Chapter 33 Chapter 32: The Sound of the Waves is Like a Song——A Chronicle of Beijiang Water Control

Provincial Highway 248 suffered severe landslides. Traffic on the Beijing-Guangzhou line was interrupted. Communication lost. Broadcast television was interrupted. Internet outage. The water supply was interrupted. Power outage. ... Anxious hands knocked out a series of heart-wrenching Morse codes in a hurry. The wind is howling. The waves are jumping. Beijiang was roaring. In July 2006, under the influence of No. 4 Severe Tropical Storm "Bilis" and the trough of low pressure, northern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong and most parts of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province were hit by a torrential rain that exceeded a century.The sound of thunder seemed to shake the whole world, the lightning cracked the sky, the rain beat the ground like a whip, the tall trees leaned over and crawled on the ground like rice and grass.The water level of the main and tributaries of the Beijiang River rose rapidly, and the waves jumped up one after another, pounced on the houses, trees, pedestrians, and livestock on the bank, then swept away, and pounced on the next target again, leaving behind howling all the way.

The Beijiang River experienced a once-in-50-year flow flood.The flood is surging, the turbid waves are empty, the green hills are pale, the birds and beasts disappear, the fields are elegiac, and the villages are crying. From the pitch-black night to the gloomy morning, from the foot of the howling mountain to the bridge emptied by huge waves, a series of Morse codes quickly converged to the sleepless and red-eyed person in the flood fighting and rescue headquarters. Under the radio operator, every code he recorded was as heavy as a rock, and the people in the command center suffered unbearable pain.Beijiang, you mother river, why are you always in trouble with the 12.58 million children you raised?

According to post-event survey statistics, the flood was strong, large in volume, wide in scope, long in duration, and severe in disasters. Shaoguan and Lechang were the hardest hit, causing provincial highway 248, most cities to towns, and towns to The village road collapsed severely, and the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the city's water supply, power supply, communications, radio and television, and the Internet were all interrupted.More than 340,000 people were affected, including 12,060 households with completely demolished or critically endangered houses; 251,000 mu of crops and 183,000 mu of cultivated land were affected; 46 people died, 65 people were missing, and the direct economic loss was 3.07 billion yuan.

The Beijiang embankment stands majestically in the stormy waves. She, it is she, Beijiang Levee, has withstood the severe test.If there is no life-saving levee, if the levee fails to hold at the critical moment, the death toll will be more than 46, and the direct economic loss will be more than 3.07 billion yuan.In 1915 AD, the catastrophic flood caused more than 100,000 casualties and 3.78 million people were affected. It was really sad.If there was today's Beijiang levee, the loss would not have been so heavy.The Beijiang embankment is really a life-saving embankment for the people on both sides of the Beijiang River!

Water is the source of all life and an essential substance in human life and production activities.More than 70% of human tissue is water.It can be said that without water, there would be no human life.Water breeds human life and leads people to natural civilization.In the most primitive human society, people have no way to change the natural life. People have to live by water and grass, choose hills, and make a living by fishing, hunting, gathering and nomadic. They can only seek advantages and avoid disadvantages of water in nature, and passively adapt.With the evolution of human civilization, people began to have a new understanding of water.With the development of iron tools, people developed agriculture on both sides of rivers and built villages and towns, which led to flood control, drainage, irrigation, shipping, and water supply... Humans thus created and developed a better life with water.

With the development of aerospace technology, human beings are looking for water sources on the moon and Mars, in essence, they are looking for life - only water can lead to life.Therefore, people who live by water always call the big river flowing in front of their house the "mother river". For the 12.58 million people living along the Beijiang River, Beijiang River is their "mother river". Yes, water is the mother.She is open-minded, deep, and expansive. She washes our hearts, our thoughts, and our lives with endless tenderness and cleansing.Water is soft, but it can melt the hardest things in the world; water is quiet, but it can melt the most noisy impurities in the world; water is cool, but it can arouse the warmest heat in the world... Yes.Water is omnipotent and everywhere.The sound of the water is passionate, that is our singing, and the sound of the water is low, that is our sorrow.Every water flower is a kind of life, sometimes happy, sometimes lonely; sometimes sad, sometimes lonely.As the saying goes, success will follow.This shows that water is very powerful.There is also a saying that water and milk blend together.Water is related to depth, vastness, philosophy, and of course, water is also related to science.Water is the source of all life.

However, the mother river does not always feed us with milk gently like a mother. When she is angry, she will attack and growl, which will make the children who suck her milk and reproduce frightened.So getting mothers to stop roaring became a top priority for those around the water. According to legend, in the Yao and Shun era more than 4,000 years ago, severe floods occurred continuously in the Yellow River Basin in my country. "The Tangtang flood is cut, and the Huaishan Xiangling is swaying, vast and vast."The whole nation fell into an unprecedented disaster.Tang Yao presided over the tribal alliance meeting to study flood problems.At that time, they unanimously recommended Gun, the leader of the Xia nationality with a tradition of water control, to preside over the water control.Gun adopted the method of "blocking barriers" to build dikes and dams to contain the flood.But the flood was so fierce that the dams built were frequently washed away by the flood.

After Tang Yao's death, Yu Shun succeeded to the throne as the leader of the tribal alliance.After the recommendation of the Tribal Alliance Council, Gun's son Yu was sent to continue to control the flood.Yu learned the painful lesson of his father's failure in water control, and changed the method of simply building embankments to block water, and adopted the strategy of dredging. "Huainanzi·Yuan Dao Xun" records: "Yu's determination to prosecute is also because water is his teacher." It is said that he takes water as his teacher, is good at summarizing the law of water flow, and uses the natural flow of water to flow to low places to control floods according to the situation. .He led the people to "drag the river and guide the stagnation", dredging the river according to the terrain and removing the accumulated water, so that the flood and accumulated water could return to the river channel and flow into the sea.After more than 10 years of hard work, the flood was finally subdued. "Water flows from the ground, and then people live on flat soil."

Dayu's achievements in water control have been praised and remembered by future generations.During the Warring States period, some people still sighed: "Wei Yu, I am a fish!" They said that if it weren't for Yu, we would have become fish and shrimp by now.Later, the legend of Dayu's water control was widely spread. In the word of mouth of later generations, people attached many important water conservancy activities in ancient times to Dayu.Some miracles created by natural forces were even suspected to be unearthly workmanship, and they were attached to Dayu, adding a bit of mythology.It is also said that after his death, he was buried on Kuaiji Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, which is today's Dayu Mausoleum.

Remembrance of Dayu is a commemoration of heroes and a call for water control. Facing the roaring Beijiang River from time to time, this is the call of the 12.58 million people in the Beijiang River Basin for water control. Beijiang is a clear and gentle mother river, like a mother's smile, warming the hearts of children.The Pearl River Delta was formed by the alluvial flow of such rivers. The richness of the land is inseparable from the gifts of the surging rivers.Beijiang, the second largest water system of the Pearl River, is such a mother river that has raised tens of millions of children.She is so green that you want to cry, she is so clean that you want to kiss, and she is so sweet that you want to kiss.What kind of water is this?

Ethereal, pure, feminine.Like Liu Yong's words, slang sounds, the colors, smells, and faces are vivid and colorful, clear and clear, less vague and hazy, but more stable in the world.It walked briskly through the overlapping shadows of mountains and bamboos, twisted its crooked body, undulating, and fell into the river inadvertently.Farmers returning late drove their buffaloes to take a bath in the water to wash away the hard work of the day, and started a water fight comfortably. Sprinkled on every laughing dark face.So, everyone rode on the back of the buffalo and followed the current with satisfaction, each went ashore in front of their house, and the curling smoke rose soon.The crying of children and the scolding of adults overwhelmed the sound of water passing around the village at this time, what a beautiful and natural movement. The Pearl River is one of the seven major rivers in my country. It has numerous tributaries and waterways. The entire basin is composed of the Xijiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang and the Pearl River Delta water systems. The Beijiang River is the second largest water system of the Pearl River. The upper reaches of the Zhenjiang River originate from Shijie, Xinfeng County, Jiangxi Province. After converging with Wushui in Shaoguan, it is called Beijiang River. It then connects with the Xijiang River at Sixianjiao in Sanshui City and flows into the Pearl River Delta River. In the network area, the mainstream goes to sea from Humen.The Beijiang River is one of the three major rivers in the Pearl River Basin.It is precisely because of the existence of water systems such as the Beijiang River that the Pearl River Delta is rich in resources. Those rivers and ditches are clearly blood vessels all over the body of the Pearl River Delta. The upper and middle reaches of the Beijiang River Basin are the Nanling Mountains in northern Guangdong. There are three arc-shaped mountain ranges that constitute the landform features of this area. The peaks are generally between 700 meters and 1,200 meters above sea level, and the highest peak is 1,922 meters.How high is the mountain, how high is the water, on the top of the mountain with white clouds, the spring water seeps quietly, and then gathers into wells, pools, and streams.There are valleys and basins between the ranges of mountains. The terrain gradually decreases from north to south, and the streams jump down to the south, casting a clear and crisp copper bell, leaving endless traces in the karst mountains and red rock basins. echo. There are many mountainous hills in the upper reaches of the Zhenjiang River Basin, and there are some scattered valley basins in between. The average height of both sides of the river from below Wujing to above the Mojiang Estuary is within 10 kilometers, and they are all hilly lands with a height of no more than 100 meters. 】.The terrain gradually slowed down, and the crisp singing voice began to change into a thick alto, as if a person had stepped from an unrestrained teenager into an adult. The drainage area above Beijiang Sixianjiao is 46,710km2 [42,930km2 in Guangdong Province]. After leaving the Feilai Gorge, it gradually became flat.There are Shaoguan, Qingyuan and Foshan in the Beijiang River Basin, with a total population of 12.58 million and a gross national product of 374 billion yuan.For these three regions, Beijiang is the true mother river. The Beijiang River Basin is located near the Tropic of Cancer, and has a subtropical monsoon climate with significant influence of the monsoon, abundant sunshine and heat.Atmospheric circulation changes with the seasons, with southeast and southerly winds prevailing in summer and northerly and northerly winds in winter.The wind is an old friend of Beijiang. For thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, they have walked hand in hand, and are used to seeing the warmth and coldness of the world, and are used to seeing life and death.The four seasons here have distinct characteristics, but unfortunately there are few literati in Lingnan, so there is a lack of poetry writing. Up to now, there are only rational and dry words to record this: spring is cloudy and rainy, with more rainy days; summer is hot and humid, with high water vapor content Large, concentrated rainstorms; hot thunder and typhoons often occur in autumn; low temperature in winter, rainfall is scarce. Because of the uneven distribution of rainfall, the annual distribution of Beijiang runoff is also extremely uneven. According to statistics from relevant departments, the runoff of Beijiang during the flood season accounts for 70% to 80% of the annual runoff, while the dry season only accounts for 20% to 30%.This is really like a headed family who can't make a living, starving to death when there is no rice. Beijiang is in the flood season from April to September every year, and the dry season is from November to March of the following year. The rain in the sky has made such a hard rule for Beijiang.The major floods in the whole basin are caused by frontal rain, and the area near the main stream between Yingde and Qingyuan in the middle of the basin is a stable rainstorm center.Due to the heavy rainfall, the steep slope of the watershed, and the distribution of leaf veins in the water system, the flood is easy to concentrate, just like all blood must flow to the heart.However, the arteries that transport blood from the heart of Beijiang cannot bear the massive amount of blood. The flood peak rises very fast, which has the characteristics of mountain floods. The peak shape is sharp and thin, and the fluctuation is relatively fast. In the Yangtze River, the back wave pushes the front wave, and the front wave dies on the top of the wave."The flooding time of Beijiang River is from April to September, and the most frequent flood peaks are from May to July, and the number of occurrences is most concentrated in June.During that period of time, the waters of the Beijiang River were mighty, like a rushing army, "the dead are like gentlemen, and they will never give up day and night." The main stream of the Beijiang River passes through the Feilai Gorge in Qingyuan City from north to south and then enters the downstream plains. It connects with the Xijiang River at Sixianjiao in Sanshui County and then flows into the river network area of ​​the Pearl River Delta.Due to the influence of the confluence of the two rivers and the influence of tides, the diversion of the lower reaches of the Beijiang River is relatively complicated. In Sanshui County, there is a diversion of the Lubao River and the Southwest River, and it converges with the Liuxi River in the suburbs of Guangzhou.This situation of separation and reunion is easily reminiscent of the famous opening sentence in the book, "The so-called general trend of the world, long-term division must be combined, and long-term unity must be divided."The main stream of the lower reaches of the Beijiang River enters the large river network area of ​​the Pearl River Delta, and finally goes out to sea at three places: Humen, Jiaomen and Hongqili.At this time, Beijiang Shui's singing voice changed from alto to low pitch. Listening to Beijiang's singing, it is like the majestic chest voice of the sea. There are ninety-nine bends in the Yellow River in the world, and ordinary rivers meander like snakes.However, the direction of the main stream of the Beijiang River going south from Shaoguan City does not change much, and it is generally relatively straight except for two large bends at Nanshuikou and Hetouwei.From Yingde to Qingyuan City, the river passes through the canyon area [there are Blind Tsai, Xianglu, Damiao and Feilai Gorge with a total length of about 15 kilometers]. The average width of the river is kept at 400 meters except for the section where the sandbar is exposed. , the water depth is extremely inconsistent. The dry water depth at the mouth of Blind Tsai Gorge and Feilai Gorge is as high as 20 to 30 meters, while the rest of the river section is often less than 1 meter in dry season. With snow-white water splashes, it blurred the slanting sunset. After exiting Feilai Gorge in Qingyuan, the main stream of the Beijiang River enters the plain area. Constrained by the dikes on both banks, the river is relatively straight, wide and shallow.From Shijiao to Sanshui River Estuary, the average water surface width is 1290 meters [the narrowest river section is only 724 meters in the section of Datangxu, and the widest section is 2178 meters in the upstream section of Lubaoxu].At this moment, the river is clear and the water is still. It is very easy to remind people of the words of Lao Tzu more than a thousand years ago: the highest goodness is like water, and water is good for all things without fighting... Every time I sit alone by the water to fish, the water vapor is floating, the green shade is whirling, and the cloud shadows are turning. It's like being in a poetic painting of ink and wash.Sitting by the water, the restless heart is filtered by the clarity of the water, and the mood is floating and agile like clouds, and there is a sense of unrestrained and comfortable in the chic. As the downstream section is supported by tidal water during the flood season, the water flow speed is slower than that of the upstream, and sand and mud are deposited, and the sandbars in the river gradually increase.Those sandbars look like big fish showing their dorsal fins, which arouse the imagination of passers-by.When the waterway from Xiakou to Lunzhou is at low water level, the sandbars below the Shijiao section are densely covered. In the dry season, the river branch channels are formed between the river banks, and the water depth is only 0.8 meters, and some are even shallower.At this time, the pebbles in the river are hidden in the reflection of the sky, forming an interesting contrast. Regarding the various changes of the main stream of the Beijiang River in the river basin, as early as 1918, the Swedish engineer Ke Weilian [C·W·OLTVECRONA] of the Guangdong River Control Department recorded in the survey report of the Beijiang River: Below the Feilai Gorge, where the Beijiang River passes The land has been covered with mountains and belongs to plains. As soon as it exits the mouth of the gorge, the width of the river bed expands, and the velocity of the water flow decreases sharply, resulting in the deposition of a vast river basin... If you don't accumulate steps, you can't make a thousand miles; if you don't donate a trickle, you can't make a river.Just like the Pearl River has a large number of tributaries, the Beijiang River, the second largest water system of the Pearl River, has formed the most distinctive Beijiang water culture due to the abundance of its tributaries. The Beijiang River is characterized by a short headstream and fan-shaped tributaries. Just hold the head of the main stream and shake it, and the entire river basin will wave like a fan, playing a symphony of destiny.After the confluence of the Zhenjiang River and Wujiang River, the mainstream of the upper reaches of the Beijiang River, the Nanshui River, Wengjiang River, Lianjiang River, Chenjiang River, Binjiang River and Suijiang River and other tributaries successively flowed in.Later, the Beijiang River merged into the Pearl River system and flowed into the sea.The so-called "all rivers return to the sea", such an intuitive impression can be obtained from Bei Jiang. In the eyes of literati, water is gentle, so they often associate tender water with endless love.The length of the water is like the eternity of love; the twists and turns of the water are like the hard work of love; the depth and breadth of the water are like the depth and breadth of love; the waves of water are like the ups and downs of love.These metaphors and associations of literati can all be verified by Bei Jiang.Those tributaries that share the same breath and fate with Beijiang mainly include the following: Wujiang was called Qinshui, Wuxi and Longshui in ancient times, also known as Wushui, which is one of the upper sources of the Beijiang River.Originating in Sanfengling, Linwu County, Hunan Province, it flows through Lechang, Ruyuan, Qujiang and other counties in Guangdong, and meets Zhenjiang in Shaoguan City.The main stream is 260 kilometers long, 152 kilometers in Guangdong, and the catchment area is 7007 square kilometers, of which 3734 square kilometers are in Guangdong. Nanshui originates from Anduntou, Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, with a total length of 104 kilometers, flows from northwest to southeast, and flows into Beijiang River at Mengzhouba, Qujiang County, with a catchment area of ​​only 1,489 square kilometers. Wengjiang River is the largest tributary on the left bank of Beijiang River. It originates in the east of Chuandu, Wengyuan County, crosses Wengyuan County, and flows into Beijiang River at Donganzui, Yingde County.The main stream is 173 kilometers long and the catchment area is 4847 square kilometers [including the whole of Wengyuan County and parts of Yingde, Xinfeng, Fogang, Qujiang and Lianping counties]. Lianjiang was called Huangshui in ancient times, and it was also called Xiaobeijiang in modern times. It is the largest tributary on the right bank of Beijiang.Originated from the grinding stone at Xingziwei in Lianxian County [also known as the Three Sisters Peaks in Lianxian County], the main stream is 275 kilometers long and the catchment area is 10,061 square kilometers. It flows through the three counties of Lianxian, Yangshan and Yingde to Yingde County Jiangtouzui flows into Beijiang River. The Lijiang River is a tributary on the left bank of the lower reaches of the Beijiang River. It originates from Dongtianzhu in Fogang County and flows into the Beijiang River at Jiangkou Station in Qingyuan County. The river is 83 kilometers long and has a catchment area of ​​1,386 square kilometers.The low-lying and open terrain below the middle reaches has become a natural flood detention area in the lower reaches of the Beijiang River, which can reduce the flood peak flow in Shijiao of the Beijiang River; at the same time, when a major flood occurs in the Beijiang River, it will not only flow back into the Lijiang River, but also flow into the Dayan River through the lower reaches of the Beijiang River. It goes down and back into the Beijiang River, becoming a natural flood diversion channel for the Feilaixia section of the Beijiang River.It is a river closely related to Beijiang flood control. Suijiang is a first-class tributary of the lower reaches of the Beijiang River. It originates from Qinyaling in Lianshan County, passes through Huaiji, Guangning, Sihui and other counties, and enters Beijiang at Sihui Mafang. The main stream is 226 kilometers long and the catchment area is 7184 kilometers. .Suijiang is a mountainous river, and the mountainous area accounts for about 70% of the basin area. Only the Huaiji Liangcun Basin in the north has about 100,000 mu of relatively flat cultivated land and the plain area below Sihui County. The former is a historically arid area. .About 4 kilometers below the Sihui Hydrological Station, the Suijiang River Basin is connected to the West River by Qingqi Chung, so it is threatened by the flooding of the West and North Rivers.Under normal circumstances, 65% of Suijiang flood flows into Beijiang River, and 35% flows into Xijiang River through Qingqi Chung. When the flood in Suijiang is less and the flood in Xijiang River is larger, the flood from Xijiang River flows into Suijiang through Qingqi Chung.The annual runoff of the Suijiang River Basin is 7.92 billion cubic meters, and the maximum flow during the flood period is 2280 cubic meters per second. After the main stream of the Beijiang River exits the Feilai Gorge, the Dayan River on the left bank diverts and exits in Qingyuan, and then joins the main stream of the Beijiang River.Lubao and Southwest Two Chungs in Sanshui County flow successively from Lubao Town and Southwest Township, through Jiuqu River in Huihua County in Sanshui County, and Nanhai District enters the suburbs of Guangzhou City into the Pearl River and out to sea.The two streams were the main waterways for the Beijiang River to sail to Guangzhou in ancient times.Yang Wanli, a poet of the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem describing the torrent of water at Donghaikou [now Lubao Sluice]: "The waters of the North River and the West meet each other, and the waves of the Xu River are extremely majestic. The rapids are about to go up, and the people are noisy, and the near shore is still moving. The road is poor." The river gradually silted up, blocked and stopped sailing.The river characteristics of the two streams are described as follows: Lubaoyong is located in the lower reaches of Lubao Town, Sanshui District. The river is 33.4 kilometers long. It flows eastward to the squidgang branch in Changqi Management Area. One branch flows to Jiuqu River in Yuanhua County and flows out of Chini and Baini. It flows through the towns of Fanhu and Leping in Sanshui District and Guanyao in Nanhai District to Laoyagang and joins Liuxi River to the northern suburbs of Guangzhou to exit the Pearl River.In the Southern Han Dynasty, Lubaoyong was a large branch of Beijiang River, which slanted out of Guangzhou and entered the sea. The distance was short and the gradient was large. It was the main channel to Guangzhou at that time.In the Ming Dynasty, due to the gradual silting of the upper reaches of the Baini River, the northern water poured down to the Xijiang River, which dried up the dry water in Lubaochong, and the main channel of the Beijiang River moved down to the Southwest Chung. Southwest Chung is located in the southeast of Southwest Town, Sanshui District, with a length of 46.4 kilometers. It flows eastward through Guanyao, Lishui, Heshun and other towns in Nanhai District to Laoyagang, where it joins Lubaoyong and Liuxi River, and then flows to the west of Guangzhou City, The Pearl River flows out of the northern suburbs.As the branches of the lower reaches of the Beijiang River became increasingly silted and shallow, the Southwest Chung also dried up in winter and could not be navigated.By the Ming Dynasty, the main channel to Guangzhou had been moved to Foshan. The Beijiang River Basin is located in the subtropical zone, with a lot of rainfall and intensity, mostly concentrated in the flood season from April to September.More than 90% of the floods above the high water level of the Beijiang River are caused by the intersection of cold and warm air.The affected systems are mainly high-altitude trough, frontal shear, low temperature and low-level jet. The entire Beijiang River Basin is rich in water, with an annual average total runoff of 48.2 billion cubic meters and an average annual flow rate of 1430 cubic meters per second. The main runoff is supplied by rainfall. The main characteristics of the river are: the upper and middle reaches of the mountainous river section have short sources and tributaries are fan-shaped Distribution, the slope of the riverbed is steep, the total length of the main stream from Sixianjiao is 468 kilometers, the average slope is 0.26‰, and the flood in the middle and upper reaches is faster.The people in Sanshui have this saying: "Nanxiong sprinkles wet stones, Qingyuan rises three feet, and Sanshui has no ground flute [going]." This jingle very vividly clarifies the river characteristics of Beijiang. After the downstream enters the plain area through the Feilai Gorge, the width of the river bed expands [the river width above the water level in the flood season is more than 1,000 meters, and the low water period is generally 300 to 400 meters], and the sandbars are all over the slope. After the Sanshui River Estuary is connected to the Xijiang River through Sixianjiao, the flows of the West and North rivers are adjusted to each other, and the water levels also rise and fall with each other. In addition, due to the influence of factors such as the tidal jacking of the lower reaches of the Pearl River, the water level curves of each station along the river appear. Big difference. The runoff of the Beijiang River below the mouth of the Feilai Gorge is mainly supplied by the main stream upstream, and the two tributaries of the Suijiang River and the Manshui River in the downstream.Sixianjiao at the mouth of the Sanshui River is the main river channel for the runoff of the west and north rivers to replenish each other. According to the provincial hydrological station, there are about 10 months of each year when the runoff of the Beijiang River flows out to the West River, and the average water flow through the Jiaojiao is 17.02 billion cubic meters. The other two months [July and August] are when the flow of the Xijiang River enters the Beijiang River, with an average water flow of 7.7 billion cubic meters. The balance result is that the annual water flow from the Beijiang River to the Xijiang River is 9.37 billion cubic meters. The maximum runoff and sediment concentration in the Beijiang reach during the flood season is 6.28 kg/m3 [actual measurement at Shijiao Station in May 1982], and the annual average runoff and sediment concentration is 0.139 kg/m3. The average is 5.741 million tons.In addition, due to the mutual replenishment of the runoff of the west and north rivers from Sixianjiao, although the amount of water flowing into the Xijiang River from the Beijiang River is larger than that of the Xijiang River [more than 9.37 billion cubic meters], the runoff sediment concentration in the Xijiang River is greater than that of the Beijiang River. [The annual average runoff sediment concentration of the Xijiang River is 0.212 kg/m3], so the actual amount of sediment transported from the Xijiang River to the lower reaches of the Beijiang River is 1.919 million tons per year.This is a very peculiar phenomenon, just like the business exchanges in the world, there is me in you, and you in me, and what is there for each other. Due to the bed-making movement in the river section, the vast river basin was silted up, and the river islands proliferated year after year, resulting in dense river islands.Therefore, Beijiang in the docile period often showed the situation of "moving boats and mooring smoke".It's just that the boats are not anchored by "worried guests", but people on the water. They are used to seeing "Jiang Qingyue is close to people" and "several times the sunset is red". Spring comes early in southern China.Originating in the Beijiang River Basin in the south of the Five Ridges, due to the abundant rainfall in spring, "there are many rains during the Qingming Festival", the flood season is early, and floods often occur every year starting from April.At this time, the land of the Central Plains is usually dry, and the desperate farmers can't wait to catch every passing cloud and wring it out of the water.The water that has experienced countless pains and vicissitudes, in the river of life and time, every wave of happiness blooms, bringing people endless expectations. The flood peaks of the Beijiang River come one after another, which is related to the terrain and rainfall of the area, and is also closely related to the duration of the flood in the Xijiang River. This really corresponds to the libretto of Liu Sanjie, "The big river is full of water and the small river is full."It's a pity that the water of life comes too much and too fiercely, which often harms the life that lives on it.This is easily reminiscent of a doting mother who kills her child with too much love. Floods in the upper reaches of the Beijiang River are always restricted by Blind Boys, Incense Burners, Damiao and Feilai Canyon. According to statistics over the years, the biggest increase is not in the upper and lower reaches, but in the middle reaches.The increase near Yingde and Lianjiangkou is more than 20 meters, the upstream Qujiang River is about 10 meters, and the downstream is only 8 meters below the Feilai Gorge, both of which are smaller than the middle reaches. It looks like a man with a big belly and looks strong. , seems to contain everything, but in fact is extremely bloated and weak, and will not be able to bear the slightest disturbance. The middle and lower reaches of the Beijiang River Basin were originally historical floodplains. There have been historical records of embankments for flood control since the Song Dynasty. It was as early as the Yuan Dynasty to the 28th year [1368] when the Beijiang River flooded the west of Rongsai County in Sanshui County. Records of blanking.After the Ming Dynasty, floods occurred frequently. According to the records of the Pearl River flood archives in the Qing Dynasty, in the 234 years from the Qing Dynasty [1715] to the 38th year of the Republic of China [1949], there were 51 major floods, with an average of about Happened once in more than 4 years.That is to say, every four years or so, the people who live and thrive by the Beijiang River have to withstand the test of a flood.No wonder the ancients listed floods and ferocious beasts together as a great disaster in the world. It is like lying next to a ferocious tiger. Who doesn't worry about a hungry tiger hurting people? When history turned to 1915 AD, Beijiang was roaring.This year, destined to be a sad year for people who live by water, has since been firmly recorded in the annals of history and engraved in their genes. In June and July 1915, a rare catastrophic flood occurred in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. Together, crashing, churning, the white waves are surging.At that time, the peak flow at Wuzhou Station reached 54,500 cubic meters per second, and the peak flow at Hengshi Station reached 21,000 cubic meters per second, both of which were the highest in history.It also coincided with the spring tide period, which caused unprecedented severe floods in the Pearl River Delta, and almost all the embankments in the middle and lower reaches of the West and North Rivers and the Delta collapsed.Every time the embankment burst, it was accompanied by a burst of crying, accompanied by a group of people running away in despair.There is no escape, there is water everywhere, even those small hills are not in the water, the flood is overwhelming, the survivors who managed to escape to the larger hills, looking far away, the mulberry fish pond has long disappeared, and the familiar home has long been There is no trace, and the parents and brothers who accompany him every day are also missing. Huang Tangtang's world is full of the breath of death. "1915 Flood Documentary" records as follows: In July of 1915 [Yimao Year], the Xijiang and Beijiang Rivers experienced the most severe flood ever recorded. The Pearl River Basin was shrouded in large-scale rainfall, and Lianxian, Lianshan, Yangshan, Yingde, Lechang and other counties were hit Floods hit, the mountains collapsed in heavy fog, and the floods rose sharply. Flash floods broke out in Yangshan County, and the scales and Huangyu became more severe. The entire Lechang City Basin was flooded; the main stream above the Beijiang Feilai Gorge flooded 412,000 farmland The affected population was 126,000 mu, and Yingde County in Shaoguan City was also completely submerged, causing heavy losses. 10.22 million mu of farmland was flooded in the province, 6.4777 million mu of flooded farmland in the Pearl River Delta, 3.78 million people were affected, and more than 100,000 people were killed or injured. More than 30 towns and most of the villages were flooded... The urban area of ​​Guangzhou was also hit by unprecedented floods. Two-thirds of the city was flooded. Xiguan and the lower areas of Henan Province were flooded to the lintels and roofs, and the dead and houses collapsed.Xiguan, Changdi and other places were flooded for seven days and nights, and the water level was as high as 3.48 meters.There were countless casualties, and the disaster was severe.This is the catastrophic flood in the history of Guangdong, known as the Yimao flood in history. People who lived in Guangzhou at that time experienced this human tragedy and left such records afterwards: At the beginning of July of this year, the west and north rivers experienced major floods at the same time. In addition to the high tide in Guangzhou, the flood was higher than the top of some dikes in Shijiaowei and below the boundary sign. 2,000 cubic meters per second to 4,000 cubic meters per second, plus the flood from the Xijiang River passing through Suijiang and Sixianjiao into the Beijiang River, the torrent flooded Guangzhou and the northern plains, covering large areas of Qingyuan, Sanshui, Huaxian, Nanhai and Foshan The area was flooded, and two-thirds of the whole city of Guangzhou was flooded. Xiguan, Changdi and other places were several feet deep, and the flooding time lasted for 7 days. The city and other places are closed... "The house leaked and rained continuously, and the boat broke and faced the headwind." "Guangzhou Centennial Events" made such a record in a simple historical style: "Thirteen merchants lived upstairs to avoid the water. A fire was caused, and because the nearby Tongxing Street was full of kerosene, the match shop was also burned, the fire exploded, and the fire flowed with the oil, and the disaster area gradually expanded. At the same time, because the water depth of the street was several feet, it was difficult to rescue. By the afternoon of the 14th, more than 2,800 shop houses had been burned, causing great loss of life and property.” It is no longer possible to restore the scene at that time, and the citizens who were avoiding the flood encountered a fire again. If they stayed where they were, they would be burned, and if they jumped, they would fall into the torrent again. What should people do?Could it be that heaven wants to destroy all living beings in Lingnan?Calling every day should not be done, calling the land and the earth is not working, maybe, the desperate people will even scold the sky at this time. Based on a scientific attitude, later water conservancy workers analyzed the relevant materials of Yimao Dashui from a technical point of view.It doesn’t matter whether it’s a remedy for a dead sheep, or it’s about not forgetting the past and being a teacher of the future, or it’s about being prepared for danger in times of peace. Anyway, they put aside their emotional pain and made the following records from a purely rational perspective: In 1915, the actual flood peak water level of the Beijiang flood: 24.96 meters for Hengshi; 14.88 meters for Qingyuan; This also provides figures for the Zhuhai Commission, which was also recorded as 9.6 meters before]; the mouth of the Sanshui River is 9.17 meters... The west and north rivers are connected at Sixianjiao, and Taoyekou Qingqiyong is connected with Suijiang River on it, and the floods affect each other.According to the survey and calculation, the maximum flow of Beijiang River was determined in the 1960s: Hengshi was 18,600 cubic meters per second [in May 1982, Beijiang Dashui measured the flood peak flow of Hengshi Station as 18,000 cubic meters per second, so it was recalculated when the flood occurred in 1915 The flow of Hengshi is 21,000 cubic meters per second]; after embankment is built in the floodplain area above Shijiao, the peak flow of Shijiao is 18,800 cubic meters per second; the flow of Sanshuihekou Station is 17,125 cubic meters/second; the flow of Makou is 51,617 cubic meters per second.The maximum flow of Xijiang Gaoyao is 54,500 cubic meters per second. When the peaks of the two rivers meet at Sixianjiao, the water level is close to the same level. During the flood in 1915, the water base of the dry gorge on the left bank of Lingyang Gorge on the Xijiang River was overwater. According to the survey map of flood control and drainage in northwest Guangzhou [1/10,000] made by the third survey team of the Water Resources Department in 1954, the highest water levels in the Beijiang embankment after the flood broke in 1915 are as follows: Datianjing Village in the north of Shijiaoxu: 8.79 meters; Tangtou Village in the east of Shijiaoxu: 9.05 meters [Ding Chou [1877] was 11.49 meters]; South village at the exit of Nancun pit in Shijiaoxu: 9.23 meters; Xiahang Ridge to the east of Yaodi: 9.22 meters [Ding Chou [1877] was 11.28 meters]; Shangtang Village on Lubao: 10.05 meters; Lubaoyong Beizengyakou: 9.03 meters; ... Huangqi in the South China Sea: 4.44 meters; Guangzhou buoy factory: 3.48 meters. Judging from the above water level, the 10.05 meters of Shangtang Village on Lubaowei is 8.79 meters higher than the 8.79 meters of Datianjing Village and 9.05 meters of Tangtou Village on the nearby Shijiao embankment, which is 1 meter or more higher. From above Baini to the southern end of the existing Yaodi is blocked by a row of mountains. After the flood passes through the mouth of Baini Gorge, part of the flood returns to Shijiao, and part of it flows south. The old man who was still alive in Shijiao in the 1950s said: "It is Hui The water soaks the stone corners to half the height of the embankment." This disastrous disaster has brought great pain to people, and at the same time, it has also prompted people to think about how to avoid heavy losses.Yes, water control, water control began in the Yao and Shun era, only water control can get rid of the fierce face of the mother river, and return people to the image of a loving mother. After the founding of New China, people across the country started large-scale water conservancy and hydropower construction. The Beijiang River, the mother river that has brought disasters to the people many times, was also included in the scope of renovation.In order to always remember the pain of history, in 1989 AD, the Guangdong Provincial Water Conservancy and Electric Power Department erected a monument, and the inscription was inlaid in the courtyard of the Provincial Water Conservancy and Electric Power Department. Its inscription reads: Countless footsteps sounded hastily on the embankment, a column of flashlights swept towards the foot of the embankment, the torches illuminated the anxious faces, and bags of sandbags passed quickly.The wind was blowing, the rain was rushing, and the voices of speech could no longer be heard clearly. People were yelling at each other—their voices had become hoarse, and their yelling voices had become broken. At this time, in the village behind the embankment, gongs were beating loudly, and the grassroots cadres went from house to house, gathering the old, weak, sick and disabled who stayed at home, and then moved them to the high hillside overnight.Yes, just a year ago, the Xijiang River flooded, and millions of people were affected. What everyone heard and saw was the tragic disaster.Do not forget the past, the teacher of the future, not afraid of ten thousand, just in case. However, at that time, the Kuomintang was still in power, and floods came when they wanted to. The precarious Kuomintang government had no time to care about the lives and deaths of ordinary people.Today, the Communist Party has defeated the Kuomintang and established a new China in which the poor are the masters of the country. The government not only manages food, drinking, growing grain and paying taxes, but also God’s flood.No, the People's Government sent the People's Liberation Army to fight the flood, and the young and middle-aged people in the village followed suit on the embankment.Yes, there are two worlds in the old and new society, and the old people hiding on the hillside keep talking. 古之贤人孟子说，“民归之犹水之就下，沛然谁能御之”，比喻民心似流水，谁也无法抵挡。是的，就是民心向背决定了国民党败走台湾共产党执掌大陆政权。然而，民心不可抵挡，流水却是必须要抵挡的，北江洪水为害两岸百姓多年，人民政府如果不抗洪，那还叫什么“人民的政府”？毛主席在开国大典上说“中国人民站起来了”，面对洪水，也要站直了身子别趴下才是——那些敌视新中国的西方国家正等着看笑话呢。荀子对政权与人民的关系，给后人留下了发人深省的警句：“水则载舟，水则覆舟。”老子呢？他既说“天下莫柔弱于水”，又看到了水“莫能御之”的力量。所以，党和政府一声令下，人民解放军立刻跑步上了险象环生的大堤。 对于祖祖辈辈生活在北江两岸的老百姓而言，看到那些家乡远在千里万里之外的解放军官兵都来为他们抗洪抢险，不惜牺牲自己年轻的生命，自己岂有坐视之理？于是，一时间，“抗洪去”的呼声响彻了北江两岸。 1950年5月，北江大水，洪水汹涌而至。 新中国成立后，在河套地区治水颇有心得的原国民党将领傅作义将军任水利部长。在他的带领下，全国各地都对治水作了准备。位于两广地区的北江流域，虽然刚刚解放不久，但新政权在老百姓心中的威信已经初步确定，尤其是看到省政府的官员都亲自到江边查看险情，沿岸的群众感受到了来自领导层的关怀，于是纷纷组织起来抗洪抢险，保卫自己赖以生存的家园。 这一年的洪水相比较历史上的特大洪水，其实并不算大，但位于三水县的芦苞涌九曲围，仍然被洪水冲出3个漏洞。守护在河堤上的人们急了，因为堤围一旦有了漏洞，水的冲力会将漏洞越冲越大，最后撕开整条堤围，从而导致洪水外泄，危及岸边的村庄，危及刚刚在新生政权下获得新生的父老乡亲。可是，滔滔洪水，还不时泛着漩涡，谁敢下水去查看具体的漏点，那会被漩涡卷进激流从而丢掉性命的呀。在人们的惊惶和犹豫中，一个身影“刷”地一下投入水中。谁落水了，有人惊呼。有那看得清楚的人说，是黄耀芬跳下水了。于是，大家都把焦急的目光投向在水中拼搏的那个身影。水流太急，黄耀芬抱着一块石头才沉到水下。等到黄耀芬在浑浊的水面上冒出头来时，她告诉了大家一个好消息，她在水下摸到了具体的漏点。于是，岸上的人将预备好的材料推下河，黄耀芬再次潜到水下，堵住了漏点。最后一次堵漏成功后，黄耀芬被水冲得偏离了河岸，在众人的惊呼中，她奋力游到岸边，被岸上的乡亲们拉上岸来。 过去的英雄——譬如治水成功的禹，都是传说中的人物，谁也没见过；而那些在枪林弹雨中冲杀出来的英雄，一般人又做不到；而黄耀芬这位农民兄弟自己的英雄，却是在父老乡亲们的亲眼见证下产生的。黄耀芬的勇敢，就此传遍了十里八乡。这年9月下旬，黄耀芬出席全国劳模会议，被评为全国十大抢险英模之一。 然而，仅仅是在不足一年前的1949年7月，那次洪灾却没能被阻止。当时，西江出现大范围暴雨到大暴雨，主、支流柳江、红水河、郁江、桂江普发大洪水，西江干流出现五十年一遇大洪水，红、柳、黔三江平原、浔江、西江及西北江三角洲遭受严重水灾，桂林、柳州、南宁等城市被水淹，梧州市受淹达半月之久，市区沿江道路水深达5～6米，全市90%以上房屋淹没在洪水之中。据统计，两广灾民达370万人，又是一次哀鸿遍野的大灾难。那时，国民政府根本没人出面来管这天灾，国民党官员们纷纷忙着转移自己的家产——解放军已经打过来了。即使不考虑解放战争的影响，国民政府在相对和平的年月也甚少过问洪灾的事情，“天要下雨，娘要嫁人”，他们基本采取的是听天由命的做法，当然灾后下乡催粮催税抓丁的事却毫不放松。 经历了国民党统治时期的人们，再比较新中国成立后人民政府对治水的大力投入，感受真是“新旧社会两重天”。 水，既是造福人类的天使，同时又是荼毒生灵的恶魔，所以古人常将祸国殃民的女人贬为“祸水”。中国最早有记载的治水活动始于尧帝时期，其时夏部落的首领挺身而出，于是便有了后来的大禹治水“三过家门而不入”的典故。 “善治国者，必先除其五害，五害之属，水为最大。五害已除，人乃可治”。古之圣贤，早已明了治水与国家安定的辩证关系。而新生的人民政府，更将治水提到了议事日程上予以重视。 但是，人民政府可以赶走腐败透顶的国民党政府，人民军队可以打败八百万国民党军队，治水却不是一蹴而就的事情，不是靠三年解放战争就能打得赢的。因为，发洪水是老天爷的事情，基本不以人的意志为转移，那位在北京中南海里办公的领导人说过一句俏皮话来形容难以改变的事物，“天要下雨，娘要嫁人”。所以，抗洪治水，就成了一场持久战，比八年抗战还要漫长得多的持久战。 继1950年北江群众战胜洪灾之后，1951年，北江再发洪水。仿佛老天爷要刻意来考验一下新生的人民政权在人民群众中的组织能力和威信。 1951年的洪水是建国初北江出现的较大洪水，石角站水位最高达12.44米，仅次于有记录的1915年、1931年洪水。但是，群众抗洪积极性高涨，大家纷纷上堤守护，爷孙同行、母女做伴的情形十分常见，这让那些随着解放大军从北方打到广东的干部们，感觉仿佛仍在北方作战一样，那时的百姓用小轮车装着物资千里支前，硬是用手推出了三大战役的胜利。 这一年洪水来得很早。4月2日当清远洪水位达13.79米，石角上游的清西围溃决，淹田26万亩。决口在花塘段，当时该围下游尚未封口，入水后从漫水河流出对石角水位有所降低。由于石角堤段险情至为紧急，花县群众纷纷出动，或步行或划小艇沿国泰水、乐排河至石角支援抢险。 1955年，石角洪峰水位达12.45米，比1951年还高1厘米。此时，北江大堤经过全线培修后，堤身已加高培厚，但由于堤基地质不好，洪水到达后大量出现渗漏、管涌、冒沙等现象，堤内坡脚牛皮胀普遍发生，情况甚是严重。 然而，这一年北江流域采用了1954年武汉市的抢险经验，采用沙石导流办法取得很大效果。新生的人民政府，在全国各地都组织了大规模的抗洪抢险，边干边学，积累了不少有用的经验。时任省水电厅正、副厅长刘兆伦、魏鉴贤以及总工程师麦蕴瑜，亲临大堤。省里的领导亲自以身犯险，当领导的都不怕死，自己还怕啥？坚守在现场的区、县干部，以及数万群众，受到了莫大的鼓舞，“人心齐，泰山移”，大家共同作战，战胜了此次建国以来的最大洪水。 1959年，洪水再度引发险情。这年6月15日，石角站洪峰水位达12.26米，恰遇西江亦发大洪水，情况比较恶劣。而当时北江大堤加建的堤顶防浪石墙尚有西南附近堤段未完成，形势十分危急。此时，得到广州支援的建筑队工人，赤膊上阵，挥汗如雨，连饭都顾不上吃，争分夺秒，终于赶在洪峰来前抢筑完成。 工程完工后，建筑队的工人们都累瘫在工地上。然而，洪峰到来的消息一到，工人们立即爬了起来，打起精神准备护堤抗洪。 此时，中共华南局、广东省委的主要领导陶铸同志，率队来到了堤上视察。这位“不吃辣椒不革命，不吃辣椒不是湖南人”的湖南籍革命家，亲自指导抗洪。陶铸的出现，就像定海神针一样，稳定住了人心。 此时，堤上险情仍以渗漏、管涌、牛皮胀等的出现最为普遍，石角、芦苞、黄塘3段比较紧张，但是由于抢险队伍已掌握了治漏、导渗、固堤的操作技术，贮备有充足的抢险器材，抢险及时，而解放军和广州市工人队伍又及时支援，人心非常稳定，大家都有信心打赢这场抗洪战。尤其是陶铸同志的出现，更是鼓舞人心——那么大的领导都不怕，我们怕什么？抗洪的群众这么说。 1961年6月，西、北两江同时发洪，14日，省委书记处书记林李明、省水电厅副厅长李泽民，前来北江大堤检查防汛工作，并在三水县召开了西、北江防汛战地会议，部署防洪抢险工作。这些年来，河流边的群众已经习惯了在洪水到来时见到省里的领导，他们已经不会像解放前一遇洪水就只有四散奔逃了，因为他们知道，人民政府绝不会见死不救，共产党的官就是人民的公仆，哪里有危险，共产党员和解放军就会出现在哪里——他们都是些用特殊材料制作的人。 1964年6月16日22时，石角洪峰水位达13.18米，比1959年洪峰水位高出0.92米，北江下游崩了大塘围、五安围、安乐围、东洲围、迳口草塘围共决口23处，受淹3万余亩【在石角洪峰出现后崩决】。 这次洪水使北江大堤上游堤段抢险异常紧张，石角下灵洲段堤内坦地管涌蔓延广阔，其他堤段亦以此类险情较为普遍，一眼望去，黄水浩荡，让人心里颇不好受。抗洪治水是一场持久战，最终的胜利不知何时才能到来。林李明副省长两次到石角巡视，他回到广州无法入睡，深夜2时又回到石角检查防洪工作。 养兵千日，用兵一时。和平时期的军队，更体现出“人民子弟兵”的特色，与人民群众休戚与共、同甘共苦。到北江流域抗洪抢险，是广州军区部队“不是战争的战争”，他们做到了哪里有险情，哪里就有国防绿的身影。 1968年6月，西、北江洪水并发，北江暴雨中心在连江口一带。6月9日8时，清远水位8.71米起涨，26日4时洪峰水位15.85米，形势危急。这次洪水是建国以来北江最高水位的一次。 洪水期间，正值“文化大革命”，西江至梧州高要一带武斗风至盛时，广州运高要的防汛草袋中途被抢去作堆筑武斗工事，一时电讯中断，梧州水情只好由省防总通过广州军区司令部取得，洪峰预报得以及时发出，但也对抗洪抢险影响很大。好在部队没乱，部队若是乱了，后果不堪设想。军区司令部那些将军们，听说“造反派”居然抢了防汛用的材料，气得恨不得带着部队用冲锋枪把“造反派”给突突了。 面对灾害，抗洪第一，将军们强压下心头的怒火，亲率部队上了北江大堤。这些从战火硝烟里摸爬滚打出来的将军们，总喜欢跟年轻的战士们到第一线去战斗，害得他们的参谋警卫人员一个比一个紧张。 这次洪水，部队上堤4000人，并带上无线电通讯设备、运输汽车等及时前来支援。而广州市则出动米业工人400人，大拖渡3艘及装有三四百匹马力的拖头及其他船只数十艘。大堤防抢期间，广东省副省长林李明乘部队的炮艇数度巡视，指挥防抢。关键时候，人员数军人最有战斗力，装备也是部队的最管用，地方党政官员们只要一看到部队到了，心里就放下了一块大石头。 这场抗洪斗争，参加抢险的解放军部队及广州市工人自始至终斗志顽强，大大增强群众防抢的信心。部队的士兵说：“上级派我们来，即使堤崩也要抢回来。”部队发扬了革命战争时期的光荣传统，特别能吃苦、特别能忍耐、特别能战斗。 部队不打无准备的仗，因为民兵熟悉情况，部队采取与民兵共同配合巡逻的方式，加班加岗监视险情，发现险情及时抢险，行动迅速。在清远、三水、南海3个指挥分部以及广州市、佛山地区、韶关地区均派员进驻大堤。此次洪峰持续时间长，北江大堤前后方共出动30万人，恰似打了一场大战役。 外围经历了此场洪水，据统计，清远决堤18条，影响人口10万人，农作物受淹12.7万亩。英德县受灾农田21.7万亩，县城老市区全部受淹浸。韶关市区淹没三分之一，沿江仓库被淹，损失很大。因西江洪峰影响，西、北江下游三角洲有19条堤围漫决，受淹农作物约7万亩。 如果没有解放军上堤抢险，此次洪水的灾害将严重得多。关键时候，部队发挥了中流砥柱的作用。 1982年，北江再度发生洪灾，部队又一次成为了抗洪抢险的主力。 1982年5月中旬，北江中下游降大暴雨，北江支流连江、滨江、绥江等发生建国以来特大洪水，清远、英德、阳山、四会、怀集、广宁等县遭受严重的洪水灾害，连江中游水位超过历史有记录以来最高水位。 5月12日7时石角超过警戒水位【10.5米】，并在1天内涨3.13米，为紧急应付这次来势迅猛的洪水，北江大堤防汛指挥部进行了紧急动员和部署，省党政领导极为重视，副省长杨德元和省农委申田副主任、省水电厅李国副厅长等亲临大堤指挥，加上县、公社、大队各级领导均在场参与指挥战斗，组织当地社、队防汛队伍。 最关键的是，全堤还有解放军部队并配备20多辆汽车参加战斗，从5月12日起先在黄塘以上堤段巡逻抢险，至5月15日已在全堤铺开。上堤总人数达3734人，其中解放军指战员630名，而更多的部队官兵已经集结待命，随时可以增援抗洪抢险第一线。军民团结，共同防守，严阵以待，一遇险情出现，则以最快速度奔赴出险现场，奋勇作战，确保北江大堤安全度汛。毛主席在论述人民战争的威力时，说过一句非常著名的话，“军民团结如一人，试看天下谁能敌”。是的，面对滔天洪水，虽然人力不能胜天，但军民团结，照样敢与天斗与地斗。 清远、英德、阳山降雨在400毫米以上，清远站最大降雨量675毫米，江河水位急剧上涨。北江清远站水位15.88米，比建国后最高的1968年洪水位高0.03米。横石站实测洪峰流量18000立方米／秒，仅次于1915年洪水的北江第二次大水。 清远县清西围等84条堤围溃决，受浸农田179万亩。Urgent! 阳山、英德、清远县城及乡村受淹，60万人被洪水围困，无家可归。Urgent! 京广铁路清远路段多处塌方，交通中断。Urgent! 告急的电话铃不断响起，电报雪片般飞来。 与此同时，杨德元副省长带领工作组驻守北江大堤，省委书记任仲夷、省长刘田夫到清远、英德灾区视察，指导抗灾和重建家园。 抗洪到了拼刺刀的关键时候了，部队上！ 于是，人民解放军的陆、海、空三军一起出动，像进行一场大战役一样，组织抢救被洪水围困的群众，空投干粮……在那被洪水围困的“孤岛”上，绿色的军装像一簇簇绿色的火苗，给走投无路的人们带去了生的希望。 一个被困在“孤岛”上的孕妇，早产了。新生的婴儿在滔天洪水中哭来了解放军，于是母子俩都被救到了安全地带，然后被紧急送进医院。孕妇保住了，孩子保住了，这个幸运的孩子从此便有了一个名字，“洪军”。 1994年，初夏蝉鸣，泥土散发着梦一般的清香。夏荷绽放，江边乡舍奏响着欢快的渔歌。这一年，邓老伯与老伴将他们经营了大半生的渔船转手卖给了别人，俩人计划着上岸后好好享一下清福，过上“采菊东篱下，悠然见南山”的写意生活。然而，一场突然而至的洪水，彻底地粉碎了这个甜美的梦。 6月初，第三号强热带风暴在广东西部沿海登陆。6月8日后，西、北江流域连续十天大面积普降暴雨和大暴雨，局部特大暴雨。西江上游的桂江、柳江、郁江、红水河4江洪水齐发，狂泻而下。北江上游翁江、连江、浈江、武江亦同时发生大洪水。两江上游的暴雨中心从上游顺流而下移动，造成洪水不断叠加。至20日下午，西、北江洪水在思贤滘相遇，两江洪水互相顶托，把周遭一带顿时变成汪洋泽国。瞬间，洪水漫过北江大堤。上百个乡镇被洪水疯狂蹂躏。 当洪水涌入村庄时，邓老伯第一个本能反应就是喊上妻子一起逃命，因为家里是低矮的平房，躲在家里肯定死路一条。屋外不远处就是一个高地，邓老伯很快便跑到了上面。然而，当他缓过神来的时候，他发现老伴并没有跟在自己的身后。邓老伯没命似的想折身跑回屋内——老伴还在屋里！可是，洪水涨得太快太快了，眨眼便淹没了高地的周边。邓老伯没法离开高地半步，心急如焚的他只能声嘶力竭地一遍遍喊着