Riverside police

The picket team not only had to inspect and supervise the military appearance and discipline of the entire battalion, but also assisted Yang Jianbo, Qiu Xueliang, Zhao Jiang, Zhang Erxiao and others in providing logistical support.

The weather forecast said it would rain at dawn.

Several buses transporting soldiers were gone again.

Staff Officer Dai should organize pickets to help the reserve officers and soldiers who are temporarily out of earthwork construction and dike inspection tasks to seize the time to set up tents.

The location of the temporary camp had been selected early, and bulldozers came over to help smooth and compact the road surface. Even the No. 2 excavator came over to dig several drainage ditches.

The last few steel plates used by the Road and Bridge Company to pave construction roads and build bridges have also arrived. However, more than thirty tents will be set up at once. It is not enough to just pave the ground with those few steel plates, so they must be laid first. Geotextile, otherwise the tent will become muddy after rain.

The straw bags urgently shipped by the Lingjiang County Party Committee and County Government came in handy and can be placed in the tent.

After operating the sewing machine for two hours, Dongdong left the "workshop" with the twenty active-duty officers and soldiers of the filling group 1, and huddled in the newly set up tent to rest.

With a two-hour shift, they could sleep for two hours, but no one could sleep.

If their superiors hadn't stopped them from running around, they would have gone to the embankment to see how the earthwork construction team was trying to protect the gate from danger.

"How many bags did we fill just now?"

"Three hundred and sixty-six bags."

"Where are the armed police?"

"Three hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-three bags more than us."

"What's going on? How can we do less force-feeding than the armed police?"

"We were not familiar with it when we first started working. By the next shift, we will be able to fill at least 500 bags."

He was actually outcompeted by the armed police and a group of militia reserves. The third platoon leader who led the squad was very embarrassed and did not want to talk about this embarrassing topic anymore. He asked with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, how old are you this year?"

"Sixteen." Dongdong turned around and said.

"Graduated from junior high school?"

"Um."

"No more school?"

"Go ahead, but it's summer vacation now, and we don't have to go to school during summer vacation."

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

"I originally wanted to go to a technical secondary school, but my parents, mom and uncle wouldn't let me, so I had to go to high school."

"Then how did you come up with the idea of ​​coming to fight the flood?"

"Yes, how could the Linghai Reserve Battalion accept such a small soldier like you!"

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

"That reserve major is your uncle?"

"Well, my uncle!" Dongdong raised his arm and pointed at the No. 2 excavator that was digging soil not far away: "The excavator at the moment is my uncle Xiaoyu, a military doctor who just went to the armed police for inspection. He’s also my uncle.”

"Your dad is coming too?"

"They came by boat, and the fleet has already set off. In fact, our camp's water equipment is better than the equipment on the shore. If the second company and the fourth company were here, we wouldn't have to go to so much trouble to block the gate, and we wouldn't have to work so hard to fill sandbags. You don’t even have to crowd into a tent.”

"You have a boat?"

"There are many ships. My father is the manager of the Port Authority Passenger Terminal. My mother used to be an employee of the Port Authority and is now a police officer at the Changhang Shipping 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 and the best unit in our riverside..."

Xu Xiaoming finally found his hometown. Not to mention how happy he was, he talked about his hometown with excitement.

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

The sudden rise in water levels has the advantage that at least the steam ferry transferred by the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau can rest its deck directly on the river embankment.

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

Han Yu gestured and whistled to direct the loader SAIC Ferry that had just driven onto the embankment.

The role of the loader is second only to that of the excavator. One truck after another, the iron belt sandbag cages filled and packaged by the "Sandbag Filling Workshop" are transported.

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

It's too dangerous!

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

Han Yu immediately jumped on 001, signaled Captain Fan to turn on the loudspeaker, stood by the guardrail outside the cab, held up the intercom and shouted: "Forklift, forklift, who told you to go up the embankment? Get off immediately, don't do anything reckless!"

This is the first time using a tweeter.

The forklift master was startled and hurriedly stretched out his hand and waved to show that he heard it.

After confirming that the forklift was gone, Han Yu breathed a sigh of relief and simply took over the command of the rescue operations outside the gate. He shouted through the loudspeaker: "Attention safety officers and commanders above and below the embankment. I am Han Yu. Please strictly follow the plan." Command and dispatch construction vehicles!”

"No. 2 loader, there is no need to drive so fast, especially when going downhill, you must pay attention to safety!"

"Loader No. 1, there is no need to go ashore when the next load of sandbags is delivered. Please note that the ferry will unmoor after the next load of sandbags is delivered."

"Jingang tows 009, prepare to tie the mooring rope."

"Jinggang drags 013. You can hold him at Binjiang Police Station 001's current location later!"

…

Vice Mayor Xu and Secretary Zheng, who had just finished their supper at the Linghai Reserve Camp, heard the commotion here and walked out of the shed with Vice Mayor Shen.

"Mayor Shen, can Battalion Commander Xiao Han sail the boat?"

"He was originally a marine policeman, and he is the most skilled marine policeman in Linghai."

"The best at sailing?"

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

Just as he was talking, loader No. 1 came on board carrying a large sandbag cage.

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

In the words of Captain Fan, the river embankment here is like paper. The steam ferry cannot drive its main engine and can only passively adjust its course.

After a while, the steam ferry came to a row of wooden piles that had just been driven.

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

"Jinggang drags 013, and then brings some more, good, good, hold on!"

"Loader No. 1 continues. The deck personnel on the ferry stay away from the loader. Okay, turn around, right, right, hold steady, 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 roar above the gate.

Vice Mayor Xu looked back and found that the drainage room that had been functioning well just now had been demolished into ruins by the No. 1 excavator using a bucket.

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

The excavator driver stretched out his arm to gesture, then operated the excavator to clean up the rubble, then knocked on the bridge 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: "Safety officer, go to the bridge to check quickly."

Vice 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 sixteen and has been working on the river. He has carried out countless rescue missions. He has rescued no less than a hundred boats of all sizes, and he has rescued hundreds of people who fell into the water. The particularity of water work determines He must put safety first."

"I see."

"Mayor Shen, Mr. Hao just said that they are here for rescue, not for sabotage. I think they are also good at 'sabotage'. Looking at the very strong drainage station, they demolished it in a few seconds."

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

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

Vice Mayor Xu asked in surprise: "Really?"

"Really, Han Yu is also a firefighter. He served as the deputy captain of the fire brigade of the Binjiang Branch of the Changhang Public Security Bureau. He is still the secretary-general of the Binjiang Water Fire Fighting Association until now."

"What a jack of all trades!"

"Work on the water is different from work on the shore. As long as you work on the water, you must first be a crew member, and you must also understand fire rescue and other services."

As he was talking, the safety officer on the shore confirmed that there was no problem with the bridge deck.

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

With mechanized equipment, emergency construction can be fast!

As soon as the sandbags were thrown here, two large dump trucks rushed up the embankment. They first turned around at the return yard, then dumped to the river embankment, and began to dump earth outside the gate and inside the row of wooden piles that had just been driven.

As soon as the dump truck dumps the earth and goes down the embankment, the bulldozer goes up and pushes the earth down, and uses its tracks and dead weight to compact the new soil as much as possible.

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

These five meters are different from the usual five meters, because the current water level is very high, and the outside of the gate is very deep. If we rely solely on manpower, even if we organize a thousand people to work day and night, we will not be able to build five meters.

The piles on the inside of the gate were quickly driven.

Three loaders take turns transporting sandbag cages for throwing.

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

The "backfill" operation became more efficient. Two strange-looking large dump trucks carried more earth than before, and the "new embankment" extended toward the east bank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

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

Han Yu and others had already made preparations. They used all the straw bags, gravel and other available materials provided by the county and laid them on the construction road leading to the river embankment.

The workers who had been working for half the night went down to rest, and the second shift workers who had been waiting for the middle of the night came on and started working in the rain.

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

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

After more than 3,000 sandbags were thrown outside the wooden piles at the gate, we immediately ordered the No. 1 dump truck to dump the earth outside the new embankment, and ordered the No. 1 excavator to come up and use a bucket to tidy up and compact the slope on the water side of the new embankment as much as possible, and then let the camp Enter the party member commando.

Xu Mingyuan took the lead, took off his life jacket, tied on a safety rope, jumped into the water first, and led his brothers in the commando team to lay the geotextile.

The water level is very high, you have to lay under the water!

The water flow was so fast that even though the team members were all wearing safety ropes, they were all sweating when they saw the team members dragging the geotextile under and disappearing after diving in. Vice Mayor Xu, Secretary Zheng, Vice Mayor Shen and others were all sweating.

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

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

It is useless to tie stones under the geotextile. The current is too strong and it will be washed away if you put it down. You can only send people to drag the geotextile and dive down to fix it.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. Fortunately, we had organized a flood prevention skills training before. Eight people went down, and all eight people came up safely!

It was very cold under the water, and Senior Brother and the others were all shivering when they came up.

However, Han Yu ignored them and immediately ordered: "Sun Gong, Sun Gong, stop looking and quickly throw sandbags to suppress it. You must be quick, otherwise the cloth that was finally fixed will be washed away soon!"

"yes!"

"Dump trucks and loaders are ready. After throwing the sandbags, dump the soil immediately!"

"Captain Liu, hold on tight, don't let the cloth slide down!"

"Excavator No. 1 is on board the ferry, preparing for riprap slope protection!"

…

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

The water level is rising, and the new embankment, like the dry embankments on the east and west sides, relies entirely on new sandbags to hold back the water.

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

Han Yu climbed ashore and looked at the new embankment that was about to be overflowed by the river and was still under construction. He did not dare to follow the plan any longer.

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

The danger of the gate has been eliminated. To be precise, the gate is gone. Looking at it, you can't see that there used to be a gate here.

If measured only from a construction perspective, the Linghai Reserve Battalion has accomplished its task well.

But the second flood peak is coming soon. What we need to do now is to guard the embankments and protect them. We must make sure the embankments are raised as the water rises.

Vice Mayor Xu did not want to let the Linghai reserve officers and soldiers who had been fighting for more than ten hours go down the embankment to fill sandbags again. He immediately grabbed the loudspeaker and shouted with tears: "Leading cadres of the Lingjiang County Party Committee and County Government, party members of the towns and villages along the river Cadres and Lingjiang militia reservists, listen, I am Xu Qingyou, deputy mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government.

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

With the help of the people of Linghai, the danger at the gate has been successfully eliminated. Now, we are facing the second flood peak of this year.

Comrades and fellow villagers, the dike is our home, and the people living under the dike are our relatives. Now it’s up to us. Success or failure depends on this, the time to test us has arrived! I ordered the party members and cadres in charge of each embankment section to leave some people to guard the embankment, while the others went down the embankment to fill the sandbags..."

Following Vice Mayor Xu's order, thousands of cadres and masses who had been ordered to go up the embankment in the morning, led by county leaders, rushed down the embankment and went straight to the soil borrowing point of the Linghai Reserve Camp.

There is strength in numbers.

After a while, the remaining three thousand woven bags were used up.

There was no need for a loader to transport the sandbags. Thousands of cadres and masses carried bags of sandbags onto the embankment.

In the blink of an eye, a white Great Wall was built on the new embankment that the Linghai Reserve Battalion had worked hard to build for eleven hours.

Many people were worried that there were not enough sandbags, so they braved the heavy rain to dig straw bags for the construction road.

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 was obvious that they had brought all the rice bags at home. …

Han Yu burst into tears.

Vice Mayor Shen covered his mouth.

Lao Ge choked up and couldn't speak.

Han Xiangmeng was wearing a raincoat, nestled in Liang Xiaojun's arms, and burst into tears.