Since the beginning of September, all kinds of gossip have been flying all over the sky.

As the weather gradually improves, the water level has been slowly declining in recent days, and the flow has also decreased a lot.

Various condolence teams began to shuttle through the barracks, and except for the fixed personnel sent every day and local organizations to patrol the defense, the rest of the soldiers stayed in the tents to rest.

The brigade added vegetables every day, and there was nothing to say about the good food, Wang Dazui ate a mouth full of oil every day, and solemnly laughed at him like a starving ghost reincarnated.

It's a relaxing time.

Every day, the TV broadcasts news and evening parties on the theme of flood fighting, and there are reports of various leaders' condolences and donations from all walks of life.

All this has a distant feeling for the solemnity and comrades-in-arms who are in it.

In fact, as a soldier on the front line of the flood fight, the past month has been spent in an extremely tense atmosphere, and every day I will be startled by the sudden sound of the emergency assembly whistle to jump out of bed, and I have no time to pay attention to the disaster relief performances and donations.

However, during this period, the headquarters art troupe came and sang a few songs to the soldiers by the river to boost morale.

Several of them are big names, and they can often be seen in CCTV programs or parties, and their singing skills are definitely first-class, people don't use microphones, and the cappella can be heard clearly by thousands of people present.

When the dust settled, the solemn heart finally relaxed.

The troops along the Yangtze River were not greatly harmed by this once-in-a-century flood, and even the 20 tons of explosives buried on the embankment in GA County did not explode in the end, and the local government is brewing a plan to let the people in the disaster area return to their homes.

The rest is to repair the embankments along the coast, which is left to the local government.

Good news came one after another.

On September 2, the Yangtze River resumed sailing from Ezhou to Xiaochi.

On September 2, the President of China Construction Bank went to Hubei Province to study post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, and on behalf of the head office, he promised to increase the loan of 3 billion yuan to the Hubei branch of China Construction Bank.

On September 3, the Songzi to Shishou and Three Gorges Dam areas resumed. Resumption of flights.

In the evening of the same day, 100,000 soldiers and 60 generals signed the "100,000 Soldiers of the 98 Northern Hubei Flood Fighting Front Troops Signing Scrolls" activity initiated and organized by Chutian Radio Station.

In those days, a layer of skin that had been solemnly taken off grew new skin, and the itchy, red, and soaked feet and crotch began to heal slowly.

This feeling is even more beautiful than the New Year.

By September 5th, the situation had changed.

At around seven o'clock that night, the sky that had been clear for many days suddenly began to rain heavily.

Wang Dazui stood by the tent, smoking a cigarette and looking at the sky, shaking his head and saying, "Watching the sky at night is not good...... Bad ......"

Zhuang Yan almost slapped this guy to death on the ground, and now, what he is most afraid of is a crow's mouth like Wang Datong.

"Big mouth, can you say a human word?"

Before he could finish his solemn words, he heard a whistle in the camp.

Sure enough, it was the number one crow's beak of the 1st Division......

At this time, the whistle should not be a good thing.

But soon, Lao Qi came over and told everyone that it was just an assembly, not a rescue mission, so you don't need to bring a shovel, just wear a raincoat to go out to gather.

This notice finally made Zhuang Zheng feel at ease a little.

After the brigade was assembled, Wen Zhixing spoke briefly.

The main content was to remind everyone not to take it lightly, and a notice was read out from the General Defense Department to the troops.

The circular said that in the past few days, new dangerous situations have still occurred in the Yangtze River embankment, and on the 6th, three dangerous pipe surges appeared at the foot of the river embankment in Honghu City, and the old plugging of the Chibi embankment has been rectified and new changes have appeared. The circular also calls on all localities to take this as a lesson, be vigilant against receding water and embankments, and implement new measures to check and rectify risks.

After reading out the notice from his superiors, Wen Zhixing asked all squadrons to step up patrols in the section of the embankment where they were located, and not to relax their vigilance for a day as long as they did not receive an evacuation order.

Receding water and pouring embankment?

For solemnity, this is a new word.

When the water recedes, will it fall down?

After the dissolution, he solemnly asked Lao Qi, what is called receding water and pouring embankment?

Lao Qi simply explained this term in detail to the entire three-district team.

Listening to the experienced old people who live by the river, "when the embankment recedes the water", "the rising water does not retreat, the water does not fall, the rain does not fall, and the weather is sunny", all of which are saying that the closer to safety, the greater the potential danger! "When the embankment recedes and the water is back", there is a certain scientific basis.

The so-called receding water and inverting the embankment refers to the fact that when the water rises, the embankment gradually accepts the pressure generated by the high water, and the action force and the reaction force are balanced, and the embankment is safe; On the contrary, once the rain stops and the water level gradually subsides, the embankment is like losing its "support".

Due to the flooding of the embankments along the Yangtze River for many days, the embankment body is soft, and the embankment body is exposed to the sun, and the embankment body is easy to fall off and slide in the thermal expansion, resulting in a breach and collapse of the embankment.

This situation often occurs when the weather is clear and the water is receding, and it is also the time when paralyzing careless thoughts are most likely to breed.

As the saying goes, "those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety", and "victory always belongs to the last insistent". Whether it is in the early stage of holding your breath or at the end of the upcoming victory, as long as you have the psychology of despising paralysis, you will be carried away by the possible victory, you will loosen your strings, rest your feet, you will be taken advantage of by potential dangers, and you will eventually fall short and fail.

After the eighth flood peak, the weather has been sunny for several days, the water in the embankment has slowly receded, the water level has gradually dropped, and the mood of the flood control workers has also improved a lot.

What is unthinkable is that in some places, there have been breaches and embankments that have collapsed, and in some places, due to the lack of a plan, they have been caught off guard, resulting in threats to the lives of the masses and property losses.

That's why the General Defense Department issued this notice to remind the coastal disaster relief and rescue forces to pay attention to the situation of the embankment.

Good spirits, ugly spirits.

The matter Wang Datong's crow mouth was once again unfortunate to be true.

Early in the morning of the 6th, solemnly was woken up by the sound of a hurried emergency assembly whistle.

"There is a breach and landslide in the Zhoujiapu embankment, the situation is urgent, and it will be dispatched immediately!" Wen Zhixing, wearing a raincoat, stood in the middle of the temporary camp, waved his hand at the soldiers who ran out of the tent and said, "Get on the bus!" Boarding! Don't assemble anymore! ”

The solemn footsteps did not stop rushing into the military truck car, the sky was dark and cloudy, and the atmosphere was unusually tense while sitting in the carriage.

All of them did not speak, looking at each other in the dark.

Sitting opposite the solemn was the old confused, this guy squeezed his eyebrows at the solemn and asked with a low smile: "You don't have a good face." What's wrong? ”

Zhuang Zhuang had some bad premonitions in his heart, probably because of Wang Datong's psychological hints, he barely squeezed out a smile, shook his head and said, "It's okay, isn't it just a breach." ”

The old confused looked at the back of the car and muttered, "Yes, isn't it just a breach......

It took half an hour for the convoy to arrive at the scene.

After getting out of the car, there were already other troops and local rescue teams rushing to repair, and the commander of the unit in charge of this section was a regiment commander, who came up and said to Wen Zhixing: "Which unit do you have?" ”

"1st Division Teaching Team!"

"How many people did you bring?"

"Three squadrons."

"Okay, divide two squadrons to go to the breach, and another squadron will follow our car to the nearby stone field, the breach here is very serious, you need to throw an iron cage!"

The large iron cage is the best material to fill the gap, and it is better than filling it with a fully loaded car.

"No problem!" Wen Zhixing turned his head to Zhou Huping and said, "You take the third squadron to the stone field, and the first and second squadrons stay here to rescue!" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Huping turned his head and shouted to his soldiers: "Third squadron, follow me!" ”

Zhuang Zheng waited for the car again, this time, it was a transport convoy of other troops, more than 30 vehicles, specially used to load stones.

The quarry is not far away, and it only takes twenty minutes to drive from the embankment.

Originally, it was a private stone quarry, but now all the stones have been contracted for flood control.

The quarry was built on the side of a mountain, and the private owner had blown open a corner of the mountain, and the ground was full of large and small stones.

Small stones are not suitable for iron cages, at least dozens of catties can come in handy.

The shovel is no longer needed, so everyone simply holds it with their hands, and if it is larger, they use a hammer and iron chisel to chisel a few pieces and then move them to the car.

The rain crackled on the raincoat.

Soon, the stone on the flat ground was almost empty.

Some people began to walk to the blasted stone wall to move stones, and the cliffs there were more than ten meters high, and they were stunned, all of them were blown up by explosives.

Zhuang Zhuang didn't know how many stones had been moved, and the car in charge of the third district team was about to be full.

Each district team is responsible for loading three vehicles, which is not a big job.

Perhaps, after this time, there shouldn't be another gathering, right?

Thinking so solemnly, he added a little more strength in his hand, carried a stone of dozens of catties into the car, and threw it heavily.

Rumble!

The moment the stone landed, the solemn suddenly felt the earth shake.

The loud noise startled the solemn himself.

Of course, it couldn't have been from the stone he had thrown down, and the loud noise was coming from behind him.

Turning his head sharply, he saw a lot of people rushing towards the edge of the cliff.

Lao Qi stopped the others while rushing.

"Don't keep up, it's dangerous here!"

Something happened!

The solemn gaze darkened for a moment, and the buzzing in his head exploded.

He jumped out of the car, ignoring Lao Qi's warning, and ran towards the place where the accident happened.

There were still a few meters away from the place of the accident, and Lao Qi and several other squad leaders gathered in a circle, with a huge stone in the middle, almost weighing one or two.

"Come on a few people, help!" The voice of Qian Zhongjun, the eighth squad leader, was trembling, "Quick! Bring those iron drills! ”

Zhuang Zheng quickly turned his head and ran, found an iron drill, and ran back.

Qian Zhongjun, the eighth squad leader, snatched the solemn iron drill and pushed him back: "There are enough people, you go away!" It's dangerous here! ”

Solemnly subconsciously obeyed the order and stepped back a few meters.

Suddenly, he saw the rain beneath his feet.

How is rain red?

Meandering, flowing like a stream from the edge of the Liberation Shoe......

"One, two, three!"

"One, two, three!"

All the soldiers of the eighth squad and several squad leaders put their iron hammers on the ground and lifted them up with their shoulders, intending to pry the stone open.

Everyone is crazy, red-eyed.

solemnly saw the old confused face through the cracks of the people......

His eyes were open, as if looking into the distance, but his pupils had already lost their lustre......

The rain is getting heavier and heavier......

The air is getting colder......

Solemn felt a pair of large hands suddenly choke his throat, making him unable to breathe.

Time, as if it had stopped.

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