Spring Breeze 1991

Dai Chunqiang, a villager in Xiaodai Village, took his raincoat and told his mother-in-law, "Find a few bags and put some soil to block the door of the pigsty. I don't know when it will rain, and I'm afraid it will be flooded."

"Where are you going?" the woman said worriedly, grabbing a blanket and covering the two children.

Dai Chunqiang said, "I'll go and see the land."

"Well, be careful."

"understood."

Dai Chunqiang put on a raincoat and went out.

Walking on the mechanical farming road that he walked countless times, Dai Chunqiang suddenly found that the mechanical farming road had been flooded. Looking up, the farmland on both sides was sparkling.

His heart tightened, and he hurriedly walked towards his farmland.

No miracle happened, and Dai Chunqiang saw that his farmland was covered with ocean, and only a little of the knee-high rice sticks out of the water.

It's over, a few acres of rice are completely over.

This is the only harvest for the whole family at the end of the year.

Dai Chunqiang stabilized his mood and quickened his pace to walk to the river.

He County is a plain area, with rivers and gullies criss-crossing the territory, a typical Jiangnan water town landform, so the rice planting rate is very high.Xiaodai Village is a natural village along the larger Daihe River, mainly planting rice.

When he reached the bank of the Dai River, Dai Chunqiang saw with his own eyes that the entire river was already full, with water constantly overflowing and spreading around.The water level of the Daihe River was still below the dam yesterday, but it has seriously exceeded it today!

The road ahead has disappeared, and the sprawling river is continuously pouring into the farmland.

Dai Chunqiang watched the rain getting heavier and heavier, and the panic in his heart deepened.

He heard from the old man that there was a flood in the village decades ago and the whole village was submerged. When the old man mentioned the tragedy at that time, he could hardly speak.

Dai Chunqiang was shocked, turned around and ran home.

Before he had gone far, he heard a rumbling sound behind him, like thunder. He subconsciously stopped and looked back, and saw several meters high waves pouring from Daihe.

The embankment broke!

Dai Chunqiang's bad premonition became a reality, and he ran home like crazy.

"Quick! Wake up the child! Quick! The embankment has burst! Go away!" Dai Chunqiang shouted to the woman who was laying soil at the entrance of the pigsty.

"Hurry up! Still staring at death!" Dai Chunqiang yelled again.

The mother-in-law woke up like a dream, ran into the house to wake up the two children, dressed them, and then hurriedly found the more than 100 yuan and the dowry bracelet at home, shouting, "Where are you going? Chunqiang! Where are you going? ! What about the pigs?"

Dai Chunqiang was still awake. He quickly picked up a few pieces of the child's clothes and carried them on his back. He said anxiously, "I can't take care of it. You take the child to the temple in the south of the village. The terrain is high! I'm going to inform other people!"

"What do you care about them!" The mother-in-law was anxious.

"Shut up! Take the child away!"

Dai Chunqiang picked up the two children and pushed the mother-in-law and ran away. When they went out, they heard the sound of the flood.

Let the mother-in-law take the two children to the small temple in the south of the village. Dai Chunqiang informed the villagers from door to door.

Dai Chunqiang rushed to the village radio station, dragged the announcer who was still soundly asleep, and continued to make emergency broadcasts, only to call out twice, and the power went out...

"Daihe burst its embankment."

The latest news reached the Southern Industrial Disaster Relief Frontline Headquarters.

Yao Yuan was stunned, he is here.

He remembered that He County was the most severely affected area. The county has a population of more than 30, and the number of people directly affected by the disaster reached 10. In other words, almost every household was indirectly affected and lost.

The county seat is also not safe because there are many rivers connected to the Yangtze River.

Lin Xiaohu continued to report, "Brother Yong's reconnaissance team couldn't get in when they reached the south of Xiaodai Village. Xiaodai Village has been flooded. Brother Yong and the others are looking for villagers."

"Is the rubber boat in place?" Yao Yuan turned around and asked Zhou Fei.

Most of the personnel and materials were sent to the disaster area by headwind logistics, and Zhou Fei became the head of the logistics support team.

Zhou Fei immediately reported, "Boeing-747 will take off in an hour, and it is estimated that it will arrive at Jinling Airport in three hours, and it will take four hours at the fastest to arrive in Hexian County."

"It's too slow." Yao Yuan was very worried.

The necessary tools for flood fighting and emergency rescue are rubber boats and assault boats, which can be used in shallow water areas. The assault boat troops only have them. The rubber boats purchased by Nanfang Industrial are all imported, because they cannot be produced domestically.

These things have to be shipped from the combat readiness warehouses in Guangdong City and Nangang.

"How much is the water level?" Yao Yuan asked Lin Xiaohu.

Lin Xiaohu said, "Brother Yong said it should be 1.2 meters, people can't walk."

Only one kind of construction machinery can drive into this water depth, and it is also very dangerous.

Yao Yuan made a decisive decision, "Look for it, mobilize your strength to look for it, there must be a lot of boats in the Jiangnan water town, look for it, go in if you find one, the most urgent thing is to rescue people!"

"Yes!" Lin Xiaohu went immediately.

The advance team started to act immediately, targeting Xiaodai Village, which was the first to be hit by the disaster.

Yao Yuan held the satellite phone tightly, making and answering calls frequently, urging the large troops to speed up.According to the plan, at least 2000 people should have entered the disaster area at this moment, but in fact, except for the advance team led by Yao Yuan, the rest have not arrived yet.

The traffic in this era really drives Yao Yuan crazy, no matter how good the plan is, it is meaningless without sufficient traffic infrastructure support.

Zhou Feihui reported, "Boss, the Ningnan Railway Bureau only allocated [-] wagons. Duan Lao called just now, and our personnel and supplies have begun to form a backlog at Nangang Railway Station."

The Ningnan Railway Bureau promised to allocate 24 wagons within 210 hours, that is, three special freight trains, but now it is only one-seventh. People and supplies will be backlogged at Nangang Railway Station.

Yao Yuan immediately dialed Duan Hanwen and asked, "Mr. Duan, I am Yao Yuan. What's the situation with the Ningnan Railway Bureau? They should allocate at least 210 wagons."

"Mr. Yao! The situation is very complicated!" Duan Hanwen said in a loud voice, probably at the train station, "the leader of the Ningnan Bureau made it clear that there is no way to allocate the wagons as agreed, but they didn't say why. I'm communicating with the cargo owner here at the freight station to see if I can use their wagon indicators!"

Obviously, when Duan Hanwen learned that the Ningnan Bureau could not allocate enough wagons, he had already started to think of other ways.Some state-owned enterprises, enterprises and institutions have their own fixed quotas for wagons, and some companies that can’t run out will receive goods from outside and deliver goods in their own names. In fact, they are doing the work of freight intermediaries, but their freight The intermediary has wagon indicators, which are too hard.

State-owned enterprises can't run out of wagons, and self-employed and private enterprises can't find wagons. This is the current status of railway transportation.Private enterprises have to spend more money to borrow wagons from state-owned enterprises, or find ways to get wagons from railway freight.

"I see, send over the priority materials first, and press the large construction machinery first." Yao Yuan ordered.

Duan Hanwen said loudly, "Understood! I'll adjust right away."

Yao Yuan said, "Organize a batch of rubber boats to Nangang Airport, and airlift them together with boat operators and life-saving supplies. The plane should be back soon."

"Understood, I'll organize it right away! Mr. Yao, do you have any orders?" Duan Hanwen said.

Yao Yuan hesitated for a while, and said, "Please provide support from the combat units. They have brother units in East China. Tell them, whoever contributes the most to Nanfang Industrial can directly participate in the construction of the petrochemical base."

There is no need to bid, and direct participation is almost the same as giving money directly.

"Understood! I will implement it immediately!"