Standing solemnly at the gate of the temporary camp.

He had just taken a car ride for more than an hour back to S City from GA County.

The camp was empty, but outside the tent at the brigade headquarters, there was an eye-catching blackboard, on which a few bright red characters were painted with the same watercolor pen as the wall newspaper - strictly guarded, people are on the embankment!

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

Although a small canopy was simply built with wooden planks above the sign, the rain still washed away the font a little blurry, and it was barely legible.

"Hey, are you from the third squadron?" The brigade secretary came over wearing a raincoat and holding a box of watercolor pens in his hand.

"Yes, we are soldiers of the third squadron." Solemn answer.

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

Straightening up, the clerk sighed: "Alas, I have to change it every hour, and when it comes to 24 hours, I will also go on it, and no one will update it!" ”

Solemnly asked: "Everyone else is on the embankment?" ”

"Yes." The clerk said: "They are all on the embankment, they went out yesterday afternoon, and now they have not returned, and the meals are all delivered to the embankment." ”

As he was talking, Zhou Huping, the leader of the third squadron, walked out of the team headquarters, surrounded by instructor Wang Chenglin.

"Assemble!" Zhou Huping shouted as he walked.

The team quickly lined up, and Wang Chenglin walked to the front of the team, swept through his troops, and said: "Our army is the people's army, and this is indisputable. That is, for our army, the interests of the people are above all else! As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to raise soldiers. Now is the time when the party and the people need us. The fourth flood peak has 24 hours to pass through S City, and the hydrological points along the coast have recorded the highest water level in history since 1954, I think those of you who have been to the flood distribution area know that when the water level reaches a certain position, the downstream GA County will implement flood distribution, I personally don't want to see the flood distribution, but I said it doesn't count, but we can use actions to tell the Party Central Committee, tell the General Defense Department, let them rest assured, so that they can have more choices in addition to flood distribution! ”

Speaking of which, there was a pause.

Eyes swept over everyone again.

"Whether we can do it or not, whether we can defeat the flood demons, on the one hand, depends on whether we have the confidence and courage to win, and on the other hand, whether we have the courage and courage to live and die with the embankment! Since the day this unit was established, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has proven countless times that it is never afraid of death! I would like to ask, do you have any confidence in defending the embankment to the death with these best advance squad leaders standing in front of me!? ”

"Yes!"

Everyone's voice almost bursts out of their chest.

After the evacuation work of the past day and night, and witnessing the tragic situation in the flood distribution area, every soldier has only two words in his heart at this moment - to defend to the death!

"I ask again, do you have faith!?"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

More than 100 officers and men of the third squadron shouted out one voice together.

The sound shook the sky, like a thunderous roar!

"I know you haven't closed your eyes for a day and night, but the comrades who stayed here to rescue are working harder than you, the situation is urgent, the disaster is an order, we don't rest, let's go immediately!"

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

Everyone began to line up to board the bus and go to the embankment under the responsibility of the teaching brigade.

Military trucks were expelled from the camp and staggered along the muddy dirt road at the edge of the forest towards the river.

The makeshift camp is less than three kilometres from the embankment, and the roar of the flood can be heard in the distance before the car has even reached the embankment.

Due to the bend in the river here, the river rushing down from the upstream crashes into the embankment like a beast trying to break free from the reins.

Suddenly, there was an exclamation not far away.

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

In the distance, on the embankment of the river section under the responsibility of the 1st Division, the crowd that had been carrying sand and gravel bags began to run back and forth, old and young, men and women, everyone looked terrified, like a war during the war years.

"Parking! Stop the car! ”

Wang Chenglin motioned for the driver to stop.

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

"Fellow, what's going on?"

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

Wang Chenglin's head buzzed and exploded.

Burst!

I actually made myself just in time!

Soon, Wang Chenglin calmed down, turned back 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 immediately notify the division headquarters!" ”

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

With one command, the whole team moved.

Solemnly grabbed his shovel and followed everyone to run towards the embankment as fast as he could.

Everywhere there was the screaming of young people.

Everywhere there were children's screams.

Everywhere there was the lamentation and weeping of the elderly.

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

Once the flood breaks through the embankment, then it is an untamable evil dragon, and for the sake of their homeland, they all run in the direction of the most dangerous embankment, instead of panicking and fleeing in the opposite direction.

"The People's Liberation Army is coming!"

Someone spotted the solemn procession and began to shout loudly.

In those panicked crowds, many people seemed to see a savior and shouted excitedly.

In the past few days, Zhuang Zheng has slowly understood a truth.

Whenever disaster strikes, the green uniform is the most popular figure, and as long as there is an army, the people will feel safe.

Because they are well aware that those soldiers and officers who wear camouflage uniforms of different colors are the ones who can be relied on the most.

"This time it's saved!" It was said.

"This ...... The comrades of the People's Liberation Army ...... "a person who looks like a cadre, with his trouser legs rolled up and covered in mud, ran in front of Zhou Huping: "I am ......"

"Where's the pick-up point?" Zhou Huping has no time or interest in the identity of the other party.

Burst.

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

If it reaches a certain level, it will become a large-scale collapse of the embankment.

The 400 rescue troops of Paizhou rushed to the embankment to control the water situation before the breach completely caused the embankment collapse accident, and they failed......

Before they arrived, the flood at the breach actually tore the embankment alive, causing the embankment to collapse for nearly a kilometer, and the swarming flood caused the entire Pai Chau to be submerged.

The situation here today is very similar.

Once a large area of embankments collapses, hundreds of square kilometers will become the same as Paizhou, becoming a world of floods.

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

There are soil collection points every about one kilometer on the embankment, some of which are directly excavated from the hillside to collect soil, while in some places where stones are needed, the troop vehicles will transport the stones from a farther distance to unload the embankment nearby.

"The first district team takes the soil, and the second and third district teams are responsible for transporting sandbags and filling them at the breach!" As soon as Zhou Huping's voice fell, instructor Wang Chenglin arrived.

"I have already notified the division headquarters, and they are very organized to rush here immediately, we must withstand here and wait for the arrival of rescue forces!"

"Understood, Instructor!"

Zhou Huping said, followed his soldiers, and ran to the soil collection point together.

Solemnly pulled up a woven bag full of dirt and carried it over his shoulder.

This bag of soil doesn't look big, but it definitely weighs more than 100 catties.

The mud was mixed with water, and the weight grew exponentially.

For the highly trained advance squad leader, it is not a big problem to carry more than 100 pounds to run.

The third squadron was soon deployed, and the local people also began to help carry soil, dig and carry sandbags.

When he rushed to the embankment, he was shocked by what he saw.

It was the first time that the Great Flood had been confronted.

At the breach, the already full river gushed out like a beast that had lost its restraints.

It can only be described as a gushing.

The surface of the river here is bent at more than 70 degrees, and the upstream river water almost directly "hits" this section of the embankment, and there is a breach here, and the water is even more violent.

"Throw!" Lao Qi, who was standing at the breach, roared solemnly.

solemnly threw more than 100 pounds of sandbags into the breach.

But......

It's like a goose feather thrown into a waterfall.

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

"Paralysis!" Lao Qi began to scold his mother, he turned around and shouted at everyone: "Don't load a hundred pounds of sandbags, all of them will be more than two hundred pounds for me, and if one person can't carry it, two will carry it!" Small sandbags don't work! ”

As soon as he shouted, the others immediately changed their sandbags.

The water, rushing out of the embankment, entered the flat ground behind it.

Fortunately, outside the embankment here, troops have built a sub-embankment up to four meters high after dozens of meters of construction.

The flood water that broke out of the embankment was temporarily blocked by the embankment.

However, the water level is climbing little by little.

Once it exceeds four meters, the sub-embankment will also lose its effect, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be lost for hundreds of miles in the vicinity!

Although everyone has the intention to kill thieves, fighting floods is never an easy thing.

Zheng Zheng felt that the pores of his whole body were now erected.

He was in a state of high tension.

Flood!

This is the Flood!

The water potential here reminds me of the sea water that hit the embankment during a typhoon, and the power is amazing!

More than 200 catties of sandbags were transported up the embankment one by one, thrown into them one by one, and disappeared into the water one by one.

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

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

Sandbags were piled up next to the breach, forming a hill.

"Cast!"

With Zhou Huping's order, several soldiers of the three districts, including Zhuang Yan, worked together and violently pushed sandbags into the breach.

Soon, everyone was stunned again.

More than a dozen sandbags that fell into the breach were actually washed out again.

In the face of the huge current, more than 200 catties of sandbags are simply not worth mentioning.

"It's useless! It's useless! The local cadre who had talked to Zhou Huping ran up to the embankment and said loudly to Zhou Huping: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, I am from the County Water Conservancy Bureau, and the water level difference here is 6 meters, and the river here is very bent, almost forming a right angle, and the upstream water is almost directly impacting this embankment, so I estimate that the thrust formed by the water flow here is more than 1,000 tons, and sandbags are useless!" ”

"It's useless!? If it's useless, you have to use it! Do you want to watch it collapse!? Zhou Huping immediately turned red-eyed: "You get out of the way!" If you're afraid of death, let's do it! ”

"You ......" The cadre of the Water Conservancy Bureau was choked by Zhou Huping's words, and he stomped his foot, "You can't come brute......"

While arguing, the solemn man standing next to the rupture suddenly felt empty under his feet.

More than one meter of soil on one side of the breach could not withstand the erosion of the current, and it collapsed all at once.

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

"Majestic!" Luo Xiaoming exclaimed.