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Tu Changwang nodded. Stagg saw that China's weather forecast system was itchy, and it really helped the Meteorological Bureau improve a lot.
"July will be an extremely severe month. Our meteorological department, water conservancy department, and the People's Liberation Army must all invest in it."
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Zhengzhou Railway Station.
The 20th Army came from Jinan by train. Although more than 4 people did not carry weapons, they also brought a large amount of anti-flood supplies from Shandong. It took a total of two days and two nights to unload the personnel and supplies.
"Is this why we came to Zhengzhou...for flood control and disaster relief?"
Dong Yuxiang, deputy commander of the 20th Army, looked at the clear sky.It is midsummer, the sky in Zhengzhou is blue and the air is hot and dry.
"Weather forecasts say that there will be widespread rainfall in the Yellow River Basin, heavy rain in some areas, and possible flooding," said the director of the Political Department.
"I didn't see that it was going to rain at all," Dong Yuxiang said, "Forget it, let's treat it as a training session for the whole army."
After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 38th, 39th, and 40th Armies were stationed in the Northeast as the back support of the Korean Peninsula; the 20th, 26th, and 27th Armies were stationed in the Central Plains, serving as the general reserve of the Northeast Garrison and the strategic reserve of the eight major military regions in the country.
Now the prestige of the three armies of the 9th Corps is known even to the Americans. In 54 and 55, when American reconnaissance planes entered the sky over China at will, there were a few times when they took pictures of the 20th Army's garrison along the way.But this time the 20th Army dispatched is not a combat exercise, but as the first-line force for emergency rescue and disaster relief.
On July 7th, the same day that the vanguard of the 4th Army arrived in Zhengzhou, the Henan Provincial Military Region mobilized more than 20 reserve forces and drove to Huayuankou overnight with 1000 mobilized militia troops.
The Zhengzhou People's Armed Forces Department urgently mobilized more than 1000 militiamen to prepare for disaster relief.
On July 7, the 5th Army assembled at Zhengzhou Railway Station was deployed along the Yellow River Embankment in units of regiments.
On the afternoon of July 7, the Supercomputing Department of the Shanghai Institute of Computer Science once again completed the medium and long-term weather forecast calculation.Now, the weather on July 5 is already a medium-term weather forecast within 7 days with high accuracy. In this weather forecast, the heavy rainfall between Zhengzhou and Luoyang still exists.To be precise, its rainfall estimate was a bit heavier than the July 14 forecast.
By July 7, more than 6 militiamen had assembled in Henan province.
On July 7, Zhengzhou Railway Station.
The chairman's train stopped at the platform.
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Minister Fu of the Ministry of Water Resources, Vice Minister Lin Zhengying, and Director of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission Huang Huayun also came to Zhengzhou with the special train.
"Chairman, we suggest that you move the special train to the south of the Yellow River, and we will stop near the top of Mangshan Mountain." Provincial Party Secretary Pan Fusheng said.
Chairman: "?"
"The Yellow River is a suspended river. If there is a flood peak passing by, the water level will be higher. The top of Mangshan Mountain is the highest place in Zhengzhou City, and it is safer there."
"I went to the highest place, can all the people in Zhengzhou go there? Can all the people in Henan go up there too?" The chairman said, "I won't hide there, the special train should stop where I can see it." Where the Yellow River is."
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Inside the special train.
The chairman has a habit of reading local chronicles wherever he goes, so as to understand the local historical changes and geography.This time is no exception.Until midnight, the chairman was still consulting "Henan Tongzhi", "Bianjing Chronicles", and "Twenty Pins of Longmen Inscriptions". He folded the pages and wrote comments where the content of the flooding of the Yellow River was written.
"This time we are taking countermeasures based on the weather forecast. The weather forecast in 7 to 10 days may not be so serious, right?" Minister Fu said.
Chairman: "Yisheng, I don't care about the weather, and neither do you. The computer has the final say."
Lin Zhengying: "This year, one of the fastest supercomputers has been assigned to the National Meteorological Administration. They can now calculate the weather 15 days later, and it is relatively accurate. This time, there is a large-scale rainfall forecast in the middle reaches of the Yellow River from July 7 to 14. It is the conclusion drawn by the computer."
"Since manpower and materials have been concentrated in advance, preventive measures against flood peaks can be taken now," Huang Huayun, director of the Yellow Committee, assigned the task. "The 20th Army of the People's Liberation Army is the main force on duty on the river bank. The positions of the Yellow River embankments guarded by the 20 regiments of the army are here...the positions of the local troops and the basic militia are here. More than 12 government officials and employees mobilized by Zhengzhou City will assist the basic militia.”
"No matter what happens this time and how big the flood peak is, we have only one goal, and it cannot be changed: the Yellow River embankment cannot break." Huang Huayun said the overall goal of the Yellow River Committee.
"The Yellow River is not only the cradle of raising the Chinese nation, but also a harmful river that endangers the people caused by years of wars in the old China and the indiscriminate felling of trees in the upper reaches."
The Chairman made the final statement.
"I don't know how many times the Yellow River has breached in history, and it has caused great harm to the lives and properties of the people. Now that it is in our hands, we must not let it cause trouble again. We must ensure the safety of the Yellow River and the safety of the Yellow River Iron Bridge. You want Get things done in the Yellow River well, otherwise, I won't be able to sleep well."
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7月10日，济南军区26军进入河南-山东交界的兰考-聊城一带。两个军8万多名指战员、超过10万民兵和动员的干部、工人，静静等待黄河发威的那一刻。
Chapter 185, don't consider flood diversion now
"Has the field army been mobilized to deploy to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River? The chairman personally holds the line?"
The itinerary scheduled for July is to go to Changchun first, and then go back to Shenyang and Benxi.Before leaving, Tang Hua couldn't help being very surprised when he learned that the Yellow River Committee and even the entire north had mobilized their manpower and material resources to prepare for the possible danger in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
In the original historical plane, the Yellow River catastrophic flood in 1958 was the largest flood recorded after the Yellow River had hydrological measurement data in 1919, surpassing the Yellow River catastrophic flood in 1933. The government has little time to react.
In the original historical plane, the Yellow Committee forcibly withstood the huge flood peak, and the embankment of the Yellow River did not break, only part of it overflowed.But the rest of the losses were not small: one pier of the Yellow River Railway Bridge was washed away, the Beijing-Guangzhou (Ping-Han) Railway was interrupted; 304 million mu of cultivated land was flooded by flood diversion into the lake and the top was flooded, and 30 houses collapsed.
"This time is also unprecedented. Based on the medium- and long-term weather forecast, the Yellow Commission began to arrange preventive measures. When the 7-10 day medium-term weather forecast reached the same conclusion, the chairman personally went to Zhengzhou to hold the battle." Li Fuchun said, " The chairman now especially trusts computers and all other high-tech tools. If the chairman had not made the decision, there would not be such a large-scale military mobilization and material mobilization.”
Tang Hua nodded and didn't say anything, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"However, in the month since I returned from the Soviet Union, the accuracy of medium and long-term weather forecasts has improved slightly."
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7 month 12 day.
The tethered balloons at the weather stations in Zhumadian and Zhoukou accurately detected the warm and humid air flowing from southeast to northwest.This is no longer the scope of medium-term weather forecasting, but short-term weather forecasting.
Now the astronomical phenomenon of the Yellow River Basin in the next two or three days is very simple: on July 7, the warm and humid air will collide with the cold air over the Yellow River. The upper reaches of the Sanmenxia area.The rainfall in Sanmenxia will exceed that in Luoyang and last for at least two days.
Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge.
About 5 engineering troops from the 2000th Division of the Railway Corps gathered in the north and south of the bridge. There were also engineering ships coming and going in the Yellow River, full of stone chips. Dump the stone flakes from the ship in front of the bridge piers.
The Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge is a railway bridge built in the late Qing Dynasty. It was completed in 1905 with the opening of the Ping-Han Railway.
Due to the technical conditions at that time, the foundation of the bridge was not dug deep, and the piers of the bridge were stuck in the silt, not in the rock layer.Therefore, during the Republic of China, the maintenance team of the bridge learned the trick of throwing stone chips to consolidate the pier during the flood season.Because this bridge is so poor, construction of the second Zhengzhou Yellow River Bridge, the Jiayingguan Yellow River Railway Bridge, has started, and it may be completed and put into use in two years.
"Beep—beep—" the locomotive's whistle sounded continuously, reminding the staff on the bridge to get out of the way if they forgot to move.
The front of the truck pushed a long line of trucks, each wagon filled with wet sand.The heavy wagons pressed onto the bridge, stopped at the bridge, followed by the second row, and the third row... until the entire Yellow River Bridge was covered and pressed down.
After the wagon was pushed into place, the locomotive was unhooked and moved away.The trucks press the bridge to prevent the bridge from being washed down by the flood, but what if the bridge collapses.Even if the wagons are washed away, the locomotive is still a very precious thing now.
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7 month 13 day.
Stagg flew direct from Shanghai to Zhengzhou.Of course it was Tu Changwang's plane.
"When everyone is retreating, only we are advancing."
Stagg strode along in the sweltering heat, Stagg khaki short-sleeved shirt, shorts, but tie still scrupulously tied, clean boots, shiny belt buckle, shirt and shorts Ridges are ironed out, as if back in 1944 when he provided weather information for the Allied Normandy landing.