Shao Jingque looked down at his swollen left ankle and frowned slightly:
"It's okay. There are still two days left. The swelling should be gone by then."
Song Yangyu thought about it and said:
"I don't have anything to do this weekend, so if you need any help, you can call me."
These words surprised Shao Jingque a little. He thought to himself that Song Yangyu was a little too enthusiastic.
Although he had helped her twice, they were just casual acquaintances after all. She was not so shameless as to ask him to waste his rest time to help her attend the wedding.
What's more, Lu Zhan promised her that he would come back to accompany her...
"Uh...thank you, but no thanks. My fiancé will be back by then, and we've agreed to attend the wedding together."
Isn’t her fiancé Lu Zhan?
How can he come back...
But looking at Shao Jingque's warm smile when he mentioned Lu Zhan, Song Yangyu nodded thoughtfully and said nothing more.
After sending Shao Jingque back to his room, he returned to his room and sat at his desk, flipping open his densely written notebook and lost in thought.
In fact, the reason he came to Ning City this time was because of Lu Zhan.
On the night when the Banqiao Reservoir collapsed, the Henan Provincial Command received an early warning call from Lu Zhan, the battalion commander of the 718th Unit in Anfeng Town. During the call, Lu Zhan said that based on several abnormal phenomena at the scene, he inferred that the upstream reservoir might collapse.
The Henan Provincial Command attached great importance to the intelligence and immediately reported it to the General Command. The General Command immediately summoned water conservancy experts to analyze the dangerous situation and concluded that the water storage capacity of the upstream reservoirs in Henan Province could withstand the test of rainfall and such dangerous situation would not occur.
According to experts, the original flood control standard of Banqiao Reservoir was designed according to a 100-year flood. It was expanded and reinforced five years after its completion. The dam top is 110 meters high and a 1.3-meter-high wave-breaking wall was added. It can be said to be the most indestructible flood control dam currently available.
However, in view of Lu Zhan's mention of being unable to contact the garrison in the Banqiao Reservoir area and the abnormal situation of flares being launched into the air, the General Command immediately split into two groups and contacted the relevant areas again. Sure enough, they found that the local garrison had lost contact. This was undoubtedly a very serious situation in the view of the General Command.
A military region's external communication system and civilian communication system are two completely different lines. They are usually buried deep underground, extremely secretive and secure, and difficult to be destroyed. In addition, there are radio communication means, and under normal circumstances, there will never be a loss of connection.
The headquarters sent several lines of communication signals to the Banqiao area at the same time, but received no response. This could only mean two things:
1. All external communication equipment of the garrison in the Banqiao area was damaged and unable to receive or transmit signals;
2. All officers and soldiers in the Banqiao area disappeared collectively, and no one responded.
Regardless of which of the above situations is the case, it shows that there are serious safety problems in the Banqiao area.
Putting the safety of people's lives and property first, the General Command withstood the pressure and, in response to the water conservancy experts' assertion that the Banqiao Reservoir would never collapse, applied to the central government to send a reconnaissance plane to the Banqiao area to confirm the dangerous situation.
Just as everyone was anxiously waiting for the answer, the reconnaissance plane pilot brought back a terrifying piece of news:
When the reconnaissance plane flew to the Banqiao Reservoir area, it was already late. In order to observe the situation on the scene at close range, the reconnaissance plane pilot decided to perform a highly difficult ultra-low-altitude flight.
When the searchlight from the reconnaissance plane illuminated the location of the reservoir, the scene in front of him shocked the pilot.
The main river channel section of the entire dam has begun to collapse, and the gap is showing a trend of getting bigger and bigger. The overwhelming flood suddenly poured down from the dam, and the flood that merged into the main river channel quickly spread toward the downstream and both sides. Everywhere you look, there is a vast ocean.
The driver flashed his signal lights several times towards the dam, but received no response. He could only turn around and fly towards the military area downstream. When he arrived over the scene, he was completely disappointed.
The entire garrison military district in the Banqiao Reservoir area has disappeared in the boundless flood. Only the top of a flagpole with a red flag is still exposed above the water, allowing the driver to determine the location of the military district at a glance.
The pilot, holding back his burning eyes, immediately turned the nose of the plane without hesitation and flew rapidly towards the headquarters, anxious to bring back this astonishing information as soon as possible - the Banqiao Reservoir had really collapsed!
This shocking news was like dropping a huge bomb on the headquarters, shocking everyone, and the water conservancy experts were completely panicked.
With accurate intelligence, the General Command did not hesitate for a moment and immediately conveyed the task of evacuating the people to all military regions in the downstream areas of Henan Province, striving to transfer as many people as possible to safe areas before the flood arrived.
When Fan Yingguang, who was stationed at the Henan Provincial Command Headquarters, learned the news, he was filled with remorse.
As early as noon, Lu Zhan called him to report his concerns, but he arbitrarily thought that Lu Zhan was not focusing on the real business, but instead asked questions in a whimsical way to show off his ability.
Therefore, he criticized Lu Zhan harshly and sarcastically asked him if he thought he was better than the experts. But now the facts have proved that experts are not necessarily right. We should look at problems dialectically, combine facts, and use our own eyes, brains and experience to make judgments.
If he had reported Lu Zhan's suspicions to the higher command promptly, perhaps the problem could have been discovered before the flood broke the dam. If bombers had been sent in time to blow up the spillway, the current disaster of a massive dam collapse would not have occurred.
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