As a native of Northern Hubei Province, he was until

Majest stayed in Pai Chau for four days.

In the past four days, solemnly followed the assault boats of the Zhouqiao Company day and night, and rescued the trapped people again and again.

A few days later, the water had eased and the rescue forces assembled at Pai Chau were more than enough to deal with the situation.

The 3rd Squadron and the Zhouqiao Company of the 1st Division received a notice from the division headquarters - immediately return to S City to participate in flood fighting and rescue.

Afterwards, solemnly learned that the reason why the Zhouqiao Company and the Third Squadron were in a hurry to transfer back to S City was because the fourth flood peak had approached the Jingzhou section.

On the day of leaving Paizhou, the solemn motorcade passed by the convoy of the antiaircraft artillery regiment, and the solemn convoy sitting behind the car recognized at a glance the commander of the Huang Company who was crying bitterly on the dock that day.

Company Commander Huang was next to his temporary station, directing the soldiers in the company to load supplies into trucks and prepare for evacuation.

The company commander of Zhouqiao and Huang Company who were sitting in the lead car knew each other, so they stopped to say hello.

"Company Commander Huang, where are you going?"

"Let's go to Chibi!" Company Commander Huang handed the things in his hand to a soldier next to him, turned back to the company commander of Zhouqiao in the wheelhouse, and said.

Looking at the solemn convoy, Company Commander Huang asked again: "Where are you going?" ”

"Let's go back to the Jingjiang section, our troops are there, and the fourth flood peak seems to be coming." The commander of the company said.

Company Commander Huang said: "Pay attention to safety and take care. ”

The company commander of Zhouqiao said: "Yes, you too!" Good bye! ”

After speaking, the two saluted each other.

The convoy continued to drive forward slowly, and when the solemn car passed by the gate of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, Lao Qi shouted: "Salute!" ”

Everyone stood upright in the car and saluted the commander of the Huang Company standing in front of the door.

Huang Lian Chang subconsciously returned the salute.

Zhuang Zheng kept looking at Company Commander Huang, he saw sadness between the captain's eyebrows, but he saw perseverance in his eyes.

At present, the entire section of the Yangtze River is in a water emergency.

As Lao Qi said, now is not the time to be sad, and there are still many things to do for soldiers.

All the soldiers, including the solemn ones, saluted until they could not see Commander Huang and his company.

Zhuang Zhuang didn't know how Company Commander Huang would explain to the families of the soldiers who died in his company in the future, and he didn't want to imagine the situation at that time.

Before surviving in the wild, Liu Xiangdong of the first squadron died, and when his parents came to the brigade, solemnly didn't want to watch it again, and he didn't even want to think about it in his head.

Just as Zhuang Yan and his convoy were rushing back, in S City, in the Jingjiang section, in the temporary station of the teaching brigade, a major with a military backpack lifted the tent of the brigade headquarters.

"Ouch! It's Lao Wang! ”

Deputy Captain Zhang Jianguo saw the person coming clearly and immediately greeted him.

"Instructor, aren't you on vacation? How did you get here? ”

Wang Chenglin put his backpack on the marching bed, took off his hat, and said to Zhang Jianguo: "Isn't this the fourth time that Hongfeng is coming?" I can't sit still in my hometown, I really can't sit still......"

Suddenly, he asked again: "Lao Zhang, is it okay to drink saliva?" ”

Zhang Jianguo hurriedly dragged out a box of mineral water from under the bed and took a bottle to Wang Chenglin.

Wang Chenglin sat on the marching bed, unscrewed the lid and took a big sip.

"I took a car to J City, and it was said that many roads in S City were blistered, and the cars were stopped, so I had to stop a truck that was transporting things here, and people saw that I was a soldier, so they sent it here. As a result, when I got to the neighborhood, I couldn't walk the road truck on the side of our brigade, so I had to walk over by myself, but I was so tired that I ......"

As he spoke, he glanced at the muddy camouflage shoes on his feet.

"Hahahaha!" Zhang Jianguo couldn't help laughing, "Instructor, it's not me talking about you, you, it's just that you've been in the agency for too long, and the military cadres of our teaching team won't put it in their eyes and run over with a cigarette in their mouths." ”

Wang Chenglin frowned and said, "I said that you don't have to hurt me like this, right?" That's right, I was born as a machine soldier, I was a soldier in an agency, and I am still in an agency when I am an officer, but you can't underestimate me, in a military school, I also received regular military training. ”

The conversation changed and said, "What is the situation on our team's side now?" ”

"Situation?" Before Zhang Jianguo could answer, the curtain at the door was lifted again.

"Yo! It's Lao Wang! I just heard from the correspondent that you're back, and I didn't believe it, so I came over to take a look. Wen Zhixing threw his hat on the marching bed, sat opposite Wang Chenglin, and lit a cigarette.

"Lao Wen, what is the situation of the section of the river that we are responsible for here?" Wang Chenglin asked again.

Wen Zhixing said: "I just went to the division headquarters to have a meeting and came back, our side is under great pressure, thousands of miles of the Yangtze River, the danger is in the Jingjiang River, and the Jingjiang River is the most dangerous, and it is on our side of the section, we have almost 7,000 people in the division this time, all of them are pulled here, it is said that the generals personally ordered by the commander of the military region and Deputy Commander Gong sent us and the Tashan troops along this section to prepare for a tough battle. ”

Wang Chenglin said excitedly: "Okay! Then I've come to the right place! The troops are fighting tough battles, and without me, a political instructor, being present, how can they boost morale? ”

Wen Zhixing asked: "Lao Wang, didn't you go back to contact work?" At the end of the year, I changed jobs, the quality of the unit is very important, it is a lifelong thing, have you contacted it? ”

Wang Chenglin said: "Not yet, originally my wife's cousin is a local bureau leader, made an appointment to have dinner in two days, watched TV last night, said that the fourth flood peak is much more than the first three, and the Jingjiang section is very dangerous, I inquired about the people in the division headquarters, and said that you are here, so after thinking about it, I still have to come, if you don't come, I am afraid that you will not be able to do well......

", without you Wang Butcher, our teaching team would have to eat hairy pigs?" Wen Zhixing said earnestly: "Lao Wang, I don't object to the dedication of soldiers, but the above has determined that you have changed jobs, and it is only a matter of two months. ”

Wang Chenglin waved his hand: "Okay, don't talk nonsense with me, I'll come when I'm here, can you still drive me away?" Now on the compilation list, I am still the political instructor of the 1st Division Teaching Brigade! You're going to drive me away? Okay, you go to the division commander and say it, he will remove me, and I will have nothing to say. ”

Wen Zhixing couldn't help grinning: "Okay, okay, it's not so serious." I'm afraid that my sister-in-law has any opinions. ”

"When did a woman have no opinion? I have been a soldier for so many years, and I have been nagging and getting used to it every year. Wang Chenglin said: "I'm about to change jobs, can't I compensate her for making cattle and horses for the rest of my life?" ”

And he said, "Okay, don't be sloppy with me." Tell me, how are you going to fight this battle against floods? ”

Wen Zhixing said: "How to fight? We have no way out, this is a tough battle that can only be won and not lost! Let me tell you, starting tomorrow, the engineering units on the side of the Tashan Regiment will start planting explosives on the embankment in GA County, which is a full twenty tons......"

He held up two fingers.

"According to the weather forecast, the upstream of the fourth, Guizhou and other places will continue to rain heavy rain, the upstream of the Minjiang, Wujiang, Tuojiang, Jialing River and other tributaries will have heavy rain and floods, after the confluence tomorrow will pass through the Yichang section of the hydrological point, experts predict that it will be much more than the previous three, it is possible to break through the historical water level. In order to protect Wuhan, the General Defense Department plans to make preparations with both hands, preparing to blow up the embankment in GA County to share dividends, so that the water level from Jingjiang to Wuhan can be lowered and Wuhan will be kept unharmed. ”

"Blow up the embankment?" Wang Chenglin gasped, and his face changed drastically.

As a native of northern Hubei, he understands the general situation here.

As soon as the Yangtze River comes out of the Three Gorges, it rushes straight down like a roaring dragon, until Zhicheng gradually eases, presenting an empty artistic conception of "the mountain follows the plain and the river enters the great wilderness", and it is also from here to the Chenglingji of Y City, this section of 337 kilometers of the river is called the Jingjiang River.

The most deadly thing is that the terrain on both sides of the Jingjiang River is low-lying, and every flood season, the flood water must be higher than the ground on both banks, and the north bank is even higher, and the flood is more than ten meters above the ground!

Therefore, a "hanging river in the air" has been formed here, and the barrier blocking this hanging river is the Jingjiang embankment that is more than 300 kilometers long.

Therefore, history has precipitated the saying that "the Yangtze River is thousands of miles away, and the danger is in the Jingjiang River".

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Central and Southern Military and Political Commission set up the Jingjiang Dividend Committee, which gathered the military and political leaders, social elites and water conservancy experts at that time, and established a flood distribution area with an average width of 13.55 kilometers from east to west, a length of 68 kilometers from north to south, and an area of 921.34 square kilometers, with an effective flood storage capacity of 5.4 billion cubic meters.

From the map, the terrain of the flood distribution area looks like a gourd.

When the Yangtze River encounters a catastrophic flood, the gourd will open the sluice gates to release water and store the flood to relieve the pressure caused by the huge flood in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River on the Jingjiang River and Dongting Lake, and ensure the safety of the Jianghan Plain and the three towns of Wuhan.

Now, however, decades later, many of the farmers who were relocated have moved back to live in the flood storage area.

In 97 years, the total output value of industry and agriculture here was 2 billion yuan, including 600 million catties of grain production, 360,000 quintals of lint, 70 million yuan of profits and taxes alone, 120 million catties of national grain, and 250,000 quintals of lint.

And now it is the beginning of August, the middle season rice has just been headed, and the cotton has just been sprouted, and it is the time when the growth is gratifying.

Once the embankment is blown up to divert the flood, it means that 130,000 households, nearly 530,000 people, 8 towns, 2 townships, 4 agriculture, forestry and fishery farms, and 212 administrative villages in the flood distribution area of GA County will be completely submerged!

This kind of huge loss, how can Wang Chenglin not be moved.

"Oh my God......"

He couldn't help but muttered two words.

"Lao Wen, do you know what it means to divide the Jingjiang River?"

Wen Zhixing drank water, hooked his head to look at the ground, and said: "Of course I know, I am not a fool, nor am I a reckless person, I know that flood distribution means huge property losses." However, the General Defense Department has already given the order to relocate the people, and we have less than 3 days to move the people in the flood distribution area, and we have to raise the levees during this period......"

Speaking of this, he raised his head: "Lao Wang, we have no way out. If the engineer company blows up the embankment, everything we do will fail, if we want them not to blow up the embankment, we only have one way, let the central government rest assured, let the defense general rest assured, let them feel that we can withstand it, choose not to divide the flood! ”