crisis management game.

Chapter 170 Destroying the Plan (Happy New Year's Eve)
Swaraj asked subconsciously.

Marlowe took a few glances and turned his eyes thoughtfully, only then did he confirm that his previous feeling was correct.

"Friendship in arms" is very applicable in any country in the world. When he heard that Gu Ji had also served in the Army Mountain Division, Swaraj's attitude changed obviously, and he agreed to his application to go together.

About 10 to [-] minutes later, at the request of Fatima on the phone, the magistrate of Darjeeling County rushed over with more than a dozen transport vehicles and engineering teams, and began to help soldiers of the special border forces carry military TNT explosives.

"Viddy, be careful!"

"Do not worry."

Faced with Fatima's concern, Gu Ji shook his shoulders, fastened his backpack, and got on the transport vehicle.

The 57 people sent by the 18th Mountain Division, excluding Swaraj and his deputy, were exactly 16 people, and they were divided into two groups, A and B. After chatting and asking, they learned that their mission was not only to provide military explosives transportation, command the detonation, but also Responsible for armed protection, as for the process of filling explosives, you need the assistance of the state government engineering team.

Come to the dam.

The first thing that came to my ears was the loud noise of "crawling", which is the movement produced when the dam gate hole discharges water. The Alipur Dam is a medium-sized dam, with a width of 600 meters and a height of more than 70 meters. Spectacular, the long dam body crosses the water of the Mohananda River that is rolling in from the north. The iron tower stands abruptly on the dam body, and the power grid extending in all directions is overwhelming.

The Alipur Dam was the first major dam in the northern part of West Bengal.

Gu Ji chose to blow it up, or in other words, the common reason for blowing up the three dams is the size and the importance of its location!
First of all, Alipur Dam is large enough, with a water storage capacity of 36.2 billion cubic meters, and its location is more important. It is at the position with the largest river drop. Because of the huge drop of about 50 meters upstream and downstream, it is equipped with 56.5 The kilowatt generator set can provide sufficient power for the surrounding area.

When Gu Ji wanted to blow it up, officials and experts from the two major departments of finance, taxation and water conservancy strongly opposed it.

But the real danger lies here. There are only four sluice holes, and the drainage speed is very limited. Once the water volume in the upstream increases sharply, causing the dam to burst, and billions of cubic meters of water will fall down at the same time. Caused the downstream medium and small dams to break continuously, resulting in a super flood that is rare in a century.

Arrive at the central control room of the dam.

Gu Ji and Marlowe handed over the documents to the staff and took a look at the monitoring data. Sure enough, the water storage position of the dam was already on the edge of the warning line, and the little water drained from the gate hole could not survive the tropical storm. Drain the reservoir to a safe location before approaching.

After comparing the structural drawings of the dam on site and confirming that the original drawings provided by the Presidential Palace were correct, he asked the dam supervisor to direct the evacuation of personnel, and then started the first bombing plan with soldiers of the special border forces.

All hydropower stations in the world have two shapes, one is a gravity dam, and the other is a stress dam.

The gravity dam is easy to understand, it is a dam that blocks the turbulent river water by its own weight, and it is very strong; while the stress dam is a bit complicated, it transmits the strong pressure brought by the river water to the cliffs on both sides through its own structure, so as to use Stress resists huge water pressure, as did the Gauhati Dam that Gu Ji saw in Assam before.

Compared with the gravity dam, the stress dam saves labor, materials and time, and only needs about one-third of the concrete. However, this kind of dam has a disadvantage. If you destroy one of the points, the strong water pressure will It will cause the dam to collapse and lead to catastrophe.

Gu Ji wanted to take advantage of this shortcoming.

In 1943, the "Punishment Action" mission carried out by the British Air Force, that is, the bombing of the Ruhr Dam, also took advantage of this structural shortcoming. Only three 4.5-ton bombs were used to deal with the Ruhr, which required at least 40 tons of explosives to blow up. dam.

Fortunately, most of the dams in India are stress dams.

Otherwise, if you encounter a concrete gravity dam like the Xiaguo Three Gorges, you basically don’t have to think about it. Conventional weapons can’t even leave a hole. Nukes go.

Fortunately, Gu Ji’s goal is not to completely destroy the dam. He just needs to find a way to blow up a gap. This can not only speed up the drainage of the reservoir, avoid large-scale floods when tropical storms hit, but also restore the dam afterwards at the lowest cost. repair.

After seeing his action plan, Marlow first asked the technical soldiers to use the Indian SWITCH drone to fly around the dam to confirm the general working environment of the dam, and then arranged for the engineering team to carry out explosives transportation, hoisting and drilling hole.

"Your plan is well designed. You only need 187 kilograms of TNT explosives to complete the task. It's very easy!"

"Since it was shot by your military, the technology must be much stronger than that of ordinary engineering teams, so I used the more difficult multi-row hole differential blasting method."

Facing Marlowe's question, Gu Ji replied casually.

Hearing the technical term "multi-row hole differential blasting", Marlowe knew that he really understood blasting technology.

Micro-differential blasting is an advanced method of simple shallow and deep hole blasting. It mainly refers to the complex blasting method in which the explosives in adjacent blast holes are detonated sequentially in a very short time, usually calculated in milliseconds, in a pre-designed order.

It has many advantages, first of all, it has less preparation work, can complete the blasting work of a large amount of rock in a short time, and is suitable for rocks of various hardness, especially in places with complex terrain such as dams, which are not affected by construction. Conditions are limited, and it does not require special rock drilling equipment. Generally, rock drills can be used to excavate the tunneling chamber, and all those used in deep hole blasting can be used in chamber blasting.

The most important thing is: a large amount of blasting, reducing the number of blasting and avoiding the gun time!
That is to say, once the loading is completed, it can be blasted successfully at one time, which greatly saves the mission operation time.

The more you save, the more time the reservoir will have to discharge the flood, and the people will be safer!
Relying on the building blasting experience honed in the bomb checkpoint, Gu Ji designed a simple but practical "U"-shaped multi-row blasting for the Alipur Dam.

The entire process of drilling and loading explosives takes about three or four hours.

This is still with the help of the construction team of the Bangxian County Government. If Gu Ji and the special border forces do it by themselves, I am afraid that a monkey will not be able to blow up a dam.

After all, this is a super building hundreds of meters long and more than 70 meters wide that can hold billions of cubic meters of water.

In order to "get" the mission experience, Gu Ji also took the initiative to join in the work of loading explosives.

When encountering some difficult hole positions, it is necessary to use a safety rope to hoist from a high altitude. Some engineers and technicians cannot do it, so they can only be handed over to soldiers of special border forces.

Plateau load-bearing work is not a problem for these army elites at all, not to mention that they have been training in the high-altitude areas of the Himalayas in northern Assam for a long time, and their physical condition has already adapted to high-intensity hypoxic operations.

The basic physical quality of the "Vidi" possessed by Gu Ji this time is not bad, without any attribute weakening, and he has chosen the blue-level stamina improvement mark before, relatively speaking, a high-endurance physique is less likely to cause damage. Altitude sickness.

at last.

After more than three long hours, all the explosives were accurately loaded into the holes designed by Gu Ji.

"All personnel are ready to evacuate! Evacuate immediately!"

"Listen to the order! Evacuate quickly!"

……

With Marlowe and Gu Ji shouting loudly, the engineering team of the county government packed up their equipment and drove away from the dam body. The two checked the dam for the last time and made sure no one was missing before returning to the car.

While driving down the mountain.

Gu Ji took out the phone.

"Fatima, how is your side? Have the people downstream of the dam safely evacuated from the danger zone?"

"The transfer has been completed, don't worry."

"Captain Marlowe, we can explode here at any time!"

After receiving the confirmation, Marlow urged the soldiers to step up the accelerator and drive towards a hill east of the town. After confirming that they had reached a safe distance, he raised the walkie-talkie, "Krell, the location is safe, ready to explode!"

"Krell received it, now ready to blast, three, two, one! Detonation!"

The last voice fell, and the finger tapped the button.

Boom!Boom!Boom——!
In the dark night sky, several flames flashed in the distance. The next moment, deafening explosions sounded in succession at an extremely fast speed. Even one kilometer away, they could hear very clearly. Gu Ji was still immersed in the military TNT explosives. However, the dam caused earth-shaking noises in his carefully designed explosion.

In an instant.

The landslides and rocks cracked, and the smoke and dust filled the air.

After the violent vibration, there was a dam break and landslide, and a large number of boulders fell from the dam body into the river below. In the blink of an eye, the splashing water in the reservoir rushed down from the broken gap, roaring, like A group of frightened wild horses rushed from the upstream reservoir, overwhelming.

In less than a few seconds, the water level of the Mohananda River began to rise sharply, and the water flow became rampant, rushing down for thousands of miles. The river bank could not bear the sudden violent impact, and the flood flooded both banks instantly. , Step by step to the town.

Seeing this scene, Marlow once again commanded the technical soldiers to control the drone to fly to the top of the dam.

Judging from the screen, a "U"-shaped gap with a size of more than ten meters was blown out in the center of the dam. The flood of the reservoir is pouring crazily from the gap. As the water continues to wash away, the concrete around the crack will continue to crumble and fall, causing the gap to become larger and larger, so as to finally discharge the reservoir below the safety line.

"Colonel Swaraj, the first dam blasting plan was successfully executed!"

When Marlowe was reporting the situation to the commander, Gu Ji took out his binoculars and looked down at the bottom of the hillside. The accumulated water was rising at a rate of more than 10 centimeters per minute, opening its teeth and claws like a hungry wolf, devouring the surrounding villages and The land, especially the downstream area, is a vast ocean.

This is why he asked Fatima to notify the county government in advance to transfer people.

If the dam is blown up, there will definitely be floods, but compared with real floods, this kind of damage is already very light, and as the reservoir is drained, the short-term rising water will slowly recede.

After the task was completed, Gu Ji followed the troops and returned to the headquarters.

Due to water accumulation, the helicopter also changed position.

Gu Ji found Fatima, and learned that the logistics work would be managed by the central government's finance and taxation department personnel, so he found Swaraj and started bombing the next dam as soon as possible.

Eleven o'clock at night.

The transport helicopter landed near the second dam.

This is the Murshidabad district of the Merda prefecture, located in the central district of northern West Bengal, and is also the second key location that is prone to large-scale dike floods.

Like the last dam blast, under the communication and arrangement of the central government, everyone continued to move people, drill holes, charge explosives, and detonate according to the previous method.

However, since this dam is larger than the Alipur Dam, it will take longer.

During the loading process, tropical storms gradually invaded here. Gu Ji could clearly feel the temperature and air pressure drop, and his breathing became a little stuffy. It didn't take long before the sky began to rain lightly.

Fortunately, military explosives are not afraid of this little rain at all.

But Gu Ji had always been worried about the dam in the south of West Bengal, so under his urging, more than four hours passed, and a fire flashed again in the darkness, and a series of loud noises burst out. The bombing was successful.

Looking at the rapidly pouring reservoir, Gu Ji asked Swaraj to take off as soon as possible while the rain was light.

The distance from the north-central part of West Bengal to the south is not short, about 100 kilometers away. After about 20 minutes, through the iron sheet of the engine room, Gu Ji heard the rain getting heavier around him.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed across the night sky ahead.

"Beep beep..."

The helicopter cab sounded an alarm, and the pilot immediately took out the walkie-talkie and shouted:
"Colonel Swaraj, there is a thunderstorm ahead, it's very dangerous, we can't fly any further!"

"Land down nearby!"

Helpless, Swaraj could only order the transport helicopter to land in the nearest open area of ​​the plain.

Fortunately, it is not far from East Midnapur County in the Midnapur prefecture, and the third dam that Gu Ji wants to blow up is the Falaka Dam that the Minister of Water Resources strongly refuted before.

This dam is also the largest among the three dams, with a length of more than 800 meters and a height of more than 80 meters. Like the first dam, it also relies on the mountain stream.

After the transport helicopter landed.

Fatima immediately contacted the county magistrate of Midnapur according to the list.

But what she never expected was that there was no one answering the phone. She thought it was because of the rainstorm and the county government was in a state of panic, so she called several times in a row, but still no one answered.

"Vidi, there's no answer in the Midnapur section."

"Try another person."

"The phone can't be reached."

Fatima called another person, but the result was the same.

(End of this chapter)