Xu Rui's estimate is still too optimistic.

In fact, before the evening of the next day, at noon, the flood began to pour into Anhui, although it was flooding, the water level did not rise quickly, but it still caused a deep disaster to the people in Anhui, mainly because there was no warning time, and the people in Anhui were not prepared at all.

Although the people of the independent regiment have been informing the people of central Anhui as much as possible, first, the means of communication are backward and can only rely on foot, second, the independent regiment is understaffed, and the villages notified are very limited, and third, many people do not believe it at all, so the result can be imagined, and the people who are really willing to flee their homes in advance are absolutely rare.

As a result, when the flood came, it was too late to escape.

Said that the water level rises slowly, is relative to the east of Henan, because of the close to the gap, the water level is up at once, the vast majority of the local people are even in their sleep, they have already made fish and shrimp in the water, the flood to Anhui, after hundreds of kilometers of dumping, the power has been greatly weakened, but it is still not human power can resist.

The only good thing is that when the flood reached central Anhui, it was during the day, not at night.

So in Anhui, there are not many people who are directly drowned by the flood, but there are not many people who can escape from the flood, the vast majority of the people are trapped by the flood, or trapped on the roof of their own houses, or trapped on the hill, and the worst thing is that because the flood is still continuing to drain, the water level is still rising, these houses and hills may be flooded at any time, and at that time, what awaits these people will be a catastrophe.

Fortunately, at this time, the rescue team of the Independent Regiment arrived.

Before the flood came down, the independent regiment collected some boats as much as possible, and at the same time seized the time to build a number of rafts and bamboo rafts, in the past, many local people still laughed at the independent regiment for doing these things, but at this time, the independent regiment's boats, rafts and bamboo rafts came in handy.

The people's army is the people's army, whenever there is an invasion of a foreign enemy, it is always the people's soldiers who face the enemy's bayonet with their chests and hand over their backs to the people.

This tradition has not changed in nearly 100 years!

Since the founding of the people's army, this tradition has existed, and until 50 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this glorious tradition still exists, the 98 flood, jumped into the icy river, and built a flood-resistant embankment with the body, is still the people's soldiers, the Wenchuan earthquake in 08, facing the aftershocks, risking the risk of being buried alive by the mountain collapse, deep into the epicenter, is still the people's soldiers, and in the foreseeable future, this glorious tradition will continue to be inherited.

All in all, it is not without reason that the common people support the Communist Party and love the people's army.

Those who advocate the nationalization of the armed forces will never understand that when the army loses the definition of the people, when the army truly becomes a profession, it means that the former tradition is abandoned, and the soldier who protects the safety of people's lives and property becomes a violent armed force purely used to protect the ruling class.

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"Chuchu? Plainly? ”

Gao Chu stood at the bow of a small boat, his only remaining right eye showing a panic that could not be concealed, and he was repeatedly searching the vast water in front of him, shouting loudly while searching.

Gao Chu was removed by Xu Rui because he left his post without permission during the last operation.

The current Gao Chu is just a man in the cooking class of the regiment headquarters, but this is cheaper than Gao Chu, because except for the field hospital, all the teams directly under the regiment headquarters have to participate in flood fighting and disaster relief, and the area in charge still overlaps with the independent battalion, Xu Rui's arrangement is also due to the fact that the casualties of the independent battalion are too large and the manpower may be insufficient.

After receiving the order, Gao Chu immediately found a leaky broken boat, and first found a few men from the cooking squad to carry the broken boat back to the regiment headquarters for emergency repair, saying that it was a rush repair, but in fact, it was to find a few wooden boards, seal a few holes, and then drip some paraffin around the patch, that's all.

As soon as the wrecked ship was repaired, the flood water came down immediately.

Gao Chu was worried about Chu Chu's safety, so he hurriedly got on the boat with a few guys from the cooking class and rowed desperately to Zhuzhuang.

By now, a few guys are already foaming at the mouth.

Gao Chu was still urging vigorously: "Hurry up, there's a small mountain bag over there, go over there." ”

Gao Chu was really anxious, after leaving the city, Gao Chu found that the entire central Anhui Plain had become an ocean, and when he looked at it, he only saw the yellow and clear water, and he couldn't tell which was which, because he couldn't find a reference, Gao Chu could only rely on his memory, and draw towards a general direction, so now, Gao Chu was not sure where they had rowed.

A few guys really couldn't row, and begged for mercy there: "Squad leader, I really can't row." ”

Gao Chu was in a hurry, snatched the oar from a man's hand, and said angrily: "You get up, I'll come!" ”

The man hurriedly got out of the way, and Gao Chu flew like an oar, and the boat rushed forward like an arrow.

After a while, the boat had rowed in front of the hill, and there were more than a dozen fleeing people on it, and when they saw a boat approaching, more than a dozen people waved one after another, Gao Chu became more and more energetic, and quickly rowed the boat up, and let the two men on the boat pick up all a dozen people on the boat.

When the last people got on the boat, Gao Chu asked, "Fellow, are you from Zhuzhuang?" ”

"This comrade, we are all from Zhuzhuang." The people on board thanked and responded.

Gao Chu was suddenly overjoyed, and asked urgently: "Fellow countrymen, do you know where Chu Chu went?" ”

The rescued people shook their heads one after another, and finally an old man said uncertainly: "Tou Qianji, I seem to have seen Chu Chu and his uncle go to the west of the village, and I don't know if Chu Chu is there." ”

"Thank you, old man." Gao Chu was overjoyed when he heard this, and a fierce man plunged into the water.

Before falling into the water, Gao Chu instructed the two men: "Lao Zhang, Lao Wang, you send the villagers back, and then row the boat over to pick me up, go quickly." ”

Before the words fell, Gao Chu had already plunged into the water with a fierce son, and when he surfaced again, he had reached dozens of meters away, and then swam straight to the west of the village.

There is a high ground at the west end of Zhuzhuang.

Gao Chu quickly swam to the front of the high ground, climbed up to take a look, and saw that there were no less than 100 people gathered above, but he looked for it in the crowd, but he didn't see Chu Chu, and when he asked someone again, someone pointed to the opposite side and said: "Oh, Chu Chu and her sister-in-law are not there, her uncle just wanted to save people, but he fell into the water and disappeared." ”

Gao Chu didn't say a word, and another fierce man plunged into the water and swam to the opposite side.

On the roof of one of the houses, Gao Chu finally found Chu Chu.

With Chu Chu, there was also a young woman, the young woman was holding a child in her arms, and she was holding one in her hand, before Gao Chu swam over, a family of four was hugging each other and crying.

Seeing Gao Chu swimming over, Chu Chu immediately cried out with joy.

Gao Chu swam forward with all his might, and comforted Chu Chu loudly.

"Chu Chu, don't be afraid, I'm here to save you." Gao Chu shouted loudly.

"Brother Gao, be careful, the water here is deep." Chu Chu reminded.

"Don't worry, I'm good at water." Gao Chu swam halfway and found a bathtub floating on the water, so he took the bathtub as a lifebuoy, and pushed the bathtub to the roof of the house where Chu Chu and the others were accommodating.

Chu Chu and the young woman put the two children into the bathtub and asked Gao Chu to save the children first.

Gao Chu pushed the child to swim back, and said, "You wait, I'll be back soon." ”

A few minutes later, Gao Chu smoothly sent the two children to the high ground opposite, and then came back to save Chu Chu and them.

Just when they were about to swim to Chu Chu's side, there was a heart-rending cry for help not far away, Gao Chu turned his head sharply and saw an old woman struggling to climb onto the roof, and the house under her was collapsing little by little, seeing that the old woman was about to be swallowed up by the flood.

Gao Chu fell into a great struggle.

On one side is his lover, and on the other side is an old man.

Gritting his teeth, a look of determination surged in Gao Chu's single eye, and he said to Chu Chu: "Chu Chu, sister-in-law, you wait for me for a while, and I will send the old grandmother over first." ”

Gao Chu pushed the bathtub and swam to the old grandmother, and finally rescued the old woman before the house collapsed and the old woman was swallowed up by the flood, but when he pushed the old woman to swim to the high ground, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and a hurricane wave surged on the water surface, and the hurricane rolled countless floating objects on the water surface to Gao Chu, including a section of giant trees.

By the time Gao Chu found this giant tree, the distance was already very close, and he couldn't hide from it.

Gao Chu could have used the bathtub to block it, so that he could escape this catastrophe, but the bathtub was difficult to keep, and the grandmother would definitely fall into the water, in such a hurricane, once the grandmother fell into the water, Gao Chu was not sure to save her again, at the moment of life and death, Gao Chu turned around violently, and faced his broad back towards the giant tree, but he protected the bathtub and the grandmother in the bathtub in his arms, and then, the hideous giant tree hit Gao Chu's back heavily.

The huge impact instantly caused Gao Chu to spit blood from his mouth, and before he lost consciousness, Gao Chu struggled to push the bathtub forward, and then roared lowly: "Grandma, row...... forward"

Before he finished speaking, Gao Chu rolled his eyes and sank backwards into the flood.

"Kid, good boy." The old grandmother cried heartbreakingly, "You come back, you come back quickly." ”

Not far away, Chu Chu watched Gao Chu sink into the water, his eyes went black, and he passed out.