Chapter 003: Never Let the Tragedy of History Repeat Itself
In the darkness of the night, the raging river roared wave after wave against the last gabion, making a rumbling sound and the sound of waves crashing on the shore. Wang Guozhong, secretary of the Tongjiang Municipal Party Committee, wore a grass-green raincoat, sandals and trouser legs barefoot, and accompanied by Bai Wannian, secretary of the Huihe Municipal Party Committee, while inspecting the dangerous situation on the dam in Dahewan, while listening to Bai Wannian's report, and sometimes studying the dangerous situation with him.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, armed police officers, militia reservists, and temporarily recruited migrant workers braved the pouring rain and carried sandbags back and forth across the dam, and bags of sandbags were thrown into the swirling rapids behind the gabion and were swallowed up in the blink of an eye. Watching the muddy rescue personnel rushing forward one after another to throw sandbags, Wang Guozhong was very moved, turned his head and asked Bai Wannian if he still had a reserve, and wanted to replace these soldiers who had been fighting on the dam for several days to take a break.
Bai Wannian said: "Secretary Wang, I have already transferred all the reserves in the Dahewan emergency, the situation is urgent, and there is no one to replace!" ”
Wang Guozhong nodded and said: "The situation is urgent, and this can only be the case, but you must do a good job in the logistics work, and you must not let the soldiers suffer and starve again!" ”
Bai Wannian said: "Please rest assured Secretary Wang, we promise to do a good job in logistics, we have prepared bread, ham sausages and soft drinks very well, and we will never let a soldier be thirsty and starving!" ”
Colonel Zhang, who was standing on the side, heard a salute and said: "Thank you for your concern, and at the same time, please rest assured that we will resolutely complete the task of fighting floods and rescuing people!" ”
The gabion is very long, nearly 30 meters into the river, close to the dam has been filled with a large number of stones and sandbags, but behind the front of the gabion by the turbulent river water formed a huge whirlpool, the sandbags are thrown into the river in a blink of an eye and washed away, moreover, the soldiers walking on the gabion is very dangerous, if you accidentally fall into the river, you will be swallowed up instantly, plus the gabion is narrow, only one person can pass, the efficiency is not at all.
"Quack, boom, boom......" There was a crisp sound! Immediately afterwards, I heard the shouts of the warriors in front of me: "Oh no, the gabion has been broken!! With the shouts of the warriors, the wire at the front end of the gabion broke inch by inch under the huge force of the river, and then the stones inside were swept away by the torrent, and in a blink of an eye, the gabion at the front end of 3 or 4 meters disappeared!
"Danger! Get out of here, quick, quick,......," one of the commanders ran to the front and yelled at the warriors on the gabion. The warriors on the gabion quickly withdrew when they heard the order. Due to the timely evacuation, no one fell into the water due to the dangerous situation. Seeing all this, Wang Guozhong's heart relaxed.
The forces of nature are irresistible, and once the gabion is torn open, it collapses in the blink of an eye in the face of a huge torrent, and the people on the dam watch the gabion being swept into the river one by one but can do nothing. In just ten minutes, a 30-meter-long gabion and thousands of sandbags filled behind it were all swept away by the torrent, and the huge torrent roared and hit the dam directly!
Wang Guozhong, who was standing on the dam, felt the dam trembling at his feet, and witnessed how the flood washed away hundreds of stones and sandbags, and an ominous premonition immediately rose in his heart. But he said very calmly: "Secretary Wannian, immediately implement the emergency plan, for the sake of more than 20,000 people downstream and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, we must guard to the death, and we must ensure the safety of the dam!" ”
Bai Wannian said: "Secretary Wang, in order to ensure the safety of the people downstream, in the evening I have arranged for the cadres of the municipal party committee and the municipal axe organ and the public security bureau to carry out an emergency evacuation of the people downstream, and at 9 o'clock in the evening, I received a report that more than 90% of the people have been evacuated, and have been properly resettled, and now it is estimated that all the evacuations have been completed!" ”
"Good, good! You guys are doing a great job! Wang Guozhong waved his big hand and said, "I will never allow a single casualty to happen!" ”
Under the impact of the huge torrent, the entire dam seemed to be trembling, seeing this situation, Bai Wannian hesitated for a moment and said: "Secretary Wang, it is dangerous here, please go to the headquarters over there to take shelter from the rain!" ”
"Nonsense!" Wang Guozhong became angry when he heard it: "I'm in danger here? Then you see if these fighters are dangerous or not, and today I will not go anywhere, so I will stand on the dam with the fighters until the flood waters recedes! ”
Bai Wannian knew Wang Guozhong's temper very well, and knew that saying this would cause him to be angry, but he still had to say that he chose to remain silent when he saw that he was angry.
Wang Guozhong saw the unnatural expression on Bai Wannian's face, and knew that his words were serious, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly: "I heard that this dam was newly built the year before last, I don't know if it can resist this flood?" ”
Bai Wannian said: "Yes, the year before last, the city took into account the important surname of the Dahewan Dam flood control, allocated special funds for reconstruction, the design standard is once in 50 years, according to the city's water pattern data, this year's flood is not as big as 53 years, it should be no problem!" ”
"Okay, that's fine!" Wang Guozhong felt a little comforted when he heard this, thought for a while and said: "However, we can't take it lightly now, we must go all out to ensure the safety of the dam!" ”
A muffled thunder made Qin Zihe's heart tremble, thinking of the imminent dam failure, thinking of Wang Guozhong's imminent martyrdom, he couldn't sit still anymore, since he was reborn, he must not let the tragedy of history repeat itself, although the problem of the dam collapse is not able to be reversed, but it is still possible to save Wang Guozhong's life!
If you want to save Wang Guozhong's life, you must let him evacuate the dam immediately, but Wang Guozhong's surname is very clear to him, he will run up to the dam so recklessly and let him leave there, he must find a reason for him to leave there, what kind of reason can make him have to leave?
Qin Zihe couldn't figure out the essentials after thinking hard, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, there is! That's it! Thinking of this, he struggled to get out of bed. When Xia Mei saw this, she hurriedly stepped forward and held him down: "Township Chief Qin, you don't want to die?" Now your body is too weak to go to the ground! ”
"No, I have to go see Secretary Wang immediately!" Qin Zihe wanted to push Xia Mei away as he spoke, but his weak body couldn't resist Xia Mei at all, Xia Mei pressed him to the bed and said, "Township Chief Qin, you are a patient now, you must listen to me, if you go out now, it is very dangerous, I have to be responsible for the patient!" ”
Qin Zihe gasped and looked at Xia Mei and said very emotionally: "Xia Mei, I know what my body looks like, but now I have to go to see Secretary Wang, I suddenly thought of a very important question, which is related to the safety of thousands of people, I have to report to Secretary Wang in person, you say, is it important for me to be alone or the safety of thousands of people?" ”
When it came to the safety of thousands of people, Xia Mei knew that she couldn't stop Qin Zihe, so she had to nod and say, "Okay, you can go to the dam, but you have to let me go with you, I don't worry about you going alone!" ”
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