Riverside police

Master Zhou from the Road and Bridge Company had a cold and a high fever. An excavator master from the Navigation Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Transport was acclimatized and had a stomachache. Xiaoyu went to participate in water search and rescue again. There were not enough excavator drivers, so Han Yu had to do it himself.

As a novice, I can't do any highly technical work, so I can only dig soil.

But now excavation is a very important job. The breakwater requires a large number of sandbags for slope protection. Sandbags need to be thrown into the water side of the 1.6km dangerous embankment to fix its feet. The embankment diagonally opposite also needs sandbag reinforcement.

In addition, the Jingjiang River is supported by floods from the lower reaches, and the water from the upper reaches is not vented smoothly. The water level rises instead of falling after the peak of the flood. The nearby embankment section is full of dangers, and there is an urgent need for sandbags to raise the height of the sub-embankment.

The dangerous section being protected requires sandbags, and nearby soldiers and civilians also need sandbag support. Once filled, they are hoisted and shipped away, and one ship after another pulls it up and down. Dongdong's filling team alone cannot fill it. We can only ask the officers and soldiers of the 402nd Army to assist with filling.

Not counting the automated filling areas, there are twenty manual filling areas set up around the soil extraction points alone!

Han Yu's main job is to provide earthwork for 21 filling areas, including automated filling areas.

Just after digging dozens of square meters of earth and building a mountain of earth here, the mountain of earth there became smaller. The mountains of earth further away were almost leveled by the officers and soldiers who were so busy and sweating like rain.

Since the soil borrowing point and filling area are far away from the hoisting point, Dongdong could not be transported here only by the No. 2 loader and a forklift. Hao Qiusheng immediately ordered the tractor team to assist in the transfer.

At the manual filling area of ​​the 402nd Army, a vehicle company of the 402nd Army was responsible for the transportation, and two infantry companies were arranged to be responsible for loading and unloading.

The No. 1 earthwork construction team and the No. 2 earthwork construction team are responsible for the construction of the No. 1 breakwater and the No. 2 breakwater respectively. Two large excavators are collecting soil at another soil borrowing point, and two large dump trucks are along the soil borrowing point and construction Shuttle back and forth between points, and can pull more than 30 tons of earth in one trip.

The two sloping breakwaters are extending into the river at a speed visible to the naked eye.

On the dangerous embankment, officers and soldiers of the 402nd Army were constantly throwing sandbags down the embankment to secure their feet!

Looking around, the entire emergency area is brightly lit, filled with officers and soldiers participating in the war, like a large construction site in full swing.

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Fighting floods with the "Hong Kong Garrison" is undoubtedly quite embarrassing.

It would be embarrassing if you stood aside and watched while they were doing it.

It would be even more embarrassing if we took the lead and carried sandbags together with the soldiers, or even filled them.

Nearly a regiment of troops was invested, and the efficiency of filling and transferring sandbags was actually not as high as that of a filling unit commanded by a sixteen-year-old child.

With dozens of soldiers of the 404th Division, and with the assistance of a loader, a forklift and sixteen tractors, the number of sandbags filled, sewn, tied and transferred per minute can reach at least ten to ten Five. And the number of kilograms of soil filled is very standard, each bag is about 80 kilograms.

The bag mouth is sewn very firmly, unlike hand-tied sandbags with ropes, which can easily loosen and leak soil during loading and unloading.

Tying sandbag cages is a job for others, and the 402nd Army is not qualified to do it.

The leader set an example and worked with the officers and soldiers for nearly two hours. His back was so tired that he felt like a fool the more he worked.

He threw down the shovel and returned to the embankment. Han Yu happened to change shifts with another excavator master.

When Lao Ge saw that the leader was on the embankment and Han Yu was back, he quickly walked up the embankment along the steel pontoon bridge and said, "Commander Meng, dinner is ready!"

In order to provide the officers and soldiers participating in the war with a hot meal, the chief proposed last night that he would team up with the "Hong Kong Garrison" for the next few days.

The cooking ship, comprehensive supply ship, water plant ship and three barges have all moved over. The two detachments have joined forces and the logistics support team is strong. It is not a problem to cook for hundreds more people, but the dishes cannot be as rich as before.

The leader raised his arm to look at the time and asked curiously: "Geju, what are you going to eat tonight?"

Lao Ge looked back at the brightly lit "Linghai Port Project Headquarters" barge and said with a smile: "Braised chicken nuggets, braised pork ribs and stir-fried cabbage, plus seaweed and egg drop soup."

"Two meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup. The food is pretty good."

"Today is Army Day. Logically, we should add extra meals. The problem is that there are too many people and the cooking class can't handle it, so we can only make it simpler."

"It's already very good, Ge Ju, do we have enough food expenses?"

"enough."

"Is it true enough or fake enough?"

"Even if it's not enough, don't we have it? We provide subsidies."

"You are the master's family now. We will do small jobs for you. It's not too much to take advantage of the master's family."

"Commander Meng, you really know how to joke."

Just as he was talking, Han Yu climbed up the gentle slope.

The chief looked at him with a smile and said: "Xianyu, you can do it, you can even drive an excavator!"

"I can only dig soil, but not anything else. It's not difficult to drive an excavator, but it's not easy to drive it well."

Han Yu looked at the construction progress on the river, pointed to a short section of breakwater extending into the river and said: "For example, when the soil is almost filled, we need to drive up the excavator to collect the slope. I can't do this work. If I have to Let me get in, and I'll probably drive the excavator into the river."

“It’s better to know how to order everything than to know nothing.”

The chief took the cigarette from Lao Ge and looked at the loader under construction and said with emotion: "One excavator and one loader can do work that hundreds of people can do in one day, and it may not be possible for them to do it in ten days. Mechanized equipment is great. Watching your construction reminds me of my brother."

"Chief, your brother also does engineering?"

"What kind of project was he doing? He left long ago."

The leader lit up his cigarette and took several puffs, and sighed: "When I was in school, my hometown was building water conservancy projects, and every household had to carry out river work. From the warmth of spring to the coldness of the twelfth month, river work was carried out almost all the time. My brothers and sisters There was too much food, and the food distributed was not enough to eat. At that time, carrying rivers could be counted as work points, so my brother supported the family by carrying rivers."

Ge Ju subconsciously asked: "Commander Meng, your hometown also wants to develop river engineering?"

"Yes, the big rivers, creeks and irrigation canals in my hometown were dug out by the common people with shovels. We didn't have these modern tools at the time, and I probably don't have them now. We all relied on shovels, shovels, poles and hands."

The leader took a deep breath and said solemnly: "In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the ice and snow were drifting, a load of soil weighed a hundred kilograms. My brother carried the load and climbed over the ditch. The mud and mud made it difficult to move forward. In such a cold day, even his hair Beads of sweat could be seen on the shoulders, and the shoulders were swollen like steamed buns.

There is a task for how many square meters to pick every day. When he went out to work on the river near home, I would help him dig the soil as soon as school was over. When we started digging, it was fine. It was all flat ground and the work was not too intensive. However, as we dug deeper into the river, the slope became larger and larger, making it difficult to dig and lift up. "

Ge Ju didn't expect that the leader would have such a childhood, and murmured: "It's too tiring to carry the river. No matter how strong a person is, he will lose a layer of skin and fat after carrying the river, and some even the pole will be worn white." . Especially when we dig to the bottom of the river, water keeps seeping out, and we have to dig with water. We are covered in mud and water. We are covered in sweat in the summer and suffer from frostbite in the winter.”

The leader was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "My brother died on the work section because he was exhausted from carrying the river. The people from the production team who went out to work on the river wrapped him in mats and found a tractor to take him home. I My mother, my sister-in-law and my sister cried heartbrokenly.

But life has to go on, and the whole family can't survive with just that little work point. I picked up my brother's pole and went to continue working. My mother grabbed the pole and beat me, and told me to go to school hard, saying that I would be admitted to school. There is no need to pick up the river anymore, and there is no need to be a river worker anymore. "

People of this age, as long as their hometown is south of the Huaihe River, may have experienced it.

Lao Ge sighed and said quietly: "My father has been dead for many years. He contracted tuberculosis because he worked on the river in winter and caught cold. He could not be cured and passed away before he was forty years old."

Han Yu felt very uncomfortable and choked up his voice as he said, "And my master. My master passed away so early because of the disease caused by his work as a river worker."

Lao Ge nodded and said with emotion: "The reason why many places are now immune to drought and floods is because our predecessors suffered all the hardships they deserved and suffered all the sins they deserved. Generations of people have built rivers to build rivers." Water conservancy has made a huge contribution!”

"Almost every one of those who worked as a river worker in those days suffered from rheumatism and arthritis and suffered in pain in their later years."

The more the chief thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He turned around and said, "Xianyu, you are a local cadre. Work hard. When you get to a higher leadership position, you must find a way to build a river-picking museum to promote the spirit of the river-picking workers of the elders! I Let’s see the spirit of Tiaohe can be as famous as the spirit of Hongqi Canal!”

Han Yuzheng didn't know how to pick it up, and Ge Ju pondered: "The Hongqi Canal is for water conservancy construction, and lifting the river is also for water conservancy construction. In fact, it is the same thing."

"But if there is no museum or memorial hall, who will remember it in ten or twenty years?"

The leader took a deep breath, thought about it and pointed to the excavator that was working on the soil borrowing point: "If a river is dredged, it can be completed in one day with one machine and one worker. If your master was still alive, what would he think? Could it be that between you and him, from the most primitive shovel digging to the modern and mechanized construction of water conservancy, just a few years are like a thousand years apart?"

Yes, so much has changed over the years.

When I first met Master, I wanted to repair 001. At that time, who would have dared to imagine that there would be a Linggang tow 001 costing more than 16 million yuan? The new law enforcement boats cost more than 600,000 yuan, and four or five of them were built in succession like dumplings!

As for the river porter, although Han Yu had never done it, he had seen it when he was a child.

In fact, until the Yangtze River embankment was fully renovated last year, the city organized farmers from various towns and villages to work across the river.

The only difference is that it is not as tiring as Master's river work. It does not have to dig a river, nor does it need to dig a lot of soil to strengthen and raise the embankment. The main thing is to build roads along the river.

The most tiring and painful earthwork project relies on mechanized equipment.

Han Yu was just thinking about what his master would think if he were still alive and seeing all this, when a hurried call from XCMG suddenly came from the intercom: "Secretary Han, Secretary Han, can you receive it? Please answer if you receive it!"

"Copy that, please speak."

"The water flow suddenly became faster and the water level suddenly dropped a bit!"

Han Yu subconsciously looked towards the river, and could vaguely see 001 surveying the water conditions. He held up a walkie-talkie and asked, "The water level suddenly dropped. How much did it drop?"

"About four millimeters."

"Have you called and asked the Yangtze River Defense Directorate and Jingzhou Defense Index?"

"It's been called. They don't know what's going on. They are asking several hydrological stations to report quickly."

"We can't wait for news. Xugong, please stop testing. Let Liu Wei set sail and go downstream to see what's going on."

"Okay, let's set sail now."

"Wait a minute, let Yangtze Police 110, Binjiang Police 002 and Supervision 48 go together. Pay attention to navigation safety."

"yes!"

The chief was confused and couldn't help but ask: "Xianyu, what's going on?"

"The water level suddenly dropped and the water flow suddenly accelerated, which means that a breach may occur downstream, and it should not be far from us."

Han Yu didn't bother to explain, put down the walkie-talkie, picked up the cell phone strapped to his chest, and quickly contacted Xu Mingyuan.

The call was quickly connected, and Xu Mingyuan asked subconsciously: "Xianyu, what's the matter?"

"Elder brother, what are you doing?"

"We...we just finished eating. Today is Army Day. The local government came to express condolences to us and gave us a lot of food."

"Emergency gathering, equipment loading!"

"Got a mission?"

"I can't tell for a while, so I'll gather together and be on standby."

“We don’t have enough cars, the trucks are all going back!”

"I know. If there are not enough cars, I will arrange it for you."

"OK."

Han Yu put down his cell phone, turned around and said: "Chief, our water search and rescue personnel and equipment are all in Xiang'an County. They can't come back without vehicles. Even if they can march back overnight, they can't transport the equipment. If there is a breach in the downstream section of the embankment, The superiors will definitely organize search and rescue efforts. Saving people and lives is important, and I will requisition your car company!"