Hold on tight!
Xue Rengui shouted, controlling the helicopter as it flew into the valley.
When the helicopter was two to three meters above the water surface, Cui Geng signaled to the soldiers in the cabin.
Jump, save people!
Splash~
The cabin door opened, and six soldiers with the Nan Yue Protectorate Army insignia on their bodies jumped out of the helicopter, then dived down to search.
Someone had just disappeared here.
With timely rescue and six people diving together, it only took a moment to pull an old man out from underwater.
The other two soldiers in the cabin lowered a basket. The old man was placed inside, and as the winch turned, he was quickly raised towards the cabin door.
After the old man was pulled into the cabin, the two soldiers roughly stripped off his wet clothes and threw a set of dry new clothes into his arms.
The old man looked at the clothes in his arms and instantly began to wail loudly. Big tears streamed from the corners of his eyes, and he mumbled something unintelligibly.
However, the helicopter was too noisy for anyone to hear what he was saying.
The old man was only the first to be rescued, but not the last.
The six soldiers below grabbed the landing gear of the helicopter and patted the fuselage forcefully. Read books.
Feeling the vibration from beneath their feet, Xue Rengui controlled the helicopter and flew towards another drowning civilian.
Following the same procedure, in just about an hour, all the civilians still in the water within the entire valley were forcibly brought into the helicopters and then transferred to a safe place and released.
Once everyone was safe, Xue Rengui flew the helicopter to the mouth of the valley, which was completely blocked by rubble.
Cui Geng led the soldiers to rappel down and used grenades to blast the rubble.
After a series of explosions, the accumulated water in the valley was released and surged out through the gaps that were blown open.
As more and more rubble was washed away by the water, the flow rate increased.
Xue Rengui and the others returned to the valley again, found a platform, and landed. Boxes of supplies were carried out from the cabin.
Clothes bearing the markings of the Tian Huo Army and the Nan Yue Protectorate Army, as well as baskets of snow-white rice, and even two iron pots.
Looking at these things, Ping was both excited and shocked.
Before returning to Tang, when had they ever heard of the government caring about the lives of the common people?
Whenever there was a flood, wasn't it a matter of leaving it to fate and chance?
These things should be enough for you to last a few days. Use them sparingly, and a larger army will come later to help you relocate!
The porters conveyed Xue Rengui's words to Ping.
Hearing this, he could no longer hold back. His legs gave way, and he knelt down.
The hundreds of villagers behind him also knelt down and kowtowed to Xue Rengui and the others to express their gratitude.
Thank you, Protectorate Office, for your assistance!
Thank you, Great Tang, for your heavenly grace!
The porters translated their words truthfully.
After helping the civilians up, Xue Rengui and the others began to educate them, teaching the civilians some basic knowledge about epidemic prevention.
For example, drinking water must be boiled first, and after the water recedes, drowned poultry and livestock must be promptly burned and buried, and one must not defecate and urinate indiscriminately.
After the female doctors finished treating some of the injured civilians, they also took out a large bag of mosquito repellent powder prepared by Sun Simiao.
People say that Yunnan has eighteen oddities, with three mosquitoes making a dish. The mosquitoes in the Nan Yue region are no less inferior.
Great epidemics are bound to follow great disasters, and this cannot be taken lightly at all.
After completing these tasks, the helicopter slowly took off and, guided by the porters, headed towards another mountain village.
The civilians in the valley knelt on the ground again, watching the helicopter leave.
The incidents encountered by Ping and the people under his jurisdiction were happening every moment in the four prefectures and seventeen counties.
More than 30,000 Protectorate Army soldiers were responsible for rescue operations around the various prefectures and counties.
For some remote mountain villages, due to the roads being washed away by the heavy rain, only helicopters could reach them.
With one more helicopter newly built in Shenyang, a total of eleven helicopters were constantly in transit.
Thousands of boats of various sizes, mobilized from different regions, were constantly transporting disaster victims on major rivers such as the Mekong River, Red River, and Ta Pi River.
Shelters were established in all four prefectures and seventeen counties, and not only that, but Li Shimin also dispatched 20,000 Yangzhou Protectorate Army soldiers and 20,000 Tubo Protectorate Army soldiers.
The scale of this disaster relief was unprecedented, with nearly 100,000 troops mobilized, and nearly 200,000 people including those recruited from the civilian population!
The amount of supplies invested was immeasurable, with clothing being the most special. A large portion of these clothes were military uniforms drawn from various Protectorate Offices.
Military uniforms bearing the numbers of the Nan Yue Protectorate Army, Yangzhou Protectorate Army, Tubo Protectorate Army, Great Tang Protectorate Army, Tian Huo Army, and other units were seen everywhere in the four prefectures and seventeen counties.
Even after the disaster, these displaced people would wash their clothes clean and enshrine them together with their ancestral tablets.
They had never experienced such a scene. After escaping death, comparing the actions of the Great Tang during the natural disaster with those of the previous rulers completely refreshed their worldview.
For such a large-scale rescue operation, let alone the disaster victims, even the soldiers of the Protectorate Offices who personally participated in it were experiencing it for the first time.
Seeing the civilians they personally pulled out of the water kneel before them and express their gratitude in unintelligible dialects filled every soldier's heart with a sense of accomplishment and pride.
Fang Er mobilized all five hundred female doctors from the Shenyang Hospital. Dressed in white nurse uniforms, they were dispersed in various locations, protected by the Protectorate Army, to treat the injured disaster victims.
When the female doctors arrived, Sun Simiao collaborated with other skilled physicians in the medical field who were successively taking up positions at Shenyang Hospital to prepare large quantities of insect repellent and epidemic prevention powders, which proved extremely useful.
The rescue operations lasted for a full month, with the administrative seats of the four prefectures and seventeen counties all accommodating a large number of disaster victims.
Standing on the city wall of Wen Dan, watching the helicopters return for refueling from time to time, Fang Er couldn't help but think of the scenes from the 1998 floods, the Wenchuan earthquake, and the Henan heavy rain in his previous life.
Those most beloved people, unafraid of death, used their flesh and blood to stand on the front lines for the people.
Wherever there was a disaster or difficulty, they would arrive as soon as possible, using their lives to recover the losses of the people.
Compared to them, what the Great Tang was doing now was insignificant.
They were the role models that the Great Tang should learn from. If, one day, the soldiers of the Great Tang could achieve their caliber.
No! Even if they could reach half of their standard, no hardship in the world would be able to defeat the Great Tang!
Qin Qiong was also filled with emotion. The busy work of the past few days had finally seen the most difficult stage overcome.
He looked at Fang Er and smiled, "Duke An, do you have any wine?"
Fang Er took out two bottles from his pocket and handed one to the waiter. Qin Qiong smiled and clinked bottles with him, then said.
"It's thanks to you this time. Otherwise, when it comes to disaster relief, I, an old brother, would truly be clueless and wouldn't know where to start."
Fang Er smiled slightly, "What are you saying, Duke Yi? I'm merely repeating what others have said. Even without the Tian Huo Army, I believe you would have been able to handle the disaster relief."
After saying this, he stretched and continued, "Now that this matter is settled, I should go and see Yizhou and Luzon."