Chapter 1708: Comprehensive Retreat!

The night was as dark as ink.

The wind was like a roaring beast, sweeping across the land.

The trees swayed in the wind, as if they would be uprooted at any time. The wind whistled between the interlaced branches, like an invisible arrow, shuttling through the dark night sky.

The camphor tree base.

Buffer city.

The boiler plant construction site, now the boiler plant has reached the final stage of completion.

The boiler plant has been capped, and the tower crane has moved some heavy equipment and items horizontally down.

In the wind.

There were two workers on the crane arm holding the frame of the crane tightly, and the crane arm was shaking and swaying with the wind.

In the crane cockpit, the crane driver fainted for some unknown reason.

Ding Jiu, He Chao, and Li Haoxian stood under the built factory building, looking at the crane arm swinging in the air.

"The rescuers have gone up." Li Haoxian said to the two people next to him.

Ding Jiu looked grim and nodded.

Turning around with a furious look on his face, he angrily said to Qian Zheng, the person in charge of the boiler plant construction:

"Didn't you say to stop high-altitude work an hour ago? Why haven't they been asked to come down yet?"

Qian Zheng's face was heavy, and he said with some guilt:

"The boiler plant is just missing that one box of things. They said they would just lift that box over and come down. I saw that the wind was not too strong at the time, so I agreed. I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect it! You didn't expect it? There are so many things you didn't expect!"

Ding Jiu pointed at Qian Zheng's nose and scolded:

"I have emphasized to you countless times before that engineering safety comes first, safety comes first. You still don't listen after so many times, right?"

Qian Zheng lowered his head and didn't dare to talk back.

As the chief engineer of the Dazhangshu Base, Ding Jiu is responsible for all construction projects in the base, as well as the Northland and Oil City.

Although Oil City and the Northland are far away from the headquarters base, the project approval, project progress, etc. in the two places need to be reported to Ding Jiu.

Now the project at the headquarters base has a safety accident under Ding Jiu's nose, which makes Ding Jiu lose face.

On the tower crane.

Two patrol members climbed up along the tower crane column. In the cold wind, they tied safety ropes around them and climbed up little by little.

They wore headlamps and looked a little nervous. After all, they were on a column dozens of meters high, and everything around them was suspended in the air. Although they tied safety ropes, it was still scary.

The two patrol members were also brave people, so they dared to climb up.

If it were two people who were afraid of heights, they would be scared to death.

Soon.

They arrived at the cockpit and opened the cockpit door.

The tower crane has not been turned off until now because the crane driver fainted.

In windy weather, it is extremely dangerous for the tower crane to keep the power on.

After they entered the cockpit, they turned off the power as soon as possible.

The crane driver was lying on the operating position at this time, and his life or death was unknown.

Patrol member Bai Yunxin put his finger on the tip of his nose, "He is still breathing."

"See if you can wake him up, otherwise we can only use a rope to hang him down or carry him down." Another patrol member Yang Jiwen said.

Bai Yunxin gently shook the crane driver's shoulder, "Hey, wake up."

No movement.

Bai Yunxin then patted his face, "Wake up!"

The crane driver slowly opened his eyes and woke up.

He looked at Bai Yunxin in a daze, and then he looked around to know where he was.

"Why did you faint?" Bai Yunxin asked when he saw him wake up.

The driver shook his head and said:

"I don't know, I don't know, I just had a sudden headache, and then I don't remember."

Bai Yunxin stared at him and frowned, "Didn't you have a physical examination?"

"I did, and I came up only when there was no problem."

"How long have you been working continuously?"

"About 10 hours."

10 hours is not particularly long, and it is not considered overload work.

So he said, "We'll go down together later. After we go down, you can have a physical examination. You may have health problems."

"Yeah."

The driver suddenly stood up, "By the way, there are still people on the tower crane. Liu Bing and Sun Ming are still on the crane arm! How are they now?"

Bai Yunxin pointed to the crane arm, "They are still hanging there."

Climbing over from the cockpit is too dangerous. The wind is so strong that people might fall down before they climb over.

They have now cut off the power of the tower crane and tried to stabilize it. The rest depends on Sun Bing and his luck.

If they can climb back to the cockpit, they can go down from the cockpit along the column together.

If they can't climb back, then

Yang Jiwen stood outside the cockpit and shouted to the two workers:

"The power is off, climb over here, I'll pick you up here!"

The two workers held the crane arm frame tightly. They were at least 40 meters above the ground.

At this time, the temperature reached zero degrees, and the two were shivering with cold.

After hearing what Yang Jiwen said, Liu Bing said to Sun Ming who was holding the frame opposite:

"Brother Sun, the power is off, the tower crane is shaking less, let's climb over."

His voice was trembling a little because of fear and cold.

Sun Ming looked at the safety rope around his waist, gritted his teeth, stretched out his cold hands, and untied the safety rope.

"Brother Sun, what are you doing?" Liu Bing asked in horror when he saw him doing this.

Sun Ming's eyes were firm and decisive.

"We can't hold on that long with the safety rope. We'll fall down sooner or later if we stay here."

After saying that, he crawled towards the cockpit.

Using his hands and feet, he climbed towards the cockpit as fast as he could while he still had strength.

Liu Bing looked at his crawling back and cursed.

But feeling his body getting colder and colder, he didn't want to waste any more time here.

He had to give it a try.

Although wearing a safety rope was safer, it was too slow.

He also untied the safety rope and followed Sun Ming to climb.

More than ten minutes later.

They arrived in front of the cockpit at a snail's pace without any danger.

Yang Jiwen, who was waiting for them, pulled them over and the three of them entered the cockpit.

Bai Yunxin and the crane driver had already crawled down the column when Sun Ming and the others crawled over.

Now there were only three of them in the cockpit.

After being hung in the strong wind for an hour, Sun Ming and his partner were frozen.

"You two take a few minutes to rest, and we will go down the tower crane together later." Yang Jiwen threw them two candies and two bottles of water.

Sun Ming tore the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth.

After they rested in the cockpit for a few minutes, they began to climb down.

The wind was blowing, but the tower crane column was much safer than the crane arm.

The moment their feet touched the ground, they were very excited, and their families who had been waiting for a long time below also ran over at this moment.

The first outer city.

In the conference room.

Second uncle, eldest uncle, Song Min, Bai Jie, Madi, He Bing, Lao Zhou, Lao Bi and others have all arrived.

Only He Chao and Ding Jiu have not arrived yet.

Li Yu didn't want to wait any longer, so he said to everyone:

"Just a few words, it's windy now, and a blizzard may fall at any time."

"So, starting tomorrow, all the guards in the watchtowers and satellite cities around the base will be withdrawn back to the headquarters base."

"In addition, let's ask the people in the mine and the sand field to come back."

My uncle nodded and said:

"Okay, then I will notify them tonight and ask them to withdraw as soon as possible."

My uncle is the deputy minister of the military department, and my third uncle is not at the headquarters base. The right to mobilize military personnel is in the hands of my uncle.

At this time, the door was pushed open.

He Chao and Ding Jiu stood at the door.

After seeing the two, Li Yu asked:

"How are the workers hanging on the tower crane in the buffer city?"

Ding Jiu's face changed a little when he heard this. He didn't expect that the city lord knew about this.

However, the safety accident was fortunately resolved and no one died.

"City lord, they are all safe now."

"Yeah." Li Yu watched them come in and closed the door.

He continued to ask:

"How is the construction of the boiler heating system going?"

He was still worried about this matter. Once the blizzard came, the temperature would not be as simple as it is now.

By that time, if there is no heating supply, the people in the inner and outer cities of the camphor tree base will be fine, but the people in the buffer city will suffer.

Ding Jiu had just sat down, and stood up immediately after hearing Li Yu's question.

"Sit down and talk." Li Yu waved his hand.

Ding Jiu hesitated for a few seconds and sat down and said:

"Boiler heating project, boilers and main equipment and main pipelines and branch valves have been installed, and have been accepted and qualified, and can now be put into use directly."

"The pipelines in the buffer city have now been laid for two-thirds, and those that have been laid can be used directly. The subsequent branch pipelines have been installed and connected to the main pipelines and put into use separately."

Li Yu thought for a while and asked: "How long will it take to complete all?"

"One week." Ding Jiu replied.

It wasn't long. Li Yu nodded and continued to ask:

"What about the heating system in Oil City and the North? How far has it progressed?"

Ding Jiu had expected the city lord to ask him this question. He had just asked about the progress in the afternoon.

So he answered:

"For the heating system in the North, the boiler equipment has been laid, the heating pipes in the greenhouse have been connected, and the residential buildings in the inner city have already had heating pipes, so now the only thing left is to lay the heating pipes in the outer city. The progress is about the same as the headquarters base, and it will take about a week."

"As for Oil City."

Ding Jiu paused for two seconds and continued:

"The boiler plant in Oil City has been built a long time ago, the equipment has been laid, and the pipes in Oil City have been laid."

"As for the trading market. Due to the large population and residential buildings in the trading market, the heating pipes have only been laid to the A-level residential area so far, and the B-level has just started, and the C-level has not yet started laying pipes."

"If all are laid, it will take at least one month."

One month.

It's been too long, maybe there will be a blizzard tomorrow.

And the population of Area B and Area C is the largest, accounting for more than 80% of the population of the trading market.

Li Yu frowned and asked:

"How is the buffer city over there going now?"

Ding Jiu replied:

"It has been encircled. The east and north sections are six meters high, but the west and south sections were only built to three meters high as of this afternoon."

"The greenhouse has just started to build a steel frame structure."

Ding Jiu pursed his lips and continued:

"City Lord, the wind is so strong now that it is not suitable for outdoor high-altitude operations. I suggest suspending all construction of the buffer city and focusing manpower on the laying of pipelines in the trading market."

"With these manpower, the heating pipe laying in the trading market can be completed within a week."

Originally, according to Li Yu's plan, he planned to build the buffer city walls and greenhouses before the ice disaster.

In this way, the buffer city of the trading market can start growing food.

Even if the ice disaster lasts for several years, Oil City will be able to supply food on its own without the need for support from the northern border and Da Zhangshu base.

But no matter how good the plan is, it can't compare to change.

In this situation, a blizzard may be coming soon, and the use of the heating system is imminent.

We must hurry up.

In addition, the current windy weather made construction too difficult, so we had to suspend the construction of the buffer city.

"OK."

Li Yu nodded and said to Ding Jiu:

"Then suspend the construction of the buffer city and focus all efforts on the construction of the boiler heating system."

Compared with the buffer city, for now, it is more important to have the boiler heating system in place.

Overall, after such adjustments, boiler heating in the three places can basically be completed within a week.

Because He Chao and his two men came in just now, interrupting the conversation between Li Yu and his uncle.

At this moment, the uncle saw that the conversation about construction was almost over.

So he said to Li Yu:

"Xiaoyu, since the sentry towers and mines here at Da Zhangshu Base will be withdrawn to the headquarters base tomorrow, will the same be true for those over at Oil City?"

The reason why I ask this is because the situation at the Da Zhangshu base headquarters is different from that in Oil City.

They have been deeply involved in Xincheng for many years, and there are almost no forces near the headquarters of the Da Zhangshu Base, and they are very familiar with the surrounding situation.

The Oil City is the outpost, the enemy on the surface of the northwest base.

If the northwest base is looking for trouble, it must first go to Oil City.

At this time, the sentry tower is particularly important. It can detect the people in the northwest base earlier before the large forces of the northwest base arrive at the city.

"Everyone should retreat. The wind has picked up. They are looking for death by coming so far at this time." Li Yu replied.

"OK."

They also discussed some details of preventing natural disasters in addition to the boiler heating system for the upcoming ice disaster.

There are many snowplows in the base, but this is not enough.

Because the clouds are too thick this time, the amount of snowfall may reach a ridiculous level.

If the snowfall is extremely intense, the speed at which snowplows can clear the snow cannot even match the speed of the snowfall.

In this case, the snow thickness is too high and blocks the road surface, making it impassable.

So, they built underground passages to connect various major buildings.

Scattered buildings are connected to the main passage or main building by building arched passages or herringbone passages.

This is to facilitate the flow of materials.

There is also the upgrade of the ventilation system. If the snow covers the bottom layer,

If ventilation is not done well, once the vents are blocked by snow, the ground floor will face a lack of oxygen.

Wait, wait.

They prepared for everything that might happen, thinking about the worst possible outcome.

Regardless of whether such a bad situation would happen, if it did, they would at least be prepared to avoid too serious consequences.

Every natural disaster is a tough battle!

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