Riverside Police.

The pickets not only inspected and supervised the military discipline of the entire battalion, but also assisted Yang Jianbo, Qiu Xueliang, Zhao Jiang, Zhang Erxiao and others in logistical support.

The weather forecast says it will rain at dawn.

The passenger cars that transported the soldiers all left again.

Staff Officer Dai will organize pickets to assist reserve officers and soldiers who have temporarily no earthwork construction and no task of patrolling embankments to set up tents as soon as possible.

The location of the temporary camp had been selected long ago, and the bulldozers came to help level and compact the road surface, and even the No. 2 excavator came to dig a few drainage ditches.

The road and bridge company also brought in the last few steel plates for paving construction access roads and building access bridges, but it will take more than [-] tents to be erected at once. Geotextiles, otherwise the tent will become muddy after it rains.

The straw bags urgently transported by the Lingjiang County Party Committee and County Government came in handy and can be used as pads in the tent.

After operating the sewing machine for two hours, Dongdong left the "workshop" with the 1 active officers and soldiers of the filling group [-], and huddled in the tent that had just been set up to rest.

There is a two-hour shift, and they can sleep for two hours, but no one can sleep.

If it weren't for the superiors not to let them run around, they would have gone to the embankment to see how the earthwork construction team rushed to protect the dangerous situation at the gate.

"How many bags did we fill just now?"

"360 six bags."

"Where are the armed police?"

"380 nine, 23 bags more than us."

"What's wrong, how can we drink less than the armed police!"

"I was not familiar with it when I first started working. By the next shift, we can fill at least [-] bags."

He was actually beaten by the armed police and a group of militia reserves. The third platoon leader in charge of the squad was very embarrassed. He didn't want to talk about this embarrassing topic anymore, so he asked with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, how old are you this year?"

"Sixteen." Dongdong turned around and said.

"Graduated from junior high school?"

"Ah."

"Not going to school anymore?"

"Come on, but it's summer vacation, and you don't have to go to school during summer vacation."

"Go to high school in the second half of the year?"

"I originally wanted to go to a technical secondary school, but my parents and my uncle refused to let me go, so I had to go to high school."

"Then how did you come to fight the flood?"

"Yeah, why did the Linghai Reserve Battalion accept such a small soldier like you!"

Dongdong pointed in the direction of the gate, and said triumphantly, "The battalion commander is my uncle. My two uncles are here. There are many people from my house. My dad is also on his way here."

"That reserve major is your uncle?"

"Well, my dear uncle!" Dongdong raised his arm and pointed to the No. 2 excavator that was digging not far away: "The excavator is my Uncle Xiaoyu, a military doctor who just went to the armed police to make an inspection Also my uncle."

"Your dad is coming too?"

"They came by boat, and the fleet has already set off. In fact, our battalion has better equipment on the water than on the shore. If the second company and the fourth company are here, it won't be so troublesome to block the gate, and we don't need to work so hard to fill sandbags. You don’t even have to squeeze in a tent.”

"Do you have a boat?"

"There are a lot of ships. My dad is the manager of the passenger station of the Port Authority. My mother used to be an employee of the Port Authority, but now she is a policeman in the Changhang Public Security Bureau. Our Port Authority is very powerful. If you don't believe me, you can ask Brother Xiaoming."

"The Port Authority is the port, the best unit in our Riverside..."

Xu Xiaoming finally found a fellow villager, not to mention how happy he was, he was elated when talking about his hometown.

Just when everyone was lamenting that Dongdong was not only the son of a cadre, but also had a huge family of cadres, the wooden piles outside the gate had already been laid, and the No. 1 excavator slowly drove ashore under the command of the security officer.

Soaring water levels have the benefits of skyrocketing water levels. At least the steam ferry dispatched by the Jingzhou Harbor Supervision Bureau can put its deck directly on the river embankment.

There is a bridge deck at the gate, but the bridge deck is paved with a cement floor, which is not very strong, and the loader transporting iron belt sandbag cages cannot pass over it.

Han Yu gestured and whistled, directing the loader that had just driven onto the embankment to board the steam ferry.

The role of the loader is second only to that of the excavator. One truck after another, the iron belt sandbag cages filled and packed by the "sandbag filling workshop" were transported.

Although the forklift master was temporarily recruited, he really wanted to show his skills in the face of this situation. He didn't need a loader to transfer an iron belt sandbag cage weighing about one ton directly onto the embankment, and then to the steam ferry. superior.

It's too dangerous to do this!

The Linghai Reserve Battalion must put safety first and not engage in personal heroism.

Han Yu immediately jumped onto 001, signaled Captain Fan to turn on the tweeter, stood by the guardrail outside the cab, and shouted with a communicator: "Forklift, forklift, who told you to go up the embankment? Get down immediately, don't be reckless!"

This is the first time to use tweeters.

The forklift driver was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand to show that he heard it.

After confirming that the forklift was gone, Han Yu breathed a sigh of relief, simply took over the command of the emergency operation outside the gate, and shouted through the tweeter: "Attention the security officers and commanders on the embankment and below the embankment, I am Han Yu, please strictly follow the plan Command and dispatch construction vehicles!"

"No. 2 loader, you don't need to drive so fast, especially when going downhill, you must pay attention to safety!"

"No. 1 loader, there is no need to go ashore when the next truckload of sandbags arrives. Please pay attention to the steam ferry, and untie the cable when the next truckload of sandbags arrives."

"Jinggang tow 009, prepare to tie the cable."

"Jingangtuo 013, you will take me to Binjiang Public Security 001's current location later!"

……

Deputy Mayor Xu and Secretary Zheng, who had just finished supper at the Linghai Reserve Camp, heard the movement here, and came out of the shed with Deputy Mayor Shen.

"Mayor Shen, Battalion Commander Xiao Han will sail?"

"He was originally a marine policeman, and he is the marine policeman who knows how to sail in Linghai."

"The best at sailing?"

"Not only can he drive river boats, but he has also served on ocean-going ships. He is the chief mate of sea-going ships in the unlimited navigation area, and he is also qualified as an assistant pilot."

Just as they were talking, the No. 1 loader carried a large sandbag cage onto the ship.

The crew of the steam ferry immediately unmoored, and saw that the steam ferry was constantly adjusting its posture with the assistance of two small tugboats and the cable winch on the steam ferry.

In Captain Fan's words, the embankment here is like paper, and the steam ferry can't turn on the engine, and can only adjust its course passively.

After a while, the steam ferry came close to the row of wooden piles just laid.

"Loader No. 1, listen to my order, and start throwing from the east. Drive slowly, yes, yes, hold on, and throw!"

"Jingang drags 013, then bring it a little further, take it easy, hold on!"

"No. 1 loader continues, the deck personnel on the ferry stay away from the loader, well, turn around, right, right, hold on, move forward, stop..."

Han Yu kept giving orders, and the tightly tied large sandbag cages were thrown into the water one after another.

At this time, there was a sudden bang above the gate.

Deputy Mayor Xu looked back and found that the drainage house was still in good condition just now, but it was demolished into ruins by the No. 1 excavator with buckets in a blink of an eye.

"Attention Excavator No. 1, quickly clean up the construction waste and see if the bridge deck can pass."

The driver of the excavator stretched out his arm to gesture, then operated the excavator to clear up the ruins, then tapped the bridge surface with a bucket, and stretched out his arm again to gesture to indicate that there was no problem.

Han Yu was not at ease, and shouted: "Security officer, security officer, go to the bridge deck to check."

Deputy Mayor Xu could see and hear clearly, and said with emotion: "Mayor Shen, it seems that Battalion Commander Xiao Han attaches great importance to safety."

"He started working at the age of 16 and has been working on the river. I don't know how many rescue missions he has carried out. He has rescued no less than a hundred ships of all sizes, and he has rescued hundreds of people who fell into the water. The particularity of water work determines He has to put safety first."

"I see."

"Mayor Shen, Mr. Hao said just now that they are here for emergency rescue, not to cause damage. I think they are also very good at 'destroying'. Looking at the solid drainage station, they demolished it in a few clicks."

"It's a bit like a fire brigade fighting a fire. The fire is extinguished, but the place where the fire broke out is also messed up."

Deputy Mayor Shen knew that they were joking, so he couldn't help laughing: "You may not know that more than half of the backbone of our Linghai Reserve Battalion has participated in fire rescue training, and many of them are even firefighters."

Deputy Mayor Xu asked in surprise: "Really?"

"Really, Han Yu is also a firefighter. He served as the deputy head of the fire brigade of the Binjiang branch of the Changhang Public Security Bureau, and until now he is the secretary general of the Binjiang Water Fire Fighting Association."

"Very versatile!"

"Water work is different from work on shore. As long as you are engaged in water work, you must first be a crew member, and you must also understand business such as firefighting and rescue."

Just as he was talking, the safety officer on the shore confirmed that the bridge deck was fine.

Han Yu gave the order again: "Mr. Sun, immediately organize personnel to assist the No. 1 excavator to work on the east side of the gate! Mr. Hao, the site on the west side of the gate will be vacant soon, and the dump truck can go on it."

With mechanized equipment, emergency construction is fast!

As soon as the sandbags were dropped here, two large dump trucks rushed up the embankment, first turned around at the return yard, then fell to the edge of the river embankment, and began to dump earthwork on the outside of the gate and inside the row of wooden piles just dug.

As soon as the dump truck has dumped the soil and just got off the embankment, the bulldozer goes up and pushes the soil down, and uses its crawlers and its own weight to compact the new soil as much as possible.

Repeatedly, in less than an hour, a new embankment of about five meters was built to the east.

This five meters is different from the usual five meters, because the water level is very high now, and the gate is very deep. If it is all by manpower, even if you organize a thousand people to work for a day and a night, it will not be able to repair five meters.

The piles on the inner side of the gate were also quickly laid.

Three loaders take turns to carry sandbag cages up and throw them.

Immediately afterwards, excavator No. 1 went down the embankment and excavated soil with excavator No. 2.

The efficiency of the "backfilling" operation became higher, and the two strange-looking large dump trucks carried more earth than before, and the "new embankment" extended to the east bank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At dawn, heavy rain came as the weather forecast said.

Han Yu and the others had been prepared for a long time, and used all available materials such as straw bags and gravel provided by the county, and spread them on the construction access road leading to the river embankment.

The staff who worked in the middle of the night went down to rest, and the second shift who waited in the middle of the night went to work in the rain.

Just because the access road leading to the river embankment is soft and slippery, the amount of earthwork transferred by dump trucks has been reduced by half compared with before.Coupled with poor visibility in rainy days, in order to ensure safety, the overall efficiency is only one-third of the previous one.

One truck can only hold half of the soil, and there is no need for two excavators to dig all the soil.

After throwing more than 3000 sandbags from the outside of the wooden piles at the gate, I immediately ordered the No. 1 dump truck to dump the earthwork on the outside of the new embankment, and ordered the No. 1 excavator to come up and use buckets to tidy up the slope on the water side of the new embankment as much as possible, and then let the people in the camp Enter Party Commando.

Xu Mingyuan took the lead, took off his life jacket, fastened the safety rope, and was the first to jump into the water, leading the commando brothers to lay the geotextile.

The water level is very high, you have to go underwater!
The current was so fast that although the team members were all tied with safety ropes, they disappeared after diving with the geotextiles. Deputy Mayor Xu, Secretary Zheng and Deputy Mayor Shen were all sweating.

The media reporters who were recording all this with video cameras and cameras in the rain could clearly see that some leaders had red eyes, and some tears were rolling in their eyes.

Han Yu was also worried about the safety of the senior brothers and the others, but the embankment was newly built and could not withstand the flood, so geotextiles had to be laid.

It is useless to tie stones under the geotextile. The current is too fast, and it will be washed away when it is put down. We can only send people to drag the geotextile and dive down to fix it.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and fortunately, the flood control skills training was organized before. Eight people went down, and all eight people came up safely!

It was very cold underwater, the big brother and the others were all shivering when they came up.

Han Yu didn't care about them, and immediately ordered: "Sun Gong, Sun Gong, don't look at it, quickly throw sandbags to suppress it, you must be fast, otherwise the cloth that is so hard to fix will be washed away soon!"

"Yes!"

"Dump trucks and loaders are ready to dump the soil immediately after throwing sandbags!"

"Liu Dui, the higher-ups hold on tight, don't let the cloth slip down!"

"No. 1 excavator is on the steam ferry, ready to throw rocks for slope protection!"

……

After four hours of hard work in the rain, the new embankment on the side facing the river finally took shape, but only a little bit.

The water level is constantly rising, and the new embankment, like the dry dikes on the east and west sides, is completely repelled by newly built sandbags.

Sandbags are needed everywhere, and despite the efforts of the two soil irrigation assault teams, there are still not enough sandbags.

Han Yu climbed ashore, looking at the new embankment that was about to be flooded by the river and was still under construction, he didn't dare to proceed step by step.

He took the loudspeaker from "Brother Hao" and shouted: "Everyone pay attention, everyone pay attention, I mean everyone except those who are under construction, immediately fill sandbags with me!"

The danger of the gate has been ruled out. To be precise, the gate has disappeared. If you look around, you can't see that there was a gate here.

If it is only measured from the perspective of construction, the Linghai Reserve Battalion has completed the task excellently.

But the second flood peak is coming, and what we need to do now is to protect the embankment, and the embankment must be raised when the water rises.

Deputy Mayor Xu didn't want to let the Linghai reserve officers and soldiers who had fought for more than ten hours go down the embankment to fill sandbags. He immediately grabbed the loudspeaker and shouted with tears in his eyes: "The leading cadres of the Lingjiang County Party Committee and the county government, the party members of the townships along the river Cadres and Lingjiang militia reservists, listen, I am Xu Qingyou, deputy mayor of Jingzhou Municipal People's Government.

Comrades, folks, you may not know that Linghai is also on the Yangtze River. The Linghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, like the people of Linghai, want to prevent and fight floods, but at the critical moment when they want to prevent and fight floods, let the most combative The flood control rescue team and the best construction machinery came to support us, and even sent us valuable rescue supplies!

With the help of the people of Linghai, the dangerous situation at the gate has been successfully eliminated.Now, we are going to face the second flood peak of this year.

Comrades and folks, the embankment is our home, and those who live under the embankment are our relatives. Now it's up to us.Success or failure depends on one stroke, the time to test us has arrived!I ordered that the party members and cadres in charge of each section of the embankment leave some people to guard the embankment, and all others go down the embankment to fill sandbags..."

Following Deputy Mayor Xu's order, thousands of cadres and masses who received the order to go up the embankment in the morning rushed down the embankment under the leadership of the county leaders and went straight to the soil collection point of the Linghai reserve camp.

Many people are powerful.

After a while, the remaining more than 3000 woven bags were used up.

There was no need for a loader to transport them down, and the bags of sandbags were carried on the embankment by thousands of cadres and masses.

In a blink of an eye, a white Great Wall was built on the new embankment built by the Linghai Reserve Battalion after eleven hours of fighting.

Many people worried about not enough sandbags, so they braved the heavy rain to dig straw bags to pad the construction access road.

The people living nearby ran back. When they returned to the embankment with woven bags, they could even see many woven bags and white rice falling down. It can be seen that they brought all the rice bags at home. ...

Han Yu burst into tears.

Deputy Mayor Shen covered his mouth.

Lao Ge choked up and couldn't speak.

Wearing a raincoat, Han Xiangmeng snuggled into Liang Xiaojun's arms, weeping uncontrollably.