The commander took the inspection book and glanced through it, discovering that this 'uncouth' Civilian Militia Camp Commander was very responsible, basically inspecting every hour as required by the ergency construction unit.
One of the accompanying leaders noticed that Jiang Chunhui seed sowhat impatient but could understand his emotions. After all, having held the fort on the embanknt for so long, the conditions were incredibly tough, not only lacking money but even needing family to deliver als, leaving a bitter taste. He instructed his subordinate to open the car door and handed Jiang Chunhui a bottle of mineral water, and after contemplating, also took out a cigarette for him.
Indeed, a high-ranking leader; he offers good cigarettes!
Jiang Chunhui lit up, savoring the smoke, and his evaluation of these high-ranking leaders before him improved considerably, at least they were approachable, unlike so who maintain a lofty deanor.
"Leader, don't worry, my ho is just below the embanknt, my wife, children, and family are all there, others may dare be irresponsible, but can I dare to be irresponsible?"
Jiang Chunhui flicked the ash and pointed to a distant electric pole: "That's my family's paddy field over there; if the embanknt breaches, it's my field that will flood first!"
"Comrade Jiang Chunhui, you've worked hard, you're a competent Civilian Militia Camp Commander."
"Competent in what position? It's just that I can't leave with the elder and children at ho. If I could leave, I'd have gone outside to work long ago and certainly wouldn't take on this difficult and thankless job as a Civilian Militia Camp Commander."
"..."
Everyone has the right to pursue a prosperous life.
Being a village cadre offers little money, it's normal for people to want to go out to work. Faced with Jiang Chunhui's reluctance to continue as a Civilian Militia Camp Commander, the commander was montarily speechless.
At this mont, the rumble of a diesel engine "thud thud thud" ca from the river.
Turning around, he saw an outboard boat weighing around two hundred tons slowly approaching.
Several Red Flags were planted on the boat, and several soldiers, shirtless but wearing life jackets, stood at the bow.
"They've co; the troops have arrived! Leader, I'm sorry, but I won't be accompanying you." Jiang Chunhui tossed away his cigarette butt and jogged over to greet them.
The people on the boat threw ropes, Jiang Chunhui helped tie the ropes up, and then helped the warriors onto the shore.
"Camp Chief Jiang, what's with those cars?"
"They should be here for inspection, trying to pass through here, I didn't allow it."
"Thank you."
"I should be the one thanking you. Xiao Du, see here, not only have no cars passed from this side, not even people, yesterday there were so many mud holes, today they're the sa number of mud holes, if any are missing, I'll be responsible!"
"Camp Chief Jiang, I feel at ease with you here."
"Let's hurry and get to work, it's too hot."
The embanknt is hot, but the boat is even hotter, like a sizzling iron plate; otherwise Du Yuan wouldn't be shirtless wearing a life jacket.
In the afternoon, three embanknt sections need to be filled, two sections inspected, and the pace must be quick, or it will miss the evening movie.
Du Yuan had no ti to care which leaders ca for inspection, opened the briefcase issued by the Hong Kong Garrison, took out the ergency construction drawings, spread them out, and accordingly searched for mud holes one by one.
These holes were drilled by him, he recalled the total number roughly and their positions.
But ergencies requiring protection due to cracks are nurous, and many holes were drilled, it's easy to muddle them up, still, it's more secure to verify against the drawings.
He queried crack positions and checked conditions of embanknt sections within five hundred ters, and worked alongside Han Camp Commander and Li Camp Commander, plus two assigned assistants to pull out plugs one by one, then stood up to take the mud injection pipe handed by the old platoon leader from the Hong Kong Garrison, inserting them into the holes one by one.
The mud pipes used on the boat are oil pipes, made of copper, quite sturdy.
After inserting the pipes, soft hoses were connected to the Mud Separator, then the thick pipes linked the Mud Separator to the boat's mud pump.
The roar of the machine sounded again, and the mud mixed on the road here began continuously pouring into the embanknt...
Taking advantage of the mud injection break, Du Yuan took out a stack of engineering docunts, sprinted to the Civilian Militia Camp Commander's grass hut to fill them in hurriedly.
The commander had never seen such ergency construction before; while the Civilian Militia Camp Commander wasn't paying attention, he walked through the "Ergency Protection Zone" where passage was forbidden, entered the hut to see what the soldier was doing.
He hadn't known before, but seeing it now amazed him.
The soldier was genuinely engaged in engineering; the docunts were comprehensive!
Project overview, hydrology and teorological conditions, engineering geology... all dazzling.
Descriptions like 'ergency engineering territory groundwater is of porous type phreatic, locally slightly pressured, primarily located in the Quaternary Holocene silt clay, silt and sand layers, perability coefficient between 10−4 to 10−6, etc.' watched and understood not a bit.
The embanknt mud injection construction plan and technical disclosure docunts could be sowhat comprehended.
The mud being injected was not ordinary; according to the material, they selected natural silt clay, its plasticity index ranging between 10~25%, clay particle content controlled between 20~45%, silt content 40~70%, sand particle content under 10%, organic salt content less than 2%, soluble salt content less than 8%...
Across industries as across mountains, completely baffling.
One thing was certain, they are very professional.
Many docunts had signatures from engineers of several units, with signatures from local water departnts' engineers.
Even the County Governor's signature was there, stamped with the county governnt seal!
The commander lightly put down the docunts, curiously asked: "Young comrade, are you engineering soldiers?"
Du Yuan, engrossed in his forms monts ago, assud it was comrades watching, only realizing it wasn't upon hearing the inquiry, without looking up, he impulsively replied: "We're not engineering soldiers, we're paratroopers."
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