Gu Kun woke up from his sleep, and when he ran to the terrace door with a leap of fish, he already saw the sea water pouring in.
He hastily thought that the dam enclosing the sea had broken, but this description was actually very inaccurate.
Because everywhere in the Netherlands, there is more than one dike surrounding the sea, and it is impossible for them all to collapse at once. What Gu Kun saw was just a small collapse of the outermost warning dike.
The reason why it is designed like this is to gain buffer time in the event of an accident, so as to facilitate emergency repairs or arrange for flood relief if the car is lost.
This is the experience of the Dutch people who have been flooded for hundreds of years.
The Hague, where he lives now, belongs to South Holland, and the terrain is relatively high, so the warning embankment is not too complicated.
If you go to the lower North Netherlands, in order to prevent the dam from being able to withstand the water pressure, there are even layered embankments built to buffer the artificial lake. That is, the inner side of the outermost sea embankment is not land, but the inside and outside of the embankment.
Water area. However, the water level on the outside is high and it is a sea, while the water level on the inside is low and it is a lake.
For example, the famous long embankment between the Wadden Sea and the IJsselmeer stretches for dozens of kilometers, with the sea to the north and the lake to the south. There are several layers of lakes and embankments between the sea and the land.
In fact, even if you have never been to the Netherlands, if you think about it, you will know that this kind of preparation is not excessive. If ordinary people buy a high-rise apartment, if it is a glass curtain wall and floor-to-ceiling windows, they must make sure that it is double-laminated tempered glass.
Feel safe.
No matter how hard the single-layer glass is, residents will feel unsafe. (In the eyes of paranoia, double-layer glass may not be safe, and it may be drilled by Jason Statham)
However, since it was just a breach in the warning embankment, why did the villa-style hotel where Gu Kun lived flood?
This brings us to the selling point of his hotel - because it is a sea view hotel, so for the sake of view and scenery, the house is built between the main embankment and the warning embankment. This kind of planning is also legal in the Netherlands, but
Countries that encounter extreme weather will require evacuation.
In later generations, people who hated the rich shared on Douyin about houses where waves would break into the house during a storm, and they added a comment like "This is why I don't buy a sea view house." That's roughly what it looked like.
If you choose to live in this kind of place, you have to bear the risk.
At the same time, there are partitions between the buildings on the warning embankment. The waterproof height of the partitions is about one or two meters, so even if one point is flooded, other points can slow down the damage.
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Seeing that the water was about to reach the second floor where he slept, Gu Kun didn't care anymore.
He didn't even wear a coat, but quickly stuffed the important things around him into a waterproof suitcase, locked it in the safe in the room, and then prepared to jump into the water and swim to the main embankment on the inside.
However, the moment he put the things away, what he saw when he looked back made him change his mind.
Under the moonlight, there was actually an assault boat, rushing in along the breach of the early warning dike where the water level difference was already small.
It was pitch dark and the people on the boat were hard to distinguish.
Gu Kun quickly picked up a Magnum revolver and jumped directly into the water without bringing anything else.
As soon as he jumped into the water, he saw Gao Jianxiong coming out next door and jumped into the water after him.
There were four bodyguards living on the first floor. Before Gu Kun jumped into the water, he heard some noise from them. Some people rushed upstairs to check on the boss, and some swam out directly from the window. It was a commotion.
The floor where the ordinary bodyguards live is at a lower level. It is estimated that half of their body was already submerged when they woke up. In addition, these people are receiving military training and have only been bodyguards for a short time. We cannot ask them to do more in a panic.
"Boss, are you okay?" Gao Jianxiong hurriedly swam to Gu Kun's side, first checking to see if there was anything wrong with his boss and not caring about his subordinates.
"I'm fine." Gu Kun answered in a low voice with only one head above the water.
At this time, he heard a bodyguard who had climbed to the attic roof of the villa-style hotel, looking around and shouting to find Gu Kun.
"Don't be nervous, the boss is fine!" Gao Jianxiong was worried that the other party would not be able to find the boss to worry about, so he spoke out to stabilize the morale of the soldiers.
"Don't shout!" Gu Kun warned in a low but stern tone. Then he didn't care anymore and dived away, leaving Gao Jianxiong's position just now.
He did not hear a "plop" sound in the distance. The bodyguard who was standing on the roof to avoid the water was shot by an underwater gun ammunition like a crossbow arrow and fell into the water with a "plop".
Then the people on the assault boat went straight to the direction where Gao Jianxiong had shouted just now.
Only then did Gao Jianxiong notice the assault boat. Seeing that the situation was not right, he finally realized that this was definitely not an accident. He quickly plunged in and dived to escape.
However, he still had some brains and had already realized what Gu Kun meant by telling him to be silent just now, so he swam in the opposite direction to Gu Kun to avoid being caught up and exposing his boss's position.
After Gao Jianxiong disappeared from the water, two frogmen also jumped out of the assault boat, holding special Soviet underwater guns that fired arrow-shaped bullets.
Gao Jianxiong does not have frog webs, so he is naturally not as agile as a frogman underwater.
He did not forget to grab a gun in an emergency, so he had a Colt pistol in his hand.
Underwater in the dark night, he could only rely on his sense of water flow to fight with the opponent, and shoot when he sensed danger.
Ordinary firearms can actually be fired underwater, because the firing mechanism of modern firearms and the primer principle of bullets are not afraid of water immersion.
The biggest problem with underwater shooting is the stalling of pistol bullets caused by the resistance of the water flow. Basically, they lose their lethality after being shot two or three meters away.
In addition, automatic firearms require normal air pressure to cooperate with the gas guide to remove the shell and complete the loading. Therefore, American automatic rifles such as the m16 can basically only fire the first round. Ak, which has a slightly rougher gas guide, can only fire a few rounds.
Stuck.
As for pistols, since they are single-shot or semi-automatic, underwater pressure differential jamming is better than automatic firearms.
Gao Jianxiong resisted repeatedly. After Colt fired three or four bullets, he finally encountered a pressure jam. He didn't know if he hit the enemy frogman. He might have been scratched, but it didn't matter if it was more than three meters away.
At most, the hit will only cause superficial trauma, causing the opponent to suffer pain and delay his movements.
But his resistance only exposed his position more and more. Water conducts sound much faster than air. It is easy for enemy frogmen to hear the muffled sound of underwater shooting and identify their position.
Soon, Gao Jianxiong heard the muffled sound of gunshots from the counterattackers, felt something whizzing past him, and was finally pricked in his arm by something in the shape of a nail, which was heartbreaking.
It was a special bullet for underwater guns with a caliber of only a few millimeters but a length of more than ten centimeters.
This kind of ammunition with large mass and small muzzle velocity is much less effective at reducing damage due to resistance underwater than light ammunition. Under the best circumstances, it can kill people twenty meters underwater.
"Special brew, why should I be found in a place like this today? I wonder if the boss has escaped."
Just when his consciousness was slightly blurred, he heard several more gunshots coming from the water. They were the sounds of ordinary firearms, not special underwater guns. The offensive pressure on his side also suddenly decreased sharply.
Gao Jianxiong didn't bring an underwater breathing apparatus, and it was definitely not possible to fight a protracted battle with the frogmen, so he hurriedly endured the pain and dived for more than ten meters, then put his head in for a moment to catch his breath. After changing, he hurriedly dived down again.
The assault boat on the water was immediately attracted to it.