On 1 June 1963, an American fighter plane suddenly flew into the airspace over Fujian, arousing the vigilance of the radar station of our air defense forces, and then issuing an early warning.
"Attention! Attention! Enemy fighters have been spotted in the sky! All units are requested to be ready for battle!"
After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately urgently assembled, rushed to their respective posts, and waited for the next instructions of the heads of the military district.
Unexpectedly, after hovering in the air for more than a dozen circles, the enemy plane spotted the location of the airfield below and actually stopped at Longtian Airport in Fujian Province!
All the personnel at the airport were stunned, didn't the enemy pilot throw himself into the net?
As soon as the fighter plane came to a steady halt and landed, the enemy pilot opened the cockpit door, jumped out of the plane, threw away the flight cap of the national army on his head, raised his hands high, and shouted at the soldiers who rushed up: "Please don't shoot! I am an uprising, and I am very lucky, I have finally returned to the embrace of the motherland!"
When everyone heard this, their originally tense hearts let down their guard, and they all smiled and stepped forward to congratulate him.
The airport commander took the lead in shaking hands with the pilots, inquired about the specific situation, and then quickly reported the matter to the head of the military region.
The next day, Xinhua News Agency learned the news and made a detailed report on the incident.
Xu Tingze, a former captain and pilot of the 42nd Squadron of the 11th Brigade of the Second Wing of the Chiang Jun Air Force, flew back to the mainland of the motherland in an American-made F-86F jet fighter and landed safely at an airport in East China. Xu Tingze abandoned the dark and turned to the light, and was warmly welcomed by the local residents......"
At the same time, Taiwan's Central News Agency avoided the truth and also carried out a follow-up report on the "Xu Tingze Uprising".
"News from the Air Force Headquarters: A Chinese plane lost contact with the ...... due to bad weather during a routine training flight over Taiwan on 1 June."
Despite this, this explosive news still surprised the people of Taiwan, and they really don't understand why their "ace pilot" Xu Tingze suddenly made such a choice without hesitation? !
Because Xu Tingze is not an ordinary pilot, but a "proud son of the sky" on Taiwan Island who has six air force flight medals such as Xuanwu, Xiangbao, and Flying Tiger.
Two years ago, Xu Tingze was also awarded the honorary title of "Hero of Overcoming Difficulties" by the Taiwan Air Force Headquarters, and participated in many flight parades.
Helplessly, the Taiwan authorities blocked the news and deliberately concealed it, so that many years later, the people of Taiwan still did not know the truth of this incident.
In fact, the specific reasons for Xu Tingze's uprising are not complicated, as long as you look at his military experience, everything is clear.
In 1928, Xu Tingze was born in a poor peasant family in Lishui Town, Qianjiang District, Chongqing.
The Xu family's parents have given birth to seven children in line with the old social idea of "more people are stronger", and the already poor family has become a big problem even for food and clothing.
Xu Tingze is the fifth, has a gentle personality, has been obedient and sensible since he was a child, and his brothers and sisters like to play with him as a companion.
When he was eight years old, Xu's parents unfortunately died of illness, and Xu Tingze became an orphan, and was raised by his eldest brother Xu Tingmo and sister-in-law Liu Hanzhen.
When Xu Tingze was 17 years old, in order to reduce the financial burden of his family and defend the country, he defeated the Japanese devils, and like many predecessors of the Sichuan Army who were full of enthusiasm and dedicated to saving the country, he joined the Kuomintang troops in Chongqing, put on military uniforms and went into battle to kill the enemy, and prepared to participate in the war of resistance against Japan.
After the recruit training, Xu Tingze was assigned to the Kuomintang's Sixth Theater Communication Company and began to learn radio technology.
Half a year later, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Tingze was as happy as all the soldiers and brothers, thinking that he could bid farewell to the battlefield, go home to reunite, and live a peaceful and peaceful life.
Unexpectedly, not long after the joy, Chiang Kai-shek immediately tore up the peace agreement and brazenly launched a civil war despite everyone's opposition.
As a soldier, Xu Tingze could only choose to obey orders and continue to fight with the troops, but was captured by our People's Liberation Army in the Battle of Huaihai.
Soon, the People's Liberation Army, in line with the principle of preferential treatment of prisoners, let everyone choose voluntarily, if they were willing to join the army, they would stay, and if they were unwilling, they would pay for the passage and go home on their own.
Xu Tingze thought twice and decided to go back to his hometown to celebrate the people's birthday, so he received the travel fee and returned to Chongqing.
At this time, the Kuomintang defenders in Chongqing had no intention of fighting, and the high-level leaders were dragging their families and preparing to retreat to Taiwan.
Xu Tingze had just returned to Chongqing, and soon met his old boss on the street. The two went to a nearby teahouse, and after a long conversation, the old boss strongly encouraged Xu Tingze to follow him to Taiwan for development.
Xu Tingze is only in his early twenties, and after listening to the old boss's analysis of the situation, he was induced by kind words, how could he hold it, and immediately agreed. In this way, Xu Tingze, as a radio technical talent, quickly passed the examination of the troops withdrawn from Taiwan and arrived in Taiwan with the help of his old boss.
In 1951, Xu Tingze was admitted to the Taiwan Air Force Officer Academy with excellent results, and after four years of hard study and training, he successfully graduated from the examination and began to serve as a trainee instructor of the Taiwan Air Force.
During his service, Xu Tingze was promoted by the unit many times because of his outstanding performance and superb flying skills, and was promoted to deputy captain of the squadron, and won a number of pilot honors and flight medals, and was even personally received by Chiang Kai-shek, becoming a well-known ace pilot on the island.
As the saying goes: the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Xu Tingze was no exception, and was blushed and jealous by Zhao, who was also a communications soldier before.
Zhao is the "security officer" of the Hsinchu Air Base, that is, a person who specializes in making small reports, mainly to prevent the officers and men of the unit from slackening their thinking and defecting mentality.
Xu Tingze and Zhao had known each other in the mainland before, and they were both communications soldiers of the army, so they knew each other's experiences well and knew each other.
Zhao was small-minded, and when he saw that Xu Tingze's salary was so high and his future was promising, he was not convinced, so he took the "black history" of Xu Tingze being captured by the People's Liberation Army to blackmail, and often extorted money from bamboo and bargaining.
Over time, Xu Tingze was not very happy in his heart, Zhao someone, you are too much, is there still an end?! You can't just keep being bullied by you, right?! Besides, so many years have passed since the capture of the incident, and others may not believe it......
Once, Zhao came to the door again, but Xu Tingze couldn't bear it anymore and refused. The two quarreled for most of the day, and finally broke up.
Zhao was annoyed and angry, and without doing anything, he put Xu Tingze on the list of suspects of the "Communist Party", and reported to the organization that he was captured by the People's Liberation Army that year.
Xu Tingze's entry into the list of special "surveillance" personnel has aroused the attention and vigilance of the leaders of the Air Force Headquarters.
As a result, Xu Tingze's future has become bleak, although he is barely still working in the army, it is almost impossible to be reused and promoted by the army in the future.
Even sometimes the troops will deliberately arrange very dangerous exercises and training for him, which makes him very depressed, but he is helpless.
For the "involution", Xu Tingze can still bear it, but the occurrence of the "external humiliation" incident finally made him break his defense.
At that time, Taiwan's air force hired US military advisers every year to guide the work and provide military facilities and defense system related strategies.
One day, an American adviser named Tom, who didn't know whether he was drunk or thought he could walk sideways, was so bold that he raped the wife of a captain liaison officer of the Taiwan army.
The liaison officer was unwilling to be humiliated and tried his best to find the hateful Americans, and in the end, this incident caused everyone in the entire air force unit to know about it.
As a result, the Taiwan authorities did nothing in their response, not only did they fail to arrest the American "Tom" for questioning, but also made him return to the United States in a grand manner.
At that time, all the officers and men of the air force units were full of anger and expressed their dissatisfaction through various channels, but to no avail.
Xu Tingze couldn't figure it out, even if the Nationalist Government was corrupt and incompetent, and even if it was accused of messing around out of nothing, he didn't expect it to be so weak? Not even a foreigner dared to punish the crime at the door of his home, how could this be true! Thinking about it, as a soldier, he couldn't even protect his own wife, and he really lived too much, so what was the use of following such a government? After that, he came up with the idea of defecting to the Cheng uprising.
On June 1, 1963, the airport was particularly busy in the early morning, with pilots preparing for the day's flight training missions, and ground crews busy preparing for takeoff.
Xu Tingze decided to take advantage of his training opportunity as a long plane, and chose to fly the plane to revolt on the same day and return to the mainland of the motherland.
Soon, Xu Tingze got on the plane, left the airport runway, prepared to take the new pilot for single-plane attack training, and flew into the sky with a whoosh.
Twenty minutes later, the new pilot was nervous, and suddenly reported to Xu Tingze: "I found that the fuel gauge of the plane is invalid, please instruct the commander!"
When Xu Tingze heard this, it was really a godsend! I'm still thinking about how to get rid of you? You yourself broke down first.
Therefore, Xu Tingze took the opportunity to report the situation to the airport command desk and applied for an immediate return.
When the airport command desk replied, Xu Tingze told the new pilot of the wingman to return immediately, and he turned the nose of the plane and flew straight to the mainland.
In order to avoid being pursued, Xu Tingze lifted the plane to an altitude of 15,000 meters and quickly flew away from the training airspace. The ground commander quickly discovered the anomaly and kept contacting Xu Tingze by radio, thinking that he had made a mistake and asking him to correct it immediately.
Where was Xu Tingze willing to listen, in order to concentrate, he simply turned off the call switch on the plane.
Only then did the commander realize that something was wrong, and immediately reported Xu Tingze's situation to the leaders of the unit, and then four fighters took off from the airport and quickly went up to the sky to pursue Xu Tingze's American-made F-86F fighters.
Xu Tingze quickly spotted their plane, but he didn't want to fight them, because once they got into a fight, the plan to revolt with the plane might fall through.
After all, the plane he was piloting did not have much fuel in it, and if he didn't get rid of them quickly, it would soon run out, so he accelerated his flight and skillfully avoided the reconnaissance of their plane.
Because he could not contact our air defense forces and could not transmit information, Xu Tingze could only keep circling in the air to observe, and finally found the Fujian airport.
Seeing that there was not much fuel on the plane, Xu Tingze had no choice but to take the risk of flying at a low altitude, and through superb flying skills, he evaded the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and finally successfully landed at Longtian Airport and returned to the embrace of the motherland.
On June 4, 1964, the Fujian Military Region held a grand welcome and commendation meeting in the auditorium.
Commander Liu Yalou personally came to the meeting site, highly affirmed Xu Tingze's feat of uprising, and awarded him the rank of major on the spot, and at the same time, in accordance with the agreement of radio propaganda, issued Xu Tingze a certificate of 2,500 taels of gold.
Xu Tingze was both excited and grateful, and said that he would do his best to contribute to the motherland in the future, use his talents and abilities to serve the motherland, and build the cause of national defense.
Later, Xu Tingze considered that the motherland's construction needed funds, and donated all the gold to the country without reservation.
On June 22, Xu Tingze arrived in Beijing to visit and study, and Marshal Ye Jianying personally received him and welcomed Xu Tingze back to the motherland, and the two had friendly exchanges after that.
Three days later, Premier Zhou Enlai also met with Xu Tingze at Huairentang in Nanhai.
When he heard that he had not yet started a family, Premier Zhou said earnestly: "Then you are not young, and when you meet a suitable partner in the future, you will start a family first and then work......
When Xu Tingze heard this, he immediately burst into tears, and especially thanked Premier Zhou for his concern for his life, after all, after leaving home many years ago, there was no advice from relatives around him.
According to a large number of reports by the national media, Xu Tingze's uprising caused a sensation in the north and south of the country, and was warmly welcomed by the masses all over the country.
In the days since, Xu Tingze, like today's Internet celebrities and film and television stars, was invited to visit factories across the country to give speeches, and then returned to Chongqing to reunite with his family.
In 1964, Xu Tingze was introduced to Jia Xiujun, a waiter in the Air Force Guest House, and then met and fell in love, and entered a happy married life.
As for his career, Xu Tingze successively served as deputy regiment commander, deputy chief of staff of the aviation command, vice president and consultant in Unit 027 of the 12th Aviation School of the Linfen Air Force in Shanxi.
In 1978, after years of application, Xu Tingze successfully joined the Communist Party of China and was elected as a deputy to the Fourth and Sixth National People's Congress.
In the mid-80s, Xu Tingze was also selected as a special pilot by our air force.
In 1988, Xu Tingze returned to his hometown and returned to his hometown in Chongqing, enjoying the joy of teasing his grandson.
In 1996, Xu Tingze was unwell and sent to the hospital for examination and treatment, because the medical conditions in the hospital were not very good, and after the troops learned of the situation, they immediately took him to Beijing for treatment.
In 2005, Xu Tingze died of multiple organ failure at the age of 77, bidding farewell to the ordinary and extraordinary world.
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