Chapter 062 - Flood Fighting and Rescue (3)

"The day of July in the 8th year of Yu is the most memorable day since I became a soldier, and the most indelible memory of my life. Since we knew that we were about to go to the front line of flood fighting, and we were making final preparations for flood fighting every day, this day has finally arrived. On Thursday afternoon, the whole company was practicing five kilometers, and it was still raining a lot. When I ran to the gas station and saw a lot of military vehicles refueling, I guessed that there must be a mission tonight, and it turned out that I guessed correctly. Sure enough, after the company assembled, the company commander read out the flood control order, and then each squad urgently assembled, packed their backpacks, and began to load materials, food, war shovels and life-saving supplies, and all the cars were loaded. Everyone sat in the row room and everyone did not speak, my old squad leader's fiancée came to the army to get married, but the military order was like a mountain and could only postpone the marriage, just when everyone was ready to leave, the battalion commander came, and the whole platoon stood up. The battalion commander said: "Our convoy passed by her house and sent her home" At this time, the whistle sounded for the emergency assembly, and everyone carried their backpacks and flew downstairs to assemble.

In this way, the whole company assembled in front of the company's door. After the company commander and the instructor were mobilized before the war, each platoon organized to board the bus, and everyone in the car did not feel nervous, but talked and laughed. After that, I was finally able to go out and have a look. Due to the rain, no one changed their dry clothes. All in wet clothes. I stopped at the gate of the regiment for a long time, and finally learned that I was waiting for the division commander and the front command car. It took a long time for the convoy to slowly drive out of the regimental gate. Looking at the drizzle outside the car through the light of the street lamp, I thought a lot: If you can meet such a task as a soldier, it is not in vain to come to the army, I really don't know what you can encounter? I think it's going to be two or three hours before we get to where we're on a mission. Arrived at the Tingjiang Bridge. Now that traffic control has been implemented here, only more than 100 of us can go all the way, and the scenery with the lights flashing is so beautiful. It's like a fiery dragon. It's a pity that I ran away in such a hurry that I didn't even bring a camera. The comrades-in-arms in the carriage were chatting in the open sky, and I was also chatting with the comrades-in-arms around me. As time passed, the atmosphere in the car gradually faded, "Before I knew it, the sky was gradually brightening, and we were still on our way." At night I saw that the driver behind me had been smoking, and that's how they lifted their spirits. Entering the boundary of Hanning, I can't see other vehicles, the most I see is the flood flooding the fields and houses, seeing these reminds me: these scenes can only be seen on TV before, but I didn't expect to see the real scene this time, and later I learned that those places are long been regulated, good once the big flood peak will be abandoned areas, the people here have been arranged by the local city and county government to the resettlement area built in advance, and the main property and materials have been transported away.

After more than a dozen hours of travel, we finally arrived in Hanning County, Langliu City. Our camp is at Ningkou Township Primary School. It's one of the best houses to live in. The school is a three-story building. We live on the second floor, our class lives in the classroom on the west side, and next door is the division reporting team. According to the custom, when the troops go to a strange place, they first clean up and unify internal affairs. I didn't do anything else for a day, it was like I came to clean. After a day of cleaning, the whole campus has changed, but the military supplies in the courtyard can't change the tense atmosphere, this day is catching up with the cloudy day, I thought to myself: It seems that Langliu is much cooler than Star City. But it was not as I thought, and the next day I was on duty in the kitchen, and only after breakfast did I hear the assembly of the four companies, which was the first time we had entered the situation here. Later, my company was also assembled, and I had nothing to do in the company, mainly to do a good job in logistics. The day passed like this, and the evening was the most fun, everyone just had to go out of the door, there were people who watched movies and played chess. Chatted. In our platoon, I and a few class leaders went to the school shop to buy snacks to eat, and sat in the courtyard drinking beer and chatting about what everyone thought was the most fun past, and the atmosphere could not be expressed in words. I am a soldier of Jinning, after coming to Xiaonan Province, I didn't feel how backward in Xingcheng, but Hanning's first feeling was that I was "poor" and I heard the owner of the sales department say "If the family doesn't go out to work, the family will have to eat" I don't know how much this exaggeration. However, they all said that Hanning was "rainless and drought." There is rain and a disaster" seems to be quite troublesome. When I heard the assembly whistle, I hurried back to the company, and after the company commander had finished assigning the next day's tasks, everyone was ready to rest, and lay in the classroom because there was no marching bed, so everyone had to sleep underground. In addition, the weather was hot and humid, in fact, I couldn't sleep at all, but after a long journey, I finally fell asleep unconsciously, and this night was a quiet night.

Unconsciously, the sky gradually brightened, and it was a new day, getting up in the morning and running and coming back to clean up, and the Langliu Municipal Government in the morning. People from the People's Armed Forces Department of Langliu City and the Public Security Bureau of Langliu City all came to comfort us and brought pork and food. Nothing else, but I am the mayor of Langliu City who is very young, and he is also very good-looking, more likable, polite and kind, and he has no stand up for what he says or does. I heard some people say that their mayor's surname is Xiao, he is a good official, and he has done a lot of practical things, I think it is good for young people to be officials, and there are not so many flowery intestines. will be stupid to do the real thing"

Today's task is to fix the embankment, fortunately the weather is not too hot, the morale of the whole company is very fast during labor, the embankment of more than 100 meters will soon be raised several floors, and the work will be fast and there will be more time to rest. The people in the station beat gongs and drums to come to express their condolences and sent us mineral water and tea eggs, which showed the rainwater situation of the army and civilians at this moment. What surprised me was the young mayor, and when I saw him again on the embankment, I really didn't see that he was the elegant and polite mayor. He was not much cleaner than us, and the mud even stuck his head, and he had been running around on the long embankment, allocating supplies, arranging for people to block the pipes, and cheering everyone up."

The wind on the embankment was very strong, and at a glance there was nothing else to see, and only the tips of the big trees remained, and the water was full of crabs and prawns. After finishing the work, I drove back to the camp, and after lunch, I called home and reported that I was safe. Because the family has been worried about going to fight the flood since they knew it.

The happiest thing was that at noon there was a marching bed. This reflects the thoughtfulness and care of the superiors, but later I heard the company commander talk about it and realized that these things were not covered by Mayor Xiao when he saw that we did not have an umbrella. After a lacquer, he personally called the provincial military district to ask for allocation. Everyone thinks that he is indeed a good officer, although he is not our commander, but I feel that he is "a soldier" under him. of people should be happy.

In the afternoon, the instructor gave a class to everyone, mainly talking about safety matters, as well as writing a letter of determination, a letter of guarantee, and some motivational slogans. Comrades-in-arms all copied each other's slogans, and the most ridiculous thing was that we all copied the same slogans, and all the mistakes were the same. The deepest memory is that "people are on the embankment, and the embankment is destroyed and people die, which makes the instructor cry and laugh." This sentence also became a funny topic, but when Mayor Xiao came to visit us in the evening, he didn't laugh when he heard it, and nodded very calmly: "If the embankment is really destroyed." Before it is destroyed, we who guard the embankment must have the determination to break the jade. After he left, some comrades-in-arms objected, saying, "Jade shattering, it's Japanese, but Lao Chao is a liberal arts student who objected, saying, "Jade shattered." It is "rather for the broken jade than for the whole tile", and the "broken jade" is our Chinese dialect.

After class, everyone stayed in the room, and behind our classroom was an abandoned courtyard. Sheep were kept in it, and sometimes there were beautiful birds looking for water in the grass, and I often sat there smoking and chatting with my comrades across the fence.

I can't go there in the courtyard every day, and I'm ready to go out at any time. Walking in the courtyard, the most eye-catching slogan I saw was "There is danger, there is danger, there is our fighting figure!" "I don't know why, but when I saw this sentence, I felt excited, and I wished that there was danger everywhere. But I'm embarrassed to tell anyone about this thought.

In the morning, the whole company was led by instructors to blow the wind on the embankment. The wind blew on the body without a little coolness. Particularly comfortable. Everyone lined up to face the river, causing countless associations, and it seemed that they had gone through all the experiences of the past few years in their minds in an instant. That's when I realized why many people like to see the sea so much, and the river is like this, not to mention the sea. Now I don't practice in the morning, the instructor taught us to learn Tai Chi, not to mention how happy we are in the morning. Run back to camp at the end of the day. From today, the hard days are coming, and today's task is not the same, or to fix the embankment, unlike before, we have to go a mile away to load sandbags to reinforce. It is said that these sandbags were urgently allocated by Mayor Xiao, and they are strategic materials that the city government has scraped together.

I don't know how many times I walked that path, but the sun was very poisonous. I don't know how to describe it. Every time I go, I think about messing up things in my heart. From one o'clock in the afternoon, until five o'clock, everyone became mud people, and there was mud everywhere, and then now their backs, especially the back of their necks, were sunburned and peeled off a layer of skin. But everyone smiled sweetly and came back to wash the dirty laundry. Everyone has no time and leisure to watch TV, and they want to sleep one by one, but the discipline of the army is so strict that they can't sleep at this time. During the roll call in the evening, the deputy company commander read out a weather bulletin from the Langliu City Meteorological Bureau, saying that there had been extremely heavy rains in the past two days, and that the flood fighting troops had been asked to make all preparations. It may have been the overcast, deathly silence of the sky on the eve of the storm. Perhaps more difficult tasks await us. Come on. I'm not afraid, it's a big deal to let the water wash away, I silently encourage myself in my heart, I don't know why, at this moment I always think of the figure on the embankment during the day who seems to be busier than us, I heard that he commanded during the day, and at night he had to inspect the various river sections, and also to comfort the officers and soldiers of the various units who came to support the flood fighting and rescue. It's strange, doesn't he have to sleep?

In the days of flood fighting, the most comfortable thing is after dinner or rest time, comrades-in-arms go to a well to bathe or wash clothes, or go to a small shop to buy food together, it seems that the small shop has become a spiritual sustenance. Although everyone is in a hurry, everyone is shy in their pockets. But everyone sat around smoking a cigarette and chatting. Listening to music makes me feel relaxed, especially in a small shop, and you can also make a phone call to a distant family so that the family does not have to worry and be afraid. When the sun sets, the basketball court in front of the school building is lively, the local people and soldiers play basketball games, the surrounding is surrounded by spectators watching the ball, children are playing carefree on the side, the cooking class under the teaching building is preparing dinner, and the car soldiers are washing the car. Play cards. From time to time, there are vehicles coming in and out. All kinds of people are fulfilling their own duties. The afterglow of the setting sun shines on this peaceful and tranquil land, and I really hope that the flood waters will recede as soon as possible and the people can live a quiet life.

Here in Langliu, the price is very low, and it is very cheap to buy things. I bought a Walkman that turns over automatically and gave me three tapes. It's less than fifteen yuan in total, and now there are songs to listen to, there are no good songs in the bumper, and the one that impresses me the most is "Let the World Be Full of Love". Because the day after I bought this tape, the young Mayor Xiao came to see us the next day and sang a few lines of this song:

Gently hold your face and wipe away your tears for you. This heart will always belong to you and tell you that you are no longer alone. Gaze deeply into your eyes. No more languages are needed. Hold your hand tightly, this warmth is still the same, we rejoice together, we endure together, we have the same expectation. We share the wind and rain, we pursue together, and we cherish the same love. Whether you and I have ever known each other, whether in front of us or in the sky. I sincerely wish you happiness and peace. ”

Mayor Xiao sang very well, and many comrades-in-arms cried, and I couldn't help but cry when I thought of the child I rescued during the day on the submerged roof. I didn't feel embarrassed to cry, because when we all started to follow Mayor Xiao's singing, Mayor Xiao was already in tears.

It's very busy when it's busy, but it's also troublesome when it's okay, and it's those few every day. Place. In the evening, when it rains, the range of activities is smaller, and when it is time to rest, I lie down in bed and listen to this song. The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier, and the comrades-in-arms are discussing: Will there be a mission tonight? Maybe it was another sleepless night, and as I expected, at about two or three o'clock in the morning, the soldiers quietly came to call my old squad leader, because I was on duty in the platoon, and the squad leader woke us up and went to the company headquarters for a meeting, and we prepared things, and after a while the squad leader ran back and said, "Assemble quickly"

As soon as the squad leader came out of the house, he blew the whistle for an emergency assembly...... When I was loading the quilt, I asked what was going on, and the squad leader said, "The embankment is broken." The flood is very strong, and the place where we live is about to be flooded," and at this moment the whole courtyard sounded the mouth of an emergency assembly. The courtyard suddenly became lively. The car soldier is moving the car. The signal corps leaked. Team Deng was in contact with us, and our combat units were making final preparations, and shouts and orders could be heard everywhere. It's a bit of a tension in front of a great enemy. Just as I was about to retreat, I saw a colonel and several lieutenant colonels and majors in front of me surrounding Mayor Xiao and not knowing what he was saying, and Mayor Xiao seemed to be very angry. I suddenly became curious, so I pretended to get closer inadvertently. I just heard Mayor Xiao say firmly: "I am the mayor, my people are still inside, I can't go!" ”

At this time, a lieutenant colonel glared at me. I had to walk away. After a while, another order came out of nowhere: don't retreat first, go up the embankment first.

I put on my life jacket and got in the car. When the car drove out of the gate, I really didn't know which direction to drive, and it was pitch black. I saw people moving, some by bicycle and some on farm bikes, as if they knew the terrible news before we did. At this time, a Xiaonan recruit I brought with me was just seventeen years old, and he was also a handsome guy. He asked me, "Are we going to be swept away by the flood?" I said no, don't think about it. Actually, I also have such a feeling, and this feeling of tension can only be felt in movies. For a while, I thought of my family, when I went to school, when I thought of every friend and every fragment of my life, just like a task to complete with my life, no one knew what accidents would happen to this time, I silently said to myself: "If something happens to me, I blame myself for my life, not to mention that there is a mayor with me, they say that the mayor is older than the division commander."

At this point, the military vehicle stopped moving forward, and at the same time interrupted my thoughts. We didn't get out of the car, and our comrades in the car were speculating about the outcome. Unexpectedly, he was finally notified to return to the station. So we went back to school, and the battalion commander told us to hurry up and cook, and there were more difficult tasks waiting for us. It's said to be a meal, but it's actually just some gruel. Time flies, and the sky is getting brighter. But there was no flood, and everyone was wondering: Is it exaggerating?

The day is getting brighter, and this mission is the most intense. We're going to enclose the whole town with sand. My company is responsible for the most dangerous northeast corner, which is connected to the river. The river is wide and there is no head in sight. We reinforced it layer by layer with sandbags. He was covered in mud. There are really unforeseen circumstances, and after a while, the sky will be as dark as the bottom of the pot. The rain is coming, and at this moment the water in the river is no longer flowing as slowly as it was just now, and the water level will soon be level with the ground. The situation came very suddenly, the battalion commander ordered to quickly strengthen the embankment by four more layers, and when the rain also fell, my comrades tore off the transparent bags in the plastic bags to make rain gear, and I made a turban-like rain gear. I saw that the village in the east was getting whiter and whiter, and it turned out that the flood was slowly submerging the village. At that time, I felt that the danger had not passed, and for some reason, everyone was shouting and rushing towards the embankment with sandbags on their backs, and it was difficult to open their eyes when the rain hit their faces. The water in the river is also flying, and we are racing against time to build sandbags, and every comrade-in-arms is working very hard in such an atmosphere. This atmosphere infected every soldier, and even the battalion commander gave a thumbs up and nodded his head again and again: "The morale is very high, and the work is very good."

We have truly raised the spirit of fighting continuously without fear of fatigue. In the end, the height of our fortress was the height that the flood could not cross, and then we completed the task and returned to the station, from the early morning to the present, the soldiers have not rested, there are no complaints, this may be the value of the soldiers.

But at this time, I really saw the young Mayor Xiao on the embankment again, and he was leading a group of people, his face was a little melancholy and a little angry. Pointing to the embankment, he criticized a group of people who seemed to be leading cadres so much that they couldn't lift their heads. Afterward. When Hong Feng really arrived, I also saw Mayor Xiao also got a few burlap bags of sand and gravel in the back, but he only carried two or three bags on his back, and the people around him quickly pulled him aside, he seemed to be reluctant to go, and said something, at this time, someone handed him a phone, he answered very poorly, and left in a hurry.

And here, since the siege of Ningkou Town, there is nothing to do, just a voluntary cleaning, all the garbage on the street has been removed, the street has become clean, the weather is hot like a stove, sweat seeps out of the muscles, and finally falls to the ground along the skin, and the surrounding people look at the high standard of work with admiration. I remember the owner of a pharmacy making me tea. It is a cup of chrysanthemum tea with rock sugar, which tastes extraordinarily fragrant, and other than that, I rest in the camp. Books have become a tool for comrades-in-arms to kill time. In addition to eating and sleeping, it is to watch TV and play cards. Lai Langliu has only run once, the sweat can be imagined, there is no sweat when running, but as long as you stop, the sweat flows down the clothes. A day without a task is actually very boring. When I learned that I was going back to the army, I knew that the comfortable days passed quickly.

Today we are going home: everyone is happy but does not want to hear the news, and going back means that in the face of arduous and intense military training, human inertia has made people have a sense of self-protection. The comrades-in-arms actually wanted to stay for a few days, and in the early morning of the flying number, everything went according to plan, the building was empty, and the items borrowed from the villagers were returned. After a few quick meals, they boarded the car, and the convoy slowly drove out of the school gate, and a banner was posted above the school gate, "Learn from the flood fighters." This is the best reward given to us by the masses of the people. It was still dark, but the people had already stood on the side of the road to see us off, setting off firecrackers, beating gongs and drums to see us off, this scene was really unforgettable for me, and there seemed to be a feeling of reluctance to leave. I thought a lot about it. The car drove away from Ningkou Town, and the platoon commander and I sat in the back while listening to "Let the World Be Full of Love". While looking at the place where we once struggled, slowly this place that I miss is far away in my sight."

We came to the fifth detachment of the Xiaonan Corps halfway, and gathered there after lunch. Subsequently, a vice governor of Xiaonan Province, the commander of the military region, and the chief captain and political commissar of the Xiaonan Corps began to speak in turn. After the long speech, our clothes were also soaked, the weather was unusually hot, and finally the Xiaonan Provincial Government awarded the pennant to my division and oral teacher. After the ceremony, all units organized boarding and we embarked on the way back to the camp. ""I am fighting the flood in Langliu in the year of vomiting". If you want to know what happened next, please log in to the muscle chapter for more, support the author, and support genuine reading