In the end, Chang Haonan felt that it was a bit too secondary, and proposed to cancel the first two words and name it "Xiyang" modular flood control reinforcement kit.

This makes it seem much more normal.

And it also retains the original Chinese characteristics.

Ding Gaoheng and Huai Guomo are both almost 120 years old combined, so naturally it is impossible to compete with Chang Haonan in such details.

Therefore, this kind of equipment, which will leave a strong mark in the field of flood control and disaster relief in the world in the future, was named by three people in just one minute.

Although Chang Haonan felt a little tired from the almost sleepless work in the previous two days, it was a joy to see his research results successfully implemented and applied to emergency rescue and disaster relief.

"The next step is to put it into production and then transport it to where it's needed."

The latter breathed a long sigh of relief, and the worry and tension in his heart finally eased a little.

"Rest assured, we are in accordance with the principle of proximity assigned production tasks, under the premise of location safety, as far as possible to ensure that the factory is closer to several high-risk river sections of the priority production, the only problem is that kind of superabsorbent resin, due to the special process, the current manufacturers who can supply in large quantities are in Zhejiang Province and Shandong Province, but the army has sent a special transport force to ensure the unimpeded supply of raw materials."

In terms of disaster relief organization capabilities, Huaxia said that he was the second, and no one dared to call it the first.

"You've done everything you can, and we'll take care of the rest."

Ding Gaoheng stretched out his hand, patted Chang Haonan's shoulder, and said with a little emotion:

"Moreover, it seems that our Comrade Xiao Chang, in addition to being a good hand in the study of military equipment, is not bad at all in developing civilian technology."

The latter shook his head slightly:

"Whether it's researching weapons and equipment, or anything else, our ultimate goal is to protect the security of the country and the people, and we just end up in the same place."

As a researcher with a military background, it is cool to develop new weapons and equipment, but the sense of accomplishment brought by saving people is definitely a new experience-

If you have the ability, why not do it?

Ding Gaoheng, who heard this, was stunned.

A few fragments from the corners of the memory came back to my mind.

It was an old man, a senior, who said something similar on his deathbed - "I don't love weapons, I love peace, but for peace, we need weapons." ”

"Well said, well said......"

His voice was not loud, almost muttering to himself.

In a trance, Ding Gaoheng seemed to have returned to the Gobi Desert more than ten years ago.

The earthquake trembled, the sky roared, and the smoke and flash of the explosion of a nuclear weapon appeared in front of my eyes......

It took a few minutes for him to come back to his senses, and secretly told himself in his heart that time was urgent, not the time to reminisce about the past.

So, after quickly adjusting his mood, Ding Gaoheng raised his head again;

"By the way, looking at your appearance, you shouldn't have had a good rest for a few days, I asked someone to prepare breakfast and a room in the guest house, you can go there and rest directly."

This is indeed the physical sense of drowsiness comes to hand the pillow.

I didn't feel it when I was in a state of nervous tension before, but now that I suddenly relaxed, I felt a wave of sleepiness surging.

"It's fine."

He knew that what Ding Gaoheng said was right, there was only so much he could do, and the tasks after that belonged to others.

……

For the next few days, it rained and kept falling.

A week later, one evening, the flood control and drought control command center near the Yangtze River embankment in Jiangling.

A poncho-clad figure was anxiously pacing back and forth inside.

It is said to be a command center, but in fact, it is a place temporarily set up on a slightly higher ground with several tents, and a set of special antennas are set up next to it to communicate with various monitoring points in front of it, as well as Jiangcheng and Beijing in the rear.

"Report to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief!"

The operator put down the radio and walked in three steps and two steps to the figure:

"The Shashi monitoring station reported that the water level has reached 44.68 meters!"

Thanks to the new stratospheric communication relay technology, even in the case of interference or destruction of ground communication stations, the normal upload and delivery of information can still be maintained.

This may be the only good news in front of us.

However, this "good news" brought him bad news like a thunderbolt from the blue.

According to the state's plan to prevent catastrophic floods, when the water level in Shashi exceeds 44.67 meters, preparations for flood distribution should be started immediately.

But the word "Fenhong" is easy to say, but when it comes time to make a decision, it is difficult to climb to the sky.

A few days ago, an expert group had calculated that 921.34 square kilometers of land would be flooded, and the direct economic loss was conservatively estimated to be nearly 20 billion yuan.

But if the flood is not divided, then the upstream flood peak will encounter the same flood that has already formed in the middle and lower reaches, transferring all the pressure below, especially Xunyang near the Poyang Lake system.

Moreover, once the Yangtze River embankment in Jiangling bursts, then the entire downstream area, including the three towns of Jiangcheng and most of Jiangxi Province, will become a flooded country, and the loss will be even more incalculable.

The choice was placed in front of Niu Maosheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the General Defense Headquarters.

"Flood ......"

He hesitated for a moment:

"Whether or not to divide the flood in the end, I need to escalate the request for final instructions. But without further ado, we must mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized now, and inform the masses in the flood distribution areas that they must all move to safety before 12 noon tomorrow, and no one will be missed! ”

Prepare for the best, and prepare for the worst.

"Yes!"

The operator team leader quickly turned around and returned to the front of the equipment and began to deploy the specific transfer work.

Soon, the terrible air raid sirens sounded, and television, radio, loudspeakers, and door-to-door knockers began to inform the same thing-

Order on Flood Preparedness and Relocation and Resettlement Headquarters

"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood."

"As long as there are people, the house can be rebuilt if it is destroyed......"

Slogans reverberated through the streets and alleys over Gangneung.

Niu Maosheng clenched his fists and looked tense.

Graduated from a major in farmland water conservancy, he has been working on the front line of the water conservancy system since graduation, and has participated in and commanded the flood control and rescue work in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the areas along the Yellow River many times.

But the gravity of the situation is far greater than ever.

The devastating floods of 1954, which he did not directly experience, can be compared.

And when he thought of the description of the flood in the archives he had read, Niu Maosheng only felt a chill all over his body-

More than 30,000 people died as a direct result of the floods alone, and if you add in the various secondary disasters, the final number could be an order of magnitude higher.

Although he told him that the water conservancy facilities in the entire Yangtze River basin are by no means comparable to those of 40 years ago, and the ability to prevent disasters and control secondary disasters is far greater than that of those years, it is emotionally impossible not to worry.

"Let's go and have a look on the embankment."

Niu Maosheng, who was uneasy, finally turned around and said to the several entourages who followed him.

"But the deputy commander-in-chief, ...... here"

"There are other staff members in charge here, besides, isn't the communication still open now, if there is really anything important, just contact me directly."

He said, gesturing to the portable radio device that a man next to him was carrying behind his back.

……

A few hours later, Niu Maosheng first took a passenger car, then a truck, and finally changed to a walk, and finally arrived at the Gangneung Embankment.

Several people trotted forward, snapped upright, and saluted Niu Maosheng.

Due to the obscuration of life jackets, he could not see the ranks of these people clearly.

Fortunately, the first person quickly spoke:

"The commander of the 41st Regiment of the 121st Infantry Division of the 361st Group Army of the Guangzhou Military Region, Huang Linqun reports to the deputy commander-in-chief!"

This number makes Niu Maosheng somewhat familiar.

Then, with the help of the searchlight light that swept by the scene, he saw a hunting red flag fluttering not far away.

There is a row of large golden letters written on it.

"Tower Hill Garrison Heroes"

There is no tower and no mountain on the tower mountain, and the four verticals are the tower and the mountain.

And this unit is the 28th Regiment of the 4th Column of Dongye in the past.

Seeing the PLA soldiers on both sides of the embankment who were on standby at any time, Niu Maosheng finally felt a little relieved.

"Tell me a little about the general condition of the embankment."

"Yes!"

Huang Linqun nodded, and then walked up the embankment with Niu Maosheng and his party:

"The designed flood distribution area covers about half of the area of Gong'an County, and is mainly composed of the north gate (flood intake), the south gate (control gate) and 208 kilometers of embankment, on which we are now ......"

"The north gate is located near the Taipingkou where the Hudu River and the Yangtze River meet in the north of the public security, and is composed of a 54-hole steel arc gate about 1 kilometer long, and there is a layer of dredging embankment outside, which is fixed.

"According to the design, the maximum flood inflow of the north gate is 8,000 cubic meters per second, if the opening of the north gate still does not reduce the water level of Shashi, it is necessary to blast the Lalinzhou embankment, about 4 kilometers east of us, and cooperate with the north gate to divert the flood into the Jingjiang flood distribution area......"

“……”

"Captain Huang!"

Just as the two of them were looking at the flood gate with the help of searchlights, another soldier who was also wearing camouflage uniforms suddenly rushed from behind.

I can't see my face clearly because of the night, but I hear a much younger voice.

"Captain Huang, are we really going to blow up the embankment tomorrow?"

This question was obviously not something that Huang Linqun could answer, so he had to raise his head and look at Niu Maosheng.

"Little comrade, I am Niu Maosheng, deputy commander-in-chief of the National Defense Headquarters, may I ask ...... you are?"

The latter walked closer to the other party, and although he still couldn't see the rank clearly, he could at least tell that he was a lieutenant.

The other party called Huang Linqun the head of the Huang regiment instead of the head of the regiment directly, which seemed to indicate that he was not from the 361st regiment.

"Report to the deputy commander-in-chief, I am Liu Zibei, the commander of the ground explosion company of the 41st Group Army Engineer Regiment, and I am currently temporarily assigned to the command of the 361st Regiment!"

Sure enough, it seems that if the decision is made to release the flood, then he will be responsible for the blasting work.

"How are preparations for the flood discharge going?"

Niu Maosheng did not directly answer the other party's question, but asked first.

"A total of 50 tons of explosives have been planted on the North Gate Barrier and the Lalinzhou River Embankment, and blasting can be carried out at any time as long as an order is received."

Company Commander Liu's first answer was a completely professional question, so it was very crisp.

But then the tone changed:

"But the deputy commander-in-chief, I ...... I've been studying blasting for more than ten years, but I can't do it the first time I actually do it...... It's just going to flood people's homes......"

"My hometown is in Hunan Province, so I know too well what it will be like after being flooded......

Liu Zibei's words smashed into Niu Maosheng's heart like a hammer.

But he also knows that the most important thing is to consider the risks of whether to discharge floods.

It was raining heavily in the dark night, and the tension before the battle weighed down the people.

Niu Maosheng did not go back, but stayed with Huang Linqun all the time, and met with the commander of the 121st Division with the latter and listened to the other party's report, but finally returned to the vicinity of the planned flood discharge.

Late that night.

Another group of people came to the embankment of Gangneung.

Niu Maosheng was the first to recognize the identity of the leader.

"Commander-in-Chief!"

The other man nodded, and then said in a characteristic, slow but rhythmic tone:

"I have been authorized to issue a flood distribution order, but before making a final decision on whether to divide the flood, I still hope to hear the opinions of water conservancy experts and front-line PLA commanders and fighters."

Several engineers and meteorologists from the Hydropower Research Institute next to them looked at each other.

In the end, there was one person who stood up as a representative and reported:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the sixth wave of flood peaks will arrive in Jiangling tomorrow, but this wave of flood peaks belongs to the sharp and thin type, although the height is very large, but the total amount of water is limited, if you cooperate with the ultra-elevation flood storage of the Geheyan Reservoir, Gezhouba Power Plant cut flow, and the reservoirs in Sichuan and Chongqing are all locked, then the limit water level should be around 45.25 meters, which is still below the theoretical limit of the embankment, so if you want to survive the difficulties, you must use enough manpower to strictly guard against it!"

This judgment has undoubtedly brought a glimmer of hope to the flood distribution area.

However, the commander-in-chief is also from an engineering background, and knows that the theoretical limit has far exceeded the target limit at the time of design, and the middle part is only a safety margin due to the inability to guarantee 100% accuracy in the engineering calculation process.

Since it is a margin, it must not be completely reliable.

If you really have to choose to resist hard, then the pressure will be on the cadres and masses responsible for guarding the embankment and the commanders and fighters of the army.

His gaze swept over the Huang Linqun standing in front of him.

"Captain Huang, now is not the time to be strong, how sure do you think you can be?"

Huang Linqun did not answer directly, but took a step forward.

He is just a regimental leader, and no matter what answer he says, it has no meaning at the decision-making level.

"Commander-in-chief, our 361st Regiment is the best at defense, since we were able to hold Tashan back then, we can also hold Gangneung today."

"People are in the embankment!"

(End of chapter)