Chapter 7 The Flood is Coming (Please recommend and collect)
At 3:03 in the morning, Lin Wen woke up from his nap and found that the water had seeped up and his hands and back were all wet.
The Changpai Village levee is connected to Qingfeng Mountain above and steep hills below. In order to avoid the rain, Lin Wen rested in a small cave in Qingfeng Mountain. Although the cave entrance is a little lower than the levee, it should be far above the water.
Lin Wen turned on the light on the miner's hat and walked out of the cave wading through the water. In the darkness, heavy rain was pouring down, the river was surging, and the world seemed to be submerged in water.
The river level rose by at least another 150 centimeters, and the water was roaring in huge waves.
In just a moment, the water was already above his ankles. Lin Wen knew the flood had peaked. He pinned the radio to his chest, tuned the channel, turned on the sound source, and immediately heard shouts.
"Changshan County! Changshan County! Attention! The first flood peak is approaching! The maximum flow is 175,100 cubic meters per second, and the duration is at least 13 hours. The second flood peak will arrive in 18 hours!"
Without any hesitation, Lin Wen immediately used [All Strength].
The power of the ox and tiger runs through the whole body.
【Seeing without eyes】
The world is clear and every detail is visible.
Lin Wen's eyes were determined, and he leaped over a distance of more than 5 meters and landed steadily on the embankment.
This was the result of more than twenty days of training. In the past, he would have definitely flown into the river.
With a quick glance, he found that several of the dark holes that had been blocked were beginning to loosen.
Lin Wen untied the shovel wrapped around his waist, went up and patted the ground firmly, casually flipped through the materials piled on the embankment, picked up an anchor pile made up of dozens of steel bars, summoned all his strength, shouted, and inserted it all the way in.
This method of rigidly driving anchor piles would probably make others' eyes pop out, and all kinds of experts would surely stare at the ground to get their eyes back while spitting out words that it is unscientific and unreasonable.
But this was a last resort. Although Lin Wen was extremely strong, he would be exhausted once he entered the water. He could not exert any strength in the water, no matter how strong he was. What's more, the river was so turbulent that no matter how good a swimmer he was, he could not do anything.
You can only insert it hard on the ground.
Lin Wen hung the shovel back on his waist, then took out a big hammer from his waist and hit the anchor pile with it, causing the steel bar to bend and the pile to shake. The anchor pile sank two inches directly.
After hitting the pile with the hammer for more than a dozen times, Lin Wen finally hung up the hammer, picked up the sandbags and threw them onto the anchor piles. The sandbags were standard flood control supplies, which Lin Wen had found in the town warehouse during a visit. He didn't know why they had such a worthless thing in stock.
Lin Wen, however, found it a good opportunity. He arranged for ten laborers to carry the materials for three days, and then spent another half a day carrying them all up the levee. The levee was now half filled with earthen sacks and half with sandbags, with some flood control supplies still below. Overall, the supplies were sufficient; it all depended on the final outcome.
After dealing with the dangerous situation here, Lin Wen continued to patrol the levee in the heavy rain and splashing waves. Relying on his vision of "seeing without eyes", he could always find the hidden dangers that were difficult to detect in the first place and eliminate them easily.
However, due to the poor quality of the levee itself, small pipe bursts, breaks and seepage began to appear in many places on the levee after a few hours.
Lin Wen rushed around putting out fires, relying on his immense strength to force his way through. Pipe burst, huh? Would you accept it if I stuck a 10-meter stick right in there? Breach, huh? Tons of sand and an anchor pile, would that do the trick? Penetration? Take my powerful Diamond Kick!
The battle lasted until dawn, and even Lin Wen felt exhausted. Fortunately, the first flood peak was safely passed.
Lin Wen rested for a while and ate something to fill his stomach.
A few hours later, it was dark again and a second flood crest arrived, this time much larger and lasting for more than 36 hours.
The heavy rain did not stop, but got heavier and heavier. The radio said that the rainfall had exceeded 600 mm, turning into an extremely heavy rain.
Obviously, the real disaster has just begun.
Lin Wen braced himself and prepared to face the final test in this world.
At the same time, in Yingjia Village, 15 kilometers away from Lin Wen, even though Zhao Anping was wearing a raincoat and holding an umbrella, he couldn't stop the cold feeling running up his back.
In front of him, in the pitch-black night, a long string of lights stretched like a dragon. Countless sandbags, earth, gabions, and even cotton-padded clothes and quilts were passed among the crowd, passed to the Yingjia Village levee, and then thrown down in front of the breach, which was about 3 meters long and 7 meters deep.
The rescue work has lasted for 3 hours, but the breach has not been completely blocked. The river water is rushing out from every gap. The second wave of flood peak has arrived, and the crisis has suddenly become countless times greater.
But there is no other way now, we have to block it by force.
If it had not been discovered in time, and if County Chief Zhao had not decisively ordered the only heavy truck loaded with sand to reverse and block the breach as soon as it appeared, the embankment would have been breached by now.
Yingjia Village Dam is one of the three main dams in Changshan County. Once it breaks, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Slogans rose and fell on the levee, but the voices of 8,000 people still could not drown out the sound of wind, rain and the roar of the river.
"Chief Zhao! Chief Zhao!" A figure came running over in panic, crying, "The west side has been flooded! More than a dozen dikes have collapsed!"
County Magistrate Zhao sternly asked, "Has the emergency evacuation notice been issued?"
“I sent it, but…”
"Then stop wasting time and report to the higher authorities for help! Send a radio broadcast! Organize a rescue operation! Go!"
Commander Zhao's thoughts raced. "The upstream area is vast and sparsely populated, so the floodwaters move slowly. It's also mountainous and there are plenty of high ground for refuge. An emergency evacuation is definitely possible in time. This is the key point."
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a cry of surprise from the dike. Zhao Anping looked up suddenly and saw a strong pipe burst suddenly appeared in the middle of the dike. Water sprayed several meters high, accompanied by a large amount of sand and stones, which scattered the people around.
Supervisor Liao Zhian yelled, "Block it! Go and block it! Go!"
County Magistrate Zhao felt a surge of anger rising to his head. He picked up the megaphone and shouted, "I'll kill your whole family! Run! The dike is about to collapse! Run! Run!"
A crowd of people poured down from the embankment, shouting in unison, and the people below the embankment ran back like crazy.
Commander Zhao felt the blood vessels in his head throbbing wildly as he shouted, "Hu Ping! Hurry! Organize people and issue an emergency evacuation notice. All the villages behind this are in jeopardy. Tell everyone inside to run quickly, don't take anything, and run downstream! The upstream is flooded, so we have no choice but to run downstream!"
Despair and rage did not interrupt Zhao Anping's calm thoughts: "At least the Dongdao Levee is fine. The area around Quanzhi Village should be safe. I will quickly take my people there for shelter!"
It was particularly difficult to organize people in the darkness and heavy rain. Amidst the noise, shouts, wind and rain, there was a loud bang and the levee of Yingjia Village collapsed. The flood tore a huge crack as long as 30 meters and rushed towards Yingjia Village.
Zhao Anping no longer cared about anything else and ran wildly with the crowd. The heavy rain hit his face and seemed to pour into his heart.
I don’t know how long I ran, but I stopped only when I no longer heard the roar of the flood. I found a safe high ground, and I don’t know who brought a high-power searchlight, which served as a lighthouse.
Zhao Anping held the searchlight up to the sky while directing the staff to gather the crowd. He smiled wryly and thought, "Why am I like the defeated generals in ancient times who started to gather their troops after a defeat?"
I took a look around and saw a crowd of people getting drenched in the heavy rain, looking anxious and dejected. It really looked like this.
"Well, the enemy must have taken advantage of the heavy rain and night to launch a surprise attack, using a water attack to severely defeat the Changshan Army led by Zhao Anping. After this battle, Zhao Anping was devastated and died with hatred in his heart."
Zhao Anping quickly cheered up after a moment of hardship. Seeing more and more people gathering, he raised his loudspeaker and shouted, "It's safe here. As long as everyone is alive, we're all fine. This flood is unprecedented. The Empire will definitely help everyone rebuild their homes."
With just these words, the crowd calmed down considerably. Zhao Anping wanted to take the opportunity to say something more, but he saw another group of people running towards him from the north. The leader saw Zhao Anping and cried out, "Chief Zhao! The Dongdao dike has collapsed! Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected!"
Zhao Anping's head buzzed, and he grabbed him and shouted, "What did you say?"
The man's face was covered with a mixture of rain and tears, and he cried, "The water is too high! The Dongdao dike can't hold it. I saw that the situation was not good, so I asked everyone to run. Just a few minutes later, the dike collapsed, and the water rushed out like crazy. I, I..." He started crying again.
Zhao Anping felt a chill running down from the top of his head. He instantly realized that if the Yingjiacun levee and the Dongdao levee collapsed, this place would not be safe either and he had to run down again.
He picked up the loudspeaker and shouted with all his might, "The Dongdao levee has collapsed! The flood is coming! It's not safe here either, we have to run!"
Suddenly, the cries and shouts rang out again. Zhao Anping ordered three people to carry searchlights and walk downstream again. The crowd was forced to move.
Less than thirty minutes into the journey, we heard the roar of water behind us, and someone shouted, "The water is coming! Run! Run!"
The crowd started running. They didn't know how long they ran in the dark before they finally could no longer hear the sound of water. Fortunately, this time they had searchlights to guide them, so not many people fell behind.
Zhao Anping found a place sheltered from the rain and settled down temporarily. He asked, "Where is this?"
The people around looked at each other in confusion. After a long while, someone tentatively replied, "It seems we are near Niujiao Village."
"It's Niujiao Village. I used to graze cattle here." Someone confirmed his words.
Zhao Anping calculated in his mind: "Then it should be safe. The flood can't possibly reach here."
"wrong!"
Zhao Anping suddenly jumped up.
"Isn't Changpai Village right next to Niujiao Village?"
The faces of the people around them turned pale, and they immediately realized that they were facing the Changpai Village dike!
Several people had already started running out.
"No, no!"
Zhao Anping immediately dismissed his previous thoughts: "If the Changpai Village levee was going to collapse, it would have collapsed long ago! There's no reason why the Dongdao levee wouldn't collapse before the Changpai Village levee!"
yes.
Everyone thought.
It would have collapsed long ago. The Dongdao Dam, despite all the manpower and resources invested, couldn't survive the second wave. How could Changpai Village survive this? Did it fail twice in five years?
But, look around here, does it look like there is a flood?
"It's no use just thinking about it," Zhao Anping said. "We'll know if we go and take a look. The Changpai Village levee isn't far away, just a few miles away."
"But..." Xiao Zhang was trembling all over, his legs and feet shaking. The horrific sight of the embankment collapsing frightened him greatly. "How about we just move away directly?"
"Transfer?" Zhao Anping glanced around. Tens of thousands of people were lying on the ground, exhausted. Many were injured and crying was incessant. He didn't know how many people had run away along the way.
"Can you see if you can still walk?"
"But, but, what's the point of us going to see it?"
Zhao Anping still had the authority of the county chief, so he directly selected ten people to go with him. "In case there is any emergency on the dike, they can still help."
"Let's go."
Zhao Anping said, but in his heart he was thinking: "Is it you? Lin Wen?"
(End of this chapter)
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