Chapter 2196: Sense of Powerlessness

The breach occurred at noon that day. The flood peak from the upper reaches of the Changjiang River arrived, causing great pressure on the embankment here. After nearly two months of soaking and the pressure of continuous high water levels, the embankment here had been softened and had almost reached its limit.

The arrival of this flood peak finally made this embankment unable to bear the burden, and a piping phenomenon appeared, and it appeared in several places at the same time.

When the piping first appeared, it was only the size of a wine glass, but when the embankment patrol personnel discovered the piping phenomenon here, these several piping points were instantly washed together by the flood, suddenly becoming a piping point the thickness of a water bucket.

Countless flood control and emergency rescue personnel rushed here regardless of their safety, but they stuffed dozens of quilts into it one after another, all to no avail. These quilts were all washed away by the flood, the opening of the piping became larger and larger, and the embankment here finally breached.

The flood rushed toward the Jiangkou urban area with a water volume of hundreds of cubic meters per second. Countless flood control soldiers and civilians at the breach threw a large number of sandbags and stone bags into the breach, but it had no effect at all. These sandbags and stone bags were washed away without a trace as soon as they were thrown into the breach.

The danger was like fire. The news of the embankment breach was immediately reported to the central leaders. Vice Premier Xu, who was inspecting the disaster situation in Jiangyou Province, immediately took a helicopter to Jiangkou City after hearing the news to direct the plugging of the breach on the spot.

The Central Military Commission also ordered several troops to rush to Jiangkou for the plugging operation.

In just these few hours, the flood control soldiers and civilians in Jiangkou City also made a lot of efforts, wanting to plug the breach, but how easy was it to plug the breach? Historically, the Changjiang River had breached more than fifty times, and not once had it been plugged.

Fortunately, there was a city protection embankment in the urban area of Jiangkou City. This city protection embankment blocked the flood and did not let it rush directly into the urban area, avoiding major casualties.

The flood control soldiers and civilians put sandbags and stone bags into net bags, turning them into a huge sandbag, and then pushed it into the breach, but it was useless. In an instant, the flood washed the sandbag away.

Others directly pushed large trucks full of sand and stone into the breach, but the flood volume was too large, and even the large trucks could not block it. The flood instantly washed the trucks away.