July 3, 1:25 a.m.

At this time when he should have been asleep, in a military camp on the outskirts of Shuzhou, the lights were bright, and countless soldiers were waiting for him, under the command of grassroots officers, running to the assembly area in rows.

"Report! 118 people from the 9th Company of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division! 118 people have actually arrived! Assemble completely! Wait for instructions!" Wang Qiang, commander of the 9th Company, gave a military salute with a straight posture and reported loudly.

When all the soldiers of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division heard the emergency assembly horn sound, they thought that this was a routine night training. But when they came to the playground, they found that it was not so simple.

More than 1,000 people of the entire regiment had all assembled on the playground, and on the rostrum, the regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, and political commissar were all present, with serious faces.

"Comrades!" Tian Biaozhong, commander of the 28th Regiment, was full of vigor as he held a megaphone in his hand, "Just now, while we were still asleep, a breach accident occurred in the Xunyang section of the Yangtze River! The provincial military district has issued an order asking our regiment to arrive at the scene in the shortest possible time and plunge into disaster relief!"

The 28th Regiment was strictly disciplined, and even after hearing such shocking news, none of the soldiers on the scene whispered, and they still maintained a tall military posture.

Tian Biao looked at his watch and continued to speak into the loudspeaker: "It has been learned that the embankment at the breach is close to the Xunyang urban area, and the flood water has been surging towards Xunyang City, which has 400,000 residents, seriously endangering the safety of the people's lives and property! As the people's soldiers, we have an unshirkable duty! As the 28th Regiment with a glorious tradition, we have an unshirkable responsibility! As a proud Chinese person, we have an unshirkable responsibility!"

The 400,000 residents of Xunyang City are our parents, our brothers and sisters, and even more so the objects we defend when we take the oath of enlistment! We will certainly encounter difficulties and dangers in this rescue operation. However, on the day we joined the army, we promised to sacrifice everything, including our lives, to defend our homeland and country!

"Our 28th Regiment is all iron-clad men! All are good soldiers! There is not a single bad seed! What is a flood! We have defeated the Dongying people! We have defeated the reactionaries! In the face of our iron will, everything is a paper tiger!"

"Tell me!Do you have faith!?"

The soldiers in front of him let out a deafening roar in unison: "There is a !!"

Tian Biao's eyes widened: "Be louder! I can't hear you!"

"There is !!!!!"

The roar shook the sky.

Tian Biao waved his hand: "Okay! Keep up with the right! Take the company as a unit! For the honor of the 28th regiment! Come with me, get in the car!"

Green liberation trucks lined up neatly outside the barracks, and more than 1,000 soldiers boarded their vehicles in an orderly but extremely fast manner.

In the dust, more than a dozen trucks lined up to drive to the military airport on the outskirts of Shuzhou.

"Company commander, you said that the regiment commander said so evilly, what is this flood like? It has grown so big, and I have never seen a flood. One of the warriors muttered quietly.

Wang Qiang, the commander of the Ninth Company, glared at him: "Wu Hao, what nonsense are you talking about! Are you still looking forward to seeing a flood? How many ordinary people will suffer when a flood falls?"

Wu Hao grinned: "Company commander, look, you are glaring again, I am just curious." ”

Wang Qiang sighed: "I haven't seen it either, but I heard from the old man in my hometown that there was a big flood in our thirties year, not only the fields, but almost all the houses in the whole village were washed away, and many people died." My grandfather was young at the time, jumped fast, climbed to the top of a ten-meter-high tree, and survived. According to him, if the water is two meters higher, he will be finished, you think, how scary it is. ”

Wu Hao opened his mouth in disbelief: "Ten-meter-high water, company commander, are you lying? If it's really such a big water, what's the use of letting us go? And why are we going? Feed the fish?"

Wang Qiang slapped Wu Hao on the head: "Just you talk a lot! It is a soldier's duty to obey orders! We can do whatever the above orders us to do! Where are there so many words? Besides, if we don't go up at this time, who will?"

After that, Wang Qiang coughed twice and said to the other soldiers in the truck: "Comrades-in-arms, I don't know what our specific mission is when we arrive in Xunyang, and I don't know what to do. However, I believe that no matter what tasks the military region entrusts us with and to us the Ninth Red Company, we will be able to accomplish the task!

Wang Qiang saw that everyone's reaction was a little dull, and scratched his head: "Let's do it, let's sing a song together, okay? Wu Hao, you get up! Oh, yes! Speak from the heart! Sing this! Ready, get up!"

"To be honest, I'm homesick too. ”

"The old mother at home is already full of gray hair. ”

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On the body of the liberation truck in which the Ninth Company was riding, Wu Hao's voice sounded, and then more than 100 people hummed along.

“。。。。。。 I often miss her in that dream, she in my dream...

Come on, come on, come on, since you come to be a soldier, come and come, you know that you have a great responsibility.

You don't carry a gun, I don't carry a gun, whoever defends our mother will defend her.

Who will defend her。。。。。。 ”

Each warrior sang louder and louder, clutching the sapper shovel in his hand, like the steel gun he usually held in his hand.

"Speak from the heart ... The other companies heard the song of the Ninth Company and joined in, and the singing of a dozen trucks and thousands of soldiers resounded throughout the night sky.

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2:05 a.m.

"How's the situation outside!?" Zhang Chen frowned and asked Hu Kaixuan, who had just climbed onto the roof to check the situation.

Hu Kaixuan wiped a handful of muddy water from his face and shook his head: "The water level is still rising, and now it is almost flooded to the second floor, but I see that there are lights in the urban area not far away, and I can see the car lights in a trance, so it should not have flooded to the urban area." The terrain here should be too low, and it is close to the breach, so the water level is relatively high. I haven't seen a rescue team yet, but it should be soon, so don't be in too much of a hurry. ”

Zhang Chen also knew that it would be useless to worry about being in a hurry, but now Lu Xinyi's condition is very bad, and she urgently needs to be sent to the hospital for treatment, it has been more than an hour, and if she delays it any longer, maybe her life will be in danger.

Zhang Chen really regrets coming to Xunyang now, if he didn't come, maybe this embankment wouldn't collapse in advance, if he didn't come, Lu Xinyi's life would not be in danger, if he didn't come。。。。。。

Zhang Chen's Nokia is no matter how solid it is, after all, it has been soaked in water for so long, twenty minutes ago, when Zhang Chen was making a third call with Hui Yu, the mobile phone sent out a power shortage prompt, and after a few seconds, it automatically turned off, and it was useless to change the battery, and it became a brick completely.

It's the same with other people's mobile phones, none of them can be turned on to contact the outside world.

"Boss, I'm good at water, I swam out for help, since I can still see lights in the distance, maybe I can't swim far to find rescue." Hu Kaixuan volunteered.

Zhang Chen forced himself to calm down and shook his head: "No, in a short period of time, staying here is our safest choice, and we can't act separately, which will increase the difficulty of rescue." Huiyu already knows where we are, and the flood control headquarters should also know, and I believe that it will not be long before rescuers from ourselves or our country will arrive. ”

As soon as Zhang Chen's words fell, there was a faint sound of toot in his ears.

Zhang Chen and Hu Kaixuan perked up their spirits, took three steps and made two steps towards the window where the sound came from, and looked at the window, two bright lights loomed on the water with the waves, but they became brighter and brighter.

"It's a speedboat!" Hu Kaixuan cheered, "It's a speedboat!"

(End of chapter)