Chapter 233(1/2)
"It's not as serious as using airplanes and cannons. I only need two ships." Li Wen said.
"Boat?" Deputy Commander Cai frowned.
Li Wen said: "That's right, I want two ships."
"How big is the boat?"
“It’s okay to have more than thirty meters.”
The local government leaders at the scene made a decision on the spot and transferred the ship!
The two local barges were quickly found and belonged to the two brothers.
When the two ship bosses heard that they wanted to use their own ship to block the breach, no one raised any objections.
For the two ship bosses who have been making a living on the Yangtze River for many years, the ship is a tool for making a living, and it is half of their lives.
The two of them hesitated for a moment and looked at each other.
When the elder brother's punch hit the instrument table hard.
"no problem!"
Just three words.
It is straightforward and quite arrogant.
The two barges quickly sailed to the river near the breach.
No one present had ever experienced such a major break-up.
In the end, can these two large barges hold Hong Mo's throat? Among the people present, perhaps only the water conservancy expert Li Wen had his own calculations in his heart, while others all raised their hearts to their throats.
The difficulty of blocking this breach exceeds everyone's expectations.
Nearly 8,000 people fought here for two days, but they were not blocked.
It consumed hundreds of tons of grain and hundreds of cars, but it was not blocked.
The two units with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Division fought for their lives, but they did not stop them.
Can it be achieved with just two ships?
Not only the people present doubted, but even Zhuangyan felt doubted.
When the ship comes, whether it sinks or not, Deputy Commander Cai will make the final decision.
Li Wen said: "Deputy Commander Cai, look..."
Deputy Commander Cai did not blink for a moment, and the soldiers who had fought the war had no verbal and procrastinated. He waved his hand directly: "Expert Li, you can do whatever you want, and our troops cooperate with you! If you succeed, I will ask you for me; if you lose, the responsibility will be my!"
Li Wen, who was an intellectual, had his eyes lit up.
It is said that scholars meet soldiers, but they are unreasonable.
But at this moment, the soldier in front of him did not put any restrictions on him, but instead gave him a reassurance first.
Li Wen said: "Okay, I will get on the boat and command it myself."
Deputy Commander Cai was surprised and asked, "What did you say?"
"I'm going to get on the boat and direct my own command."
"No!" Deputy Commander Cai did not agree this time, "The water flow at the breach is very large, and there are even a lot of whirlpools. If you go, I can't afford to take responsibility if you are taken into the water by a ship with people and ships!"
Li Wen smiled.
He was not unacceptable until this deputy commander.
I just dared to take responsibility for the breakup here, let alone a person who died?
"Deputy Commander Cai, it's not that I want to be a hero. It's because the water flows at the breach are fast, undercurrents, and whirlpools, so I need to command it myself. Otherwise, if the ship reaches the breach, if the angle is wrong, it will not be able to stop the breach and will not play the greatest role."
Deputy Commander Cai still shook his head: "No, you are an expert in the Three Gorges and a talent from the Ministry of Water Resources. I can't let you take risks. If you want to go, we have soldiers here to replace them."
Li Wen smiled bitterly and said, "Deputy Commander Cai, I am not a soldier. I am not as heroic as you. If I can't go, I will not force it. But it is important. Success, failure, gains and losses are here in one fell swoop. A ship is not so easy to find. This is not a car. You have cars, but it is difficult for you to find other alternatives to the barges here for a while. We can't afford to make mistakes!"
Cai Wenming was silent.
Li Wen is talking about the truth.
As a senior officer, of course, you won’t be able to hear the truth or lies.
There are only two ships, and whether they can be blocked depends on them.
Once a mistake is made, it is impossible to find the ship again in a short time.
No one dares to guarantee whether the dam will collapse immediately on a large scale at the moment of the dam.
"Okay! But you promised me that I will send a class to protect you, you can't refuse." Cai Wenming felt that this was the only thing he could do.
"From the Guard Company, pick me a class that is proficient in water!"
Soon, tall and handsome guards, soldiers in life jackets, stood in front of the two of them.
"Deputy Commander Cai..." Li Wen didn't want so many people to protect him. As an intellectual, the low-key and introverted person made him at a loss.
"How to block the gap? I'll listen to you. You said you want to get on the boat, and I'll listen to you too. But if you don't send someone, you have to listen to me!" After Cai Wenming said that, he turned to the local leader beside him: "Do you agree or not?"
"Of course, agree! Someone must be sent to protect the experts!"
"Okay! That's it!" Cai Wenming waved his hand, and Li Wen was helplessly surrounded by a squad of guards and walked towards the barge.
The barge was docked on the upstream shore, and in just 40 minutes, it was filled with sandbags and excavators by the troops.
On the barge, the boss's hand was full of sweat.
Unlike on weekdays when sailing on the river, this time it was heading towards a huge embankment.
When billions of cubic cubic meters of water spew out from there, the water flow will form a huge suction force, and countless undercurrents and vortexes will be generated around it.
Even though the barge filled with sand weighs 100 tons, it is still a dead leaf in the face of the powerful current.
As they approached the breach, the ship began to lose control.
The boss of the ship grabbed the steering wheel tightly, increased the accelerator and fought against the water flow, and the red and black face was sweating.
"Be careful!" he yelled, pushing the boat across the water.
Li Wen walked to the side of the boat, looked down at the water flowing on the river, and directed the ship to pose.
"To the right--"
"Do it's a little bit--"
"Okay! Just keep it like this and let the water flow take us over!"
A wave hit the boat and pushed Li Wen directly onto the deck.
The soldiers of the guard company rushed over, hugged Li Wen tightly, and pulled him up from the ground.
"Dangerous! Go back to the cockpit!"
"No! I want to be here, the location is very important, otherwise the ship will be in vain!"
The intellectual Li Wen didn't know where the courage came from. At this moment, he was no less than those soldiers.
The barge is getting closer and closer to the breach.
"Retreat!" the boss of the ship shouted: "You guys leave first!"
Li Wen shook his head: "It's still a little bit..."
The boss shouted, "No, I can control it!"
The guards without saying anything, raised Li Wen and ran away, arrived at the boat seat, threw him onto the assault boat, and then drove the boat away.
Several soldiers in charge of sank the barge together with the ship boss, drilled the bilge and retreated to another assault boat.
Cai Wenming felt his lips dry.
Standing on the embankment, his eyes were fixed on two barges connected by wire ropes.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw all the soldiers and the ship's boss evacuating on the assault boat.
The two civilian barges were quickly sucked by the whirlpool at the breaking point and slowly pushed towards the breaking point.
Soon, the 100-ton barge filled with sand slowly sank and was sucked into the breach.
Everyone's breathing stopped.
Everyone is waiting for the final effect to appear.
"Stop it!"
Zhou Huping, who was standing on the side of the breach, shouted loudly.
Cai Wenming vomited a breath of stagnation that had been blocked in his chest for a long time, and his whole body became extremely relaxed.
"Get down the cage! Fill in the breach!"
The excavator from the engineering battalion roared and sprayed black smoke.
One by one, the large iron cages weighing ten tons and filled with stones and sandbags were pushed into the water.
To be continued...