"It's good to be out for an extra day, and people who have never come out want to go in again."

"Hey, but it's ......"

"How can there be any reason to sit idly by? Do you have any other tasks right now? No. And the tracks are all deformed, and the train can't go. ”

"But it's too dangerous, it's going to be plague."

"Don't talk about the reason, Daming now has sulfonamides, and he is not afraid of bacterial infection. Let's go. ”

Zhou Changfeng was naturally reluctant to leave, so Luo Fu was very embarrassed, because one of the tasks of his entourage was to take care of this guy so as not to do some outrageous things.

Removing the responsibility of emergency rescue and disaster relief, now participating in the earthquake is simply a blood gain for Zhou Changfeng.

What is "execution outside of prison"? Days outside of prison are also counted towards the duration of the prison sentence, and each day spent outside the prison will be one less day in prison when you return.

However, after hesitating, Luo Fu chose to refuse in his heart, but there was no objection on the surface.

After the two of them had simply packed up, they left the inn and came out into the street, where the citizens looked frightened, and they all gathered on the side of the road, not daring to return to the house.

When passing by several patrol officers, Luo Fu suddenly grabbed Zhou Changfeng's arm and shouted, "You guys come over and help!" Take out the handcuffs! ”

Ten seconds later.

Zhou Changfeng, who was speechless, stared at Luo Fu beside him, "Okay, you guy, you deliberately messed with me, right?" ”

The latter arched his hand, "If I offend Brother Zhou, I will also be blamed if I run around." ”

Zhou Changfeng took a deep breath, lowered his voice and said, "Okay, you go and call the princess now, please advise!" ”

"Your Highness won't agree."

"Not necessarily, you just have to go."

In order to make Zhou Changfeng die, Luo Fu agreed.

Accompanied by a patrol officer, they returned to the police station of the Inspection Division.

The phone calls made by Luo Fu were transferred layer by layer, and it took dozens of seconds to get through. He explained the current situation and Zhou's intentions, and then he heard Su Yiyi on the other end of the phone asking Zhu Lingjing.

After a while, he turned his head to look at Zhou Changfeng, who was a few steps away, with a strange expression, and said with some confusion: "Brother Zhou, Your Highness means that unless you promise to change to temporary parole, it won't work." ”

Parole refers to the release of the sentence before the completion of the sentence due to special circumstances, but there is a certain probationary period, as long as the new crime is not committed, the sentence has been completed, otherwise the old and new punishment will be combined.

This is a typical Western legal concept, which originated in the law of the sea system, was later cited by the civil law system, and is now also absorbed into the Chinese legal system after the major reform.

In the Ming military law, parolees can regain their original rank of reserve during the probationary period, and return to official duties at the end of the probationary period.

However, it is obvious that Zhou Changfeng does not meet the conditions for parole now, and after this period of time, he will have to continue to go back to prison for a few days.

"Okay, I agree." Without hesitation, he agreed.

What's the matter? It's good to be able to go, and I have the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel again, so I can't ask for it.

They stayed here for a while, and then a phone call from the Navy Department of the Ministry of War announced their temporary parole.

“…… Hey, wait, the reserve ranks are also divided into arms, and I still use the original one? Zhou Changfeng asked.

There was a noise on the other end of the phone, and then there was a change of person, and Xu Zhanhuan's voice came out of it, "No, change the gendarme." Isn't it good that you kid? This time, you're going to get down to business. Remember, it's not allowed to be public, but it's also not low-key, this is on behalf of the Navy, is it clear? ”

At this moment, Zhou Changfeng was full of emotion, stood up straight and said solemnly: "You can rest assured, you will fulfill your duties!" ”

The power of a lieutenant colonel of a gendarmerie is unimaginable in a disaster area that is almost equivalent to military control, and it is not even greatly diminished by the addition of the word "prepared".

Since ancient times, China has been sending more than its own duties, and the Ming Dynasty was even more so, and the patrol of the seven grades of the imperial history could make the prefect of the four products tremble, just because they had additional powers to add to them temporarily.

The embarrassed Luo Fugan smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, you... Don't blame me, I'm in a dilemma. ”

Zhou Changfeng rolled his eyes, then stretched out his hands to let the patrolman on the side untie the handcuffs with the key, then brushed his clothes, and said casually: "That's not good, I'm a special grudge, and you will honestly go to the Marine Corps in the future...... Okay, let's go now. ”

The two went straight to the station and took the car to the military camp in the suburbs.

The headquarters of the Army's 3rd Siege Artillery Brigade was located in Yanzhou Prefecture, and when they arrived, it was already in combat readiness, but it was only the lowest D-level.

The main reason for coming here was to take a ride, but the adjutant on duty told them that they had not received an order to participate in the rescue of the disaster area, and that they had no right to make their own decisions, and that the brigade commander was recuperating from illness a few days ago.

“…… The 35th, 31st, and 40th divisions of Jinan, Daimyo, and Kaifeng have already been ordered, but we are still just on standby. ”

"I see, but I should be able to borrow a car from you, right? I am now ordered to directly coordinate the actions of the naval side. ”

Zhou Changfeng, who did not even have collar badges and epaulettes on his regular clothes, said something that was not convincing, and the officers at the brigade headquarters would be suspicious.

They also did not listen to Luo Fu's testimony, but directly sent a report to the military department, and after confirmation, they finally believed that these two people were telling the truth.

Fortunately, the siege artillery brigade is a direct unit of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, otherwise it would have to be inquired from level to level, even if it would have to be tossed until tomorrow.

As the only three combat units in the country, the siege artillery brigade is equipped with all kinds of expensive things - 192mm heavy field guns, 320mm heavy mortar guns, and their special tracked tractors.

The 320mm mortar is capable of firing 430kg concrete-destroying shells up to 12 km away, the shell of which is made of expensive nickel-vanadium-manganese alloy steel, and the warhead is an equally expensive tungsten-nickel-chromium alloy that can penetrate reinforced concrete more than three meters thick.

Just imagine the scene of this thing firing and the nearly half-ton shell smashing on the enemy's head is refreshing.

Zhou Changfeng wanted to borrow an ordinary Thunderbolt 16 off-road vehicle, but he caught a glimpse of a few big guys in the garage here that he had never seen before.

Although it is also a four-wheeled off-road vehicle, it is more than a lap larger.

Luo Fu saw that his eyes lit up, and he explained helplessly: "It is also produced by Swift Company, this is the eighteenth type, which belongs to the heavy off-road vehicle, but it is too expensive, only the army bought a hundred ...... last year"

The same angular and tough shape, the size has increased, the total weight has increased from 1220kg to 1600kg of the 16th type, and the power has been changed from 45 hp to 65 hp six-cylinder gasoline engine.

"That's it." Zhou Changfeng fell in love with this arrogant heavy off-road vehicle at a glance, and waved his hand: "Move another motorcycle and put it in the back seat, and then fill it with medicine and food." ”

According to the current information, we know how bad the previous earthquake was, and I brought a motorcycle to deal with the bad situation that even an off-road vehicle could not drive.

Several soldiers worked together to load a two-wheeled scooter and began to load various supplies.

In the meantime, Circumference asked the gendarmerie officer of the 3rd Brigade for his spare epaulettes and collar badges, and then asked the tailor to change the frame from blue to red for the officer, and a triangle for the reserve; If it is a reserve, it is round.

At noon that day, the off-road vehicle with the tarpaulin unfurled drove out of the barracks, splashing muddy water several meters away on the ground, and then disappeared into the gray rain.

For Zhu Lingjing, she is very busy now, and she has no leisure to care about the perimeter wind that is thousands of miles away, besides, at least this time he knows Zhengdaguang's instructions.

These days, there have been people showing favor and joining her, and she is busy considering and screening, who knew that such a serious natural disaster suddenly occurred.

So now we have to make a fuss about it, and getting involved in politics means that in many cases we can't behave according to our own wishes and preferences.

Although Zhu Lingjing felt that rushing to the disaster area at this moment was tantamount to a shameful show, she also knew that at the same time, many politicians belonging to different parties and factions in the north and south of the country were hurrying to the disaster area.

Whether it's sincere or a show, if they go and they don't go, then the limelight will be taken by others.

Now there should be no imbalance of political power between the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and this sudden change is the time to test all parties.

She immediately asked people to prepare a large donation, and organized public donations while publicizing it, while she made several phone calls to several people, including the crown prince, one after another.

In the evening of the same day, she flew directly to Yanzhou Mansion, and Zhu Lingjing, who had a psychological shadow on the plane, could be regarded as fighting this time.

The crown prince, who answered the phone in the midst of his busy schedule, expressed his support and continued to coordinate the overall situation.

Although disaster relief matters are handled in a step-by-step manner based on past experience, and these details are handled by the cabinet and other government agencies, some key decisions cannot be made without a decision.

Since this month, the emperor has lost most of his power to the crown prince because he is recuperating, although it is not explicitly said that he is allowed to "supervise the country", but the civil and military ministers also know it.

"Your Highness, it is reported that Pratt & Whitney has also agreed, but their asking price... Comparatively high. ”

"Come steadily, don't be in a hurry, make a decision when the opportunity is right, and don't worry about more money and less money."

"Yes."

"Okay, have you gotten in touch with Caozhou now?"

"Not yet."

At the beginning of the year, Zhu Likai's random trap succeeded in fooling the Americans, who mistakenly believed that the Germans had secretly transferred the technology of high-horsepower star-shaped engines to Daming, who had already experimentally produced bombers equipped with 1,300 horsepower engines.

Therefore, the Americans relaxed the regulations after vigorously complaining.

Pratt & Wright and Wright didn't want to miss out on this opportunity to make a fortune, and the federal government would never have agreed to sell technology or license production, but now it's different.

Because the Wright company has spent a huge amount of money on the research and development of the R-2600 engine in recent years, it really wants to sell the production technology of the R-1820 engine to make a lot of money, so it took the initiative to find the shell company established under the instruction of Zhu Liding.

Americans are in a hurry to sell because the later they sell, the lower the price; Akito was anxious to want it, but on the surface he pretended to be reserved.

Just yesterday, after a series of negotiations, the dust finally settled on the production license for the Wright R-1820-25 "Whirlwind" engine, which will provide nearly 100,000 pages of copies of technical drawings, parts that can assemble 100 units, and a team of production guidance engineers.

However, before people could celebrate, they suddenly encountered a natural disaster today.

After half a day of unsuccessful attempts, it was not until the early morning of the next day that a small Type 30 liaison plane sent by the Air Force barely landed, at the cost of broken landing gear and deformed propellers.

But this finally allowed several officers and soldiers with the radio to land and send back a more detailed description than aerial reconnaissance - "...... It was raining continuously, puddles were everywhere, the fields were like Ruozeguo, and the people affected by the disaster were sleeping on the streets and ridges, building sheds to shelter from the rain, and the dead and wounded were innumerable, and the situation was extremely miserable...... There are many cracks in the land, ranging from a few inches to a few feet, and the well water has turned black and green, and it is not drinkable......

Daming's official radio station also made a timely report after hastily organizing the wording: "...... On the first day of August, there was a major earthquake in Caozhou, and there was no news at all. At five o'clock in the morning, the earthquake was violent, the bumps were extremely bumpy, and there were wind and rain, the houses in the whole state collapsed, the official roads and traffic were completely destroyed, the old and weak women and children were curled up among the ruins, and countless people were killed and injured, and the officials and people were trying their best to rescue ......."

When the news about the disaster area was reported by the radio and various newspapers, Zhou Changfeng and Luo Fu finally arrived in Caozhou.

The road of just 300 miles was driven for more than ten hours, because the road was damaged and could only be driven in the rough field almost most of the time, and the closer to the epicenter area, the more damaged the road became, and in the end it did not exist at all.

"It's really terrifying, the road conditions are like this, and the follow-up disaster relief team won't be able to enter for a while." Luo Fu, who was worried, said.

How could a truck full of cargo get in when a lean heavy off-road vehicle was still struggling?

"There will definitely be a way, it's a big deal to airdrop supplies." Zhou Changfeng, who was looking ahead, sighed, "In short, do your best." ”

Passing through Juye County in the future, the devastated scene was shocking enough, and you can imagine what the situation will be like in Caozhou, which is about to arrive.

Caozhou is Heze, the worst-hit city in history, with more than 3,000 dead, more than 12,000 injured, and 320,000 houses collapsed.

Although Caozhou in the Ming Dynasty is only an ordinary inland state city, its economic level is much higher than in history.

More multi-storey buildings, more populated and more concentrated...... The situation will only get worse.

The villages and towns along the way are also dilapidated, and there are displaced people everywhere, and Zhou Changfeng and Luo Fu are now destined for the state government, so they really shouldn't be distracted to help.

Just as the off-road vehicle was jolting past the half-collapsed ancient city wall, suddenly, a gunshot rang out from the gloomy drizzle.

Immediately after, there were several more "bangs".

"Get your guns ready!" Zhou Changfeng sighed secretly in his heart, sure enough, there are always people who like to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Zero-dollar purchase? No connivance!

(End of chapter)