On May 12th, a major earthquake occurred in Wenchuan. According to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the public security department mobilized 3,460 special police officers from 20 cities across the country in two batches to help the disaster-stricken areas.
In the early morning of May 13th, the Ministry of Public Security issued the first special police assembly order.
Police orders are like mountains.
Tread in tears
On May 13th, 1130 special police officers from six cities, including Tianjin, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing, arrived at Mianyang Airport in Sichuan by chartered plane, and went straight to Beichuan, Mianzhu, Shifang and Dujiangyan, which suffered the most, for rescue.
In the early morning of the next day, special police detachments from 14 cities including Shijiazhuang, Hohhot, Changchun and Harbin received urgent orders from the Ministry of Public Security, and 2,330 elite special police officers arrived at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport as ordered before 12 noon on May 14th, and then transferred to Dujiangyan. The frontline command of earthquake relief of the Ministry of Public Security mixed the special police team into three rescue brigades, and advanced to Xuankou Town, Shuimo Town and Sanjiang Township in Wenchuan County, the epicenter.
Duwen Highway from Dujiangyan to Wenchuan is the only way to Jiuzhaigou, a famous tourist attraction, and the only way for rescue teams to reach their destinations. The steep slope and narrow road width usually give people a sense of danger. After the earthquake, the bridge broke and the road collapsed, coupled with landslides and falling rocks, and this road became a veritable line of life and death. It has the hope of life, but also the threat of death.
Shortly after going up from Dujiangyan, cars could not pass. Public security special police embarked on a difficult trek on foot. On the winding mountain road, more than 2,000 special police officers walked like a long dragon. The more you go up, the more tragic the situation along the way: the towering mountain is like being chopped by a knife and axe, the huge landslide tears the scars on the peaks, the collapsed rocks are overturned on the road, and the car wrecks destroyed by falling rocks are staggering.
What shocked the young swat team members even more was the people who fled from the disaster area. They were ragged, dusty, dragging their children and passing the swat team. From their eyes, the special police officers read out their expectations and perseverance.
At the entrance of Friendship Tunnel, Guo Jiangning from Jiujiang Special Police Detachment saw a girl who walked out alone with the crowd, probably in her teens. Guo Jiangning couldn’t help thinking of his daughter of the same size, and his heart was sour. He stopped the little girl to ask about the disaster on the mountain. The little girl said, "Uncle, there are many people on it. Go and save them!" " When he said this, the child didn’t cry, but the special police officers around him were already in tears.
There was a young mother with two four-or five-year-old children. She was tired and hungry, and seemed unable to walk. A special police officer in Hohhot quickly peeled off the ham he carried with him and handed it to the children. Unexpectedly, the mother refused to let the children eat. She said to the children, "The police uncles have to rescue more people." The two sensible children looked away from the sausage and ran to one side. Seeing this scene, the special police officers suddenly felt a heat flow rolling in their hearts. The swat team quickly caught up and left the mineral water and ham to the child.
"I won’t open it if you want to pay."
Touching scenes are still happening one after another. When the SWAT team members leave, in addition to the necessary rescue equipment, everyone must also carry a backpack full of food and daily necessities. In order to provide more help to the affected people, they all increased the load as much as possible, and the heaviest luggage weighed forty or fifty kilograms. Although the swat team members are well-trained, this arduous long-distance running is unprecedented after all. Therefore, everyone is supporting with strong perseverance.
Along the way, simple and kind farmers have extended a helping hand to them, motorcycles, cars, tractors … They used all available means of transportation, and specially came to help the special police to transport equipment and personnel. In the section that is still open to traffic, it goes back and forth one by one, and some go back and forth dozens of times a day. While hiking to Xuankou Town, Wenchuan County, a man driving a tractor called a dozen special police officers to get on the bus and sent them to the traffic block, and then returned to pick up another group of special police officers. Cheng Zhangde, deputy director of Hefei Public Security Bureau, felt guilty and said, I’ll give you 100 yuan money, which is gas money. The man insisted that he didn’t want it. Cheng Zhangde stuffed the money into his pocket. The man who was driving the tractor actually stopped the car and said seriously, "If you want to give money, I won’t pull you. You have come to save us. How can you ask for your money?"
On the trek, at the disaster relief site, day and night in the disaster area, such things happen all the time. The simple actions and sincere words of the affected people, as well as the human light that bloomed from them, made the tough-looking special police officers burst into tears again and again.
On the way to Sanjiang Township, Wenchuan, Hohhot special police met more than a dozen people who escaped from Wolong Nature Reserve. One of them was a middle-aged man who tied his 80-year-old mother on his back with a rope. He went through all kinds of hardships and waded all the way, hungry and thirsty. He begged some food from the special police passing by. Special police officers opened their backpacks and gave him mineral water, bread and ham, but the middle-aged man only accepted a bottle of water and two loaves, refusing to ask for more. He said, "With this food, my mother can live." The swat officers present couldn’t help crying.
There are many, many moments that make swat unforgettable. A teenager has been waiting on the side of the road. When he sees a passing swat team member, he says, "I have boiled hot water for you at home. Come to my home and have a drink of hot water!" A female student of Yingxiu Middle School in Wenchuan County, with a pen and notebook, chased the special police for signature and said, "I will remember you all my life."
"I don’t believe communist party will ignore us."
As the first batch of public security special police teams galloping in the disaster area, 200 special police officers from Chongqing Public Security Special Police Corps arrived in Beichuan County, Mianyang City at about 17: 00 on May 13th, which was the first public security rescue team to arrive in Beichuan after the earthquake. Beichuan was the hardest hit by the earthquake, and the whole county was razed to the ground.
Putting down their bags, the special police immediately put themselves into the work of searching and rescuing the buried people, helping the masses, maintaining public order and defending key parts. That night, it rained heavily, and torrential rain washed the land after the disaster, and also poured on the members of the public security special police, blending with the sweat and tears of the members.
In the middle of the night, the special police officers who participated in the on-site rescue had to stop their actions and board the personnel carriers all the way from Chongqing to prepare for camping. At this time, a group of ragged children appeared in the field of vision of Ding Minsheng, the chief captain of Chongqing Public Security Special Police Corps. They were 84 students from Liuhan Hope Primary School in a remote area, the oldest being 14 years old and the youngest being 7 years old. After the earthquake, the school building collapsed, and the surviving children, led by two teachers, rushed to the mountain road one day and one night and fled to the county for help. The newly established Beichuan field headquarters was temporarily unable to resettle them, and 84 children stood silently waiting in the rain.
Before Ding Minsheng gave the order, the special police officers on the troop carrier had jumped out of the car, let the children in, and took out food and water to give them. That night, the special police officers spent several hours standing or squatting in the rain, until the on-site headquarters safely transferred all these teachers and students at 5: 30 the next morning.
For these young children, the police they saw on the rainy night after the earthquake may be just police officers, but for the affected people in Sanjiang Township who were cut off from the outside world for four days and were almost waiting for death, the police who appeared in front of them came to save their party and government.
Sanjiang Township is located in the deep mountain area of Wenchuan County. After the earthquake, there was no news all the time. It is one of the 58 blind spots in the whole disaster area. The safety of the masses has always touched the hearts of the party and state leaders. The frontline command of earthquake relief of the Ministry of Public Security handed the task of advancing into Sanjiang to a mixed commando led by Liu Yamin, the detachment leader of Harbin Public Security Special Police.
The biggest difficulty in advancing into Sanjiang lies in road damage. On the morning of May 16th, the commandos set out from Shuimo Town and began their trek to Sanjiang. On the way, I met a young man coming down from the mountain. I quickly came forward to inquire. The young man’s name was Zhang Jianbo, and he was a native of Sanjiang. It took him six hours to get to Shuimo Town after going over the mountains. I heard that the special police were eager to rescue the masses in the mountains. Zhang Jianbo took the initiative to serve as the guide of the commando team and turned around to lead the team into the direction of Sanjiang. At 15: 40, the commando team finally arrived in Sanjiang Township. At this time, Sanjiang Township is full of ruins. Fortunately, due to the wooden structure of local houses, the number of victims is not as much as expected. Of the more than 4,000 people in the township, 11 people were killed and 17 people were missing. However, the surviving people are short of food and medicine, and they live on porridge every day. The injured are not treated and their injuries are getting worse.
The special police officers rushed to the gathering place of the victims, which was a playground of Sanjiang Township Primary School. Several wooden stakes pulled a piece of snakeskin cloth less than 40 square meters, covering the seriously injured. More than a thousand people huddled in the playground, most of them were old people, women and children.
Liu Yamin fought back tears, grabbed the front of everyone and said loudly, "Folks! Sorry, we are late! We are a rescue team sent by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Ministry of Public Security. We have special police, fire officers and soldiers and doctors. A team of hundreds of people will arrive soon. Don’t worry! Everyone must have confidence, the party and the government have not forgotten you, and the people all over the country are helping you! Together, we will be able to tide over this difficulty! "
In an instant, applause broke out on the playground, and people stood up and shouted excitedly: "Long live communist party, long live the people’s police!" An old man muttered with tears: "We are saved! I knew communist party wouldn’t leave us alone. " Afterwards, Liu Yamin asked an old man if any rescue troops had been here. The old man listened and said, "The Red Army came to us in the past." Liu Ya people’s hearts are hot: I didn’t expect that the road we took turned out to be the road the Red Army took!
Without hesitation, the rescuers delivered their food to the hungry people, and the medical team immediately gave emergency rescue to 128 wounded people on the playground. After the arrival of the follow-up troops, they quickly went to nine villages in Sanjiang Township to check the disaster situation, arranged police patrols, and sprayed and disinfected crowded places. In order to solve the big problem of people’s eating, the special police braved the risk of aftershocks and rescued 12,000 Jin of grain from the ruined and crumbling dangerous houses, so the people no longer had to go hungry.
People-oriented, life first. For the public security special police officers who are fighting in the front line of earthquake relief, these abstract concepts have become living practices here, giving them a profound understanding.
On the morning of May 18th, Chongqing Special Police, who was on patrol in Wenchuan County, received a middle-aged woman’s help. Her 64-year-old father, Liu Guangjie, was injured in his right foot in the earthquake, and the villagers in the village carried him to a safe place. They couldn’t walk on the way, so they had to put him on the mountain to wait for help. The woman pleaded, "Comrade police, go and save my father’s life!" "
In the face of the eager desire of the masses, the Chongqing Special Police Corps immediately organized 17 special police officers to go to the mountains. Cliffs, broken walls and rolling stones may fall down the mountain and be shattered if you don’t pay attention. The special police officers put their hearts in their throats and used their hands and feet. It took more than three hours to finally find Liu Laohan, who was eager to wear.
It’s not easy to go up the mountain, and it’s even harder to go down. The special police officers were divided into several groups and rotated. Some people opened the way in front, steadied their heels, and the police who carried people stepped on the feet of the police in front and walked down step by step. At 10 o’clock in the morning, he began to go down the mountain. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the old man was carried down the mountain. Every policeman’s feet were soaked with blood, and several people sprained their ankles. After going down the mountain, Liu Laohan repeatedly said with gratitude, "My family has a lot of bacon. Come back to my house and eat bacon!"
If you can save a life, you will try your best to save a life; What can be done for the masses, what to do with all one’s strength, this is the common wish of the special police officers fighting in the disaster area. On the first day of trekking from Dujiangyan to Xuankou Town, the hardest hit area, the Hefei Special Police Detachment did not hesitate to donate a generator that had been painstakingly carried. The swat team members gave everything they had and donated 30 thousand yuan in cash to the town government. In Longhushan village, I saw that the tents built by the villagers were very simple. They gave up six of the seven tents they carried, and dozens of special police officers squeezed into one tent. It rained heavily that night, and the police sat in the tent all night, listening to the sound of the rain, feeling very gratified.
The masses are reluctant to part with each other and send them away with tears.
According to the data provided by the frontline command of earthquake relief of the Ministry of Public Security, as of May 23rd, the special police participating in the war had rescued 215 buried personnel, among whom 20 survived, rescued and transferred 34,383 people, rescued and escorted 19.028 million yuan in cash, assisted in investigating 192 cases and arrested 256 suspects. The team members spontaneously donated 536,990 yuan in cash to the people in the disaster area.
After eight days of fighting in the hardest hit area, according to the command of the headquarters, the special police team evacuated from the disaster area and transferred to other areas to perform public security prevention and control tasks. I heard that they were leaving, and the people in the disaster area were reluctant to part with each other and sent them away with tears.
Teachers and students of Shenghu Primary School in Xuankou Town, Wenchuan County are reluctant to let Jiujiang Special Police officers go. In just a few days, Jiujiang Special Police not only rescued books and desks for the children, but also helped the school to get through the road. It also donated 20,000 yuan to the school, which deeply touched the teachers and students of the school. The headmaster felt that there was no return and insisted on giving a banner to the special police. Unable to make it locally, they specially sent people to Dujiangyan, spent seven hours back and forth, customized a banner and gave it to the special police. When the special police officers set out, the school sent someone to accompany them to Dujiangyan.
When Fuzhou Public Security Special Police Detachment left Jizhong Village, Xuankou Town, all the villagers came out to bid farewell spontaneously, and some people even set off firecrackers. Gong Daliang, a 70-year-old widowed man, put together more than 20 fresh eggs and salted eggs he had accumulated, cooked them and gave them to special police officers. The special police insisted on not accepting it, and the white-haired old man had to kneel down in the street for the special police who were equivalent to his children and grandchildren.
Guo Jiangning, from Jiujiang Public Security Special Police Detachment, said: "The days on the front line of earthquake relief are the days when I shed the most tears and moved the most, and also the days when my mind was purified and my spirit was improved. In these days, the police and ordinary people moved each other in giving each other, and the relationship between people was close in the face of catastrophe. " Zhang Qian of Shijiazhuang Special Police Detachment said: "We have done something for the disaster area, but the people in the disaster area have given us more and more precious. They give us spiritual touch and education, which is our lifelong wealth. " The words of these two young policemen expressed the common aspiration of the special police.
Beijing, June 2 nd
