55 years ago, three pilots flew to Baodao, and were not only personally received by Lao Jiang, but also awarded the high-ranking official Houlu.
But surprisingly, many years later, one of the traitors was picked up by a state plane and posthumously named a revolutionary martyr. So, what's going on here?
When mentioning this defection incident, we have to mention the mastermind of the incident, Lee Hsien Bin.
In 1937, Li Xianbin was born in Shandong, he was the only male in the family, his parents were arrogant to him since he was a child, and he also found a child bride, specializing in his diet and living, which also developed his habit of being lazy and greedy for pleasure.
Fortunately, Li Xianbin's academic performance was also good, and he was finally admitted to an aviation college, but the school is not as good as his family, and he has to do everything himself, which is undoubtedly difficult for Li Xianbin to adapt to.
Coupled with the heavy training tasks, he began to degenerate day by day, fishing in troubled waters in the army every day. Not only that, he also turned his back on his wife and blatantly violated the rules by meeting other girls privately.
His superiors talked to him many times for ideological education, but he thought that he was deliberately targeting himself, and he became more and more dissatisfied in his heart, so he simply did not even go to training.
Just when he had nothing to do, he suddenly heard a radio encouraging mainlanders to join Baodao, and the announcer tried his best to exaggerate the various beauties of Baodao's policy, and also gave attractive conditions for high-ranking officials to be accompanied by beautiful women.
Li Xianbin listened to it intoxicated and itchy, and he was already dissatisfied with the current situation, and immediately decided to defect to Baodao.
Therefore, he changed his usual lazy style and began to train diligently, and everyone thought that he had changed his mind, but in fact, he was just to get the opportunity to fly the troops' planes.
Finally, in an air force exercise, Li Xianbin successfully served as the captain of a bomber, responsible for directing the exercise mission, along with his group, tail gunner Lian Baosheng, and navigator Li Caiwang.
Li Xianbin first found an opportunity to manipulate Li Caiwang's pistol, and then after the plane took off, he cut off the communication privately, and then confidently and boldly maneuvered the plane and flew towards Baodao.
Soon, Li Caiwang, who was in charge of piloting, found an abnormality, and was about to contact the captain but found that there was a problem with the communication equipment, and seeing that the plane had completely left the route, he had to rush into the cockpit to remind the captain.
As a result, Li Xianbin looked completely indifferent, and even very excited, Li Caiwang realized that something was wrong, and immediately took out a gun to stop the other party, but found that the gun had already been moved.
Just when he was about to step forward directly, he didn't want Li Xianbin to be quick and wounded him with a shot, and he fainted immediately.
On the other side, the tail gunner Lian Baosheng also noticed the abnormality, not only the communication signal was completely cut off, he was also trapped in the tail compartment, unable to know the situation outside.
Just when he was restless, the plane suddenly jerked violently, and he realized that this was a manifestation of the forced landing of the plane, but the pilot obviously could not suppress the landing speed, and the plane directly hit the ground.
Because the plane forcibly landed on the ground, causing the tail to collide directly with the ground, Lian Baosheng was seriously injured and could not move, until a group of soldiers wearing national uniforms opened the tail compartment and carried him out of the plane.
When he saw the four big characters of "Taoyuan Airport", Lian Baosheng suddenly realized, obviously, the pilot Li Xianbin held himself hostage to Chengbao Island, which was a long-planned defection!
After discovering this amazing fact, Lian Baosheng was extremely disappointed and angry in his heart, and immediately took out his pistol to fight with Li Xianbin.
Seeing this, the national army immediately pointed a gun at him, Lian Baosheng was already seriously injured, and in the face of the encircled national army, there was no chance of victory at all.
But in no case he was willing to betray the country and become a sinner who was accused by thousands of people and spurned by thousands of people.
After some decisive thought, he pointed the gun at himself and shouted to everyone, I will never betray the country! Immediately after a gunshot, Lian Baosheng died and ended his life.
However, the dignity he paid for with his life was soon trampled into the quagmire, and for nearly 30 years after his death, he was saddled with the infamy of "treason".
Because after Lian Bao's death, the Kuomintang not only did not return his body to the mainland, but also covered up the truth that Lian Bao did not surrender until his death. Not long after the plane landed, the Baodao side carried out a lot of publicity on the "glorious deeds" of the three mainland air forces who "voluntarily" surrendered.
When the news spread back to the mainland, the three of them instantly became the target of the nation's people. When Lian Baosheng's comrades-in-arms and the old chief learned of this, they were even more shocked, but they did not believe that he would surrender at all.
You know, Lian Baosheng is a very hard-working, hard-working fighter, since joining the army, he has crossed all the way from a battle-hardened excellent soldier to an armored soldier and grew into a tank driver.
And later, because of his outstanding ability, he once again stepped into the Air Force queue and became an excellent pilot, during which he was also awarded the rank of lieutenant and made a third-class merit.
In addition, Lian Baosheng and his two brothers are both very good soldiers, with good family composition, no bad records, it can be said that the family is patriotic.
More importantly, he has just been married, the relationship between the husband and wife is very good, it is when they are in love with each other, he can't think of defecting, which is undoubtedly something that has no benefit, and he has no good reason to do such a thing.
But unfortunately, these words of defense were quickly overturned by another matter.
It turned out that in order to make the "fact" of Lian Baosheng's surrender appear more realistic, on the third day after his death, the Kuomintang held an extremely grand funeral for him with state funeral specifications, and posthumously named him a major in the Kuomintang Air Force.
On the day of the funeral, nearly 300 officers of the Nationalist Army came to mourn, and even Chiang Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, personally came to the funeral.
At this time, the voice was even louder, and the mainland side could not imagine that Jiang Jingguo came forward to stand for it, such a big pomp, Lian Baosheng, the hat of a traitor, was directly detained to death, and it can be said that he jumped into the Yellow River and could not be washed.
It can be said that he was really wronged to the extreme, and all this is to blame on the coercion of the traitor Li Xianbin and the malicious distortion of facts propaganda by Baodao, which can be described as sinister intentions, ruining the innocence of a person and a family.
At that time, after the news that Li Xianbin, Li Caiwang and Lian Baosheng had fled to Baodao returned to China, not only they themselves were condemned and abused, but even their families were seriously affected.
Among them, the most wronged is Lian Baosheng, who was unknowingly taken hostage by Li Xianbin to Baodao, and he chose to shoot himself when he was unwilling to surrender.
However, this declaration of dying was buried in the dirt forever by the high-ranking official of the national army, Houlu, and the hat of a traitor was worn for 30 years, and his family plummeted.
Lian Baosheng's family is a veritable "glorious family", he himself is an excellent Air Force pilot, not long ago married a very beautiful wife, the two are very affectionate.
And his two younger brothers were also influenced by their older brothers and joined the army one after another, one entered the army corps and the other served in the navy, it can be said that the family's future is bright.
However, after the defection incident, Lian Baosheng instantly became a traitor spurned by everyone, and his new wife had to marry someone else because she couldn't stand the fingers of the people around her.
And his two younger brothers, who were soldiers, were also deeply affected and were directly sent back to their hometowns by the troops. Even the eldest brother, who served as the director of the tax bureau, was removed from public office by the unit.
The originally happy family fell apart overnight. But neither his family nor his comrades-in-arms believed that Lian Baosheng would defect, and even his former chief raised objections to his superiors.
Unfortunately, no amount of maintenance can be exchanged for innocence, and all of them are lost in the sea.
It was not until 1983 that one of the three defectors, Li Caiwang, publicly published an article when he returned to the mainland to visit relatives, that the truth of that year gradually emerged.
Li Caiwang said that the defection was completely planned and masterminded by Li Xianbin alone, and he and Lian Baosheng did not know about it at all. He fainted after being shot and wounded by Lee Hsien-bin and woke up in a hospital in Taipei.
And he and Lian Bao were very familiar with each other in life, and under the circumstances at that time, Lian Baosheng could not surrender at all, so he chose to commit suicide.
Unfortunately, although Li Caiwang was forced to surrender, he did accept the official position and gold reward of the Kuomintang, and sat down on the charge of traitor, and from his mouth, most people felt that this was just a whitewashing technique.
Lian Baosheng's traitor's hat has still not been taken off.
It was not until 1991 that the real traitor Li Xianbin was arrested by our army when he returned to China to visit his seriously ill mother, which confirmed Li Caiwang's statement from his mouth that Lian Baosheng had never been treasonous!
In the face of interests and dignity, Lian Baosheng did not hesitate to stand on the side of the motherland, and was even willing to write his will with his life! Lian Baosheng, who has been wronged for 26 years, has finally sunk into the snow!
Then, with the efforts of all parties for many years, Lian Baosheng's ashes were personally taken back to his homeland by our military plane in 2016, and a grand burial ceremony was carried out, and he was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.