Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 879 - 597: What Mobile Across a Thousand Miles? (Part 2)

Director Tang muttered to himself and curiously asked, "Salted Fish, if the embankment really breaches, will the wire cages and rebar cages filled with sandbags be washed away by the floodwaters?"

"If we encounter such a danger, even a cubic meter of stone will be washed away, so before throwing in the wire cages and rebar cages, we need to carry out water piling operations.

We have studied and tested; with an excavator, we can press the piles down. Considering we only have two excavators, which may be needed for earthworks later, my brother-in-law and Master Lu from the Road and Bridge Company came up with a solution. By welding a piling frame with steel and installing a piling machine used onshore, we can use a floating crane to pile in water."

"So pile first, and after piling, throw in the wire cages and rebar cages. The piles can stop the cages from being washed away by the flood?"

"That depends on the length of the breach and the speed of the flood. If the breach is too long and the flood speed too fast, a few piles alone won’t hold back the flood. At that time, we need to set up a springboard to work both on water and onshore simultaneously, continue piling while also driving steel pipes into the breach. Like setting up scaffolding, use couplers to fill the breach with steel pipes and brace them well, then throw cages, sandbags, and earthbags. Once relatively controlled, we proceed with earthworks to seal the breach."

This is a major engineering project!

No wonder Salted Fish says they’re like a construction team.

Director Tang nodded and asked no more questions.

Director Qi worriedly asked, "Salted Fish, if the embankment really breaches, the water flow will definitely be swift and might even form a whirlpool at the breach. Can work vessels on water stay steady or will they get washed away and capsized by the surging floodwaters?"

"Just relying on anchoring won’t keep them steady, so we need high-power tugs to hold the engineering vessels. We have Linggang Tuo 001, and Director Huang said he could help requisition another high-power, fully rotating tug. With two tugs towing, the engineering vessels can surely stay steady."

Han Yu paused and added, "As for how many piles are needed, how long the steel pipes need to be, and how many scaffolding couplers are required, the construction technology team is calculating. However, we’re planning to block two major breaches. With our current transport capacity, we can only bring so many."

"Steel pipe couplers should be available for purchase in Beihu. To ensure everything is foolproof, I’ll make a call later to check."

Listening to Han Yu, Huang Yuanchang felt more confident in Han Yu and his engineering team, and turned to introduce, "Salted Fish, relying solely on me won’t do well for your camp’s logistics support. With superior’s approval, a logistics support group is being formed here.

Including me, there are six tentative members: Director Xu from the Port Supervision Bureau of Binjiang, Director Liu from the Changhang Bureau, and Comrade Fang Weibing from the Waterway Section. You don’t know the three from Beihu; they are more familiar with Jingzhou, with one of them being a native."

Xiao Yu’s mentor and superior are Hanwu people.

The youngest deputy director of the Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau may not be Hanwu people, but he is a Beihu native.

Old Fang from the Binjiang Waterway Section is also a Beihu native.

"Huang Imperial Commissioner" is good at choosing people, selecting these three to join Changhang’s logistics support group. They will certainly be dedicated, as it’s to defend their homeland.

Han Yu was reflecting on how he underestimated "Weasel Huang" before when suddenly, car horns blared outside.

Soon, military trucks, led by a Toyota off-road vehicle from the Military District, slowly drove into the camp compound.

"Mayor Qin, why did you come in person, is there an order from the superior?"

"No orders yet, but preparations need to be made, and I wouldn’t be at ease without checking."

Vice Mayor Qin greeted Huang Yuanchang, Director Tang, and others, then smiled at Han Yu and asked, "If the order is issued, you’ll have to mobilize a thousand miles by land and water to reach Jingzhou, not an easy task. Salted Fish, honestly, do you have confidence?"

You don’t trust me, so why make me the Camp Commander...

Han Yu muttered to himself and simply turned around to shout, "Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu!"

"Present!"

"Come here for a moment."

"Yes!" Xiao Yu hurried over, leaving the cleaning of his beloved excavator, saluted the leaders, then asked blankly, "Salted Fish, what’s up?"

Han Yu smiled and said, "Mayor Qin said that going to Hanwu is a thousand-mile mobilization, not easy, and asked if we have confidence."

Xiao Yu was definitely Director Liu’s staunch confidant in Binjiang.

Director Liu, worried Xiao Yu might speak out of turn and upset city leaders, subtly signaled Xiao Yu.

Amusingly, Xiao Yu, instead of loudly proclaiming "confidence" as he once did at the police academy, couldn’t help but laugh and said, "What thousand-mile mobilization, it’s not easy, that’s just a bad habit born of poverty and habit!" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Vice Mayor Qin, having known Xiao Yu for a long time and always treating him as a junior, wouldn’t get upset. Instead, he asked with interest, "What does a bad habit born of poverty and habit mean?"

"A thousand-mile mobilization just refers to the troops, with no money for drills, rarely going out, making it seem like long-distance travel is hard. But for long-distance travel, which of our engineering teams in Linghai doesn’t travel far? Going to Beihu is nothing. People board the coach outside the construction station during the New Year, and after the manager sets off the firecrackers, they head all over the country, some even to the Western Border, much farther than Beihu."

Xiao Yu pointed in the direction of the river embankment, animatedly saying, "As for the fleet going far, going to Hanwu isn’t far either. Salted Fish gets his name because he was born in the Mountain City. Uncle Han was running these distances long ago, just like my father-in-law and mother-in-law. The people in the shipping company go everywhere, calling the whole world home!"