The day was soon dawning.

The water at the breach seems to have finally been blocked!

"Teach the brigade to listen, leave the staff on duty, the 123rd squadron will rest for half an hour and have breakfast!"

Wen Zhixing held an electric horn in his hand and stood under the embankment shouting.

The cooking squad pedaled the tricycle and delivered the porridge and buns to the bottom of the embankment.

I was finally able to eat and rest.

For more than ten hours, Zhuang Yan had not eaten a bite of hot food, and felt that the whole person began to feel cold from the inside of his body, and his hands and feet were a little numb.

A few minutes later, sitting on the grass not far from the embankment, solemnly holding a pot of porridge with three huge lean leek buns on it.

But his hands were shaking, and he couldn't grasp the chopsticks.

Similar to the feeling of participating in the bombing commando team before and throwing a thousand grenades a day in the teaching team is back.

Thirteen hours.

Halfway through, he solemnly drank an unknown number of mouthfuls of water fed by others, but only ate one egg.

"Holy!"

Wang Datong next to him suddenly scolded his mother.

"I can't hold chopsticks......"

He turned his head to look at Majess and chuckled.

"You're ...... too"

Zhuang Yan had no choice but to smile bitterly, put the rice bowl on his lap, and then poked a bun with chopsticks, raised the bun to his mouth with trembling hands and took a bite.

"It's okay, the hands are not useless." He said.

Wang Datong looked left and right, and almost everyone was learning to eat in a solemn manner.

Sitting in the long queue by the grass, none of the soldiers could use the chopsticks in their hands.

Wang Datong suddenly stopped laughing.

He felt like he couldn't laugh anymore.

Wang Dazui, who has always loved to laugh the most, has a sad but proud feeling.

"It's good to be a soldier with you!"

He suddenly muttered to himself inexplicably.

Solemnly was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and said: "Big mouth, I am too, I feel very proud to be a soldier with you." ”

"Brothers! Hurry up and eat! When we're done eating, let's continue to fuck the flood! The king howled vigorously.

The big guys laughed.

"That's right! Hurry up and eat! Fuck the flood! ”

"With us here, the embankment must be there!"

Everyone's emotions were mobilized.

Suddenly, on the muddy road in the distance, a convoy of more than a dozen cars of various types came to the road.

One of them was a dark green Cherokee jeep.

No matter how solemn you look at it, it feels familiar.

"Stand up!"

Deputy Regiment Commander Huang, the highest military rank at the scene, held an electric horn and gave an order.

All the soldiers put down their rice bowls in a daze and stood up.

Solemn suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

That's right!

Isn't that Cherokee the special car of Deputy Division Commander Cai!?

Solemnly turned to ashes, you can recognize it!

Before collecting firewood by himself and scattering on the cement road outside the teaching team, it was this Cherokee, and the hateful volunteer driver, who mocked himself mercilessly and made himself cry bitterly.

In the end, if it weren't for Lao Qi coming to help, he might have collapsed.

Out of one of the jeeps was a tall military man in camouflage uniform.

Wang Datong took a breath of cool air next to him, and said in a low voice: "Good boy, it's a major general, the army commander is here!" ”

"Not only the army commander, but also our division commander Wang and deputy division commander Cai have arrived ......"

"Mom, what are they doing?"

"Lao Caitou is not easy to mess with...... Some cadres are going to be unlucky! ”

Deputy Division Commander Cai, nicknamed Hei Lao Cai, has the darkest skin among division-level cadres, like a charcoal pulled out of a fire pit, hence the name.

He was a well-known blackface in the whole division.

In the 1st Division, most of the senior officers had been on the battlefield, so most of them had some kind of fierce style.

However, solemnly heard from the veteran that Hei Lao Cai is quite distinctive, he never trains soldiers, only officers. Once, Hei Lao Cai trained the deputy commander of a regiment to tears at the meeting of officers above the division and battalion level, and cried like a child.

Therefore, all the officers of the division were afraid of Lao Cai, but the soldiers were not afraid of him.

"You are the temporary commander Huang Shaotao here?" Commander Ye asked.

Deputy Head Huang hurriedly stood up: "Yes!" Huang Shaotao, deputy commander of the 273rd Regiment, reported to the army commander and asked for instructions. ”

"Don't do this!" Commander Ye's face sank, and he pointed at Deputy Commander Huang and said: "Now is the flood fighting and rescue, not the rest time, according to the regulations, there is no need to stop and salute me!" ”

Deputy Head Huang was criticized and blushed.

Commander Ye turned around and raised his hands to the surrounding officers and soldiers to signal everyone to sit down, and said with a smile: "Everyone sit down, what should I do, the soldiers on the embankment give me an eye on it, there is no need to stare at me, there is no need to stand straight, that is, a veteran with a senior rank, there is nothing to see." What's more, this is the scene of flood fighting and rescue, not on the big playground of your division, so there is no need to be so restrained. ”

Deputy Regiment Commander Huang hurriedly gave the order: "Sit down." ”

All the officers and soldiers were already very tired, and when they heard that they could sit, they were not polite, so they immediately sat down.

"Commander, why didn't you give advance notice before you came?" Deputy Head Huang asked.

Commander Ye said: "What was the early notice? Waiting for you to roll out the red carpet? Or organize a welcome ceremony? I said Huang Shaotao, when did you become so fond of superficial kung fu? ”

"I'm not ......" Huang Shaotao just wanted to plead, but suddenly met the sharp gaze of Deputy Division Commander Cai behind Commander Ye, and quickly admitted his mistake: "Yes, it's my fault......"

From several trucks at the back of the convoy, local cadres moved large aluminum barrels one after another.

Commander Ye said: "The local government knew that you had been fighting here all night last night, so they called Deputy Commander Gong, saying that they wanted to express their condolences to the flood fighting troops here. The deputy commander asked me to lead the team......"

After that, his eyes turned and returned to Huang Shaotao.

"You did a good job last night, which is commendable, but you can't take it lightly, the location here is dangerous, there are still a few hours, the fourth flood peak will pass through here, be sure to guard it strictly! Guarded, I will personally ask for credit for you; I can't hold it, don't do it, you deputy head of the regiment, and change jobs at the end of the year! ”

"Yes! I promise to complete the mission! Huang Shaotao puffed up his chest and said uprightly.

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news, remember, report the water situation every two hours, and stay on top of the embankment tonight!"

"Yes! Captains! ”

"Okay, let's get down to business, let's talk about condolences." Commander Ye turned around, pointed to a middle-aged man behind him and said, "This is Secretary Deng of the local government, he sent stewed pig's feet with ginger to our officers and soldiers fighting the flood, which can ward off the cold and replenish the muscles and bones." ”

Deng Guihai came up and shook hands with Huang Shaotao, and said repeatedly: "Thank you for your hard work!" Comrade of the People's Liberation Army! ”

Without waiting for Huang Shaotao to answer, Deng Guihai shouted loudly to the condolence team he brought: "Distribute pig's trotters to the comrades of the People's Liberation Army!" ”

More than 30 local cadres each carried buckets full of pig's feet and began to give them to the soldiers and officers who sat on the ground like mud monkeys......

Anyway, I can't tell whether I am a soldier or an officer, they are all covered in mud, and only the two eye sockets are relatively clean.

Two pork knuckles and a bowl of ginger soup per person.

Solemnly asked about the fragrance of pig's feet, so greedy that he almost drooled.

However, how to eat these two pig's feet, I really embarrassed myself again.

The chopsticks can't be clamped, and it is unstable to hold it with your hands......

Not only him, but also the people next to him.

In the end, everyone simply drank soup and porridge, and was not in a hurry to eat pig's trotters.

Soon, Commander Ye, who was standing not far away, seemed to see the problem.

He walked towards the third squadron.

Wang Dazui touched his solemnity with his elbow and said, "Hey, hey! Solemnly, I saw the commander coming. ”

The soldiers of the third squadron immediately became nervous.

Squadron leader Zhou Huping was also at a loss and quickly stood up from the ground.

"Stand up...... Get up ......."

He whispered a reminder to the person next to him.

Then one passed the other, and soon, the entire third squadron stood up.

"Sit down! Sit down! Seeing this, Commander Ye hurriedly motioned for everyone to sit down: "I said, I am a veteran with a senior military rank, no different from you, I have also been a soldier, and I have also gone from a soldier to the current position of army commander, no big deal!" ”

All the soldiers laughed.

Commander Ye walked up to the solemn front and stared at him for a moment.

Zhuang Yan felt that his breathing was a little stagnant, and the rate of his heart was beating faster.

He wanted to get up from the ground, but the commander said just now that he didn't need to get up.

Commander Ye suddenly squatted down.

Solemnity was taken aback.

Commander Ye stretched out his hand and gently pinched the shoulder position of the solemn camouflage uniform.

The yellow stripe of the private's rank had been completely worn off, the dark green fluff had been rubbed all over the place, and another piece was broken.

When I lifted it, a large piece of the skin inside rubbed off.

The commander's gaze became solemn.

He suddenly grabbed a solemn hand, pulled it in front of him, and turned it over.

The solemn right hand was full of small wounds, all of which had been scratched by the stones in the sandbags.

"Why don't you eat pig's trotters? Not hungry? The commander asked.

solemnly and nervously glanced at Captain Wen behind the army commander, as well as his squadron leader Zhou Huping.

"You don't look at them, what says what." The commander commanded.

solemnly licked his lips and said, "Actually, it's because my hands are too tired to hold chopsticks......"

Commander Ye didn't speak, stood up, and walked in front of Wang Datong.

As just now, he checked Wang Datong's hands and shoulders.

One by one, they walked over.

The commander kept squatting down and getting up again.

A company inspected a dozen soldiers.

Commander Ye turned around and returned to the high place of the embankment, stretched out his hand, and took the electric horn from Huang Shaotao's hand.

"Comrades......"

He opened his head in a deep tone.

Around the embankment, everyone quieted down.

Everyone was waiting for the commander to speak.

However, Commander Ye's gaze swept from one end to the other, sweeping back and forth several times in a row, almost sweeping over the bodies of all the officers and soldiers of the troops in front of him.

Finally, he continued: "Very good......

He spoke a second time, just two words.

Then he said: "I am a veteran, I have been on the battlefield, before I always had a prejudice, after the reform and opening up, the soldiers are becoming more and more difficult to lead, and they are not as good as before, I stubbornly believe that today's young people no longer have the willpower of our generation to endure hardships and stand hard work and fight tenaciously. ”

"But! You taught me a lesson today! I'm relieved that this unit of mine has—"

At this point, his eyes were a little moist.

"You are no worse than we were back then! In you, I see the most precious qualities and traditions of our army, which are able to attack and fight well, endure hardships and stand hard work, move forward bravely, and are not afraid of sacrifice! Your performance so far last night is definitely worthy of a military medal! But I can't take credit for each and every one of you, that's the reality......"

"However, I beg you to accept the salute of a general here, the salute of a veteran of southern Xinjiang!"

After that, the general violated the rules and regulations, took the initiative to raise his right hand, and performed a standard military salute!

Under the embankment, all the people stood up.

More than 2,000 officers and soldiers returned the salute.

Huang Shaotao took a step forward and shouted: "Please rest assured, the head of the group army!" ”

All officers and soldiers: "Please rest assured, the head of the group army!" ”

"Please rest assured, the head of the military district!"

All officers and soldiers: "Please rest assured, the head of the military region!" ”

"Please rest assured, the head of the Military Commission!"

All officers and soldiers: "Please rest assured, the head of the Central Military Commission!" ”

"Please rest assured that the central leaders!"

All officers and soldiers: "Please rest assured that the central leadership!" ”

"Please rest assured that the people of the whole country will be reassured!"

All officers and soldiers: "Please rest assured that the people of the whole country are at ease!" ”

"Strictly defend and swear to protect the embankment! People are in the embankment, and people are dying on the embankment! ”

All officers and soldiers: "Strictly guard and never retreat!" People are in the embankment, and people are dying on the embankment! ”

The sound resounded through the sky, like thunder and vibration.

The blood at that solemn moment was piping hot.