Perfect Feast

Chapter 24 Blocking

"I'm Ma Qianqian, the deputy mayor of Huangzhuang Town. Is the county magistrate Liu up there? Secretary Sun Shu asked me to send the villagers of Zhangjiazhuang Village to the embankment, and some people from above will come down to help..."

"Look down, there are people below..."

Just when everyone was busy, the villagers of Zhangjiazhuang finally groped their way to the bottom of the embankment in the knee-deep water.

Zhang Yawei hurriedly asked people to move the lights over, and organized fifty or sixty people to help the elderly and children climb up the embankment.

"Magistrate Liu, it's not good for so many old people and children to stay here. These people have to retreat. If this section of the embankment fails, they won't have time to run..." Zhang Yawei found Liu Yang and made his suggestion.

What he said was correct, but Liu Yang also knew that he wanted to let him entrust this job to him. In this way, he can lead this group of people out of the dangerous area.

To be honest, Liu Yang looked at him with a bit of regret in his heart. At this time, Zhang Yawei was the most obvious one among the cadres who were still thinking about personal safety. However, thinking about how this group of people should be settled, there is really one person who can hold the line, so he nodded and said: "Okay, you and the horse who brought them here just now go forward and take these fellow villagers. Go to Lingjiao Bay in the north. Because there is a bend in that section of the embankment, the embankment is thicker than other places, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”

"Okay, I will resolutely complete the task..." After getting this job, Zhang Yawei was so happy that he almost jumped up and was about to leave.

"Wait..." Liu Yang stopped him again and said, "When I came here, I heard that there were hundreds of fishermen nearby, and I don't know what's going on now. When you arrive, let someone look for it. No, keep people safe."

"Okay, I see." Zhang Yawei waited this time, seeing that Liu Yang had no other plans, then turned and left.

Several dazzling beams of light shone over, and the vehicles transporting gravel drove over again. As the car stopped, a figure ran over from behind the beam of light. Before Liu Yang could see who she was, the man grabbed Liu Yang's hand: "Are you okay? I knew you were on the embankment, so I almost scared me to death..."

Hearing the voice, Liu Yang realized that this person was actually Zhao Jingjing.

"Why are you here?" Liu Yang asked a little strangely, and then he blamed again: "What are you doing here? It's dangerous here, so hurry up and go back with the car..."

"I won't go back. Wherever you are, I will be there. I want to be with you..." Zhao Jingjing held Liu Yang tightly in her hand, and she didn't know whether it was because of the rain or worry, but her little hand was still wet. A trace of coldness.

"You... this is my responsibility, what's the matter with you here?" Liu Yang's voice was full of anger, and he wanted to lose his temper but said a little bit reluctantly: "Be obedient, follow the car back obediently, don't delay my work."

Zhao Jingjing suddenly let go of Liu Yang's hand, snorted and said, "Then don't delay my taking care of my husband... Anyway, I won't delay your business, you can do whatever you want, I will be here Just follow behind, it won't hinder you."

"You... Jingjing, why are you bothering? Don't you worry me about this kind of weather?" Looking at her, Liu Yang didn't know what to say. Zhao Jingjing smiled proudly: "You still know how to worry about me? Then you should know that I am also worried about you. No matter how dangerous it is, I will watch you with my own eyes and stay with you..."

The two of them were talking, when suddenly there was a bang, and people on and off the bank shouted, and everyone ran to the embankment one after another.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Liu Yang knew that the situation must be bad, but he didn't feel anything unusual. It certainly didn't look like a dike broke. Why are you running?

Wu Yuandong walked over with a mournful face, and said anxiously: "Hurry up...Magistrate Liu, retreat quickly, the embankment is really unstoppable this time... The underside of the embankment has been hollowed out by the lake water, forming a gap of more than ten meters. Passed through..."

"Ah? Then this embankment..." Liu Yang looked to the other side in surprise.

Sure enough, the "fountain" just now was gone, replaced by a raging stream of water, rushing forward like a wild horse breaking free.

"Magistrate Liu, this levee was built in the 1950s and 1960s. Let me put it bluntly. It may not look like rammed earth, but it is stronger than some dams we have built with reinforced concrete over the years. If it hadn't been dug The sand has hollowed out the sand below, and this heavy rain will not cause any problems to it at all. Now it is really impossible. There is such a big hole below, and it is a miracle that the upper part can support it until now. Get out of the hidden gold organization, sooner or later it won't be able to withstand the impact of this flood..."

When Wu Yuandong said these words, his tone was complicated. I really don’t know whether to pay tribute to the older generation in the 1950s or 1960s, or to curse that people today are all in the eyes of money. Tofu dregs project.

"Old Wu, the more this is the case, the more we can't withdraw now." Liu Yang swallowed hard, watching the flood rolling westward, Liu Yang clenched his hands tightly, and said fiercely: "At this time we If we leave, this levee will definitely be washed down..."

Wu Yuandong hesitated and said, "But, with such a fast current, throwing sandbags into it won't work at all..."

Zhao Jingjing suddenly pointed to the cars behind her and shouted: "There is a way, drive the car down..."

Wu Yuandong couldn't help but took a deep breath: "This? It's too dangerous..."

Liu Yang's eyes lit up, looking at Wu Yuandong, he asked, "Old Wu, is there any danger around you at this time? If you want to talk about danger, the danger has already happened. Secretary Sun and the others are still mobilizing in Danie Village. As for the relocation of the common people, no matter how we look at it, we can’t leave so many people alone. Even if it’s a sacrifice, it’s worth it as long as it can plug the hole. You just say that you don’t care about it?”

"It's possible... But, it's best to drive down with the sandbags on the car to plug the opening. There are still examples like this. When the Jiujiang River was flooded, the gap was blocked by sinking a ship..."

"This levee is related to the lives and safety of 200,000 people in Huling County, and the life and death of more than 600,000 people in the county. Back then, Jiujiang was able to sink a ship and block the mouth, but we have to create a miracle with our cars..."

Three dump trucks full of sand and gravel drove over. Although the drivers on the truck were sweating, none of them shirked.

The parking place was already empty, and the water in the East Lake was rolling with waves, and the violent waves passed under it. The disaster, which was just watching at a glance, approached and fell in front of the people of Huling. If you don't have a bit of blood and courage at this time, how can you still be called a Huling person?

Everyone knows that it is dangerous to drive the car to this position. If the embankment cannot withstand the heavy pressure and collapses, the driver in the car should not be able to escape. However, one car can never block the huge gap below, driving one after another is still equivalent to a refueling tactic.

In order to block the opening below, it is necessary to push down three cars side by side.

Each car is loaded with more than 40 tons of sand and gravel, plus the weight of the car, it has exceeded 50 tons. This weight is nothing on a solid road, but in this kind of place, it is simply a life-threatening struggle.

Liu Yang stood aside in person, directing the car to the designated location with a solemn expression. When the driver got out of the car, he was already sweating profusely, but they didn't bother to wipe it off, so they trotted around to the back of the car. Behind each car, there were forty or fifty strong young men in a stance, prying down with wooden sticks, pushing with hands, under the sound of County Magistrate Liu's loud chant In the middle, three cars rumbled and fell to the bottom of the embankment.

With the huge splash of water, people who were already able to carry sandbags on the other side lined up and rushed up in an orderly manner, throwing sandbags denser than raindrops, and then these people left quickly, and the next row of people rushed up again. rushed up...

At this moment, no one is afraid, no one is afraid of suffering, no one flinches, and no one is a deserter.

No one remembers how many times he ran, and no one remembers how many bags of sandbags he carried. I slipped to get up, my hand was torn and I didn't care to bandage it, my ankle was sprained and I limped and continued to walk...

Three dump trucks and more than 20,000 bags of sand and gravel were thrown in, finally filling up the raging flood...Nature's revenge on human beings is really not at all happy. No matter how much gravel you dug from its body, you have to return it, or even double it.

At 10:30 in the evening, cheers finally came from the embankment.

The mouth is blocked!

No smoke.

Better than seeing gunpowder.

The battle to seal the gap was extremely brutal and difficult...but no matter how difficult it was, the gap was finally blocked.

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On the roof of a family in Niejiazhuang, Sun Qingmei, more than a dozen county cadres, and 20 to 30 village fellows were in a state of anxiety. They watched me, who was constantly flooded by the flood, grow crazily. In less than an hour, Time has spread from the window to the height of the square roof.

Another five minutes... According to the speed of the surge just now, as long as there are another five minutes, the flood will exceed the roof. The little girl she rescued from the room just now has been holding her leg tightly all the time, unwilling to let go no matter what anyone is saying.

Her grandma, an old lady who was nearly seventy years old, was sitting on a bed that had been soaked by the quilt, crying silently with her mouth open. I have lived for more than 60 years, and I grew up by this lake since I was a child. When have I never seen such a big water?

God—this is God doesn't want that person to live!

At this moment, Wang Guangming, who had been squatting on the edge of the roof watching the rising water, suddenly yelled excitedly: "Sun Shu. Ji, the water level seems to have started to drop..."

"Oh? Are you sure?" Sun Qingmei couldn't help being shocked after hearing this. Now most of the villagers are squatting on the roof of their own houses. If it is going up, there is really no way out.

Wang Guangming said excitedly: "It can't be wrong, my hand has been sticking to this place all the time, the flood just reached my wrist, but now it's only reaching my fingertips..."

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