Chapter 544： Swear to the death, use your body as a human wall

The commander-in-chief interrupted Gao Shiwei's words, and said coldly: "The downstream city dredging is very important, but it is also urgent here! Armed police and firefighting personnel are not enough. If the flood cannot be blocked before the city is dredged, not only the county will be flooded, but the back Several cities are also going to suffer!"

"Think about it, how many people are affected and how many innocent lives die? How much property will the country lose? The people's hard work will be wiped out for a lifetime. Can you bear this responsibility?!"

Gao Shiwei was full of seriousness, and solemnly roared: "Please rest assured, the chief, I promise that the troops will be transferred by this afternoon, if I can't do it, I will jump into the flood to plug the hole by myself!"

The commander-in-chief stared at him tightly and sneered: "People must be in place by this afternoon at the latest, otherwise, I can only order to bring the people of the city together! Once the flood comes, fill my old bones first. Go in the water."

"Yes!" Gao Shiwei shouted, "Guaranteed to complete the task!"

The commander-in-chief waved back and continued to inspect the dam.

Gao Shiwei called an orderly soldier, took the satellite phone, and dialed directly.

"Lan Zhiguang, life is at stake, what are you **** doing? Hurry up and report, where is it?"

He yelled at the phone.

Lan Zhi’s broad voice reported: "The report chief, we have encountered some trouble. Our road was blocked by the collapse of a mountain torrent. We are fighting the road with the soldiers of the Red Arrow Brigade. It may take a while..."

Before finishing speaking, Gao Shiwei interrupted him with a cold drink.

"Don't **** talk to me about these nonsense. Before this afternoon, no matter what method you use, you must be there! If you don't, I will take the military headquarters personally into battle, and the commander-in-chief will also mobilize the people. You can't afford the responsibility, and I can't afford it!"

Lan Zhiguang was taken aback: "The commander-in-chief is going to bring the people to battle in person? Chief, are you kidding me?"

Gao Shiwei almost slammed the phone angrily: "Just kidding your mother! Are you **** thinking about it? The commander-in-chief has already given me the death order. If you can't make it, just wait to collect the corpses for me and the commander-in-chief." Right!"

"Tell me this sentence to Fang Changlin intact, there is no way, and you have to gnaw a way out if you gnaw at me! If we really let the people go into battle, we will be infamous forever, don’t you understand?"

"Understood!" Lan Zhiguang's face was full of solemnity: "We arrived with all our strength."

"It's not full, it must be! Definitely!"

"Yes!"

Time passed, and the whole morning passed in a flash.

The drifting rainstorm still hasn't turned down, and the water level is still growing, and even the upstream area has ushered in a wave.

Although the wave is only a metre high and looks insignificant, it is enough to kill people when placed in a flood.

This is called the flood peak, and it is also the most dangerous existence in the flood!

Seeing that the commander-in-chief could no longer sit still before the troops came.

Once the flood peak is completely hit, the dam just built may be destroyed.

At that time, the flood breaks through the dam, and the county behind you will turn into a vast ocean, and everything is over.

"Everyone, follow me."

The commander-in-chief took off his poncho, put on a safety life jacket, and took the lead in roaring: "Let’s fight today. We will use our bodies as a human wall to block the flood peaks and swear to live and die with the levee! Even if we sacrifice all of us, we will definitely hurt the people!"

"Yes!"

Without any hesitation, everyone on the scene roared in unison.

They took off their raincoats, put on safety suits, and braved the heavy rain to follow the commander-in-chief towards the dam.

Hum!

Gao Shiwei rushed out and stopped in front of the team, shouting tragically, "Commander-in-chief, the people of the Southeast Military Region count from me, there are a total of 1,143 people. We are not dead yet! We rushed to stop the flood, even if we use our bodies as a human wall, as long as the flood does not retreat, we will never retreat."

After finishing speaking, before the commander-in-chief could reply, Gao Shiwei solemnly saluted a military salute and turned to face the senior generals behind him.

"Everyone follow me, as long as you can breathe and move, all go up the embankment, even if we die here today, we must stop the flood!"

"Yes!"

Everyone yelled out of unity.

They took off their clothes, put on life vests, and rushed to the embankment with Gao Shiwei without hesitation.

The commander-in-chief retracted his gaze and said with a stern face: "Go, inform the county magistrate, and organize the young and middle-aged people in the city! After an hour, if they can't stop the flood, we will go up again!"

"Yes!"

...

One hour passed.

But Gao Shiwei and the others did not return, it seems that the situation is getting worse.

The commander-in-chief organized personnel and was about to rush to the scene for rescue, when unexpected news came from the rear.

A large-scale army and vehicles rushed towards the embankment.

Upon hearing the news, the commander-in-chief finally let go of his hanging heart and greeted him personally in the heavy rain.

I saw a number of military vehicles approaching in the blurred water curtain, waiting for the vehicle to stop, and a large number of soldiers in camouflage jumped from the vehicle.

"Hahaha! OK, OK, our troops are finally here!"

"With so many people, the embankment can be saved, as long as the flood is blocked, the people will be rescued."

Countless people shouted excitedly, even hugging each other excitedly.

In the team, the two colonels ran to the commander-in-chief to stop, stand at attention and salute: "Report, Commander Lan Zhiguang of the Ninth Division of the Southeast Military Region, report to the commander-in-chief!

"Fang Changlin, commander of the Red Arrow Brigade of the Southeast Military Region, report to the chief!"

The commander in chief asked: "How many people did you bring?"

"We received an order from Chief Gao to gather all the troops of our division and the Red Arrow Brigade, including logistics, with a total of more than 13,000 people. We also brought a lot of anti-flood supplies, all on board!" Lan Zhi reports to Guangda.

The commander-in-chief said with excitement: "Okay! Hurry up, replace your high heads, and it's up to you to keep the levee. This is related to the survival of the tens of thousands of people in the city. Be sure to hold on to me!"

"Please rest assured, the chief, promise to complete the task!"

Lan Zhiguang and Fang Changlin exclaimed excitedly: "As long as we are here, we will never let the flood break through the levee! If people are on the levee, if people are not there, the levee will also be there."

The two saluted vigorously, and then rushed back to the troops, commanding their teams to unload various materials from the car and quickly transport them to the embankment.

Lan Zhiguang was the division commander, and the Hexing Ninth Brigade was also upgraded to the Hexing Ninth Division. There are also specialized engineers and pontoon teams in the army, which can be described as experts in water conservancy engineering.

Rumble!

Under the command of the two, many heavy-duty armored vehicles slowly drove onto the embankment.

The vehicles cooperated with each other, banging, piercing many steel bars deeply into the dam.

These steel bars form a square array on the levee.

The other soldiers carried sandbags one by one and filled these reinforced squares continuously.

Under the interaction of steel bars and sandbags, the new embankment built will become stronger and stronger, so that it will last longer under the flood charge.

Everyone is united and shook their arms together.

Coupled with various flood control equipment and materials, after more than an hour of rescue and reinforcement, the most dangerous section of the levee was finally relieved.