Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 918 - 617: Fierce Battle with the Flood Demon!

The inspection team not only checks and supervises the military appearance and discipline of the entire camp but also assists Yang Jianbo, Qiu Xueliang, Zhao Jiang, and Zhang Erxiao with logistics support.

The weather forecast predicts rain at dawn.

A few buses transferring troops have already left.

Master Dai wants to organize the inspection team members to assist the reserve soldiers who temporarily don't have earthwork construction and no patrol task to swiftly set up tents.

The temporary camp location was chosen early, and the bulldozer came to help level and compact the road surface, with even the No. 2 excavator coming to dig a few drainage ditches.

The final few steel plates for laying construction roads and building temporary bridges shipped from the Road and Bridge Company, but setting up more than thirty tents requires laying more than just those steel plates, so geotextile must be laid first; otherwise, the inside of the tents will become muddy after rain.

The grass bags urgently transported by Lingjiang County Party Committee and County Government became useful, serving as padding inside the tents.

Dongdong operated the sewing machine for two hours and, together with twenty active-duty soldiers from the Filling Group 1, left the "workshop," crowded into the freshly set-up tents to rest.

Every two hours, the shift changes, allowing them to sleep for two hours, but no one can sleep.

If it weren't for the superior's orders prohibiting them from wandering, they would have rushed to the embankment to see how the earthwork construction team is dealing with the risks at the sluice gates.

"How many bags did we just fill?"

"Three hundred and sixty-six bags."

"What about the Armed Police?"

"Three hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-three more than us."

"How did this happen? How could we fill fewer bags than the Armed Police!"

"We were unfamiliar at the beginning. By the next shift, we can at least fill five hundred bags."

Being outdone by the Armed Police and a bunch of civilian soldier reservists is embarrassing for the squad leader of the third platoon, who doesn't want to talk more about this awkward topic and smiles as she asks, "Xiao Zhang, how old are you this year?"

"Sixteen," Dongdong replied, turning his head.

"Graduated from junior high school?"

"Yes."

"Not attending school?"

"I am but it's summer vacation now, and we don't have school during summer vacation."

"Attending high school next semester?"

"I originally wanted to go to secondary vocational school, but my parents and uncle wouldn't allow it, so I can only go to high school."

"Then why did you think of coming to fight the flood?"

"Well, how did Linghai Reserve Camp accept such young soldiers like you!"

Dongdong pointed in the direction of the sluice gate, proudly saying, "The camp commander is my uncle; both my uncles are here. Many people from my family are here, and my dad is on his way."

"That reserve major is your uncle?"

"Yes, my blood-related uncle!" Dongdong raised his arm, pointing to the No. 2 excavator digging soil not far away: "This time driving the excavator is my Uncle Xiao Yu, and the military doctor who just went to patrol at the Armed Police is also my uncle."

"Is your dad coming too?"

"They are coming by boat; the fleet has already set off. Actually, our camp's water equipment is better than land equipment. If both the second and fourth companies were here, we wouldn't need to block the sluice gate with so much trouble, we wouldn't have to work hard to fill sandbags, and we wouldn't have to squeeze in tents either."

"Do you have boats?"

"We have many boats. My dad is the manager of the Port Authority passenger station, my mom used to work for the Port Authority, and now she's a police officer at the Changhang Police Bureau. Our Port Authority is very powerful, if you don't believe, you can ask Brother Xiaoming."

"The Port Authority is the port, the best unit in Binjiang..."

Xu Xiaoming finally found a fellow townman and was overjoyed, talking animatedly about his hometown.

As everyone marveled at Dongdong not only being a cadre's child but having a large family of cadres, outside the sluice gate, the wooden stakes were already set, and under the safety officer's command, the No. 1 excavator slowly drove onto the bank.

The rapidly rising water level has its benefits; at least the car ferry sent by Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau can directly place the deck on the river embankment.

The sluice gate has a bridge deck, but the deck is paved with concrete slabs, not very sturdy, and the loader carrying iron sandbag cages can't pass over it.

Han Yu gestured and blew his whistle, directing the loader that had just arrived on the embankment onto the car ferry.

The loader's role is second only to the excavator, one load after another transporting packed iron sandbag cages from the "sandbag loading workshop."

Although the forklift driver was temporarily recruited, faced with this situation, he wanted to show off his skill and didn't need the loader to transfer, directly forked a sandbag cage weighing about a ton onto the embankment and then onto the car ferry.

It's too dangerous to operate this way!

Linghai Reserve Camp must prioritize safety first, avoiding individual heroism.

Han Yu immediately jumped onto 001, signaling Captain Fan to turn on the loudspeaker, standing by the guardrail outside the cab, holding a communicator and shouting: "Forklift, forklift, who let you onto the embankment? Get off immediately, don't act recklessly!"

This is the first time using the loudspeaker.

The forklift driver was startled, quickly extended his hand to wave, indicating he heard.

Once it's confirmed the forklift left, Han Yu breathed a sigh of relief, promptly taking charge of directing the outside rescue operations at the sluice gate using the loudspeaker to shout: "Safety officers, commanders on the embankment and off the embankment, attention please, I'm Han Yu, please strictly follow the plan to command and dispatch the construction vehicles!"

"No. 2 loader, there's no need to drive so fast, especially on the downhill, make sure to pay attention to safety!"

"No. 1 loader, after the next load of sandbags is delivered, don't go back onto the bank. Car ferry, please note, untie the cables after the next load of sandbags arrive."

"Jing Port Tow 009, prepare the cable. "

"Jing Port Tow 013, wait a moment, you stop at Binjiang Police 001's current position!"

...

Deputy Mayor Xu and Secretary Zheng, who just finished the late-night snack at Linghai Reserve Camp, heard the commotion here and came out together with Deputy Mayor Shen from the shed.

"Mayor Shen, does Captain Han know how to operate a boat?"