My Military Career in a Parallel World

Chapter 265 Rescue!

Mud and water splash.

Jiang Chen and others didn't even have time to rest and rushed directly to the rescue site.

On the way, Jiang Chen saw many people who had just been rescued.

There are children, old people and women...

"Mom, I want mom~"

"My son is still in there, my son is still in there!"

"Everyone watch your step and be careful not to fall!"

"Doctor, doctor! Someone is unconscious here! Doctor!"

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"Quick, come and help, there are still people alive here!"

Without having time to think, Jiang Chen just ran to the rescue site and heard shouting coming from the mud pile in the distance.

Hong Haijiang turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, then looked back at the soldiers who were exhausted from the long-distance march. His eyes quickly swept through the team and finally fell on the people in Class 5.

Class 5 is currently in the best situation in the team.

So, he decisively ordered: "Jiang Chen!"

"To!"

"Bring your men with me to rescue them. The rest of you must obey the orders of the Second Captain!"

"Yes!"

"Class 5, follow me!"

Without any hesitation, Jiang Chen turned around and shouted, then dropped the things on his shoulders and the backpack and followed.

The others did the same thing, throwing their backpacks on the ground, picking up their tools and following Jiang Chen, running towards the place where the cry for help was heard before.

Mudslides are different from other disasters in that they leave very little time for rescue teams.

Even if there are many houses as support, giving the trapped people a little room to survive, if rescue is not launched immediately after the disaster, the longer the time is delayed, the smaller the probability of survival.

Just because of two words.

Air!

Mud and rain can block the circulation of air, and once the air in the space is consumed, the trapped people will die within a few minutes at most.

Therefore, rescue cannot be delayed for even a minute.

When they arrived at the rescue scene, two fire brigade soldiers had already started the rescue work, and they were accompanied by a rescue dog.

Although there are search and rescue dogs to help, they can only provide a rough range. They still need to search step by step to find the specific location of the trapped people.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen and others arrived in time, and with the addition of fresh forces, the subsequent rescue work went very smoothly.

Relying on the search and rescue dogs to continuously locate the trapped people, Jiang Chen and his team dug up the surrounding soil and came into view a room that was buried under the soil and had been washed away, with only a small half of the building left.

Two floor slabs collapsed at the corners, forming a triangular enclosed space. Through the gap in the middle, one could barely see what was inside.

A wooden bed that had been smashed to pieces, an arm stretched out from under the bed, the fingers were still moving slightly.

"There's someone under the bed! And he's alive!" Jiang Chen shouted immediately.

On the other side, the rescue workers wearing fire brigade uniforms immediately took out a jack and began to look for a suitable position to open a rescue passage.

The rescue process was not difficult.

After digging up the buried soil and using a jack to open a passage that could accommodate one person, Jiang Chen climbed to the trapped person with a safety rope tied to his body and dragged the person out with the help of his teammates.

"The trapped person is a female with abrasions on the side of her thigh and a serious injury on her right arm. She is unconscious and should be suffering from lack of oxygen and blood loss. She needs to be treated as soon as possible."

Wang Hai quickly checked the condition of the injured.

Two people were left behind to carry the injured out on a stretcher. Jiang Chen and his team did not rest either, but continued to follow the firefighters, using the help of search and rescue dogs to search for new trapped people.

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"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Jiang Chen was carrying an old man on his back, and the old man kept saying thank you.

County C is not a place with a very developed economy. Like most counties nowadays, almost all the young and strong laborers have gone out to work and earn money. Except for some local government civil servants and a small number of people who run their own businesses, those who stay are basically the elderly, women and children.

This is also the reason why those local staff previously said that there was a shortage of manpower in the county.

And this is the most marginal place in the county.

There is actually not much difference between the city and the countryside.

All you see are old houses with only one story. In some places, they are not even brick houses, but just earthen houses built with yellow mud mixed with rice straw.

There is no need for a mudslide to hit them. The heavy rain in the past few days alone has already caused these old houses to collapse.

The old man was also lucky. Before the mudslide occurred, there was a problem with the mud house in his home. Just when he was about to leave with his three-year-old grandson to stay temporarily with relatives, the mudslide from the mountain rushed down.

Because they had been warned in advance, the old man took his children and hid in the vegetable cellar at home.

Otherwise, given the structure of their house, if they were to encounter a mudslide, they would have nowhere to run to...

While Jiang Chen and his team were busy rescuing people, others were not idle either. The roads leading to the outside world from the county had been cleared, and all kinds of supplies and rescue tools had been sent in.

Among them, the most important supplies besides basic food and medicine are life detectors.

With the help of this thing, the subsequent rescue work went much more smoothly.

Taking advantage of the golden time for rescue, Jiang Chen and others fought day and night in the mud and ruins.

Only after the entire disaster area had been basically cleaned up did we finally have time to take a short break.

Jiang Chen and Team 5 had just come out of the disaster area when people from the kitchen team immediately brought them food and water.

In the rush to save people, everyone threw their backpacks on the ground and didn’t even have time to bring a water bottle. They hadn’t eaten or drunk water for a whole day and night, and everyone had reached their limit.

Jiang Chen took the ginger soup brought by the kitchen staff, drank two large bowls of it, and ate a few steamed buns and steamed buns. Only then did he feel alive again.

Disaster relief is a race against time with the King of Hell, and not even a minute or a second can be wasted.

Therefore, the food prepared by the school kitchen is mainly steamed buns, steamed bread, and flower rolls, which are convenient to eat, can fill the stomach, and quickly replenish physical strength.

You can eat it as soon as you get it, and then continue working immediately after eating.

All this is just to buy as much rescue time as possible, even for one second.

Arriving at the temporary tent that had been set up, everyone from Class 5 lay down on their simple beds. In less than two seconds, everyone fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Chen was no exception. After arriving in the dream space, the first thing he did was to find a place to sleep.

Although staying in the dream space can restore energy, the recovery speed is far slower than sleeping directly.

No one knows how long they can sleep, because they may have to get up and continue fighting in the next second.

An hour later.

In the dream space, Jiang Chen had slept for ten hours, but still showed no signs of waking up.

He was so tired.

Since joining the army, Jiang Chen has never felt so tired.

He slept for a total of fifteen hours.

Of course, this is the time within the dream space. In reality, less than two hours have passed.

Jiang Chen woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes.

Everyone else in the tent was still sleeping, so Jiang Chen didn't disturb them. He grabbed the raincoat beside him, put it on, and walked out.

The camp was bustling with people, and trucks were running in and out. Jiang Chen took a look inside the trucks and saw that they were not carrying supplies or tools, but all local people.

Looking at the rescue team and soldiers running around in the camp, Jiang Chen inexplicably had a bad feeling.

Jiang Chen found an uncle with a party member badge on his chest who had just finished directing the crowd to board the bus and asked, "Comrade, what happened?"

Jiang Chen didn't know this staff member, but the staff member knew him.

There is no other reason, it’s just because Jiang Chen’s rescue team rescued the most people yesterday.

The person in front of him was not a staff member of a government unit, but the villager whose village was destroyed by the mudslide.

He is a party member and also a village cadre.

I was deeply impressed by Jiang Chen, a soldier who looked too young in military uniform.

So, when Jiang Chen asked, his first reaction was not to answer the question, but to hurriedly say: "Oh, I almost forgot about you all. Hurry, the next bus will be here soon. You follow the bus first. It's not safe here anymore."

As he said that, he pulled Jiang Chen towards the military checkpoint nearby.

Jiang Chen's feet were like nails stuck in the ground. He reached out and pressed the uncle's shoulders, saying only one sentence: "Uncle, I'm a soldier, tell me what happened first!"

"But...but, you've been tired for a whole day and night, and you only rested for two hours!"

"Two hours is enough. Uncle, can you tell me what happened?"

Meeting Jiang Chen's determined gaze, the uncle finally gave up.

Letting go of the hand that was holding Jiang Chen's sleeve, he briefly recounted what he knew.

After listening to the uncle's story, Jiang Chen felt his scalp tingling.

Because, while they were sleeping, a reservoir in a county upstream of County C collapsed.

It was not an ordinary flood discharge, but a complete collapse of the entire reservoir dam.

The floodwaters accumulated in the entire reservoir poured down...

The good news is that because the county town is located upstream of the river, the army’s rescue team rushed there as soon as possible, the local people and civilians have been evacuated, and the reservoir burst did not cause too many casualties.

The bad news was that the reservoir that had collapsed was right upstream of County C, and the uncontrolled flood was rushing towards them, carrying mud, trees, boulders, and countless buildings.

This can be considered as a custom in China since ancient times, living along the river. As long as it is a city above the county level, there will basically be a river nearby.

Where there is a river, there are naturally corresponding engineering facilities.

Dams, reservoirs...

County C is of course no exception.

But the problem is that this reservoir was built in the 1960s and 1970s, and it has been in a state of disrepair and overload. The only reason it has lasted until now without any major problems is entirely due to the timely support from the troops, who worked day and night to plug the gap in the dam with sandbags.

And now...

Just recently, the reservoir had issued a flood discharge signal.

But the problem is that the water level downstream is already very high, and it rained all day yesterday. Although it is not as heavy as before, the water level is still rising...

If the flood is released now, it goes without saying what the consequences will be downstream.

If things go wrong, the entire county will be flooded.

However, we have to release the flood water.

The flood coming from upstream was too large to be handled by an aging and dilapidated reservoir dam. It could only release some of the water to make room to deal with the impending danger.

If this is not done, the situation downstream will only become worse once the reservoir dam is completely breached.

When that time comes, it won't be as simple as flooding or waterlogging.

Fire and water are merciless.

The disaster caused by floods affects a much larger area than that caused by fires.

By then, not only will the county seat of County C be washed away and destroyed, but also countless villages and towns downstream, and even the neighboring county towns and urban areas may be affected as well.

Under the chain reaction, if you want to block it...

That would really cost human lives.

After receiving the news, Hong Haijiang and others did not delay and immediately gathered people to organize the masses to evacuate first.

Abandon all supplies and give priority to evacuating the masses!

Jiang Chen and his team did not receive the news of the assembly, simply because they had been working intensively for a whole day and night and had just come back from the front line, so they took their physical condition into consideration.

Therefore, Hong Haijiang deliberately did not let anyone notify them.

Yan Yisong, commander-in-chief of the rescue team, has also made arrangements.

Team One and Team Four went all the way down to help the local government reinforce and raise the river embankment according to the key protection areas marked out by the General Headquarters for Flood Control and Rescue.

The second and third teams at the rescue site immediately assisted the local government in evacuating the people. After completing the evacuation work, they went all the way up to the Sishui Reservoir to participate in the subsequent rescue work.

Jiang Chen did not disturb the other people in the tent. They had only slept for less than two hours. Instead of waking them up now to help evacuate the people, it would be better to let them have a good rest and get enough energy to prepare for the subsequent battle.

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"Jiang Chen, why are you here?!"

Jiang Chen was directing the crowd to line up and board the vehicles for evacuation when he suddenly heard Hong Haijiang's voice.

Jiang Chen grinned, revealing his big white teeth on his face that was covered in mud and had not been cleaned in time, and said with a smile: "Captain, I have rested well!"

"Nonsense, how long has it been..."

Hong Haijiang wanted to say something, but was blocked by Jiang Chen's words.

"Captain, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. When I was in the reconnaissance company, we had special training in this area. Two hours is enough for me to recover!

Besides, we are just helping to evacuate the people now, so we don’t have to do any physical labor, so we can take a break.”

Jiang Chen wasn't talking completely nonsense.

The reconnaissance company does have training in this area.

After all, it is normal for a scout to lurk in one place for several days and nights.

However, that kind of willpower training is far from as mysterious as he said.

Working intensively for a day and a night, and then recovering after two hours of sleep, if there really was such a method, it would have been promoted throughout the army long ago, and it wouldn't have waited until now.

"Oh, Battalion Commander, I'm really fine, don't worry." Seeing that Hong Haijiang still had an expression of disbelief, Jiang Chen changed his address and continued.

After looking Jiang Chen up and down and making sure that there was really nothing wrong with him, Hong Haijiang nodded, gave a few instructions, and then turned and left.

The evacuation went very smoothly.

With the non-stop transportation of more than forty or fifty large trucks, more than 50,000 people, including local government staff and party members and volunteers who had been assisting in the three temporary camps around the county town, were all transported to several temporary gathering places urgently built on the flat area of ​​​​the top of the mountain ten kilometers away.

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