Binjiang Police Affairs

Chapter 1524 - 291: Playing to Our Strengths!

The Special Warfare Group left, and the Binjiang Ship also left. The police, armed police, auxiliary police, and security personnel who had been as busy as fighting a war for a week could finally breathe a sigh of relief.While Han Yu was busy with the "Command Center" members sorting various receipts and invoices, preparing to get reimbursed by the city for the expenses incurred during the Binjiang Ship’s open period, Deputy Director Yuan of the East Sea Base’s political department arrived at the Binjiang Navy Retirement House.

In the morning, it was announced that adjustments would be made to the leadership team at the retirement house, relieving Old Fang of his position as Political Commissioner, and appointing Feng Qingshan, just transferred from the Naval Engineering College to the East Sea Base, as the Acting Political Commissioner of the Binjiang Navy Retirement House.

In the afternoon, he rushed to the Lang Mountain Camp to convene a meeting with reserve officers at the battalion level and above from the Rescue Boat Team.

The appointment and removal orders announced in the afternoon were of greater significance than those in the morning.

The Binjiang Navy Retirement House was originally managed by the East Sea Base, with personnel matters within their jurisdiction, and Feng Qingshan’s position was Acting Political Commissioner. The appointment and removal orders were issued by the East Sea Base, requiring the approval of the East Sea Fleet only for the appointment of Regular Group Level officers.

Although the Rescue Boat Team is reserve forces, the East Sea Base is not the true superior of the Rescue Boat Team in a meaningful sense, so the appointment and removal of the team’s political commissioner must be approved by the Navy Headquarters.

For this reason, Vice Mayor Qin, Commander Wang of the Military District, and Political Commissioner Chen were also invited to attend the meeting.

Deputy Director Yuan, entrusted by the political department of the Navy Headquarters, announced the removal of Old Fang from the position of team political commissioner and appointed Feng Qingshan as the Acting Political Commissioner of the Rescue Boat Team!

After the meeting, the handover work began.

The Rescue Boat Team was also settling accounts with several cooperative units, or rather, distributing the money.

Vice Mayor Qin, Commander Wang, and Political Commissioner Chen were curious about how much extra money Han Yu made using the opportunity to return to Binjiang to visit family on the Binjiang Ship. The three of them were in no hurry to return to the Military District, idly chatting with Deputy Director Yuan in the small meeting room while waiting for the accounting results downstairs.

Old Fang considered his work as a team political commissioner to be the most proud accomplishment, seriously going over the account books with Administrator Old Yang, pressing the calculator meticulously.

Feng Qingshan felt a lot of pressure as he admired his predecessor’s diligent work for the team’s construction, worried that he might not fulfill the expectations of his superiors as the Acting Political Commissioner.

Han Yu, feeling a bit embarrassed, decided to return to the second floor to chat with the four leaders, considering that even though making money was for national defense construction, it still seemed like taking advantage of the city.

The Rescue Boat Team’s project for submarine rescue operations was not a secret to city and military district leaders.

Deputy Director Yuan curiously asked, "Salted Fish, what step has the submarine rescue project reached?"

"It hasn’t officially started yet."

While refilling the leaders’ tea, Han Yu explained, "Initially, we weren’t very knowledgeable, and lacked a clear understanding of the difficulties in maritime rescue, especially under complex sea conditions. During this period, the East Sea Fleet and South Sea Fleet have provided us with a lot of materials, and we’ve consulted with the East Sea Salvage Bureau under the Ministry of Transport, which has relatively rich maritime rescue experience, thus realizing that submarine rescue is not as simple as we initially thought."

It’s not difficult to create something unique, like the Linghai Reserve Camp, specializing in emergency disaster relief.

You really could do something else, but chose such a difficult task instead. Now that you know it’s not easy, who can you blame?

Vice Mayor Qin grumbled internally while feigning curiosity, asking, "What difficulties are primarily involved?"

"When it comes to difficulties, there are plenty."

Han Yu organized his thoughts, reporting, "First, the rescue base must be located by the coast. Saving lives is as urgent as fighting fires, and this is no joke. If, and I emphasize if, a submarine really needs rescue at sea, and our base is in Binjiang, receiving orders and setting sail would take at least two hours, and reaching the estuary from Binjiang would take no less than seven hours at best.

Naval submarines are unlikely to patrol or train at the estuary, which means it could take more than ten hours to reach the rescue area from the estuary. The oxygen in a submarine is limited; can the officers and men really last that long if they require rescue due to a failure?"

Commander Wang nodded, extinguishing his cigarette, and said, "The rescue base must be forward-positioned."

Deputy Director Yuan asked in a low voice, "Have you decided where the rescue base should be located?"

"Rescue requires more than just a base and personnel; it requires equipment."

Han Yu took a deep breath and explained, "We initially planned to use Linggang Tuo 001 as the mother ship for rescue, but after reviewing the materials on Russian nuclear submarine rescue forwarded by our superiors and studying them with the battalion officers above the team level, we unanimously believed that Linggang Tuo 001’s tonnage is too small and its stability at sea is inadequate. To be precise, it hardly meets the rescue needs."

Commander Wang asked further, "Can the Shipping Academy’s training ship be used as a mother ship?"

"The training ship is actually just a commercial vessel, lacking sufficient tonnage and power, and it certainly doesn’t have the various equipment needed for submarine rescue."

"Then what should be done?"

"We first need a high-powered, large-tonnage coastal tug, particularly in tonnage, not less than three thousand tons."

Vice Mayor Qin was startled and asked in surprise, "Isn’t this a mistake? A three-thousand-horsepower tug is easy to find, but where can you find a three-thousand-ton tug, not even the Binjiang Port Group has one, and I estimate the ports across the river don’t have one either."

Inland river ports don’t need such large tugs.

In fact, seaports equally don’t need them.

Han Yu quickly said, "If tugs are considered special vessels, then tugs over three thousand tons belong to special vessels among the special vessels. Currently, only a few salvage bureaus of the Ministry of Transport are equipped with them."

Deputy Director Yuan instinctively asked, "Does this mean we need to collaborate with the salvage bureau?"