Chapter 265 Section five

"The embankment of City D has burst!" The frontline command of the A military region was shocked. Liu Yongjun stood up and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately report to the Central Military Commission and the National Defense Command, the former member of the Standing Committee of the military region will follow me to the embankment!" In the heavy rain, the gray-haired generals boarded their jeeps and drove towards the embankment.The communication vehicle followed closely behind.Liu Yongjun looked gloomy, and the Minister of Security was pulled into the car by him, looking very flustered.

"Have you brought a gun?" Liu Yongjun asked. "Yes!" said the Minister of Security. "Catch whatever I tell you to catch!" Liu Yongjun roared angrily. "Yes!" The Minister of Security gritted his teeth and said. On the embankment, the soldiers, like camouflaged worker ants, were trying their best to fill in the breach with sandbags on their shoulders.With hoarse throats, He Zhijun, Lei Keming and the acting mayor ordered Chen Yong to requisition civilian ships immediately. "He Zhijun!" Liu Yongjun and a group of generals stepped onto the embankment, and the Minister of Security followed him closely with his hands on his waist.

"Chief!" He Zhijun and Lei Keming saluted. "Your current commander-in-chief of the former enemy has been withdrawn, tear off his epaulets and arrest him!" Liu Yongjun roared, "Lei Keming takes over the post of commander-in-chief of the former enemy, effective immediately!" The minister of security stepped forward: "Old He, this is an order from the deputy commander, don't make things difficult for me." He Zhijun looked at Deputy Commander Liu stupidly, allowing the Minister of Security to take off his colonel's epaulettes and commander's armbands.The Minister of Security took out the handcuffs from his pocket, stuffed them back in, and shouted back, "I'm not wearing handcuffs!"

"Take me down!" Deputy Commander Liu shouted. "No—" He Xiaoyu rushed out from the slant and hugged her father, "He is not a sinner!" "The Yangtze River breach, I am the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, and I am guilty." He Zhijun had tears in his eyes, "You go, leave me alone." "This is not the army's crime!" He Xiaoyu shouted, "This section of the flood wall is a tofu project!" Liu Yongjun raised his eyebrows, and the acting mayor rushed up to report: "Comrade lieutenant general, this is a matter of the former secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor. He has been arrested."

Liu Yongjun looked at He Zhijun, his eyes could not bear it, but his chest heaved and heaved: "Even if it is not your problem, you are already guilty of being the commander-in-chief! You are dismissed now and stay on the embankment as a soldier waiting to be dealt with!" "Yes!" He Zhijun, who didn't have a colonel's epaulettes, saluted quickly, and turned to carry sandbags. "Father!" He Xiaoyu cried and hugged him. "I'm a soldier, and breaching the embankment is a death penalty!" roaring He Zhijun pushed him away and ran to carry sandbags.The soldiers were dumbfounded seeing their former captain roaring and carrying sandbags. Lei Keming ran over and took off his armband of the special brigade and put it on He Zhijun: "Old He, you are still the old leader of our special brigade! I ordered You join my brigade headquarters!"

"Go away!" He Zhijun pushed him away, "Your post is at the headquarters!" The soldiers carried sandbags with their old leaders in tears. Liu Fangfang ran over and shouted: "Comrade Deputy Commander, you are too bureaucratic! This is not his responsibility!" "The levee collapsed, we are all capital crimes!" Liu Yongjun shouted, "Get out of here!" Secretary Song stopped Liu Fangfang: "Hurry up and persuade Comrade He Xiaoyu not to do anything else." Liu Fangfang looked at her father sadly, and ran to hug He Xiaoyu who was crying on the ground: "Xiaoyu! Get up, we still have tasks to do!"

He Xiaoyu sobbed and stood up but fell down after taking a step. Liu Fangfang hugged her in the mud: "Why is your face so white?!" He Xiaoyu's lips moved: "My father...is not a sinner..." and passed out. Liu Fangfang hugged her and yelled: "Wake up! Wake up!" She hugged He Xiaoyu and patted her down, frightened, "Come on—it's not good—" Several soldiers rushed over to lift He Xiaoyu up, and Liu Fangfang anxiously said, "Send it down quickly! Go to the tent below! Hurry up!" Liu Xiaofei, who was instructing soldiers to carry sandbags, saw this, ran a few steps and then stopped, shouting with tears in his eyes: "Fangfang, take good care of her—"

Liu Fangfang looked at him anxiously, stomped her feet and followed He Xiaoyu who was carried away by the soldiers. Liu Yongjun personally commanded on the embankment, and the generals and local cadres formed a circle around him.The acting mayor said solemnly: "A gap of about 50 meters has been formed on the river embankment, and the river is sweeping through everything at a flow rate of 400 cubic meters per second. If we do not try to seal it, there will be a flood of 1.44 million cubic meters per hour. Flooding into the urban area, within seven or eight hours, City D will be wiped off the Chinese map by the flood!"

"At all costs, we must block this breach!" Liu Yongjun shouted, "Sink the ship! Sink the car! Lei Keming, go find the ship immediately!" Lei Keming stood up and saluted: "Yes!" Liu Yongjun pointed at the noses of the generals and shouted: "I will stand on the embankment—if the breach cannot be blocked, you jump for me first, and I will jump down with you!" Zhang Lei and Liu Xiaofei took Tian Xiaoniu off their military uniforms and jumped into the Yangtze River. The two cement pump boats in the river were stopped by the three of them waving in the water.Zhang Lei took off his black beret from his belt and put it on, climbed up the side of the ship and shouted: "According to the "Flood Fighting Law of the People's Republic of China", your ships have been requisitioned!"

The captain looked at the military emblem on the black beret and said calmly, "What orders do you have, Comrade PLA?" "Tie together, sink the ship!" Zhang Lei roared. The captain was taken aback, gritted his teeth: "Yes!" On the other boat, Liu Xiaofei was also loudly announcing orders.The captain was very cooperative and steered the wheel himself.Huge cables tied the two boats together, and the sailors silently packed their things and bid farewell to their boats.The two captains steered the ship themselves and approached the breach.The sailors got off the fishery administration boat parked below and waved goodbye to their boats.

When the two ships arrived near the breach, Zhang Lei, Liu Xiaofei, and Tian Xiaoniu left with the two captains. The two ships were drawn above the breach, but under the tremendous suction of the frenzied flood, the two ships "floated" out of the embankment like two matchboxes.Amidst the exclamation of thousands of soldiers and civilians, under the force of the flood, the cement barge with hundreds of tons knocked down a two-story building in the shipyard, and the bow of the ship was firmly embedded in the wall of the building. "The boat is too small!" Liu Yongjun shouted, "Is there a big boat?!" "There is a wharf downstream, and there are large ships over a thousand tons!" The acting mayor shouted. "Call me He Zhijun!" Liu Yongjun shouted. A muddy He Zhijun ran over to salute: "Chief!" "I order you, go downstream and find a big boat for me!" Liu Yongjun ordered loudly, "Find a big boat to block the breach, and I will put the rank on you personally! If you can't find it, don't come back!" "Yes!" He Zhijun saluted, turned and ran away. "Lin Rui, go with Minister He!" Chen Yong shouted. Lin Rui promised to run with a few soldiers to catch up with He Zhijun, jumped onto the supervision boat of the Hong Kong Supervision Bureau and headed downstream at full speed. "That's the one!" He Zhijun pointed to a large barge. The surveillance boat approached quickly, and He Zhijun took Lin Rui and several other soldiers up the gangway quickly.The captain came up to meet him, and He Zhijun shouted: "Comrade captain, according to the "Flood Fighting Law of the People's Republic of China"-this ship has been requisitioned! You immediately organize the crew to leave the ship, and we will sink your ship to the breach!" The old captain shook twice and stopped, leaning on the side of the boat. "I repeat, you immediately organize the crew to leave the ship!" He Zhijun shouted, "We are going to sink your ship!" The sailors ran over to help the captain. The captain pushed them away and stood up straight, saluting: "I obey the order of the flood fighting force, and the ship sinks!" ——The barge No. A 21025 of Changhang Wuhan Shipping Company ended its shipping mission today, and it belongs to the command of the flood fighting force. Prepare to sink the ship!" He Zhijun and Lin Rui returned the salute solemnly. The barge approached the breach under the guidance of two tugboats. He Zhijun took the radio and ordered loudly: "The tugboat breaks down, slowly let the barge approach the breach!" Lin Rui shouted on the tugboat: "The tugboat broke down!" Crash, the tugboat started to break down. The barge was washed by the flood, and slowly approached the breach sideways.He Zhijun stood at the bow and ordered the soldiers to put on life jackets to prepare for diving in case of an emergency, and the soldiers surrounded him.He Zhijun shouted: "Execute the order!" A soldier reported on the radio: "Company commander! Minister He doesn't wear a life jacket!" "Hold him!" Lin Rui shouted over there, "If he dies, don't come back! I'll swim right over!" The barge slowly approached the breach, getting closer and closer, and finally stopped 7 meters away, just blocking the breach. "The sunken ship blocked the breach!" The acting mayor shed tears, "It was a success! It was a success!" Flood Demon's throat was stuck, and the flood of water from the breach suddenly decreased a lot.It turned out that the falling flood had reached the door frame on the second floor under the embankment, and soon fell back to the roof of the first floor. "The tugboat is sinking!" Lin Rui shouted over there. Both tugboats began to sink. The soldiers on the shore raised their hands in salute to the ship that had completed its historic mission. He Zhijun stood at the bow of the boat and let go of his hand wearily: "It succeeded..." The surveillance boat docked, and He Zhijun walked onto the shore.Liu Yongjun came up to him and stretched out his hand.The Minister of Security hastily handed him the soft epaulettes of the Colonel.Liu Yongjun personally put on He Zhijun's military rank: "I want to give you credit!" He Zhijun had tears in his eyes: "Chief, I am a revolutionary soldier! I lost my position, and I am a death penalty!" "You've been taken back!" Liu Yongjun patted him on the shoulder, "Good job!" He Zhijun raised his hands in salute. Liu Yongjun returned the gift. "How is my daughter?" He Zhijun asked suddenly. Liu Yongjun came back to his senses: "Yes, where is Xiaoyu? Who of you saw it?!"