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虽然宋朝时这里是八百里梁山泊，但现在的东平湖只是个100多平方公里、平均水深2.5米的中型湖泊。它只在21、22、23日三天开闸滞留黄河水，对应花园口7月17、18、19三天的洪峰。之后东平湖就满了，除非决定炸开第二滞洪区，否则24日起东平湖的使命就结束了。

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On July 7, the peak of the Yellow River entered Jinan.

Beidianzi in the Jinan section of the Yellow River is a weak point in the Shandong section of the Yellow River with narrow channels, many bends, high riverbeds and short embankments.However, the right bank of the Beidianzi Yellow River embankment is Jinan, and the left bank is the ancient city of Qihe County.

From July 7 to July 10, troops from the Shandong Provincial Military Command and more than 7 Jinan residents raised the left and right banks of the Beidianzi Yellow River embankment by two meters. Insert iron plates, cement plates, and even door panels of villagers' homes on the inside of the embankment.

Even so, there was an unexpected situation on July 7.On this day, a large willow tree with a length of more than 24 meters floated down the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and under the pressure of the flood peak, it slammed into the right bank of the Yellow River embankment in Beidianzi.The door panels used to protect the embankment were knocked loose and several pieces were washed away.

Ten minutes later, the inspection team patrolling along the Beihe River discovered a seepage point on the embankment, which had soaked a piece of grass.The inspection team quickly ran up the embankment to report, and then reported to the headquarters in Jinan with a walkie-talkie.

Three young men on the embankment tied hemp ropes around their waists, sank into the raging water of the Yellow River, and groped repeatedly at the section of the embankment where the door panel was knocked away by a big willow tree, and finally found a hole the size of a bowl. When it collapsed, they stuffed willow pillows and put a few sacks of soil on the pier, finally ruled out a possible piping danger.

At 7:25 p.m. on July 10, Hong Feng approached Binzhou.

The night is the most difficult time, the defensive area is large, and the line of sight is not good-there is no electricity on the embankment.Most of the work sections are illuminated by gas lamps.Put one lamp at a distance of tens of meters, the brightness is okay, but it often goes out due to wind and rain.

The strong laborers of all the villages near the Yellow River went to the levee, and the old and young in each village could not sleep well at night. Every two or three households had to arrange an old man to watch the night.

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“郑州段黄河水位继续回落；伊、洛、沁河和三门峡干流区间降雨基本停止，未来7天不会再有强降水；郑州-开封一带26日至30日为晴天，31日有阵雨；山东地区7月27日有局部小雨，28至30日为晴天。只要洪峰顺利入渤海，我们这一关就过去了。”

Tu Changwang reported the situation in the next few days to the Ministry of Water Resources.

Fu Zuoyi: "Thank you, Director Tu. This time the Yellow River flooded, the weather forecasting station made the first contribution."

The Shandong side, one person at a time, stared at the flood peak of the Yellow River entering the sea. Now that it has passed the oil field, the first flood will rush into the Bohai Sea in a few hours.

On the evening of July 7, Shengli Oilfield.

With Zhang Gai's oilfield headquarters as the center, Shengli Oilfield now has a forest of iron towers and kowtow machines.

As far as China is concerned, the oil production of Shengli Oilfield accounts for half of the total production.If the Shengli Oilfield is destroyed by floods, the country may have to import a lot more oil in the next year.

Because of this, the Yellow River embankment in the area where the Shengli Oilfield is located was the first to be reinforced, and the most solid materials were used. Thick steel bars, steel pipes, large-area steel plates, and even quick-setting cement were all used on the Yellow River embankment.

The trucks in the oil field were basically transferred to transport the materials for strengthening the embankment, but the kowtow machines in the oil field continued to pump oil, continuously supplying petrochemical plants in Shandong and even Hebei.

Using tall drilling towers, oilfield workers organized several lookout points, and used binoculars to monitor the river day and night, so as to grasp the overall situation of the flood peak of the Yellow River entering the sea.

"The flood has reached Tingluo." The lookout from the drilling tower reported.

"Ting Luo is normal." "Hekou District is normal!"

When the flood reached the mouth of the river, there was no levee, but there was no need for anyone to manage it.

The mouth of the Yellow River is a large swamp wetland, and it is also a piece of land that is increasing in size.The water of the Yellow River spreads and floods here, and the sediment gradually settles. In the past few decades, hundreds of square kilometers of sea area have turned into swamps, and the swamps have turned into land.

On the morning of July 7, the first flood peak entered the sea. The Yellow River flood fight in 27 took 1958 days of preparation and 10 days of flood fighting. Now it is entering the final stage.

Chapter 187, we created a miracle

"This is really a devilish river. After a few heavy rains in summer, the entire river basin is shivering. If this river were in our country, I think the residents on both sides of the river would have emigrated and fled 300 years ago."

Stagg and Tu Changwang were walking on the south bank of the Yellow River embankment in Zhengzhou. In the past few days, he only looked at the Yellow River embankment from a telescope. Today, he came to the front and felt the true appearance of the Yellow River.

The earth embankment of more than ten meters, some areas are covered with vegetation, and some are bare soil.The materials of the exposed dikes and dams are rich and colorful. Some interlayers can be seen to have stones, some interlayers are compact and can be seen to have been compacted, and some interlayers are relatively soft.If it is possible to cut the embankment of the Yellow River longitudinally, it is possible to find the remains of construction from the Song and Yuan Dynasties to the Republic of China.

The Yellow River is like this. When the river bed becomes higher, the embankment is raised. When the flood hits, the embankment collapses and repairs. When the river collapses and diverts, embankments are built on both sides of the new river.Patch after patch, this is how it has survived for thousands of years.

Tu Changwang: "This is our mother river. Our ancestors farmed and lived in the Yellow River 5000 years ago. This land has nurtured us, and we have created a splendid civilization in this land. People cannot abandon their homeland."

Stagg could only shake his head and sigh.

Tu Changwang: "Mr. Stagg, you went to China to observe and investigate, and you helped us correct our weather forecast model, and provided us with the missing historical parameters of marine geography, which improved the accuracy of the weather forecast system in the Huanghuai region. Very helpful. China Meteorological Administration and people all over the country are grateful for your work."

"It's a professional principle of a meteorologist. I like the way you work," Stagg said, "and your computer system, although I've never seen the computer we use... What is it?"

A group of people walked along the dirt road under the embankment for a while. This is the headquarters of an army on the embankment.The command post is two open tents, one of which has an antenna.From time to time, officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army came in and out of the headquarters. Next to the headquarters, there stood four flagpoles with a height of four to five meters, and the red flags hanging on them fluttered in the wind.

It was these four red flags that Stagg was pointing at.

Tu Changwang: "Here, Xiao Zhang, come and introduce Mr. Stagg."

Zhang Jijia, who was accompanying him as a part-time interpreter for Stagg, took a step forward, pointed at the flag and said to Stagg:

"Changjin Lake Tiger Regiment. Dead Eagle Ridge blocking hero company. Yi government interspersed with Dagong Second Company. Kaohsiung Liberation Pioneer Battalion."

"The troops stationed here are the troops of the 26th Division of the 59th Army. From November to December 1950, on the Eastern Front Battlefield of the Second Battle of Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, also called the Battle of Changjin Lake, the 11th Division raided Xiajie stationed by the U.S. Army at night. In Yuli, the key point of the battle was seized, and the 12st Marine Division of the US Army was completely divided. Among them, the 59th regiment of the 59th Division took the lead in rushing into the enemy's position in Xiajieyuli, and was awarded the title of "Changjin Lake Tiger Regiment".

"Also in the Battle of Changjin Lake, the 176th Regiment stopped the U.S. Army at Dead Eagle Ridge. The entire company fought until there were only 9 people left, and the position was not lost. The title of the Eagle Ridge Sniper Company of Heroes."

"In the fifth battle, the 177nd Company of the [-]th Regiment quickly intersected Uijeongbu after capturing Dongducheon, causing the US and South Korean troops in front of them to fall into chaos, and made great contributions to the liberation of Uijeongbu and Seoul."

"During the Battle of Taiwan, the first battalion of the 175th Regiment mounted amphibious tanks and climbed mountains and crossed dense forests at night, shaking the Kuomintang army's Tainan-Kaohsiung defense system, and was awarded the title of 'Kaohsiung Liberation Pioneer Battalion'."

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"This is the army that shocked the world in the First World War in Korea..." Stagg looked up at the flag on the embankment, "I am honored to be marching with such an army. But...is this also your job? "

Stagg's remark is not referring to emergency rescue and disaster relief.His face had been turned the other way, and a mile or two away from them, a group of warriors in military uniform was busy in the fields with peasants in ordinary clothes.

Tu Changwang: "Yes, this is also the work of the People's Liberation Army. From July 7th to 6th, half of the young and middle-aged men in Henan were guarded on both sides of the Yellow River and had no time to take care of the farmland. Now that the danger is lifted, the fields If you don’t hurry up and finish the farm work, it will delay the farming time.”

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7月27、28、29、30日，此次黄河的高量洪峰逐渐排入渤海。7月31日，在胜利油田的钻井塔顶，瞭望员用肉眼就能看得出来过境的黄河水比前几天有明显减少了。

The catastrophic flood of the Yellow River in 1958 slowly came to an end and withdrew from the stage of history.

"Since there are historical records in China, in the more than 2000 years, there have been 543 years in which the Yellow River burst and flooded, with a total of 1590 bursts and five major diversions. The tragedy of the disaster is endless in history."

"In the great flood of the Yellow River in 1933, the peak flow rate was 22000 cubic meters per second, 31 places overflowed in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and 73 places burst, a total of 104 places. 66 counties were affected, the affected population was 364 million, and more than 1.8 people died."

"Since the people ruled the Yellow River in 1946, the Yellow River has survived 11 major autumn floods without any flooding. This year's extreme flood peak has a maximum peak flow of 22300 cubic meters per second, and the total water volume of the extreme flood has reached 60 billion cubic meters. "

"But this year we have overcome the catastrophic flood. There is no flood diversion and no breach on both sides of the strait, which ensures a bumper harvest in the two provinces. This is based on the precise calculations of the National Meteorological Administration, the heroic People's Liberation Army and the equally heroic rescue and disaster relief. With the hard work of the masses, our country has created another miracle."

On August 8, the "People's Daily" published a report on the victory over the catastrophic flood of the Yellow River on the front page.

In Beijing, the chief accountant and the comrades of the Finance and Economics Committee breathed a sigh of relief.

When the Yellow River flood suddenly appeared, the chief accountant conducted calculations. The two large flood diversion areas and flood detention areas, even if all the people evacuated in an organized manner and there were no casualties, were only 200 million mu of cultivated land, 270 million mu of cultivated land and the upper and lower areas. The loss of thousands of villages and residential areas will cost 4 million yuan and 5.5 million yuan for post-disaster reconstruction.

Now these two large flood diversion areas are safe and sound. The land submerged in the two provinces of Henan and Shandong this time is very small, and the people have no casualties or displacements.However, in the battle against disasters, 17 PLA soldiers, 9 local cadres, and rescuers died.

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