It was late at night, and the villagers in the cofferyan township were not tired at all. Many people walked out of the tents, braved the heavy rain and walked to the street, looking from the top to the bottom of the slope, passing through the air. The light of lightning barely looked at the whole picture of the cofferdam township in the basin.
The torrential rain column smashed people to open their eyes, and they couldn’t hear clearly after a few steps. There was a depressive atmosphere in everyone's hearts. Several people took out their old binoculars and looked at their hometown. Yang Can and Tian Guoli were both leaving. I went out, stood on the high ground, and stopped to watch.
At 11:20, Hongfeng did not arrive as scheduled. People's anxiety began to turn into doubts and resentments. The crowd began to complain: "I said I can hold it? It's a fuss..." "Where is it?" Is it so dangerous? Isn’t it the same as last year..." "Shit! If we have to withdraw, we need to do nothing."
Tian Guoli's face was already sore by the rain, and he smiled so wryly that he patted Yang Can on the shoulder: "It's strange, I feel so comfortable when I was scolded first. It's fine if I don't break the embankment, I'm fine if I don't." He let out a long breath.
Yang Can looked into the distance in silence, and heard someone shout: "The water has fallen... The water has fallen..." People looked over again, and looked at the downstream side where the line of sight was clearer. The flood that was still rising inch by inch suddenly gradually dropped. Going down, the rapid speed made everyone stunned, as if a giant pump at the bottom of the Changjiang River had been activated.
Just as the people cheered ignorantly: "The water has fallen! The water has fallen!", the faces of Yang Can and Tian Guoli suddenly turned pale, and several old people from the cofferyan township shivered and knelt on the ground. Facing the cofferyan township, there was a dead silence on his wrinkled face.
"It's out..." the old voice yelled.
Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning, followed by a series of thunders that exploded ears, as if everything was silent for a moment. At this moment, everyone saw a scene that they will never forget...
In the fog, the cofferdam dam was instantly destroyed like sand particles, and the majestic flood that straddled the dam swept down the basin next to the Changjiang River.
At the cofferdam tractor station, several 75-horsepower chain-track tractors were rolled up, many large trees were thrown up by the roots, huge stone mills were lifted up the waves, houses, yards, and livestock were all here. It looks extremely small in the swaying yellow "Tide".
The elevation of the dyke is 120 meters, while the elevation of the periphery of the cofferyan township is 118 meters, and the elevation of the middle basin is only 65 meters. The floods are poured down by this elevation difference.
The roaring and low sound of water waves, the ground underfoot swayed slightly, so that everyone felt the trembling of the soul. The majestic and terrifying power of nature was enough to make any creature in awe, and everyone felt their own smallness, those tents. The red "color" with the words "Victory the Flood" on it looked ridiculous at this time. In the face of power here, surrender is the only option for people.
People in the cofferyan village have heard the word “flood disaster” in their ears, but they didn’t know the meaning of the word until they faced it in person. Those who just complained about the responsibility for this evacuation were full of fear in their eyes. , A few courageous even sat down straight in fright.
In the next half an hour, everyone watched as the overwhelming flood inundated those familiar buildings little by little, gradually devouring the hometown where they had nurtured them for decades, and there were cries wafting around and shouting. All kinds of sounds and horrified sounds sang a tragic atmosphere in the center of the rainstorm. People quietly watched the flood swept through the land they depended on, as well as those relatives who had not evacuated, and several "women who had not found their children". 』The woman cried and fainted...
Seeing that the whole process slowly stabilized, the water had already submerged this uphill, Yang Can started to open the huge travel bag alone while gnawing on a piece of chocolate, and a strangely shaped assault boat was spliced out of it. .
He knew that the disaster had been discovered, and he had no time to mourn. Now is the best time to rescue. One can save one. Yang Can thought all these things in his head, and beckoned Wang Chuanjun and the others to help.
Everyone can see that Yang Can is going to save people in the flooded area by himself. At this time, Major Miao rushed over and grabbed his arm: "Brother, what are you going crazy? The flood has not receded, you are now If you go down with an assault boat, you will be washed away! Not to mention saving people, maybe even your lives will be taken in." The water is still very strong, and we have to wait for the full retreat, and the crest of this wave must pass, at least. Wait about an hour.
Yang Can still smoked disapprovingly and remained unmoved. In his plan, he came mainly for this moment. Now wait a minute, and there will be no more people left in the cofferyan township.
Major Miao finally couldn't help but curse with a cold "face": "What are you doing now? Rescue is the mission of our engineering corps. You can't risk death. The guards will come and stop him."
A few soldiers hesitated a little, then came over to twist Yang Can. Yang Can threw it out with one hand. Still calmly installed the assault boat with all English signs, pointing to it and saying, "Look. Clearly, this is the latest product of the Australian Kyle Water Resources Bureau. The folding hb5 assault boat is driven by a program and has an automatic current navigation system. If anyone here can use it, my rescue team will stay."
Several water conservancy experts and technicians from the engineering corps all came over to take a look with Major Miao. They were all dumbfounded. This weird assault boat is indeed high-tech, and the control interface on it is very complicated. The major waved his hand, expressing his powerlessness.
Tian Guoli also had a "face" and came over to stop Yang Can solemnly: "Xiao Yang, this is not a joke, don't "chaos", I have already contacted the provincial party committee just now, and the military region will send a helicopter to participate in the rescue soon. Don't you Reckless..."
Yang Can pointed at Tian Shang with his finger, and asked calmly, "So heavy rain, can a helicopter pass by?" A layman is a layman.
A liaison officer next to him was calmer and came over to grab Tian Guoli’s kind words to persuade him: "Secretary Tian, don’t get excited, I have not had time to inform the news that the Army Air Force has encountered a thunderstorm, and the 4 support helicopters have already Forced to return."
Neither Tian Guoli nor Major Miao were stupid, and they suddenly came over. They are probably the only rescue queue that can participate in the rescue. The ghost knows when the weather will get better.
Although everyone blocked them, Yang Can still resisted the assault boat against the downhill flood, and took a few of his team members to sit on it, because they were non-governmental spontaneous personnel who were not in the army, and Major Miao could not. Forcibly blocked by force, if he changed his own soldier, he would have taken out his gun long ago.
Depressed, Major Miao ordered his subordinates with a dark face: "Go, let's go and let the rescue assault boat go down, and we will follow."
Almost a soldier forced two assault boats to go down, but unlike Yang Can’s assault boat, which drove smoothly in the rapid current and disappeared from the field of vision, they had difficulty controlling the direction of the two assault boats. One of them was difficult. Even more straight down in the rapids, several soldiers fell into the water, everyone panicked, and finally pulled them up.
Looking at his embarrassed group of subordinates, Major Miao’s teeth clenched his teeth. This is still a marginal area. If the flood is more urgent, let alone saving people, it is simply impossible for him to protect himself. Tian Guoli angrily took it in his hands. The flashlight fell to the ground and cursed fiercely: "..."
In this case, they could only watch Yang Can go to death, and they couldn't help at all.