Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 966 - 641: Guarding and Protecting the Dike

The Linghai Reserve Camp is well-equipped but has few personnel.

For instance, the main force for emergency construction, including the earthwork construction squad and the earthwork transportation squad, has been temporarily organized into two earthwork construction teams according to flood emergency needs. This includes sixteen tractor drivers without tractors and eight flood defense local experts from various villages and towns along Yanjiang, making a total of only forty-three people.

Similarly, the Party shock troop team assisting pile driving onshore or on water, including Deputy Instructor Xu Mingyuan, consists of only nineteen people.

Currently, in terms of numbers, the Water Rescue Team and the Logistics Support Team, each with two assault boats, have the most people.

The command unit of the Water Rescue Team has four members, and there are three squads, each with fifteen members, totaling forty-nine people.

On the earthwork construction side, more than a dozen truck drivers can be of assistance.

They have long worked with the Road and Bridge Company and have formed a tacit understanding with Sun Youyi, Zou Xiangyu, and other leaders, as well as Master Zhou and other excavator and loader drivers.

Almost all can whistle, wave little red flags, and serve as on-site safety officers and commanders during construction. Some can even operate loaders and bulldozers from the Road and Bridge Company.

The eight flood defense local experts recruited by Master Yao can't help much with emergency construction, but they won't be idle, just like Ma Jintao's Water Rescue Team.

Previously, to ensure the safety of people and property, the county decided to organize the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.

As people evacuated with their families, the road was congested.

Now, as they return home with urgency, the main roads are even more congested than during the evacuation.

Even if the people under the embankment can reach home before dark, there are many things to do after returning. For example, finding chickens and ducks that they didn't have time to take before, or pigs that run and dig everywhere, as well as tidying up their bedding, etc.

This directly results in not many people temporarily guarding the more than ninety kilometers of the Yangtze River embankment!

In flood defense, dike patrol and danger detection are extremely important tasks.

Only through continuous and meticulous patrols can one discover whether there are leaks, falls, slippages, cracks, seepage, pipes, or collapses in the embankments. If there's no patrol or timely discovery, no matter how professional the emergency response team is, it would be of no use.

Previously, there was a major danger of imminent collapse and breach at the Yang Liu Village segment of the embankment. The decision was made to evacuate as there was no point in continuing to guard it.

Now that the danger has been alleviated, it can't be left unguarded again.

The directly blocking embankment section in Angong County is very long, and currently, there are only a little over a hundred Party cadres and basic civilian soldiers on the embankment. On average, each person needs to guard one kilometer.

Dike patrol and danger detection aren't simply about walking back and forth on the embankment. It's a comprehensive and detailed inspection carried out on foot.

One needs to see with their eyes, listen with their ears, tread with their feet, and touch with their hands.

It's necessary to measure potential danger spots with a ruler or water probe.

One needs to use an iron shovel or sickle to clear vegetation on the embankment body and foot, probing the soil for softness and moisture, and even independently handle general dangers.

Han Yu, along with Old Ge, Hao Qiusheng, and other key figures of the Linghai Reserve Camp, didn't want their efforts to come to naught. From last night, they started organizing personnel not involved in earthwork construction to take over five kilometers of dike defense at each end of the construction area, with Master Xu and Master Yao in full command.

Facts proved that organizing personnel for dike patrol and danger detection makes a huge difference.

As of 3 PM today, nineteen minor dangers have been discovered.

For example, some dike sections have minor cracks, some have minor seepage, and on the low-lying non-water side of some sections, the dike foot is soaked in more than a meter deep of accumulated water.

There are also sections of dikes that are quite thin due to years of disrepair...

Based on reports from officers and soldiers responsible for each dike section, Han Yu immediately organized forces to conduct emergency responses.

Du Yuan, the "Little Mason" of the 132 Regiment, got busy. Upon receiving an order, he, along with the "old platoon leader" from the Logistics Support Team and the "Commander" from the Navy diving squad, boarded the 001. They headed straight for the dike section where cracks appeared, carrying a machine that looked like a big water pump and a bunch of steel pipes hung over from a barge.

"Boss Officer" President Wu, who was responsible for that dike section, had been waiting for a long time. As soon as they saw the 001 arrived, they led their subordinates to help.

The big water pump was very heavy, and the boom on the 001 couldn't lift it, so everybody had to work together to lift it onto the dike.

"Comrades, give it a bit more effort!"

"Uncle Zhu, we'll connect the wires later; we need to check the dike body and foot first."

"Captain Fan, when the equipment is hoisted onto the dike, drive it slowly, as before; we need to give this section an X-ray!"

Master Yao now acts like a firefighter. After checking the dangers here and arranging emergency responses, he has to go to the next problematic dike section. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Captain Fan knew he was busy and raised his walkie-talkie: "Old Zhu, Xiao Chen, hurry over to lend a hand and quickly!"

"Roger that."

Zhu Baogen and Xiao Chen couldn't afford to delay with the cables and rushed to the stern to help hoist the slurry pump ashore.

This slurry pump wasn't bought by the camp but was dismantled from a three-no sand dredging boat confiscated jointly by Han Yu and others from the Water Resources Supervision Enforcement Team and the Port Supervision Bureau.

According to relevant regulations, the Port Supervision has every right to seize "three-no boats" and dismantle them.

If Binjiang's family planning management is the strictest in the country, then the Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau Linghai Port Supervision Office's crackdown on "three-no boats" and illegal sand dredging boats is also the strictest nationwide!

No matter how much you spent building this boat, or who you ask to intercede, as long as it's caught, it's temporarily seized and then procedurally dismantled.

The principle of the sand pump is the same as that of the grouting pump.