Chapter 76

The 134th Division rushed toward Rongyuan Shi at full speed the moment they received the order.

But constant aftershocks kept delaying their progress.

In the mountain forests, giant rocks were falling continuously.

Division Commander Lei Hanfei led by example, charging straight to the front.

Leading his troops, he hurried toward the disaster area.

"Damn it, why is there no signal at all?"

Lei Hanfei cursed; ever since entering the mountainous area, all his various equipment had lost signal.

Only the radio and satellite had a faint signal.

In order to understand the latest situation.

Lei Hanfei had long since requested satellite imagery of this area via military communications.

Although it had been sent over.

He discovered that what was transmitted was just a single image.

Lei Hanfei gasped when he saw this image.

The entire mountain gully was a vast expanse of white.

Thick fog had long since engulfed the entire valley.

"This won't do; if things go on like this, the disaster victims in the rural villages will suffer."

Lei Hanfei whispered.

He immediately gave the order.

"All troops, accelerate forward!"

That's right, he decided to disregard the safety of his soldiers, risking falling rocks from the peaks and landslides to accelerate forward.

With the people and his own soldiers placed before him.

He had no choice but to tearfully choose the people.

The entire army heard this news.

They also knew that under this order, some people might die in the natural disaster.

But they didn't say a single word.

Silently packing their gear, they quickened their pace.

Their gazes also became firm.

After advancing a distance through the mountain forest.

Suddenly, an unusual sound immediately alerted Lei Hanfei.

"Stop advancing!"

The entire division immediately halted.

Not a few seconds later, a massive rock landed directly in front of them.

A huge cloud of dust fell, nearly burying them all.

Only after everyone waited for a while.

Did they look up and realize that a large rock had appeared on the road ahead.

It had smashed a large crater directly into the ground.

Only then did everyone feel a lingering fear.

If not for Lei Hanfei's quick reaction, who knows how many people would have died.

Everyone waited for a while, and finding no new developments.

Only then did they heave a sigh of relief.

Lei Hanfei then ordered them to continue forward.

After advancing a few more steps.

A new situation arose.

Originally, there was a tunnel here.

But now, it had been shaken to collapse.

Seeing this, Lei Hanfei had no choice but to helplessly take a detour.

Just after getting around it.

They discovered another large rock blocking the road.

Lei Hanfei was thoroughly angry.

He had been terrified of failing to arrive in time.

Thereby delaying the rescue time.

And now another thing was blocking the way.

He now wished he could blast that damn rock with a shell.

But he dared not; the impact of the shell was simply too great.

He feared it would cause the mountain to become unstable.

After thinking for a moment.

Lei Hanfei called over the combat engineer company in his army.

"Engineer company, do you have C4?"

"Use C4 to blow it down for me."

Lei Hanfei said immediately to the engineer company commander.

He had just looked down below; there were only some woods and vegetation.

No households.

"Guarantee to complete the mission."

The engineer company commander said to Lei Hanfei immediately.

Afterwards, he took the men in his company and began to calculate.

Following three or four extremely small explosions.

The side of the large rock near the mountain emitted the fire of the explosion.

The large rock was pushed and rolled downward.

Seeing that the large rock was gone, Lei Hanfei hurriedly let the soldiers continue their journey.

He didn't expect that after walking just a few steps.

A person suddenly darted out from the woods.

Upon seeing them, the person began waving their hands incessantly.

Seeing this, Lei Hanfei was overjoyed.

He hurriedly quickened his pace to catch up.

Walking in front of the person, he discovered they were in rags.

And their expression was very agitated.

"Hello, we are soldiers here to rescue; do you know where the nearby village is?"

Lei Hanfei said hurriedly.

But the person did not speak, only making "yiya yiya" sounds.

Lei Hanfei thought to himself that this was bad.

This person was disabled and could not speak.

"Ah. Ah-ah-ah. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!"

The person gestured with great agitation.

Lei Hanfei immediately grabbed their hand.

"Can you understand what I'm saying?"

"Mm-mm-mm."

The person nodded repeatedly.

"That's great. Quickly take us there!"

"Ah, ah-ah!"

The person immediately turned around, pulling Lei Hanfei while turning their head to look at the road.

Lei Hanfei had no choice but to follow quickly.

And he also grabbed the person's hand.

Fearing they might accidentally fall.

"Ah, ah-ah!"

The person pointed to a place on the mountain and said.

"You mean? The village is on the mountain?"

Lei Hanfei asked.

"Ah, ah, ah."

The person tried hard to nod.

"All troops, accelerate forward!"

Lei Hanfei shouted immediately.

Then he hurriedly followed their pace.

Lei Hanfei discovered that this person's leg also had a problem, walking with a limp.

But they were extremely nimble on the mountain road.

No matter what kind of ravine or slope it was.

They could walk freely.

Not at all like the limp they had on flat ground.

Finally, after crossing a mountain peak.

Lei Hanfei finally arrived near the village.

He saw that the village was filled with cries that shook the heavens.

The houses had also collapsed.

Several elderly people were digging through the ruins of the houses with their bare hands.

Seeing this, Lei Hanfei's eyes immediately turned red.

"All troops, listen to the order, begin disaster relief immediately!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers rushed up.

Lei Hanfei hurriedly stepped forward and draped his own coat over the elderly people.

The soldiers immediately rushed up to save people.

While asking if there was anyone inside the houses.

They helped dig through the ruins of the houses.

The 134th Division was not as lucky as the troops in the city.

They had no tools, only some shovels and the like from the village.

And the quantity was extremely small.

They could only dig with their bare hands in the freezing cold of minus ten degrees at the soil blocks that had frozen extremely hard.

The person who led the way saw that the soldiers had already begun helping to dig.

They could no longer hold on, squatting directly on the ground and crying loudly.

When the crying started, Lei Hanfei immediately went up to comfort them.

But was stopped by an elderly person.

"Let this child cry."

"This child rushed into the nearest house to save people during the earthquake yesterday."

"Later, after they saved us few old folks, they rushed out and saw that all the houses in the village had collapsed."

"They thought about going out to find people to help."

"Fortunately, they met you all."

The elderly person said.

"How many households are there in this village in total?"

"Where are they all located?"

Lei Hanfei asked.

The elderly person gave an answer, and upon hearing it, Lei Hanfei immediately arranged for people to go and rescue them.

At a house at the end of the village.

The soldiers were digging through the house with their bare hands.

The hard soil blocks had scratched the soldiers' hands more than once.

But they seemed as if they couldn't feel the pain.

Continuing to dig.

"Come quickly!"

"I found someone here!"

The young soldier shouted with surprise.

He was seen digging an old lady's head out of the ruins.

"Old lady, old lady! Wake up! We've come to save you!"

The young soldier kept pushing the old lady.

The old lady only woke up after a while.

"Ah, who are you?"

"It hurts."

The old lady only said two sentences after waking up.

Seeing this, the soldiers immediately accelerated their speed.

"Young soldier, who sent you all here?"

The old lady seemed not to be in a hurry at all.

"Sigh, no need to save this old woman anymore."

"I can no longer feel my lower body."

"Behind me is a roof beam."

"This old woman has lived eighty-five years. I've lived enough."

"Look at your hands, your mothers will feel heartache too."

The old lady said calmly.

This calmness instead stimulated the young soldiers.

Hearing this, the young soldier's eyes turned red.

Saying through tears: "Don't worry, we will definitely save you."

"Soldier, don't have any burden in your heart; for an old woman like me, if I can be saved, it's luck. If I can't, it's fate."

"You are all good children."

The old woman continued to chatter on.

As if she were treating the young soldier in front of her like her own grandson, talking about family matters.

The young soldier kept answering.

While his hands sped up a bit.

Almost there!

Almost there!

Just a little bit more!

The young soldiers exerted force together and finally lifted the roof beam pressing on the old lady.

"Quick, quickly pull her out!" said the young soldier holding up the roof beam with a distorted face.

The soldiers on the side dragged the old lady out the moment the roof beam was lifted.

"Okay, it's done."

"Military doctor! Military doctor!"

On a mountain peak not far away.

Lei Hanfei was asking his superiors for aid and support.

"The satellite imagery only shows clouds and fog!"

"All the roads in the mountains are destroyed now!"

"We need air support!"

"Preferably helicopters!"

After Lei Hanfei finished speaking.

"There are no helicopters at the nearby combat-ready airport, and there is no airport in Rongyuan Shi now."

"Factory Director Zhang from Qingtianchang has already brought people there before."

"They landed by making an emergency landing in the wetland park."

Wait, Qingtianchang?

Lei Hanfei immediately thought of the military exercise with Russia.

That exercise was now being scrambled for and referenced by all major units.

And something that left a deep impression on him.

Included one thing.

Drones!

"Okay, I understand!"

Afterwards, he picked up the radio.

"Is that Zhang Wen?"

"We need support here!"