Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, July 26 (Liu Peijun, Xue Weigao) Heavy rain fell on the 26th in Anhui, and the flood control and flood fighting situation in the Huaihe River Basin was severe. In order to win the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, Chaohu rescue and disaster relief battles and protracted battles, more than 33,000 PLA, armed police officers and soldiers and militia reserve personnel fought side by side on the front line of flood control in Anhui, strengthened dams, blocked piping, handled hidden dangers, and went all out to protect the people The safety of people's lives and property.
From 12:00 on the 25th, the relevant areas of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, and Chaohu Basin in Anhui Province have entered an emergency flood control period. The command team in the direction of Anhui in the Eastern Theater Command responded to the local government’s demand for troops in a timely manner, organized joint consultations with military, local, meteorological and hydrological departments to study the deployment of troops, so as to “use troops according to the situation, use nearby troops, and use joint troops”.
The danger is the command. The command team made an emergency adjustment of 3,000 troops from the five directions of Anqing, Lu'an, Tongling, Fuyang, and Huainan to the Chaohu area, where the flood conditions are serious, and all of them have reached the mission area.
In Nanzha Village, Tongdaxu, Lujiang County, Hefei City, which is close to Baishi Tianhe, a 1.2-kilometer dangerous section faces the final test before the "mei". At 2 o'clock in the morning on the 26th, the south bank of the Baishi Tianhe was still brightly lit. More than 400 officers and soldiers of an air defense brigade of the 71st Army who rushed to the dam were urgently strengthening the dam. The officers and soldiers who have been fighting for 14 hours, regardless of fatigue, rushed to complete the piling and reinforcement of the nearly 1.2-kilometer dangerous section of Tongdawei before the onset of heavy rain.
With the water level of Chaohu Lake breaking through the highest value in history, many dikes and dams in Shidawei, Lujiang County, Hefei City have breached, and the water level of each tributary has exceeded the pavement in the dike. On the night of the 25th, more than 300 officers and soldiers of a certain artillery brigade of the 71st Army who had just completed 10 hours of high-intensity operations during the day turned into a "combat" state, and carried out work such as strengthening dams, repairing roads, building cofferdams, and blocking piping overnight.
In Yingshang County, Fuyang City, on the morning of the 26th, the gate of the Daijiahu culvert in the Jiangtang Lake flood storage area was damaged. The floodwater in the flood storage area directly flooded Daijiahu Village, Miaotai Village and other villages. A brigade of the 71st Group Army dispatched 300 officers and soldiers to assist the emergency evacuation of more than 11,000 local villagers.
Wherever there is danger, the strength of the troops will be adjusted. On the 25th, a certain ministry stationed in the Soviet Union received a notice from its superiors that the flood situation in Nanzha Village was urgent. The Ministry responded quickly and dispatched two echelons of 600 people to the front line of Nanzha Village to fight the flood. Four hours later, it sent 175 people to strengthen overnight.
In Anqing City, the People's Armed Forces Department of Daguan District divided 11 townships and street militias into 2 groups based on the affected area, the dangerous situation and the strength of the towns and streets. They took advantage of local machinery and equipment to build dikes and transfer the masses together with the militia team to devote themselves to flood control work with the highest efficiency.
As of 18:00 on the 25th, the People's Liberation Army, Armed Police, and militia reserve personnel on the flood-fighting front line in Anhui had carried a total of 1,718 tons of materials, blocked 1,891 piping and springs, filled more than 7.15 million sandbags, reinforced 80 kilometers of dams, and repaired 60 roads. Kilometers.