Chapter 168 Explosion Plan
"Son, the Army Mountain Division does not have a special force in the true sense. Since it involves water blasting, I think it is more appropriate for the troops under our naval command to perform this task."
When the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy heard Gu Ji's words, he couldn't help but retort.
Unlike the US military, the Indian army does not have a unified special forces command. Currently, there are only four officially established special forces in the country, which are affiliated to different services and government departments, including the Marine Corps Special Forces, which is affiliated with the Navy Command, and the Internal Affairs Corps. The special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs controlled by the ministry, the Cabinet Special Forces controlled by the cabinet, and the special border forces led by the counterintelligence agency are also relatively complex in their organization, ranging in size from hundreds to 10,000 people, and the strength of the troops varies greatly.
And as the deputy chief of staff of the Navy said, among India’s army, navy and air force, only the navy has established special forces. Although the army’s 57th Mountain Division border team and paratroopers can perform certain special force tasks, he said Not really special forces.
Gu Ji knew that the other party wanted to take the credit for himself.
But this task is really not suitable for the navy.
"Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, as of June 2019, data from the CWC Central Water Commission show that there are 5,745 dams in India, of which 596 are in West Bengal. Nearly 60% are in the northern part of the state, where the terrain is generally rough. High, although the Marine Corps Special Forces are very good at performing amphibious missions, they may not be able to adapt to the altitude sickness caused by high altitudes!"
"In fact, we have also conducted hypoxic training on high-altitude land..."
The deputy chief of staff of the Navy went on to explain two sentences, but judging from the increasingly quiet tone, it was obvious that he was somewhat lacking in confidence.
Modi pursed his lips, took off his glasses, pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a little tired.
"I will be responsible for coordinating the Mountain Division and West Bengal. Gauba, you are mainly responsible for the media. Vidi, it will be led by your state's Disaster Management Department, with experts from the Disaster Management Bureau, Finance and Taxation, National Water Resources Department, and Engineering. It is recommended to review and draw up a detailed dam destruction plan, and be sure to calculate the feasibility, losses and harmful effects."
"Okay Prime Minister, everyone, that's it for today's meeting!"
The Cabinet Secretary took out his notes and jotted down the key points one by one, stood up from his seat, and turned around to issue an eviction order.
The expert staff and senior officials retreated one by one, and Gu Ji and the other two people also left the room under the leadership of the assistant secretary, and a car was sent to take them to a five-star luxury hotel near the presidential palace.
Until the assistant secretary left.
In the hotel corridor, Anurag still had not reacted to the shock of participating in the prime minister's staff meeting just now, and the muscles on his face were still trembling with excitement.
"Vidi, you are too courageous. You were almost besieged by a group of senior executives at the meeting just now!"
"Minister, I am telling the truth. If you want to save the people in the lower reaches of West Bengal, destroying the dam in advance and draining the water is the fastest and only way!"
“But this matter is not that easy to do. The relationship between the governor of West Bengal and the central cabinet government has not been very good. The chief minister of Bengal has publicly criticized the prime minister. Even the state is in a mess. There is chaos, and there are also frictions between the regional commissioners. In short, blowing up the dam is not that easy!”
Anurag seemed to really regard Gu Ji as one of his own, whispering a lot of official information in his ear, "In short, this plan must be made more rigorous, and it must not be caught by the West Bengal government." Got the handle!”
Gu Ji nodded.
After the minister entered the room, he turned to look at Fatima, "Thank you, Fatima. Thank you for providing timely data at the meeting just now!"
"You are the incarnation of Lord Shiva and my partner. How can I refuse to save you!"
Fatima raised her head, revealing her beautiful jawline, and actually put her hand on his shoulder, "Go to rest early, we have to make plans tomorrow!"
"Okay, you should also go to bed early."
After entering the room, Gu Ji lay on the bed, thinking carefully about how to get the opportunity to cooperate with the Mountain Division's special border force.
Now, under his influence, the central cabinet government has agreed to most of his disaster management strategies.
But once the plan is formulated, the Prime Minister will assign the Ministry of Interior and military region troops to implement it, and he will have no chance to intervene at that time.
Therefore, in order to personally participate in the action, Gu Ji must find a way to highlight his irreplaceability in the plan.
With thoughts, Gu Ji gradually fell into sleep.
The next day, he was awakened by the knocking on the door. He raised his wrist and saw that it was just past seven o'clock.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened the door. Outside the door were Anurag and Fatima.
"Vidi, the director just called me and said that the talks between the Prime Minister and the West Bengal government are going well. Let us hurry up and formulate the plan. You can clean it up quickly!"
Gu said "Okay" several times, went back to his room, washed up briefly, and then rushed to the Presidential Palace with the minister.
The rectangular strategy conference room has already gathered many relevant technical experts from finance and taxation, water conservancy, infrastructure, engineering blasting and other departments.
Don’t think that blowing up a dam is just a matter of throwing in explosives. The plan seems simple, but is actually very complicated, because there are nearly 600 dams in West Bengal. It is impossible to blow them all up, but according to the plan The heavy rains brought by tropical storms have been simulated and calculated to determine the key dams that are most likely to cause flash floods or pose the greatest threat to people's lives.
Secondly, it is necessary to calculate the negative impact of the explosion based on the dam's construction structure and construction environment, whether it is necessary to relocate people in advance, and the possibility of subsequent repairs.
Throughout the planning meeting, everyone was using computers to perform model deductions and debate and quarrel with each other. Various documents filled with data were flying in the sky, and for a while, no solution could be discussed.
"The Farakka Dam must not be bombed. It is a key dam on a tributary of the middle reaches of the Ganges. In order to obtain the right to build this dam, do you know how many times we had repeated discussions with Bangladesh? It affects Livelihoods for thousands of farmers!”
"The impact of the Yiptai Dam bombing is too great, too many people need to be relocated, and the government needs to spend too much money. The gain outweighs the loss!"
"I also think the bombing of the Yiptai Dam is too difficult. I don't know the level of the military, but from the perspective of engineering blasting, the dam is built between two mountains and is a very narrow gorge. , the project was very difficult when it was first built, and now forced blasting will not only make it difficult to repair in the future, but it will also easily cause landslides on both sides, and the risk is too high!"
In the conference room, everyone was chatting and arguing. Some people even stood up and banged the table on the spot.
Either the Ministry of Finance and Taxation refuses because it consumes too much money, or the infrastructure and blasting are recommended to be replaced because the construction is too difficult, or the water conservancy force terminates it because of the irreplaceable importance of the dam.
Throughout the morning, not a single effective plan was formulated.
He finally saw clearly what these senior officials and experts were thinking. Perhaps they were not yet aware of the seriousness of the matter, or perhaps they had not seen the horror of the Assam floods with their own eyes. Everyone present had no sympathy from the bottom of their hearts. Think about the problem from the perspective of the people and disaster management, but give priority to calculating the responsibility and losses of your own department.
Only the director of the Disaster Management Bureau, Anurag and others were left, their faces turning green and white, and their hearts burning.
But Gu Ji would not spoil them. Anyway, he was a little shrimp of the state government.
So he said coldly: "I think you have not seen the essence of the problem clearly. Once the water level of the Hooghly River surges, the small upstream dam cannot support it, causing the collapse of the Farakka Dam, which will be transmitted to the downstream and cause continuous breaches. At that time, the impact will not be The livelihood of farmers is not the lives of thousands of people, and infrastructure such as houses, roads, bridges, and electricity will all be severely damaged, and the cost of repairs will be dozens of times that of blowing up the dam!"
After saying these words, Fatima finally let out the breath that was blocked in her chest.
The conference room was silent for a long time.
Everyone in finance, taxation, water conservancy, engineering, etc. had some displeasure on their faces, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Gu Ji was calling them "incompetent."
"Your name is Vidi, right? I heard that you attended the Prime Minister's staff meeting last night?"
"I don't know which university you graduated from. Can you, a small official in the state's disaster management department, be able to point fingers at the national infrastructure and engineering department?"
"Director Desai, if the people under you are discussing things like this, then there is no need for our Finance and Taxation Department to continue to participate in this meeting!"
"Let's go. Since they don't want to talk to us, let's go. It's almost 11 o'clock. Let's go eat first!"
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I don’t know if Gu Ji was born with a conflict with “water conservancy”. Experts from the Ministry of Water Resources were the first to jump out and sarcastically mocked him for “being unscrupulous just because he has met the Prime Minister.” This group of experts and technicians can serve in central state departments. , they were all arrogant and arrogant. They expressed their dissatisfaction one by one and simply stood up and left the scene.
The director of the Disaster Management Bureau looked at the messy and empty conference room awkwardly and laughed twice.
"The people under you are really interesting."
After saying that, he also left together.
There were only three people from the State Disaster Management Department left in the conference room. Looking at Gu Ji's calm and calm look, Anurag couldn't help but give a few words of warning:
"Vidi, what you just said was a bit too frank!"
"Minister, if a brick is thrown into a doghouse, whichever dog barks the loudest must be the one it hit. I just told the truth, and these people got anxious, which shows that they didn't care at all. Put it on disaster relief!”
Gu Ji immediately brought up the famous "dog smashing law", causing Fatima next to her to cover her mouth and laugh.
Anurag glared at her, shook his head and sighed.
“Hey, that’s what I say, but if things really break up and the plan doesn’t go forward, the Prime Minister will only blame us. After all, the Prime Minister named the Assam Disaster Management Department as the leader of this plan! "
"Minister, for this reason, we should have the absolute right to speak. There is no need to listen to the advice of experts and technicians."
"Don't you listen? We may still be able to do flash flood model calculations, logistics transfers, etc., but the professional technology of bombing the dam cannot be carried out without the presence of experts in engineering blasting!"
"That's not necessarily true. I also know a bit about construction demolition!"
What! ?
Seeing that Gu Ji's expression didn't look like he was lying, Anurag was completely shocked. He opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time. After a while, he shook his head and said:
"Is this true? I don't believe it."
"It's true. When I was serving in the mountain army, I learned blasting-related techniques."
Gu Ji answered carefully every word.
Since last night, he had been thinking about how to highlight his importance in the formulation of this plan and personally participate in military operations. Until he searched for the "Vidi" mobile phone to check his identity, he found a message about His powerful character identity setting: Vidi participated in a new recruitment program called "Path of Fire" issued by the Indian Ministry of Defense during college and served in the mountain troops of Assam for two years.
Because of this, he chose to work in the Assam Agriculture Department after graduation.
Gu Ji's USMC blasting methodology has been strengthened in actual combat after passing the bomb level. It is not a problem to blow up complex buildings such as buildings, let alone a curved dam.
Anurag reached out and grabbed Gu Ji's face, and then pinched his own face.
"Oh my god, tell me, I'm not dreaming! How come you are like the almighty Lord Shiva and can do anything?"
"Hahaha, Minister, I told you before. Vidi must be the incarnation of Lord Shiva and is omnipotent. Even if he tells me now that he can blow away tropical storms in one breath, I don't think I will be surprised. !”
Fatima joked a few words from the side.
The news of Gu Jihui's "directional blasting" greatly encouraged Anurag.
He decided to leave the finance, taxation, water conservancy, engineering and other departments and go it alone.
After all, these people left in disgrace on the spot just to put pressure on them, so Anurag had to humble himself and beg them.
But now, with Gu Ji, an all-round talent, they can make their own plans without having to share the credit with other departments.
then.
Fatima made a cup of black coffee for each of the three people, and while gnawing on bread, she started to make a detailed bombing plan for the dam with full firepower.
The division of labor among the three is also very clear.
Fatima is responsible for considering the meteorological and hydrological environment, Gu Ji is responsible for selecting dams and formulating blasting plans, and Anurag relies on his rich emergency experience to handle the process of relocation and compensation.
By the afternoon, these experts had not returned.
Seeing that they could complete the plan alone, especially Gu Ji who knew how to blast, the director expressed his full support with the same horrified expression as Anurag, and sent four more technicians and a secretary to assist them in calculating the data.
In the evening, the orange-red sunset was gradually obscured by clouds, and the temperature in the conference room also dropped.
Gu Ji raised his head, saw this scene, and raised his wrist.
"It's almost time. The tropical storm should have landed in the Bay of Bengal by this time..."