"Squad Leader Qin is back."

Wang Zhelin looked at his hand, his brows furrowed, there were less than ten minutes left, and the platoon leaders had not yet returned.

"Political commissar, why don't I go and answer the platoon leader." Cheng Jie, the platoon commander of the second platoon of the first company, said.

Wang Zhelin looked at Cheng Jie fixedly and nodded: "Go and go back quickly, pay attention to safety." ”

Cheng Jie took the second row of people down the mountain quickly.

……

"Are you ready?" Qi Junze looked at his watch and said.

Xie Xing nodded, "Battalion commander, but Lao Wang hasn't sent someone back yet, or we will wait." ”

"Can't wait." Qi Junze looked at the little expansion and said.

Xie Xing wanted to say something more, but when he saw the water constantly seeping from the embankment, his mouth opened and he didn't say anything.

……

Cheng Jie led people to run towards the back temple village against time.

"Platoon commander, there." One of the fighters pointed to the front and shouted.

Everyone looked forward, and it was indeed a long line, and they saw that there seemed to be some contradiction between that group of people.

Cheng Jie walked briskly with someone.

"Platoon commander, second platoon commander is here." One of the soldiers who followed Shi Man saw Cheng Jie walking briskly, and said to Shi Man with some excitement.

Seeing Cheng Jie striding over, Shi Man's heart also breathed a sigh of relief.

When they got closer, they found that a few people were sitting motionless on the ground, and a few people were even excited to move on them, cursing and cursing incessantly.

"What's going on?" Cheng Jie asked in a low voice.

Shi Man said helplessly: "Xiao Gao just said that he leaked his mouth, they knew that we were going to open the reservoir, so they refused to leave, saying that they would sue us." ”

Cheng Jie frowned and looked at these people scattered all over the ground, the huge disaster not only made them fearful, but made them resentful in their hearts.

"Chief, tell me where there is such a reason, God didn't kill us, why did you drown us instead?" A man in his forties stood up and clapped his palms and said.

"Didn't we explain to you what you are talking about, either to drown you, or to ......," said a little warrior with a strong anger.

Who doesn't know that the battalion commander took a huge risk and decided to open the floodgates and release the water, and who knows that these ordinary people not only did not appreciate it, but complained about them.

"Six sons!" Cheng Jie stopped the little soldier who was arguing with the man, walked up to him, and said kindly: "Fellow, you have to believe that we are definitely for your good." ”

"How many people died in the Houmiaozhuang earthquake?" Cheng Jie asked like a homely person.

The man saw Cheng Jieyu's kind tone, thinking that the people in the army had softened him, and with a hint of smugness on his face, he said: "In our village, three old people and a child died. ”

Cheng Jie's face was even more surprised after hearing this, although the disaster in the countryside was not as good as in the city, it was not so slight, and several other villages had more or less dozens of casualties.

Seeing Cheng Jie's face, Shi Man whispered in Cheng Jie's ear: "This Houmiaozhuang is a notoriously poor place, there is not even a single brick house in the whole village, all adobe houses, and many thatched houses, plus the hot weather, many people slept in the yard that night. ”

Hearing Shi Man's explanation, Cheng Jie realized that this was the case.

"That's really amazing, do you know how many people died in Tangshan City?" Cheng Jie asked.

"How much?" The man asked disdainfully.

"If you don't say anything, you have to have a hundred thousand." Cheng Jie said lightly.

"What! Hundreds of thousands! The man was frightened.

"Yes, so you say, at this time, human life is cheap, if it is really ...... People in the city don't come, and those in the poor countryside here, who comes, that is, we are unlucky, and we are sent here to help the disaster. Cheng Jie said to Shi Man with a complaint.

Looking at Cheng Jie's eyes, Shi Man instantly understood what Cheng Jie meant, and then said: "I don't think the damage in Houmiaozhuang is serious, let's go to other seriously affected places." ”

"Okay."

Vaguely hearing Cheng Jie and Shi Man's words, the man's forehead was full of cold sweat, he knew that this was not a joke, but their village was destroyed, he stayed here and didn't leave, he just wanted to get some protection from Shi Man.

When they set off again, they didn't need to urge, and the people in Houmiaozhuang ran to be more active than them.

Shi Man and Cheng Jie glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's on the way up the mountain, and the water can't come up for a while." Cheng Jie looked at his watch and said.

……

"Up" With Qi Junze's order, everyone held those thick iron rods.

"One, two, three, move!"

"One, two, three, move!"

"One, two, three, move!"

Everyone worked together to eat milk, but the iron rods just didn't move.

"What's going on?" Qi Junze frowned and asked, "Go down and take a look." ”

A few people puffed down, and after a while, their heads popped up.

"Battalion commander, the rudder has rusted, and if it continues like this, I'm afraid it will break."

"Besides, the gate is deformed."

It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the original electric button was broken, who would have thought that the manual rudder was also rusty, and it could no longer be used, and now the gate is also twisted and deformed.

"Battalion commander, I can't hold it out here."

"Everybody, get in the water and get a jack."

Qi Junze said in a deep voice.

Everyone took out hemp rope and tied it around their waists, and tied the other end to the big tree that fell due to the earthquake next to the embankment.

Underwater everyone feels very light, and they also can't exert their strength.

Several iron rods with sharp fronts had been inserted into the cracks of the twisted gates.

Everyone pressed hard towards the iron rods together, and two iron rods were directly pried out, and the other two made a piercing grinding sound.

This piercing sound is extremely beautiful to everyone.

Needless to say, the tacit understanding of many years, even if there is no slogan, everyone can still gather every force together.

After two more presses, many people went into the water to replace them, and the first wave of people surfaced, gasping for breath, and everyone did not go ashore, so they changed their breath on the water, and continued to dive to replace the people under the water.

Compared to before, everyone found that these iron rods were entering the cracks of the road little by little.

After repeating it several times, the sharp point of the front section has been completely submerged in the gate.

Everyone floated up, and the people on the shore had already found a few huge stones.

Each stone was tightly tied with twine, and everyone tied the thick twine to the iron rod, and when everyone came ashore, they pushed the big stone into the water.

I saw that the originally clear water surface was flooded with turbid ripples.

Qi Junze went into the water to check, and saw that two of the iron rods were directly bent, and one had fallen out, only two were still in the gate, and the gate had been pried open for a distance, and the two iron rods were stuck between the bottom of the reservoir and the gate, and the water in the reservoir flowed out through the narrow gap.

"It's already open, keep prying."

Qi Junze surfaced and said.

When the water cleared up, everyone went into the water again.

When the gate was raised a foot high, Qi Junze put the jack under the gate, slowly raised, and resisted the gate.

The sluice gate was opened, and the water from the reservoir rushed towards the Houtong River, and everyone felt the tremendous momentum, and if it weren't for the rope around their waists, they would have rushed out of the sluice gate along the water.