A group of rushed People's Liberation Army soldiers left. Let the water situation be temporarily controlled. The people of Funing County breathed a sigh of relief. But they haven't even had time to get a good rest. But an even greater test is coming.

On the night of July in the year of his nephew, strong winds and torrential rain mercilessly hit the land in Hanning County, Xiaonan Province. The Tingjiang, Hongci and Hudu rivers that pass through the border are restless, and the rising and rising floods seriously threaten the land of Hanning.

At about the mouth of the night, the embankment section of the Hanning Fang Weaving Factory in the east branch of the Hongci River was brutally torn open by the flood. 3 eyes, o meters "fierce rice, the gap will expand instantly, such as cubic meters of flood water poured into the scratch, pouring thousands of acres of fertile land, the lives and property of thousands of people are facing a serious threat! Hanning County is in an emergency!

"We must rescue the trapped people at all costs!" The same order was quickly transmitted from the capital and Xingcheng to Hanning. The leaders of Xiaonan Province and Langliu City quickly led the military and civilians to organize the rescue, and Xiao Ding, the deputy of the Langliu Municipal Party Committee and the mayor Xiao Ding, who was sitting in Hanning to direct the flood fighting and rescue, dragged their tired bodies that had not closed their eyes for four days and rushed to the front line of the Ningzao Institute to command the nearest command as soon as possible.

Zhou Yunlan's little genius "kindergarten" is in the gap. Zhou Yunlan and the children spent a dark and dreary night with the turbid waves and the howling river wind. Just as she was cutting for many and the child was at this time, the flood became more and more urgent, and the waves were getting higher and higher. The assault boat that came to rescue Zhou Yunlan was overturned and sank into the water; They sent another boat, and after several fights, the assault boat was overturned and swept away by the high waves. Zhou Yunlan was trapped alone on the Lin of a building. The night of Peony Day in July was so long and terrifying for Zhou Yunlan, with the heart-wrenching cries for help, the roar of the flood, and the rumbling of the collapsed houses echoing in her ears. The building she was in was crumbling to the ground by the floods, and she was so desperate that she was in despair.

Teacher Zhou was trapped, which affected the hearts of leaders at all levels. Xiao Ding, the front-line commander and mayor of Ningzaoyuan, urgently contacted Li Jiajin, commander of the Langliu Military Division. Commander Li urgently told the Air Force to request reinforcements and use a helicopter to build a ladder to rescue Zhou Yunlan, but. When the helicopter flew to the scene, due to the heavy wind and rain, and the building where Zhou Yunlan was located was dangerous. The plane was not approachable. One scheme after another failed.

Zhou Yunlan, who has not eaten or drunk for two days and two nights. With all kinds of horrors, I entered an even more difficult night. She thought a lot, a lot about it that night. thought of her innocent and lively daughter, who had just turned two years old; I thought of my husband, who was still on the embankment; I thought of the smiling faces like flowers in the kindergarten. She faced the sky. He shouted "I can't die, the children need me".

Sound. At this time, at night, the local cadres of the ambulance headquarters with Mayor Xiao Dingwei and the commanders and fighters at all levels who came to help the flood fighting and rescue of Hanning County, Langliu City, temporarily held the "Emergency Plan for Rescuing Zhou Yunlan" meeting held all night. In the end, this arduous task fell to a certain Zhouqiao regiment of the Wenxian Military Region, which has rich experience in flood fighting and emergency rescue.

On July Knife Day, the head of the regiment, Li Xinmin, selected Tang Xuerong, Li Changzhi, Zheng Haibin and other people with strong physique and good water ability to form a "death squad"

A life-and-death struggle began. The Mi Death Squad climbed the tower angrily with a large number of ropes. Zheng Haibin stood upstairs and grabbed one end of the rope, Tang Xuerong and Li Changzhi grabbed the other end of the rope, jumped into the rapids, and soon drifted to Building 2. However, when they drifted from Building 2 to Building 3, they were crushed by rows of vicious waves. At the critical moment, they happened to run into a tree, and the two grabbed the branches. Emerge from the water and continue to fight against the evil waves. After a few rounds, they finally climbed to Building 3. In this way, they were in danger again and again, climbing again and again. After more than two hours of fighting, he finally arrived at Building 7, where Zhou Yunlan was.

Relatives are coming, the PLA is coming, and the savior is coming! I didn't eat or drink for 3 days and 3 nights, and Zhou Yunlan, who was frightened, cried in a choked throat. The soldiers also shed tears.

Li Changzhi took off his life jacket without hesitation and put it on Zhou Yunlan's body. Zhou Yunlan was wearing a life jacket with body temperature, and said with tears in her eyes: "This is to leave the hope of life to others." Keep the threat of death to yourself! She refused to accept it, but Li Changzhi carried her without saying anything, supported by Tang Xuerong. Move forward step by step along the rope erected between the two floors.

The water was high and the waves were high, and he sank and floated and floated, and floated and sank. Li Changzhi couldn't hold on, and Tang Xuerong stepped up. Zheng Haibin, who has always held the rope of life and death, no matter how strong he pulled, he always pulled the rope straight, and he didn't care about the blood blisters on his hands. After more than an hour of life-and-death struggle, Zhou Yunlan was finally rescued. Seeing the target rescued. Xiao Ding, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, finally couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The waist pole, which had always been stunned and straight, bent slightly, but immediately straightened up again, turned his head and looked at the cadres of the Hanning County Defense General with bloodshot eyes and asked, "Where else is the most dangerous?" Take me to see it. ”

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Chengkun, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, also came to Hanning County after inspecting the embankment in Taohua County. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 10,000th, more than four people were still trapped in the office building and dormitory building of Ningfang in Dangchong, Linhong. The officers and men of the Zhouqiao Company of the Xingcheng Garrison District tried to rush through the torrent again and again to save people, but as soon as the assault boat approached the target, it was overturned by the stormy waves

Wang Chengkun, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, who was in command at the scene, decided that the Hanning Shibi Steamship Company, a Hong Kong-funded enterprise in Hanning, and a certain regiment of the Muxian Military Region stationed in Xingcheng Zhouqiao, should jointly undertake the arduous task of rescuing the trapped masses after an emergency meeting with the city and county leaders present.

The Ningfang dormitory building and the flood embankment are arranged in two columns in the north and south at a vertical angle, and the most difficult to rescue are the five and six dormitory buildings. The rescue team decided to break the window into the building from Building 3, which is closest to the embankment, and to build a chain bridge between the gable at the north end of Building 3 and the gable at the south end of Building 6 next to it.

At the right time, the rescue team members successfully entered Building 3. Wang Zhenghua, general manager of Shibiyi Steamship Company, and his employees carried the steel cable to the gable window at the north end of Building 3, and Xu Xiannian, the commander of Zhouqiao Company, jumped off the window sill, grabbed a cable connecting the two buildings, and climbed up the gable of Building 6 to guess the Lou window. After intense and arduous construction. Two wire ropes were erected. Tian many soldiers brought bamboo splints and laid them on the wire rope. Old Shell Points. Shi Fulan, a weaver girl, took the children and walked across the rickety chain bridge with the support of the soldiers. The four trapped people on the 6th floor reached the embankment safely.

Building 6 is connected to a multi-meter-wide torrent of water, and there is no way to build a bridge between the two floors. Wang Zhenghua, general manager of Shibibai Steamship Company, gave an order: "Hurry up and find a barge!" "At 2 o'clock, the company's luxury passenger liner carried an iron barge. A number of PLA soldiers swarmed up and lifted the iron barge up the embankment. The fighters standing in Building 3 threw down a cable. Li Yunzhan and Liu Lianan, employees of Chabiqiao's company, pulled the cable and jumped onto the barge, and a huge whirlpool tilted the hull into Feng Du, and Li Yunzhan's head was hit against the gable.

After much repetition, they finally rushed through the whirlpool. Li Yunzhan and Liu Lianan climbed upstairs along the sewer pipe. At the moment when the iron barge drifted to the outside of the building, Zhu Xin'an, a crew member of the company, jumped into the rapids from the second floor of Building 6 and pushed the iron barge to the relatively gentle floodway between Building 5 and 6. The trapped people smashed open a window, took the cable thrown by Zhu Xin'an, and fixed it on the pillars of Building No. 6 and No. 6. In the old days, 3 children were transported to Building 6. The soldiers carried the children in their arms, crossed the chain bridge, entered Building 3, and then got through the window of Building 3 and walked across a section of bamboo and wood bridge to the embankment. 3 pcs. Praying "the old one, when the time came, the iron barge passed back and forth, and rescued the first and last trapped people on the building to the sixth building.

While rescuing the victims, rescue work is also in full swing.

At the scene of the rescue, Xiao Zong, deputy commander-in-chief of the Langliu City Defense Command, decisively issued an order: "Repair the defense line!" "Many people braved the wind and rain to rush to Shuyuanzhou to rescue. However. The small courtyard of the Academy, which was only more than four acres in area, was quickly filled by floods, and the embankment between the courtyards was broken open two more openings, and the second line of defense was lost.

"Protect the county seat and repair the embankment in the north of the academy!" After listening to Mayor Xiao's emergency report, Wang Chengkun agreed with Xiao's opinion. Such a decision was made. But it is necessary to repair the old kilometer-long North Dam before the flood arrives. Hanning County alone is not up to the task. Then. At the same time, Langliu City issued an emergency "troop transfer" order to all counties. Two hours later, a rescue team of more than 2,000 people from the nearest city came; Another hour later, the Dingqing District Commando composed of persuading O people came; Then. A weak number of vehicles carrying the Peach Blossom Front army came, and the support teams of Linli and An Xiang also arrived from a hundred miles away."

At this time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Government Affairs Yuan already knew about the situation and danger of the Ningzao Institute in Hanning County, and it was on this day. Jiang Enguo, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, state president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Hong Dingbang, premier of the State Council, successively instructed the Xiaonan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government and the Langliu Municipal Party Committee and Government to urgently evacuate the people in Ningzaoyuan and its surroundings, make every effort to rescue the trapped people, and make every effort to "put people first". Strive to minimize human losses.

After receiving the instructions of the general secretary and the premier, the provincial, city, and county levels convened temporary emergency meetings to abandon the proposal and once again intensify efforts to rescue people and fulfill the instructions of the central authorities.

Under the heavy night, in the vast smoke and rain, Wang Gong's many PLA officers and soldiers rode in a number of military vehicles. More than 20,000 soldiers and civilians set up the embankment section divided by the "Corps" of Zhanlang Liucheng on the 10,000-meter north embankment of Shuyuanzhou, which was the most difficult. In order to ensure the quality of the embankment, they divided into two routes. Dredging all the way, digging all the way. Some migrant workers knelt in the mud and kept picking up the mud behind them with their hands, and the migrant workers became "mud people" one by one, and the place where the soil was taken was getting farther and farther away. The dirt pickers almost trotted away, and some of them ran away from their shoes.

On the construction site of Huanxi Town, Tie Xiaomei was like a man, digging soil, carrying soil, carrying bags, and her head and eyebrows were covered with muddy water. Someone asked her: "The water is rising in Hanning, why are you working so hard?" She said, "The farmers of the world are one family." Hanning is in trouble. We should give it our full support. ”

After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, a day with a length of 10,000 meters, a height of 2 meters, a bottom width of 4 meters, and a top width of 2 meters, a north embankment that can block floods above the concave meter elevation meanders to protect the county seat of Hanning.

On August 7, Mengxi Datuo in Xiaobei Province collapsed. This means that the flood that is more than 8 meters above the ground in the north of Hanning can be compared to Xunsangai, which not only makes the county town of Hanning face a catastrophe. It will also affect many counties and cities in Qukouxi and Nanyunmeng.

"Rush to repair the north embankment and block the water of the Yangtze River abroad!" Xiao Zhenxun made this major decision.

But it is not easy to build a 3-meter embankment in a short period of time in a section between two rivers and one embankment! A number of PLA commanders and fighters, armed police officers and soldiers, and migrant workers braved the scorching sun and the scorching heat, built steel frames, built platforms, picked up soil, moved stones, repaired embankments, and fought day and night. On the construction site, cars, tractors, scrapers, and iron flows are rolling.

In August, floodwaters on both sides of the levee flooded all the fields, making it an insurmountable obstacle to the construction of the levee. When a certain boat and bridge regiment heard the news, they came and fought for the first hour. A boat bridge more than a meter long was erected on the rolling Mingtang Lake. Groups of excavators and earth-haulers shuttled across the bridge.

In the old days of August, the flood elevation of the North Embankment rose to four meters, and the section of the embankment that had only been strengthened had been submerged to the top of the embankment, and the centimeter-high sub-embankment, which had been repaired overnight, began to hold back the water on the whole line, and the situation was very critical. Then. The officers and men of a certain Zhouqiao regiment came, the commanders and fighters of a certain antiaircraft artillery brigade arrived, and the officers and men of a certain base of the Second Artillery Corps arrived.

In the old days, in order to build the north embankment, the "lifeline" of the people of Hanning, a total of 10,000 cubic meters of soil, 10,000 cubic meters of sand and pebbles, 10,000 woven bags, and colored striped cloth were used. 10,000 meters, many tons of steel, the project costs, concave 10,000 yuan. This series of numbers condenses the sweat and blood of many soldiers and civilians in the blade force.

The short and thin North Dam has been transformed into a majestic North Embankment that can hold back the elevation of Mommi, locking in the raging floodwater.

The county seat of Hanning was finally saved. Deputy Secretary Wang Chengkun was transferred to Yuezhou to direct the flood control and rescue of Yunmeng Lake.

However, the collapse of the Ning stack is really shocking. The blade is many meters wide, and the flood water pours inward with a drop of three or four meters.

"Gao Hong plugs!" An astonishing idea formed in Xiao Ding's mind.

General Zhou Jiazuo, deputy commander of the Xiaonan Provincial Military Region, led four elite soldiers to arrive first; The leaders of Hanning County led the militia to go into battle; Wang Xiaozhong, director of the Provincial Department of Water and Power, led water conservancy experts to arrive; Thousands of tons of sand and gravel were also transported to the breach in advance under the continuous urging of Xiao Ke. A bloody battle has begun!

Gao Hong plugged the mouth, how easy it is to talk about it! A bag of sand and gravel weighing one or two hundred pounds was thrown down and swept away by the flood. Just when there was nothing to be done, Xiao Ding used a personal relationship to invite an expert from a certain department of the Beijing Military Region to take advantage of the military plane to come and promote the technology of "steel, wood, earth and rock combined dam" without delay. However, what people did not expect was that when this technology was used, it was smoothly promoted at the north and south ends. After the meter, even this new technology does not work. Because the water at the breach is meters deep, the flood water has a strong impact force. It can skew the steel frame and bend the steel pipe.

Xiao Ding, who has been thinking about this year's flood control and flood control bomb for more than half a year, finally thought of a new one with a greater chance of success at a critical moment.

On the same day, Xiao, deputy secretary of the Langliufu Party Committee, mayor, deputy commander-in-chief of the Langliu City Flood Control and Drought Relief General Headquarters, and commander of the plugging, proposed: You can make an iron bar into a triangular cage, put a stone inside, and plug the mouth with such an "iron water chestnut"!

Provincial and municipal leaders and water conservancy experts who were at the command site immediately held an emergency meeting for half an hour. After the experts' deduction, the Provincial Defense General finally agreed to this plan. Xiao Ke breathed a sigh of relief. He had already planned just now, if the provincial defense general did not agree, he would cut it first, and try it first.

On August 2, thousands of warriors threw the "iron water chestnut" into the gap on the pontoon bridge made of four large barges, and the two ends of the gap quickly advanced the two ends of the limi.

Here, what people see every day is a tragic scene that moves the world. More than four officers and men of a certain antiaircraft artillery brigade, a certain Zhouqiao regiment, and a certain aviation division of the Suixian Military Region fought here day and night. Their shoulders were worn out, and their hands were bruised. Blood was sprinkled on stones and sandbags, and in the past few days, more than four officers and soldiers have fainted on the embankment, and they have been rescued and woken up. Don't listen to the doctor's advice. Immediately back to the construction site.

Jiang Mingkun, commander of an antiaircraft artillery brigade, had a high fever and fainted twice while commanding on the construction site for six consecutive days. But still not in the line of fire. Chain warrior Liang Bing learned of his father's death at the critical moment of the gag, and he endured his grief and still carried the sandbag on his back. On the old company battle, Chen Feng's hand was cut through a meter-long hole, and the wound was blistered white, but he didn't say a word, and still grabbed the heavy work and did the dangerous work.

The gap is shrinking day by day in August. In the early hours of the morning, the lights were bright at the gap between Ning Zao, and the battle of plugging and closing the dragon began!

With the order of Commander Xiao Zhen, the heavy floating crane accurately threw a 7-ton "iron tent horn" into the dragon's mouth, and the water flow immediately slowed down. The old General Zhou Jiazuo struggled to carry a bag of sand pebbles and threw it into the dragon's mouth.

When Ling Key, the torrent that raged Ning Zaoxiao's entire old days was finally blocked. Ning Zaowan rebuilt a solid new embankment"