The mountain villages in the distance looked a little hazy in the mist and rain, especially the dark sky, but fortunately the problem was not too big so far.
"Immediately send people to survey the terrain, send people to check inside the mountain village, and then find a shelter from the rain around to see if there are any caves or the like. If you can find some branches that have not been wet by the rain, Better. We may have to spend the night here tonight and have to make a fire."
"The temperature in the mountains drops very quickly during the rainy season. The soldiers traveled all day in the rain. Although they are all strong young men, there will be problems if they don't light a fire at night." Li Yuanjia wiped the rain off his face and gave the order.
The soldiers who received the order quickly divided into several teams and went to investigate and check the situation. When Li Yuanjia followed the large army to the outside of Shanhuai Village, he was a little shocked when he looked at the raging river.
The terrain of Shanhuai Village is on the south side of the canyon, while Li Yuanjia and the others are on the north side. The canyon turns a corner here. The location of Shanhuai Village happens to be relatively flat, suitable for building a village, but there are cliffs extending out on both sides. The cliff, the road out of the mountain was the same way they came.
Their only connection with the outside world is a stone bridge over the river.
Normally, the flow of water in this river is not large, but now this heavy rain and the heavy rain upstream have caused the water in the entire river to surge at least several times, and a lot of turbid river water has begun to overflow the stone bridge.
If this continues... once the stone bridge is washed away, Li Yuanjia looked at the many houses on the opposite side that were not much higher than the stone bridge. No one knew how long those houses could carry them.
The mountain village opposite could only resign itself to its fate. Looking up, the mountain village opposite was shrouded in dim fog, like a ferocious monster.
"Order! The first battalion quickly searched for settlement sites and cut down the surrounding trees to see if they could drive some wooden piles on both sides of the stone bridge and add handrails to cross the bridge! The third battalion followed me in to rescue people! It must be good I urge you to get all the people out of their homes, they are in too dangerous a position."
"Yes!" Everyone received the order and immediately began to take action.
Just when Li Yuanjia was about to step on the stone bridge to cross the river, a huge "bang" sound suddenly resounded throughout the valley. Li Yuanjia and others suddenly raised their heads and looked in the direction of the sound. They saw that they were about 30 meters away from Shanhuai Village. A thousand meters away, upstream of Shanhuai Village, a hillside that originally looked dark gray in the dim evening sky suddenly collapsed, revealing a large piece of yellow-brown soil.
Countless boulders collapsed directly, and dense trees rushed down amid the majestic soil and boulders, blocking most of the entire river!
Terrifying sounds continued to echo in the valley. The huge sound caused many people in the mountain village opposite to roar in terror, and the cries of children kept coming!
"Everyone! Save people!" Li Yuanjia's face suddenly changed, and his whole face changed. Because of this situation, he had learned this knowledge while studying some natural disaster rescue courses. Those huge rocks, soil , the trees did not completely block the river. Although most of it was blocked, there was still water flowing down slowly!
But in such a situation where heavy rains flow in, when the river water accumulates to a certain amount, the blocking soil, boulders and trees will be directly washed away. The flood peak formed at that time, I am afraid that nothing will be left in the mountain village opposite!
In the face of such natural forces, human power is too small. The only way now is to move everyone to higher ground before the temporary dam is washed away.
"Wang Tian!" Li Yuanjia said loudly.
"Here! You lead ten people and immediately rush back to Longxiang overnight. Tell all the downstream people along the river to be prepared for the peak of the flood! Remember, if you are slow to notify, maybe not one person will die. Two already.”
"Swear to the death to complete the mission!"
When they hurriedly left and hurried back the same way, Li Yuanjia took a deep breath and hoped that nothing would happen to them. Traveling at night and on such a rainy mountain road, without lighting, was almost the same as traveling in the dark. .
Although they brought some special torches dipped in grease, rosin, etc., there were not many of them, and Li Yuanjia didn't know how far they could go.
He is not worried about the location of Huilong Township. The terrain there is higher from the river valley, and it has been carefully selected. The flood peak is not a big problem, and it is attenuated at such a long distance, but it is some distance from Huilong Township. There are several villages on both sides of the river.
Those villages may also be in danger, especially some villagers along the river who must be evacuated.
"Everyone, go into the village to save people!" Li Yuanjia gave the order.
Except for the soldiers who had left to find some caves and other places to shelter from the rain, the rest of the people quickly began to cross the river while the water dropped. Many people did not even take the stone bridge, but ran directly across the river bed.
The villagers in the village were all awakened by the loud noise. When Li Yuanjia and the others arrived, this time they were spared the process of persuasion. As soon as they said it, all the villagers were willing to follow them to evacuate.
There is even good news. The old man in the village said that there is a cave not far from the mountain road they came from, where they can take shelter from the rain.
Shanhuai Village is not a small village, with more than a hundred households. Li Yuanjia led all the soldiers to break into every household, but soon they encountered new problems.
"Captain, there is a situation here." As Li Yuanjia walked deeper into the village, several soldiers nearby rushed out.
"What's wrong?"
"They... they want to take away the family's cattle, some broken furniture, the iron pot they just bought, and the bedding." The soldier reported quickly.
"This...this leader, it's not that we are ungrateful, it's just...this is the wealth that our family has saved for most of our lives. Leader, please take your mother-in-law and baby with you, and you can move these things yourself." A man in his twenties and thirties who looked like he was in his forties or fifties rushed over and almost knelt down to Li Yuanjia.
Looking at the hopeful look in this man's eyes, Li Yuanjia wanted to say that people are more important than money... but he couldn't say it because now he is not the same person who didn't understand anything.
He now knows that for many people... cattle and iron tools are more important than their lives... because these things are really what they have saved for their whole life or even several lifetimes. If they are gone, their family's life may be lost.
A broken family is worth a thousand dollars, that's what it says.
"Move! Order everyone to help them move out. Only bring valuable livestock and ironware! Leave other pottery pots and the like that can be burned at any time!" Li Yuanjia yelled decisively.
At this time, time is of the essence. Instead of trying to persuade everyone, it would be faster to just take action!
He suddenly understood that sentence. In this life, helplessness is often the main theme.
