Yang Dongsheng flew from Huajing to Shanghai, and then took a train from Shanghai to the west.
As soon as I got out of the train station, I saw a big man holding a sign with four big characters written on it - Dongsheng Mining.
This big man was about two meters tall. Not only was he tall, but he was also fat. Apart from having no hair, he looked like a bear in every other way, which attracted the attention of tourists.
This guy was Ma Qiang, Yang Dongsheng's former deskmate. Yang Dongsheng walked towards the humanoid bear. When he got closer, he discovered that there were several people beside Ma Qiang. One of them was thin and tall, and it was Yang Huai, the manager of the Southern Branch of Dongsheng Mining.
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Gan Province belongs to the southern region, and Yang Huai was directly responsible for going to Jiangzhou for disaster relief this time.
In addition to the people from the Southern Branch, there are a few people Yang Dongsheng has never met. One of them is about forty years old. When Yang Huai saw this, he introduced, "Mr. Yang, this is Director Wu!"
Only then did Yang Dongsheng know that the equipment had been shipped to Jiangzhou before him.
Yang Dongsheng knows only too well how difficult it is to find a carriage these days!
Even if you pay enough, you still have to wait in line for who knows how long, not to mention excavators, bulldozers... these are over-limit goods, making transportation even more difficult.
Yang Dongsheng couldn't help but glance at Director Wu again, where did this guy come from?
Several people rushed to the freight yard and saw many people here wearing work clothes, mining boots, and safety helmets, with four big characters printed on the back of their clothes - Dongsheng Mining.
There are also people carrying flags with four big characters written on them - people are here and the dike is here.
Yang Dongsheng praised Yang Huai in his heart, this guy is so smart!
Yang Huai asked someone to bring a set of clean work clothes, a safety helmet, and mining boots. Yang Dongsheng didn't shy away from it and asked Ma Qiang to block it for him before changing into it directly.
"How long will it take to complete unloading the truck?" Yang Dongsheng asked.
"It looks like it will be at least another hour!"
"Then don't wait, use as much as you can unload!" Yang Dongsheng turned to Director Wu, "Where is the most dangerous place now?"
"The place where the embankment broke is between Lock No. 4 and Ship Lock No. 5..."
"Just go there!" Yang Dongsheng said to Yang Huai, "I will take people there first, and you can watch the truck unloading here!"
The engineering truck pulled the grouting equipment, materials and people. Not long after walking, the road was no longer visible. The floodwaters had already rushed into the urban area of Jiangzhou and were still pouring in continuously.
In this way, we have to go around the Yangtze River Embankment and then along the embankment to reach the point where the embankment breaks.
The road that was originally about ten kilometers suddenly turned into dozens of kilometers.
This change is nothing for engineering vehicles. It is just that the original drive time has changed from ten minutes to more than half an hour.
But for excavators, bulldozers, and other crawler-type vehicles, they are doomed.
Yang Dongsheng could only get rid of them and rush over first with the construction truck.
Director Wu introduced along the way that after the embankment burst at noon yesterday, trucks were first used to plug the gap, but when the truck pushed down, it was swept out more than 200 meters.
It was not until two ships were sunk that the gap was barely closed.
However, although the large gap was blocked in this way, the water flow at the edge of the gap became even faster, and the sandbags and stones thrown in were immediately washed away by the water.
Moreover, the gap became wider and wider, and today two more ships have been sunk.
This is simply a vicious cycle.
Nearly an hour later, everyone finally arrived at the location where the embankment broke. It took a little longer than originally expected.
Yang Dongsheng stood in the carriage and looked out, seeing an extremely shocking scene in front of him.
Outside the embankment, the water in the river was obviously higher than the ground.
On the embankment, there was a sea of people. The soldiers jumped into the water and held hands to form a human wall to block the water.
The scene is really heroic, but the efficiency is really low.
There is a deep sense of helplessness in using people to block water.
Looking around, the only large machinery Yang Dongsheng saw on the entire embankment was a truck, and it was not a self-unloading type.
In this era, there are not many construction machinery in the country, let alone a fourth-tier city like Jiangzhou.
Without large-scale construction machinery, it would be too difficult to plug this gap.
Yang Dongsheng did not expect to see such a historic scene when he arrived.
Director Wu introduced Yang Dongsheng to the on-site commander.
"Welcome!" He said welcome, but the commander-in-chief's tone was not friendly at all, and he even gave Director Wu a sideways glance.
But seeing that his eyes were red and his body was soaked with mud, he must be a hard worker.
The mine rescue team was assigned to the urban area to assist the troops in rescuing people, and the others were assigned to reinforce the embankment. Yang Dongsheng agreed with this assignment plan and directly obeyed the assignment.
Many reports in later generations said that the Yangtze River's embankment burst was due to shoddy construction, but now Yang Dongsheng came to the scene in person. According to his own observations, the embankment was still well done.
The side facing the Yangtze River is a reinforced concrete structure, and the side facing away from the Yangtze River is loess.
It is said that bamboo bars were used instead of steel bars. It was just a statement taken by a leader for granted, and then it was spread and misrepresented as evidence that Jiangzhou Levee cut corners.
The accident on the Jiangzhou embankment was mainly caused by the natural conditions of Jiangzhou itself.
The upper reaches of Jiangzhou is a straight river surface that is tens of kilometers long. When approaching Jiangzhou, a sandbar suddenly appeared in the middle of the Yangtze River. The river surface also tightened. The width of the Yangtze River was reduced by at least one third, and the water flow speed immediately accelerated.
Jiangzhou is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Affected by the rotation of the earth, rivers in the northern hemisphere wash away at the south bank. However, where Jiangzhou is located, it makes a big bend to the north, causing the river water coming down from the upstream to directly hit the dam.
There is no problem with the quality of the project here, if there is any problem it is also a design problem.
The terrain here needs to be specially reinforced and repaired according to ordinary standards. Over time, big problems will naturally occur.
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Reinforcing the embankment is very simple for Yang Dongsheng. First, let the grouting team reinforce both ends of the gap.
"Don't be afraid, I'm with you!" Yang Dongsheng patted the shoulders of the grouting team members.
This section of the dike looks very scary. It is surrounded by rolling river water on three sides, and there is a big hole where it is connected to other parts of the dike.
It looked like it would be washed away at any time, but in fact it had been petrified by Yang Dongsheng, leaving only a few gaps for them to grout.
They completed the reinforcement of the gap, and the river water could no longer wash away the embankment, but the sandbags they threw were washed away immediately.
Yang Dongsheng heard someone at the scene suggesting that the pockets should not be filled with sand, but beans. Beans will swell when they absorb water.
Yang Dongsheng wondered whether the water flow speed in this gap would give the beans time to expand?
Yang Dongsheng and his people continued to strengthen the embankment. There was no need to turn the entire embankment into stone. This embankment would definitely be rebuilt in the future. It was only necessary to block the piping surge and there would be no problems for the time being.
After a busy night, in the early morning, accompanied by a roar, more than a dozen large machines drove up the embankment - Yang Dongsheng's excavator and bulldozer arrived!