Chapter 7 Chapter 06

Gods are sealed by humans.Those who have made outstanding contributions to many people have been established by word of mouth due to the word of mouth of many people, and after a long time, they have been vividly portrayed. Li Guoan, who was known as the "Frontier Water God" when he was alive, always sang this song: "In the vast wasteland, search for it all your life, don't say you can't find it if you survive..." When he said searching for life, he meant looking for water. Li Guoan, born in 1946, joined the army from his hometown of Sichuan in 1963. This 17-year-old boy, who was very ordinary and ungodly, first served as a cavalry soldier in a certain unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Transferred to the newly formed Beijing Military Region Field Water Supply Engineering Regiment, which looks very imposing, and also lives in the border area of ​​Inner Mongolia. In January 1990, the burden of being the head of the water regiment suddenly fell on the shoulders of Li Guoan, who was in his 40s and was not tall or strong.After he became the head of the water supply engineering group, he studied professional theories assiduously and delved into hydrogeological knowledge before he became a professional expert in hydrology, geology, geophysical prospecting, and drilling.

The job task of the Water Supply Engineering Corps is to survey water source outlets for the war zone, in case the troops use it in peacetime and urgently need it in wartime.This determines that they must work and live in the northern frontier areas with harsh conditions all year round.During Li Guoan's tenure as head of the water supply engineering team for many years, in order to solve the draft problem that plagued the border guards and people, he moved to the vast grasslands and the vast desert Gobi, often trekking with heavy equipment.According to rough statistics, Li Guoan and the others traveled nearly 25,000 miles in this way, equivalent to the Red Army's Long March, and drilled more than 580 wells with various functions under various complex geographical and geological conditions.These sweet water wells, in the eyes and hearts of soldiers and civilians in northern Xinjiang, wear a long string of heart-warming and dazzling pearls.

Pearls are beautiful and dazzling, but many people don’t know that Li Guoan, who led the troops to polish pearls, suffered from lumbar spinal canal tumors. One-third of each of the three vertebrae in the lower waist was removed, leaving an unhealable bone socket.Wearing a steel apron 15 centimeters wide, he dragged his sick body all day long to conduct a comprehensive and detailed hydrogeological survey of the more than 8,000-mile frontier defense line in the northern border area.He and his comrades obtained more than 20,000 geological data of water sources, and completed a 220,000-word special report with engineers and technicians. They also surveyed 109 spare well locations, and completed a new census area of ​​more than 84,000 square kilometers. Repeated verification Completed the census area of ​​240,000 square kilometers, surveyed more than 4,000 water sources, collected more than 7,000 experimental samples, and built the first hydrogeological laboratory in the army, filling the gap of no hydrogeological data in the northern border of Inner Mongolia.

Li Guoan was awarded the honorary title of National Excellent Communist Party Member by the Central Committee, the honorary title of "Model Leader" by the Central Military Commission, and was rated as a scientific and technological personnel with outstanding contributions by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government.What is especially rare is that he was also hailed as the "Northern Water God" by the army and civilians in the border areas of Inner Mongolia.The word of mouth of the people is the most immortal.It is a great sacred thing to be called the god of water by the people.This is exactly the portrayal of his own spiritual state of "worthy of the party at the top and worthy of the people at the bottom".Today, he is no longer the head of the water regiment, but the former deputy commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region with the rank of major general, but he also said that he will spend his whole life working for the military and civilians in the border areas of Inner Mongolia, that is, seeking water benefits.

So I am willing to moisten my throat with the purest water and sing a carol for Li Guoan, who was named a god by the people in search of water. Li Guoan is the kind of cadre who "I am a brick of the revolution, and the party moves from east to west, from north to south". He has no special hobbies of his own, and he must think of what the organization asks him to do. In 1973, the battle of Zhenbao Island, which attracted worldwide attention, immersed the whole of China in a tense atmosphere of preparing for war for a long time.Under Chairman Mao's call to prepare for war, the major military regions in the north quickly formed field water supply engineering groups to measure water in preparation for the war.The cavalry, which has become less and less important in modern warfare, was naturally reduced, and the cavalry Li Guoan was selected and transferred to the newly formed but very important water supply engineering regiment of the Beijing Military Region.Which young warrior is not happy to be valued?Moreover, what he heard was Premier Zhou's instruction from his superiors to attach great importance to water supply in the war zone: "Be sure to find out the groundwater in the northern plateau of Inner Mongolia." How can you not pay attention to water?What's more, dear Premier Zhou directly values ​​the water in the future theater!

In such a newly formed team whose mission is to provide water, no matter who does what work, it is all related to water, and they are all fighting for water.Since then, Li Guoan's fiery heart and his own destiny are inseparable from water.Living in the desert and Gobi, he felt that he was living in water.Whether he was marching in the wind and sand in the Gobi or in the wind and rain in the grassland, he always felt like swimming in water.Especially through personal inspections, he deeply felt the people's thirst for water.What makes him even more sacred is that in 1990, the heavy burden of the head of the water supply engineering regiment of the Beijing Military Region fell on Li Guoan's shoulders. Since then, he sleeps every day as if lying in the water. Solve the water problem, and he will not be able to sleep well.

A certain border defense regiment located in the Alxa desert had to go 100 kilometers away to draw water.People who don't understand the military may be puzzled. The army is not like ordinary people who farm or herd. If there is no water in the station, can't you just change it?As everyone knows, where the troops are stationed is based on strategic needs. It is impossible not to station troops in strategic locations, not to mention that troops are indispensable in any section of the border defense line!With the troops stationed, there is no water but the only way to find water. Back then, the frontier regiment had an outpost, and he dug a well with picks and shovels at the station, but only half a bucket of water seeped out of that well a day, and it was bitter and astringent.The soldiers at the outpost who were accustomed to bitterness said: "If the people know that we drink bitter water, they will be sad. We must keep this secret." In order to keep it secret, they even named the well that oozes bitter water "Sweet Water Well".Therefore, the place of the outpost has a name on the combat map: "Sweet Water Well"!The pseudonym of Tianshuijing did not keep the secret of the soldiers eating bitter water for long, and it was later found out by Premier Zhou Enlai, who is always busy and meticulous.Premier Zhou was very emotional, and instructed the relevant leaders to solve the problem of the troops suffering as soon as possible.But at that time, it was during the Cultural Revolution, and the political, economic, and technical conditions were very limited, so Premier Zhou's instructions might not be implemented. For more than 20 years, the well has been cast once and for all, but the problem of the regiment's officers and soldiers suffering from hardship has not been completely resolved.

Not long after Li Guoan became the head of the water regiment, he tried his best to suggest to the regiment party committee, and the regiment party committee quickly made a decision to dig a few deep sweet water wells for the regiment.The head of Li Guoan quickly dispatched four highly skilled drilling companies and drove into the Alxa Desert. Suddenly one day, the generator used by the fourth company in continuous operations to power the drilling rig broke down, and many parts needed to be replaced.A call for help was made to the regiment headquarters more than 2,000 kilometers away.However, the required parts are not available in the water supply warehouse or the resident store.Li Guoan, who was staying up late at night, learned of this situation, and immediately summoned the sleeping government cadres and engineering technicians. After a brief mobilization, he sent three procurement teams that night to take trains and planes to Tianjin, Wuxi, Shanghai and other places to purchase parts.The rig was spinning again in the shortest possible time.Soon, the deep sweet water well was finally drilled.Li Guoan was so happy that all he dreamed at night was the dream of Tianshuijing.

As the saying goes, if you are not in charge of your family, you will not know the price of firewood and rice.I would say that without being a water expert you don't really know how expensive water is.In today's world, all countries are issuing warnings about water: cherish the source of life, save water!When any sensible person starts worrying about global warming, the destruction of the ozone layer, and other environmental pollution, they also start worrying about water.In ancient China, there was an idiom satirizing the country of Qi and worrying about the sky. Now, many foreign scientists predict that if the groundwater is not rationally developed and utilized, and every drop of water is not cherished and saved, the last drop of water on the earth will be the tears of human beings. .It is also predicted that in the 21st century mankind will face a crisis of water resources, and water may be the fuse of the next war.Li Guoan, who has become the head of the water supply engineering team, not only does not think this is unfounded worry, but also deeply worried: my country is a country lacking in water resources. Although the flow of rivers ranks sixth in the world, the per capita share of fresh water ranks first in the world. The 88th place, and the distribution of water resources is extremely unbalanced, and the water crisis has shown obvious signs in many areas.The grim reality often makes Li Guoan, the head of the regiment, fall into deep thought: without constant exploration into unknown areas, without training and improving the professional ability and knowledge level of the troops under difficult and complex conditions, the gap with the world's advanced countries will widen.He often sat at his desk until late at night, thinking and writing non-stop, and a thesis "Some Ideas on the Current Tasks and Future Trends of Field Water Supply Forces" was born.In order to find the breakthrough point of the work and correctly position the team's construction goals, Li Guoan repeatedly studied and analyzed the development and current situation of the team, the Gulf War, etc. as references, and organized engineering and technical personnel to jointly demonstrate repeatedly. born.

The goal of the whole regiment: to be the top of the arms, to create excellent technology. After a period of hard work, strive to achieve obvious results as soon as possible: the project quality is the most reliable record since the establishment of the regiment; the water supply equipment has reached the most advanced; the dedication of the officers and soldiers has reached the most excellent, and the annual output value has increased by 30%. Implementation plan: In three steps, the field water supply capacity of the troops will be within 720 hours, and the task of quickly forming wells in loose formations in all areas of the Beijing theater with a radius of 1,050 kilometers from Beijing as the center will be completed.

Then, Li Guoan divided all the work of the army into 6 objectives, and put the 11 majors, 14 types of work, 47 post responsibility systems and rules and regulations of the whole regiment into the track of process management, forming a heavy burden for everyone to shoulder. , Everyone has a water mark on their shoulders, and the whole regiment consciously contributes to the rich water in the theater. In order to become an expert and take the initiative in his work, Li Guoan humbly asked engineers and technicians for advice, worked hard to study professional theories, focused on continuous exploration in practice, and diligently summed up experience. Later, Li Guoan really became an expert in hydrogeology, no matter how complicated it was. No matter how difficult the formation is, Li Guoan can figure out a way to drill the well.Colleagues inside and outside the army praised him and said that as long as Li Guoan is around, difficulties will be easily solved.Li Guoan became a water expert in the minds of soldiers and civilians in northern Xinjiang. Hohhot Cement Plant is a large enterprise with an annual output of 250,000 tons of cement. In early 1992, it decided to expand its scale and double its output. Due to the decline of groundwater level, industrial water supply became more and more scarce.The factory decided to dig a deep water well to ease the contradiction of water shortage.Because the underground here is full of "big boulders" strata, several local well drilling teams successively invited bids to enter the factory, and finally returned disappointed. Not to mention that the wells were not drilled, even the drill pipes were stuck in the "big boulders" and scrapped. up.Later, the cement factory asked for help from the water supply engineering team headed by Li Guoan. At the party committee meeting of the regiment, Li Guoan said: "The Daqingshan Mountains stretch for hundreds of miles. This kind of formation can be seen everywhere. If the big boulders are not broken, not only will the draft and water of the troops and the people be affected, but it will also be impossible to complete future fortifications." The task of supplying water in the field of the army." He led the team into the cement plant, and the cadres of the cement plant watched the team with surprise and suspicion. Not long after starting the work, the hard boulder stratum showed a demonstration to them.The rig has appeared powerless.The leaders of the factory, the masses, and the construction officers and soldiers were all dumbfounded. The water god group led by Li Guoan didn't cast spells, did they? Withdraw or continue to fight, this is related to whether the Hohhot Cement Plant can expand the production scale during the rainy season, and there will be future!How can the PLA's water supply troops retreat where the two drilling teams left a record of failure? Li Guoan analyzed the situation with a heavy heart but calmly, and finally came to the conclusion: it is not that there is no way out. It is theoretically speculated that the only way to become a well here is to blast inside the hole.But blasting inside the hole is only possible in theory, but no one in the regiment or even the army's water supply unit has done it like this.After careful consideration, he made up his mind to find a breakthrough in this area. He couldn't use everyone's wisdom, so he organized a research team himself.If the research team can't do it, then invite capable people from outside, and personally invite blasting experts from the Beijing Military Region.The special blasting explosives for deep wells exploded in the deep hole of more than 160 meters. 102 consecutive in-hole blastings took 1.2 tons of explosives alone, and finally a high-quality water supply well with a daily water output of over 1,000 tons was drilled. This pioneering work filled the blank of our army's use of continuous blasting in the large boulder formation to form wells, so Li Guoan's name was spread a little mysterious in the local area. Since 1990, among the 259 wells drilled by the whole regiment led by Li Guoan, 58 wells were drilled in areas considered to be anhydrous, high in arsenic, high in fluorine, and in high cold areas.In an ethnic village on the outskirts of Hohhot, the villagers have been drinking bitter water with fluorine content seriously exceeding the standard for generations.They invited well-drilling teams to dig wells many times, but no sweet water came out.After Li Guoan knew the situation, he led his technicians to the site five times to investigate. Through accurate analysis of a large amount of hydrological data and the correct well-forming process, a high-quality drinking water well was finally drilled, ending the history of local people drinking bitter water. After years of hard study and practice, Li Guoan not only successfully completed the task of finding water and digging wells for the regiment, but was also hired as a part-time professor by the Engineering Command College, Engineering College and Nanjing Hohai University.The professor is lecturing, which shows that Li Guoan is not only good at doing it, but also good at explaining the theory he does. Most of the smooth sailing careers are not exciting and touching.Li Guoan's performance is touching, because he has encountered many misfortunes, and he has overcome all of them supernaturally, so his career level is always improving. When Li Guoan was working hard in the water supply business, unfortunately, he came to be his companion.He suddenly fell ill and collapsed.Of course, it doesn't happen in a day that everything is frozen three feet, and he does it so recklessly all day long, can his life not be awkward with him?The local hospital in Inner Mongolia suspected that he had a malignant lumbar spinal canal tumor.This frightened Li Guoan and the cadres and soldiers of the army. One evening when the temperature suddenly dropped to -20°C after heavy snowfall, an ambulance took Li Guoan to the platform of Hohhot Railway Station.Many people who sent off wept.They are worried whether the "Iron Man Commander" who has trekked through the wind, sand, rain and snow in the frontier for more than 20 years to find water and dig wells for the soldiers and civilians in the frontier will be able to return.Li Guoan on the stretcher was unconscious, with beads of sweat on his sandy face. People carried Li Guoan onto the train.This day is December 12, 1993.The Mongolian and Han compatriots in northern Xinjiang cannot do without their "water god".They and the officers and soldiers of the water supply regiment also hoped that Li Guoan would come back to benefit them. In Beijing, the People's Liberation Army General Hospital did its best to rescue the head of the water regiment.Professor Cheng Dongyuan, a famous neurosurgery expert, performed the operation himself. Li Guoan did not fall down, but a large part of the three vertebrae in his waist was removed, leaving a 10 cm long bone groove that could not heal.But the danger of his lower limbs and even his whole body being paralyzed exists. Li Guoan, who has been in the army for more than 30 years, has never been lying in bed like this, letting a group of people waste time that is more precious than water with him!But there was nothing he could do not to lie down in the hospital. Li Guoan, who was lying on the hospital bed, was thinking about his career, his team, and the draft problems of the soldiers and civilians in the frontier.He can lie comfortably only if he spends all his time lying on the hospital bed on the water, otherwise he will feel like lying in dire straits every day. During his three months in the hospital, he read more than 30 water conservancy monographs and wrote a thick book of reading notes.Li Guoan said: "After staying in the hospital, it is equivalent to entering a study class of the Water Academy, and I will have more confidence in solving water problems in the future." On April 2, 1994, just three weeks after Li Guoan was able to walk on the ground after the operation, he repeatedly begged the hospital to handle the discharge procedures for him.He wasn't ready to leave the hospital yet, but the hospital couldn't keep him.In order to support his unhealed waist, the doctor had to wrap a 15cm wide "steel belt" around him.Li Guoan was eager to return home. After he was discharged from the hospital, he only stayed at his home in the Beijing Military Region for one night, and someone sent him to take the train the next day. Li Guoan was helped down the subway station, and then struggled to climb to the ground. It took him nearly two hours to climb the 84 steps.Unexpectedly, just as he staggered to the platform, the train drove away.Looking at the leaving train, Li Guoan raised his head and let out a long sigh, complaining about his unsatisfactory legs. The wife knew Li Guoan well, lying on the hospital bed, he was her husband; walking back to the army, her husband was the head of the water supply team in the wilderness of northern Xinjiang.She went outside the station silently, bought a ticket for the next train to Hohhot that day at a high price from the ticket dealer, and helped her husband onto the train with a smile on her face. Back to the team that had been parted for 4 months, Li Guoan wished he could get back all the time he had spent in the hospital.He pretended to be fine, and seriously proposed to lead a team to investigate the hydrological conditions of the 8,000-mile border defense line in person, but was strongly opposed by other leaders and technical personnel in the regiment.Li Guoan became anxious and said: "I will be in charge of the business work in this area. If we don't start right now, after this season, we will have to delay for another year!" Everyone couldn't hold back him, so they had to agree.Every day, he asked the soldiers to hold him up to investigate and understand the situation.The familiar environment and faces made him excited, but the pain made him grit his teeth and sweat from time to time.Listening to the report, his hands were shaking so much that he couldn’t even hold his pen, he couldn’t sit for a while, his head was covered with sweat; he couldn’t bend over to go to the toilet, so he had to dig a big hole in a wooden chair... Several other regiment leaders I couldn't stand it anymore, and they all said, we're doing well, we're going, we're going! Professor Cheng Dongyuan from the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, who was giving lectures in Hohhot, had performed lumbar surgery on him. Hearing that he refused to listen to dissuasion and started desperately, he also rushed to the water regiment to persuade him: “It’s dangerous enough for a patient like you not to lie down in the hospital.” , and go to the border defense inspection, do you want to die?!" Li Guoan once again stated that his division of labor has been delayed. After this season, he will delay for another year. Tears came out when he said it.Who can bear the tears of a dignified leader!Professor Cheng had no choice but to remain silent. It is unimaginable how difficult it is to walk among the countless ravines in the Gobi Desert. How dangerous it would be for a patient with a wound and a steel belt around his waist to walk on such a road all day long.But Li Guoan resolutely sent six inspection teams, the most important of which was led by him personally. He led the expedition team to set off.The washboard roads on the grasslands and the gravel roads on the Gobi Desert brought suffering to Li Guoan, who was still recovering from his injuries, even he underestimated himself.In order to reduce the bumps, Li Guoan asked the driver to tie himself to the car seat with a backpack strap. Even so, his waist was still worn out time and time again.When passing through a mountainous area in central Inner Mongolia, the driver chopped off a dead poplar branch and let Li Guoan use it as a walking stick.When he arrived at a certain frontier defense company, the company commander saw that his crutch was only half left, so he pulled out a mop pole of the company and used it as a crutch for him.This mop stick accompanied him to survey the 1,500-kilometer border defense line in western Inner Mongolia.On the way, Li Guoan returned to the regiment for a meeting. The soldiers in the logistics carpentry class saw that his crutches were no longer in shape, so they made him a real crutch out of harder ash wood.Li Guoan used this crutch as a life-saving straw, carrying it all day long, and finished surveying the 1,750-kilometer border defense line in the east.This time, he trekked for 4 months, exactly equal to 4 months after he left the army for medical treatment.He traveled 24,800 miles with the inspection team, which was almost the course of the Red Army's Long March.On this difficult journey of thousands of miles, his waist was punctured again and again, and the sun was like fire. He sat in the steamer-like jeep, and the sweat and blood soaked his military uniform time and time again, and the military uniform stuck to the wound time and time again. In the dead of night, Li Guoan always gritted his teeth, dipped a brush into the medicine, and rubbed it drop by drop on the festering wound.Along the way, he used up 40 boxes of potions and threw away more than a dozen trousers stained with pus and blood... The driver Xiao Ma who drove for him burst into tears. Once, the car passed through the "Sea of ​​Death" of more than 200 kilometers in the Alxa Desert. Xiao Ma was so distressed that he couldn't drive anymore, so he fell on the steering wheel and cried.Li Guoan asked Xiao Ma what happened, Xiao Ma said, if this continues, you will lose your life, shall I send you back? Li Guoan comforted the pony, but didn't listen to him.They sent away the windy and sandy spring and the scorching summer together. Li Guoan endured the pain and sang his favorite song from time to time: "In the vast wasteland, search for it all your life, don't say you can't find it if you have a breath." arrive……" Li Guoan and his driver Ma Shisheng traveled ups and downs for 4 months. On the morning of October 24, when they walked towards the Yimuhe outpost in the easternmost part of Inner Mongolia against the rising sun, the officers and soldiers who guarded the card raised the national flag to welcome the two expeditioners.At this moment, the number displayed on the odometer is the same number of kilometers as the Red Army's Long March.Looking at the national flag on the border, Li Guoan burst into tears, and his eyes have become two newly dug wells. During the investigation, he broke three crutches and lost 10 kilograms in weight. Even the new jeep he just picked up before departure was beaten to pieces by the wind and sand. 4 were broken.However, to his relief, he accomplished something unprecedented: mastered the detailed distribution of water sources in the 8,000-mile frontier defense zone, wrote a 220,000-word special survey report on frontier hydrogeology, identified 109 well locations, collected 12 sacks of various agate stones built the first hydrogeological museum of our army.This is a big event to fill the gap in the country! Back at the regiment headquarters, the health team doctor checked Li Guoan's body and found that he had lost a full 10 kilograms. In 1995, Li Guoan was recommended as a candidate in the selection of the first top ten citizens in Hohhot.At that time, the relevant departments were worried: the other candidates were all well-known news figures in the city, so could a troop commander be elected?As a result, Li Guoan ranked third in the number of votes. The general public is well aware of this account: Li Guoan and his comrades made one out of every four bowls of drinking water in Hohhot.It was they who drank the bitter water all the way and found many sweet springs for them.Baiyinchagan means "a place with fertile water and grass" in Mongolian.But now, there is already a shortage of water and grass.The annual evaporation of up to 3700 millimeters and the precipitation of only 36 millimeters make the only shallow well in a hundred miles dry up, and even herdsmen and border police stations are forced to relocate.Since 1990, Li Guoan has led engineers and technicians to explore this barren beach many times, combing the 1500 square kilometers area.In midsummer, the high temperature of more than 50 degrees baked and deformed the rubber soles; in winter, the severe cold of minus 40 degrees was so cold that the mineral water could not be broken.When encountering strong winds, it can be pushed a few feet away by accident.But the derrick was erected, but the overworked Li Guoan fell ill again. The officers and soldiers fought day and night, wanting to say good news to the sick regiment leader as soon as possible.The water came out after drilling until 300 meters, but it was bitter water.In order to let the regiment leader recuperate at ease, the officers and soldiers covered in mud decided to hide the disappointing news first, and they were going to withdraw and talk about it later.The news still reached the hospital.Li Guoan was in a hurry. Regardless of the doctor's obstruction, he forced someone to carry him into the jeep to find Commander Meng of the local military division who was in a meeting. The wound had just healed when the car jolted, and Li Guoan couldn't sit still while hugging the back of the front seat in pain, beads of sweat dripped down.The driver wanted to turn around several times, but he pleaded, "Little Ma, I will collapse faster if you drive back!" When Li Guoan saw Commander Meng, he was taken aback.Without saying anything else, Li Guoan panted and said, "Baiyinchagan's drilling company must not be withdrawn. With such a long distance, it is easy to withdraw and then difficult to advance." Commander Meng sent people to go straight to the border defense day and night, and conveyed the order of Commander Li to the construction troops.However, Li Guoan had to be rescued for two consecutive days due to excessive exercise too early, wound deterioration, and incontinence... Li Guoan was always concerned about Baiyin Chagan, and he rushed there before he recovered from his illness.The strong wind of magnitude six or seven made the sky dark and dark, and he couldn't sit or stand upright, so he had to lie on the sand and command. After a long time, the disgraced regiment leader was like a pile of sandbags on the ground.Under his unrelenting supervision, the drill pipe went down day and night, and finally the water came out, but it was salty. This time, everyone was really desperate, and some cried with their heads in their arms.Li Guoan said: "Why are you crying? From out of water to out of bitter water, from out of bitter water to out of salt water, it means that we are making progress step by step!" It's really a poem to express his ambition. The frontier will not be returned. Now the Iron Spear is back to fight, and I don’t believe that there is Loulan under my feet!” He repeated the lyrics he loved to hum: “In the vast wasteland, search for it all your life, if you still have a breath, don’t say you can’t find it! "He personally guided the company to select the well location again, and finally drilled a sweet water well... Late one night, Li Guoan was disturbed by low back pain and couldn't sleep. A knock on the door called him out of bed.When I opened the door, I saw two old men who came from Tuanjie Village, Tuoketuo County, a hundred miles away. Their eyebrows and beards were covered with hoarfrost.They lived in a village where their ancestors were afraid of drinking bitter water. Last year, they managed to raise enough money to hire a well-drilling team, but they were still given bitter water. The two old men handed over a bulging cloth bag: "Captain Li, this is another little money collected by the whole village. We are too poor and can't afford more. Help us!" They poured all the money into the office. on the table. The money came in denominations of one hundred yuan, fifty yuan, two cents and one cent, and even five cents and two cents.Li Guoan's eyes suddenly turned into springs again, and tears filled his eyes.Early the next morning, he called several regiment leaders and went straight to Tuanjie Village with two old people.They saw that the villagers drank water containing a large amount of arsenic and fluorine for a long time. Many people lost their teeth at a young age. For such water, the villagers often fight over it.At a herdsman's house, Li Guoan scooped up a scoop of horse urine-like water and drank it in one gulp.He made a decision on the spot and said: We post money, but also let the masses drink sweet water! The sound of the drilling rig shook the entire village, and the whole village, old and young, sat around the drilling rig like watching a movie.The drill pipe was drilled to 285 meters and brought out a clam fossil said to be 3 million years ago. "It's a dragon egg, the Dragon King has appeared!" Some old people wanted to build a temple. The young man didn't believe it: "If there is a Dragon King, wouldn't you be drinking sweet water long ago?" No matter who appears, muddy water will emerge.The folks who are used to drinking the bitter water said: "Sweet is fine, and muddy is fine!" Li Guoan personally directed the continuous drilling for six days and six nights.On the morning of the seventh day, clear water gushed out.The old village with a history of more than 300 years can be turned over.The folks slaughtered pigs and sheep, and thanked the troops with the most solemn etiquette of the Mongolian and Han races.The troops quietly withdrew late at night.The villagers still chased to the head of the village and surrounded the soldiers.It wasn't until the village cadres did their work repeatedly that they gave way. This incident moved Li Guoan very much.He said at the Youth League Party Committee: "We can't wait for the masses to come to our door, and then help them solve their difficulties. We must really keep them in our hearts, and we should use the scales in the hearts of the masses to weigh everything we do. Because, we are The People’s Liberation Army under the leadership of the Communist Party!” Since then, each regiment leader has an additional notebook: which pastoral areas lack water, which villages have not completely improved the water quality, and which companies do not have adequate water diversion facilities.During the five years before and after that, the water supply group drilled 125 wells for the frontier.They dug the first water supply well for the Jinchuan Development Zone in winter, ensuring that the first development zone approved by the state to establish Hohhot achieved the goal of attracting investment; The city has since added vitality.There is a "single village" called Houyaozi, which married 13 daughters-in-law back then; Xidousuhao village increased its wheat production by 200,000 kilograms every year, and increased its income by more than 200,000 yuan... In order to express their hearts, grassland farmers and herdsmen successively contributed to the water supply group Seven monuments were erected, 125 pennants and more than ten plaques were presented.Wu Yunqimuge, deputy secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, said: "These monuments seem to be erected for Li Guoan and his regiment, but they are actually erected for the country and the people's army!" On February 14, 1995, Niu Maosheng, Minister of Water Resources, went to Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, for inspection.After getting off the train, Minister Niu said to the leader of the autonomous region who came to pick him up at the station: "I want to see someone first." The person Minister Niu wanted to see was Li Guoan, head of the Water Supply Engineering Corps of the Beijing Military Region.When he saw Li Guoan, he shook hands tightly and said, "This is the fourth time I've seen the report on TV about you digging wells to find water in northern Xinjiang. How did you find so many water sources in the Gobi desert and the forbidden zone of life?" When Minister Niu heard that in order to implement Chairman Jiang's entrustment of "not letting the soldiers and civilians in the frontier suffer", he drove 24,800 miles while sick, completed a 4,000-kilometer frontier defense full-line hydrogeological survey, selected 109 wells and collected a large number of crystals. , Agate Kistler, I was deeply moved and said: "Li Guoan, you are a steel frame. I thank you on behalf of the Ministry of Water Resources. What difficulties do you have in implementing Chairman Jiang's instructions?" Li Guoan told Minister Niu that to complete the election There is still a lack of funding for the 109 wells planned to be completed. After listening to Li Guoan's words, Minister Niu, who was born as a water conservancy expert, thought for a while and proposed that the Ministry of Water Resources, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region jointly complete this project plan. Soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups drilled 109 sweet water wells.Because it was a day in February 1995, the elated Li Guoan and Minister Niu jointly called the plan to be implemented the "952" project. In the spring of 1995, when the snow on the frontier had just melted, Li Guoan led the officers and soldiers of the water supply engineering regiment into the area west of the Ji [Jining] Second [Erlianhot] line, which opened the prelude to the first phase of the "952" project. This is the area where the construction conditions are the most difficult, the natural conditions are the worst, the ecological environment is the worst, and the military and civilians need water the most.All officers and soldiers of the fifth company who drilled wells at the intersection of Badain Jaran, Tengger, Ulanbu and the three major deserts encountered unimaginable difficulties.On the way to the transition, the convoy transporting the equipment fell into sand nests many times. Li Guoan and the officers and soldiers braved the high temperature of 50°C on the surface to unload and reinstall the equipment on the vehicle several times.Most of the materials and equipment are transported to the well position bit by bit by grabbing and digging. In mid-May, a huge desert storm swept across the land, and the construction workers were forced to lie on the ground. After the sandstorm passed, they got up with sand in their noses and ears. With the strong support of the Ministry of Water Resources, the "952" project is planned to be completed within 3 years. In the spring of 1996, Li Guoan led the officers and soldiers to launch the second phase of the "952" project.On October 1st of that year, the National Day, the "952" project was successfully completed.Since then, 109 high-quality water wells have been inlaid like strings of pearls on the 4,000-kilometer frontier defense line in the northern border of the motherland. At the grand ceremony for the completion of the "952" project held in Hailar, an exhausted Li Guoan said emotionally: "We can proudly report to General Secretary Jiang. It has come true!" It is impossible for a person who has no energy to be made a god by others. Li Guoan, who lost his father at the age of 4, was raised by his mother.After the mother retired, her greatest wish was to wait for her son to have a house and live with him.However, until the old man died, this wish was still not fulfilled.The three-bedroom house that the army had allocated to Li Guoan in Beijing was given up to his comrades in arms, and his wife and children lived in the collective dormitory; the suite prepared for him by the regiment was given up to others.After his mother fell ill, he took the old man to the hospital and wanted to show his filial piety, but he was so busy that he rarely had time to accompany him in bed, so he had to hire a nanny to take care of him. On April 24, 1993, Li Guoan suddenly received a call that his mother was critically ill. He rushed from the construction site to the hospital. The old man was dying.Seeing her son, the mother burst into tears, held his hand, and said weakly: "The business of the public is important. Mom won't blame you, and I won't... drag you down..." As the head of the water supply regiment, Li Guoan is worthy of the party and the people.As head of the regiment for 5 years, he led the water supply group to fight for 1.6 million kilometers. The water produced can provide water for 1.28 million urban population or 2.56 million rural population, and can raise 5 million cattle and sheep.They found water in the Gobi desert, which was considered waterless, and found drinking water in areas with high mineralization. They created a precedent for winter wells in my country north of 40 degrees north latitude, and filled the holes in the large pebble formation. The national blank of continuous blasting wells is as high as 95%; the frontier hydrogeological report he presided over was recommended to participate in the first prize of national scientific and technological achievements...all of which are called miracles in the history of water conservancy by experts .However, anyone who is familiar with Li Guoan knows that without the support of great spiritual strength, it is impossible.This spiritual support comes not only from the mother, but also from the wife.After Li Guoan became the head of the regiment, the husband and wife always lived apart, and the total time they lived together was less than 6 months. On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1993, his wife Guo Xiaoying rushed to the army with her son, hoping to spend a reunion year with her husband who hadn't been home for the Spring Festival in 14 years.Unexpectedly, her husband went to the well drilling site in Jinchuan Development Zone, Hohhot on New Year's Eve, and did not return home until late at night on the first day of the new year.初二一早，娘儿俩欢天喜地随李国安出去逛逛，三逛两逛，又逛到工地上……有段时间，儿子源源随父亲在部队驻地读书。学校的家长会，李国安都请别人代替。源源转学到母亲身边后，成绩一直上不去。孩子大了，看着爸爸常常为团里的子女考学、当兵跑前跑后，有个节日晚上，18岁的儿子郑重找父亲谈话：“爸，你再不管我，以后我就不是你儿子了！”说完扭头就走。李国安鼻子酸得差点没哭出声来。李国安做过医生，清楚自己8年前就时断时续地腰痛，从没抽空查一查，直到昏倒在工地上。他每年掌握着数百万元的审批权，每次外出却是以馒头干和矿泉水充饥，最多时一次带了5公斤馒头干。司机小马清楚记得，路过乌拉特后旗，团长请每人吃的两碗羊杂碎和3根油条，是西部找水两个月中最好的一顿饭。身边的同志给李国安粗算了一笔账，他接济团里官兵的钱，约有11000多元。 水利部曾奖给李国安1万元，让他好好补补身体。他自己又添上1000元，全部捐给了“希望工程”和军区幼儿园。钮茂生部长得知后，特意给他追加1万元，并明确规定，不能挪作他用。直到这时，他才还上了多年欠下的7000元债。35度边疆春秋，李国安向组织提出的唯一一次个人要求，就是在他住院那次，他恳求组织走走医院后门，准许他早日出院。他还好说这样一句话：“连西方的政客都鼓吹不要问国家给予了你什么，而要问自己为国家做了什么。咱共产党员干部，怎能向组织伸手？！”这样说来，李国安的神气的确还有很大一部分来自党的教育。李国安为党的事业寝食不安的奋斗精神，感动了许多人。水利部号召全国160万水利职工学习这位“穿军装的水利战士”。他的功绩被写进了内蒙古自治区的政府工作报告；他的事迹，被内蒙古京剧团改编成了京剧。京剧是更经久的口碑啊！ “要为老百姓谋一辈子水利！”这是已不再当给水团团长，但当上内蒙古军区副司令员和全国政协委员的李国安在全国政协会上说的。他说的利，是利益的利，是关于水方面的利益。 “内蒙古边境特困地区群众吃上干净的水了！”刚到全国政协十届五次会议的驻地，李国安委员就抑制不住兴奋地与其他委员分享这一喜讯。上年政协会上，李国安的一份《解决内蒙古边境特困地区吃水难的规划报告》，得到了国家有关部门的正式批复，580多万元专项资金拨付到位，内蒙古边境地区困难群众吃水难的问题正在得到改善。“虽然我不当给水团团长了，但我要给老百姓谋一辈子水利。”这位曾经感动中国的“模范团长”，他身上那种感人的水神精神，是没法熄灭了！自2003年3月成为全国政协十届委员以来，李国安先后参团或单独到20个省、自治区、直辖市考察调研，提出了20份提案，其中立案17份。李国安曾因患腰椎管肿瘤，下腰部3块椎骨各被切除了1／3，留下了一条无法愈合的骨槽。为了提交出高质量的提案，他仍像当年为边疆群众找水一样，围着那条15厘米宽的钢围腰，拖着病体在各地实地考察。《建议国家成立生态建设总指挥部》、《建议成立国家地下水保护中心》、《建议在“十一五”期间考虑增加一条南水北调西线调水线路》……这位昔日给水团团长提交的一份份与水有关的提案，每次都在会议上引起强烈反响。 除了关心水以外，他还关注和水有连带关系的生态保护问题。就他的一份《关于建立国家生态建设总指挥部的提案》，有网友在网上和他对话，问他：“你是当兵的，还是管生态的？现在军人也开始管环保，你能介绍一下你工作的职责范围吗？”那意思是说你一个当兵的管得太宽了吧！ 李国安回答说：“我首先是一个兵不假，但就如一个外科医生，必须得有内科基础，光会做手术不行。我们人民解放军保卫祖国，积极参加国家经济建设，而且有一些工作性质与地方有特殊联系的同志，多做些力所能及的工作，我觉得是好事。我们部队是吃皇粮的，不干额外的活也有工资，但我感到我有责任有义务干那些应该干的事，洪灾不也是生态灾难吗，从来没有听说解放军去抗洪是不应该的。生态建设更是这样，有急难险重的情况，特别是西部边疆这块很苦的特殊地方，更需要我们部队参与环境保护！” 接着他又应网友要求谈谈他最感兴趣的事情，他一下又谈到水：“没有水的保障干什么也不行，但是你也不能滥开采水，首先要查清地下的水资源，要把地下的水看成一个水银行，最好只用它的利息。什么意思呢？就是说你有多少水，不要用光了。另外，要多种树进行水土保持。种什么树又都得有水的保障。” 网友：“我看，一棵杨树就是一台抽水机，在沙漠上种树就是一台抽水机在抽水，你说这是不是在进一步破坏生态？” 李国安：“养小孩还要花很多的钱呢，但他长大后，你就很难想象他有多大的创造力。我们种树也是一样，一棵树长成以后，30米树冠的树，树根底下就会留住很多水，如果没有水，整个地区由于长期太阳强烈暴晒造成的干燥。像我们中西部地区，没有水的地方，挖下去几十米都是很干燥的，所以你要种树就要先给它水它才能存活。当然你不一定要种杨树，你要根据特点，而且不一定是马上种树，还可以考虑先种草，考虑先种灌木。所以，单独的抓住一棵树就是一个抽水机，那是片面。人也要吃饭呢，一切生命都有它的需要，不然就没有生命的存在。所以我们要想方设法解决困难，特别是合理地解决水的问题。人们常常说，这个世纪要为水打仗，我认为我们要争夺雨云，只要大海不干，自然界就会有水，让凝聚的雨云在我们这儿多下雨，靠什么来争夺雨云？就是要靠生态建设，改变气候，这种改变，必然最后要造福于全人类。人们常说，世界上有很多好的树砍掉了，有的地方忙着打仗，发动战争，老研究巨型炸弹，怎么杀人，怎么折腾，怎么破坏大自然的生态，而我们却在搞生态建设，连我们的军队都在参加生态建设，这就是我们的好。所以我就是要积极参加，用最合理的方法，最科学的方法，让雨云在我们生活的地域多下雨。 “今年北京的雨水很多，人们就很高兴了，但是我想也不能因为有几场雨水就放松对恶化的警惕，要长期坚持科学的生态观。” 网友：“您认为生态建设还应注意什么？” 李国安：“宣传教育工作在生态建设中有非常重要的作用。我常常想，过去我们都不理会，你吐一口痰，你没充分利用冲厕所的水和刷碗用的水等等，都是浪费，说严重点，也是犯罪呢！” 李国安就是这样一个言必称水，想终生为人民谋水利的军人。我祝愿他的精神之水永不枯竭！ 【刘兆林：中国作家协会主席团委员、辽宁省作家协会主席、辽宁省政协委员】