It had been raining off and on for two days. As soon as the sky cleared, the flags of the Binjiang Reserve Group, Linghai Reserve Camp, Binjiang Development Zone Reserve Camp, "Heroic Assault Battalion," and "Red Saber Battalion" fluttered in the wind on the muddy fields inside the levee of the Yangtze River Three Rivers Section.
Leading the way, Xiao Yu operated the excavator with a red flag on it, working from the Yanjiang Road side toward the levee.
Today's task was still road construction, and the lines had already been set in the field.
Once Xiao Yu cleared the sludge from the work area, he used the excavator tracks to repeatedly press and flatten, then packed down a section of the roadbed. Captain Xia and Political Commissioner Jiao led the staff officers from the regiment's headquarters, along with pre-assigned reserve officers like Zhang Erxiao, Xiao Jiang, and Wu Heng, and pre-assigned soldiers like Wang Tiejun and Yan Huadong, to rush forward.
