Crimson Dawn

Chapter 88

The platoon leader of Erlian was Xiong Mingyang, a student of Fudan Public School who once instigated an opposition movement against Chen Ke at the school.He also participated in the confrontation with the police during the Shanghai riots.After being rescued from the patrol room by Chen Ke, he followed Hua Xiongmao to Anhui first.Later, he participated in the military training conducted by the People's Party in Anqing, and was selected as a platoon leader because of his outstanding performance.After the transport fleet arrived at Fengtai tonight, Xiong Mingyang was ordered to lead a row of guard ships.The young platoon leader was not happy in his heart.

Xiong Mingyang is fierce by nature and has great anger towards the dark reality of this era.As a young man, Xiong Mingyang, like others, had a firm belief in using drastic means to clean up the world.However, among these thoughts, Xiong Mingyang is a leader who directs his subordinates to work. After Fengtai started working, this young man no longer has enough energy to think about such things.The heroic and high-spirited revolution in the imagination immediately lost the romanticism in the fantasy in the face of real work.

After accepting the task of guarding the ship, Xiong Mingyang was a little bit disgusted.Everyone worked so hard to come here by boat, why did the first row have to be responsible for guarding the boat overnight.Of course, according to the habit, there will be rotations for these jobs. Tonight, there will be a row of guards at the pier, and tomorrow it will be the turn of other troops.And when cleaning the ships and docks this time, the first row did not take on these tasks.

The first rank of the official rank crushes people to death, Xiong Mingyang thought to himself.Although the organizational structure of the insurance group was equal to what Xiong Mingyang had never seen before, it was equal to soldiers, not party members and cadres.Party members and cadres must assume more responsibilities and obligations.This is what Chen Ke repeatedly emphasized at the party meeting.Party members, as the leaders and mobilizers of the revolution, must assume more responsibilities and obligations.Xiong Mingyang understood in his heart, but when it was his turn to do the hard work, there was always an indescribable sense of resistance in his heart.

"Platoon leader, how do we eat?" Yuji Ogawa, the life officer in the platoon, asked in blunt Mandarin.All seven young Japanese students joined the People's Party, and Chen Ke allocated posts according to their ability, regardless of the party members.Ogawa Yuer's family runs a restaurant, and he majored in medicine, so he was assigned to the post of life officer.In addition to the cooking work such as burying pots and cooking, the life officer is also responsible for sanitation and epidemic prevention.

"Arrange the toilet first." Xiong Mingyang answered subconsciously in accordance with the temporary military regulations.

After the flood, there will be a plague. This is what Chen Ke repeatedly emphasized at the party meeting.Moreover, there are many floods in Anhui, and the soldiers from the local area have enough understanding.Therefore, health protection is one of the key points that the insurance group will pay close attention to in the near future.

"There is already a toilet on the pier." Yuji Ogawa replied.

This answer surprised Xiong Mingyang a little.Xiong Mingyang was even more surprised by Ogawa Yuji's next answer. "The residence has running water."

Tap water is something that Xiong Mingyang only saw after he arrived in Shanghai. He really didn't expect that there would be tap water on the pier. "Let's go and have a look." Xiong Mingyang replied excitedly.

A newly built house stood on the empty pier. The brick walls were not painted at all, and looked extremely simple.But Xiong Mingyang will never underestimate him in the slightest.He still remembers the first time he saw the pier.

This time, Anhui flooded, and Fengtai County was also flooded.At least the pier and the surrounding area have been submerged in water for a month.After Xiong Mingyang followed the troops to the shore, there was no sign of any dock at all.There is nothing to see here except a vast ocean.But the People's Party must have a reliable pier to transport supplies. Chen Ke personally led a group of students and experienced construction workers under Yuwen Batu to formulate a plan.

First, everyone barely collected enough straw bags through various channels, and made some by themselves.Loaded with soil and piled on the shore.Xiong Mingyang worked not far from the shore, and he led his platoon to work hard.Occasionally looking at the straw bags that were piled higher and higher, Xiong Mingyang couldn't understand what he was doing with these things.Farther away, more than a dozen members of the People's Party with ropes wrapped around their waists to prevent them from being washed away by the current, each held a pole, and measured the water depth one by one in the water.

Hundreds of people in the army, plus hundreds of people who fled, worked hard for two days, and finally piled up thousands of straw bags.These bulging straw bags are piled up like hills on the shore.Xiong Mingyang can be regarded as a person who started to travel all over the world at a young age, and he can also be regarded as a university student. He probably understood what Chen Ke meant.But understanding is not the same as acceptance. Under such an endless water surface, Chen Ke is going to use these straw bags filled with soil and sand to forcefully fill the pier into a usable space.How big is the scale of such labor?At that time, the People's Party's insurance group consisted of just over 400 people, and the unseen torrential flood was still pouring down for dozens of miles, and the weather hadn't cleared up for more than a month.Every day is a dark sky.The wind brought the rain to make various water marks on the endless water surface.Even if a pier is filled in now, what if the water rises higher?Do you want to fill in again?

Chen Ke's attitude was exactly as Xiong Mingyang thought.After the straw bags were almost prepared, Chen Ke ordered the troops to take a rest.After eating, we rested for a while.The work begins. More than 400 strong boys, two people carry a bag.Under the leadership of the engineering staff, the bags were filled into the water from the shore.The bags were thrown into the water one by one, but there was a splash of water, and the bags disappeared in a blink of an eye.Comrades still had enough strength at the beginning, and the straw bag was also close to the shore. It took only a few minutes. Two corners are out of the water.After another minute, the dropped straw bag was already half submerged in water.

"Continue throwing forward. Throwing forward." Chen Ke's loud voice came from the wind and rain.Xiong Mingyang wiped the rainwater off his face, and then he and the soldiers around him raised the sandbags and leaned forward.As soon as I stepped on the sandbag, I felt my feet were weak and I almost slipped and fell.Xiong Mingyang didn't care too much, he and the soldier took a few steps forward, shook the bag back and forth a few times, shouted one, two, three, and threw the bag inside.Just like at the beginning, the bag flew into the water and disappeared instantly.

It goes on and on again and again, without stopping.Except for those instructing personnel who stood in the water like iron towers, all members of the insurance group were working hard.Behind them, there were actually some idlers watching, and they all stood far away.I thought it was because I was afraid that I would be robbed here and go to work.Although in the wind and rain, Xiong Mingyang also heard those people in the distance laughing, and some people whistled.A rare and satisfied look.

Xiong Mingyang was so angry.Lao Tzu works so hard, don't you bastards benefit in the end?Not only did these people not come to help, they were actually watching the fun.It seems that it is not only Xiong Mingyang who is angry, many soldiers have the same emotion. Many people work slower, and some even stop their work and turn their heads to look at the place where the idlers are.

Xiong Mingyang cursed secretly in his heart: Our ancestors are rigid.But he is also a platoon leader anyway, and he has gradually developed the habit of obeying orders these days.At this moment, a burst of laughter broke out among the idlers.But someone shouted strangely: "What are you looking at! Hurry up and work." Accompanied by this shout, louder laughter broke out among the idlers.

"Your mother!" Some soldiers began to curse back.

"What's your name, work quickly." A roar instantly suppressed other soldiers who were about to scold back.I saw Chen Kezheng striding over.Others carried a bag with two people, and Chen Ke carried a bag full of sand on his left and right shoulders.Since everyone was going to brave the rain, they simply didn't wear shirts.Chen Ke's plump muscles were tense, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

"Battalion Commander, those people are too irritating." A soldier said angrily.

"Are you listening to the organization or theirs?" Chen Ke roared.His handsome square face was full of anger, but in such a labor background, it looked extremely pleasing to the eye.

"Listen to the organization." The soldier replied subconsciously.

"Then don't care what those people are calling, work!" After Chen Ke shouted, he continued to walk forward, and when he reached the water's edge, he threw the bag on his shoulder with all his might.Then he turned around and went to the place where the bags were piled up on the shore.

Although there was a lot of reluctance in their hearts, seeing Chen Ke's efforts, the soldiers could only stare at the idlers in the distance, and then continued to work.

Two days of preparation, more than four hours of hard work in the rain.The insurance group insisted on building a new pier with straw bags filled with sand on the flooded pier.Although the pier is not big, it is enough for ships, especially large ships, to be safely docked on the "new pier".

And the pier that Xiong Mingyang saw now was the old pier.After the flood receded, the old pier was completely exposed to the water.And at the end of the old pier is the newly built temporary resident of the insurance group.

Walking into the residence, Yuji Ogawa led Xiong Mingyang into a separate room.Xiong Mingyang has seen this kind of room before, and there is such a room in the dormitory of Renxin Medical College in Shanghai.This is a water room.On a large pool, there are two drain faucets.These faucets are made of bamboo and are very simple.But twist the tap a bit.A stream of clear water gushed out.Xiong Mingyang took a few sips from the tap.The water quality is very pure.No muddy taste at all.The kind of muddy water after I'm used to drinking big water these days.

The floods submerged the water sources everywhere. According to the knowledge popularized by the insurance group, this statement should be "the water source has been polluted".Although everyone drinks boiled water, and it is also filtered when taking water.But the taste of the water was really bad.After drinking such pure water suddenly, Xiong Mingyang only felt refreshed.He quickly asked Ogawa Yuji, "Where did the water come from?"

Chapter 88

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