"Three squadrons! Assemble and go! The rest of the squadron was led by me, and immediately went to the embankment to start the rescue! ”

After the captain Wen Zhixing finished speaking, he immediately asked the squadron leader on duty to take the first and second squadrons away.

In the third squadron, there were immediately all kinds of whispered discussions.

"How did you separate us from the 1st and 2nd squadrons?"

"Are we going somewhere else?"

"I don't know ......"

Once again, everyone's heart was suspended at the highest point.

Wen Zhixing walked to the side of Zhou Huping, the leader of the third squadron, and said in a low voice: "You board the car immediately, and then take your soldiers to the temporary garrison of the division headquarters, where they will meet with the Zhouqiao Company of the Engineer Battalion, you have an urgent task, and rush to Paizhou immediately!" ”

Zhou Huping heard the heaviness in Wen Zhixing's tone, and hurriedly asked, "Captain, what's wrong?" ”

Wen Zhixing said: "Two hundred kilometers away from us, Paizhou is located downstream, and tens of thousands of people are trapped there. The assault boats of the Zhouqiao Company were ready, but they needed some help, so Division Commander Zhang ordered our brigade to send a squadron to cooperate with the sappers to rescue people. ”

Zhou Huping suddenly had a stirring spirit and said, "Are there any people from our army?" ”

"There are ......" Wen Zhixing's face darkened, and his tone became heavier, "There are many troops who have gone to the local rescue site before they arrive at the rescue site, and they have encountered floods on the way...... Director Dai of the Political Department of the Northern Hubei Provincial Military District also lost contact, including the anti-aircraft artillery regiment of a certain base of the Air Force......"

Zhou Huping, who was the calmest in Pingsuli, couldn't help but shake a few times in his heart.

You don't know that the embankment has burst in front of you, and you are rushing towards the embankment with the troops, and you will encounter a monstrous flood head-on......

His heart pounded.

"Okay! I'll go right away! Mission completion guaranteed! Zhou Huping saluted Wen Zhixing, turned around and left.

"Remember!" Wen Zhixing shouted to Zhou Huping: "Don't cut all the costs!" Save every mass and comrade-in-arms! ”

"Don't worry, captain! We teach the brigade to absolutely complete the task! ”

A few minutes later, Majestic was already sitting in the truck.

He's been in the car since yesterday.

As a soldier, he is actually more eager to be like the second lieutenant of the armed police, who immediately rushed to the embankment to participate in the reinforcement and plugging of leaks, rather than being transferred here and there for a while.

"Squad leader, what are we doing here?" Zhuang Yan was a little unhappy, and asked Lao Qi: "Everyone else has gone to the rescue, we will be here for a while, and we will sit in the car until the butt blooms today." ”

Lao Qi glared at the solemn look: "You have a lot of solemn words!" Why do you have to ask what you want to do when you are a soldier? Do whatever you want to do! Don't you see that we are going to the division headquarters now? There are definitely tasks. ”

When we arrived at the division headquarters, everyone came down to assemble.

He solemnly saw that there was already a long line of convoys in front of him, each with three assault boats on it, and the soldiers of the engineer battalion were running before and after running, jumping up and down on the cars, braving the heavy rain to fix those assault boats.

"Squadron Leader!" Zhang Wei, the company commander of the Zhouqiao Company, trotted over and saluted Zhou Huping, "We will leave immediately in half an hour, how many people have you brought here?" ”

Zhou Huping said: "All of them are here, one hundred and twenty-three people." ”

Zhang Wei wiped a handful of rain from his face and said loudly: "Okay! That's enough! Later, we will go to Pai Chau, you send 80 people to board the boat, each assault boat put two soldiers, our soldiers are responsible for driving, your soldiers are responsible for rescuing people, the rest of the soldiers are on the shore to serve as logistics support team, and when people come back, they will be responsible for helping to carry them to the nearby temporary settlement site, or transfer them to the medical team. ”

Zhou Huping nodded and said: "Okay, now our squadron is under your command, this is your old business, we just cooperate!" ”

Due to the sea training, the Zhouqiao Company carried a relatively large number of assault boats, and this flood control was completely useful.

An hour later, the convoy began to depart.

Solemnity sat down in the dark carriage again.

In addition to his comrades-in-arms, there were also a few more sappers from the boat bridge company in his car.

Everyone was talking about where to go and what to do.

Save?

When the nature of the task was known, the solemn blood warmed up again.

But when he learned about the situation on Paizhou, his heart sank again.

So many officers and men of the army and local people were washed away by the water, and they were in the disaster area where they could not see their fingers.

Needless to say, the danger is something that everyone can imagine.

The speed of the convoy has been increased as much as possible.

However, due to the heavy rain for several days, some national highways were even flooded, and they shook in the carriage for more than three hours before the rescue teams of the engineer battalion and the teaching brigade rushed to Pai Chau.

The convoy stopped at a Jiangdu pier.

All the lights were turned on, and the crane of the engineer battalion began to lift the assault loaders down and slowly lowered them into the water.

On the docks, there are people everywhere.

Other troops had already arrived earlier than Zhuang Yan and the others, and some assault boats even landed on the side one after another.

Each assault boat was packed with people, reaching the limit of its crew.

The assault boats of the troops can generally only seat 12 people, but some of the assault boats returning from the breach area actually have 15 or 6 people crowded on them.

The water line barely reached the top of the ship's side of the charge, causing solemn gasps.

However, he could not see fear in the soldiers of other units.

Perhaps, everyone has forgotten about fear.

Every minute that passes, more people in the entire rupture zone will lose their chance to live, which is a race against time, against death!

"Solemn, Wang Datong!" Zhou Huping counted the names of the two.

"Here!"

"Remember, both of you, obey the command of the sappers, you just cooperate with them and obey orders!"

"Yes!"

There is no grandiose rhetoric, no time to explain the details, time is life.

The two immediately jumped onto the boat.

The operator of the engineer battalion immediately twisted the handle, and with the roar of the motor, the bow of the assault boat was gently raised and drove towards the depths of darkness.

There were five people on board, two soldiers from the engineer battalion, and one local female cadre.

The five of them quickly introduced themselves to each other on board.

The soldier in charge of the boat was a high-ranking soldier named Qin Yanming; The other sergeant squad leader is named Huang Hanrui, and the local cadre is a local in Paizhou, named Jiang Wenying, a female cadre, and a women's director of a local village.

"Squad Leader Huang, Director Jiang, what are you looking at!?"

"A map of this area." Huang Hanrui pointed to the map and said, "Director Jiang said, in this area, the assault boats of other troops have gone there to search just now, and according to the scope of our responsibility, the location is here-"

He turned the military map to the solemn front.

Zhuang Zheng had studied military topography, and when he saw the dense various markings on it, he immediately gasped.

According to the demarcation on the map, this place was originally all farmland and houses, but at this time, where is the shadow of farmland? What can still be seen on the surface of the water are some roofs and tree canopies, and the depth of this water reaches at least three or four meters......

Moreover, the current is very fast, and the water level of the Yangtze River above the ground is constantly gushing out through the breach.

Qin Yanming must control the assault boat, not too fast, not too slow.

If it's fast, it's easy to hit an underwater obstacle and cause the boat to be destroyed and killed; If it's slow, it will be pushed backwards by the current, and it won't be able to move forward at all.

"It's really...... What iniquity have you created......"

Looking at the vast sea of floods in front of her, Jiang Wenying finally couldn't help it, covered her face, and cried.