Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 878 - 597: What Mobile Across a Thousand Miles?

Notifying personnel might be a more daunting task than actual rescue operations.

First, you have to reach the person and make sure they understand what’s going on. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

For those reserve soldiers living in villages without mobile phones or pagers and no landline at home, inquire which household in their village has a phone, so they can be contacted promptly once the deployment order is issued.

Record the latest and most efficient contact methods, and according to the plan, clearly inform them where to wait for transportation once the deployment order is received, so they can gather with nearby comrades and head to the camp together.

After all, Linghai isn’t too big, but it’s not small either.

The camp is located at the southernmost edge of Linghai, by the riverbank, with several towns more than sixty kilometers away. If we don’t arrange for vehicles from each town to pick them up, how are they supposed to reach the camp on time?

However, these specific tasks are handled by Yang Jianbo, Zhao Jiang, and a few section chiefs and staff officers from the regiment.

Han Yu hurried back, only to find that as a camp commander, there wasn’t much he needed or could prepare, so he simply stood beneath the anti-aircraft gun brought back from the Meteorological Bureau and chatted idly with Chief of Staff Cui.

Chief of Staff Cui knew that Han Yu had already prepared several contingency plans, and as long as the most suitable one was chosen for implementation by the officers above the squad level, everything would proceed in an orderly fashion without the need for him to oversee every detail.

Huang Yuanchang, who hurried to the camp accompanied by Director Tang and Director Qi, wasn’t aware of this. Seeing Han Yu acting so nonchalant, he couldn’t help but ask, "Salted Fish, how’s the preparation going?"

"It’s in progress."

"What do you mean by ’in progress’?"

Han Yu raised his arm and saluted Director Tang, Director Qi, and the other leaders, smiling as he explained, "Our flood prevention and rescue camp is actually an engineering team specialized in certain fields. Whether it’s construction on land or operations on water, we don’t have reserve officers above the squad level who are specialized in specific tasks.

They know better which preparations to make, which materials to procure, and how many spare parts for engineering machinery and ship equipment to bring.

Director Huang, you mentioned over the phone that if the order comes down, you’ll act as our logistics director. My role is quite similar to yours; as long as I manage communication, coordination, and overall planning well, that’s enough."

Sanhe has changed a lot.

Huang Yuanchang glanced at the Martyr’s Cemetery next door, then turned to look at the Linghai Port Supervision Office building not far away, and asked, "So, what materials and spare parts need to be procured?"

"We previously assumed that we would only carry out rescue tasks within the province, so the contingency plans were all set for a seven-day limit. Now, there’s a possibility of going to Beihu, which means the plan doesn’t require large adjustments, but the materials to procure, the spare parts to prepare, including food and oil, need to be reconsidered for a month-long mission.

Once the division heads have deliberated, they will submit application forms. At that time, based on the actual situation, we can cut any unnecessary items on the list and proceed with urgent procurement."

"Why cut them? Isn’t it better to prepare more thoroughly?"

"Director Huang, I’d also like to prepare more thoroughly, but this involves a lot of funding and actual transportation capacity."

"You don’t need to worry about funding."

Do you know how expensive things on ships are?

Do you know how costly excavator spare parts are?

There’s an overwhelming amount of things to prepare. It’s no exaggeration to say that letting the divisions handle it could easily cost over a million.

Han Yu didn’t know how to explain, and Huang Yuanchang quickly realized that an outsider cannot direct the insiders and promptly asked, "How could transportation capacity be insufficient?"

He had to make it clear, otherwise, Huang might actually believe that they could bring as much flood prevention material back to Beihu as they wanted.

Han Yu patiently explained, "Director Huang, you mentioned over the phone that there are now conditions to bring a basic amount of ammunition, equivalent to fifty thousand cubic stone materials, to Jingjiang. But one cubic stone material weighs about two tons, so fifty thousand would be a hundred thousand tons!

With the floodwaters rising, the depth can accommodate ten-thousand-ton cargo ships sailing to Beihu. But as the waters rise, so do the risks. The water levels of the Yangtze River’s Jiangnan section have all exceeded the warning line, making it very difficult for ten-thousand-ton cargo ships to pass under the Jiangcheng Yangtze River Bridge, let alone the Hanwu Yangtze River Bridge, which isn’t as high.

In other words, we can only use inland river cargo ships for transport. Calculating with a barge carrying a thousand tons of stone materials, we would need one hundred bars. If looking at five hundred-ton ones, we would need two hundred. But how, in any instant, could we find so many ships?

Don’t be mistaken; even though thousands of ships, big and small, pass through Binjiang Waters every day, finding so many ships in a short time is impossible.

Huang Yuanchang was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say next.

"We need to bring stone materials, but there’s no way to bring too much. Bringing ten thousand cubic is already quite remarkable. Considering the difficulty in procuring stone materials in Jingzhou, we’ll have to find alternatives.

For instance, preparing more wire mesh, steel bars, and woven bags, and later obtaining soil on-site, filling sandbags, fastening them with wire into wire cages, and using loaders, excavators, or floating cranes to drop the sandbag-filled wire cages to block breaches or reinforce and protect the dike bases. We could even weld more steel cages with rebar and fill more sandbags."

"Isn’t it costly to do it this way?"

"The stone materials we can procure from the coastal cities along Jiangnan are mostly shipped from the middle reaches, and they’re not cheap to begin with. If transported back, the costs wouldn’t be any lower than using the method I just described. Most importantly, we lack the transportation capacity, and it’s also challenging to procure them in Jingzhou."

When it comes to things like these, Salted Fish is an expert. He participated in flood control operations when he was just a teenager, so what use is it to pretend to be a big shot with him? Besides, you’re originally a Weasel...