On July 6, due to consecutive rainstorm in the upper and middle reaches of the Huaihe River, the water level of lower reaches of the Huaihe River under Zhengyangguan, trunk stream of the Yangtze River, the Taihu Lake, the Qinhuai River, Chuhe River and Lixia River rose continuously. The officers and men of the Nanjing Military Area Command fought at the flood-fighting front line.

It is learned that the Nanjing Military Area Command has sent more than 5,600 servicemen and over 100 thousands militiamen and reservists, 68 speedboats and 171 vehicles to the front line of flood fighting within 3 days. Under the command of the deputy commander of the group army Wang Jiamu, 4 engineer companies of a group army executed the dyke-blasting mission at the Tangduo Lake Floodwater Store Area in Yingshang County, Anhui Province. It is said that the flood discharge area could hold 450 million cubic meters of water and the blasting could relieve the pressure of the trunk stream of the Huaihe River greatly. Meanwhile, the group army sent an engineer battalion urgently to rush more than 300 kilometers to Xiaoyi, Huaiyuan County,Anhui Province, at 21:00 o'clock Sunday night to carry out the task of Jingshan Lake blasting and flood discharge to ensure the safety of Bengbu City and Tianjin-Shanghai Railway. Today the Nanjing Military Area Command dispatched another 300 men to Linhuai Township, Anhui Province to reinforce the dyke and transfer the troubled people.

For days, a pontoon-bridge regiment of Nanjing Military Area Command has fulfilled 5 dangerous and important tasks in the battle of fighting flood in the Huaihe River area. At 16:00 o'clock on Sunday, the regiment has sent 800 men to the dangerous reaches of the Huaihe River along Bengbu, Guzhen, Huaiyuan and Wuhe of Anhui Province to block leakage, strengthen the dykes and rescue the victims of the flood.

On July 2, a 330 tons heavy steel pier cofferdam of the Jingtu Huaihe Bridge which was under construction had been lifted and overturned by the flood in the upper reaches of the Huaihe river, which greatly endangered the safety of the Bengbu sluice gate and the Huaihe Bridge at the lower reaches. Zhou Tingjie, commander of the pontoon-bridge regiment, headed emergency rescue units rushing to the spot and fought for more than 6 hours in the flood to stable the steel pier cofferdam firmly 200 meters away from the Bengbu sluice gate. On July 4, political commissar Qin Shutong and deputy commander Li Wenlin of the regiment headed more than 100 servicemen and spent 11 hours to rescue and transfer 1300 people in Songjiatan at the Western District of Bengbu City.

For days, some regions of Anhui Province have undergone heavy rainstorm and the flood situations along the Huaihe River and Chuhe River were becoming critical . On July 5, the rocketing water level of the Qingliu River led to collapse of some dykes of the river which endangered the safety of more than 3000 houses of villagers', near 100 thousand mu farmlands and Chuzhou City. The fifth detachment of Anhui contingent of the Armed Police Force rushed to the Qingliu River under orders and established a solidity defense line on the dangerous dykes to ensure the safety of the people and the asset of the state.

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