Chapter 340: Chapter 167: Destruction Plan (Happy Lunar New Year’s Eve)

It has many advantages. Firstly, it requires less preparation work and can complete a large amount of rock blasting in a short period. It is suitable for rocks of various hardness, especially in complex terrain areas like dams, where it is not restricted by construction conditions. Moreover, it does not require special drilling equipment; a drilling machine can generally be used for excavation, and anything used for deep-hole blasting can be used in chamber blasting.

Most importantly: the volume of a single blast is large, reducing the number of blasts and the time spent avoiding blasts!

In other words, once the loading is completed, a single successful blast can be carried out, significantly saving operational time.

The more time saved, the more time the reservoir has to release the flood, making the public safer!

Relying on his architectural demolition experience honed at the bomb checkpoint, Gu Ji designed a simple but practical ’U’-shaped multi-row blasting for the Ali Bur Dam.

The entire process of drilling and loading explosives takes about three to four hours.

This is with the help of the state and county government construction teams. If it were just Gu Ji and the special frontier forces doing it themselves, it might take forever to demolish a dam.

After all, this is a superstructure several hundred meters long, over seventy meters wide, capable of blocking billions of cubic meters of water.

To “gain” mission experience, Gu Ji also actively participated in the work of loading explosives.

Among some high-difficulty positions, it was necessary to use safety ropes for operations suspended from high altitudes. Some engineering technicians couldn’t manage, so it had to be handed over to the soldiers of the special frontier forces.

High-altitude load work is not a problem for these army elites, especially since they have long been training in high-altitude areas of the Himalayas in northern Assam, and their physical condition has long been adapted to high-intensity hypoxic operations.

And the body Gu Ji inhabited this time, ’Vidi’, had a decent base constitution without any attribute weakening. Plus, he had previously chosen a blue-level endurance enhancement mark, and relatively, a high-endurance physique is less likely to cause altitude sickness.

Finally.

After a lengthy three hours, the explosives were precisely loaded into the positions designed by Gu Ji.

“All personnel prepare to evacuate! Evacuate immediately!”

“Follow the order! Evacuate quickly!”

…

Accompanied by the loud shouts of Marlo and Gu Ji, the county government construction team packed up their equipment and drove away from the dam, while the two, after a final check of the dam and confirming no one was left behind, returned to the car.

During the drive down the mountain.

Gu Ji took out the phone.

“Fatima, how’s it going on your side? Have the people downstream of the dam safely evacuated the danger zone?”

“The transfer has been completed, rest assured.”

“Captain Marlo, we’re ready for blasting on this side at any time!”

Upon receiving confirmation, Marlo urged the soldiers to speed up towards the hills to the east of the town. After confirming they had reached a safe distance, he raised the walkie-talkie; “Krell, position is safe, you can prepare for blasting!”

“Krell received, preparing to blast now, three, two, one! Detonate!”

As the final words fell, a finger tapped the button.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble——!

In the dark night sky, several flames flashed in the distance, and the next moment, a deafening explosion reverberated at breakneck speed, heard clearly even a kilometer away. While Gu Ji was still immersed in the explosive power of military-grade TNT, the dam, under his meticulous blasting design, erupted with an overwhelming sound.

In an instant.

The earth collapsed, and smoke and dust filled the air.

After a violent vibration came a dam breach landslide, with massive boulders falling from the dam into the river below. In the blink of an eye, the rushing water from the reservoir burst through the shattered gap, roaring like a herd of startled wild horses, irresistibly charging from the upstream reservoir.

Within seconds, the water level of the Mahananda River began to swell rapidly, and the flow became swift and unstoppable, rushing straight downward and instantly submerging the banks, pushing relentlessly towards the towns.

Seeing this scene, Marlo again directed the technical soldiers to control a drone to fly to the top of the dam.

From the screen, a ’U’-shaped gap with a size of more than ten meters was blown out of the dam’s center, and floodwater from the reservoir was crazily pouring out of the gap. Because it was a stressed dam, with the damage to the dam’s stress points, the surrounding concrete would continue to break and fall with the continuous scouring of the water stream, causing the gap to widen, ultimately lowering the reservoir to the safety line.

“Colonel Swaraj, the execution of the blast plan for the first dam was successful!”

Just as Marlo was reporting the on-site situation to the commander, Gu Ji picked up a binocular and glanced at the mountain slope below. The water was rising at a rate of more than 10 centimeters per minute, clawing and tearing like a hungry wolf, devouring the surrounding villages and land, especially the downstream area, which was a vast ocean.

This is why he had Fatima notify the county government to evacuate the people in advance.

Destroying the dam would inevitably lead to flooding, but compared to a real flood, the extent of harm here was already much lighter. Moreover, once the reservoir drainage was complete, the rapidly-rising water levels would gradually recede.

After completing the mission, Gu Ji followed the troops back to the command center.

Due to the water accumulation, the helicopter changed positions too.

Gu Ji found Fatima and learned that the logistics work would be managed by the central government’s finance and tax department personnel before locating Swaraj to begin the next dam bombing as soon as possible.

At eleven o’clock at night.

The transport helicopter landed near the second dam.

This was the Murshidabad District of the Morda Special Zone in the northern central part of West Bengal, also a critical location where the second large-scale dam break flood could easily occur.

Like the previous dam blast, under the central government’s communication arrangements, they continued to follow the previous pattern to evacuate people, drill holes, load explosives, and initiate detonation.

However, as this dam was larger than the Ali Bur Dam, it took longer.

During the loading process, a tropical storm gradually invaded the area, and Gu Ji could clearly feel the drop in temperature and air pressure, making his breathing a bit stuffy. Before long, it began to drizzle.

Fortunately, military explosives are not afraid of such minor rainwater.

But Gu Ji was always worried about the dam in the southern part of West Bengal, so under his urging, after more than four hours had passed, another burst of flames lit up the darkness, followed by a series of loud explosions, signifying the successful bombing of the second dam.

Watching the rapidly pouring reservoir, Gu Ji urged Swaraj to take advantage of the lighter rain and take off quickly.

It was nearly 100 kilometers from the northern central part of West Bengal to the south, and after about 20 minutes, Gu Ji could hear the rain intensifying through the metal shell of the cabin.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning streaked across the night sky ahead.

“Doot, doot, doot…”

The helicopter cockpit issued a warning sound, and the pilot immediately took out the radio to shout:

“Colonel Swaraj, there is a thunderstorm ahead; it’s very dangerous, we can’t fly any further!”

“Land nearby!”

Reluctantly, Swaraj had to order the transport helicopter to land in the nearest open plains area.

Fortunately, the location was not far from the East Midnapore District of the Midnapore Special Zone, and the third dam that Gu Ji intended to blow up was the Farakka Dam, which the water minister had strongly opposed earlier.

This dam was the largest of the three, with a length of over 800 meters and a height of more than 80 meters, relying on a mountain gorge like the first dam.

After the transport helicopter landed.

Fatima immediately contacted the Midnapore Special Zone’s district chief as per the list.

But to her astonishment, no one answered the phone on the other side. She thought it was due to the chaotic state caused by the storm at the county government, so she made several calls in succession, but still, no one answered.

“Vidi, no one is answering in the Midnapore District.”

“Try someone else.”

“The call cannot be connected.”

Fatima tried calling another person, but the result was the same.

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