Chapter 1354 Northwest Dilemma

It rained heavily for two months.

This heavy rain was not only in places close to the coast, but extremely dense water vapor covered everywhere, and even heavy rain fell in the northwest.

The northwest has always been short of water.

The vegetation in the northwest region is roughly divided into grasslands, desert steppes, deserts, and then deserts from east to west.

But this heavy rain is not a good thing for the northwest region. There is originally a lot of desert here and the vegetation is sparse.

If this heavy rain falls over several years, it may be possible to change the desert vegetation here and grow many grasses and trees instead.

But.

This heavy rain came too quickly and too much.

Instead, the already barren soil here was washed away, taking away the soil and leaving bare rocks.

Jiayu City.

It is higher in the south and lower in the north, with the Badain Jaran Desert in the north and the Qilian Mountains in the south.

It is run through by the Great North River from east to west.

What was originally a small Dabei River has now formed an extremely wide river.

Looking up, it looks like a vast lake.

Since it rarely rains throughout the year, it is a temperate continental desert type. The annual precipitation is only more than 80 mm, and the drainage system is relatively weak.

This heavy rain is undoubtedly a huge disaster.

suburbs.

Yuquan Town has many ancient city walls that have lasted for thousands of years.

With a heavy rain, it also had a great impact on this area.

This place is some distance from the Dabei River, but heavy rains have been falling for more than two months, and some low-lying areas are still flooded.

Outside the ancient city wall, there is a dense network of rivers.

The floods continued to rise and had reached the edge of the ancient city wall.

There are many people in the ancient city wall carrying sandbags and stacking them on top of the ancient city wall in case of emergency.

The height of the ancient city wall reaches twelve meters, which is quite majestic.

In the heavy rain, on top of the wall.

A tall man with sharp eyes wearing a hat, a Chinese character face, and a pair of sword-shaped eyebrows at the temples, full of momentum.

"Let the Third Brigade and the Second Squadron seal the city gates with sandbags. The floods must not be allowed to rush in."

The deputy next to the man heard the column leader's order and hesitated for a few seconds before asking:

"The floods are rising abnormally. There have been heavy rains before, but they have never caused such severe waterlogging. How about forming a death squad and going out on a boat to have a look?"

On their side, there is only one force, and that is them.

There are several columns, each column has 5 brigades, each brigade has 5 squadrons, each squadron has 10 squads, and each squad has 10 people.

There were 2,500 men in one column.

Above this column is the captain, and above the captain is the boss.

Standing on the ancient city wall at this time was Huang Feilong, the captain of the third column. After hearing his deputy's words, Huang Feilong looked at the flood in the distance, and several zombies surfaced from time to time.

He flatly refused and said: "No, there are so many zombies in the flood. If you let the brothers go out to explore the situation, don't you just let them die?"

The deputy sighed: "However, there have been heavy rains before, and they did not cause such serious waterlogging. There must be places blocked by sand, which is why the flood discharge is not smooth. Otherwise, the Beida River should flow eastward!" "

"That won't work either." Huang Feilong refused righteously.

"All right."

"Hurry and execute the order!" Huang Feilong urged again.

"yes."

The deputy hurried down the city wall and immediately contacted the second squadron of the third brigade.

Huang Feilong looked at the flood like a vast ocean with stern eyes.

In Jiayu City in the northwest, far away from the Central Plains, the population is sparsely populated.

It is an excellent place to be far away from a large number of zombies in the apocalypse.

Coupled with the fact that Ma Laoliu from Youlan City in the east is blocking the zombie tide heading west, they basically have nothing to worry about here.

There is the Great Desert in the north and the Qilian Mountains in the south. At most, only some zombies from the west come here.

But there are relatively few.

There are not many zombies that can be seen on weekdays, just sporadic ones.

But this time the natural disaster hit them hard. When the thunderstorm disaster just broke out, the first column lost contact, and the second column was still on the way back, and there is no trace of it until now.

I don’t know what the situation of the second column is now.

This area is located in a desert area, so growing food crops is more difficult.

In addition, there are natural disasters every now and then, and the impact is not small.

What hinders their development is not the zombie wave, but unpredictable natural disasters.

Originally, it was difficult to grow food here, and it would only be harvested once a year, but now there are always several natural disasters a year, making it even more difficult.

Huang Feilong was thinking about some things and was looking at the lake in the distance in a daze.

After the deputy got off the wall, the road was muddy.

Several tanks drove by and people came and went.

"Deputy Column Captain."

The deputy saw the captain of the First Battalion jump out of the tank and asked quickly:

"Where is the third team? Why can't we contact them?"

The captain of the first brigade pointed to the back and said: "They are still cleaning the gravel there."

"Send someone to inform them and ask them to send a squadron to block the gate of the city wall. The flood is about to come up and the gate may leak."

"yes."

After the deputy column leader finished explaining, he wiped the rain off his face.

"It's really frustrating. It's really strange that it rains so heavily in the northwest."

He is an authentic Northwest native who grew up here.

The annual rainfall in Jiayu City is very small, but there is snow.

But I have never seen such a heavy rainstorm in my life.

When the thunderstorm disaster just arrived, continuous lightning destroyed some tanks and armored vehicles.

In the storm, the yellow sand was all over the sky and it was impossible to see clearly, but fortunately there were fewer zombies here, so except for some people injured in the storm, there were no other deaths.

That storm destroyed all the crops they had planted for a long time.

After the storm, there was a heavy rain, and the continuous heavy rain settled the sand and dust in the air.

Everything returned to calm.

But in the calm, unknown dangers are bred.

The heavy rain lasted for more than two months, and a lot of rain fell, washing the desert land.

Because a lot of soil in the Qilian Mountains in the south was washed away by heavy rain, mudslides and landslides occurred.

A large amount of mudslides flowed down from the mountains, forming a large barrier lake in the east of Jiayu City.

The flood could not be discharged, causing waterlogging here.

According to the terrain here, it is unlikely to cause flooding, after all, the altitude here is relatively high.

But there is a lot of silt and mud, and the flood cannot be discharged at all.

Looking down at the entire Jiayu City from a high altitude, relying on the Beida River, a few kilometers to the north has become an ocean.

The Beida River runs from west to east. More than ten kilometers away in the east, mud and rock flows in the mountains wash down. At the bend of the Beida River, mud and sand accumulate, forming a dam similar to a hydropower station.

The bottom of this dam is full of mud and sand. As time goes by, more and more mud and sand accumulate, and the dam becomes more and more stable.

In short, if the dam is not broken, as time goes by, the entire Jiayu City will certainly be flooded by floods.

A barrier lake has been formed.

In the center of the ancient city wall.

In a villa.

In the hall.

There are only three people sitting.

A rectangular table, with a man in a POLO shirt sitting at the top. From the man's appearance, you can't tell his age. He looks ordinary, but his temperament is outstanding.

Behind this man, there is an old man with white hair and braids, standing with his hands behind his back.

On the left and right sides of the rectangular table, there is a man.

The man on the right has a military temperament and looks quite imposing.

The man on the left wears a pair of glasses, and his eyes are bright under the light.

At this time, he was squinting his eyes, stroking the water cup in his hand, and his thin lips slightly opened:

"Boss, I still keep my original idea. There were heavy rains before, although not as heavy as this time, but it did not form a flood like this."

"We don't know how long this heavy rain will last. I just came down from the wall and saw that the flood was almost at our wall."

"If we don't figure out why the flood is not draining, and keep waiting for the water level to rise, it will be too late by then."

"From another perspective, although the ancient city wall has not collapsed after thousands of years, it has not been soaked by floods. I don't think our wall can block the flood outside."

"You are farting!"

Before the glasses man finished speaking, the strong man sitting opposite him burst out with a swear word.

"I personally led people to repair the ancient city wall and reinforced it with cement and steel bars. How can it not stop the flood?"

"Ma Zhunzhi, don't think I don't know what you are thinking. In short, I just have one sentence. I don't accept the method you said."

The boss of the central government knocked on the yellow wooden table.

Dadada——

"Jipeng."

"Don't worry, we are discussing a solution, don't act on impulse."

After hearing what the boss said, Yin Jipeng looked at Ma Zhunzhi opposite him and snorted.

He turned his head and looked to the side.

The boss frowned slightly when he saw Yin Jipeng like this.

Then he looked at the man with glasses and said:

"Zhunzhi, please continue."

"Yes, boss."

Ma Zhunzhi adjusted his glasses, and he didn't look at Yin Jipeng sitting opposite him. Although Yin Jipeng was the captain of several columns, he was in charge of the team and had great power.

But at least he was also in charge of all the internal affairs and logistics here, and his status was about the same.

They were all under the boss.

But this Yin Jipeng seemed to be born with a bad relationship with him, targeting him everywhere.

He took out a map from the paper tube next to him.

Spread it out and spread it flat on the table.

"Boss, look, this is the map of our Jiayu City."

"According to common sense, the terrain here is higher than the surrounding areas, and it is unlikely to have waterlogging, but look here."

He pointed to the east of the Dabei River, in the center of Jiayu City and Jiushi.

"This is where the Dabei River turns, and silt is easy to settle here."

"I just saw it on the wall, the flood flow rate is not fast, which means that there must be a place blocked below, causing the rainwater to not drain out."

"So I suspect that this place may be blocked due to the accumulation of silt sediment, and our huge Jiayu City has formed a large barrier lake."

"If you don't want the flood level to rise, you must dredge this place and open a hole for the flood to let the rainwater flow out!"

As he said, he raised his head and glanced at Yin Jipeng who was sitting opposite.

He drank a sip of water and continued:

"Captain Yin's opinion is the second way I want to talk about."

"That is to endure and gamble."

"I bet this natural disaster will pass soon. Once the heavy rain stops, we naturally don't have to worry about rising floods."

"Endure, that is, as the floods rise, we need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to find ways to prevent the floods from flooding within our walls."

"As Captain Yin said, the ancient city wall has been repaired and can completely block the flood. But I want to ask a question. The lowest part of the ancient city wall is eight meters and the highest part is 12 meters. If the flood level reaches eight meters, What should we do?”

"snort!"

Yin Jipeng snorted coldly:

"It's impossible. The flood level will reach the height of eight meters of the ancient city wall, and most of Jiayu City will be flooded."

"Besides, even if the water reaches eight meters, I have a way to deal with it."

"Oh? Then tell me." Ma Zhunzhi raised his eyebrows and looked at him in disbelief.

Yin Jipeng became increasingly unhappy when he saw Ma Zhunzhi's expression.

"The pile of sand and soil can at least increase the height by three to four meters. If we have all the people in the base, I am confident that it can be piled even higher. Seven or eight meters is not impossible."

"hehe."

Ma Zhunzhi sneered: "You mean, if the heavy rain keeps falling, even if the stacking of sandbags you mentioned is feasible, have you thought about what will happen?"

"At that time, our entire base seemed to be surrounded by floods, and the water level was higher than our house! Once the sandbags cannot hold on and burst the embankment, do you know what will happen to us?"

"die!"

Ma Zhunzhi said and stood up.

Staring at Yin Jipeng, he said seriously:

"Captain Yin, although we won't deal with it, it is very important. Now at this time of life and death, I hope you can put aside your prejudice."

He looked at the boss, cupped his fists and said:

"Boss, I suggest that we send three small teams to row out of the base, find the blockage, blow it open in one fell swoop, dredge the river, let the flood flow out, and solve our worries in one fell swoop."

"I knew you didn't fart properly!"

Yin Jipeng was furious after hearing Ma Zhunzhi's words.

"You don't know there are zombies in the flood outside! If you go out on a boat and get caught by a zombie, you will definitely die!"

"You don't value the lives of your brothers, you beast!"

When Ma Zhunzhi heard the word "animal", his eyebrows jumped.

The expression on his face was a bit unbearable, and he thought to himself: Common man! Don't conspire with it!

"you"

"snort!"

Ma Zhunzhi felt that his argument with Yin Jipeng was a little priceless, so he simply turned his head and sat down heavily on the stool without saying a word.

silence. Up to a minute.

The boss sitting above kept listening and didn't interrupt.

After listening to the two of them chatting, it became clear what the dispute between them was about this matter.

Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The boss's eyes moved slightly, his thoughts changed rapidly, and he broke the awkward silence.

"Ahem."

"I wonder if it's possible to use our heavy artillery to directly bomb that area? This would dredge the river."

Hearing this, Ma Zhunzhi nodded, but then quickly shook his head.

“It’s possible, but if the position is not accurate enough, you can only hit it blindly.

If we target that area for bombing, according to calculations, if we want to cover such a large area and blast away the sand, this amount of ammunition will be needed.”

"It's probably going to take a lot of money. Well, it should be a lot."

"But if we send people over to figure out the specific blockage point, the amount of ammunition required is only one percent."

After hearing Ma Zhunzhi's words, the boss knew what was going on.

Yin Jipeng just didn't want to lose manpower.

But from an economic point of view, Ma Zhunzhi's proposal must be the most suitable.

Save ammunition and take the initiative. After solving the worries in one fell swoop, you no longer have to worry about rising flood levels as now.

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