Riverside police

The Yongjiang River has two faces. When there are no floods, it is the mother river of Ningnan City, the capital of Xiguang. It is the drinking water source, golden waterway and important activity venue for the people of Ningnan. But once there is a flood, it turns into a ferocious beast that destroys homes!

The rescue convoy of the Linghai Reserve Battalion waded all the way across the river under the guidance of a guide and escorted by the traffic police. Looking around, the urban area turned into a vast land!

The rainwater that was too late to be drained into the Yongjiang River caused serious waterlogging in the city.

The higher ground is waist-deep in water, while the lower ground only sees the tiles on the roof. Floating pots and pans can be seen everywhere, and children, carefree, stand on bamboo rafts to watch the excitement.

The disaster situation here is completely different from that in Jingzhou in 1998, and the role of the Linghai Reserve Battalion is not great.

Although there are large construction machinery, it is difficult for excavators and loaders to be transported to dangerous sections for construction.

In fact, the entire Yongjiang River is in emergency, and there are dangerous sections everywhere. The flood surged more than ten meters in less than two days, and it was all resisted by the "Great White Wall" built with sandbags by more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians. The thin sub-embankment is almost like paper. Large construction machinery cannot be driven up. Even if it can be driven up, it will not be able to work with hands and feet. Otherwise, instead of being able to help, it will cause the sub-embankment to burst.

The city defense commander and the head of the 401st Army studied and decided to let the Linghai Reserve Battalion take advantage of its equipment and use excavators, loaders and professional automatic sandbag filling machines to take soil and fill sandbags in higher areas, and then use high chassis and high-loading machines to fill sandbags. Sixteen large dump trucks and two articulated heavy-duty trucks carried the sandbags to the most dangerous section of the embankment.

Earthwork construction is daily construction for Linghai Road and Bridge Company.

Less than an hour after arriving at the soil extraction point, two huge sandbag filling workshops have been set up. Two loaders put the soil just dug by two large excavators into the hopper of the automatic filling machine one bucket after another. Send it here.

The sandbags with their mouths sewn one by one were thrown onto the belt conveyor by the officers and soldiers, and were continuously transported to the dump truck.

The rain is still falling.

Yang Jianbo, who has been a battalion commander for the past two years and is no longer a "construction novice", braved the rain and said to Deputy Commander He of the 121st Division who hurriedly arrived: "Chief, we need someone to assist with the construction at the soil borrowing point!"

Isn't it just helping to fill sandbags and loading cars?

Deputy Commander He wiped the rain off his face and asked loudly: "How many people are needed?"

"At least 100 officers and soldiers are needed. From now on, we will keep filling 24 hours a day. Loading sandbags is very tiring. One truck weighs 20 tons. The officers and soldiers assisting in the construction need to work in three shifts and take turns to rest."

"I'll transfer a company to you!"

"Thank you, chief."

"What else do you need?"

"We need colored steel tiles." Yang Jianbo turned around and pointed to the filling area and explained: "Although our filling equipment is waterproof and the electrical switches are all waterproof, they cannot withstand such rain. If we don't seize the time to build two In a work shed, the wires will leak and the electrical switches will short-circuit, which is not only a safety hazard, but will also affect the filling of sandbags!"

Sun Youyi added: "Chief, we have brought our own steel pipe fasteners. We can build the frame ourselves, but now we are short of a roof."

"No problem." Deputy Commander He immediately turned around and ordered: "Consultant Ding, contact the Fang Zhi immediately and ask the Fang Zhi leader to seize the time to help solve the problem."

"yes!"

"Comrade Jianbo, continue."

"Then we need a guide. The driver of our earthmoving transport team is not familiar with the roads in Ningnan. We can't see the road at all now. We are all big trucks. If we just drive out with a dump truck full of sandbags, let alone find a place." , even if we can find it but we dig it into a ditch because we are not familiar with the road conditions, what should we do?”

"We are not familiar with Ningnan City, so I called the district leaders."

…

Troops have been deployed.

Comrade Lao Wang walked around the soil borrowing site in the rain and found that there was not much he could do.

Not to mention that there was no way for Lao Chen to write the sign in the rain. Even if he could write it, there would be no place to put it except at this soil borrowing point located in the corner of the corner!

The Linghai Reserve Battalion is here to rescue people, but after traveling all the way here, they have to dig soil, fill sandbags, and transport sandbags for others. The situation here is completely different from that in Beihu, and they can't even prepare emergency construction materials. .

Comrade Lao Wang rushed over excitedly, but found that there was no use for it. Not to mention how depressed he was, he stood on the muddy construction site in a raincoat and roared: "Old Cao, Captain Cao, where is the red flag I gave you?"

"on the car."

"Why are you putting it on the car? Hurry up and put it on me. Put up the red flags on Linghai and Linghai Road and Bridge in China!"

"Secretary Wang, it's raining outside, it's raining so hard..."

"What's wrong with the rain? I'll insert the knife even if it's raining!"

"Okay, I'll insert it!"

Reporters from Linghai TV and Linghai Daily came as they did during the flood fight in 1998, and they all had to listen to Comrade Lao Wang's instructions.

He ran to the left side of the sandbag filling area and shouted: "Director Tan, stop shooting here. What is there to shoot here? You guys will finish work separately, take the equipment to the dump truck, and go to the embankment with Captain Cao and the others. Up for auction!”

"Going to take pictures on the river embankment?"

"Let Captain Cao and the others get out of the car when the time comes, and ask Captain Cao and the others to build a few sandbags with the officers and soldiers on the embankment, and seize the time to take a few more shots. We will change the scene tomorrow afternoon."

"What's going on?"

"Let's go to Baise. Is there anything good to interview here?"

"Oh, I see."

"Photographic equipment is so expensive, so be careful to protect it from rain."

"I know."

…

The Korean workers who had just joined the mat workers did not go to the soil collection point. There was no technical content in collecting soil to fill sandbags and transporting sandbags, and they did not need these two senior experts.

The General Administration of Defense of the People's Republic of China knew that they were coming and issued a notification document. They then became the second group of experts guided by the General Administration of Defense of the State to guide Xiguang's flood fight. They were accompanied by several engineers from the Xiguang Water Conservancy Department and the Xiguang Meteorological Bureau. Understand the disaster situation in the rain.

In normal times, Korean workers would be very excited to be given important responsibilities by the National Defense Commission. After all, they are not in the same system.

However, this is not normal, now is the most critical time in Ningnan.

Continuing heavy rains have caused the river to surge, and will soon overlap with the flood peak that has formed in the upper reaches. The National Defense Bureau wants to know whether the Yongjiang River embankment can withstand it. The Ningnan Defense Command and even the Xiguang Defense Command are studying whether to dig up river embankments in the south of the Yangtze River to protect the north of the Yangtze River.

In other words, their opinions will directly affect the decision-making of their superiors!

Because in the eyes of superiors, the expert opinions in Xiguang are somewhat subjective. This is the same as whether the Jingjiang flood diversion project was launched and the Jingjiang embankment on the south bank of the Jingjiang River was flooded and the Jingjiang embankment on the north bank was flooded, thereby ensuring the Jianghan Plain and even Hanwu. Digging floods and diversion may be The safest way is to at least preserve the main urban area on the north bank of the Yongjiang River.

"Gong Lu, what's the situation with the water upstream now?" Gong Xi looked at the turbid river and asked worriedly.

The accompanying engineer solemnly said: "Judging from the peak flow, the water in the Youjiang River is relatively large. An hour ago, the peak flow of the Xiayan Hydrological Station was 6,670 cubic meters per second. The peak flow of the Zuojiang River was 8,890 cubic meters per second. Both of them The synthetic flow rate exceeds 10,000 cubic meters per second and has lasted for three days, causing the Ningnan Hydrological Station to remain at high water levels."

The engineer looked at the drawings, frowned and asked, "What's the current flow rate at the Ningnan Hydrological Station?"

"It was reported 20 minutes ago that it had risen to 14,540 cubic meters per second."

"Come on, let's go take a look at the front."

"Master Xi, judging from our calculations, this has not reached the peak yet."

"I know."

There is also an urban area on the other side of the river. If we really dug embankments to divert floods, it would cause huge economic losses. And although Ningnan is the capital of Xiguang Province, its economic development is relatively lagging behind. How many years will it take to recover if floods are diverted?

Worker Xi did not dare and could not express his position easily. While he was learning about the water conditions in the rain, he asked in a low voice: "Worker Han, what do the comrades from the meteorological station say, when will the rain stop? I'm not talking about Ningnan, I'm talking about the entire Upper Basin.”

Han Gong came by plane and arrived earlier than Xi Gong. As soon as he arrived, his old friend took him to the weather station to study and analyze weather cloud maps and related data.

Han Gong knew very well that he had to take responsibility for what he said at this critical moment. He hesitated and said resolutely: "Based on the current observation results, the Ningnan area will become sunny tonight. The weather in the entire western Guangxi and southern Guangxi areas, It will start to improve from tomorrow morning, and there should be no more heavy to heavy rains in the next three to five days."

"How sure are you?"

"This is not just my personal prediction. This is the consensus reached through a telephone discussion between the National Bureau and the Xiguang Bureau at 9:30 this morning. However, no one dares to give a 100% guarantee on the weather. What will the next climate be like? There will be changes and we need to continue to monitor them.”

"Gong Han, why don't you go back to the weather station quickly?"

"Okay, I'll call you as soon as possible if there are any changes."