Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1019 - 669: Heroic Deeds on the Frontline! (Part 2)

"Yes!"

The assault team leader was taking a nap while a private was doing the work. What kind of situation is this?

The commander was about to ask Vice Mayor Zhong to call Jingzhou Flood Control Command to inquire whether the emergency rescue assault team they sent was reliable, when he saw Du Yuan rushing down the main dike to check the situation at the seepage outlet. He then ran to the foot of the dike, measuring with a thin bamboo stick, and immediately raised the walkie-talkie, summoning someone unknown.

Two paratroopers on the dike were busy preparing drilling equipment. On the boat, there was a reserve soldier and an active-duty paratrooper, with one filling the middle cabin with water and the other busy pouring things from woven bags into the cabin—looked like cement but not quite.

The driver was also in camouflage gear but wasn't wearing a camouflage hat and didn't have a reserve rank on his shoulder. He was busy checking equipment that looked somewhat like a pump.

"Xiao Jun, all set?"

"Yes."

"You and Guan Tao get down to drill."

"Yes!"

The situation below with the seepage was terrifying, with more seepage outlets than the Yang Liu Village dike section they had previously defended.

Realizing the gravity of the situation, Du Yuan didn't dare delay for a moment and looked up, asking, "Commander, could you arrange for a few people to help?"

"No problem. Zhang Hao, take some people to help."

"Yes!"

"Could you help me move these sandbags?"

"We just filled them!"

"I know, I noticed."

The captain said helplessly, "It was your Captain Han who asked us to fill them!"

Ignoring the details, Du Yuan said urgently, "Just drilling in the pit isn't enough; we need to drill here and over there. As long as this section of sandbags is moved, the ones on both sides can stay."

"Alright, you heard him, get to work!"

At the captain's order, over forty army officers and soldiers split into two groups and started moving the freshly filled sandbags.

Du Yuan called "Secretary Han" twice on the walkie-talkie but got no response, so he stopped trying and ran to the edge of the sub-dam, asking his comrades on the boat to hand over the "mud separator" and grouting pipes.

"Air Force soldiers are really something; even a private can be a squad leader!"

An army soldier, envious of Du Yuan, couldn't help but say, "Captain Du, your Secretary Han is sleeping by the sluice gate. Do you want me to go wake him?"

"Secretary Han is sleeping?"

"Yeah, snoring over there."

"No need to wake him; let him sleep a bit longer."

"Not wake him?"

"Our Secretary Han hasn't slept well in many days; let him sleep a bit more."

The captain leading the team curiously asked, "Many days?"

While skillfully assembling the grouting equipment, Du Yuan asked, "When did you guys arrive?"

"We've been here for four days."

"You've only been here for four days."

"What about you guys?"

Du Yuan carefully placed a grouting pipe with a connected hose into the pit, then looked up, saying, "Our assault team was the first to come for flood defense; no unit arrived before us!"

The captain remained skeptical, "When exactly?"

"You should have met Master Yao, right?"

"The engineer who came in the morning?"

"Yes."

"We met him."

"Master Yao and his team were the first to arrive; they came at the end of May."

"There wasn't even a flood at the end of May. What were they here for? You're fooling someone!"

"I'm definitely not fooling you; actually, the National Flood Control Headquarters and Yangtze Flood Control Headquarters anticipated the flooding this year long ago. Master Yao is the squad leader of our assault team's flood control technical squad. They, along with 001, were assisting the Yangtze River Commission Water Bureau in surveying the water situation from Linghai as early as the end of May."

Having assembled the grouting pipes, Du Yuan, with the help of two brothers in the pit, jumped down. He thought for a moment and looked up, saying, "Our main force was here when we faced the first flood peak. Secretary Han arrived at the second flood peak, started the rescue as soon as he got off the vehicle, and hasn't rested since."

Their early arrival indeed put others at a disadvantage compared to them.

The captain was silently impressed when Du Yuan raised the walkie-talkie again: "Old platoon leader, old platoon leader, it's Du Yuan, can you read me?"

"Loud and clear, what's up?"

"I'm inserting pipes. When will your side be ready?"

"Mixing now, at most five minutes."

"Add four more bags of cement."

"Got it."

"Hold on, pour twenty bottles of ink into the slurry."

"Into the slurry?"

"Yes, into the slurry. If it's not black enough after mixing, add more bottles."

"Alright, got it."

Time waits for no one. As soon as some holes were drilled, grouting pipes were inserted; once inserted, the machines were started, filling them.

With the machine roaring, black slurry was continuously injected into the dike, with some holes regurgitating the slurry.

Du Yuan and his two comrades working in the pit were covered in slurry, turning into mud-stained figures like they came from a coal mine.

The commander and Vice Mayor Zhong watched with concern, uncertain if this method would work.

Du Yuan was equally unsure. Once all the holes were drilled, pipes inserted, and every grouting opening filled, he finally climbed up with his two comrades.

Looking like a person from Africa, he didn't bother to find water to wash up. He rushed straight off the dike toward the filter well surrounded by sandbags by the army soldiers, nervously watching the continuous seeping of "Bottling Spring."

"Old platoon leader, old platoon leader, it's Du Yuan. Can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear, please speak."

"Increase the pressure a bit more."

"Can't increase further; the pipes will burst."

"Just a little, increase it a tiny bit."

"Alright, first have Xiao Lin and them step back." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"The pipes and joints are in the pit; they've already come up."

"Okay."

Master Wan, observing for some time, finally understood something.

Seeing the military commander and Vice Mayor Zhong hesitant to speak, he quickly explained, "That young man is observing changes at the seepage outlet. They added a lot of ink to the slurry. If the inflow speed slows and the color changes, it means the grouting is effective, at least indicating their slurry reached the leakage layer."