Riverside police

The rain stopped and the flood peak roared in.

There is also no obvious "peak" here, only the current is very fast, the water level continues to rise, and the waves continue to hit the embankment that has just been built by thousands of soldiers and civilians.

Once the flood overflows, it will not only threaten the lives and property of hundreds of thousands of people below the embankment, but also endanger the entire Jianghan Plain.

Because of this, the Jingjiang embankment is called Mingdi!

Facing the roaring and turbulent turbid river water, no one is afraid, and no one cares about being afraid. What everyone wants now is to hold on to the embankment at all costs.

The safety of the dike in Lingjiang has been "contracted" to the towns and villages along the line. Since most of the flood control and rescue materials are raised by the towns and villages themselves, some dike sections have high sub-dikes, and some dike sections cannot find so many sandbags. is relatively low.

The only thing that can be done now is to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall, and urgently transport the sandbags that were built higher to a lower place.

The embankment wasn't wide enough and couldn't handle much pressure, so two large dump trucks couldn't help.

All three loaders went to the embankment to help transport sandbags, but there was no limit to how much the three loaders could transport, so it was mainly dependent on manpower.

In order to transport the sandbags, everyone was covered in mud and soaked inside and out.

The officers and soldiers of the Armed Police Squadron and the company of the "Little Binjiang Fellows" were completely at risk. They were divided into several sections on the long river embankment and transferred sandbags like running a relay race.

They picked up the sixty or seventy pound sandbag and ran away.

From 11:30 noon to around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the largest number of officers and soldiers actually made more than 600 trips back and forth!

Around five o'clock, the water level gradually dropped.

The second flood peak was withstood with the joint efforts of thousands of soldiers and civilians, but no one cheered and celebrated. Everyone was exhausted and sat slumped on the muddy embankment, without even the strength to speak.

Several nearby villages were responsible for the logistics support of the county militia reserve troops, and meals were delivered.

The meal is very simple, with enough rice and only two dishes, one is fried shredded pork and the other is pickled long pepper. There is no soup. If you are thirsty, drink boiled water. The boiled water is brought by the masses with their own boiled water bottles.

The Armed Police Squadron's dinner was a boxed lunch, which was said to be two meat and two vegetarian items, but there were not a few pieces of meat in sight, and it was cold even when it was delivered to the river embankment.

They arrived in a hurry yesterday and did not have life jackets or labor protection supplies.

From the squad leader, the instructor to the young soldier, everyone has blisters on their hands. If not treated in time, they can easily become infected.

When Liang Xiaojun and Han Xiangmeng were helping them treat their wounds, they were surprised to see an armed police soldier eating six box lunches in a row.

"Binjiang fellow" Xu Xiaoming's unit has the simplest food. Each person only has a bottle of mineral water, a bag of mustard and a few steamed buns!

Dongdong couldn't believe his eyes. He returned to the tent in the camp and looked at the sumptuous meals in the stainless steel lunch box. He couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Xiaoyu, Brother Xiaoming is a real People's Liberation Army. No matter how they eat, they are not as good as the armed police." ?”

"That soldier from Chonggang District?"

"Well, they only have steamed buns and pickled mustard at night."

What Xiaoyu was thinking about now was how to get his phone back. He had just fought off a flood, and even if he didn't make a few phone calls, he always felt that there was something wrong with him. He said listlessly and perfunctorily: "I've never been in the military, how would I know."

Dong Maosheng, a cadre transferred from the customs to the military, hesitated for a moment and said with a wry smile: "The army, navy, ocean, and air force are big hooligans. There is a certain truth to this."

"Uncle Dong, is the Air Force playing rogue?"

"I'm not really trying to be a hooligan, I'm talking about their treatment and conditions in all aspects."

"The air force has the best treatment, and the army has the worst conditions?"

"That's what I mean. This treatment condition is reflected in all aspects. What is directly related to the basic soldiers is the food standard. The Army's food standard is the lowest, and the food is not as good as the Navy or the Air Force. And with only such a small amount of food expenses, it will... Will..."

"Uncle Dong, what else can you do?"

This kid has grown up, there are some things you can talk to him about.

Dong Maosheng weighed it up and explained helplessly: "The grassroots company has no office funds, let alone any income. So the superiors came to check, and the company wanted to buy something or do something else, so Most of the funds needed come from the food expenses of the soldiers.”

"Ah! Isn't this drinking the blood of soldiers?" Dongdong asked in surprise.

Dong Maosheng didn't say yes or no. He took a bite of the food and continued: "Many armies have military service agencies, which are equivalent to department stores and grain and oil stores in the army. Military service agencies are mainly used to accommodate family members who are accompanying the army. In other words, the military service cooperatives want to make money, and the rice and vegetables they sell are more expensive than outside.

There are also some companies where the chief officers are not self-disciplined enough, and some division chiefs are unconscious. In some units, even the squad leader of the cooking class and even the cooks are trying to take advantage of the food expenses and take advantage of the soldiers. Think about it, how much food money will be eaten by the soldiers in the end? "

Dongdong couldn't believe her ears and murmured: "It's too corrupt!"

Chen Youren, a cadre transferred from the military to the Changhang Branch, was not surprised by this. He suddenly said: "In this way, some units still advocate saving, and even use the amount of food saved as one of the criteria to evaluate whether the company is well built. Tell me, You can save money on everything, but can you save money on food?”

Brother Haoran also served as company commander for several years.

Has Brother Haoran ever done anything that harmed the interests of soldiers?

The more Xiaoyu thought about it, the more his heart beat, and he simply changed the subject: "Dong Ke, Lao Chen, what do you mean by that Staff Officer Dai? Does he have the right to confiscate our mobile phones and BP machines?"

"He is the military staff officer sent by the 132nd Regiment, and the military staff officer is in charge of these things. Besides, he is not confiscating it, he is just collecting it and giving it to Secretary Qiu for safekeeping."

"He is the military staff officer of the 132nd Regiment, not our battalion!"

"But we are now under the management of the 132nd Regiment."

"Must you listen to him?"

"You have to listen, you can't do it if you don't."

"He's so lenient!"

"Xiaoyu, you've never been a soldier, so it's normal for you to not understand and not get used to it. If you have been a soldier, you will know how powerful the military staff of the regiment's military affairs section and the military staff of the division's military affairs section are. We are now under the care of others, okay? It’s said that since people are under the roof, it’s better to listen to them honestly.”

Xiaoyu asked unconvinced: "What if I don't listen?"

Dong Maosheng smiled and said: "If you dare not listen, you are violating military orders. They have the right to put you in solitary confinement, just like detention for a few days."

Chen Youren even laughed and said, "Xiaoyu, I'm not trying to scare you. The detention of criminals by the army is harsher than that of your police. It is said that there are about ten people locked up in a cell in a detention center. At least they have someone to keep them company and talk to them." . The military confinement means locking you into a small dark room, where you can’t see your fingers, eat, drink, poop, and sleep in there, and there’s no one to talk to.”

Xiaoyu didn't want to be imprisoned, nor did he want to give in. He muttered: "If he has the ability, don't change his job. If he changes his job to Binjiang, let's see how I deal with him!"

…

The raging river has calmed down, and the water level in the Lingjiang section has stopped at 42.22 meters.

The water level is still very high, the dry embankment is still soaked in water, and dangers such as collapse, collapse, piping, and water seepage can still occur at any time. In fact, many dangers have occurred in other embankment sections.

Lingjiang County not only has the 48-kilometer-long Jingjiang Dike, but also the 14-kilometer-long Yaoxing Min Dike.

The current Lingjiang River is flooded both externally and internally, especially in Yaoxing Mindi. The torrential floods seriously threaten the safety of the main embankments of the Yangtze River.

Dangerous situations have occurred in dangerous sections of the Yangtze River including the electric drain gate, Wanxing Village Gate, Wenxin Village Weir Pond, and Daxingchang Ferry. Vice Mayor Xu and Secretary Zheng went to other places to direct rescue operations as early as two hours ago. Deputy County Magistrate Wang is in charge of this side of the embankment.

The shed on the embankment was demolished when it was in the way of the flood peak. Deputy Mayor Shen invited Deputy County Magistrate Wang to come to 001 to take command.

Their means of communication basically relies on their feet.

At noon today, a patrol team discovered a water seepage at the foot of the embankment. They sent people to run nearly two kilometers to report to the flood control contact point in the village. The contact point had a landline phone and called Deputy County Magistrate Wang.

At the request of Deputy County Magistrate Wang, the Linghai Reserve Battalion arranged for 12 rescue team members and an excavator to rush over with a deputy mayor to assist in the rescue.

In short, considering that they did not have high-frequency radio stations, as many mobile phones, and the most advanced Motorola walkie-talkies as the Linghai Reserve Camp, Deputy Mayor Shen ordered 001 to set sail and sent Deputy County Magistrate Wang to inspect various embankment sections from the river. Condition.

Han Yu also went along, so that after discovering the danger, he could quickly formulate a rescue plan and mobilize rescue equipment and personnel to provide support in a timely manner.

Party members and cadres take the lead wherever they go. Bureau chiefs and township chiefs can be said to be very important officials in rural areas, but now they are leading the way, covered in mud and sweat just like the militiamen and ordinary people.

There are several bureau chiefs and township leaders in their fifties who are still fighting alongside young men.

When we returned to the gate and embankment section, it was already dark.

As soon as 001 anchored, Yang Jianbo and Zhao Jiang delivered the meals.

Han Yu was preparing to invite Deputy Mayor Shen and Deputy County Magistrate Wang to dinner when the banquet manager suddenly called.

"Shitong, what are your instructions?"

"Two things, one is a public matter and the other is a private matter."

"Let's talk business first."

"You have done a great job in the rescue mission at Laomiao Gate. The leaders of Jingzhou Defense Command entrusted me to express my gratitude to you."

"We are here to rescue people. This is what we should do." Compared with the soldiers and civilians in Lingjiang who are struggling to fight the flood, Han Yu feels that the Linghai Reserve Battalion has not done much. If you want to defend the dry embankments and river embankments, you mainly rely on the soldiers and civilians of Lingjiang.

Xi Gong didn't know what he was thinking, and continued: "You have maneuvered thousands of miles and entered the battle as soon as you got off the car. You have been working continuously for seventeen hours and successfully completed the rescue mission. The leader of Jingzhou Defense Command asked me to ask, give it to you Is ten hours of rest enough?”

"Five hours is enough. Our people are divided into two shifts. The reason why we need to give us five hours is mainly because there are many dangers here in Lingjiang. There are two excavators and two loaders outside. Assist in the rescue, it will take about five hours for them to complete the task and return to the gate and embankment section."

"Okay, I'll give you a new mission in five hours."

"Man, can you arrange it first so that we can arrange for technicians to go and take a look at the scene first?"

"There are dangers everywhere, and the dangers will continue to change. Some may have been rescued in five hours, and some will become more serious in another five hours. I don't know now when Jingzhou will be protected." I’ll ask you where to support me.”

"Okay, we'll wait for the order."

"Mayor Xu called two hours ago to report the situation of your battalion to Deputy Governor Zhou Z who was in charge of flood control in Jingzhou, focusing on your process of rushing to protect the old temple gate from a major danger. Deputy Governor Zhou Z and several city leaders After research, we decided to use you as an emergency rescue force under the direct command of the city’s defense commander.”

"That's what I said at the beginning."

"At the beginning, it was recommended by our Yangtze River Defense Chief. You won the first battle and hit the ground running. In just twelve hours, you completed the rescue mission that might normally take half a month to complete. You proved your combat effectiveness with practical actions. This This time they really take it seriously!”

They are here to rescue people, either here or there. It doesn't matter whether the superiors pay attention to them or not.

Han Yu didn't really care about that, or he couldn't bear to leave Lingjiang where he had been fighting for more than ten hours, but asked curiously: "Gong Xi, did you just say Yangtze River Defense Chief?"

"It has always been the Yangtze River Defense Control Bureau. You didn't know these things before, and you thought it was called finger prevention, just like the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters. Think about it carefully, whether it is the general defense department or the prevention finger, it is actually the same thing, so I will I didn’t mention this to you.”

"The Yangtze River Defense Directorate is at a higher level than the Provincial Defense Director?"

"It's not about who is higher and who is lower. It mainly represents the Ministry of Water Resources. In your words, it is the national team."

"Understood."

Xi Gong also didn't want to spend his precious time and energy explaining the administrative level of the unit, and continued: "The Yangtze Three Gorges Corporation has supported a batch of emergency supplies, mainly stones, which should be transported to Jingzhou at noon tomorrow.

Vice Governor Zhou Z and the leaders of Jingzhou City agreed that good steel should be used on the cutting edge, and decided to use the stones supported by the Three Gorges Corporation and some of the emergency supplies just raised by the city today to protect you. "

You can't fight without ammunition. No matter how good the equipment is without ammunition, it's useless!

Han Yu was interested in this and couldn't help but smile: "That's great. Thanks to my superiors for trusting me. We promise to use those emergency supplies where they are most needed."

"You will be under the command of the city's defense commander next. Our Yangtze River Defense Director has already agreed. You can only use those supplies where they are most needed."

Xi Gong paused and added: "In addition, the leaders of the Yangtze River Defense Department have made a decision to squeeze out 500,000 yuan from the flood control and relief funds just allocated by the ministry to be used for the logistics support of your battalion. This is Five hundred thousand will be transferred to the account of the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau before noon tomorrow at the latest, and will be handed over to the CSC Logistics Support Team, that is, Comrade Huang Yuanchang, deputy director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the CSC Bureau, for use."

It doesn’t matter who pays, as long as the employer pays.

Han Yu said he understood, and then asked: "What about private matters?"

"Your father-in-law came here with Huang Yuanchang and Gu Pengfei, director of the floating crane terminal of Binjiang Port Authority. They took a plane from the East China Sea to Hanwu, and then took a bus from Hanwu."

"Didn't he say to come by boat?"

"We just met. He originally planned to come by boat. But then he thought about it and felt that he had to be prepared for weather protection, so he came over in advance to check the historical meteorological data of Jingzhou and surrounding areas."

"Where is he now?"

"We went to the Jingzhou Meteorological Bureau. The Jingzhou Meteorological Bureau sent a car to pick us up. Xianyu, you and your wife usually don't take your father-in-law seriously. In fact, your father-in-law is very powerful and well-known in the meteorological system. The general manager of the Jingzhou Meteorological Bureau When the workers saw him, they respectfully called him Teacher Han, and it is said that he also has several friends in the Beihu Provincial Meteorological Bureau."

Weather systems may seem huge, but they are actually very small.

The particularity of the work and the closed nature of vertical management determine that their meteorologists can only play with friends in the meteorological circle.

My father-in-law has been the deputy chief engineer and chief forecaster of the Binjiang Meteorological Bureau for so many years. He participates in telephone meteorological consultations organized by provincial meteorological departments and even the National Meteorological Bureau almost every week, and attends meteorological system seminars every year. It’s normal to know a few Beihu weather people.

Han Yu realized that his father-in-law could eat more freely than he did outside Binjiang, so he couldn't help but asked with a smile: "So if he doesn't come to join the army in the next few days, we don't need to care?"

"No, the Jingzhou Meteorological Bureau is as busy as the Sarawak Hydrological Station. Several meteorological engineers eat, drink, and sleep in the unit. With such a senior meteorological expert as your father-in-law coming to support, it will be too late for others to be happy. They will definitely arrange it very well. It's completely You don’t need to worry.”

"Where's the yellow part?"

"Chief Huang has joined the Municipal Defense Directorate on behalf of the Changhang Navigation Bureau, and is currently having a meeting with the Municipal Defense Directorate. Director Gu is with me. When the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau's supervisory boat comes back from sending the leaders for inspection, they will use the supervision boat to send him there with us. You meet up."