In the evening, outside H Town, the direct team temporarily gathered.

After getting off the train station, the convoy stopped three times in the middle, and finally turned the front of the car and drove three times.

I kept struggling until dusk before finally reaching this H town.

There were rumors in the army that the superiors mobilized the 1st Division three times because they wanted to deploy the 1st Division in the most difficult places.

Zhuang Yan and his comrades had just put down their backpack at the temporary station site, and they didn't even have the chance to kick them. They were immediately taken to an open space outside the town to stand by.

Today was originally the Army Day of the August 1st. According to the traditions of the army in previous years, August 1st is even older than that of the year, so you must add vegetables and drink beer at night.

However, it seems impossible to have another normal August 1st Army Day this year.

On August 1st, we just happened to be deployed to the front line of flood control. Zhuangyan felt that there seemed to be a subtle coincidence in the dark.

Now, the entire division is entering this designated area one after another. It is said that Commander Zhang and Political Commissar led some leaders of the division headquarters to the front-line dike to meet with local leaders and discuss the issue of how to deploy troops.

Everyone's hearts were hanging in the air at this moment.

In the darkness, a team of soldiers and local people passed by. Zhuangyan also saw many people carrying their own TVs, and some were driving a few pigs in a direction opposite to the earth.

A soldier wrapped in mud stopped in front of the solemnly.

"Brother, which unit belongs?" he asked.

After looking at the other party for a few seconds, he realized that this was an officer of the armed police force and had the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder.

However, the camouflage uniform on his body was completely wrapped in yellow mud. If he didn't look at the collar and military rank on the camouflage uniform carefully, he really couldn't tell which military force it was.

"We are from the 1st Army Division, the teaching brigade."

"Ah, it's the Army's brother." The second lieutenant of the armed police asked: "You just came?"

"Yes, I just arrived." Zhuang Yan said.

The second lieutenant suddenly asked embarrassedly: "Do you have any cigarettes? Give me one..."

After saying that, he explained: "My cigarette has been wet with water..."

While saying that, he took out a box of already rotten cigarettes from his pocket, pinched them and threw them on the ground.

Zhuangyan quickly said, "Yes!"

Take out the cigarette and give it to the lieutenant.

He bit his lips less and stretched out his hands that were also dirty, and said a little embarrassedly: "Brother, please light a fire for me."

Zhuangyan saw that the armed police lieutenant was covered with small wounds everywhere, and the skin on the wound was soaked into a miserable white color, and one of the fingers was still wrapped in gauze.

"Okay... OK..." He quickly took out the lighter and fired it for the lieutenant.

The lieutenant sucked two cigarettes contentedly and said to himself: "I'm so stupid. I'd have known it, I'd better use a plastic bag. I didn't expect that after I came up, I couldn't go back for several days, and I didn't have time to buy cigarettes..."

Zhuangyan asked: "Which unit of yours? How long have you been here?"

The lieutenant was smoking a cigarette hard, and half of the cigarette was burning in just a few strokes.

He said: "We are from the Hubei North Armed Police Corps and have arrived here on July 3rd."

July 3?

It's been more than twenty days.

He looked at the armed police officer in front of him carefully again.

thin!

The first impression is thin.

My cheeks had already sunken, my chin was covered with sparse beards, my eyes were filled with fatigue, and my face was covered with mud, and I was poured on my rain, and I rushed down my cheeks and into my neck.

Zhuang Yan's heart was inexplicably moved, and the corners of his eyes felt a little hot.

"Secretary, I'll give you all my cigarettes, you'll take them." He turned around and asked loudly, "Who brought the plastic bag!?"

"I have it!" Wang Dazui was the first to step forward and handed over a plastic bag.

This is before boarding the train, the troops sent bread to each soldier to satisfy their hunger, and they were packed in plastic bags.

Solemnly took the plastic bag, quickly wrapped the cigarette and lighter inside, and handed it to the lieutenant.

"Hold it!"

"Thank you!" The lieutenant hesitated for a moment and answered.

"You are here at the right time. The situation here is very serious. Our armed police, local military regions, militias, and local government staff are all on board. At present, all the dams in the Jingjiang section have exceeded the historical warning water level. Moreover, the fourth flood peak is coming, and there is a flood diversion area not far above. If the water level in Shashi exceeds 45 meters, it will probably be diversion... Once the flood diversion... it will be completely finished there, and there are more than 300,000 people in the flood diversion area..."

He put the cigarette into the pocket of the camouflage uniform and patted his solemn arm.

"Brother, let's work together! Hold Hong Feng! Fuck him!"

Solemnly nodded vigorously.

The second lieutenant said: "I'm leaving, it's been delayed for too long, and I'm still fighting hard in front of me!"

After saying that, he turned around and chased his own troops.

Zhuangyan looked at the figure of the lieutenant who disappeared from the distance from the path, and felt extremely heavy.

A huge responsibility was pressing on one's shoulders like a mountain.

Once upon a time, Zhuang Yan felt that she was just a soldier.

Soldiers have the way of living. In peaceful times, there is no war, just training and competitions. There is no earth-shaking feat to do, and there is not that much energy.

But this time, he felt unprecedented pressure.

If the armed police lieutenant said, there are more than 300,000 people in this flood diversion area.

More than 300,000...

How many families are that?

And the property behind these families, their fields, their houses, the chickens, ducks, pigs and cows they raise...

That is their lifeline for survival.

Once the flood breaks through the embankment, once a break occurs, the flood will sweep everything, and all the little property accumulated by these people over the years will be wasted.

And these people are their own compatriots and the people, and they are the soldiers who eat imperial food. Protecting the people is their duty and they are unshirkable!

He suddenly remembered the words Lao Qi said in the car before, "Brothers, it's time for us to fight to the death." Perhaps the meaning of it is here.

What is defending the country?

Now this is called defending the country!

What is the value of a soldier?

This can reflect the value of soldiers!

Raise troops for a thousand days and use troops for a while!

This is the meaning of the existence of a soldier!

What is a soldier?

Come from the people, and go back to the people, put on military uniforms and carry a gun, and you are a soldier. Take off your military uniform and throw yourself into society, and you are the common people. These are soldiers!

Without the people to be protected, soldiers will have no meaning of existence!

If you don’t even have the courage and courage to fight for the people, then you should take off your military uniform because you are not worthy!

Not worthy!

...

The division commander Zhang Yongjun stood on the embankment, and the soil under his feet was as soft as cotton. When he stepped on the camouflage shoes, the yellow mud mixed with rotten dead grass was pouring out.

He looked up at the river, and the turbulent river water rushed downstream like beasts. On the river, the bodies of animals and livestock were occasionally floating, and some floating furniture could even be seen...

What surprised Zhang Yongjun the most was that the height of the river surface was more than ten meters higher than the height of the land behind the embankment. It was entirely supported by the soft embankment under his feet, and the embankment could break at any time!

This is simply a river hanging on the ground!

The power of nature made this colonel officer feel a little creepy when standing in front of him!

As long as there is a breach on this embankment, hundreds of millions of cubic cubic meters of river water will tear open every inch of the river embankment line, and then sweep all the farmland, crops and houses behind the embankment like a crazy monster. Everything will be submerged in the surging flood!

At this time, on the side of the long embankment, countless sandbags were piled up.

Countless people, including soldiers, militias, and local government staff are desperately building sandbags on the embankment.

The Yangtze River is already an angry dragon at this time, and people are as small as ants.

Time is racing against time, and there are two days left, and the fourth peak of flood will pass here.

People walk on the water, boats walk on the house, and the Yangtze River is dangerously in Jingzhou.

The dam that I am currently on is the most dangerous position in the entire Jingjiang section!

Just a few days ago, heavy rains and floods occurred in the upper Minjiang River, Tuojiang River, Jialing River and Wujiang River basins, forming the third flood peak in the Yangtze River basin this year. After converging with the Wujiang flood peak, it stopped diarrhea in Yichang with a flow rate of 51,700 cubic meters per second!

The downstream six hydrological points including Shashi, Shishou, Jianli, Chenglingji, Luoshan, and Honghu have formed the highest water level in history!
To be continued...