Riverside police

001 followed Hong Feng back to Hanwu. He had just completed supplies and had a new mission.

After learning about the flood control and rescue work in Hanwu, two experts from the Ministry of Water Resources went to learn about the situation in the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River. Due to continuous rainfall, the road surface of the river embankment was soft and muddy, making it difficult for cars to drive across, so they could only go by boat.

Last night, there was a tributary connected to the Yangtze River in the Jingjiang River section, and the river embankment was in danger of water seepage and piping in many places.

This is like a war. The flood cannot break the main embankment of the Yangtze River, so it "circulates" and attacks the embankments of the tributaries of the Yangtze River.

If the river embankment is breached, it is unknown how many people will be displaced. No matter how well the embankment is defended, it will be useless. The leaders of the Water Resources Department received the report and wanted to lead water conservancy experts to guide the rescue, which also required taking a boat.

As a water conservancy expert from the Yangtze River Commission, the chairman must not only report the situation to experts from the Ministry of Water Resources, but also guide local flood control departments in emergency rescue operations.

The three groups of people gathered together and took 001 upstream.

In normal times, experts from the Ministry of Water Resources and leaders of the Beihu Water Resources Department would definitely be curious about how Binjiang's police law enforcement boats came to Beihu.

But these are not normal times. The leader of the Water Resources Department has two mobile phones. The ringing sound keeps ringing. As soon as he gets on the boat, he is busy answering calls. Almost all of them are emergency calls related to dangers. Some need rescue supplies and some need rescue. Mechanical engineering equipment, and some even requested to send the People's Liberation Army to support.

Experts from the Ministry of Water Resources are also on the phone every now and then.

Xi Gong and Xugong didn't want to affect their work, so when the rain stopped, they simply walked to the back deck, sat down on the bench where Zhu Baogen usually sat, leaned against the bulkhead and closed their eyes to rest.

Xiao Chen, the "landlord", was on duty at night. He couldn't sleep at the moment and was squatting on the stern deck playing with the telescope as usual.

We were very close to the tributary, and the river leading to the tributary was as endless as the sea, with water and sky connected.

The river water is like an enraged wild beast under the influence of the wind, trying to tear open the river embankment. The river embankment trembled, stood upright, and struggled under the impact of the flood waves.

Through the telescope, we can clearly see the people guarding the embankment and rescuing people, constantly putting woven bags filled with soil, mixed with mud, water and sweat onto the river embankment.

It can be imagined that the soil was taken from the inside of the river embankment. They had to carry it along the steep embankment slope first, and then they could build a new white embankment on the top of the embankment that could not be seen to the end.

It’s so hard, it’s not easy.

Xiao Chen had never seen such a scene before coming to Beihu with Xi Gong. He put down his telescope and looked at the direction he came from, and asked puzzledly: "Xi Gong, the river embankment we saw on the way from Hanwu, Why is it not as strong as the Hanwu side as you go west?"

"Hanwu is a big city with a large population and many large and medium-sized enterprises, so it is natural that the river embankments should be built better."

The seat worker rubbed his eyes, put on his glasses, and continued: "Jingjiang Levee is the most important embankment on the Yangtze River. It is a national-level embankment. It is included in a national project and has state funds allocated for renovation. The embankment body is thick and the top of the embankment is It is wide, the embankment slopes are neat, and the flood control materials are abundant. The embankments in the Honghu section and the Jianli section are provincial embankments, and there is insufficient investment, so they are not as strong as the Jingjiang embankment."

"But they all belong to the main embankment of the Yangtze River."

"Although they are all Yangtze River dry embankments, their levels are different, so their treatment is different, and the results of their renovation are naturally different." Xi Gong paused and sighed: "It's still money after all."

Xiao Chen couldn't help but ask: "Are our riverside embankments also divided into national and provincial levels?"

The seat worker shook his head: "It doesn't matter."

"Why?"

"Your Binjiang belongs to a developed coastal economic area. The state has invested very little in the Yangtze River embankments in Binjiang and even in Jiangnan Province. Your province, city and county have invested in the renovation."

"Gong Xi, are you saying that the money the country gave us in Jiangnan Province to build embankments was not as much as it gave to Beihu to build embankments?"

"No."

"Why?"

Before the waiter could speak, Xugong patted Xiao Chen on the shoulder: "You guys have a developed economy and you have money! Besides, what does the Yangtze River look like over there, and what does the Yangtze River over here look like? In your hometown, it's seven There are many turns and dangerous sections, so the state will naturally invest more in this area."

The engineer said in a low voice: "Although the state has invested in repairing the main embankments in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the little money invested is still a drop in the bucket."

Seeing that Xiao Chen was a little unconvinced, Xugong couldn't help laughing and said: "In fact, the money invested here by the state also comes from your coastal areas."

"But we have no money, my monthly salary is only 320!"

"Just because you get three hundred and twenty a month doesn't mean that others also get three hundred and twenty. There are a lot of rich people there. Besides, three hundred and twenty is already a lot. The salaries of many township cadres here are not as high as yours."

"Really or not, how can a cadre's salary be lower than mine?"

"What are you trying to do? You can't get it every month. If you don't believe me, you can ask the cadres on shore later."

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001 quickly entered the tributary and safely arrived at the riverside where the danger occurred.

Leaders at the county and township levels had been waiting for a long time and helped build a springboard to pick up experts from the Ministry of Water Resources and leaders from the Department of Water Resources ashore.

Captain Fan and Zhu Baogen, under the command of Yao Lirong, used the underwater surveying and mapping equipment on board 001 to assist XCMG in surveying the underwater part of the river embankment to see if they could find the loopholes that caused the danger of piping.

Xiao Chen and Liu Wei stayed on the boat for too long, so they went ashore together to get down to earth.

Unexpectedly, when I went ashore, I saw that there were people all over the embankment.

Most of them are people from nearby areas, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly people.

They had straw hats on their heads, armbands on their arms, and wooden sticks in their hands. They walked in the fields from the top of the embankment to the foot of the embankment four to five hundred meters, row by row, carefully searching every grassy slope behind the embankment. , woods, rice fields and houses.

The sun is scorching during the day, mosquitoes bite at night, sometimes it rains heavily, and sometimes there is unbearable hunger and thirst. But behind them is their home, and even if they fall ill and faint, they still have to get up and persevere.

The water gushing point is about 200 meters away from the river embankment. More than a dozen water gushing points have been surrounded by cadres and masses with sandbags to form an area the size of a basketball court.

The sandbags are more than two meters high and one meter wide, forming a large circular pool.

Nearly a hundred young and strong laborers are busy laying geotextiles or transporting gravel under the organization of cadres. The sand and mud particles are trapped between the gravel and the leakage channel, and the leakage water is gradually changing from muddy to clear.

Inside the door to see the door, the layman to watch the fun.

Although Xiao Chen and Liu Wei are not water conservancy experts and their education level is not high, they have participated in the flood prevention skills training organized by the camp. When they saw this scene, they were frightened.

Because several water pumps were set up there and pumping continuously, but the water in the "pool" seemed to be endless.

This means that the amount of water leaking is very large, and an equilibrium of water levels has been established inside and outside the embankment. If the leakage point cannot be found on the outside of the embankment in time and sealing measures can be taken in time, the piping surge like this will be difficult to stop and will continue to expand until the embankment breaks!

A county leader was worried that the experts from the Ministry of Water Resources could not understand the local dialect. He said anxiously in local Mandarin with a strong accent: "The difficulty in dealing with piping here is not that it occurs frequently and is large in scope, but more importantly because of the water-facing embankments." The slope is steep and the water in front of the embankment is deep and fast. No matter how much stones we throw, it will be difficult to accumulate them..."

Although it is a tributary outside the embankment, the current is indeed very fast.

001 was modified from a tugboat. It has high horsepower and can be called a "little steel cannon". It is greatly affected by the current when sailing and berthing. If it were a 100-ton cargo ship, it would be very difficult to go upstream. It would be even harder to stay stationary on the water and let people throw rocks to plug the leak.

The two of them were secretly worried about the thousands of people living behind the embankment when they heard the county leaders complaining to the leaders of the Water Resources Department in front.

They lack everything now, and they have almost nothing to ask for. Even the woven bags for filling soil are brought from home by the masses voluntarily.

Seeing that almost none of them were wearing life jackets, Xiao Chen couldn't help but pull a man who looked like a cadre and asked: "Brother, don't you have a reserve of flood prevention materials?"

"No."

“I didn’t prepare flood prevention materials in advance!”

"..."

The middle-aged cadre stared at Xiao Chen closely, thinking, isn't this why he doesn't eat minced meat?

Xiao Chen didn't know what they were thinking, so he turned around and pointed at the embankment: "Why don't you find a ship with a larger tonnage and power to transport the stones? The big ship can stop, and you can throw stones directly at the embankment foot on the river."

Where to find the big ship, and where do the stones come from...

The middle-aged cadre was so angry that he wanted to hit someone, but this kid was probably the leader's attaché and he couldn't offend him, so he just turned around and walked away.

Xiao Chen realized that he had hit a snag and did not dare to ask any more questions.

At this time, the leaders of the Water Conservancy Department basically understood the situation. With the advice of the accompanying water conservancy experts and field workers, they immediately called to mobilize the ships and supplies needed for the rescue, but they couldn't help it.

Nowadays, there are emergencies everywhere, and the emergency resources that can be deployed are limited. They are so stretched that they have to "queue up". The emergency supplies needed here will not be available until tomorrow evening at the earliest.

In a blink of an eye, it was dark.

Local cadres provided dinner to the leaders.

Dinner was very simple, consisting of rice with a few pickled long chili peppers. All the rescue personnel were the same, and they all ate at the scene.

This food is much worse than in 001.

Xiao Chen was not used to eating. Seeing Xi Gong and Xugong eating there, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and eat along.

Back on the ship, looking at the expectant faces of the cadres and people seeing him off, Xiao Chen muttered: "Why is there nothing? The danger of this piping surge looks very serious, but if it were our battalion, at most three The battle can be resolved within an hour, there is no need to wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, let alone worry."

He does not mean that.

The worried expert from the Department of Water Resources turned around and asked, "Young man, can you seal the leak within three hours?"

"I can't block it by myself, I mean our battalion."

"What camp?"

"In our Linghai Reserve Battalion, if you don't believe me, ask Xi Gong or Xugong."

"Man, this young man is kidding, isn't he?"

The waiter was silent for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Xiao Chen is not bragging. If they were camped here, it might not even take three hours to deal with such a dangerous situation."

The leader of the Water Resources Department also heard it and couldn't believe his ears. He hesitated and asked, "Gong Xi, can you be more specific?"

"Xiao Chen is not only an employee of the Linghai Port Tug Company of Jiangnan Province, but also a reservist of the Linghai Reserve Battalion. Their reserve battalion is based on the requirements of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government and the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region, relying on more than a dozen large units along the riverside and Linghai A mobile assault battalion for flood control and rescue organized by the Maritime Economic and Technological Development Zone."

The mat worker unscrewed the tea cup and took a sip of water, then continued: "If we use military terminology, they should belong to the amphibious rescue force. They can recruit water engineering ships, but also mobilize construction machinery and transport vehicles on the shore, unlike us. Flood control here relies entirely on manpower.”

Deputy Director Xu asked curiously: "What engineering ships do they have and what engineering machinery can they use?"

"They can call on a high-power tugboat at any time. That tugboat was built by our Hanwu Channel Shipyard and cost more than 16 million yuan. The floating crane can be used to transfer the goods from the 10,000-ton cargo ship to the inland river cargo ship. It’s the kind of floating dock that can even call a steam ferry.”

A tugboat is worth more than 10 million, who can afford it!

And even if you want to transfer, there are not many in the whole North Lake Province.

Because it is said that 10,000-ton cargo ships can sail to Hanwu, but in fact, due to the relationship between the water depth and the height of the Yangtze River Bridge, almost no 10,000-ton cargo ships can sail to Hanwu.

Long-distance shipping can be said to be divided by Jiangcheng, the capital of Jiangnan Province. Freighters below 10,000 tons in Jiangcheng can be navigable, but in fact the tonnage will not exceed 20,000 tons. Freighters no matter how large the tonnage is are usually unloaded and barged at the Yangtze River Estuary.

From Jiangcheng to Hanwu, only cargo ships of less than 5,000 tons are navigable.

There are no such big cargo ships coming, so there is no need for such a powerful tugboat.

Deputy Director Xu was secretly sighing that this was not a good comparison. We didn’t have the conditions here. The engineer continued: “The construction machinery on the shore is also very complete. There are two large imported excavators of twenty tons, which are said to be worth several billions. Millions. They also have loaders, bulldozers, and a fleet of earthmoving trucks that can dump trucks and dump tractors."

"They have an excavator!"

"Um."

Xi Gong nodded and added: "They have a water transport fleet and even a water logistics support fleet. There are oiling ships, water factory ships, cooking ships, and two that can accommodate hundreds of people on the water. The big barge. Even the Binjiang Police 001 I borrowed can be counted as equipment in their camp."

When it comes to reserves, Beihu also has them.

The Reserve Ark Bridge Regiment of the Beihu Provincial Military Region is fully equipped and well-trained, and can be said to be an assault force for flood prevention and rescue operations. But compared with others, at least it is a few steps behind in terms of equipment.

There was actually an excavator, and it was a large 20-ton excavator. There were not many in Hanwu, let alone the lower districts and counties.

We are one of the first coastal open cities. If we have money, we will naturally have equipment. There is really no way to compare with them...

Deputy Director Xu didn't want to ask anymore, and felt uncomfortable after asking.

Experts from the Ministry of Water Resources asked curiously: "Gong Xi, the flood situation in Jiangnan Province is not very serious. They just invested a lot of money in renovating the river and sea embankments last year. Do you think the reserve battalion can be transferred to support?"

Xi Gong said without thinking: "The fact that the flood situation in Jiangnan is not serious does not mean that there is no flood situation. Everyone is still preventing floods. Who can say this at this juncture? Besides, the reserve force is also an army. If you want to transfer the Linghai Reserve Battalion, it will not only cross the border." The province is also a cross-military region!”

The Beihu Provincial Military Region will definitely not be able to mobilize the troops from the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region.

The Beihu Provincial Military Region is affiliated with the Guangzhou Military Region, while the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region is affiliated with the Nanjing Military Region, which means that the Guangzhou Military Region cannot mobilize the Linghai Reserve Battalion.

In other words, although the Linghai Reserve Battalion is only a battalion-level unit, if you want to transfer the Linghai Reserve Battalion, you have to go through W of the Chinese Y Army!

Thinking of this, experts from the Ministry of Water Resources also realized that it was unrealistic to mobilize others to help.

Xugong suddenly remembered what Director Zou and Stationmaster Hua had said, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Mr. Xi, the Linghai Reserve Battalion was not only established based on the Linghai Development Zone, but also relied on the Changhang Public Security Binjiang Branch, the Changjiang Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau, It was established by the Binjiang Channel Section of the Yangtze River Navigation Bureau, the Yangtze River Navigation Engineering Bureau, the Binjiang Communication Division of the Yangtze River Communications Bureau, and the Binjiang Port Authority and other port and shipping enterprises. Even our Hydrological Bureau is a joint construction unit of them. It can be said that the Linghai Reserve Battalion has We have half the 'equity' of several Yangtze River units!"

It has started to rain again upstream, and flood peaks are likely to occur again soon.

The first flood peak sent us away without any danger, and the next flood peak may not bring the same good luck.

Deputy Director Xu felt that he would be transferred if there was hope. He stared at the manager and asked, "Can you please ask the Yangtze River Defense Directorate to come forward to communicate and coordinate with the Jiangnan Province Defense Directorate?"

Experts from the Ministry of Water Resources were convinced and said: "Gong Xi, your Yangtze River Committee is not only responsible for the North Lake section of the Yangtze River, but also for the entire Yangtze River. The Jiangnan Province Defense Fence should give the Yangtze River Fence a face."

"Xie Gong, this matter is not as simple as you think. There are so many mechanized equipment on the water and on the shore, and the total value is estimated to be fifty to sixty million. Not to mention that they are also doing flood prevention. Even if they don't need flood prevention, they still won't Easily lend equipment worth 50 to 60 million to Director Xu!"

These leaders are truly fantastic.

Xi Gong muttered secretly and emphasized: "Even if the Jiangnan Provincial Defense Command is willing to help us communicate and coordinate with the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region, the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region will not easily issue this order. After all, most of the equipment belongs to the lower districts, counties, enterprises and institutions. It’s not something assigned to the troops by superiors.”

An expert from the Ministry of Water Resources pondered: "The only thing that can be said is to report it."

"This will alarm the Chinese Y Army W!"

"The General Staff is a member of the General Defense Department."

"This is unrealistic and inappropriate."

The Yangtze River is thousands of miles long, but the danger lies in Jingjiang!

The expert from the Ministry of Water Resources was really worried about the Jingjiang embankment. He clenched his fists and said, "How can there be so many suitable ones? As for whether it is realistic or not, we will know after trying it!"

Deputy Director Xu became more and more excited as he listened, and subconsciously took out his mobile phone: "Let me first ask the Yangtze River Control Bureau and the Yangtze River Navigation Bureau. Since this camp has the Port Supervision Bureau, the Changjiang Shipping Public Security Bureau, the Waterway Bureau, the Communications Bureau and the Yangtze River Port and Shipping Enterprise If we own the shares, then the Yangtze River Defense Index and the Yangtze River Navigation Bureau can confidently ask their superiors to transfer them over!"

Is there any mistake? You really dare to think about it.

I borrowed 001 from someone for more than a month and I was very embarrassed. You actually want to borrow someone else's camp worth 50 to 60 million...

Foreman Xi was getting older, and he thought that if Deputy Director Xu really asked, the leaders of several vertical management units on the Yangtze River would definitely help him apply to his superiors.

Because Hanwu is not only the Hanwu of Hanwu people, it is also not only the provincial capital of Beihu, but also the headquarters of several major vertical management units on the Yangtze River! Now that the base camp is in danger, and the Linghai Reserve Battalion has half of their "shares", they will definitely find ways to transfer the Linghai Reserve Battalion.

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PS: Tomorrow morning, a leader will visit my studio, and I will accompany my wife to the hospital for a minor surgery to remove a cyst in the afternoon. The update may be late, but I want to let you know first.