Jinjiawan is fifteen kilometers away from the headquarters of the garrison regiment, and half a month ago, the well in the village dried up.

Every morning, the villagers come back from a small ditch five miles away to meet their needs for the day.

The biggest headache for the big guy is that the small river ditch is about to run out, and the water in the puddle is getting less and less, and it looks like there is not enough for everyone to eat.

At the thought of this, everyone in the village looked sad, and the bucket of water that they had worked so hard to bring back was eager to be used as two buckets.

If this problem is not solved as soon as possible, at most, the small river ditch will be completely cut off, and it will be even more difficult for everyone to drink a sip of clean water.

At six o'clock in the morning, more than 100 people, men, women and children, either carrying buckets or wooden basins, gathered at the entrance of the village one after another, ready to go to the small river ditch to get water together.

For half a month, this happened every day.

At eight o'clock in the morning, men, women and children returned to the village one after another, and the families raised their cooking smoke and cooked with the water they had just picked up.

"Bang ......"

At ten o'clock in the morning, the big bell hanging at the entrance of the village suddenly rang, and in less than ten minutes, more than 100 people from the whole village gathered at the entrance of the village.

Captain Zhang of the guerrilla team is an old Balu, in his thirties, standing in front of everyone, carrying a Wang Ba box eliminated by the main force on his waist, and his left sleeve is empty, which is the mark left by him when he fought devils.

"Folks!" The captain was angry and shouted in his loudest voice.

"The superiors knew that the well in our village was dry, so they gave me an order to organize everyone to deepen the well."

"Our regiment commander said that as long as we continue to dig deep and dig to the groundwater level, the dry well will definitely come out again, and if it is not five meters deep, we will dig ten meters, and if it is not ten meters, we will dig fifteen meters."

"Captain Zhang, is this useful?" A middle-aged man stood up and questioned.

In their minds, the reason why there is water in the well is because the spring is dug.

Now that the water is gone, the spring must be dry, and it is useless to continue digging deeper.

As for the groundwater table mentioned by Li Hao, they had never heard of it at all, let alone knew about it.

Hearing some people questioning, there was immediately a wave of opposition below, believing that this was a waste of effort and a waste of money and labor.

Now is the leisure time of farming, as long as you don't do anything, half a catty of grain a day can ensure that you don't starve to death.

Once you start doing something, in the absence of oil and water, two catties of food a day may not be enough to eat.

Although there is some surplus food at home, it is not enough to eat two catties of grain a day.

Moreover, everyone has been dealing with the land all year round, and they have a vague feeling that this great drought will continue, but they have not said it.

If the drought continues, today's grain harvest will certainly be very low, and if it is not done well, there will be no grain harvest.

When the time comes, the little food stored at home will become life-saving food.

How can it be to spend a lot of life-saving food for a well that is almost impossible to get water out of? So everyone's first reaction is to refuse.

Captain Zhang had already guessed this picture and continued: "No matter what you think, I always believe in the words of our regiment leader. ”

"He said that if he continues to dig deep wells, if he can produce water, then he will definitely be able to produce water."

After speaking, Captain Zhang ordered the two subordinates not far away: "Bring things up......

Two large bales of grain, which had been prepared long ago, were carried in front of everyone by the two partisans and piled on the table.

Captain Zhang pointed to the grain bag and said.

"I decided to carry out the orders of my superiors and organize everyone to deepen the well in the village."

"There are 200 catties of grain here, which were prepared for us by the superiors, as long as we are willing to sign up to assist the guerrillas in deepening the well, a man will give two catties of grain a day, come and sign up now, and strive to start digging the well today."

Two catties of food is not much, but it is definitely no problem to ensure your own rations.

In this way, the family can save at least one person's food rations, and all they need to pay is strength.

Everyone is farming, and what can be done is strength, so as soon as Captain Zhang spoke, the thirty or so men in the crowd were moved......

More than a dozen people quarryed thousands of stones, more than a dozen people used the most primitive tools to cut stones, and when the time came, the stone walls of the wells were piled up and the wells were reinforced, and the rest of the people were responsible for deepening the wells and transporting the excavated soil.

For more than half a month, due to the lack of water, the village, which had always been lifeless, has become lively again!

On the first day, the well was deepened to a depth of eight meters, and there was no trace of water coming out of the bottom of the well, except that the excavated soil was wet.

Captain Zhang did not give up, and the next day spent a whole day reinforcing the well to prevent accidents.

On the third day, we continued to dig deeper......

At a depth of 10 meters, the well had not yet come out of the water, and the fighting spirit of dozens of people was being worn out little by little.

If it weren't for the remuneration of two catties of food a day, everyone would have gone back to their respective homes a long time ago.

On the fifth day, when the well was deepened to thirteen meters, the moist soil finally had traces of water.

"The water is out, and the bottom of the well seems to be coming out!" An exclamation came from the well.

Seeing that the soil brought up from the well was getting wetter and wetter, and there were some small droplets of water on it, the people on it also made a sensation.

At this time, without the encouragement of Captain Zhang, everyone's enthusiasm spontaneously increased!

By noon the next day, the water trail had slowly turned into a current......

Garrison regimental headquarters, Wang Hong rushed in with excitement, and one of the several problems that plagued his mind was finally solved.

"Captain, it's out of the water. You're right, even though we have a big drought here, the water table hasn't dropped too much, and they can get water out as long as we continue to deepen the wells. ”

"Ten villages have now received good news: the dry wells have been deepened and re-produced."

"With these successful cases, the villages do not need us to mobilize, and directly organize the villagers to deepen the wells by themselves!"

"If this momentum continues, at most half a month, the drinking water problem of the villagers in the base area can be completely solved."

This result was expected by Li Hao.

Decades later, the groundwater level in northern China will continue to drop year after year due to over-exploitation of groundwater.

Now the groundwater is not over-exploited, no, it should not have been exploited, and the groundwater level must be very high.

As long as the well reaches the water table, the water will be fine.

looked at the political commissar and replied with a calm face: "The problem of draft has been solved, and then it is the turn to solve the problem of water shortage for growing food." ”

"In the past few days, I have calculated that if there is no tax in the base area this year, more than 30% of the fields need to be planted with grain, and a small harvest can ensure that the villagers can barely survive this great drought."

"But less than 10 percent of the fields near the river have been watered."

"This means that we have to solve the problem of water shortage in at least 20% of the fields, and only by planting all of them with grain can the villagers have preserved grain and fruit after the autumn harvest and not be starved to death."

"As for the food needed by the troops and local government workers, part of it depends on us to be self-sufficient, and part of it is purchased from outside, and we must not increase the burden on the villagers at this time."

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