The time was about up, and we took one last look at the place and headed towards the village.

It is estimated that the tower here has fallen and the village should have heard it a long time ago, anyway, it doesn't seem to be a good thing for us to go to the tower as soon as we go to it, with some trouble, and I am anxious, we returned to Shakulan Village.

But before we even entered the village, we realized that the situation did not seem right.

The terrain of Qilan Village is low-lying, and from this angle it looks like there is a very wide Pingding Mountain in front of it, but in fact, when I came, the people in the village told me: that very wide 'Pingding Mountain' is actually the Yangtze River Embankment!

Although my home is also on the edge of a river, I have been used to the river in the ditch since I was a child, and now you tell me that the dam is actually on the mountain!

I really admired the psychological quality of the people who lived here (I later learned that it was actually a lonely person: many cities along the Yellow River are like this). ）

Looking from our place, many people were like ants forming a ladder to carry bags full of dirt back and forth at the embankment, and at the entrance of the village, many military vehicles, many soldiers in camouflage uniforms and training uniforms were charging towards the dam with shovels!

What's going on?

There was no one in the village anymore, and after looking for it, I suddenly grabbed the accountant Zhang who came to ask Li Shicheng to go back.

At this time, Accountant Zhang was holding a loudspeaker and shouting from door to door: "Is there anyone else?" Is there anyone else? ”

"Accountant Zhang! What's wrong? We rushed up and asked.

"Oops, something happened to Boss Zhang!" Accountant Zhang roared when he saw us: "Now I won't hide anything from you: the flood peak is bigger than expected!" The water upstream is less than 10 hours away from our village! Now more than 1,000 soldiers have been transferred from above, and all the people in the village have been out, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled have been transferred to a safe place. ”

"The flood peak is bigger than expected?" I asked in surprise, "What about the village party secretary?" ”

"On the top of the dam! Li Zhishu is about to catch fire! ”

"What do you see?" I asked, looking at everyone.

"There's nothing to say, no one can say anything when this kind of thing happens!" I nodded and said, "Let's go!" ”

There are now more than 2,000 people on the dam, which sounds like a lot, but when we got to the dam, we felt that the dam was really big enough: from the bottom of the dam to the top of the dam, I estimate that it is at least 40 meters. In this area, the Yangtze River is simply a 'heavenly river'!

A few of us rushed all the way to the top, and in the middle of the crowd I immediately saw Li Shicheng.

"The sixth paragraph has to be staffed! Prevent pipe surges! The embankment must be built quickly! The dam should be increased to more than 54 meters! At least another 300,000 sacks will have to be transported up to keep the village! If the embankment breaks, not only will our village be finished! There are two more villages downstream that are also doomed! The dam must not be broken! ”

Li Shicheng held a map and kept pointing at several people.

A few people were probably the nearby village chief or village party secretary, as well as a few soldiers, and everyone was worried when they looked at the map.

In 10 hours, 300,000 sacks filled with soil were transported to the dam, and not only did they need to be loaded immediately, but they also needed to be transported by people, even if half of them were loaded and half of them were transported, 1,000 people had to go back and forth 300 times! 30 times per hour, every 2 minutes!

2 minutes round trip to the 40-meter-high dam! This is not a task that humans can accomplish at all!

Seeing me coming up, Li Shicheng looked at me and said eagerly, "Boss Zhang...... I'm sorry, but now you and your people should get out of here, we still have to protect the dam! The dam must be strengthened and aggravated, otherwise there will be a danger of dam failure, sorry Boss Zhang, the hospitality is not good! ”

I nodded, "I'm not here to quit, we're here to help." ”

"Help?" Li Shicheng looked at us puzzled.

"You need a medical team here, right? This girl is a good doctor, she will come in handy, these two guys have no problem carrying four punching bags at a time, and so am I, these two girls can also do hard work......"

"I can carry four bags, don't underestimate me." Ye Jingyuan said with a smile.

"I absolutely believe you can carry eight bags...... But you'd better keep a low profile......" I pinched my sweat and looked at Ye Jingyuan and said.

"Good! Then please help! Li Shicheng nodded and said.

Liu Zixuan also carried a medical kit with him, and was immediately temporarily requisitioned by the army, while Yu Shen and Yang Li immediately went down to carry sandbags, Liu Yuwei glanced at me and went down together, and I dragged Li Shicheng to the side.

"I don't know much about flood fighting, do you have to have enough materials to hold down the dam and prevent it from bursting?" I looked at Li Shicheng and asked.

"That's right, the dam here is a permanent gravity dam, it has to have enough weight to hold it down, if its own weight is not enough, it will cause the dam to burst, but the most troublesome thing now is that we don't have large equipment: it will take at least five hours for the city to transport equipment such as large excavators to us, according to the existing situation, if the large equipment is transported we can still withstand it, but if the flood continues to increase, I am not sure!"

"Simply put, gravity is used to hold the dam down, right?" I laughed.

"So it's simple: if we summon enough statues to get here and throw them into the water, won't we be able to crush the dam?"

Hearing me say this, Li Shicheng's eyes widened suddenly.

"Don't get me wrong, I have met the old eunuch and know about you, and I understand what you are thinking now: I only think about one thing now: strengthen the dam, hold back the flood, and save the village. When we're done with that, we can find some time to talk. ”

Li Shicheng was stunned for a few seconds, looked into my eyes, and nodded violently.

I pulled the two skulls out of my bag and handed them to him.

"You know better than I know how to use this thing, and you know better than I know where the dam needs to be strengthened the most, please, I'm going to carry sandbags too." I laughed.

"Aren't you afraid I'll run away? I don't care who you are, and if I leave you now, you'll never find it again. Touching the two skeletons, Li Shicheng said solemnly.

"Then I'll take a gamble." I laughed, "I bet you're thinking about one thing right now: strengthen the dam, keep the flood back, and keep the village safe." ”

After that, I walked away without looking back.

Only an old man was left pinching two skeletons and looking at my back.

Flood fighting, I never knew I would do this myself.

The kind of scene where thousands of people are fighting together will never be known without the knowledge of trying their best.

Everyone around me: soldiers, villagers, cadres, students, everyone is working frantically: shoveling soil and bagging it, quickly transporting it to the top of the dam, everyone has formed more than a dozen human ladders between the top of the dam and the bottom, and the bags of soil are passed in everyone's hands to the top of the dam.

Yu Shen and Yang Li are simply manpower trucks, carrying several earthen bags back and forth up and down the dam, a captain soldier who participated in the transportation looked at the two people as if they had found some treasure, and after they were done, they dragged Yang Li and Yu Shen and asked them if they wanted to join the army or something, and made a basket of various guarantees......

Ye Jingyuan did not show herself too much because she was thin, but participated in the transmission of the handover method of the human ladder, and the section she stood on was the section with the largest slope, she carried her pocket with both hands and kept throwing it up, and the people around her were surprised to see that this 'little girl' could throw a hundred pounds of dirt bags more than one meter high......

Liu Yuwei is responsible for shoveling soil under the dam: Liu Yuwei's endurance is relatively good and her physical fitness is excellent, plus her arm strength is good, she is also handy at doing this, she doesn't know who to find and found a training uniform, wearing a training uniform in the dirt with a shovel and flying up and down, and soon became as disgraced as a group of male soldiers around me, I basically don't know which one is Liu Yuwei in the distance.

And Liu Zixuan joined the medical team, and treated everywhere with the military doctors of the army: when someone was injured or fainted, they immediately rushed to treat them, and they were busy everywhere.

And I also joined the army of dirt bags, shuttling back and forth.

As the bags of earth were pressed up, the embankments above began to be built, and the city government was very strong: truckloads of support troops kept coming along the road: nearby villagers, students, and soldiers from other places.

As more and more people come to help, so does the heavy machinery we've been waiting for!

Excavators, trucks. Bulldozers and other equipment have all rushed to the front line, and these big guys can almost top hundreds of people! I was moved by the shouts of people, the roar of machines, and all sorts of different sounds on the construction site.

When I was in the flood of '98, I was not in the flood-stricken area, and I was a teenager and I was not able to participate in the front line of the flood fight, so I could only watch the touching scenes on TV.

And now, I'm with thousands of people, watching the dams we've built get thicker and taller.

At that time, a pride will rise in my heart: no matter who it is, we can defeat him!

"There are still 2 hours to go to the flood peak crossing! Let's do it! Hold on to the dam! ”

"Keep the dam!"

"Come on!"

The shouts of thousands of people in unison resounded in the sky!

In 10 hours, no one knows how many sacks were carried and how much earth was dug up, and the entire dam was frantically reinforced with a thick layer in 10 hours, and a temporary embankment was built on top of it to keep the water back.

Women and children also formed teams to patrol the dam body to prevent pipe surges.

Everyone has their own role to play and is ready to welcome the arrival of the flood peak.