Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 920 - 617: Fierce Battle Against the Flood Demon! (Part 3)

The media reporters braving the rain with cameras and camcorders to capture all of this could clearly see that some of the leaders had red eyes, while tears were swirling in the eye sockets of others.

Han Yu was equally worried about the safety of his senior brothers, but the levee was newly constructed and couldn't withstand the torrent, so geotextile needed to be laid.

Relying on tying stones underneath the geotextile was useless, as the water flow was too fast; once put down, they'd be washed away, requiring people to dive down with the geotextile to secure it.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and thankfully, there was prior flood-prevention skill training; all eight people who dived down came up safely!

Underwater was very cold, and once the senior brothers came up, they were all shivering.

Han Yu couldn't afford to pay attention to them and immediately commanded: "Master Sun, Master Sun, stop looking and quickly throw the sandbags to press them down. You must be fast; otherwise, the cloth, which was painstakingly secured, will soon be swept away!"

"Yes!"

"Dump trucks and loaders ready, throw the sandbags and immediately pile on dirt!"

"Captain Liu, hold tight at the top for me, don't let the cloth slip down!"

"Excavator No. 1 onto the steamboat, ready to throw stones to protect the slope!"

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After four hours of battling in the rain, the new levee on the side facing the river was finally taking shape, though just barely.

The water level was continuing to rise, and the new levee, like the dry levees on the east and west sides, relied entirely on newly piled sandbags to block the water.

Sandbags were needed everywhere, and even though the two soil-loading assault teams had been working diligently, there were simply not enough sandbags.

Han Yu climbed onto the shore and looked at the new levee, which was about to be submerged by the river water, still under construction, not daring to proceed step by step.

He took the loudspeaker from "Brother Hao" and shouted: "Everyone listen, everyone listen, I mean everyone except those currently working on the construction, immediately come with me to fill sandbags!"

The danger at the sluice gate was eliminated, to be precise, the sluice gate no longer existed, looking around, there was no trace of a sluice gate ever being here.

If solely judged from the construction perspective, the Linghai Reserve Camp had exceptionally completed their task.

However, a second flood peak was about to arrive; now it was necessary to guard and protect the levee, ensuring that the levee height increased with the water level rise.

Deputy Mayor Xu was unwilling and couldn't bear to let the Reserve Soldiers who had fought for more than ten hours go down the levee to fill sandbags again, so he immediately grabbed the loudspeaker, tears streaming as he shouted: "Leaders from the Lingjiang County Committee and County Government, Party cadres from towns along Yanjiang, and members of the Lingjiang Civilian Military Reserve, listen up, I am Xu Qingyou, Deputy Mayor of Jingzhou Municipal Government.

Comrades, folks, you may not know, Linghai is also on the Yangtze River, and the Linghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government must also prevent floods and fight against flooding, yet at the critical moment when they themselves need to prevent floods and fight floods, they sent the most combat-effective flood emergency response team and the best engineering machinery to support us, even bringing us precious emergency supplies!

With the help of the Linghai people, the sluice gate danger has been successfully eliminated. Now, we must face this year's second flood peak.

Comrades, folks, beneath the levee is our home, living below the levee are our family members, now it depends on us. Success or failure lies in this moment, the time to test us has come! I order that the Party cadres responsible for each section of the levees leave some people to guard the levees, and all others go down the levee to fill sandbags..."

Following Deputy Mayor Xu's command, thousands of cadres and masses who received the order to mount the levee in the morning rushed down the levee, heading straight for the Linghai Reserve Camp's soil extraction site.

More people meant greater strength.

In no time, the remaining more than three thousand woven bags were used up.

There was no need for loaders to transport them down; over a thousand cadres and masses carried the bags of sand up onto the levee.

In the blink of an eye, on the newly constructed levee fought for by the Linghai Reserve Camp for eleven hours, a white Great Wall was built.

Many people worried there weren't enough sandbags, even daring to dig up grass bags used to pad construction paths in the pouring rain.

Nearby residents ran back home, and when they returned to the levee with woven bags, they even saw many bags with white rice spilling down, showing they had brought the bags used to store rice from their homes...

Han Yu's face was covered in tears.

Deputy Mayor Shen covered his mouth.

Old Ge choked and couldn't speak.

Han Xiangmeng, wearing a raincoat, leaned on Liang Xiaojun's chest, sobbing uncontrollably.