Spike

Chapter 86

The acting mayor nodded: "With your People's Liberation Army coming up, I feel much more at ease." "Immediately send a report to the front commander of the military region—the situation is critical, and send reinforcements!" He Zhijun ordered, "Send the engineering corps here too, Bring large-scale machinery, the construction here will start immediately! The special brigade and the pontoon brigade are on the first line of defense, strictly guarding against death!" Lei Keming observed the river with a telescope: "Order the frogmen to go into the water, find the current loopholes in the flood wall, and find a way Make it up as soon as possible." The radio soldier picked up the microphone: "Attention all units, this is Blue Arrow B. The mountain wolf immediately organized the frogmen to launch into the water to detect hidden dangers in the flood wall. Repeat, the mountain wolf immediately organized the frogmen to launch into the water. It's over. "

"Mountain Wolf received it, and we will go into the water in 5 minutes. It's over." Chen Yong returned the earphones and microphones to the radio soldiers, and began to undress himself: "Each company sends out 10 soldiers with good water skills to go into the water with me to scout out hidden dangers in the flood wall. "

"You can't go down!" Zhang Lei shouted, "You are the battalion commander, you have your command post!" "Follow my order." Chen Yong took the diving suit handed over by the secretary.Zhang Lei grabbed Chen Yong and shouted very close to his ear: "Listen, I'll take someone down——Zijun is pregnant, I don't want you to become a martyr!" Chen Yong was stunned, Zhang Lei had already snatched His diving suit: "Remember my words!" "I am the frogman captain!" In the heavy rain, Zhang Lei's eyes were black and white, and his face was stern. He shouted to the soldiers, "Each company has 10 soldiers, Divide the area into the water! Search by segment, and make sure to fill in the loopholes!" 30 soldiers put on diving suits, carried oxygen cylinders on their backs, and put on masks and flippers.Ropes were tied around their waists, and they stood at equal distances from the flood wall. Zhang Lei put on a mask, held the oxygen cylinder in his mouth, waved his hand and raised his thumb.Zhang Lei jumped into the river with a splash, and 30 soldiers also jumped into the river.Chen Yong stood on the flood wall in the rain with a serious face: "Organize the second rescue team and be ready to save people at any time!"

Lin Rui had already put on his diving suit and stood beside him: "I will lead the second rescue team." Chen Yong looked at the busy soldiers on the embankment: "Swear to live and die with the embankment!" "Swear to live and die with the embankment!"

Amidst the roar of the soldiers, the red flag of the "special brigade" fluttered in the rain.The city behind them is already full of lights.The soldiers of the Engineer Corps have already pushed up the machinery and vehicles with their shoulders and shoulders, and began to strengthen and heighten the flood wall.The flood flow on the broad river surface is very large, and waves are still hitting the fragile flood walls.Zhang Lei got out of the water and stepped on the water: "There is a spring below! This section of the flood wall is not acceptable!" Lei Keming carefully looked at it with a map, and looked back at the city of thousands of lights: "This levee cannot collapse! All mobile forces If we all go up the embankment, we will die on the embankment!"

Even the ambulance team went up the embankment, and He Xiaoyu ran in the mud carrying sandbags, falling down and getting up from time to time.The military uniform on her body was already soaked with mud, and the trouser legs were stuck to her calves, and there were patches of brown, but it was hard to find when mixed with the mud.Liu Xiaofei yelled to direct his company. He saw He Xiaoyu running over and took the sandbag from her body: "Why are you here? Hurry down!"

"It has nothing to do with you, I am from the flood fighting force of Army Group A!" He Xiaoyu shouted and grabbed the sandbag again.Just as Liu Xiaofei was about to say something, Chen Yong shouted over there, and he hurried over.The head of the hydrological station stared at the water, and suddenly shouted to He Zhijun: "Chief, you can't stay here anymore! Withdraw your troops immediately!" He Zhijun asked loudly: "Why?!" On the surface of the water, shouted: "This is about to burst! The bubble spring has eaten through the bottom, hurry up and withdraw!"

"We can't withdraw! We will die on the embankment!" Chen Yong shouted.The head of the hydrological station yelled at the acting mayor: "This is a senseless sacrifice! We must evacuate immediately, and preserve our vitality to block the breach!" The acting mayor frowned tightly: "The Prime Minister has a strict order - the levee of the Yangtze River collapsed, and no one will be safe. !" "This is not your head alone!" The head of the hydrological station shouted, "All the soldiers and civilians who stay here will be buried with them! Immediately evacuate the 100-meter embankment, we cannot sacrifice needlessly!" Lei Keming looked at the river carefully, Holding back He Zhijun: "Let's get out, we can't let the soldiers die with us needlessly!" The acting mayor gritted his teeth: "My head doesn't matter, I can't let these soldiers and these people be buried with me!
Minister He, let's withdraw! ""withdraw! "He Zhijun felt ashamed and roared out. The red flag of the "special brigade" was pulled down and retreated to one side, and the soldiers and the crowd retreated to both sides of the dangerous area. The old hydrological station chief stood in the middle and shouted, and the armed police pulled out the cordon." "With a sound, the flood water hit the flood control wall, and a gap of 3 meters burst out in the middle. Almost instantly, the flood water formed an 8-meter drop from the outside of the embankment and poured out.

9 meters... 10 meters... 20 meters... 30 meters... The breach is like the bloody mouth of the flood, which has swallowed up several enterprises such as the shipyard in D City in a blink of an eye. Vehicles of all sizes were submerged in an instant.The unscrupulous flood rushed straight to the city ahead.

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"The embankment of city D has burst!" The frontline headquarters of the A military region was shocked.Liu Yongjun stood up and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately report to the Central Military Commission and the National Defense Command, the former member of the Standing Committee of the military region will follow me to the embankment!"

In the heavy rain, the gray-haired generals stepped into the jeep and drove towards the embankment, followed by the communication vehicle.Liu Yongjun looked gloomy, and the Minister of Security was pulled into the car by him, looking very flustered.Liu Yongjun asked: "Have you brought a gun?" The Minister of Security said: "Yes!"

"Catch whatever I tell you to catch!" Liu Yongjun roared angrily.The Minister of Security gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!" On the embankment, the soldiers carried sandbags like camouflaged worker ants and tried their best to fill in the breach, but it was not enough, and they would be gone if they went down.With hoarse throats, He Zhijun, Lei Keming and the acting mayor ordered Chen Yong to requisition civilian ships immediately. "He Zhijun!" Liu Yongjun and a group of generals stepped onto the embankment, and the Minister of Security followed him closely with his hands on his waist. "Chief!" He Zhijun and Lei Keming saluted.Liu Yongjun roared: "Your current commander-in-chief of the former enemy has been withdrawn, tear off his epaulettes and arrest him! Lei Keming took over the post of commander-in-chief of the former enemy, effective immediately!" The Minister of Security stepped forward: "Old He, this is the deputy Commander's order, don't embarrass me." He Zhijun looked at Deputy Commander Liu stupidly, allowing the Minister of Security to take off his colonel's shoulder badge and commander's armband.The Minister of Security took out the handcuffs from his pocket, stuffed them back, and shouted back, "I'm not wearing handcuffs!" "Take them off!" Liu Yongjun shouted. "No——" He Xiaoyu rushed out from the slant and hugged his father, "He is not a sinner!" "The Yangtze River breach, I am the former commander-in-chief of this section, and I am guilty." With tears in his eyes, He Zhijun said, "Go ahead!" Leave me alone." He Xiaoyu shouted: "This is not the army's crime! This section of the flood wall is a tofu dregs project!" Liu Yongjun raised his eyebrows, and the acting mayor rushed up to report: "Comrade Lieutenant General, this is the former Municipal Party Secretary and The mayor’s problem, he’s already been arrested.” Liu Yongjun looked at He Zhijun, his eyes unbearable, but his chest was heaving: “Even if it’s not your problem, if the embankment burst, you are already guilty of being the commander-in-chief! You are now dismissed and left behind. Be a soldier on the embankment and wait to be dealt with!"

"Yes!" He Zhijun, who didn't have a colonel's epaulettes, saluted quickly, and turned to carry sandbags. "Father!" He Xiaoyu cried and hugged him. "I'm a soldier, and breaking the embankment is a death penalty!" He Zhijun yelled and pushed her away, and ran to carry sandbags.The soldiers were dumbfounded when they saw their former captain roaring and carrying sandbags.Lei Keming ran over and took off his special brigade armband and put it on He Zhijun: "Old He, you are still the old leader of our special brigade! I order you to join the work of my brigade headquarters!"

"Go away!" He Zhijun pushed him away, "Your post is at the headquarters!" The soldiers were carrying sandbags with their old leader in tears.Liu Fangfang ran over and shouted: "Comrade Deputy Commander, you are too bureaucratic! This is not his responsibility!" "The embankment collapsed, we are all capital crimes!" Liu Yongjun shouted, "Get out of here!" Secretary Song stopped Liu Fangfang "Hurry up and persuade Comrade He Xiaoyu not to do anything else." Liu Fangfang looked at her father sadly, and ran to hug He Xiaoyu who was crying on the ground: "Xiaoyu! Get up, we still have tasks! He Xiaoyu sobbed and stood up, but fell down after taking only one step.Liu Fangfang hugged her in the mud: "Why is your face so white?!" He Xiaoyu's lips moved: "My father...is not a sinner..." She passed out.

Liu Fangfang hugged her and shouted: "Wake up! Wake up!" She hugged He Xiaoyu and touched her hand, she was shocked, "Come on—it's not good—" Several soldiers Rushing over to lift He Xiaoyu up, Liu Fangfang shouted anxiously: "Send it down quickly! Go to the tent below! Hurry up!" Liu Xiaofei, who was instructing the soldiers to carry sandbags, saw it, ran a few steps and then stopped, shouting with tears in his eyes : "Fangfang, take good care of her—" Liu Fangfang looked at him anxiously, stomped her feet, and followed He Xiaoyu who was carried away by the soldiers.

Liu Yongjun personally commanded on the embankment, and the generals and local cadres formed a circle around him.The acting mayor said solemnly: "A big gap of about 50 meters has been formed on the river embankment, and the flow of the river is 400 cubic meters per second. If it is not blocked, there will be 144 million cubic meters of flood water every hour." Entering the urban area, within seven or eight hours, City D will be wiped off the Chinese map by the flood!"

"At all costs, we must block this breach! The ship sinks! The car sinks! Lei Keming, go find the ship immediately!" Liu Yongjun shouted.Lei Keming stood up and saluted: "Yes!" Liu Yongjun pointed at the noses of the generals and shouted: "I will stand on the embankment—if the breach cannot be blocked, you jump for me first, and I will jump down with you!"

(End of this chapter)