The headquarters of the Volunteer Corps of Engineers immediately forwarded this notice to various corps of engineers. After receiving the notice, the Second Engineering Team decided that, except for the ninth engineering company, which is responsible for maintaining the Rio15km light rail in Yanjin, the other eight engineering companies are responsible for maintaining the roads and bridges from the edge of the city to the section of Shenghuli.
On the following 10 day, the clouds persisted and it rained cats and dogs. The water has entered the regimental headquarters. Several soldiers are drawing water with washbasins. Xue Shangzheng stood in the water and called the companies to remind them to pay attention to flood control. Will it last for a while? You are close to the hillside, where the vegetation is sparse. Watch out for mountain torrents and mudslides.
Don't worry, Colonel, we have dug the diversion canal and the troops have moved to high places. The instructor's voice was particularly loud in a row, which hurt Xue's head and ears.
Keep your voice down, or the American plane will hear you The arrangement of a row is very appropriate. Colonel Xue is very happy and can't help joking.
Erlian? The expressway in your place has just been repaired, and the subgrade is not strong. Pay attention to maintenance. The simple monorail bridge may be damaged. Send some people to reinforce it.
Ok, I'll bring it up right away. The second company commander said with a northeast accent.
Company 3, send some soldiers to work in Area 5, where there is a sharp turn and downhill again. In this heavy rain, drivers may not be able to see the road clearly. Let the soldiers stand there and direct the traffic. Turn over the car and I'll demote your company commander!
Yes, I promise not to roll over. There is a waiter on the phone. In fact, the company commander has been standing on the expressway to direct traffic.
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On July 20, heavy rain struck and flash floods broke out. As the company was well prepared, the troops did not suffer any losses except that the tent was flooded. When it rains, American planes will not be dispatched, and the Second Youth League will organize personnel to reinforce roads and bridges and fill the craters.
3 1, the heavy rain finally stopped, and the burning sun made the earth foggy. However, the heavy rain caused the river to skyrocket, and the water level rose by more than 10 times, and the river has overflowed the river bed. The riverbank, which had been in the water for a month, finally gave in and cracked with a bang.
The Yellow River is like a group of frightened horses, rolling with white waves. The flood instantly engulfed houses and fertile fields and washed away roads and bridges. The house more than two meters high has disappeared, and the pole more than four meters high has only one tip left. The bridge fell askew in the river and the road was washed into sections.
Traffic disruption has seriously threatened residents' lives and property.
The 2nd Regiment immediately organized troops to rescue people's lives and property and repair roads and bridges as soon as possible.
Amphibious vehicles drove into the flood to rescue the Korean people trapped in trees. Soldiers pulled nets in the river to intercept the washed-away property and then collected it for the Korean people to claim.
On the construction site, cadres and soldiers sweated in hot and humid air and sticky mud for emergency repair. At this time, they also forgot to avoid the bombing and strafing of American planes. The American plane was in the air and no one left the scene. The bomb fell and plunged into the mud. Here comes the bullet. Hide behind the dock. The anti-aircraft gun on the mountain opened fire, and the American plane ran away, wagging its tail in fear.
The soldiers worked hard day and night in the muddy water, and finally made the road in the mission area clear.
But before everyone could catch their breath, on August 4, the second flood peak followed, and the water level was higher than the first one, and the newly built bridges and roads were washed away. The officers and men were too busy to change their wet clothes and went on to mend them.
At this time, the U.S. military took advantage of the flood in northern Korea, dispatched a large number of planes, bombed in turn, and blocked the main roads of our army. The emergency repair work had to be carried out at night.
On the evening of August 8, Xiayouli Bridge in the operation area of the Fifth Company of the Second Regiment was blown up. After accepting the emergency repair task, three rows of Chen Long Yuchun rushed to the scene at the speed of running and immediately put into operation in the rain.
Sweat and rain wet clothes and make it difficult to move. Chen Paichang took off his coat and vest, raised his face and poured water for a while, and shouted: Happy! Come on, comrades! The rain just gave us a bath!
The platoon leader took off his clothes and the soldiers took off their shirts. Some soldiers simply wear shorts to work. In the dim light of night, a group of men, with bare arms and strong muscles, brandished hammers and shovels to dig stones at bridge piles, jingling and chanting.
Until the next afternoon 13, a flat road appeared in the heavy rain, and the bridge leaning in the river stood up tenaciously again. The road finally resumed traffic.
As the car passed by, the drivers honked their horns to thank the engineers.
Platoon leader Chen was cheering with the soldiers when something flew out of a car and hit his arm. Chen Paichang caught a look, and it was a packet of unopened mass-produced cigarettes. A driver poked his head out of the cab and said, comrades, thank you for your hard work. Have a cigarette to relieve fatigue!
Soon, the engineering command post made a collective third-class merit for the second regiment, the fifth company and the third platoon. But platoon leader Chen always thought that the pack of cigarettes was more glorious than the military medal.
Shortly after the second flood peak, the third flood peak came again, which washed away the Shenghuli Bridge on the Datong River in the mission area of the Second Regiment and the Eighth Regiment, and interrupted the traffic between the front position and the rear. At this time, the US military is launching a summer offensive, and our frontline is in urgent need of grain bombs.
To this end, Hong Xuezhi visited the Shenghuli Bridge. He said to the engineers of the second regiment: the task of your engineers is very important, very hard and very glorious. If there is no ammunition and supplies ahead, it will be very difficult to defeat the American army. If the wounded in front can't reach the rear quickly, the casualties will be even greater. Now the car can't cross the river and is stuck on the bridge. If American planes bomb it, the consequences will be unimaginable. Your engineer's task is to use his head and try to get the car across the river as soon as possible.
Colonel Xue looked at Hong Xuezhi's red eyes and said, Commander, the damaged bridge can't be repaired in a short time. Is it possible to drive across the river in an emergency?
The head of combat engineering team interjected: Although there is no standard portal bridge equipment, we can make it with gasoline tanks. We've done this before in China.
Hong Xuezhi said: Can it be done?
Colonel Xue said firmly: No problem.
Cao Du's task was handed over to the Eighth Company. Eight companies found dozens of large petrol cans, sealed the oil outlet of the petrol cans, then tied them with iron wires, covered them with wooden boards and fixed them with feet nails, and a simple door bridge was completed.
On the same day, a trial ferry was carried out and a car was safely transported to the other side. Hong Xuezhi clapped his hands and said that this method is good and should be popularized among volunteers. Next, Balian crossed the river day and night.
One night, Ba Lian was crossing the river with the gate bridge when an American plane flew in. First of all, American planes fired a series of flares to make the river bright. Then, American planes bombed and strafed. At this time, the comrades standing on the shore are sweating for the people on the river.
The bomb exploded near the pontoon, and the water column almost overturned the pontoon. The soldiers quickly squatted down and stabilized the pontoon bridge with their body weight. The driver of the car on the pontoon climbed into the carriage, picked up his rifle and shot at the American plane flying at low altitude.
Dude, stop fighting, you can't even glue a hair! An engineer said.
If you can't hit him, scare him. Volunteers are not easy to bully! The driver said angrily.
Don't bother, come down and help us row! Another engineer said.
The driver jumped out of the car and paddled with a spade. On the river, the soldiers shouted: row, row, row! Row hard! Engineers have good skills. ...
That night, under the harassment of American planes, Ba Lian simply crossed the gate bridge to the shore. Since then, although American planes have often come to harass, the Menqiao Ferry has not stopped sailing until the Shenghuli Bridge is repaired.
During the third flood peak, when the Datong River flood reached Pyongyang, the local Korean people abandoned their homes and fled everywhere. Some people climbed the roof, others climbed the tree. Near the equipment station of the second regiment in Pyongyang, there are hundreds of people on some straw roofs, and their lives are at stake.
Song Cimin and Tak-Chi Lee, two supply stations of the Second Regiment, led personnel to start amphibious vehicles for rescue. They fought for 19 hours and rescued more than 400 people. When they returned to the station, they had not touched their teeth for a day and a night.
Stories similar to the second engineering corps' victory over flood water abound in North Korean volunteer engineering teams.
In this devastating flood in northern Korea, which has never happened in decades, the volunteers' engineers carried forward our army's heroic, tenacious and continuous fighting style, fought floods, rescued enemy planes, built roads and bridges, and rescued the Korean people, making indelible contributions to defeating the strangulation war of the US military and winning the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.