Volume 1 Chapter 91 Guarantee
"Wooooo..."
A sharp, piercing cry cut through the air, also quickly causing the fragile eardrums of the human body to resonate. The sudden stimulation caused the central nervous system to immediately produce excited electrical impulses. The security personnel in the duty room almost instantly jumped up, grabbed the metal loudspeaker on the table and rushed into the large dormitory room, shouting loudly: "Emergency assembly, emergency assembly..."
The stars shone brightly, and the dark night sky was dotted with twinkling lights. At 2 am, an emergency assembly suddenly arrived, depriving the special counter-terrorism unit of the first session of the opportunity to continue their romantic entanglement. From receiving the emergency order to fully armed assembly, they completed the gathering in less than three minutes. After reporting that no one was missing, they began boarding vehicles and departing.
"I hope it's just a drill this time!"
Lian Chang was the last one to board the vehicle, and as he sat in his command car, the first thing that came to mind was hoping that this midnight alarm wasn't real. Earlier, when he saw the troops receiving live ammunition and carrying flashbangs, tear gas, stun grenades, and protective gear, he still felt a bit apprehensive. After all, this special task force, which had been formed less than three months ago, wasn't ready for actual combat yet. Of course, with the October sports meet approaching, whether or not there was a real alarm, the 24-hour standby special task force would always have to face challenges with utmost confidence.
The alarm sounded, and the 30 special vehicles of the Special Task Force formed a long queue, carrying the team members quickly leaving their training base to rush to the scene. The special vehicles used by them are the "riot control cars" specially designed for this special task force, which was jointly developed by the People's Armed Police Force and the Logistics Equipment Department of the People's Liberation Army based on the Hummer. They have evolved into special equipment vehicles, command vehicles, ambulances, and of course, the transport vehicles that the soldiers are currently riding in. All vehicles have an entrance and exit at the rear, allowing the 6 soldiers inside to quickly enter and exit. Only the transport vehicle has shooting windows on both sides, and the command vehicle is equipped with a high-power loudspeaker and a car-mounted wireless radio...
"Commander, according to the instructions, this time we are conducting a live ammunition exercise at the long-distance bus station. The scenario is that a night bus arriving in Liuzhou has been hijacked by thugs. According to the report from the luxury bus departure station, there were 33 people on board, including the driver. Currently, the number of thugs and their weapons are unknown, and the station has evacuated the surrounding crowd and vehicles..."
"We have rehearsed many projects, passenger trains, ships, buses, long-distance buses and so on. The soldiers are very familiar with these transportation tools, I believe the soldiers can complete this task." The instructor said, after signing the case report telegram handed over by the communication soldier, continued: "The difficulty lies in the time of the incident is at night, especially now it's around 2 o'clock in the morning. Even if the station has high-power lighting, the on-site lighting conditions are definitely not optimistic. Especially for this luxury bus, every window has curtains, the thugs will definitely let the passengers pull up all the curtains to prevent us from understanding the situation inside..."
"This large bus can hold 36 people and its top speed on the highway is over 90 kilometers per hour. We absolutely cannot let it continue on the road, leaving it at the station would be more beneficial for us to take action..."
After retrieving the detailed drawings of the bus from the file cabinet, he thought for a moment and continued: "Upon arrival at the scene, quickly dispatch snipers to occupy advantageous terrain. Next, send in negotiators to negotiate with them. While clarifying the hijackers' intentions, persuading and stabilizing them, we must also rotate the rearview mirror to a certain angle to create a blind spot for our approach to the vehicle. Otherwise, the hijackers inside the bus can easily see our movements through the rearview mirrors on both sides..."
"Our snipers have all received training in shooting under dim lighting conditions, the station's illumination is still pretty good, I believe we can achieve a one-shot kill..."
While the company commander and other commanders in the command vehicle were discussing how to launch a rescue operation, the soldiers in the anti-riot transport vehicle, who were the real protagonists of the action, did not have as much anxiety as their superiors. They were basically leaning against the backrest with their eyes half-closed, conserving energy. Selected from the entire armed police force in the autonomous region, they were all veterans with more than four years of service and didn't need to get overexcited for just one operation.
The original plan for the first session of the People's Congress was not to set up a special security force, and at that time, a certain number of police and armed police would be responsible for maintaining order and preventing sudden events. For this reason, the Security Department of the Organizing Committee of the Games specially arranged several emergency response drills. At the Industrial University, which served as the main venue, the Security Department organized many personnel evacuation drills. Similar training was also conducted at the two major railway stations and four major long-distance bus stations in Liuzhou, as well as at ports.
As the first sports meeting of the autonomous region, all provinces such as Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan organized their own teams to participate in the competition. The major enterprises and institutions in the autonomous region also organized participating teams. Each province also specially organized enthusiastic spectators to form a spectator team for the first sports meeting, which would depart together to watch the games in Liuzhou and visit the largest city in the autonomous region at the same time. All hotels within the Second Ring Road of Liuzhou were booked in advance by these spectator teams. One week before the start of the sports meeting, long-distance train tickets had already been booked in advance by the provincial offices in Liuzhou for their spectator teams and athletes. Spectator teams from Xinjiang, Gansu and Shaanxi also had to take a long-distance bus first and then transfer to a train in Chengdu to come to Liuzhou to cheer on their athletes...
So the first sports meeting will have nearly 2,000 athletes participating in various competitions, and apart from them, there will be more than 500,000 tourists from other provinces pouring in. If we add those from Guangxi Province itself, it is estimated that there will be around 1.5 million enthusiastic tourists pouring into Liuzhou City at that time. In order to welcome this grand event, the third ring road was specially built, a living area for athletes' daily rest was built, and apart from opening up ten direct bus lines to the venue, twenty new bus routes were also opened to facilitate tourists' travel within Liuzhou City, but these are obviously far from enough.
The People's Autonomous Government also carried out comprehensive repairs and renovations on the highway network, railway lines, inland waterways and other transportation infrastructure in Liuzhou. Relying on the perfect highway network and main railway transportation lines within the autonomous region, the transportation network has the capacity to withstand the large-scale impact brought by the sports meeting. Of course, if someone is not afraid of death, China Aviation Group already has civil aviation transport aircraft, and routes from Liuzhou to Chengdu in Sichuan Province, Guiyang in Guizhou Province, Kunming in Yunnan Province, and Sanya in Hainan Province have been verified. The air force also has transport planes, but before the Ministry of Transportation approved the establishment of the Civil Aviation Administration, before the two major airlines were officially approved to operate, no one could take a plane to travel, let alone take a plane to Liuzhou to watch the sports meeting. I believe that in the future, there will be opportunities for air transportation to share the huge transportation pressure.
In addition, as the railway transportation with the largest carrying capacity, the Railway Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation made many arrangements. Firstly, it strengthened publicity through broadcasting and newspapers to advise tourists from other places who had confirmed their attendance at the sports meeting to enter Liuzhou as early as possible. Then, it implemented special period control on the main railway lines from Liuzhou to various places, reducing the number of freight trains arranged during the three days before and after the sports meeting, adding temporary passenger train services...
In terms of other hardware construction, the Industrial Park Stadium, as the main venue for outdoor events such as track and field, football, basketball, volleyball, etc., has also undergone large-scale repairs and improvements. The main stadium where the opening ceremony is located now has a capacity of 30,000 people. Of course, there are also chess, martial arts, boxing, weightlifting, swimming and other competitions held in various basic education schools in Liuzhou.
So this time, as the first sports meeting organized by the people's autonomous government, its scale and influence will far exceed the initial plan. There is a Chinese proverb that says "not afraid of 10,000, just afraid of one in 10,000". Although the people's government was well-prepared for the smooth holding of the conference, it apparently lacked deeper consideration on security aspects, did not consider more types of sudden events and how to respond. After some preparation, a special anti-terrorism detachment of the armed police force was quickly formed to solve some thorny sudden problems, which were defined as threats to the safety of the autonomous region and the normal progress of the sports meeting.
The main purpose is to participate in the anti-terrorism and anti-violence tasks of the security guard for the sports event, such as counter-hijacking, counter-explosion, and counter-raid special operations. Every member of the Special Task Force has undergone rigorous selection and training, and now they are equipped with the most advanced equipment and have extremely high skills.
Each member of the assault team wears expensive special operations uniforms made of materials with special functions such as anti-cutting and flame retardancy, which can be used to deal with high-intensity conflict events after being equipped with bulletproof steel plates. Of course, there are also specially-made helmets, goggles, tactical gloves, leg guards, foldable gun stocks for the 18-style 7.62mm automatic rifle, and a 9mm 18-style pistol in the thigh holster.
Their equipment is more comprehensive than that of regular army troops, especially since each of them has an 18-style pistol for close combat, which makes many regular soldiers jealous.
The 18-type pistol has a magazine capacity of 15 rounds, an effective range of 50 meters, and uses the principle of short recoil and rotary locking mechanism. The shooting accuracy is very good, and it also has excellent feeding performance in harsh environments due to its double-row feeding system. Especially when the Type 18 pistol was first issued to the First Division, when the automatic rifle had a jamming problem, the pistol became a crucial tool for taking down enemies at critical moments.
When performing diversified tasks, the automatic rifle is not omnipotent. When dealing with some sudden events, it still relies on close combat weapons such as bayonets, engineer shovels, and daggers, which are impossible to react quickly, especially when fighting against heretics. The shock brought by shooting an enemy with one shot is often more effective. The Type 81 rifle can penetrate the People's Army helmet at a distance of 50 meters. When a bullet hits the head of a rioter, the splashing red and white scene is extremely spectacular. Of course, such a treasure, in the first division that frequently goes out to perform special tasks, there are only five people equipped with this rifle in each infantry squad. The old soldiers naturally still have priority in equipping and using it, which makes many people in the army "look at guns and sigh". Occasionally, I heard that some troops even achieved one gun per person, and the envy was naturally soaring.
With such luxurious equipment, they also have to configure more professional anti-riot special vehicles. The special task force has too many hopes placed on them by the security department of the Sports Council. Due to the short time since its establishment and the numerous tasks, their regular training is basically grasping every moment of training time. Training in physical fitness, shooting, tactical coordination, etc., are all guided by experienced instructors from the People's Army Command College and Officer Cadet School. All 12 snipers in the detachment have uniformly received a one-month special urban sniper training course at the Army Sniper School, and only when they reached the level of being able to take out an enemy with one shot were they allowed to end their training period.
In various training sessions, the organizers went to great lengths to set up harsh conditions and selected a group of soldiers from the army to form a special training team, simulating various situations such as kidnappers, thugs, and hooligans. This included the recent incident at the train station that required the Special Duty Company to assemble urgently in the middle of the night, which was also a training exercise planned by the special training team. The repeated "evil events" were used to test the emergency response capabilities of the Special Duty Company, not just for the smooth holding of the sports meeting, but also for their future duties as sentinels.
On September 15, the "Warm-up for the First People's Sports Meeting" mass running event was grandly launched in Liuzhou. The event aims to create a better atmosphere for the upcoming First People's Sports Meeting, promote the spirit of sports and health, and test the organizers' work arrangements. At the same time, it provides a rare opportunity for large-scale exercise and rehearsal before the big event. With this mass running event, Liuzhou city has fully entered the sports season, and the preparations for the sports meeting have entered the final sprint stage, with everything ready for the grand opening.
October 1st, on a sunny day with clear blue skies and fluttering flags, the preparations for the first Autonomous Region Sports Meeting entered its final stage. Before dawn broke, all major stadiums began checking their lighting systems. One thousand four hundred volunteers from the Industrial University had already taken up their posts, having assisted athletes from various regions in checking into the Athletes' Village. Today, they were to assist security personnel in ensuring spectators enter the venue in an orderly manner with their tickets.
At 9:13 am, after the speech by Zhang Yusheng, Chairman of the People's Autonomous Government and Secretary of the Revival Party Committee, the first session of the Autonomous Region's Sports Meeting officially kicked off. The opening ceremony was themed "Unity is Strength", with students from various primary schools in Guangxi performing a series of celebratory programs. The most spectacular program was the thousand-people performance organized by the Workers' Association, while the most eye-catching one was the characteristic dance performances by ethnic minorities from various provinces. When the athlete representatives from each province entered the venue, the opening ceremony reached its climax. The Guangxi delegation had the largest number of participants, while the Xinjiang delegation had fewer people but their athletes were not to be underestimated, with equestrian, archery, and long-distance running being their goals.
The first competition event of the sports meeting is football. Football is a highly valued sports project for autonomous region enterprises, schools, military and other units. Every large group, every basic school, and every industrial park has built a free football base. Therefore, among the participating projects in the sports meeting, football is destined to be the most intense competition, and also the most attractive one, especially during the sports meeting period, all major enterprises in Liuzhou have long holidays, workers have enough time and money to go to the scene to cheer for their own team.
Inside the Liuzhou Workers' Sports Stadium, the two teams of China Aviation Group and Asia America Group kicked off the first group match. The other four teams in the group, Yunnan team and Industrial University team, China Railway Third Bureau representative team and CNPC representative team, also started their fierce competition. As the "Group of Death" in football events, the Industrial University team has an absolute advantage, while the two teams from China Aviation and Asia America are not to be underestimated either. The first group match attracted nearly 30,000 people to cheer for their own teams.
In the first, second and third small stadium of Liuzhou, the three matches of the second group started competing at the same time. Sichuan team, China Railway Construction Second Group representative team, China Metallurgical Industry Group representative team, China Railway Construction First Group representative team and Guizhou team, six teams with similar strength also had a wonderful match, especially many workers from various groups came to cheer for their football team, so the intensity of the second group's competition was not inferior to that of the first group.
The football match takes three days as a cycle, that is to say after the first match is completed, you can rest for three days before facing the second opponent. During this time, athletes have time to watch other group matches. A total of eight groups and 48 participating teams compete in the football tournament. The number of participating teams is too large, so only two teams from each group advance to the top 16. The teams that enter the top 16 are matched according to the odd or even number of their group, for example, the first place team in Group A plays against the second place team in Group B, and the first place team in Group B plays against the second place team in Group A. All matches in the final round adopt a single-elimination format. The teams that ultimately enter the 1st and 2nd place finals will compete at the main stadium of the sports meeting, Gongda Sports Center. The 3rd and 4th place finals are held at the Workers' Stadium.
In the sports competition, the representative team of the Industrial University is composed of elite students selected from the student teams. Almost all students in the school are extremely fond of sports. The school has a well-established football and basketball league system, and there are regular table tennis, swimming, and volleyball competitions. Therefore, the Industrial University's representative team signed up for all competition events, including the dragon boat racing event that they were not familiar with. Their goal was naturally to be first on the medal list.
"Friendship first, competition second", the purpose of the sports meeting is to promote friendship between participating teams through competitions, improve physical fitness through rule-abiding competitive sports, and make unfamiliar people familiar with each other. The participating teams from Xinjiang who came all the way to Liuzhou, Guangxi, although they were only a hundred or so in number, but they could endure nearly half a month of boat and car fatigue to come and participate in the sports meeting, this is itself a spiritual challenge, an attitude of importance, and the participating teams from other provinces also had a bumpy road to get here, Gansu and Shaanxi teams overcame all sorts of difficulties to rush to the competition. A grand sports meeting is not only a platform for them to show themselves, but also an opportunity for them to showcase regional characteristics, national and ethnic culture, and spiritual outlook based on their own strengths.
Apart from football, the most exciting event that can stir up audience enthusiasm is track and field events. The intense short-distance running competitions always make the audience burst into irrepressible passion, cheering loudly for the athletes who are sprinting forward with all their might. The cheers are deafening, and the sighs of disappointment are endless. Another event that is almost as intense is the short-course swimming competition. Although the west has great mountains, it also has great rivers, and there are certainly no shortage of swimming champions, especially those from Guangxi and Sichuan, who put on a spectacular display in the 100m freestyle and 4x100 relay events.
The most tenacious belief, the most united and enthusiastic cheering of the audience, and the greatest motivation to strive forward without hesitation all belong to long-distance running events. This type of event is not about winning or losing, but about daring to participate and face the long and arduous competition journey. The road to challenging oneself requires shedding countless sweat drops, enduring unbearable pain, and when one is on the verge of giving up time and again, the audience's constant cheering gives athletes the courage to persevere. The seemingly endless road ahead is a great challenge to oneself, and completing the entire course is a magnificent achievement. Of course, it also conveys a message to all spectators: as long as you persist, there is no road that cannot be conquered.
Of course, it's not easy for the athletes to come to Liuzhou, and their arrival is not just for the competition. In their spare time, they can go out and visit the industrial exhibition hall to see the many industrial achievements of the autonomous region and internationally, go to the people's government agencies, visit the many factories, and listen to the sound of the campus. The Liuzhou People's Government has prepared not only a variety of competition projects for them to showcase themselves and strive for excellence but also a series of exhibitions for them to visit and have fun.
Under the leadership of the Liuzhou People's Government, many companies and merchants have jointly organized several exhibitions and sales events. For example, a food tasting event was held by multiple food manufacturers, where tourists could taste various packaged foods for free. The beautifully packaged candies were naturally the main product, but what caught people's attention the most was the newly launched "fruit jelly". The clothing exhibition and sale was the most comfortable, with major manufacturers making every effort to promote their products. In addition to the traditional ethnic clothing with excellent workmanship, the exquisite dresses, suits, shirts, etc., as well as leather shoes and sports shoes, were also very popular.
The most impressive exhibition is the Industrial Achievements Exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Industry, where many machinery factories from Sichuan, Guiyang and Kunming have showcased their best products. Food processing and agricultural machinery are their main focus and also the absolute protagonists of the exhibition. People from all over the country are very interested in these machines that are close to daily life, such as water pumps, corn crushers, grain threshers, tractors, transplanters, human-powered tricycles, etc. Of course, radios, bicycles, sewing machines, motorcycles, etc. also received a large number of good reviews and orders.
"Progress" and "development" are goals pursued by individuals and society, but it is undeniable that a healthy body and strong physique are the best guarantees for achieving success time and again. The purpose of sports lies in this.
PS: Special thanks to book friends, Eternal Ruin. Thank you for your valuable opinions, and also thank all the friends who support the big country's progress. Recently, I've been busy sorting out materials related to the second volume, so please forgive any mistakes that may have occurred. Of course, some things might not be suitable for now, and as a first-time author, there are definitely areas where I lacked consideration, making it somewhat over-the-top, please forgive me.
