Riverside Police.

Chapter 690: Flooding at the mouth!

While Deputy Mayor Qin and Deputy Teacher Tao were waiting to board the plane at the airport, Xu Mingyuan, Ma Jintao, Chen Youren, Xiaoyu and others had already brought search and rescue equipment such as assault boats and fiberglass boats and corresponding supplies according to the instructions of their superiors. For supplies, they rushed to Xinzhouyuan in Jianli County by two 500-ton on-board boats.

The embankment was crowded with people, and more than 40 public security officers brought by Deputy Magistrate Yang of Jianli County were working hard to maintain order.

The fourth flood peak is coming soon, and the water level of the Jingjiang River exceeds the previous three flood peaks.

In order to ensure the Jingjiang embankment, the main embankment of the Yangtze River, Hanwu, and the safety of millions of people in the Jianghan Plain, Jianli's flood-fighting army, which has stood on the embankments for more than 40 days, received an order from the Provincial Defense Command to voluntarily abandon their defenses. Xinzhou, Xizhou, Xuefang and other civil embankments have to be flooded!

These embankments cover an area of ​​nearly [-] square kilometers and have nearly [-] residents.

To the south of Minyuan, across the river is Dongting Lake in Nanhu Province, and to the north is the main embankment of the Yangtze River. Inside the embankment is the largest breeding area for freshwater pomfret and catfish in the country and even in Asia.

Once Pakou floods, one billion cubic meters of floodwater will flood in, and all farmland, houses, and fish ponds in the embankment will be submerged. Not only will the economic loss exceed 5 million yuan, but tens of thousands of people in the embankment will be homeless. returnable.

In order to ensure the safety of embankment excavation, the county arranged a dozen policemen at the east and west ends of the flood discharge area at Pakou to maintain order. Another 20 policemen held shovels and waited for Deputy County Magistrate Yang to give orders.

Two hours passed, but Deputy County Magistrate Yang was still unable to issue an order.

One is that the nearby villagers rushed over upon hearing the news, held the hands of the police officers on guard duty, and tearfully begged the police officers not to pick up their mouths.It would be dangerous to stay here unless we persuade them to leave and move them to a safe place quickly.

Second, although the county has organized the evacuation of the people in the embankment and the soldiers and civilians guarding the embankment, and has even done a lot of work for this, the throats of the township and village cadres are almost broken, and nearly [-] people are still unwilling to leave.

Some of them live on the embankment in the embankment, some live upstairs or on the roof, and some even live in trees!

In their words, moving to the embankment is not as convenient as moving to the embankment or the roof of their own house, and it is better to trouble themselves than trouble the government, but it is conceivable that they are reluctant to leave their homes.

The task of the water search and rescue company is to search and rescue the people who have not had time to move into the embankment that is about to become a vast ocean after the flood at Pakou.

But there were too many people in the embankment who were unwilling to leave, and it was impossible to search and rescue them.

"Major Yang, in order to keep the Xinzhou Embankment, we have been going up the dike since the end of June. We have worked hard day and night. We have withstood the first three flood peaks, but the dike that cannot be broken by the flood has to be breached. My heart Discomfort!"

"County Yang, what did you say when you came the day before yesterday?"

A villager who wears glasses and is educated at first glance, held the hand of the county leader tightly and said in tears: "You let us go all out, unite as one, guard against death, and people are on the embankment. We have nothing to say, we will follow Done!"

"Principal Zhang, I know..." Deputy county magistrate Yang also didn't want to say anything. He was also tearful and heartbroken, holding the old principal's hand, choked up and speechless.

The old headmaster let go of his hand and pointed behind him: "My son, my daughter-in-law, my grandson, and my students are all fighting the flood on the levee. I am too old to do so, so I can only deliver meals to them every day.

They worked day and night for more than 40 days. As you said, we went all out to guard against death, and faced flood peaks one after another. One gate!Are you worthy of tens of thousands of cadres and masses if you want to flood the mouth at this time? "

To fight the previous three flood peaks, the county invested nearly 5 million yuan, and most of the [-] million yuan was flood control fees collected from ordinary people.

You let people contribute money and efforts, but now you have to pick up and flood their homes, causing huge economic losses to them, and making them homeless.

Deputy county magistrate Yang faced the villagers facelessly, weeping silently, covering his mouth for fear of crying out loud.

"I'm not disregarding the overall situation. I also know that I want to give up my small family and protect everyone, but how can the masses give up this family? I am a teacher and have retirement wages. My son, daughter-in-law and grandson all have jobs. My family is flooded. If you can survive, what do you want these ordinary people to do?"

The more the old headmaster thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable, and the more he talked, the more excited he was. He pointed at the county leaders and questioned them like he was training students: "Guan Er responded to the government's call to raise fish, and borrowed 4 to [-] yuan, and the bank loan alone is more than [-] yuan. , if the fish pond floods and the fish run away, how can he repay the loan?
The mid-season rice is about to be harvested. How do ordinary people who rely on farming for their livelihood live on?Do I have to pay back the pesticide and fertilizer money I paid on credit?Does the child want to go to school? "

……

The old principal asked a dozen questions in a row.

Deputy county magistrate Yang was speechless and didn't know how to answer.

Seeing the old principal speak for them, a commoner couldn't help but said: "Mayor Yang, we can keep it here, why can't we keep the Jingjiang embankment? If they really can't keep it, we can help them! Please, don't How about Pakou, we really can’t be flooded here, we really can’t afford to be flooded!”

The phone rang again, and you didn't need to look at the caller ID to know that it was the superior who wanted to ask if he had picked up.

Deputy county magistrate Yang didn't dare to hesitate any longer, wiped his tears, cupped his fists and said, "Folks and comrades, the water level is too high this time, and the Jingjiang embankment cannot be defended by guarding. The county has never thought of opening the mouth." Flooding, the city and the province don't want to flood the mouth.

But if the floods are not carried out, the entire Jianghan Plain will be flooded, and Hanwu will be flooded by the flood!We have tens of thousands of people here, and tens of millions of people over there!What do you ask the county to do, what do you ask the superiors to do?Now I can only give up my family and protect everyone, please, please, please. "

The old principal was silent, looking at the Jingjiang embankment in the distance, crying.

Deputy county magistrate Yang took a few deep breaths, choked up and said: "I promise that the party and the government will not forget your contributions, and I promise that the party and the government will help you rebuild your homeland. If you can't do it, you can find me when the time comes. Even if the deputy county magistrate quits, I will help everyone fight with the superiors!"

What is there to strive for, and what can be won?
With so many disaster-stricken places and tens of thousands of homeless people, can the government take care of it?
The old principal realized that it was useless to talk to Deputy County Magistrate Yang, and also realized that the superior would not give the order to carry out flooding if he had no choice. I can only give up my little family and protect everyone."

"Principal Zhang..."

"Go, go, go, hurry up, flood our Xinzhou embankment, keep the Jingjiang embankment, keep the Jianghan plain, keep Hanwu, it's worth it!"

The old principal wiped away his old tears and took the lead to walk back along the embankment.

His son, daughter-in-law, and several former students hesitated for a moment, and followed him with every step.

It is hard to leave the poor family, and it is hard to leave the homeland.

Although they were reluctant to part with it from the bottom of their hearts, the people on the embankment followed the old principal and left with tears.

"Thank you, thank you all, thank you comrades..."

Deputy county magistrate Yang looked at the backs of the people leaving, broke down in tears, and kept saying thank you.

Starting today, people in several nearby villages, including Xinzhouyuan, either go to join their relatives, or they can only live in shacks, and they don't know how long they will live there.

Xu Mingyuan, Ma Jintao, Chen Youren, Xiaoyu and other officers and soldiers of the water search and rescue company were shocked by what they saw, and felt extremely uncomfortable. Many people cried.

"Pick mouth!"

"Yes!"

Deputy county magistrate Yang gave an order, and more than [-] police officers started digging together, weeping. After a while, the hole was dug open, and the flood water rushed into the embankment along the hole just dug.

Xu Mingyuan clearly saw that the police officers who were digging the embankment did not dig very deep, and the opening was not very big. Several policemen even stopped digging and looked into the embankment with their shovels.

No need to ask, they knew that they wanted to buy more time for those people in the embankment who were unwilling to leave.

However, the flood is like a wild horse, not only rushing faster and faster, but also washing the dikes on both sides of the breach, and the breach is extending to both sides at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zidi that has not been washed away is also very dangerous.

Xu Mingyuan didn't dare to look at it any more, and immediately raised his portable speaker and shouted: "County Yang, Bureau Xu, hurry up and get on board!"

"Oh, thank you."

Deputy county magistrate Yang came to his senses and hurried along the springboard according to the plan. With the help of Xiaoyu and others, he boarded the on-board boat of the emergency rescue commando.

Deputy Director Xu of the County Public Security Bureau, who came with Deputy County Mayor Yang to carry out the task of pickpocketing, reminded as soon as he boarded the boat: "Mayor Yang, please call and report to the city's defense department."

"Okay." Deputy county magistrate Yang regained his composure, took out his mobile phone and didn't rush to make a call, but turned around and said, "Xu Jiao, Company Commander Ma, I'll leave it to you next."

"Not to mention please, this is our task."

"When will you go in?"

Xu Mingyuan looked into the embankment with his head, and said solemnly: "The water level in the embankment is not deep enough now, we may have to wait for another half an hour."

……

They have been guarding against it for more than a month, but they still haven't defended it. There are as many as a dozen folk embankments that have to be flooded today, and three of them have been rescued by the Linghai Reserve Battalion.

Although Han Yu was not at the scene of digging the embankment, he still felt uncomfortable.

He looked at Deputy Director Yu's phone records on the ground, and he had mixed feelings: "I knew I was going to do the flooding, why did I wait until today? Even if I had to do the flooding, why didn't I make up my mind earlier.

If you make up your mind early, you can give the people in the embankment more time to prepare, and minimize economic losses as much as possible.Even the hundreds of millions of flood control funds spent before can be used to resettle the people who have left their homes. "

Xu Gong could understand Han Yu's mood, and seeing the flood that was about to overflow Zidi, he said helplessly: "Xi Gong suggested as early as a month ago to abandon part of the beach and people's embankment, and use the flood control force and emergency supplies to ensure On the main embankment of the Yangtze River.

In fact, the leaders of the local government knew the same in their hearts, but they were lucky, always thinking that it was impossible for the rain to fall like this every day, and that there would be no more flood peaks.And knowing it is one thing, being able to do it is another.If I were the leader, I would not be able to make this determination. "

Decision-making is problematic.

To be precise, it is a problem left over from history.

Han Yu was very clear that it would be useless to say that, so he turned around and walked to the water area map, frowned and said, "Xu Gong, please do me a favor."

"what's up?"

"Didn't a lot of people move to the embankment? You can call later to ask the defense experts, which dike sections the crowd mainly gathers, and then mark them on the water area map."

"Secretary Han, are you worried that those embankments are not safe?"

"This time the flood peak is fiercer than the previous three times. Who can guarantee that the levee will not collapse? Mark it out first. If something happens, we can rescue it in time."

Han Yu took a deep breath and continued, "Then there are thousands of people gathered on the embankment, draft water must be a problem. We can't help much, but at least we can provide clean drinking water."

Whenever there is a major disaster, it is necessary to prevent a major epidemic.

Unclean water is one of the sources of the epidemic.

Xu Gong came to his senses and said, "Okay, I'll call the city to ask for instructions."

Han Yu raised the walkie-talkie strapped to his chest and shouted, "Ge Ju, Secretary Wang, please answer."

"Got it, what's the matter?"

"Salted fish, I'm here."

"Notify the teams when the meal is ready to save water from today. At the same time, notify the water supply team to use water supply boats to provide clean drinking water to the people transferred to the nearby dry embankment from tonight."

Lao Ge subconsciously asked: "Do we produce enough water?"

Han Yu said without hesitation: "I will let Wu Heng and Bai Li no longer go through ultrafiltration for secondary processing, as long as they meet drinking water standards, 24-hour production should be enough."

(End of this chapter)