Lu Ming

Chapter 488
In the 90th century, the broad surface of the Pearl River was more than ten times that of later generations, stretching as far as the eye can see.In later generations, Haizhu District, located in the south of Guangzhou City, with a total area of ​​[-] square kilometers, was just a few small islands on the river in this era.

Therefore, it is reasonable for the Pearl River to be called "Zhuhai, Zhuyang" by the ancient Guangzhou people, because after leaving the city gate, there are hundreds of square kilometers of river surface, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the sea.

After the sound of water splashing, Yu Sibao poked his head out of the river.

Yu Sibao's current location is on the Shiziyang River in the middle of the Pearl River, in the middle of the waterway.This place has passed Humen, and there are some scattered small sandbars on both sides of the bank. Those sandbar villages of later generations have not yet formed.

After poking his head out of the river, Yu Sibao didn't stop, but turned around and swam behind him.After a few strokes, he grabbed a pair of ladders and climbed onto the boat out of breath.

It was a flat-deck barge that anchored on the river.

The "Breakout" barge has its own power system and various equipment installed on it. It is a special vessel specially used for clearing obstacles in inland waterways.At this moment, the Breaking Barrier was anchored in the front, rear, left, and right sides, and stopped firmly in the middle of the river.

Yu Sibao, a young man, came to Taiwan with his father Yu Chengde.Relying on Yu Sibao's ability to dive, the Yu family got money from the sunken ship, and then killed the local gangster who kidnapped the younger sister of the Yu family, and finally led the whole village to defect to Dashuai Cao.

Today, Yu Chengde is already a successful owner of a fishing company, while Yu Sibao, who is born with extraordinary talents and superb diving skills, was recruited by the Port Authority early on and became a professional diver.

It has been half a year since Yu Sibao came to Guangdong this time.After Cao Zongbing opened the Huangpu Military Port and Special Zone in Guangdong, he came to the Pearl River Estuary with the boat and began to do the work of clearing obstacles.

Divers are required to clear obstacles, which are naturally reefs on the river.In this way, it took half a year, and Yu Sibao and the others cleaned up from the Pearl River Estuary to Shiziyang in the middle of the Pearl River.

In the recent period, the target of the Breaking Barrier is Mantou Reef in the Lion Ocean.

The mangy head reef is as its name suggests, just like the scar on the manger's head, it is not one piece, but a group of hidden reefs.

The location of this piece of reef is in the middle of the Lion Ocean. The location is dangerous, and it appears and disappears from time to time. It is easy for non-local boatmen to get in. In previous years, it often caused ship accidents.This time Yu Sibao's mission is to get rid of this hidden reef.

"How about it, have you figured it out?"

As soon as Yu Sibao climbed onto the side of the boat, the captain Lao Tian took his equipment off his body, then wiped off the water on the diving suit, and then wrapped it in a large scarf to keep warm.

After taking a sip of the warm tea offered by someone else, Yu Sibao nodded excitedly and said, "Uncle Tian, ​​I've found out the location, I'll load the medicine next time!"

"Be careful, and pull the safety rope if you have any problems." Lao Tian is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with wrinkles on his face, always speaking with a sad face, and seems to be worried about everything.

"No problem, just watch!"

In this way, Yu Sibao rested for half an hour, then he put on his diving goggles again, picked up the compressed air bottle on his back, and went down the river along the ladder.

This time he was even more dangerous after he went into the water, because in addition to the safety rope around his waist, he also had to carry a thick fuse and an explosive package installed on the top of the fuse.

The bag containing the diatomaceous earth explosive and the fuse are sealed and waterproof.The inner core of the fuse is black powder, the second layer is a waterproof layer, the third layer is a cotton thread reinforcement layer, and the outermost layer is a waterproof paint.

Since black powder has its own oxygen promoter, under normal circumstances, as long as it can be ignited on water, it can continue to burn in water.Of course, the premise of all this is that Yu Sibao can install the explosives stably at the root of the reef.

The current position of the barge is more than ten meters upstream of the reef.After Yu Sibao went into the water, the safety rope was also controlled at this distance, so that he could just sink underwater and touch the root of the reef.

Trying hard to control his body in the current, Yu Sibao slowly walked to the root of the reef like an astronaut, and pressed the explosive bag in his right hand into the pit he had hoped for before.

Then he breathed steadily, then took out the short rope from his waist, and patiently fixed the explosive package.After checking it, the young man smiled through the goggles - he never thought that there are bottles in this world that allow people to breathe in water, oh yes, they can actually compress something like "air" stand up.

Taking two steps back, Yu Sibao pulled the safety rope twice.At this time, the ship that received the signal began to slowly retract the rope with a winch, and then Yu Sibao pulled the rope and returned to the bow without any effort.

The next moment, after Yu Sibao took off his goggles and nodded with his thumb, the captain ordered the explosion.Soon, a flame entered the water along the fuse.After waiting for tens of anxious seconds, with a huge "bang", a white water column two or three meters high exploded on the river surface, accompanied by some small black stones.

The port authority workers who have long been familiar with this situation have already retreated to the stern.After the water column and gravel fell into the river, the captain, Lao Tian, ​​patted Yu Sibao on the shoulder a few times, and then he gave the order: Continue to investigate in the water.

Since the traversing crowd can't make a complete set of explosive equipment and consumables that can be electrically detonated in water, so now they can only use this dangerous method to clean up the reef.The fuse can only be used one pack at a time, and cannot be detonated at the same time, so after the explosion just now, the people on board cannot guarantee that the reef is completely blown up, so they have to continue to investigate in the water.

It is equally dangerous to enter the water at this time, because the reef may be in a precarious state and may collapse and hurt people.So Yu Sibao brought a strong light when he went into the water this time, and started to investigate after a long distance from the reef.

The final result was not bad. The columnar reef had split into several pieces and collapsed at the bottom of the river.This was tantamount to completing the task, and Yu Sibao continued to advance on the bottom of the river, and came to the bottom of the next hidden reef to start surveying.

After being busy for another quarter of an hour, Yu Sibao returned to the boat again.Due to the exhaustion of stabilizing the body in the river water, after boarding the boat this time, Yu Sibao will not be able to enter the water for the next few hours. He can only rest and switch to another diver to work.

Just as the young man was sitting leisurely at the stern of the boat watching the scenery with a pot of hot soup in his hand, the Fuyuan fleet came from downstream.

"Hey, didn't the big ship go down in the morning, why did it come back so soon?"

Seeing the big blue-gold ship in the distance, the staff on board were a little puzzled: "Is the training time short today?"

"No, no, it's not the Zhenman!"

The next moment, the sharp-eyed Yu Sibao jumped up from the deck in an instant, and while waving vigorously towards the distance, he shouted: "It's our new ship, new ship!"

(End of this chapter)