1949 I am from the future

[389] heavy rain

When Xiaoqiang returned to 1950, it was already mid-July, and the Huaihe River flood that happened this year had already begun.

As in history, starting from June 6, over the Huaihe River Basin, the rain was pouring down on the ground.

The climate seemed not to be disturbed by the butterfly wings of the traverser at all, and the flood finally arrived as expected.

Historically, the torrential rain and flood in the entire Huaihe River Basin can be divided into three stages.

第一阶段从6月26日开始到6月30日，最高降雨124mm。

After two days of cloudiness in the middle, the torrential rain came back with full momentum. The second stage was from July 7 to July 2, with a maximum rainfall of 7mm.

But I never expected that there will be a third stage, from July 7th to July 7th, for 7 days, the heavy rain seems to be unstoppable, with a maximum rainfall of 19mm.

On July 7rd all tributary dams were flooded,

On July 7, the main embankment of the Huaihe River collapsed in Funan County.

On July 7, the Huoqiu embankment burst,

On the 7th, the Huaiyuan embankment burst,

On the 8th, the main embankment of Fengtai burst,

On the 9th, the dry embankment in Shou County burst,

On the 10th, the main dikes on the section from Bengbu to Fengyang collapsed.

... 82 embankment breaks in main and tributary streams...

Then came Shouxi, Heizhang, Yushan...

……The great water flows from the bottom of Bengbu to the Wuhe River, regardless of the river course, and they are connected into one piece. The water surface of more than 100 kilometers from east to west, and more than 40 kilometers from north to south form a terrible ocean. Villages along the river can only see treetops.

According to the records, the area in eastern Henan and northern Anhui is dense with water and gas, forming a vast ocean for hundreds of miles... The Huaihe River Plain is almost a large lake, and the general public has nowhere to hide.

At night, Xiaoqiang stayed in the Central Flood Control Headquarters, accompanied by the Prime Minister who had stayed up all night, waiting for telegrams and calls from various places.The comrades in the Secretariat are also on standby 24 hours a day.

Xiaoqiang whispered in the Prime Minister's ear: "Prime Minister, it turns out that in history, since July 7, the tributaries of the Huaihe River, the Gu River, Run River, Li River, Ni River, Hong River, Fei River, and Ci River have all been flooded. Well, it’s already the 3th now, and the raised embankments in various places have not been submerged, and there has not been a single embankment breach, which means that the danger of the first stage has passed. You should go to sleep for a while.”

The Prime Minister glanced at Xiaoqiang and said: "Wait a little longer, wait for the telegram from Haihe to arrive, Huaihe Haihe, palms and backs."

After speaking, a phone call came in. The Prime Minister got up and walked to the phone, took the phone from his secretary Yang Chao, and after listening to a few sentences, he said hastily: "...In short! People are on the embankment, so we must guard against it! The local government and the party branch have to live and eat on the dam! We must not take a step back!..."

Commander-in-Chief Zhu's voice on the phone from the next room also came over at this time: "...you are old troops! We must carry forward the spirit of not fearing hardship and death... the whole army can't stop for a moment, Continue to raise the embankment..."

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At this moment, on the Bengbu section of the Huai River embankment, the army and migrant workers are as dark as the tide, and there are tens of thousands of heads. At each dangerous section, cadres, soldiers, women, and migrant workers are all carrying sandbags and stepping barefoot Running through the mud.

Standing drenched in the dark heavy rain, Qian Zhengying, deputy director of the engineering department of the Huaihe River Management Committee, looked at the black waves surging to the sky, swelled to a width of 900 meters, and roared like a river, his heart couldn't help shaking.Every member of the engineering department who had studied levee reinforcement and piping management in a surprise attack now has a contracted levee, and Qian Zhengying is no exception.

The rain was constantly washing down from the forehead of Qian Zhengying's raincoat. She looked at the Huaihe River in front of her with difficulty, only to see that the flow rate of the river had completely changed, and the usual slow-flowing rhythm of death had disappeared. It soared ten times, like a mad beast, roaring blindly, any floating objects that fell into it would be swallowed by the raging black waves in an instant, and swept away a hundred meters away in an instant, without a trace.

"Minister Qian, the discharge of the Runheji flood outlet is normal, there are no safety hazards, and the water volume in the flood storage area is rising steadily."

"Minister Qian, the discharge of Wangjiaba's flood outlet is normal, the dam is very strong, and the water volume in the flood storage area is rising steadily."

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Oral reports were passed around by the soldiers in charge of ordering.

As another rumbling thunder exploded above the head, a soldier rushed towards him, ignoring the muddy water all over his face, and roared and reported:

"Minister Qian! There is a plumbing in section 103! Our team leader told you to go over and have a look."

It happened that a lightning bolt from the sky illuminated the earth, Qian Zhengying grinned and almost slipped and fell.

"go!"

Qian Zhengying turned around, without any hesitation, quickly pulled out her legs from the mud, and followed the soldiers to the 103rd section, stumbling and running. Qian Zhengying, who hadn't eaten a single grain of rice for an hour, was stunned.

The two ran to the side of the embankment where the piping was appearing, and saw a waist-thick hole at the bottom of the embankment spraying water like a dragon's mouth, and dozens of soldiers gathered around the piping, frantically pouring stones and sandbags into it. pressure.

"Thin at the bottom and thick at the top! First bury it with sand, and then press it with stones!" Qian Zhengying shouted with all her strength standing in the rain.

Just as the pipes were blocked here, someone shouted on the embankment next to it: "It's breached!"

Qian Zhengying almost went crazy with fright, using both hands and feet, she climbed up the levee as if flying.Hundreds of warriors who were carrying earth and rocks from all around heard the shout, and rushed there as if charging.

"Minister Qian, you are here! We are blocking the water, but we still can't stop it! The sandbags and rocks were washed away as soon as they were pressed on top!" Head Cheng Sanshan was standing at the edge of the breach, and all the buttons on his clothes were off. , his body was covered with mud, and his anxious eyes seemed to spew fire.

Qian Zhengying looked at the seven-meter-wide, one-meter-deep gap on the dam that had just collapsed, and had already extended nearly four meters into the embankment. Earthwork.If it is not blocked, the dam body behind may collapse into the river as a whole, causing a major collapse.

She immediately thought of a solution that the young Secretary Cao once said.

Qian Zhengying roared angrily: "I don't care anymore, people jumped in with sandbags in their arms!"

Captain Cheng was startled, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"

He turned his head and shouted: "Party members of the Communist Youth League, follow me."

After all, he didn't say another word, picked up a sandbag and jumped down.The soldiers at the back followed suit one after another. Some hugged sandbags and some hugged big boulders, and blocked them with their own bodies.Qian Zhengying took a straw woven sandbag that had just been delivered to the embankment, and threw it desperately into the human wall standing at the breach.

When the soldiers joined hands and formed a human wall layer by layer, even though stones and sandbags kept falling on them, they stood silently in the rainstorm and flood.As sandbags and stones piled up the hole, the embankment that had just been gnawed out by the river was finally thickened and fixed.

From six o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning the next day, the collapsed gap on section 103 was finally firmly sealed.

Qian Zhengying wiped off his cold sweat, and said to himself, "Because this place was the first to be reinforced, because there were a lot of stones in the beginning, so no cement piles were laid, and earth and stones were used to build the embankment. Sure enough, something went wrong." Secretary Cao said That's right, cement reinforcement piles and curtain grouting must be implemented in every river section in the future, but it will cost a lot of money!"

Just thinking about it, a soldier came to report:

"Minister Qian, a soldier of our regiment slipped into the water at section 102 and was washed away!"

The rain was a little lighter now, Qian Zhengying stroked the muddy water on his face, and said in surprise:

"what!?"

Regardless of her fatigue, she immediately turned around and ran towards the 102nd section. Probably because she moved too much, Qian Zhengying suddenly felt dark in front of her eyes, so she passed out and fell on the embankment.

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When Qian Zhengying woke up, she was already lying in the hospital.White walls, white sheets, white cups, white tea mugs, everything is clean.

"Little Qian! You've finally woken up. You've been in a coma for a day and a night." The logistics comrades in the ministry who were guarding beside him replied.

"How's the levee? And the soldier who fell into the water at paragraph 102? Has it been rescued?" Qian Zhengying's first thing when he woke up was to inquire about his job.

"Director Zeng is also in charge of the levee now. You can rest assured to recuperate. After rushing downstream, the soldier swam desperately back to the shore and reported to the army. If you say that the central government is really planning ahead, the troops transferred are selected in advance. What about the fighters?"

Qian Zhengying quickly got up from the bed, feeling a little hungry, picked up the tea mug on the bedside table, and poured down half a tank of rice soup.

"I have to go back. I am responsible for the embankment. I cannot leave."

With that said, Qian Zhengying ignored dissuasion, put on his coat and rushed out of the ward.When the colleague saw it, he couldn't stop him, so he quickly grabbed a tung oil umbrella and followed.

On July 7, the thick black clouds over the Huaihe River basin finally dissipated. The 19-day torrential rain that swept across the Huaihe and Haihe River basins for nearly a month finally came to an end.

After a whole flood season by the Ministry of Water Resources, all the embankments in the Huaihe River and Haihe River Basin were safe and sound, and none of the embankments of all the tributaries were washed away.

Due to adequate preparations in advance, all the people in the coastal villages were evacuated to a safe area on high ground except for the migrant workers who participated in the embankment protection. Only three people disappeared due to falling into the water during the entire flood season.

"This is a great victory!" Xiao Qiang, who was sitting next to the chairman, said happily.

"Xiaoqiang, you are the number one contributor to the tragedies that 1300 million people were affected, 89 houses collapsed, and 489 people died in this flood. You are the number one contributor." The chairman sat on the sofa and pointed at Xiaoqiang. .

Xiaoqiang also felt very relieved, feeling that he had finally fulfilled the duty that a time traveler should have.

"Chairman, although the embankment did not break, due to the one-month torrential rain, in addition to the flood storage area, there are still thousands of collapsed houses. I have read statistics from various places, and they are mainly concentrated in the yellow mud houses in the countryside. After the flood , The construction of safety piles in the flood storage area will also start, which will require a lot of labor. To prevent a major epidemic after the flood, it is necessary to organize people to clean up the flood storage area and sprinkle disinfectant on it."

The chairman waved his hand: "The central government has decided to allocate cement to help the people whose houses collapsed to rebuild their houses, which will be more spacious and stronger. All the money will be paid by the state. The work of systematically governing the Huaihe River has just started today. The central government has decided to complete the first phase of the national water conservancy system project management plan that you submitted in ten years!"

Xiaoqiang said happily: "Ten years! The central government is willing to invest so much money!"

In the past two days, when the clouds cleared and the sun cleared in Beidu, the sun shone brightly into Juxiang Bookstore through the glass windows.The chairman's face was illuminated golden.

"Comrade Xiaoqiang, are you making fun of us for being stingy? Haha, of course you are willing to do it! Running water conservancy is for the welfare of the people forever and for the benefit of future generations. For this kind of thing, our Party will cut off the waist of its pants, Well worth it."

Xiaoqiang said with a smile: "Chairman, I have a request, please approve it, and give some benefits to all the people who participated in the flood fighting this time."

The chairman pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh? Are you starting to make progress?" After finishing speaking, the old man burst out laughing.

"This suggestion can be adopted, and I agree. You go back and ask the Prime Minister to discuss with the Prime Minister. I think it is best to distribute some new fabrics and let everyone make some new clothes. After all, it has been soaked in rainwater for more than a month. Everyone's clothes must be soaked to the ground."

"Yes!"

"Hahaha..." The chairman laughed happily again. Since the war on the Korean peninsula started, he hasn't laughed so heartily for a long time.

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Heartfelt thanks to Liu of the Han Dynasty, Wu Yan is watching, n9406, King of Xiling, hzwangj, Storm 116, lzc880210 for the reward!

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