He stabilized his body, but saw that Zhu Yuluo beside him still fell, so he quickly reached out to help her.
Zhu Yuyao's face was a little pale. While holding Zhang Mingwei's hand tightly and standing up, she asked in a panic: "Sir, what's going on?"
At this time, some guards in Jinyi rushed in. The leader was Liu Jin, both of whom looked panicked.
However, seeing that both Zhang Mingwei and Zhu Yuluo were fine, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's an earthquake!" Zhang Mingwei replied to Zhu Yuyao, and then seeing that she didn't seem to understand for a moment, he added, "The earth dragon turned over!"
In later generations, Zhang Mingwei personally experienced an earthquake while traveling to Sichuan, but the magnitude was not large.
Unexpectedly, after traveling through time, he encountered another earthquake in Sichuan!
This is indeed the hometown of Earth Dragon!
However, he did not remember that there were earthquake records here at this time.
According to later records, the major earthquakes recorded in Jianchang were in the 15th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1536), the 10th year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1732), and the 30th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1850). Of course, Zhang Mingwei didn't know these details.
Now is the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and there is an earthquake!
It may be that at this time, the war is in chaos, and for earthquakes, man-made disasters are even more tragic, so no one cares about earthquakes!
Of course, it is also possible that the magnitude of this earthquake was not high, so the people of Sichuan, who are used to seeing earthquakes, did not bother to record it?
Thinking like this, Zhang Mingwei asked Liu Jindao: "How about the loss?"
Even if the magnitude of this earthquake is not high, even standing people are shaken and fall. It should still be a bit big, right? In this day and age, we can only rely on guesswork.
After hearing this, Liu Jin quickly replied: "As soon as the earth dragon turns over, I will rush over immediately. I don't know the other situation yet."
After Zhang Mingwei heard this, he went out to see the situation.
After leaving the Chinese military tent, I saw that everything in the military camp was fine. After all, it was just a tent set up here, and the people were all elite soldiers. They might have been panicked at first, but by the time Zhang Mingwei came out, they had all recovered.
However, many people were looking at Jianchang City. Zhang Mingwei also looked up and saw dust flying over there. They could see it very clearly.
At the first sight, he knew that many houses in Jianchang City had probably collapsed due to the earthquake, which was why so much dust was raised.
So, without even thinking about it, Zhang Mingwei immediately sent an order, ordered 5,000 troops, and immediately marched into Jianchang City to provide disaster relief.
When the earthquake happened, it happened to be noon. At this time, most people were in the house.
Zhang Mingwei himself also went to Jianchang City and came to the top of the city to see the situation.
This earthquake caused cracks in the city walls of Jianchang. Once you enter the city gate, you can see that many of the houses in the city have collapsed. The sounds of crying, painful moans, and panicked shouts were mixed together, making people very panicked.
So, Zhang Mingwei immediately ordered: "Ma Ke, take 500 people to see Bai Guangen's situation first. The others should immediately disperse into the city to rescue people. If there are any wounded, they should be sent outside the city immediately."
"Yes!" After hearing this, Ma Ke and others immediately agreed, ordered 500 people, and rushed directly to see Bai Guangen's situation.
Zhu Yuluo, who was following Zhang Mingwei, also immediately sent an order for the health soldiers to prepare to rescue the people, and other soldiers helped to set up a rescue center.
On the street, many people who had escaped were dumbfounded when they looked at the collapsed houses; or they rushed into the ruins again, shouting and digging at the ruins, obviously trying to save people.
At this time, they saw groups of soldiers wearing red military uniforms entering the city. Based on instinct, there was no indifference or hatred in their eyes, but panic, and they shouted loudly at the Ming army soldiers.
However, they basically used dialect, which the Ming army soldiers could not understand at all. However, by looking at their expressions, you can tell what they probably want to say!
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Army were ordered to go to the city to provide disaster relief. Therefore, without saying a word, they immediately sent out three, five, seven or eight people to help every household in need of rescue.
The Ming army soldiers on the street were like a red river, scattering everywhere after entering the city.
It only took a while to see the Ming army officers and soldiers scattered in every house in the city, carefully carrying the mud in the ruins, etc., rescuing the civilians or soldiers buried in the ruins one by one. If When they found out they were injured, they all carried or carried them out of the city.
During this process, Ming Mandarin became the most dominant voice in the city.
"Someone is crushed here, come on, be careful!"
"One, two, three, push harder!"
"Don't worry, we are here to rescue you, and we will rescue you soon!"
"Be careful, his leg is broken. Find a stretcher to carry him!"
"..."
Regardless of whether they understood it or not, the people who escaped were a little shocked when they saw the soldiers of the Ming army doing their best to rescue them. From the looks of them, it seemed that the performance of the imperial officers and soldiers was beyond their expectations.
In just a short while, the wounded were sent to the temporarily vacated military camp outside the city, which was the temporary rescue center.
The health soldiers were already on standby and immediately started rescuing the patient.
The injuries caused by earthquakes are actually similar to those caused by war. Therefore, the medical soldiers are very skilled in setting bones, bandaging, stopping bleeding, etc., and can quickly handle them. Of course, there are also those who are very unlucky and need amputation, which is a major surgery.
These injured people and the relatives who followed them all instinctively thanked them when they saw this scene. Although you can't understand what you say, you can feel it.
At this time, there was nothing else in their eyes except their injured relatives.
Zhang Mingwei was on the top of the city, looking at the collapsed houses everywhere and the busy figures of Ming soldiers. He was a little worried and immediately ordered Liu Jin: "Send someone back immediately to see what happened after this earthquake." How many places have been affected? Send me an order. If the local government does not have enough manpower, immediately dispatch the army to participate in disaster relief!"
At this time, it is not like later generations. After a disaster occurs, one can know how the situation is in other places with just one phone call. The only way is to send people to contact and check. If you want to know the extent of the earthquake and the extent of the damage, you need to It takes a lot of time.
After hearing this, Liu Jin immediately agreed, and then quickly went to make arrangements.
At this time, Bai Guangen hurried over, looking disgraced, but it could be seen that he was fine.
He already knew that Duke Xingguo was okay, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then reported the disaster to Zhang Mingwei, but it was basically a report of the situation in the military.
Because this earthquake occurred at noon, the soldiers responded faster. Less than 10% of the people were injured, and even fewer people were unlucky and were killed, only about ten people.
As for the people, he didn't even care. But from the top of the city, we can basically get a rough idea that half of the people did not escape.
However, at this time, there were only bungalows in Jianchang City, and there were no high-rise buildings. Generally speaking, even if someone was buried, the possibility of being directly crushed to death was still very small.
"What the hell is this!" Bai Guangen couldn't help crying, "These thieves have no clue, and they encountered an earth dragon turning over. It really is because the house is leaking and it's raining!"
After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei looked at the Ming Dynasty soldiers and the people in the city mixed together, but his heart moved. Good luck and bad luck depend on each other, which is not necessarily a bad thing for suppressing thieves!
After hearing this, Zhu Ainao on the side couldn't help but said a little dissatisfied: "You're such a crow's mouth, look, maybe it's going to rain!"
When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he looked up and saw that no, dark clouds began to gather in the sky, and it was estimated that it would probably rain heavily before long.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Mingwei became nervous and quickly ordered: "Hurry up and save people immediately. The soldiers on your side who are not injured should also start saving people immediately."
"Also, in places where the officers and people in the city need shelter from the wind, the remaining military tents should be pitched at high places for later use."
"..."
Military orders were passed down one after another, and Bai Guangen quickly took them and left. The noise in the city became even louder.
After a while, people were probably rescued from the ruins. However, there are still many people looking for valuables, food and other items in their ruins.
There are even some people taking advantage of the chaos to collect property that does not belong to them. Then when the owner returns, there will be a fight.
As soon as this happens, nearby soldiers will rush over to stop it. Needless to say, those who want to take advantage of the chaos and steal property will be imprisoned immediately.
In short, because of the presence of the army, some man-made disasters that often follow natural disasters have not occurred on a large scale.
About half an hour later, dark clouds gathered, and everyone knew that there would be a heavy rain soon.
Faced with these situations, the people affected by the disaster hurriedly looked for shelter from the rain while cursing God. Many of the belongings snatched from the ruins could not be exposed to the rain.
However, under the ruins, even if you can hide a few people, where can the whole family hide? There are also belongings, and what should I do if it gets dark? At this time, most of the people were in pain and confusion.
However, there was soon the sound of gongs and drums on the street, and then groups of soldiers followed behind the art soldiers, listening to the Sichuan girls shouting in various dialects.
"Folks, the Duke has prepared a shelter for everyone. Take your family there quickly. It will rain heavily soon."
"Everyone should go outside the city to rest for the night. It's going to rain heavily. We can't stay in the city!"
"..."
After hearing these words and seeing that the person shouting was a woman, many people became suspicious: How could the imperial officers and soldiers be so kind? The chieftains have all said that these imperial officers and soldiers are just cats and mice pretending to be compassionate. They only pretend to be good people because they want to occupy this place. They will soon reveal their brutal true colors.
However, they also had eyes, and when they saw the imperial officers and soldiers turning over, they ran to help as soon as possible!
