders will come to our Tangshan disaster area to offer condolences, you will go to Beijing with the leader's plane, and then take the train back, what do you think?"

"Okay, let's settle it."

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