Ding Hui was standing on the balcony with the wet Feng Guoqiang and Feng Lili. Her eyes lit up when she saw Wang Shuning coming out.
Feng Guoqiang waved at her quickly, "Teacher Wang."
Wang Shuning waved back, "Are you all okay?"
Ding Hui shook her head. "It's okay. I just drank a few more sips of sea water."
All the remaining three regiments of more than 1,000 troops stationed on the island came out to launch rescue operations for the suffering people.
Three hours later, the water level on the island had dropped to one meter.
According to statistics from the troops, thirteen people were killed or missing and thirty-five were slightly injured on the island.
When the sun rose at dawn, the sea level near Jinshan Island had returned to normal and the island was in ruins.
There was mud everywhere, seaweed was entangled on the trees, and there were many sea fish jumping on the ground.
Every household began to clean up their houses.
Wang Shuning used the broom and mop to clean the floor more than ten times, and his whole body was covered in sweat but he didn't wash it.
The most annoying thing is that after the tsunami passed, the sky was gloomy and there was a hint of a storm coming.
That afternoon, the sky over Jinshan Island was pitch black, and it looked extremely terrifying, as if the end of the world had come.
The electricity on the island has been cut off.
The army sent people to notify every household door-to-door that there would be heavy rain in the next few days and no one was allowed to approach the coast, let alone go out to sea.
The clothes and quilts soaked by sea water were dragged back before they were dried.
The storm caused the temperature to drop, and without a blanket, it was very cold.
Even the firewood was wet and wouldn't burn.
Soldiers distributed relief supplies and sleeping bags, which were the troops' stockpiled supplies.
Wang Shuning's quilt was dry, but the bed board on the second floor had not completely dried after being soaked in sea water, and it felt cold to the touch.
School was closed, so she spent most of her time in her space.
We thought the storm would pass soon, but unexpectedly, for three consecutive days, the rain showed no sign of abating.
According to the calculations of meteorological personnel on the island, it is unlikely to stop in a short period of time. The most important thing is that the tsunami caused by the undersea earthquake caused several typhoons to sweep across the sea and blow everywhere.
With the typhoon and the storm, no one dared to go out to sea.
The army's maintenance personnel repaired the equipment in the midst of strong winds and heavy rains and reconnected the communication signal between Jinshan Island and Dashan City. The tsunami caused varying degrees of destruction to many urban areas along the nearby coastline, including Dashan City. The number of casualties was far greater than the number of missing and injured people on Jinshan Island.
Troop station.
Dong Yongguang stared at the logistics company commander and asked, "How long can the troops' stored food last?"
When the 1st and 2nd Regiments left Jinshan Island, they took away two-thirds of the troops' stored supplies. The remaining food was enough to feed 1,500 people for a year.
But the tsunami swept away the remaining half, and all the food stored by the islanders was gone because it was stored on the ground and not secured.
There are now more than 5,300 people on Jinshan Island, all of whom rely on food provided by the army.
The commander of the logistics company said: "We can still hold out for more than 40 days."
Dong Yongguang exhaled, stood up and said, "Okay, in more than 40 days, the typhoon and storm should be over."
Unexpectedly, typhoons came one after another and did not stop for a whole month.
Even in Darshan, it had been raining heavily and one could not stand outdoors.
Dong Yongguang began to worry as medicines on the island were becoming increasingly scarce, especially medicines for colds and fevers.
We kept in touch with our superiors, but the situation on the sea was too dangerous. Aftershocks from the undersea earthquake occurred every few days. Although the magnitude was not large, the danger level was several times higher when it occurred at sea than on land.
Now, not to mention the ships transporting supplies, even warships dare not sail.
Wang Shuning discovered that the rations sent by the troops began to decrease, and he immediately realized that they were starting to run out of food.
"Brigade Commander, there was an accident on the beach. The patrol team found more than a hundred killer whales stranded." A soldier dripping with water ran in from outside and shouted.
Dong Yongguang's eyes were filled with shock. "More than a hundred?"
The soldier nodded vigorously. "It looks like it's been stranded for several hours."
Dong Yongguang picked up the hat and put it on his head. It was really like a rainy day with a leaking roof, and one trouble after another.
They rushed to the beach.
A killer whale weighs four or five tons and is impossible to lift.
The soldiers could only dig out the sand under the killer whales' bodies and rely on the buoyancy of the sea water to push them to deeper water.
But the waves were too fierce, and they were pushed back by the surging waves just after they pushed a short distance.
One of the whales flicked its tail slightly, knocking the five soldiers behind it onto the beach.
"Go to the fisherman's house and get the fishing net."
Wang Shuning stood on the second-floor balcony and saw a dozen black spots running.
Fortunately, there were still more than 1,500 garrisons left on the island. Five hours later, all the killer whales were finally sent into the sea.
Everyone was exhausted. The low temperature and the long time soaking in the sea water made them shiver with cold.
After more than a month of continuous storms, the climate on the island became extremely humid, the food distributed to the troops became less and less, and the soldiers were already at the point where they could only eat one meal a day.
Wang Shuning looked at the food piled up in the space. She worked during the day and was busy in the space when she was free. She had stored a lot of food in the past few months. Now there was a shortage of food on the island, so she had to find a way to transport it out smoothly.
The sound of waves hitting the rocks can be heard clearly even from hundreds of meters away. If the storm and typhoon continue like this, we will be trapped on the island and die of starvation and disease.
Taking advantage of the night, Wang Shuning wore a black raincoat and came to the rocky cave on the back of the island.
The terrain here is higher, and although it was flooded when the tsunami came, it was the place that dried up the fastest.
With a wave of his hand, corn, sweet potatoes, and piles of wheat and rice were spread on the ground, and he had to find a way to make others discover them.
Wang Shuning gradually scattered the unhulled rice grains from the hole out onto the ground.
At the bottom of the cliff is the path that the troops use for daily patrols. In view of the typhoon, their three patrols a day have been changed to once a day.
Wang Shuning simply scattered the rice down from the cliff. After doing all this, he made sure that he did not leave any footprints before leaving.
Zhao Qiming, the platoon leader of the first platoon of the third company of the first battalion of the third regiment, discovered rice fallen on the ground while patrolling with his subordinates.
Qin Shizhen cursed angrily: "Who left the food here? The team is almost starving to death, and there are still people wasting food. Damn it."
Zhao Qiming found some rice grains hanging on the cliff, "It seems they fell from above."
The ten people took a detour and climbed up from the other side. The area near the cliff was full of fallen rice. It had been more than ten hours since Wang Shuning left, and all the rice had been wet by the rain.
When they followed the rice to the cave entrance, everyone's faces looked very serious, it was so strange.
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