Riverside police

9:45 p.m., Wusongkou Riverside.

The wind was blowing, and the metal signboard not far away was almost blown down. The tide was surging, and the one-kilometer-long embankment leading to the lighthouse was completely submerged in the water, and only half of the lighting pole used to warn passing ships was visible.

This is the jurisdiction of the Wusong Police Station of the Changhang Donghai Branch, and the police in the station are worried about the white lighthouse in front.

The Wusongkou Lighthouse has a unique shape and a landmark location, which makes many people regard it as a tourist attraction. This is a management area, about 100 meters away from Tangzhihou Road, where people and vehicles can pass freely.

Outsiders who want to come here have to go through an unknown path, climb over several walls and barbed wire, and cross muddy wasteland covered with garbage and weeds. However, tourists and fishing enthusiasts who want to see the lighthouse and sunrise always ignore the warning sign "It is very easy to drown on the riverside, and climbing over the wall is prohibited." Some people even use the powerful shears they carry with them to break the barbed wire.

The lighthouse is a navigation facility used to guide passing ships to sail safely, not a tourist attraction.

Moreover, it is really dangerous here.

During high tide, the difference between the highest and lowest tides exceeds 3.8 meters. The long embankment leading to the lighthouse is exposed to the water surface when the tide is low, and it is completely submerged by the river water when the tide is high, which can easily cause people to be trapped in the middle of the water or even directly swept away by the tide.

The two sides of the long embankment and the near-shore slope protection are piled with stones of different sizes. They are bumpy, slippery, and uneven. It is easy to sprain your feet, fall, or even slide into the river when playing. However, there is still an endless stream of tourists and fishing enthusiasts who come here for the famous fishing. Wusong Police Station has to send out police for this many times a year, and joint rescue with the maritime department is commonplace.

However, Xiaoyu came here today not to rescue the trapped people, but to promote training through combat, and led several newcomers to monitor the river surface.

On the night of April 20, a total of 22 navigation batteries of 10 navigation lights from Wusongkou to Baoshan North Waterway were stolen, with direct economic losses of 347,600 yuan. Fortunately, the navigation management department discovered it early and installed new batteries in time, otherwise it is unknown how much indirect losses would be caused.

Busy water traffic cannot be separated from the effective guarantee of navigation auxiliary facilities, especially at night. Navigation lights are known as the "eyes" of ships entering and leaving the Yangtze River and Huangpu River. Without eyes, it is easy to collide, run aground or even capsize. In fact, water traffic accidents often occur in this area, and it is unknown how many people die in a year.

Navigation batteries have excellent performance and a wide range of uses. They not only provide power for light buoys, but are also favored by criminals, who reach out to navigation marks again and again.

In the worst case, the navigation authority replaced the battery today, and the battery disappeared the next day. Not only did it cause great losses to national property, but more seriously, without the guidance of navigation lights, ships entering and leaving the Yangtze River and Huangpu River frequently encountered danger, seriously endangering water traffic safety.

The Donghai Maritime Public Security Bureau and the Changhang Donghai Branch attached great importance to this series of navigation battery thefts. As early as three months ago, a joint task force was established to study, formulate and launch the "Falcon Operation" for this series of cases.

However, the suspects usually choose to commit crimes after nightfall, and the water surface is so wide that it is difficult to find them; from the perspective of the method of committing the crime, the suspects should approach the navigation mark with a light boat and flee immediately after succeeding.

In terms of on-site physical evidence, the navigation mark floats on the water for many years, and once a theft occurs, the competent department must immediately restore its sight, which objectively makes it difficult to obtain evidence.

If it were another theft case, we could start with the sale of stolen goods. But this is the "golden waterway". There are a large number of irregular ship supplies markets along both sides of the river, including the upper reaches. Some markets only do business with acquaintances, and the whereabouts of the batteries cannot be traced.

The police officers in the task force took measures such as joint investigation, notification and investigation, but none of them worked.

The leaders of the task force really couldn't think of a better way, and finally decided to send a large number of police forces to ambush key waters at night, with the help of water law enforcement boats of Changhang Public Security, Maritime Affairs and other departments, to form an encirclement of water and land in the case-prone areas, and timely discover the destruction of the navigation battery through the monitoring of the navigation facilities. The target was quickly locked at the moment when the navigation light went out, and the groups were instructed to quickly gather at the crime scene, pursue and intercept, and then capture the thief.

The colleagues of Changhang East China Branch and East China Maritime Public Security Bureau squatted and monitored for nearly three months, not only did they get nothing, but also let the thief take advantage of the loophole.

Director Jian, who led the team to train at Wusongkou, saw that the participating police officers were more haggard than each other, and took the initiative to ask the water commandos to take several shifts.

Xiaoyu also felt that the commandos could not just train without participating in actual combat. Tonight, he led two newcomers to ambush in the factory building of the water plant by the river, and monitored the two navigation marks on the river through a high-power telescope.

Zhu Jiaping stared at the navigation mark through the telescope, and her eyes were almost blurred. She couldn't help asking: "Captain Yu, the wind and waves are so strong, and the maritime department issued a blue warning in the afternoon. The thieves who stole batteries should not come, right?"

Xiaoyu sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes and rested, and asked back: "You mean the wind and waves are so strong that the boat dare not come out?"

Zhu Jiaping muttered: "It's easy to capsize in this weather."

Men and women work together, and work is not tiring.

Director Jian is definitely a leader who can lead troops. This time, he recruited new members and actually found ways to recruit two "dominant women". Zhu Jiaping is one of them, and her old unit is very famous.

There used to be a TV series called "Women's Special Police Team". She is a veteran of the Xichuan Armed Police Women's Special Police Team!

Another "Bawanghua" Shi Dejuan is also a well-known figure. Before retiring, she was a shooting athlete of the Guangzhou Military Region Sports Team. She once joined the Bayi Shooting Team to participate in national shooting competitions and achieved good results.

In addition to the two "Bawanghua", Director Jian also recruited three male team members.

One is a retired soldier of the Marine Corps, one is a retired soldier of the Changyi Boat Brigade of the Armed Police Force, and one is a retired officer of a certain unit of the Guangzhou Military Region.

Among the five new members, Xiaoyu admires the retired officer Ding Guobao the most.

Ding Guobao is not ranked in the commando team in terms of shooting or grappling, and he can't even beat the two little girls who just joined the commando team. But he worked in the ammunition repair and assembly station under the ordnance repair institute of a certain unit of the Guangzhou Military Region for thirteen years. He grew from an ordinary soldier to a captain officer, specializing in the destruction of various types of scrapped ammunition!

He did the most dangerous job in the army. He is a genuine bomb expert and now he is a bomb disposal expert in the commando team.

Xiaoyu also admires Fang Cheng, a retired soldier from the Changyi Boat Brigade of the Armed Police.

The young man's family is a boatman like Xianyu Gan's family. He has been able to drive and repair boats since he was a child, and he loves to learn. He is a business backbone in the boat brigade. The young man's old army leader has a high evaluation of him, saying that he has the ability of "all-weather rescue", "reaching all waters", and "all-time and space combat"!

It takes at least two years for new cadres and new soldiers in the boat brigade to truly perform tasks. During this period, they must not only conduct water combat and rescue training, but also consult a large amount of Yangtze River hydrological data to understand the characteristics of the Three Gorges waters.

Although his education level was not high before, he was like a natural water policeman and didn't need to learn deliberately to understand those things. It is said that during the five years of serving in the army, he drove law enforcement boats in different waters, wide and narrow waterways, high flood levels, and at night, rainy days, and fog to perform more than 300 tasks. He even summarized several methods of formation entry and explored several driving essentials such as right-angle turns, avoiding whirlpools, and rapid approach.

The water commando needs such talents!

Xiaoyu opened her eyes and looked sideways at the young man who was also leaning against the wall with his eyes closed: "Chengfa, in this weather, do you dare to sail on the river?"

"Chengfa" was the nickname given by the captain. Fang Cheng was a little unaccustomed to it. He stood up after a pause and said: "Why not? The wind and waves today are not big."

"Bawanghua, did you hear me?" Xiaoyu stretched, yawned and laughed: "In this weather, Chengfa can sail on the river, and the thief who stole the battery of the navigation mark can do it too."

Before coming to the water commando, Zhu Yaping still had a sense of superiority.

After coming here, she realized that compared with the old squad leaders in the team, what she learned in the women's special police team might only be regarded as the basic skills of the water commando.

She held the high-power telescope on the tripod, stared at the buoy light on the river, and couldn't help muttering: "Captain Yu, can you please stop calling me Bawanghua?"

"Then switch with Shi Dejuan, you call her Rose, and she calls her Bawanghua."

"What Rose, it's so ugly."

"You are all Sonorous Roses, Director Jian said, how can it be ugly?"

"I won't tell you anymore, tell my sister-in-law later that you always like to give people nicknames."

What's wrong with giving nicknames, we all have nicknames, even salted fish has...

Xiaoyu suddenly felt that having two little girls in the team was pleasing to the eye, but also a bit troublesome. No matter what you do, you have to pay attention, not as casual as before.

Thinking of the three police academy students at the beginning, only Xiao Shen was able to stick to it. Xiaoyu made up her mind that if she had the opportunity to return to Changhang Police Academy, she must talk to Principal Liu that the students can't just learn business knowledge, can't always take cultural courses, physical training is also very important.

Fang Cheng knew that the captain was from Donghai, so he asked curiously: "Captain Yu, is your home far from here?"

"Not far, but not close either." Xiaoyu smiled proudly: "You should have been to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. My home is not far from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. I will take you to my home after a few days off."

"Captain Yu, I want to go to the Bund."

"You can see it from my balcony. There is nothing to see during the day, but it is beautiful at night."

"Captain Yu, can you see the Bund from your balcony?" The Queen of Flowers couldn't believe it was true, and turned around and asked in surprise.

Xiaoyu motioned Fang Cheng to take over from the female boss, grinning: "Why would I lie to you? You can see the Bund from the living room balcony, and you can see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower when you cook in the kitchen."

The female boss rubbed her sore eyes and asked doubtfully: "Captain Yu, your house is very expensive, right?"

"We bought it early, and it was not as expensive as it is now when we bought it."

"How much is it per square meter now?"

"About 50,000 or 60,000, I didn't ask the specific amount."

"How big is your house?"

"More than 140 square meters."

"Your house is worth more than 7 million!"

"Almost."

"..."

The female boss was speechless, spread out the mat and sat in the corner without saying anything.

It's just a house, why are these people talking about house prices like this?

Just when Xiaoyu was feeling bored, a hurried call suddenly came from the intercom: "Group by group, please reply if you receive it!"

"Group by group received, Director Jian please speak." Xiaoyu hurriedly picked up the intercom.

"Just received a maritime notification that a cargo ship sank in anchorage No. 8 and 10 crew members are missing. The maritime and coast guard duty boats have been dispatched urgently. You are closest to the wreck area. Your superiors order you to immediately go out and participate in the search and rescue!"

"Understood!"

"Be careful."

"I know."

Finally got something down to business.

Xiaoyu immediately got up and ran outside while ordering: "Formula, Overlord Flower, follow me!"

"Fish team, where are the binoculars?"

"It's important to save people, put them here first, and move quickly."

"yes!"

A speedboat was parked on the river beach. It was originally prepared to chase and intercept thieves who stole the beacon battery, but now it is used to search and rescue the drowned crew members.

Bawanghua lifted the bow of the boat according to the previous training. The engine was at the stern of the boat. The stern of the boat was heavier than the bow of the boat. Xiaoyu and Fang Cheng raised the stern of the boat and ran straight to the river.

A wave hit me, making my shoes and legs wet, but I couldn't care less now.

The three of them climbed onto the boat, and Xiaoyu shouted: "Equation, it's up to you now."

"Yes!" Fang Cheng yanked the rope that started the engine and steered the boat at the stern with his hand on the joystick.

"Bawanghua, put on a life jacket quickly."

"clear."

"After putting it on, hold on to the rope and pay close attention to the river."

…

Thirteen members of the water commando team were organized into four groups. They were all near the shipwreck waters tonight, and they were all mobilized.

The weather was so bad, the wind and waves on the river were high, and the team members were all driving small boats. It would be false to say that they were not worried, but human lives were at stake and they had to be dispatched in emergencies.

Director Jian and the deputy director on duty of the Wusong Police Station rushed to the Wusong Maritime Department Traffic Control Center. They were about to ask the traffic control if they could see the positions of the four groups of commandos at this moment through radar, when another urgent call came from the radio.

Within 15 minutes of his arrival from Wusong Police Station, Wusong Traffic Control received information about several ship distress incidents.

"Ning Lian Hai 908", "Ning Dong Hu 130", "Ning Dong Hu 858", and "Ning Gaopeng 981" were in distress in Wusongkou waters one after another and sank one after another. As of two minutes ago, 16 crew members had fallen into the water!

Director Jian had never experienced such a series of shipwrecks, and he did not dare to affect the traffic control command and rescue. He took a few deep breaths, returned to the door and raised the intercom: "Attention, all groups, attention, please answer."

"One group received it, please give me a brief introduction!"

"Group 2 received it!"

"Three groups received!"

"The fourth group received it, please tell me the briefing!"

After confirming that all thirteen members of the four teams were present, Jian Ju breathed a sigh of relief, held the walkie-talkie tightly and asked, "Have you received notifications about the sinking of several other ships?"

"Report to the Bureau, received, maritime notification, a team is working hard to search and rescue!"

"Brief report, we have just rescued one and are rescuing the second one."

"Which ship is it from?"

"On Ningdong Lake 130."

"Great, continue the search and rescue, but also pay attention to your own safety."

"clear!"

Jian Ju was very happy to rescue a crew member who fell into the water, but now was not the time to be happy.

The wind and waves on the river were high, and several large boats capsized. All the team members were driving small boats. You can imagine how dangerous the team members were at this moment!

Jian Ju has never believed in ghosts and gods, but now he is secretly praying to the gods to keep his team members safe and sound. If there was something wrong among the team members, he really didn't know how to explain it to the team members' families and superiors.