Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 946 - 632: Outstanding Meritorious Service!

2:21 AM, the stone materials finally arrived.

These precious block stones and sliced stones were donated by the Yangtze River Three Gorges Corporation and were supposed to arrive in Jingzhou yesterday at noon.

However, an emergency occurred upstream, and the local leader in charge of the rescue noticed a fleet loaded with stone materials on the river and immediately ordered civilian soldiers to find a boat to intercept and requisition them.

The fleet did not have a high-frequency radio, and the fleet leader didn't have a mobile phone, so they couldn't report to the Jingzhou Flood Control Command.

The local leader only focused on the rescue efforts and didn't care whose stone materials they were, even if it were the emperor himself, he would still requisition them—at most, he would pay for them!

Jingzhou Flood Control Command assigned a dedicated person to search upstream, and by the time they found them, only half was left, and the local authorities were unwilling to let them go.

Deputy Mayor Liu personally called that county leader, who emphatically stated over the phone that they urgently needed the stone materials and that he should be removed from office first if they wanted to take them away, then see if the more than one million people in the county would agree.

Resources for rescue are scarce everywhere now, especially block stones and sliced stones.

Deputy Mayor Liu understood the county leader's situation and worked hard to persuade him until the situation there was basically under control, and only then did the desperate county leader agree to let them go…

At 2:28 AM, the urgently needed woven bags were also delivered to the opposite bank.

Over 15,000 woven bags just arrived, shipped from several districts and counties across the river.

Gu Pengfei was instantly overwhelmed, having to organize personnel to toss and fill the deep slots at the riverbed while also organizing boats to transport woven bags to the opposite bank.

With the "ammunition," Han Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He ran back to the dry levee, holding the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Director Gu, slow down, stop throwing so fast!"

"Received."

"Director Ge, please organize County Magistrate Huang to have the people move the woven bags!"

"Okay, got it."

"Instructor Yang, can you hear me?"

"Yes, Secretary Han, please speak!"

"From now on, you will be responsible for inspecting the sandbags. Many bags transported up just now are not tightly tied. What's the use if they're not tied tightly? Unqualified ones must not be transported to the levee!"

"Understood, I'll go look after it immediately."

The soil for filling sandbags was no longer dug by excavators; it was all dug manually by the civilian soldiers who had previously responded to piping emergencies and the nearby communities, carried one bag at a time.

Under the command of Hao Qiusheng and Zou Xiangyu, the repair of the new levee reached fifteen meters, but it couldn't be tightly compressed with just three loaders and one bulldozer, and a loose levee can't stop the floodwater.

As they built higher, the levee top became narrower, so large dump trucks could no longer go up.

Now, the two earthwork construction teams adjusted the rescue plan again, instead of building higher, they widened the new levee and started building from the bottom up on the inside of the new levee.

The "wall-building team" from the 132nd Regiment worked quickly; with an endless supply of sandbags, they built the sandbag wall over eight meters high, with each sandbag tightly pressing against the other.

Just when Han Yu thought that in two more hours, the sandbag wall could be built to the top of the new levee, giving it preliminary water-blocking capabilities, Master Sun urgently called over the walkie-talkie.

"Secretary Han, Secretary Han!"

"Master Sun, what's happening?"

"The dangerous levee can't hold anymore! The previous cracks are widening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there are over a hundred new cracks appearing!" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Heaven is not being kind, not giving us time…

Without bothering to look, Han Yu immediately shouted, "Notify 001, sound the alarm!"

"Yes!"

"Battalion Commander Wu! Battalion Commander Wu! The front levee is about to breach, get your people up here immediately!"

"Yes!"

As Han Yu dashed towards the new levee, he roared into the walkie-talkie, "County Magistrate Huang, Director Ge, the dangerous levee is about to breach, alert those below the levee immediately!"

County Magistrate Huang instinctively looked back at the dangerous levee, and Old Ge, snapping back to reality, hurriedly reminded, "County Magistrate Huang, stop looking and quickly call the Command Center."

"Ah… oh…"

"Hurry up, quickly!"

Old Ge patted County Magistrate Huang on the shoulder and then raised his walkie-talkie, "Camp Commander Li, Camp Commander Li, this is Ge Weidong from the Linghai Reserve Camp expert group, the dangerous levee is about to brea! The dangerous levee is about to breach! Please immediately notify all companies, platoons, and squads and inform local officials to go to higher ground immediately!"

Li Shousong, conducting a carpet search in a village, heard the call and hurriedly responded, "Received, I'll notify immediately!"

"Act swiftly!"

"Yes!"

At this moment, the loudspeakers on 001 blared a piercing alarm.

Hao Qiusheng and Zou Xiangyu dared not let their brothers continue working and immediately ordered all personnel and equipment below the levee to retreat to higher ground.

Yang Jianbo, Qiu Xuequan, and Zhao Jiang realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately, in accordance with Han Yu's previous instructions, organized the soldiers and civilians filling sandbags to evacuate to the levee.

"Everyone, follow my command!"

Han Yu ran out of breath up the new levee, overlooking the machinery and personnel evacuating below, and, holding a portable loudspeaker, he shouted hoarsely, "Don't panic, don't crowd, people on the west side, run westward; there's a rope on the western levee, climb up along it. People on the east, move eastward; there's not only a rope but also a road on the eastern levee!

Safety officers of each group, alert the safety officers of each group, please organize an orderly evacuation of the people! Don't all crowd onto the construction access road, ensure that construction machinery can leave promptly! Right, keep it up, we have at least five minutes…"

When Deputy Mayor Shen heard the alarm, he didn't bother continuing his phone call with the businesses and dashed along the dry levee to this side.

After arranging for the personnel and equipment inside the new levee to evacuate, Han Yu turned around and picked up the loudspeaker again, "Battalion Commander Wu, report your situation, have all your people come up?"