In the evening, outside H Town, the temporary assembly place of the direct team.

After getting off the train station, the convoy stopped three times and finally turned around three more times.

Tossed until dusk before finally arriving at this H town.

There were rumors in the army that the 1st Division had been transferred three times by the higher authorities because it was necessary to deploy the 1st Division in the most difficult places.

Zhuang Yan and his comrades had just put down their backpacks at the temporary station, and they didn't even have a chance to kick their breath, and were immediately taken to a clearing outside the town to standby.

Today was originally the Army Day, and according to the tradition of the army in previous years, August 1 was bigger than the year, and it was definitely necessary to add food and drink beer in the evening.

However, it seems impossible to have a normal August 1st Army Day this year.

August Day, just in time to be deployed to the front line of flood fighting, solemnly felt that there seemed to be a subtle coincidence in the dark.

It is said that Division Commander Zhang and his political commissar and some leaders of the division headquarters went to the first-line embankment to meet with the local leaders and discuss how to deploy troops.

Everyone's hearts are hanging in the air at the moment.

In the darkness, a procession of soldiers and local people passed by, and solemnly saw many people carrying their own television sets, and some of them were even driving a few pigs, hurrying in the opposite direction to the earth.

A soldier covered in mud stopped in front of the solemn face.

"Brother, which unit?" He asked.

After solemnly looking at the other party for a few seconds, he realized that this was an officer of the armed police force, and he still had the rank of second lieutenant on his shoulder.

However, the camouflage uniform on his body has been completely wrapped in yellow and clear mud, and if you don't look carefully at the collar badge and rank on the camouflage uniform, you really can't tell which branch of the army it is.

"We are from the 1st Division of the Army, teaching the brigade."

"Ah, it's a brother in the Army." The second lieutenant of the armed police asked, "You just came?" ”

"yes, just arrived." Solemnly said.

The second lieutenant suddenly asked with some embarrassment: "Do you have any cigarettes, give me a ......?"

After that, he explained: "My cigarette is all wet with water......

As he spoke, he took out a pack of cigarettes that had been thinned out of his pocket, pinched it, and threw it on the ground.

Solemn hurriedly said: "Yes! ”

Take out the cigarette and give it to the second lieutenant.

Biting his lip less, he stretched out a pair of hands that were also dirty, and said a little embarrassed: "Brother, please light a fire for me." ”

He solemnly saw that the hands of the second lieutenant of the armed police were full of small wounds, the skin on the wounds was soaked in a miserable white, and one of his fingers was still wrapped in gauze.

"Good...... Okay......" He quickly pulled out the lighter and lit it for the second lieutenant.

The second lieutenant took two puffs of cigarette with satisfaction, and laughed at himself: "I'm really stupid, I knew that I would wrap it in a plastic bag, but I didn't expect that I couldn't go back for several days after I came up, and I didn't have time to buy ...... cigarettes."

He solemnly asked, "Which of your troops is from?" How long has it been? ”

The lieutenant smoked a cigarette violently, and within a few strokes of a cigarette had already burned more than half.

He said: "We are from the Northern Hubei Armed Police Corps, and we have arrived here on July 3. ”

July 3rd?

It's been more than twenty days.

He looked carefully at the armed police officer in front of him again.

Thin!

The first impression is that it is thin.

His cheeks were already sunken, his chin was full of sparse beard, his eyes were full of exhaustion, and the mud on his face was drenched by the rain and jumped down his cheeks and into his neck.

The solemn heart was inexplicably moved, and the corners of his eyes were a little hot.

"Ensign, I give you all my cigarettes, you take them." He turned around and asked aloud, "Who brought the plastic bag!?"

"I have!" Wang Dazui was the first to step forward and handed over a plastic bag.

Before getting on the train, the troops gave each soldier bread to satisfy their hunger, and they were all packed in plastic bags.

He solemnly took the plastic bag, quickly wrapped the cigarette and lighter in it, and handed it to the second lieutenant.

"Take it!"

"Thank you!" The second lieutenant hesitated, but took it anyway.

"You came at the right time, the situation here is very serious, our armed police, local military districts, as well as militia and local government staff are all on board. At present, all the embankments in all sections of the Jingjiang River have exceeded the historical warning water level, and the fourth flood peak is coming, and there is a flood distribution area not far from it, if the water level in Shashi exceeds 45 meters, it is estimated that the flood will be divided...... Once the flood is divided...... That's it, there's more than 300,000 people in the flood distribution area......"

He slipped the cigarette into the pocket of his camouflage uniform and patted his solemn arm.

"Brother, let's do it together! Resist the flood peak! Fuck it! ”

He nodded solemnly and vigorously.

The second lieutenant said, "I'm leaving, it's been too long, and I'm still desperate ahead!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and went after his troops.

solemnly looked at the figure of the second lieutenant who disappeared into the distance of the path, and his heart was unusually heavy.

A huge responsibility weighed on his shoulders like a mountain.

Once upon a time, solemn felt that he was a little soldier.

A small soldier has the way of living a small soldier, in peacetime, and there is no war, it is training and training, and there is no earth-shattering feat to do, and there is not so much energy.

But this time, he felt the pressure like never before.

As the second lieutenant of the armed police said, there are more than 300,000 people in this flood distribution area.

More than 300,000 ......

How many families are there?

There is also the property behind these families, their fields, their houses, the chickens, ducks, pigs and cattle they raise......

That's the lifeblood of their lives.

Once the flood breaks through the levees, if it bursts, the monstrous flood will sweep everything away, and all the little possessions that these people have accumulated over the years will be wasted.

And these people are their compatriots, they are the people, they are soldiers who eat the emperor's food, and it is their duty to protect the people, and it is incumbent on them to do so!

He suddenly remembered what Lao Qi said in the car before, "Brothers, it's time for us to work hard", the meaning of which may be here.

What does it mean to defend the country?

Now it's called defending the country and defending the country!

What is the value of a soldier?

The value of the military can be reflected here!

Raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while!

This is the meaning of the existence of military personnel!

What is a soldier?

Coming from the masses of the people, returning to the masses of the people, putting on a military uniform and carrying a gun, is a soldier, taking off the military uniform and joining the society, it is the common people, this is the soldier!

Without the people to protect, the military has no meaning of existence!

If you don't even have the courage and guts to fight for the people, then take off this military uniform, because you don't deserve it!

Unworthy!

……

Division commander Zhang Yongjun stood on the embankment, the soil under his feet as soft as cotton, and the yellow mud mixed with rotting dead grass bubbled out when he stepped on his camouflage shoes.

He raised his eyes to look at the river, and the rushing river rushed down like a beast, and occasionally the corpses of animals and livestock floated on the river, and even some floating furniture......

What surprised Zhang Yongjun the most was the height of the river, the water level was more than ten meters higher than the height of the land behind the embankment, and it was all on the top of the soft embankment under his feet, and the embankment could burst at any time!

This is simply a hanging river on the ground!

The power of nature made this colonel officer stand in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little creepy!

As long as there is a breach in this embankment, hundreds of millions of cubic meters of river water will tear every inch of the embankment defense, and then sweep through all the farmland, crops and houses behind the embankment like a crazy monster, and everything will be drowned in the surging flood!

At this time, on the side of the long embankment, countless sandbags were piled up.

Countless people, including soldiers, militiamen, and local government workers, are desperately trying to build sandbags on the embankment.

The Yangtze River is already an angry dragon at this time, and people are as small as ants.

Time is racing against time, and there are still two days to go, and the fourth flood peak is about to pass through here.

People walk on the water, boats go on the house, thousands of miles of the Yangtze River, danger in Jingzhou.

At present, the embankment that I am stepping on is the most dangerous position in the entire Jingjiang section!

Just a few days ago, there was a torrential rain and flood in the upper reaches of the Minjiang, Tuojiang, Jialing and Wujiang river basins, forming the third flood peak in the Yangtze River basin this year, and after converging with the Wujiang flood peak, it stopped diarrhea in Yichang with a flow of 51,700 cubic meters per second!

Six hydrological points downstream, including Shashi, Shishou, Jianli, Chenglingji, Luoshan, and Honghu, have formed the highest water level in history!

On the way here, Zhang Yongjun directly asked the head of the group army to take the initiative many times, asking that his troops be deployed to the most dangerous positions.

This time, he brought with him thousands of elite soldiers, he had confidence in his troops, these lads received the strictest and hardest training, the best steel, must be used on the blade!

"Master Zhang!"

Just as Zhang Yongjun was looking at the river and was distracted, a greeting came from not far behind him.

Turning around, Zhang Yongjun saw several local cadres covered in mud walking towards this side, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Is it Secretary Deng?" Zhang Yongjun was waiting for him, and the two made an appointment to meet here.

"I'm sorry to ask you to meet you on the embankment." Secretary Deng Guihai apologized and explained: "I haven't been back to my office for a long time, and I've been soaking here for most of the month, and I don't even dare to fall asleep." ”

The two shook hands.

Zhang Yongjun asked: "What is the situation now?" ”

"The situation is not good, the local militia, the masses, as well as the provincial military district, the provincial armed police corps, and the municipal armed police detachment, are all on the list, and even the airborne troops have already rushed over from Jianli. The first three flood peaks, we have been over, but now the fourth flood peak is said to be coming, it is said that the flow is greater than the previous flood peaks, and now, the water level recorded at each hydrological point along the Jingjiang River for more than 180 kilometers has exceeded the highest record since 1954, and if you don't come again, we really can't stand it......

After speaking, the corners of his eyes turned red.

"Look—"

He pointed to a patch of yellow soup in the distance behind him.

"This year is the abnormal weather of 'Erdu Mei', from the beginning of June to the present, there have been 12 heavy rains, and the rainfall has not stopped, and the rainfall in mid-to-late July alone has reached 347 milliliters, which is five times the rainfall in the same period in previous years, and more than 20,000 hectares of fertile land...... It's all flooded......"

His brows were wrinkled together in pain.

"Don't worry, now that we are here, I promise, my troops will be able to help you defend the embankment!" Zhang Yongjun said: "The superiors asked me to bring troops here, just to see where you need reinforcements the most, and I plan to put my best troops on top!" ”

"The embankment under your feet, this is the most dangerous place in the Jingjiang section, it is said that the Yangtze River is dangerous, and the Jingjiang River is the most dangerous, and it is here." Secretary Deng said.

Zhang Yongjun said: "Okay, I'll give you my best troops on this embankment!" People are here, and the embankment is there! ”

As he was talking, the mobile phone of a cadre behind Deng Guihai suddenly rang.

He picked it up, listened to it, and then his face changed.

Taking two steps forward, he had to interrupt the conversation between Deng Guihai and Zhang Yongjun.

"Secretary Deng, Paizhou has broken ......"

"What!?" Deng Guihai's face suddenly turned pale.