Riverside Police.

Chapter 643 Keeping the Embankment
The Linghai Reserve Battalion has a lot of equipment but not many personnel.

For example, the earthwork construction unit and the earthwork transportation unit, the main force of emergency construction, are now temporarily organized into two earthwork construction teams according to the needs of emergency rescue.Including 43 tractor drivers who do not have tractors for the time being, and eight flood control soil experts from several townships and village groups along the Linghai River, there are only [-] people in total.

Another example is the party member assault team that assists in piling on the shore or on the water. There are only [-] people including the deputy instructor Xu Mingyuan.

If it is only about the number of people, the water search and rescue company and the logistics support company with only two assault boats are the most at this stage.

The company headquarters of the water search and rescue company has four people, and each of the three sub-units has 15 people, making a total of 49 people.

On the earthwork side, a dozen trailer drivers can help.

They have worked with the Road and Bridge Company for a long time, and have formed a tacit understanding with Sun Youyi, Zou Xiangyu and other responsible persons, and Master Zhou and other excavator and loader drivers.

Almost all of them can whistle, wave small red flags, and act as safety officers and commanders of on-site construction. Several of them can even drive the loaders and bulldozers of the Road and Bridge Company.

The eight flood control soil experts recruited by Mr. Yao could not help in emergency construction, but they would not be idle just like Ma Jintao's water search and rescue company.

In order to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, the county made up its mind to organize the evacuation of 10,000+ people.

When people evacuated, they dragged their families with them, and the roads were blocked.

Now returning to their homes, everyone is eager to return home, causing several major roads to be more congested than when they evacuated.

Even if the people under the embankment can get home before dark, they still have a lot of things to do after returning.For example, looking for chickens, ducks, and even pigs running around that were not taken away in time, or tidying up the bed and so on.

This directly led to the fact that there are not so many people guarding the 90-kilometer Yangtze River embankment for the time being!
In flood control, inspection of dikes is an extremely important task.

Only by continuous and careful inspection can we find out whether there are any dangerous situations such as loopholes, dips, slopes, cracks, water seepage, piping, collapses, etc. If there is no inspection and timely detection, no matter how professional the rescue team is, it will be useless.

Before the Yangliu Village section of the dry embankment was in great danger of collapsing and breaching, evacuate as soon as possible, anyway, there is no point in defending it any longer.

Now that the danger is ruled out, we can no longer ignore it.

The direct water-retaining embankment in Angong County is very long. There are only more than 100 party members and cadres and basic militiamen on the main embankment, and each person has to guard one kilometer on average.

Embankment inspection is not as simple as walking back and forth on the embankment and looking back and forth, but a comprehensive and detailed inspection must be carried out on foot.

See with your eyes, hear with your ears, tread with your feet, and touch with your hands.

Use a ruler or a dipstick to measure those potentially dangerous areas.

Use a shovel or sickle to clean up the weeds on the embankment and the foot of the embankment, test the softness and humidity in the soil, and even rescue general dangers alone.

Han Yu, Lao Ge, Hao Qiusheng and other main leaders of the Linghai Reserve Battalion did not want to fall short. Since last night, they have organized personnel who do not need to participate in earthwork construction, and have taken over the embankments of five kilometers at each end of the construction area. XCMG and Yao Gong Carte blanche.

Facts have proved that it is completely different if the group does not organize personnel to patrol the embankment to inspect the insurance.

As of [-] o'clock this afternoon, a total of [-] minor dangers were discovered.

For example, there are slight cracks in some dike sections, slight water seepage in some dike sections, and the foot of the embankment on the side of the dike section that is not facing the water is soaked in more than one meter of stagnant water due to the low terrain.

There is also a dike section that has been in disrepair for a long time, and the dike body is relatively thin...

According to the situation reported by the officers and soldiers in charge of each embankment section, Han Yu immediately organized forces to rescue them.

Du Yuan, the "little bricklayer" of the 132nd regiment, had something to do. As soon as he received the order, he boarded 001 with the "old squad leader" of the logistics support unit and the "chief" of the naval diving unit, and brought the A machine that looked like a large water pump and a pile of steel pipes went straight to the embankment that was in danger of cracking.

Mr. Wu, the "boss officer" who was in charge of the dike section, had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw 001 arrived, he led his subordinates to meet and help.

The large water pump is very heavy, and the boom on 001 cannot be lifted, so it needs to be lifted up the embankment by all the big guys.

"Comrades, work harder!"

"Uncle Zhu, the wires will be connected later, we need to check the foot of the embankment first."

"Captain Fan, wait for the equipment to be transported to the embankment, drive slowly as before, we will take an X-ray on this section of the embankment!"

Yao Gong is now like a firefighter. He must first check the danger here, arrange how to rescue him, and then go to the next embankment where the danger occurs.

Captain Fan knew that he was busy, so he raised the walkie-talkie: "Old Zhu, Xiao Chen, hurry up and help me, hurry up!"

"receive."

Zhu Baogen and Xiao Chen didn't bother to pull the cable any more, and hurried to the stern to help lift the mud pump to the shore.

This mud pump was not bought in the camp, but it was dismantled from the Sanwu sand mining ship that Han Yu took people to the Water Administration Supervision and Law Enforcement Brigade and the Harbor Supervision Bureau to seize it.

According to relevant regulations, the Harbor Supervision has the full right to seize the "three no ships" and dismantle them.

If Binjiang’s family planning management is the strictest in the country, then Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau’s investigation and punishment of “three no ships” and illegal sand mining ships is also the strictest in the country!

No matter how much money you spent on building the ship, and no matter who you intercede with, as long as it is found out, it will be temporarily detained, and then apply for dismantling it according to the procedure.

The principle of the sand pump is the same as that of the grouting pump.

It's just that the purpose is different, one is mainly for pumping, and the other is mainly for filling.

With many people and strong strength, the pump and a bunch of pipes were quickly lifted ashore.

Yang Daming and other members of the machine repair team took the time to install it, while Du Yuan grabbed a shovel and rushed down the embankment, and worked with the old squad leaders of the "Hong Kong Garrison" to dig soil, fetch water, and stir the mud needed to rescue the cracking danger.

Diving team leader Feng Qingsong and several divers huddled in the command cabin of 001, curious to see how Yao Gong used the underwater surveying and mapping system to take X-rays on this dike section.

"Yao Gong, what is this?"

"This is the river bed, and this is the former river beach."

"If there is no flood, is the river beach exposed to the water?"

"Well, the usual dry embankment is some distance away from the water surface, and the longest distance is 400 meters. Don't look at the water surface now, but there may have been a lot of crops planted under our feet in the past."

"So much water has risen!"

"Yes."

Yao Gong pointed to the computer monitor, and continued: "Captain Feng, this is the embankment. From the report of the embankment inspection team, there are several cracks on the embankment, and no water seepage or leakage was found. It may just be a crack on the surface.

But we cannot rule out the possibility that the cracks on the water side are blocked by aquatic plants, silt, or dead fish and rotten shrimps. We have encountered this situation before, so you have to dive in and check carefully later. "

It is good to have advanced equipment, to be able to see the underwater topography on the computer.

Feng Qingsong decided to go down in person later, stared at the computer monitor for a while, and asked: "Go down from the boat or from the shore?"

"Secretary Han has told you to go down from the shore if you can. To ensure safety, you need to add another safety rope later. Captain Fan, Lao Zhu and Xiao Chen will guard you on the river."

"Row."

After Yao Gong checked the underwater situation of this embankment, he used the walkie-talkie to notify Captain Fan to come to the shore.

The diving equipment was heavy, but several divers in the team did not need the help of the "garrison troops" on the shore, and they moved to the shore by themselves.

Everyone can understand.

Du Yuan, the "little bricklayer" of the 132nd regiment, understood better. While digging a hole vigorously, he said proudly: "Old squad leader, it is a matter of safety. The parachutes of our paratroopers will not be folded by others."

Zhang Yucai, a veteran from the Linghai Public Security Bureau, asked with a smile, "Have you ever flown on a plane or jumped a parachute?"

"No."

"Then what are you bragging about!"

"Old squad leader, I'm a recruit. After passing the training and being assigned to the combat unit, I can parachute by plane. Besides, our airborne troops are not just parachuted, but also organically."

"You have to be mentally prepared, you may not even have your share in the plane landing."

"impossible."

"How can it be impossible!" A veteran from the inspection brigade of Linghai Transportation Bureau raised his head and said with a smile, "Xiao Du, do you know what kind of soldier I used to be?"

"What soldier?" Du Yuan asked curiously.

The veteran pointed to Feng Qingsong and the others who were busy on the embankment, and said with a smile: "I used to be in the navy like them, and I was very happy and excited when I joined the army, thinking that I could sail across the sea on a large warship.

As a result, after the recruit training, I was assigned to a warehouse, let alone a warship, and I couldn’t even see the sea. Our army is farther from the sea than my hometown is from the sea. "

"The navy has never seen the sea!"

"This is normal."

Another veteran of the "Hong Kong Garrison" came over and said with a smile: "Xiao Du, you are an air force, and I was also an air force before. I am better than Lao Xu. I can see the plane every day, but I have never been on it. Hahaha."

Du Yuan asked curiously: "Squad leader, are you an Air Force ground crew?"

"Not ground support, we belong to logistics."

"Then what do you do in the army?"

"The station production team said they had been in the air force for four years, but in fact they had raised pigs and grown vegetables for four years in the army."

"Squad leader, you are too unlucky."

"What's so bad about it, you don't understand it now, but you will know it in the future. Being able to be assigned to a production team, raising pigs and growing vegetables is a beautiful job."

"Just like being assigned to the cooking class?"

"Little life is better than the cooking class, but cleaning the pigsty every day and picking manure to water the ground is a bit dirty."

At first I thought the reserve forces were similar to the militia.

Only after dealing with them did I know that the reserve forces are very powerful, especially the "Hong Kong Garrison". Not only do they have many old squad leaders, but they also have many "heads"!
Du Yuan looked up at the head of the "Hong Kong Garrison" who was talking to the head of the navy on the embankment, and asked curiously: "Squad leader, who is the oldest and highest-ranked soldier in your battalion?"

"Most of the cadres are from the main battalion, the deputy battalion, or the main company, and their ranks are not very high. In terms of military experience, Guo Weitao, the deputy company commander of the third company, may be the longest. He joined the army at the age of five, and he was transferred at 25. 20 years, the military service may be longer than your regiment commander, and your battalion commander will call him the old squad leader."

"Where's Battalion Commander Han?"

"Secretary Han has never been a soldier. Secretary Han used to be a militiaman."

Talking about the gossip in the camp, a veteran suddenly remembered something and said with joy: "In terms of his experience as a soldier, Liu Ke from our Environmental Protection Bureau is the most legendary."

A veteran asked curiously: "How is your Section Chief Liu legendary?"

"I used to be in the navy, Lao Wu was in the army, and you used to be in the air force. Our Section Chief Liu is very good. The military service is not long, but we have served in the navy, air force, and army."

"True or false, how is it possible!"

"How can it be impossible? He was in the army at the earliest, and their troops needed to be equipped with radar, so they sent him to the military academy of the air force and served as an air force cadet for three years. I don't know what happened. He didn't go back to the old army when he was assigned after graduation. He was assigned I went to a radar station of the navy and worked until I changed jobs. I have all the experience in the navy, army and air force. You say it is not good."

While chatting, the captain of the diving team went into the water himself.

Everyone wanted to go up to see how they dived. The "Boss Officer" Mr. Wu who was in charge of this embankment shouted: "Two people come up, bring shovels, and speed up."

"Yes!"

Du Yuan didn't want to be preempted by the old squad leaders, so he climbed up the embankment in one breath.

Mr. Wu pointed to the line he had just drawn on the embankment, and said, "Start digging from here, and dig an inverted triangular groove."

"Yes!" Du Yuan didn't care about watching others dive, so he started digging quickly.

Mr. Wu also didn't bother to watch how the young man was digging, so he took the communicator from a naval cadet and asked, "Captain Feng, how is the underwater situation?"

"The current is not very urgent, and everything underwater is normal."

"Can you feel the crack?"

"Touching."

"Be careful and yank the safety rope if necessary."

"I know."

After nearly 10 minutes of careful inspection, just as Yao Gong expected, the crack was relatively deep, but it was blocked by silt and aquatic plants.Although water does not seep into the dike body or even into the dike now, the silt and aquatic plants cannot withstand the erosion of the flood.

Mr. Wu figured out the situation, and raised the communicator again: "Captain Feng, plug the crack first, and then come up after plugging it."

"Row."

"Xiao Xu, is the mud ready?"

"Mr. Wu, do you think this is enough?"

"This is not enough, mix more, and move quickly."

"Yes!"

……

After more than an hour of intense work by more than [-] people, the mud was prepared by taking soil from the site and mixing it. According to visual estimation, it was eight or nine cubic meters.

The grouting grooves on the embankment have been dug long ago.

Mr. Wu was worried that the mud in the grooves dug along the cracks would not be enough, so he asked two reserve soldiers from the machine repair team to insert six steel pipes down.

When the steel pipe was first inserted into the embankment, the steel pipe was blocked by soil, so it was pulled out immediately to clean it, and then inserted along the previous hole.

These steel pipes are all processed, and the lower half of the pipe is drilled with small holes as thick as pencils, so that mud can be poured into the cracks in the embankment through the small holes.

everything's ready.

President Wu nodded to Yang Daming, Zhang Jiangkun's great apprentice.

Immediately, Yang Daming inserted the crank handle of the diesel engine into the crank hole, and shook it vigorously for a few times. The diesel engine driving the mud pump suddenly emitted black smoke and began to spin.

The mud in the big pit under the embankment is pumped up along the pipe, and under the action of the pump, it is injected into the embankment along the special steel pipe.

The sealing of the embankment was not done well, and in fact it was not done well.

In addition, this is the first time that the Linghai Reserve Battalion has used grouting to protect the dangerous situation of cracking. They were not mentally prepared for the pressure of the mud pump grouting. Everyone, including Mr. Wu and Feng Qingsong, was caught off guard and was splashed The mud was sprayed from head to toe, and in a blink of an eye they all became clay figurines.

"Mr. Wu, are you okay?"

"fine!"

Mr. Wu said he was fine, but in fact something was wrong.

He opened his mouth just now, and his mouth was full of mud.

He quickly ran to the side to vomit. After vomiting, he opened the kettle to rinse his mouth. After rinsing several times in a row, he touched his face and said with a smile, "It's not a bad thing to have a lot of pressure. If the pressure is not too high, the mud won't go down."

Feng Qingsong hurriedly asked his subordinates to move the mud-sprayed diving equipment far away, looked at Mr. Wu's "scratchy face" and reminded: "Mr. Wu, let's stay away from the pump, if the joint of the pipe suddenly breaks, it will be very dangerous. dangerous."

"Okay, did you hear me, all stay away."

"Mr. Wu, I'll keep an eye on it here."

"Safety first, follow orders."

Yang Daming really wanted to say that these pipes were used for sand mining in the past, and the joints were very strong and reliable, but thinking that it was really not a problem to be splashed with mud rain here, he simply obeyed the order and hid far away.

Mr. Wu was worried after thinking about it, and shouted again: "Comrades, if it's dirty, don't use the water here to wash it. The water here is not clean, and this is a schistosomiasis area, do you know that?"

"clear."

"Fortunately, the cigarettes are not wet. Come here, all the smokers come over and let the machine fill slowly. Let's smoke a cigarette first."

"Thank you, President Wu!"

The old head of the "Hong Kong Garrison" smokes good cigarettes, and even Lieutenant Colonel Feng Qingsong likes to cooperate with the boss officer of the "Hong Kong Garrison".

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PS: I took a nap in the afternoon and felt much better. Get up and start another chapter!
(End of this chapter)