Yangtze River, Jingzhou section.

Here, located in the lower reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Although the floods have been intercepted by the Three Gorges, they are relatively small, but the tributaries that join from time to time on both sides of the Taiwan Strait still make the defense line here tense.

Near a village called Sanshilipu, officers and soldiers of a group of military mechanics and infantry regiments were stationed on the embankment here.

A Zidi, which was more than one meter high, had been built on the embankment, and the officers and soldiers were still carrying sandbags back and forth to strengthen the Zidi.

The water under the embankment is extremely turbid, with foam, and the water mixed with garbage hits the embankment in waves, and the entire embankment seems to shake with the impact. Standing on the embankment, it seems that it is in a flood, and it will be extremely unstable.

However, the soldiers had long been accustomed to it, adjusting their rhythm at any time, even shouting slogans, running back and forth, as if they were inexhaustible energy in their bodies.

However, if you look closely, you will find that most of these soldiers have tender faces. At the age of eighteen or nineteen, their hands and legs tremble slightly due to long-term labor, but none of them complained about being tired. Although they were mechanics, those machinery could not be used to fight floods at all. Almost all of them depend on people to pile them up.

Hu Jianfeng, the commander of the Red Ninth Company, wiped the rain or sweat on his face. He looked up at the gray sky with raindrops, muttered and scolded, "God, God", and shouted loudly to the soldiers: "Comrades, work harder! Everyone carries ten more sandbags, and we will rest!"

"good!"

"come on!"

Although the strength was not enough, the soldiers did not slow down because of this, but instead got faster. In just twenty minutes, everyone completed the task - the fastest one had even carried fourteen or five sandbags before resting.

The sky became more and more gloomy, and the clouds were low, and it was almost possible to touch. The waterline in the river slowly rose and soon it could hit the Zidi position. Hu Jianfeng saw that the situation was serious. He immediately asked the radio station from the communicator to contact the command center in front and report the situation. The superiors just asked them to stay here and wait for instructions.

Not long after, the superiors came to instruct the embankment to hold on to the tide for twelve hours - hundreds of households behind were evacuating, but the speed was slow and needed the help of the troops to gain time.

No choice. Hu Jianfeng informed the instructor Hao Yunpeng.

"Twelve hours... it's very difficult!" Hao Yunpeng is a native of Hubei. He pointed to the river water, stepped on the dam again, and then said: "According to the fact that the dam body is so wide and thick, this will not happen. But now, it is obvious that the dam is shaking - I guess the material of this dam body is not very good and has poor solidity. Although we have reinforced the dam body, if the dam body is unstable, the dam will not only not play a protective role, but will instead collapse faster!"

Hu Jianfeng did not answer the instructor's words. He just looked at the dam, the river water, and then looked at the soldiers who were resting in the mud. Some soldiers who had even fallen asleep during less than ten minutes of rest were gritted and said, "What should I do? Do the hundreds of households behind me ignore it? Let's do this, Lao Hao, you have experience, take people to check the dam body again to see if there is any pipe surge and leakage risk. I will strengthen it again. It is better than watching it - if we use one more force, we will have one more guarantee!"

Hao Yunpeng nodded, but he could only do this. The two of them immediately took action separately.

The soldiers who had just rested for less than ten minutes were quickly called up, and a small number followed the instructor Hao Yunpeng to inspect the dam.

In the village not far from the dike, the voice of the village party secretary was repeatedly played on the loudspeaker: "The whole village listened, hurry up and pack up your things and evacuate to the town. There is a resettlement site. Our village is unsafe and it will rain at night. It is not easy to guard the dam. Everyone move quickly! Let me say it again, pack up your things quickly..."

The heads of the villagers stepped up mobilizing the people from the village to move to the town, and helped the families with elderly people to pack up their things.

On the way to the town, vehicles of all sizes were moving forward all the way, but the speed was not fast. Although the village-to-village project had been completed, the quality of this road was really not very good. Now it has become bumpy, and it is raining, so I can't walk fast.

"I'm so anxious!" A man's rude voice sounded in a small second-floor courtyard, "What's the point of being anxious? Are the soldiers still guarding the dike? They didn't leave, is it useless for us to be anxious?"

"Old Chen, you can't say that!" the village team leader persuaded: "Your family still has an old mother, so it will definitely be slow to move. Let's take a step first, there are tents in the town, and all the food and food are prepared. Now, stay for a few nights, and wait for the water to recede before coming back. Otherwise, if the dam collapses, it will be too late to run again!"

"Why are you so mean?" Old Chen was obviously not optimistic about the words of the villagers' team leader. He was used to talking like this on weekdays. His family was rich and powerful, so naturally he would not have any taboos: "Then the dam is good, you have to curse him to collapse, right? My building was built, and the furniture and appliances inside were bought for tens of thousands of yuan. If you really want to get water, you pay me compensation? You go first, I will wait and see! If the water doesn't come, I won't leave! It's so comfortable to live in the building, who would want to squeeze the broken tent! Besides, even if the water comes in, my second floor will not have any problems!"

The villager team leader wanted to persuade him again, but the old Chen pushed him out: "Don't worry about my family's affairs! Go to another house to see! If you talk too much, be careful I will hit you!" After that, he turned around and closed the door with a "slap".

The villager team leader looked at the closed door, shook his head and left.

After a while, a few of Lao Chen's brothers came and picked up his old mother. When the villager team leader came over and urged him, Lao Chen was still so arrogant: "I'll beat you if you talk more! Get out!"

The villager team leader had no choice but to report the matter to the town.

Soon, there was still a family in the village that had not moved away. They reported to the front command and command center step by step. Then they feedbacked it layer by layer, and finally arrived at the Red Ninth Company.

"What? Let's send someone to persuade the family to leave?" Hu Jianfeng jumped up when he heard the news from the radio station. "It can't be like this when asking for help from the local area, right? Our people were already divided into two groups, but now they can't even take care of guarding the dike. They still have to go over and persuade people? What are the people in the local area doing?..."

Just when Hu Jianfeng got angry about this incident, Lin Dong drove a car with a strange shape and rushed towards Jingzhou...
Chapter completed!