At 00:24, Han Yu was woken up by Yang Jianbo.

Although I was still very sleepy and my sleepy eyes hurt, I couldn't sleep anymore when the order came.

"Secretary Han, wash your face. Here are pickled pepper chicken feet. Mr. Zhang bought them specially for you and Mr. Hao. They will refresh you."

"Oh, thank you."

Han Yu ignored eating chicken feet, washed his face and walked out of the tent. He was surprised to find that the camp was empty. Only the tent where he slept just now was left, and the other tents were gone.

The main shift driver drove the Luqiao Company's excavator back and, with the assistance of the deputy shift driver, replaced the excavator with an extension arm brought from his hometown.

The main arm is used during normal operations and will only be replaced with a 22-meter extension arm when demolishing buildings, digging river channels, pit foundations, deep wells or dredging.

This extension arm is not from the original factory, but is produced by a small company in Japan that specializes in modifying excavators. In order to customize this extension arm the year before last, Brother Hao asked the manager of Linghai Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation Company to make a special trip to Japan.

The arm is longer and the bucket is smaller, so it is naturally impossible to dig as much soil as with the main arm.

Han Yu raised the walkie-talkie and asked: "Mr. Hao, Mr. Hao, for what task do I, Han Yu, need a longer arm?"

"I'll go over right away and tell you."

"OK."

Han Yu put down the walkie-talkie, thought about it and asked again: "Instructor, where is Mayor Shen?"

Yang Jianbo hurriedly said: "Mayor Shen went to Jingzhou City for defense, and Vice Mayor Xu invited him to come. The leaders of Jingzhou Defense may have considered that although we are the emergency rescue force in Jingzhou Section, we are reserve forces and want to provide

We gave an order to pass through the 404th Division of the 105th Army. A large circle will easily delay the fighter planes, but we can’t always bother the chief of the military region like yesterday, so we invited Mayor Shen to join the defense command with the approval of our superiors."

"Mayor Shen has joined Jingzhou City's anti-zhi team?"

"Well, I left with Deputy Minister Li two hours ago. I checked on you before leaving and saw that you were sleeping soundly. I didn't wake you up."

"Where are the others?"

"All the personnel and small equipment that can be loaded onto the ship have been loaded onto the ship. The first batch of personnel and equipment have crossed the river and are being transferred to the shore. We are the last batch."

Yang Jianbo turned around and pointed to the empty parking lot not far away, and added: "The leaders of Jingzhou City may have realized that it is inconvenient to transfer large equipment on the shore, and decided not to trouble the eight large flatbed trucks of the Port Authority. Three hours ago, Shen City

The car from the Changrang Port Authority went back first, and Director Liu from the Changhang Branch also went back. The main reason was that he was worried that the eight large cars did not have license plates. If they did not go together, they would easily be stopped and checked by the traffic police along the way."

How many pontoon troops are there in Beihu?

The Jingzhou City Defense Force can ask the Zhouqiao Troops for support once, but it is impossible to ask the Zhouqiao Troops to build roads and bridges for the Linghai Reserve Camp unless they are doing other things. Moreover, it takes time to build roads and bridges, which is far from using various types of ships on the water.

The maneuverability is convenient and fast.

Thinking of so many people and equipment being loaded onto ships to cross the river, Han Yu felt very uneasy and asked nervously: "Who commanded the fleet?"

"Director Gu of the Port Authority, he arrived just after you fell asleep. Director Ge and I wanted you to sleep a little longer, so we didn't tell you."

"I feel relieved when Director Gu is here."

"Secretary Zheng and County Magistrate Li from Lingjiang also came here. They gave us banners and helped us sign and seal the project documents. Logically, we should take a group photo, but the light was not good in the middle of the night.

Now they are all outside assisting in the rescue. The comrades in the deputy shift should hurry up and take a nap, but Mayor Shen didn’t let us call."

The Linghai Reserve Battalion's emergency rescue operations are divided into two shifts: the chief and the deputy. Each shift works for five hours and then rotates.

Just as Han Yu was about to ask Dongdong if he had boarded the boat, Hao Qiusheng ran over from the embankment.

"Secretary Han, the Jingzhou Defense Command asked us to go to Angong County. There is a section of dry embankment that has been emptied by the flood, and there are multiple piping surges on the inside of the embankment. The section of embankment that is in danger is about 25 meters long, and it can be stopped at any time.

They may all collapse and burst.”

"Have you found the leak point of the piping?"

"No, there are no blisters on the river. Fang Zhi has requested assistance from the Naval Diving Academy. The Navy divers will arrive at the latest tomorrow, no, it should be before eight o'clock this morning."

"Have emergency protection measures been taken for the seepage points on the inside of the embankment?"

"Running for protection."

Piping refers to the pores formed by fine soil particles along the skeleton particles under the action of seepage. The increase in the flow rate of water in the soil pores causes the fine soil particles to be washed away. It is also called sand plowing.

The diameter of the water gushing can range from a few centimeters to several meters, and a raised sand ring will be formed around the pores.

If the correct method of rescue is not adopted in time, the danger will continue to worsen. A large amount of water will turn over the sand, which will cause the soil skeleton of the embankment foundation to be destroyed, the tunnel to expand, the foundation soil to be hollowed out, causing collapse, and causing the embankment to burst!

And now it is not only the piping that needs to be protected, but the embankment feet on the water side of the levee have also been emptied by the flood. This means that even if there is no danger of piping, the levee may collapse and breach at any time!

It may seem that the Laomiao Gate, which has no gate walls, cracked gate plates, and irregular "fountains" all over the inside of the gate, is dangerous, but in fact it is far more dangerous than the Laomiao Gate that has become part of the main embankment of the Yangtze River.

After all, the Laomiao gate is made of reinforced concrete. Although the gate walls and gate plates are cracked, not all the steel bars inside are broken. The overall structure is relatively stable and has a certain strength.

Looking at the No. 1 excavator that was being replaced with a longer arm, Han Yu realized how "Brother Hao" planned to protect him, and asked: "First find the leak, then find a way to plug the leak, and then throw it on the river."

Stones, use an excavator to push the stones into the hollowed-out embankment foot to see if you can hold up the embankment first?"

"The equipment cannot be put on the embankment and can only be operated on the water."

"Is there enough stone?"

"The command said there is, but it will take time."

"What time will it arrive?"

"have no idea."

"Where's the woven bag?"

"We have woven bags and are delivering them there. The county promises to deliver 10,000 bags before dawn, and the city's defense department has allocated 5,000 bags."

The biggest problem in the rescue here is the serious lack of rescue supplies!

Hao Qiusheng took a deep breath and continued: "They really didn't have any piles of wood. Fortunately, there were more than 500 of them left when they were trying to protect the gate. Otherwise, they would have to cut down trees and pull out telephone poles."

Just as he was talking, the extension arm of No. 1 excavator was replaced.

The main arm cannot be left here. Excavator No. 1 uses the extension arm that has just been replaced. With the assistance of excavator No. 2, it lifts the main arm that has just been replaced and slowly moves it to the river embankment under the command of the safety officer.

move.

At 2:27 in the middle of the night, the steam ferry transporting personnel and equipment came back under the escort of 001 and the supervision boat of the Jingzhou Port Supervision Bureau, and slowly approached the embankment and lowered the deck.

As soon as the deck was placed on the river embankment, several crew members ran up to bring the cables.

The two small tugs following behind were also under the command of Gu Pengfei, director of the floating crane terminal of the Port Authority and captain of the water navigation and anchoring safety team of the Linghai Reserve Battalion, tightening the tow ropes and constantly adjusting their posture to ensure that the steam ferry remained as stable as possible

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The arm is a key component of the excavator. You must be careful when hoisting it onto the ship, carefully and carefully.

The No. 2 loader that came back with the steam ferry came over to assist, and more than thirty people worked for nearly 20 minutes before safely transporting the main arm of the No. 1 excavator onto the steam ferry.

The danger in the embankment section of Laomiao Gate has long been eliminated. This is no longer the command branch of Lingjiang County Defense Command on the main embankment of the Yangtze River. Deputy County Magistrate Wang has long since left, leaving only a few cadres and a dozen basic cadres.

Militiamen patrolled the embankments in this area.

Seeing that the last batch of personnel and equipment of the Linghai reinforcements were leaving, they rushed over from the east and west to see them off.

"Captain Han, thank you. I didn't bring anything with me. I only have two packs of cigarettes with me. I'm just a little thoughtful. Don't feel bad about me."

"Captain Han, Camp Commander Hao, I am Wang Shuwen, deputy mayor of Laomiao Township. Once we finish fighting the flood and you are no longer busy, you are welcome to visit our old temple!"

The basic militiamen guarding the embankment are all nearby villagers, and they have to bring their own meals from home.

One of the militiamen brought some boiled eggs from home before going to the embankment. Seeing that Han Yu and others were about to leave, he quickly took them out and stuffed them into Han Yu's hands.

The deputy mayor smokes Hongmei, which is not a very good cigarette.

He didn't know how long he would have to stay on the embankment, so he gave Hao Qiusheng the only two packages of red plums he had left.

Han Yu and Hao Qiusheng knew very well that others would be unhappy if they didn't accept the offer, so they could only accept it with tears in their eyes and waved goodbye to them.

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At the same time, the river embankment at the Yangliu Village section of the Yangtze River Embankment in Angong County suddenly became brightly lit.

The power generation room of the Communications and Power Support Team has been moved from the shore to a cargo ship that transported stone to Laomiao Gate last night.

In order to hoist the container-modified power house onto the ship, the Linghai Reserve Battalion expended great efforts.

It took more than an hour of night sailing to get here. With the help of party members and cadres and militiamen from Angong County, everyone transported the equipment that could be transported ashore.

The "landing site" is about one kilometer away from the embankment section where the piping occurred. The reason why we chose to land here is firstly to consider safety. If the dangerous embankment section collapses and breaches, people and equipment will not be washed away by the flood.

Second, the embankment here is relatively wide and strong, allowing ships to berth and construction machinery such as excavators and loaders to land here.

Han Yu and Hao Qiusheng were behind, and it would take an hour and a half at the fastest to arrive.

Zou Xiangyu, project manager of the Road and Bridge Company, became the commander-in-chief of the front line without hesitation. XCMG continued to serve as a flood control expert of the Yangtze River Prevention and Control Bureau to communicate with the leaders of Angong County who were directing rescue operations on the river embankment.

Sun Youyi, chief engineer of the Road and Bridge Company, led several team leaders to investigate the danger on the spot and seize the time to study and formulate a more specific rescue construction plan.

Yao Lirong did not have time to prepare any more project documents, so he temporarily organized the personnel who did not have emergency construction tasks into six embankment inspection teams according to the plan, and conducted a blanket inspection within one kilometer of the "landing site" to see if there was any damage here.

To prevent water leakage or even pipe surges, ensure the safety of the "landing site" and the new camp area to be built.

"XCMG, XCMG, I, Zou Xiangyu, where is the soil collection point? I have to seize the time to level the site. When the excavator arrives, I will collect soil and fill it with sandbags. Without sandbags, how can we protect it!"

"Received, received, County Magistrate Huang will arrange for someone to take you there."

"Xugong, please ask the county leaders to arrange three more guides for us. Mr. Zhang and Secretary Qiu are not familiar with this place and need two guides to take them to purchase logistics supplies. Geju will go to the regiment headquarters with Staff Dai after dawn, and they also need guides
To be continued...