She is the "champion" of the science department of the college entrance examination in Heilongjiang Province, and she entered Peking University in the face of the envious eyes of everyone; she is a master's student guaranteed by Peking University, but she is also a "fragrant feast" who gave up high-paying enterprises and went abroad for further study, and turned around and threw herself into the embrace of the People's Liberation Army.
Then, she was the youngest researcher in the Research Team of the Second Artillery Corps, the first female general in the history of the Second Artillery, and a female warrior who connected the weapons command system of the whole army and woven a huge "Chinese sword network" for the information-based strategic missile units.
She is Li Xianyu, the chief engineer of a research institute under the Second Artillery Equipment Research Institute, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Lee Hyun-wook
They all said: "War makes women go away", she was unbelieving, and with hard work, data and results, she loudly declared: "I changed this sentence to a word, called 'war let women come'!" ”
For 31 years, she has been fighting on the journey of the information-based strategic missile unit and has not dared to stop for a moment.
Peking University graduated from high school, but chose to join the army
There was a saying circulating on the Internet that someone surveyed 124 college entrance examination winners in various provinces across the country from 1977 to 2009 and found that none of them could be called the pioneer leaders in their respective career fields.
Inside and outside the words, it is implied that the "good students" who are envied by everyone only know theory and do not understand practical work, and are full of the decay of "the college entrance examination is the peak".
This investigation includes today's protagonist, Li Xianyu.
In 1982, Li Xianyu entered Peking University with the outstanding results of the Heilongjiang Provincial Science Department and conducted the next four years of "practice" in the Department of Radio Electronics. Like those young people who won various awards in the fields of national defense, military, and electronic research in their youth, theoretical knowledge that is difficult for others to ascend to the sky has become a source of fun for them.
The four-year undergraduate life was naturally smooth sailing, the blessing of wisdom and mind, and the characteristics of seriousness and diligence were combined, and Li Xianyu won the first research place in the class and successfully carried out the second stage of academic study.
In July 1990, Li Xianyu held the master's degree certificate of Peking University and walked out of the school.
At another major fork in his life after the college entrance examination, Li Xianyu chose to become a member of the People's Liberation Army and came to the mysterious Second Artillery Unit.
Facts have proved that the melon-eating masses in the 1990s were no different from today.
The unknown voice chirped and mixed: "China Science and Technology Parks have thrown olive branches to her, is it not good to sit and make money?" How tiring it is to be a soldier! "Such a good result, obviously can still be guaranteed to send abroad, returnees, rare species." "So highly educated, stay in school!" More suitable for girls, the environment is simple to live without tiredness. ”
But for Li Xianyu, these are too realistic. Heaven has endowed himself with a clever brain and the ability to deal with complex theoretical knowledge, so using his talent to make money is really a bit of a tyrannical thing for Li Xianyu.
Standing on the fork in the road from graduation, Li Xianyu remembered the topic he studied in graduate school, China's mysterious strategic missile unit.
At the same time, US President Roosevelt's words, "Speak in harmony, but you must hold a big stick in your hand" clouded and sounded in her ears at an appropriate time. A heroic spirit rushed straight from Dantian to the door of her head, and she thought: Under such hegemony, China must have its own "big stick"!
After some understanding, she realized that her profession was simply tailor-made for the Second Artillery Corps!
In this regard, Li Xianyu resolutely abandoned all the established success laws of the world, firmly threw himself into the road of serving the country from the military, and chose the one that pointed to "ideals" and "countries" at the fork in the road.
Hard work is the only way to explain mistakes
So, is Li Xianyu, who came to the Second Artillery Corps, really as the Internet survey said, empty of theoretical foundations, but lack of practical ability, and his lifelong achievements only stop at the college entrance examination?
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In fact, as early as 1991, Li Xianyu achieved the goal of the so-called "leading figure", and as the youngest scientific researcher of the Second Artillery, she became the main force in realizing "developing her own 'big stick' for the motherland".
In 1990, Li Xianyu would enlist in the army and need to be sent to the grass-roots units for training, which can also be said to be an internship. Queue training, standing guard and sentry, these as the basic skills of the soldier, she can not fall behind, at the same time, but also have to take care of the phone duty.
Li Xianyu has done a good job of psychological construction early on, she understands that queuing and standing guard, this is the basic skill of being a soldier, even if she joined as a scientific research talent, she always reminds herself: "You are a soldier first!" ”
Correspondingly, these dirty and tiring tasks that made the female soldiers complain about it became a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning in Li Xianyu's eyes.
On the contrary, the extremely normal situation in the eyes of those other female soldiers has become a fact that makes Li Xianyu very mad.
That is, the extremely backward mode of operation and command of the troops can be summarized into twelve big words: "Communication basically depends on roaring, and command basically relies on hands."
As a master's degree graduate of Peking University who has realized and implemented the modernization of the troops, reality has simply hit Li Xianyu head-on, and the blow is not insignificant.
She looked at the poor status quo of the troops, and whenever she thought about the fact that "I have learned eight years of modernization construction, there is no use here," her heart will shrink violently.
After a year of decentralization internship, Li Xianyu was so distraught that she submitted an application for a job transfer.
According to Li Xianyu's own recollection, she stood at a fork in the road when she chose to work a year ago, when she chose to join the army without hesitation, and did not expect that in just one year, she would stand at the fork in the road of life again, thinking about where to go. She really didn't want to wear a military uniform!
Fortunately, just as Li Xianyu hesitated, the Second Artillery Corps launched a scientific research project, intending to invest in the development of a new automated combat command system. The director understood Li Xianyu, looked at her transfer report, and told her: "You are expected to become a member of the scientific research team." ”
Lee Hyun-yu (right)
A project, a piece of news, once again illuminated Li Xianyu's military life.
In this way, Li Xianyu stayed in the Second Artillery and became the youngest technical staff member in the research and development team of the automated combat command system.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the great practice of Marxist thought in China. Correspondingly, to aim at the world's first-class and make a command system that conforms to the operation ecology of the second artillery, Li Xianyu cannot just press Tu Suoji. Scientific research requires innovation, and innovation also comes from hard work.
Li Xianyu's research task is to achieve synchronous simulation reproduction, which involves two innovative tasks: building an overall network and realizing real-time data transmission. As a result, tasks such as connecting lines, adjusting machines, drawing drawings, and collecting data overnight formed Li Xianyu's next two years of life.
Finally, the system is taking shape!
The leader was very excited, and immediately launched a real combat exercise, carrying chairs and sitting in rows, half appreciating and half inspecting to watch the actual results.
Unexpectedly, this stall had an accident.
The field launch failed, the launch was interrupted, and on the synchronizable analog display, the emission trajectory was not interrupted and continued to extend forward.
The first was furious and threw down the sentence "Cheat!" Fight a fight, but you have to lose your head! He left the table in anger.
Li Xianyu was not a superwoman in the end, and she covered her face and cried.
Originally, the scientific research technology at that time could not achieve the synchronous simulation of the whole section, and after the shell was fired, there was a gap period of 20s on the simulator. Li Xianyu did something bad in good faith, and pre-composed a trajectory map of a shell launch in an attempt to make up for a large gap period, but the launch of the shell was interrupted...
However, Li Xianyu knew that crying was meaningless except to vent a momentary anger, and the explanation was still meaningless except for the unexpected consumption of tongue and energy. Only by doing practical things and making results is the correct way to wash yourself and redeem your mistakes.
I don't know how many days and nights have passed, Li Xianyu has always stuck to the laboratory, rushing to develop an automated combat command system that can be fully put into use.
Kung Fu pays off, and in 1995, the system was born. This time, the superiors asked the second artillery to conduct a missile launch drill into a certain sea area. Under the control of the new automated combat command system, six missiles successfully completed the launch mission.
The missile fell and splashed, and in the hearts of the people who were waiting to see, they stirred up quite a few ripples. This set of systems can be said to be the "landmark project" of the whole army that has created a precedent for the informatization of China's strategic missile forces.
In this way, Li Xianyu used hard work to give a satisfactory explanation for his mistakes.
Skillful weaving of "sword net"
The second-gun automated combat command system that Li Xianyu participated in developing won the second prize of the whole army's scientific and technological progress, which not only became the "symbol project" of the whole army, but also exchanged Li Xianyu for the "medal of honor" of third-class merit.
Since then, Li Xianyu has become a hit and laid his own foothold in the construction of informationization in the military. However, for Li Xianyu, researchers are always on the road. She did not smug herself because of this, but stayed down-to-earth and continued to attack the stronghold. She has always paid attention to the process of informationization construction in the military and contributed to it.
Fast forward to the beginning of the century, the year 2000 that everyone is looking forward to. At that time, Li Xianyu was already able to take on the big responsibility alone, and he would become the chief engineer of a research institute. The process of the army's informationization construction has also pushed forward a big step, and many more high-tech equipment have been produced.
Coinciding with a military exercise, at this time, there have already been many sets of information-based command systems put into use, but during the course of the exercise, the commanders are still frowning and bitter, constantly chanting: "One model and one sample."
It turned out that with the increasing abundance of weapons and equipment models and the diversification of the corresponding conventional missile installation units, each set of missile equipment has basically developed a command system that can be smoothly put into use.
However, the problem is that in the same exercise, the major units participate together, but there is only one commander, and the operation of the various command systems is very different, and when they are put together for command, they cannot form a unified and integrated command system, and can only be operated separately in a hurry.
In the words of the commander, it is blind to these high-tech equipment.
If the commander's words were a small knife, the knife was pierced into Li Xianyu's heart socket, fast and fierce, and the knife saw blood.
Li Xianyu personally experienced the Gulf War, and she knows very well that the military's weapons and equipment research still has to follow the international situation. Completely overturning the traditional mode of warfare since World War II and turning to the Gulf War of high-tech warfare and information warfare, allowing Li Xianyu to see the future research direction, but also making her aware of the gap between China and high-tech powers.
As a researcher on automated equipment, a quote from the commander in the exercise provided her with direction for improvement.
The original purpose of the so-called informatization is to put everything into the "network", form a system, form a system, and achieve the purpose of simply and effectively transmitting information.
Therefore, after returning to the office from the exercise site, Li Xianyu's mind predetermined an information network connected by the command system.
In the course of the following research, Li Xianyu also considered that the reason why the command system could not be connected as a whole was because of the derailment of scientific research and practical application. Therefore, in the process of this research, Li Xianyu and his subordinate team members walked through the missile units and launch positions of the Second Artillery, exchanging experiences with the soldiers in order to obtain the most authentic feedback data.
The scientific research process is extremely arduous, and it is common to pick up the lights and fight at night, and it is also necessary to test the experimental data.
Once, Li Xianyu and his team came to the vast Gobi Desert in the northwest to conduct data research, and the dizziness and discomfort caused by the hot weather were just a small matter, the most head-wrenching, and even some scalp tingling were the mosquitoes here.
Mosquitoes are extremely vicious, data measurement need to stay outdoors all day, accept the 360-degree sun without dead angle exposure, but also have to endure the mosquitoes' "blood-sucking baptism". At the end of a full day of detection work, Lee Hyun-yu was always stung by a bag. In addition, the Gobi is inconvenient to use water, there is no place to take a bath, and the itch is unbearable.
But Li Xianyu always stood up without a word.
The officers and men of the unit could not bear to see her tortured by this, and suggested that she change a male comrade to collect data, but Li Xianyu gritted his teeth and insisted, and he must do it himself. During the trip to the Northwest Gobi, Li Xianyu collected the valid data he needed before leaving.
Back at the Institute, it was still non-stop research. Fortunately, after more than three months of hard work, a new system was born that unified all previous command systems.
The scientific research work is also rigorous, after the initial research and development of the system, Li Xianyu took the team to start the experimental work without stopping.
In order to avoid the first mistake in her scientific research career, Li Xianyu specifically selected those complex and harsh environments as test sites. After experiencing the sweltering heat, and having to experience extreme cold and heavy snow to close the mountain, she took advantage of the closure of the mountain and stayed with the scientific research team outside the Cyprus for more than three months to complete the final experimental debugging.
Finally, the command system network woven by Li Xianyu was fully completed and put into the missile launch exercise.
In the "Chinese military tent", the commander clicks the mouse, and on the battlefield, various types of weapons and equipment are accurately attacked under unified command towards the pre-set target.
Li Xianyu's "sword net" passed the "trial" perfectly.
The commander of the Second Artillery took Li Xianyu's hand and said excitedly, "This weak woman can reach our seven missile brigade commanders!" ”
Just as the chief of the Second Artillery Said, Li Xianyu is only a weak woman, no more than others, one more arm, or one more brain, all the scientific research achievements she has made are inseparable from hard work.
It is also hard work, the seemingly difficult task, split into a step, as long as you are down-to-earth, step by step, then you will be able to piece together the desired results.