On March 21, 1985, an ordinary day occurred that shocked the whole country. Du Xinli, 20, and Wang Zhongrong, 19, jointly created the 3213 torpedo boat incident. The incident killed 6 crew members and injured 2 on board the torpedo boat. After this case occurred, it immediately attracted the attention of the central authorities. After killing their comrades-in-arms, the two murderers fled to South Korea together in an attempt to escape domestic sanctions.
3213 Torpedo boat incident
Then, why did Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong do things that killed their comrades-in-arms? After they fled to South Korea, what kind of negotiations did China and South Korea make? What is the final outcome of the two traitors?
On 21 March 1985, we prepared for maritime military training on that afternoon. Soon the time came to the set time. The Torpedo boat No. 3213 of the 61st Brigade of the 1st Detachment, as the training command boat, together with 5 other speedboats, traveled from Qingdao Military Port to the Surface of the Yellow Sea for training.
Du Xinli, 20, and Wang Zhongrong, 19, participated in the training together as telecommunications soldiers and electric aviation soldiers of the 3213 torpedo boats, respectively. The sea was calm and the waves were calm, but there was an undercurrent surging inside the torpedo boat, but until the return voyage, except for Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, the two murderers, the warriors of the torpedo boat, no one knew what would happen next.
At 7:20 p.m., the military exercise ended smoothly, and the six torpedo boats participating in the training that day returned one after another, behind the torpedo boat No. 3213, and the remaining five torpedo boats returned one after another under the guardianship of no. 3213.
Torpedo boat No. 3213
Acting captain Zhang Xiaosheng looked at the situation and confirmed that the five torpedo boats were slowly returning, and then he also ordered them to drive back. At this moment, Du Xinli, a telegraph soldier, also began to act. He walked over to The Electric Aviation Soldier Wang Zhongrong and quietly gave him a look.
When Wang Zhongrong took a look, he immediately understood. The two men took advantage of the fact that the others were not paying attention, and secretly walked to the place where the guns were stored in the torpedo boat, and Wang Zhongrong let the wind blow and Du Xinli took the gun. Du Xinli took out a submachine gun and a pistol from the gun cabinet, then locked the gun cabinet and handed the pistol to Wang Zhongrong, who was watching the wind. This set of movements is flowing, so that people can see that they have been practiced many times.
This is really true, Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong have indeed practiced many times in private. As early as mid-January 1985, the two began secretly planning a hijacking boat to defect. The reason for this is that they cannot withstand the temptation of the Taiwan authorities on the other side of the sea.
Since Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan, cross-strait relations have become very tense. For some time after the founding of New China, it always wanted to reunify Taiwan by force, but for various reasons, the final plan for reunification by force did not succeed. Since they were not able to do so, the central authorities decided to send a letter to greatly encourage Taiwan businessmen to come to the mainland to invest and encourage the Taiwan people to visit their relatives on the mainland.
The Taiwan authorities took advantage of this and quietly sent spies to pretend to be ordinary Taiwan people and go to the mainland to engage in "plotting rebellion." At that time, the "Taiwan businessmen" who were brightly packaged were very attractive to the mainland people who were still under construction. The "Taiwan businessmen" played by these spies have openly and covertly brainwashed the ordinary mainland masses.
Before Du Xinli, who was poor in his family, joined the army, he was very attracted to these so-called Taiwan businessmen. After graduating from high school, Du Xinli chose to join the army in order to change his fate. Soon after, Du Xinli was assigned to the first detachment of the North Sea Fleet, where he held the position of telecommunications corps.
It was precisely this position that gave Du Xinli more access to the Taiwan authorities and further laid the foundation for his subsequent rebellion. Du Xinli's task, the telecommunications officer, is to be responsible for communication and liaison, and to carry out communication interference and counter-interference.
Driven by his past impression of the glamorous and beautiful impressions of "Taiwan businessmen," Du Xinli often took advantage of his position to secretly listen to radio stations in Taiwan. At that time, in addition to broadcasting some entertainment life, Taiwan radio stations would also broadcast a large number of "rebellion" news with financial temptations, such as the mainland air force piloting the J-7 defection reward of 7,000 gold, the J-6 reward of 5,000 two, and the navy and army also had different rewards.
The more Du Xinli listened, the more his inner desire expanded, coupled with the hard training of the People's Liberation Army, he finally did not resist the temptation and decided to defect. At the same time, Wang Zhongrong, another "protagonist" of the 3213 incident, also had the same idea as Du Xinli.
Born in Jiangsu Wang Zhongrong, his father is a miner, the whole family relies on the salary earned by his father's mining, Wang Zhongrong was a child, he can often see, between the mainland and Taiwan "Taiwan businessmen", strong contrast, Wang Zhongrong has a great sense of inferiority, as well as yearning.
This feeling of inferiority and yearning has been subconsciously influencing Wang Zhongrong. After joining the army as a soldier, Wang Zhongrong was also assigned to the first detachment of the North Sea Fleet and became a comrade-in-arms with Du Xinli. However, Wang Zhongrong's position is not "telecommunications soldier", but "electric aviation soldier", mainly responsible for controlling the navigation instruments on ships.
From the day Wang Zhongrong and Du Xinli became comrades-in-arms, Du Xinli found that Wang Zhongrong was like himself, and whenever the naval superior mentioned Taiwan, the yearning in Wang Zhongrong's eyes would be unconsciously revealed. Therefore, when Du Xinli had the idea of defecting, he found Wang Zhongrong and told him a lot of advantages of defection, and over time, Wang Zhongrong was also moved, and the two of them immediately agreed and decided to defect.
Before defecting, the two men made a lot of preparations, including the time of defection and the defection route. After some discussion, the two finally decided to defect and then go to South Korea and then from South Korea to Taiwan. As for the reason why they chose to travel from South Korea to Taiwan, one is that the torpedo boat has not enough range, so they can only go to South Korea first, and the other is because there have been precedents for defection before, such as on October 16, 1982, Wu Ronggen flew a MiG-19 fighter jet from Shandong to South Korea, and finally defected to Taiwan.
Wu Ronggen
From these two aspects, choosing from South Korea to Taiwan is the most perfect way. So Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong planned a two-month plan, which was implemented on March 21. After the two men got the gun, they immediately ran to the deck, ran wildly toward the operation room, kicked open the door of the operation room, completely forgot the old comradeship, and the machine gun "suddenly" shot at the comrades in the cabin.
This kind of unexpected thing, the comrades in the operation room had no way to predict, the acting captain Zhang Xiaosheng was first shot and killed, followed by the five other cadres in the operation room, deputy captain Zhang Weigong, and chief engineer Qu Zhenbo were seriously injured and unconscious.
After hearing the gunshots, the other crew members wanted to subdue Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong with guns, but the gun cabinets had long been locked, and the unarmed crew could only be controlled by Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong. The two traitors then changed the course of the Torpedo Boat No. 3213 and headed for the west coast of South Korea.
On the other side, half an hour after the other five torpedo boats returned, they also noticed something was wrong, because no matter how they contacted the 3213 torpedo boat, there was no response. In an emergency, the North Sea Fleet turned on its radar to search, only to find that the Torpedo Boat No. 3213 was heading in the direction of South Korea.
Judging from the route of the traitors fleeing in previous years, it was obvious that someone was going to defect. So they asked their superiors for instructions and sent three warships to pursue them immediately. Speaking of Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, because they were not familiar with the operation of torpedo boats, they did not drive to South Korea for a long time.
Nine hours later, the fuel of the torpedo boat ran out, the torpedo boat could only drift at sea, and Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, who had not considered this situation at all, began to be afraid, and they knew that if they could not escape, they would be sentenced to death.
In a hurry, the two men sent a flare in an attempt to provoke Korean ism, but to no avail. Just when their hearts were dead, the torpedo boat actually drifted down the ocean current to the small Black Mountain Island in the waters of South Korea. At first, when the South Korean side found the torpedo boat, it thought it was a North Korean spy ship, but it did not dare to get close, but only reported the news to the South Korean guard.
After receiving the report, the garrison immediately began to deal with it, and since the torpedo boat was no longer powered, the garrison towed the 3213 ship to the southwest coast of Lower Wangdeng Island to anchor.
At the same time as the South Korean garrison was operating, three of our warships also came to the vicinity of Little Black Mountain Island in South Korea. At that time, because China and south Korea had not yet established diplomatic relations, and China did not recognize South Korea as an independent country, it did not recognize that the sea area near Little Black Mountain Island was owned by South Korea, so it chose to enter Little Black Mountain Island.
However, South Korea does not think so, he believes that this is its own sea, so when the South Korean side found out, it immediately sent more ships and also sent an air force to deter. When our three warships saw the South Korean movement, they immediately reported the situation to their superiors.
When the superiors learned of this, they immediately ordered all the ships to move, and the air force also provided support, seeing that a diplomatic incident was about to happen. In this case, the South Korean side is aware of China's resolute attitude.
So under pressure, the South Korean side sent a message to our side, saying that it would deal with it properly, and after investigating the situation, it sent the members of the 3213 torpedo boat back to China. After receiving the news, our country agreed to the ROK's approach, and as a sign of sincerity, our side withdrew beyond the ROK's territorial waters.
Subsequently, the South Korean side began to investigate the incident, and when it was learned that this was just a simple rebellion within the Chinese army, the South Korean side did not pay too much attention to it, and only asked the names and positions of the members of the ship.
Soon after, Han Convenient sent Zhang Weigong and Qu Zhenbo, two injured people, to Gunsan Hospital for rescue, and the remains of the fallen members were also sent to Gunsan Hospital. As for Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, they were placed at the Gunsan Tourist Hotel. As soon as the two traitors set foot on South Korean territory, they laughed and closed their mouths, thinking that they had successfully defected, but it turned out that they still laughed too early.
After they found out the truth of the matter, they have been taking pictures of the internal structure of the 3213 torpedo boat with a camera, leaving it for future intelligence analysis data, and at the beginning promised to repatriate our country.
We waited for a long time, and we didn't see any movement from Korea, so we urged it over and over again. However, south Korea was bent on obtaining the manufacturing technology of torpedo boats, coupled with the support of the United States, and did not pay attention to our urging at all, and has been delaying the repatriation time.
Unable to bear it, our side once again dispatched warships to deter. When The Korean side saw the situation, his attitude immediately softened. Subsequently, after discussion between the two sides, it was decided to repatriate on the 25th. On the 26th, South Korea sent the remains of the victims, as well as the wounded and several survivors, to the 3213 torpedo boat.
At 00:00 on the 27th, Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, who were dreaming of flying yellow tengda, were called up from bed by security personnel, and then let them change into the uniforms of the South Korean garrison. Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, in the face of this sudden move, looked panicked and asked in a loud voice, "Where are you going to take us?" ”
The South Korean personnel did not answer, but ordered them to put on their clothes with a cold face, and then escorted them to the car and sped away in the direction of the port. The two traitors looked at the familiar scene on the road and finally realized that they were about to be repatriated to the mainland. The two men had an instant nervous breakdown and cried and begged the South Korean guards to spare their lives.
The South Korean side ignored it and escorted the crying traitor to the 3213 torpedo boat. After a 12-hour voyage, the South Koreans and torpedo boats finally reached the rendezvous point, where China had been waiting for a long time. After the three Chinese navy personnel boarded the information to confirm the information with the South Korean side, they immediately began to hand over, and the whole ceremony atmosphere was very friendly.
After an hour and a half of handover, the ceremony was successfully completed. At this time, Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong were even more panicked in their hearts, crying bitterly one after another, begging the People's Liberation Army not to kill themselves. The People's Liberation Army looked at these two traitors with disgust on their faces, and they did not deserve sympathy at all for such a traitor who mutilated their comrades-in-arms!
After returning home, the soldiers who were brutally killed were mourned. Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong, two traitors, were tried by a military court and eventually sentenced to death to comfort the sacrificial fighters. In any case, traitors who betray their compatriots in the motherland will only be left behind for thousands of years.