The wind pushed the water, and the water pushed the bath tray, and the old woman was safely carried to the high ground. The villagers on the high ground rescued the old woman, then turned back and shook their heads to face the vast flood and sighed.
On the rooftop opposite, Chu Chu faintly woke up from her sister-in-law's arms, crying miserably.
The sister-in-law hugged Chu Chu and cried to persuade her: "Chu Chu, don't cry, this is fate, this is fate."
"No, I don't believe it." Chu Chu cried and shook her head repeatedly, "Brother Gao is not dead, he will not die!"
The sister-in-law cried and said: "Chu Chu, please calm down, Xiao Gao is gone, just like your elder brother, he is gone."
"No, Brother Gao didn't leave, he won't die." But the more Chu Chu spoke, the more determined her tone became. She even stopped crying and began to nervously scan the surrounding water.
At a certain moment, a splash of water suddenly appeared diagonally opposite about a dozen steps away.
Immediately afterwards, a head floated up from the water. First it took a greedy breath, and then a figure jumped up from the water.
Looking at this figure, Chu Chu's tears fell down again.
But this time, Chu Chu cried with joy, Brother Gao was indeed not dead!
This guy who floated out of the water is truly a master, and he also has great fortune.
As soon as he regained consciousness, Gao Chu immediately turned back and swam towards the roof where Chu Chu and the others were staying.
Chu Chu's eyes were watering and she said to Gao Chu: "Brother Gao, I knew you wouldn't die. I knew you wouldn't die."
Gao Chu swam to the roof and grabbed the eaves. While sucking in the fresh air, he still teased Chu Chu: "You haven't given birth to me a baby yet, how can I die?"
Chu Chu then rushed over and hugged Gao Chu's neck, and said with forgetfulness: "I will give birth to you, I will give birth to you, Brother Gao, I will give birth to a lot of babies for you, so many babies."
Gao Chu hugged Chu Chu's slender waist and grinned.
Chu Chu's sister-in-law was crying and laughing next to her.
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Gao Chu survived the catastrophe and was able to embrace the beauty, and he felt really happy.
However, at the same moment, Xu Rui, who was heading north to Huainan, and the accompanying officers and soldiers of the Guard Company, Wolf Fang Squadron and Veteran Commando Team, were in extremely low mood.
Xu Rui and his party of nearly two hundred officers and soldiers started walking north early this morning, going door to door along the way to notify fellow villagers to evacuate, but the effect was not good and almost no one believed it.
By around eight or nine in the morning, Xu Rui and his party had only walked less than twenty miles north, barely reaching the vicinity of Xiatang.
At this time, the floods came down, and Xu Rui immediately led his officers and soldiers to fight against the floods and provide disaster relief, helping the affected villagers move to the surrounding highlands. At the same time, he sent communications troops back to notify the Independence Battalion, asking the Independence Battalion to send ships to pick up the people as soon as possible.
The people affected by the disaster were resettled in several selected refugee resettlement sites.
By noon, the water level on the flat ground was already up to the waist, and the water level in some low-lying areas was even as deep as three meters.
Most of the villages in central Anhui are scattered along the rivers and are in lowlands. As a result, most of the villages were flooded and tens of thousands of people were displaced. What's worse, most of these people escaped empty-handed. What?
They were not brought with them. Without external rescue, they would not be able to survive for a few days.
Most of the rations carried by the two hundred officers and soldiers were quickly dispersed.
But the mission must still continue, because the farther north the disaster becomes more severe, and the need for rescue becomes greater.
Stepping into waist-deep water, Xu Rui led two hundred officers and soldiers to move forward and continue northward.
Two days later, Xu Rui and his party were forced to leave the lowlands because the farther north they went, the deeper the water became. The water depth in the lowlands had exceeded two meters, and they could no longer march. They could only search for them from the highlands on both sides of the lowlands or from the mountain ridges.
The road continues northward from the highlands or mountain ridges. It is also at this time that miserable scenes begin to appear one after another.
After passing Zhuxiang, floating corpses appeared one after another on the water along the way, and most of these floating corpses had been swollen by the flood. They had obviously been dead for many days. Judging from the time, these victims should have died on the same day as the flood came down.
Yes, because it happened to be night here, they had no time to escape.
And the further north you go, the more corpses are floating on the water.
Among these floating corpses, there are men, women, old and young, but more of them are old people and children.
Leng Tiefeng once personally retrieved the body of a child from the water. The child was at most three years old. Normally, this would be the time when he would be babbling in the arms of his parents, but now, he has lost his life.
A person is floating alone on the water, not knowing whether he can still find a place to rest his young soul.
Leng Tiefeng dug a hole on the top of the mountain and buried the child.
After burying the child, Leng Tiefeng never spoke again, his face looking terrifyingly gloomy.
Yang Banan and Sun Changhe also spoke less and their expressions began to become gloomy. When the members of the Langya Squadron once again accused Chairman Chiang, the two rarely remained silent and no longer defended themselves as before.
, because the scene in front of them made their defense seem so weak, even ironic.
From Feicheng to Changfeng, it was more than a hundred miles, and Xu Rui and the others took eight days to walk!
The first step was to rescue people, and the second step was to find a way, so the trip was seriously delayed.
After arriving in Changfeng, the scene in front of me was simply unbearable. Although eight days had passed, the floods in Changfeng had still not receded. Looking around, the water surface was densely packed with floating corpses, and most of them had already started.
There was a strong smell of corpse.
The rotting corpses also polluted the water bodies, and the surviving people drank the contaminated water and contracted diseases one after another.
And on an isolated island, due to the lack of medical treatment and medicine, contracting a disease is basically a dead end.
Along the way, Xu Rui and the others once found two such islands of life. Both islands sheltered more than a hundred refugees. These refugees escaped the floods, but they were not able to escape the floods that followed.
, hunger and disease ensued, and when Xu Rui and others found them, they were all dead.
Looking at the refugees who died of hunger and disease one by one, Leng Tiefeng's face became more and more gloomy. Yang Banan, Sun Changhe and the officers and soldiers of the guard company also became more and more silent. The members of Langya Squadron stopped complaining.
Chairman Chiang, but the look in their eyes was even colder.
There is no doubt that these wolves already have a grudge against Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.
Because this flood was caused by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek!
The only thing that makes the Langya people feel a little better is that the Chinese are not the only ones affected by the floods.
After entering the Changfeng boundary, you can see the corpses of Japanese soldiers here and there on the water. Apparently, when the flood came down, the little Japanese were also unprepared and were washed away in pieces. Among them was the unlucky little one.
The Japanese were completely destroyed in the flood because they could not escape.
On the ninth day, Xu Rui and the others discovered a group of Japanese soldiers who had been trapped for many days on a high ground.
There were a group of more than a dozen trapped Japanese soldiers, all of them unkempt and dull-looking.
When Xu Rui and his party appeared in the field of vision, except for a few Japs who raised their guns and started shooting, the rest of the Japs just sat on the ground, staring blankly at Xu Rui and the others as they approached. Obviously, after being trapped for several days, no matter what
It caused great trauma to these little devils both physically and mentally. They no longer even had the strength to lift their guns.
There was no suspense in the result. Five hundred meters away, a dozen Japanese soldiers were shot dead one by one by Langya's sniper team.
Five minutes later, Leng Tiefeng took more than a dozen Langya to the island. The few surviving Japs looked at them blankly. One Japs even begged in a low voice: Kill me, please kill me.
Just kill me.
Obviously, for these little devils, life is worse than death.
Han Feng held the bayonet and was about to kill the Japanese, but Leng Tiefeng stopped him.
Leng Tiefeng grabbed Han Feng's 38 cap and shook his head. Han Feng took back his rifle and left without looking back. No matter how much the Japanese begged, he would never look back.
On the tenth day, Xu Rui and his party finally ran out of rations.
In fact, their rations were not enough to begin with. Along the way, they had to scrape tree bark, dig grass roots, and catch rats to survive. Not to mention, there was quite a lot of rat meat. This sudden flood drove the rats up.
There are isolated islands one by one, which is convenient for Xu Rui and the others, as they don’t have to look around.
While searching for supplies, the guard company discovered another isolated island.
Moreover, there is actually a hut on this isolated island
Yang Banan and Sun Changhe led a dozen soldiers from the guard company to first explore the path with wooden sticks to prevent slipping into deep water. Then they stepped on the chest-deep water and excitedly climbed to the island. However,
They had just landed on the island when several Japs suddenly appeared from the other side of the island, followed by a ping-pong-pong melee.
After a while, the six or seven Japanese soldiers who were exhausted and hungry were killed.
Yang Banan and Sun Changhe walked back to the hut with more than a dozen soldiers, only to find a three or four-year-old boy sitting on the threshold of the hut. The little boy had a small dustpan on his knees.
There was a handful of bean pods that had begun to turn yellow. The little boy was mumbling something while peeling the bean pods.
Eat beans, long meat, eight pieces.
Eat beans, long meat, nine.
Eat beans, long meat, ten pieces.
Yang Banan stepped forward and asked, "Child, where are the adults in your family?"
The little boy raised his little head blankly and looked at Yang Banan blankly.
Yang Banan leaned down and asked in as gentle a tone as possible: "Child, where are the adults in your family?"
The little boy was still confused. After a while, he lowered his head and peeled the beans again, counting them at the same time.
Eat beans, grow meat, eleven.
Eat beans, grow meat, twelve.
Eat beans, grow meat, thirteen.
Sun Changhe also came over and asked: "Child, where is your father?"
The little boy raised his head again and looked at Sun Changhe with a blank expression.
Sun Changhe asked again: "Your father is not here, but where are your grandparents?"
The little boy still had a confused face and looked at Sun Changhe without saying a word, but he was not afraid either, or he had never learned to be afraid at all, and he was still too young after all.
