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It's a stormy summer. Since mid-June, 1991, the continuous cold air in eastern Asia and the warm air over the Yangtze River and Huaihe River have met violently, resulting in a long-lasting torrential rain. The strong subtropical high in the western Pacific brings forward the flood season in the Huaihe River basin and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. For a time, the Huaihe River overflowed and Taihu Lake was in an emergency! Many provinces in East China suddenly became Wang Yang, and tens of millions of people were affected.

In the face of the worst flood in a hundred years, the Nanjing Military Region of the People's Liberation Army dispatched urgently, and with blood and loyalty, wrote a magnificent map of war and flood.

command, issued from here

Beijing daylight saving time: : 55 on June 14th. During the day, a heavy rain dispelled the sweltering heat since May, and Nanjing was fast asleep. However, the restless flood is riding the night and roaring away to the sleeping fields and villages. The soldiers are awake. The nerve center of the command system of the three armies in East China Theater-the combat duty room of the military region is brightly lit. At this moment, the first flood control order signed by Major General Guo Xizhang, the duty commander and deputy commander of the military region, is being issued: in order to ensure the absolute safety of the Jinpu Railway, the troops in the barren grass embankment are quickly evacuated to prepare for breaking the embankment. "Linfen Brigade" set off immediately and reported to Xiaoqiao Command post in Chu County, Anhui Province.

immediately, the second and third flood control orders were issued in the early hours of the morning.

on the morning of 14th, after hearing the disaster report, Lieutenant General Gu Hui, commander of the military region, and Lieutenant General Shi Yuxiao, political commissar, instructed the troops stationed in the disaster area to immediately stop normal military training and go all out to fight against floods. All provinces and military regions should keep abreast of local difficulties and what tasks the troops need to undertake.

this is a busy and tense space. In front of the automatic command desk, the telephone rings suddenly rang, and on the battle map of the curtain wall, the staff officers were carefully marking the driving position of the troops. In order to ensure the correct decision-making and strong command of flood fighting and disaster relief, the military command has formed a six-person emergency team to deal with emergencies.

As of July 15th, ××× flood control orders have been issued from here, mobilizing and commanding more than 5, troops and nearly one million reserve troops to put into emergency fighting.

Green Boat of Life

"There are 25 towns and 64 villages in Gaotang Lake and Chihe River Basin in Dingyuan County, Anhui Province, which are flooded, and 81, people are trapped by the flood, so your department is urged to go there at once." At 2: pm on the 15th, a pontoon bridge unit, which was carrying out flood control tasks on Jiangpu Bridge, received a new order from the military region.

the troops rushed to a certain distance.

heavy rain pours and floods surge. The victims who haven't got out of the water are prone on the roofs and treetops, and they are in a hurry.

suddenly, green assault boats came through the waves. "The people's liberation army is coming! We are saved! " The victims cheered.

The officers and men rescued people from the flood one by one by boat, and searched house by house and bush by bush to rescue sporadic victims.

On 16th, the dam of Qiujiahu burst, and the neighboring villages were flooded, and tens of thousands of people were besieged. 15 officers and men of this unit rushed to the scene by motorboat, and quickly set up two 35-ton Caodu Gate Bridges to transfer the people to safety.

at 1 o'clock in the evening, there was a cry of "help" on the water. The three company officers and men who were driving the motorboat to patrol the water immediately turned their course and followed the cry for help. They found that more than 2 victims were lying on a wheat pile spinning in the rapids, and the wheat pile was about to fall apart. The current is so fast that the motorboat can't get close to the crowd. At this time, the instructor shouted: "* * * made in party member, go!" Say that finish, jump into the rapids, the soldiers have also launched. They let the masses lie on their backs, and with their skillful swimming skills, they rescued all more than 2 people.

In the area around Qiujiahu, this unit fought for three days, rescued more than 25, people, transferred 36, tons of grain and more than 2 livestock. Where there is danger, there are pontoon soldiers. The victims praised the pontoon bridge troops as "green boats of life" with tears in their eyes.

help at midnight

on the night of June 14th. The ringing of the telephone awakened Xiong Qing, the commander of a certain unit. "Old bear? The coal storage in Zhenjiang Jianbi Power Plant collapsed, and the two conveyor belts were pressed down. The power plant was in danger of power failure and begged the troops to reinforce quickly. "

the call was made by Zhenjiang municipal government. Xiong Qing knows that Jianbi Power Plant, as a national power backbone enterprise, plays an important role in East China Power Grid. When the unit stops for one day, the power plant directly loses 6, yuan, which has an immeasurable impact on flood control and drainage, industrial and agricultural production and people's life. He rolled over and got out of bed, while reporting to his superiors, he informed the troops ...

Fifteen minutes later, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion who were ordered to perform the task went straight to the power plant. The scene before the officers and men was more severe than expected: two 35-meter-long conveyor belts were crushed by collapsed coal, and the steel frames of the conveyor belts were deformed and broken. The coal piles on both sides are four stories high. As soon as the rainstorm rushes, the coal piles slide down from time to time. Cleaning the conveyor belt in the rain is risky. The officers and men climbed the jingshan park and started their homework. The rainstorm is getting worse and worse, so they simply take off their raincoats and wear shorts to dry. Without mobilization, party member consciously stood in the most dangerous place and did the heaviest work. Many soldiers cut their feet without saying a word, and some soldiers were so tired that they woke up and got up again. After several hours of hard work, all the collapsed coal was cleared, and Jianbi Power Plant was able to generate electricity normally.

At the same time that the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion rushed to the power plant, Changzhou, a neighboring city, was engaged in a battle to transport calcium carbide by surprise. On the evening of 14th, a chemical warehouse in Changzhou was flooded by 6cm. There are 4 barrels of 8 tons of calcium carbide in the warehouse. Due to the chemical reaction after the bottom water enters, the warehouse is filled with smoke, and the temperature is as high as 6℃ and 7℃. If calcium carbide is not transferred quickly, acetylene generated by calcium carbide and water is likely to explode at high temperature.

Mayor Yang of Changzhou dialed the telephone of Zhang Nianqing, commander of the military sub-division, and asked the troops to go there quickly. Ten minutes later, more than 3 officers and men and more than 2 militiamen from the military sub-district organs rushed to the scene.

It is said that 1 ton of calcium carbide explosion is equivalent to 1, pounds of ordinary explosives. Facing the explosion that may happen at any time, the rescuers rushed into the warehouse without fear. The 2 kg calcium carbide bucket was very hot, 1 bucket, 2 buckets, 1 buckets, 2 buckets ... When it was transported to the 371st bucket, calcium carbide suddenly exploded outside the warehouse. Song Zhiyin, an armed police soldier, pushed away the comrades around him, and himself was seriously injured.

The threat of 8 tons of hydropower stones to state property and people's lives was finally eliminated when Changzhou citizens woke up.

Rescue in Taihu Lake

The second flood peak caused the water level in Taihu Lake to completely exceed the warning line, and the lake began to overflow!

On July 2nd, a 5-meter-long gap appeared in Sanbei Township, Wuxi City, and the flood broke down the dike. 7 factories and more than 1, households outside the embankment will be destroyed.

At the critical moment, a division of Nanjing Military Region arrived!

The officers and men are faced with such a dangerous situation: the flood speed is more than 1 meters per second, and it is difficult for a coal brick weighing 5 kilograms to sink to the bottom. As soon as the heavy straw bag is put down, it is washed away, and people simply cannot stand in the water.

what should I do? Without saying anything, the head of the division went into the water, and the head of the regiment went into the water. Hundreds of officers and men joined hands to form two human walls to stop the flood, so that the troops on the shore could tighten the dam. People may not know that it is this division, and its barracks are also in the flood at the moment. The gap is blocked. During the 72-hour rescue and dam consolidation, the officers and men reinforced more than 5, meters of dams, transferred tens of thousands of people and rushed to transport 2.16 million tons of materials.

Qian Shengtang blasted the dam

At dawn on July 7th. On the Huqingping Highway leading to the flood fighting and rescue site in Qingpu, Shanghai, military vehicles sped by. Xu Wenyi, commander of Shanghai Garrison, and Zhu Xiaochu, political commissar, are leading 1,2 officers and men to the coast of Qianshengtang.

In order to alleviate the rising Taihu Lake, according to the order of Tian Jiyun, the national flood control chief and vice premier of the State Council, Shanghai people put the overall situation first, and opened the Hongqi pond dam in Qingpu County at 9: a.m. on July 5, which increased the flood discharge of Taihu Lake. However, in the past two days, heavy rains have continued, and the water level in Taihu Lake is still above the warning line. Floods seriously threaten the safety of Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Jiaxing and other places, as well as the trunk lines of Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou railways. To this end, the Shanghai Municipal Government decided to open a new spillway in Qianshengtang, Qingpu County on July 9, and strengthen the 21-kilometer banks on both sides of Qianshengtang to 4 meters within 72 hours. This task was handed over to the PLA troops stationed in Shanghai.

"The PLA is coming! The People's Liberation Army is coming! " The crowd cheered when the green military vehicles drove into the construction site. With the people's liberation army, the masses will have a bottom in their hearts.

On the newly built embankment, the flag of "Ye Ting Regiment" fluttered in the wind. This is a heroic army that dares to fight tough battles. Shanghai people are familiar with it and admire it. At the critical moment of the epidemic of hepatitis A, train collision, tornado attack and the need of key projects, officers and men of "Ye Ting Regiment" can always be seen. Today, they came again. Some of them gave up their approved vacations, some bid farewell to their wives who had just come to visit the military camp, and many people's homes were also soaked in water at the moment. But they came without hesitation. The officers and men were covered in mud and sweat, and practiced their slogan hanging on the embankment with practical actions: "treat the people as their parents!" "

"The opening of Qiansheng Tangba is advanced to the 8th." New instructions have come from the National Flood Control Headquarters. At this moment, the three engineering platoons carrying out the dam blasting task have been working hard for 1 hours without touching any grain of rice. However, after receiving the order to explode the dam in advance, they immediately came to the work site and laid explosives on the dam with a total length of more than 1 meters.

at 15: 2 on the 8th, at the command of the commander, the river and mud jumped into the air for tens of meters with loud noise. When people look back, the dam is gone. All the eight dams in Qianshengtang were blasted, and the flood peak of Taihu Lake poured into the west of Qingpu at a flow rate of 15 cubic meters per second, pouring down the Huangpu River.

"comrades have worked hard!" Huang Ju, the mayor of Shanghai, held the soldiers' hands tightly.

at 9: a.m. on July 9th, General Secretary Jiang Zemin came to Shanghai Qingpu River embankment construction site to visit the troops and officers and men of the Nanjing Military Region. He praised that although there is no war now, as long as there are disasters and dangers, there are "the most lovely people".

this is the highest praise from the party and the people for our soldiers.