Chapter 15 Battle of Wuzhou
1998 is a year that countless people in the world can never forget. In this year, www.biquge.info the Heroes continued to write a glorious history.
In late June, torrential rains fell in the upper reaches of the Xijiang, Xunjiang and Guijiang rivers and surrounding areas, causing flash floods, and the water of the Xijiang River rose sharply. The surging Flood Golem was overwhelmingly attacking the people of Wuzhou. By June 27, the water level was as high as 26.32 meters, 11.32 meters above the warning line, 41 centimeters higher than the "6.19" flood in 1994. By the 28th, the water level reached 26.51 meters and continued to rise at a rate of 4 centimeters per hour......
The relentless flood demon ravaged Wuzhou, breaking dikes, destroying roads, collapsing houses, flooding streets, and devouring countryside, turning the whole of Wuzhou into a garden. For a time, 528,000 people in the city were affected by the disaster, and 41,932 houses were flooded......
Disaster is an order. This heroic team, which fought fiercely for six days and nights in the Liaoshen Campaign, repelled the attacks of several enemy divisions in turn, and shared the same fate with the people of Wuzhou in the "6.19" catastrophic flood in 1994, was commended by the state, and was awarded the collective second-class meritorious service. In the battle against floods, they carried forward the spirit of continuous combat without fear of hardship and death, and together with the local military and people, they made concerted efforts to turn the tide, so that wherever there was danger, they appeared there, painted a magnificent picture of the war with blood and sweat, and composed one after another touching odes to love the people. Here is a touching story of the officers and soldiers of the team who emerged in this battle against the Red Devils.
"It doesn't matter if I bleed a little, what matters is to subdue the Flood Demon as soon as possible!"
At 12 noon on June 26, Director Liu of the Emergency Department of the Resident People's Hospital called the home of the head of the regiment, Wang Zhenyi: "Your son Wang Dong has a high fever and turns to pneumonia, and his condition is getting worse, please come to the hospital immediately." "It's such a coincidence, and at this time, the higher-level telegraph ordered the team to go to Wuzhou to fight the flood at 1:30 p.m. This Communist Party member, who has been in the post of the main regiment for four years, is very clear at this moment. He immediately picked up the phone: "Is the headquarters duty room?" Please immediately notify the troops to quickly make all preparations for flood fighting and emergency rescue!" Putting down the phone, Head Wang immediately sounded the emergency assembly alarm. In an instant, the officers and men of the whole regiment moved when they heard the call. Thirty minutes later, the officers and men of the team galloped to Wuzhou in 65 military vehicles. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the car went to a section of about 200 meters long 3 kilometers away from the county seat of Tengxian County, which had been flooded, and it was impossible to determine which was the ditch and which was the road, and the water depth was 1.5 meters. More than a dozen local vehicles stopped on the side of the road, and the driver did not dare to move forward in the face of the surging floodwater. Wang Zhenyi jumped out of the car, without saying a word, he jumped into the waist-deep flood with a "plop", and waved his arms: "The flood demon is raging in Wuzhou, the situation is extremely critical, we can't wait!" Comrades, pay attention to the trees on the side of the road as a reference, push the cart forward, follow me!" The convoy slowly "swam" to the shore like a long dragon......
"The first battalion was led by Chief of Staff Feng to the east of the river to build an embankment and dam, and the second battalion followed me to the west of the river to plug the gap!" At 2 a.m. on the 27th, the troops arrived in Wuzhou. Wang Zhenyi didn't care to take a sip of water, so he ordered his troops to fight the flood demons. At 2 p.m., the officers and men who had been fighting for a day and a night had time to take a nap, and the flood control headquarters made an emergency: The flood control levee in Hexi District had been breached through a 25-meter-long opening, and the flood water was pouring down, and if it was not blocked in time, the lives and property of hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Hexi area would be swallowed up by the flood. After receiving the report of the disaster, Wang Zhenyi led the officers and soldiers to rush to the scene. I saw him jump into the turbulent flood, and then the officers and soldiers followed him arm in arm to form a wall in the flood. At this time, Wang Zhenyi's right hand was cut with a bloody hole, and the blood kept flowing. The doctors who went to the front line of flood control advised him to rest, but Wang Zhenyi completely ignored it: "It doesn't matter if I shed some blood, what matters is to subdue the flood demon as soon as possible!" Under his inspiration, the officers and men of the regiment threw themselves into the battle. Digging soil, resisting bags, and throwing sandbags into the water one by one. After more than 5 hours of fighting, the gap was finally plugged and the danger was eliminated.
The "missing" Chief Wu turned out to be on the front line of flood fighting
On the afternoon of the 26th, the leaders of the division hospital reported to the regimental left-behind office: Wu Yide, the head of the propaganda unit of your regiment, who was suffering from bile duct stones and was hospitalized, suddenly disappeared yesterday and his whereabouts are unknown, please help in finding him.
"The head of the propaganda unit is missing!" When the news spread, the officers and soldiers who stayed behind searched everywhere in eight directions. However, they searched inside and outside the camp, but they couldn't even find the shadow of Chief Wu. The call was made to the Wuzhou Flood Fighting and Rescue General Headquarters. Some soldiers reflected: At noon on the 26th, when they blocked the breach in Hexi, they saw Chief Wu soaked in the flood, his face was pale, and he was holding his stomach with his hands, but he was never seen again; Someone reported to Wang Zhenyi: At about 0:30 last night, I saw Unit Chief Wu driving wooden stakes at the breach of the west embankment...... Will it be swept away by floods? The officers and soldiers were in a hurry. At 12:10 p.m. on the afternoon of the 27th, Wang Zhenyi, after searching in various ways, finally "arrested" Chief Wu in the Hexi District, who was soaking in a waist-deep torrent and blocking the gap with officers and soldiers in the Hexi District, the first line of flood fighting.
"When the people are in crisis, I can't leave my combat post!"
June 26 was an unusual day for Huang Hui, the instructor of the Third Company. On this day, he received a telegram from the county people's hospital of his lover's unit: Your wife will return soon after dystocia. After reading the telegram, Huang Hui couldn't wait to grow wings and fly to his beloved wife immediately, because he knew that his wife had been suffering from vomiting, headaches and other "tortures" since she was pregnant. Huang Hui typed a report on his visit to the head of the regiment for approval. At this moment, the troops received an order to go to Wuzhou to fight the flood and rescue the emergency. He stuffed the report of his family visit into his pocket, instructed the soldiers who stayed behind to send a telegram that "the flood demons are raging in Wuzhou, and I will go to fight the floods," and then led the company to the disaster area. When blocking the breach in Hexi District, Huang Hui suffered from stomach problems caused by a day and a night of not eating grains of rice, and he had a pain in his lower abdomen and fell into the torrent. When the warrior saw this, he helped him up and advised him to rest. "When the people are in crisis, I can't leave my combat post!" Then he took out a towel and tied it around his abdomen, and threw himself into the battle again.
"Please understand, because I am a soldier!"
In mid-June, Wei Jihua, a 29-year-old platoon commander of the artillery company, took a special leave to go home for a blind date. Before that, the family introduced him to a few objects, but they all blew for various reasons. After matchmaking, Platoon Leader Wei finally met the elephant again, the woman is a college student, and she has good character and appearance. June 28 is the subject's birthday. He told her that on this day, he would go outside with his girlfriend to have a good "live". However, on the evening of the 25th, after seeing the news of Wuzhou's disaster again on TV, he immediately canceled the plan to "bless" his girlfriend and resolutely bought a ticket to return to the army. My girlfriend came to an ultimatum: "If you choose me, please stay with me; If you think it's important to fight the flood, go for it!" Before leaving,
Wei Jihua didn't explain more: "Please understand me, because I am a soldier!" With that, he embarked on a journey back. After returning to the unit, the unit had gone to Wuzhou to fight the flood and rescue the emergency, and he did not rest for a quarter of an hour, and immediately bought a ticket and rushed to Wuzhou. Due to the rain for several days, the highway from Guigang to Wuzhou has been flooded in eight places, and some sections of the road have become impassable. Looking at the surging flood, Wei Jihua was anxious. After much inquiry, they found a fishing boat. The boatman was moved by his spirit and sent him to Wuzhou overnight. After getting off the boat, he went straight to the front line of flood fighting, rolled up his sleeves and plunged into the battle against floods......