He was the founder of our military's communications cause, and after his death, Ye Shuai personally presided over the funeral for him
In 1930, during the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the central base areas, the Red Army not only captured Zhang Huizhen alive, but also gained a leading figure who defeated the enemy and defeated the "mysterious weapon" -- a person who was called the "founding father" of communications work by the chairman.
In the revolutionary struggle that followed, he became the enemy's nightmare, repeatedly deciphering the enemy's important information and continuously transmitting the command information of our army. In the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign that "swept through a thousand armies like a sweep," in the divine stroke of the four crossings of the Red Water, in the overwhelming war of liberation, in the mysterious air battle in which "bamboo poles knocked down planes" ... He has done many miracles.
He was Wang Yi, the founding lieutenant general who had successively served as director of our army's communications department and deputy chief of the general staff.
On July 3, 1909, Wang Yi was born in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, to an ordinary peasant family, at the age of seventeen, he graduated from the Suzhou Industrial College with honors, and then was admitted to the sixth communications department of the Huangpu Military Academy, and after graduation, he joined the Fourth Division of the Second Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, serving as the radio station director and director of the divisional headquarters, and then entered the Eighteenth Division, which was "suppressing the communists" in Jiangxi, responsible for radio stations.
In October 1930, the Red Army won the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, capturing Zhang Huizhen, commander of the Kuomintang 18th Division, alive, and accidentally capturing an enemy radio station.
Saying that it is a radio station can only be regarded as "half", because the transmitter of the radio has been smashed, and only one receiver has been retained.
Guo Huaruo, who had been a student of the fourth term of the Whampoa Military Academy and the chief of staff of the Red Army, noticed that among the captives was his classmate Wang Yi at the Whampoa Military Academy, and immediately recommended this rare telecommunications business leader to his superiors.
Because of Wang's arrival, the Red Army has since established its own radio station.
At that time, the Red Army and the revolutionary base areas were divided and surrounded by the Kuomintang troops, located between poor mountains and bad waters, and the transmission of information was all delivered by cavalry, so that many important battles were lost due to poor communication.
The arrival of Wang Yi and this half of the radio station effectively solved this problem.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Yi, then director and political commissar of the Third Bureau of the Central Military Commission, established a total of 8 strategic radio networks in Yan'an to meet the needs of the all-round War of Resistance, and undertook the liaison network of the Central Military Commission of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas, as well as the coordinated liaison network of the Kuomintang Military Commission and the Friendly Neighbor Theater. ”
In the War of Liberation, it was precisely through radio communications that the central leaders gained insight into the overall situation, strategized, and won a decisive victory over thousands of miles, commanding the largest battlefield in the country with the smallest command.
After the liberation of the whole country, Wang Yi's contribution was even greater, and the more famous one was "bamboo pole stabbing the plane".
In 1964, at a Chinese and foreign press conference organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a foreign reporter asked: "Your country has recently shot down the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the United States in a row. ”
Mr. Chen said with great humor: "We stabbed him down with a bamboo pole." ”
Everyone knows that the bamboo pole can't poke the plane, it's just a kind of diplomatic wisdom and humor.
The actual situation is that in the early 1960s, US-made U-2 aircraft repeatedly violated China's airspace and carried out aerial reconnaissance activities.
From March to September 1963, enemy planes penetrated deep into China's hinterland for reconnaissance and flew into the ambush sites of China's surface-to-air missiles three times, but China's surface-to-air missile units repeatedly failed to hit, which aroused the urgent attention of the central authorities.
As the director of the four-plane department, Wang Yi took the initiative to bring in electronic radar experts and go deep into the missile unit to jointly analyze the "number pulse."
After repeated research, countermeasures were found.
In November 1963, China shot down the U-2 aircraft in one fell swoop, and then shot down the U-2 aircraft twice.
Judging from the several enemy planes that were shot down, it proved that Wang's judgment was completely correct.
Nowadays, people may feel simple when they see the process of "stabbing down the U-2 aircraft with bamboo poles", but it was extremely difficult under the circumstance that the conditions in all aspects were very limited at that time, which also fully reflected Wang Yi's courage and ability to solve various difficult problems in practice and his scientific and rigorous work style.
Wang's contributions do not stop there; with the spirit of daring to be the first in the world, he and his alumni have worked together to create the first in many fields in the history of our army, including: the first news agency, the first voice radio station, the first communication equipment factory, the first meteorological observation network, and the creation of our army's electronic countermeasures cause, our army's command automation cause, and so on.
In 1955, Wang was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
In 1977, Wang was diagnosed with cancer due to overwork, but he still worked with tenacious perseverance.
Ye Shuai asked the famous painter Li Kuchan to paint a picture of an eagle and give it to Wang Yi, and inscribed "The hero is old and strong, independent and thoughtful", and then personally presided over his funeral.
On August 13, 1978, Lieutenant General Wang Yi completed his brilliant life path at the age of 70.