Standing solemnly at the gate of the temporary camp.

He just took a car for more than an hour to return to S City from Ga County.

There was no one in the camp, but outside the tent of the brigade, a striking blackboard was erected. On the blackboard, a few bright red characters were painted with the type of watercolor pen that draws a wall newspaper - Strictly guarded, people are on the embankment!

Below, is a line of smaller words - there are still 28 hours before the fourth flood peak passes through the city of s...

Although a small canopy was simply built with wooden boards above the sign, the rain still washed the fonts a little blurry, barely able to see clearly.

"Ah, are you from the Third Squadron?" The brigade clerk came over in a raincoat with a box of watercolor pens in his hand.

"Yes, we are soldiers of the Third Squadron." replied solemnly.

The clerk went to the blackboard, retraced the words with a watercolor pen, then erased the number "28" and wrote a new "27".

Straightening up, the clerk sighed: "Alas, I have to change it every hour, and after 24 hours, I will be on it too, and no one will update it!"

Zhuang Yan asked: "Everyone else is on the embankment?"

"Yes." The clerk said, "It's all on the embankment. I went out yesterday afternoon, and I haven't come back now. The meals are all delivered to the embankment."

As he was talking, Zhou Huping, captain of the third squadron, came out of the brigade, with instructor Wang Chenglin beside him.

"Assemble!" Zhou Huping shouted as he walked.

The team was quickly lined up, Wang Chenglin walked to the front of the team, swept his troops, and said: "Our army is the people's army, this is indisputable. In other words, for our army to come It is said that the interests of the people are above everything else! As the saying goes, soldiers are trained for a thousand days and soldiers are used for a while. Now, it is time for the party and the people to need us. The fourth flood peak will pass through the city of S in 24 hours, and the hydrological points along the coast are all recorded. With the highest water level in history since 1954, I think those of you who have been to the flood diversion area know that when the water level reaches a certain position, the downstream ga county will implement flood diversion. I personally do not want to see flood diversion, but I said It doesn't matter, but we can use our actions to tell the Party Central Committee, tell the General Administration of Defense, reassure them, and let them have more options besides flood distribution!"

Having said that, I stopped for a while.

His eyes swept over everyone again.

"Whether we can do it, whether we can defeat the flood, depends on the one hand whether we have the confidence and courage to win, and on the other hand whether we have the courage and courage to coexist with the levee! Since the day I started the troop, it has been proven countless times that they are never afraid of death! I would like to ask, the most outstanding squad leaders who stand in front of me vow to defend the embankment to the death, do you have any confidence!? "

"have!"

Everyone's voice almost burst out from the chest.

After the evacuation work for the past day and night, and witnessing the tragic situation in the flood diversion area, there are only two words in every soldier's heart at this moment - defend!

"I'll ask again, do you have confidence!?"

"have!"

"have!"

"have!"

More than 100 officers and soldiers of the three squadrons shouted together.

The sound shook Jiuxiao, like a thunderous roar!

"I know you haven't slept all day and night, but the rescue comrades who stayed here have worked harder than you. The situation is urgent, and the disaster is an order. We will not rest, and we will set off immediately!"

With a wave of his hand, he jumped into the cab of the lead car first.

Everyone started lining up to board the car and headed to the embankment where the teaching brigade was in charge.

The military trucks were fired from the garrison and staggered along the muddy dirt road at the edge of the forest toward the river.

The temporary camp was less than three kilometers away from the embankment. Before the car had reached the embankment, the roar of the flood could be heard in the distance.

Due to the curvature of the river here, the river water rushing down from the upstream hit the embankment frantically, like a beast trying to break free.

Suddenly, a scream came from not far away.

Wang Chenglin stood up on the co-pilot and stretched half of his body out of the window.

In the distance, on the embankment of the section of the river that Division 1 was in charge of, the crowds who were carrying sand and gravel bags began to run back and forth. Everyone, old and young, men and women, looked terrified, like the chaos of war.

"Stop! Stop!"

Wang Chenglin motioned for the driver to stop.

He jumped out of the car and grabbed a man who passed by.

"Hometown, what's going on?"

"Ahead! The embankment at the gate has burst!"

Wang Chenglin's head exploded.

burst!

Actually let myself just catch up!

Years of military career have created his composure as an officer. Soon, Wang Chenglin calmed down and turned to Zhou Huping, who had already run over, and said, "Zhou Huping, you immediately press all the soldiers of the Third Squadron for me, and I will inform the division immediately. !"

Zhou Huping raised his hand and waved it in the air, like a commander on the battlefield: "The brothers of the third squadron are all here, come with me!"

With one order, the entire team moved.

Zhuang Yan grabbed his shovel and followed everyone towards the embankment at the fastest speed.

The screams of young people were everywhere.

The screams of children were everywhere.

The lamentation and wailing of the elderly were everywhere.

All the nearby villagers rushed over, and they also heard the news of the **** breach.

Once the flood broke through the river embankment, it would be an untamable dragon. For the sake of their homes, they all ran in the direction of the most dangerous embankment, instead of running for their lives in the opposite direction.

"The People's Liberation Army is here!"

Someone found the solemn team and began to shout loudly.

Among those panicked crowds, many people seemed to see the savior and cried out excitedly.

Zhuang Yan has gradually understood a truth in the past few days.

Whenever a disaster comes, the green military uniform is the most popular figure. As long as there is an army, the people will feel safe.

Because they know very well that those soldiers and officers in different colors of camouflage are the most dependable people.

"It's saved this time!" someone said.

"This...comrade of the People's Liberation Army..." A man who looked like a cadre rolled up his trousers and ran to Zhou Huping in mud: "I am..."

"Where is the borrowing point?" Zhou Huping had no time or interest until the other party's identity.

burst.

Then it must be controlled and filled back in the shortest time, otherwise the turbulent river will tear open and expand the breach in a very short time.

If it reaches a certain level, it will become a large area of ​​collapse.

Paizhou's 400 rescue troops rushed to the levee to control the water conditions before the breach caused the **** collapse, and they failed to take over...

Before they could arrive, the flood at the breach actually tore the levee apart, causing the nearly 1,000-meter-long levee to collapse.

The situation here is very similar today.

Once the embankment collapses in a large area, the area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers will become the same as Paizhou, and it will become the world of floods.

"The borrowing point is over there!" The local cadre pointed to about 300 meters inside the embankment.

The river embankment has a soil extraction point every about one kilometer. Some are directly digging up the soil bag on the hillside to collect soil, and some places need stones. The troops' vehicles will transport the stones from far away and unload the river embankment. nearby.

"Teams in District 1 take soil, and teams in Districts 2 and 3 are responsible for transporting sandbags and burying them at the breach!" Zhou Huping had just finished speaking when instructor Wang Chenglin arrived.

"I have informed the division headquarters, and they organized personnel to rush here immediately. We must withstand it here and wait for the arrival of the rescue force!"

"Understood, Instructor!"

After Zhou Huping finished speaking, he followed his soldiers and ran to the borrowing point.

Zhuang Yan picked up a woven bag full of dirt and carried it on his shoulders.

This bag of soil doesn't look like much, but it definitely weighs more than 100 kilograms.

The soil mixed with water and multiplied its weight.

For a strictly trained squad leader, it is not a big problem to run with more than 100 pounds.

The No. 3 Squadron was soon deployed, and local people also began to help dig soil and transport sandbags.

When Zhuang Yan rushed to the embankment, the situation in front of him surprised him.

This is the solemn first time facing the great flood.

At the breach, the already full river water gushed out frantically like a wild beast that had lost its restraint.

It can only be described as gushing.

The river surface here is bent more than 70 degrees, and the upstream river water almost directly "hit" this section of the levee. In addition, there has been a breach here, and the water potential is even stronger.

"Throw!" Lao Qi, who was standing at the crack, roared at Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan threw more than 100 catties of sandbags into the crack.

But……

It was like a goose feather thrown into a waterfall.

As soon as it was thrown in, the sandbag was swept away without a sound...

"Paralyzed!" Lao Qi started to scold his mother, he turned around and shouted to everyone: "Don't pack a hundred jin sandbags, just pack more than two hundred jins for me, if one person can't carry them, just two! Ass!"

When he shouted, the others immediately changed sandbags.

The water rushed out of the embankment and entered the flat ground behind him.

Fortunately, outside the embankment here, some troops had already built a four-meter-high sub-embankment after tens of meters.

The flood that rushed out of the embankment was temporarily blocked by the quilt embankment.

However, the water level is rising little by little.

Once it exceeds four meters, Zidi will also lose its function. At that time, the nearby area may be lost for hundreds of miles!

Although everyone has the heart to kill thieves, fighting the flood has never been an easy task.

Zhuang Yan felt that the pores all over his body were standing up now.

He was in a state of high tension.

flood!

This is the flood!

The water potential here reminds the solemn, who grew up by the seaside, of the sea water that hit the bank during the typhoon. It is surging and powerful!

Sandbags weighing more than 200 catties were transported to the levee one by one, dropped one by one, and one by one disappeared into the water.

The sandbag was swept out of the breach by the powerful flood and rushed dozens of meters behind the embankment!

"Bring the sandbags up, don't throw first, gather them together and then throw them collectively, throw ten or eight more at a time!" Zhou Huping saw this situation and immediately adjusted his method.

Sandbags piled up beside the breach, forming a hill.

"cast!"

Following Zhou Huping's order, several soldiers from the three-district team, including Zhuang Yan, worked together to push the sandbags into the crack.

Soon, everyone was stunned again.

The dozen or so sandbags that fell into the breach were actually flushed out again.

In the face of the huge current, more than 200 catties of sandbags are hardly worth mentioning.

"It's useless! It's useless!" The local cadre who had a conversation with Zhou Huping ran up the embankment~lightnovelpub.net~ and shouted at Zhou Huping: "Comrade PLA, I am from the county water conservancy bureau, the water level here is The drop is 6 meters, and the river here is very curved, almost forming a right angle, and the upstream water almost directly hits this dam, so I estimate that the thrust formed by the water flow here is more than 1,000 tons, and the sandbags are useless. !"

"It's useless!? It's useless! Do you watch it collapse!?" Zhou Huping immediately turned red: "Get out of the way! If you're afraid of death, let us come!"

"You..." The cadre of the Water Conservancy Bureau was stunned by Zhou Huping's words, he stomped his foot, "Can't be rude..."

While arguing, Zhuang Yan, who was standing beside the crack, suddenly felt that his feet were empty.

The more than one meter of soil on the side of the breach could not withstand the scouring of the water, and collapsed all at once.

Zhuang Yan and a few soldiers joined the soil and fell into the water!

"Solemnly!" Luo Xiaoming exclaimed.

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