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Xu Tingze flew a fighter jet to return to his homeland to serve the country and received 2,500 taels of gold.
Only when the motherland is prosperous will the people of the country live and work in peace and contentment, and in order to make the motherland strong and prosperous, I don't know how many heroes are not afraid of sacrifice and dare to fight against injustice and oppression.
What kind of person is Xu Tingze, who gambles with his life and crosses the strait just to go home?
In 1928, Zhu De led the Nanchang Rebel Army and Mao Zedong to join forces in Jinggangshan, and China entered a new historical stage.
A family with many children and daughters overwhelmed Xu Tingze's parents and died one after another, so he could only have his eldest brother Xu Tingmo and sister-in-law Liu Hanzhen to raise his brothers.
It is because of this family situation that Xu Tingze is stronger than his peers and understands the meaning of life better.
In 1945, in order to reduce the burden on his family, seventeen-year-old Xu Tingze resolutely joined the ranks of the Kuomintang and became a soldier.
At first, it was just to fill his stomach and eat, but through the study and education of the army, Xu Tingze began to gradually understand that a strong country not only needs a lot of gold and silver wealth, but also needs a strong army.
Because he was diligent and studious, Xu Tingze was not very young and was sent to the communications company to learn radio, Xu Tingze later recalled that if he had not just started to learn about radio, he would not have had the opportunity to fly a fighter jet.
As Xu Tingze said, with his hard work, he not only became a top student in the company, but also directly served as the radio platoon commander, and because of this, as a technician, he passively fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland, because there were still remaining troops to resist the PLA, and internally announced that he would go to Taiwan to carry out military missions, and he would rush back to the mainland at the end.
As a technician, Xu Tingze can only accept the order, and he has no time to say goodbye to his family, after all, this is a confidential matter internally, and it cannot be discussed casually externally, even if it is his own family, he can only keep it hidden.
But who knew that when Xu Tingze came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, the news that many places had been liberated came from the mainland, and when they heard this, many comrades-in-arms who went to Taiwan with Xu Tingze were grief-stricken, and they hugged each other and cried for an unknown amount of time.
Xu Tingze knew that it was useless to cry, so he immediately thought about a way to go back, but the two sides of the strait are separated by the vast sea, and they can't go back anyway, and the mainland has been liberated, and it is still unknown whether they will accept themselves when they go back.
After all, Xu Tingze's tenacious character since he was a child, coupled with years of army life, knows that only technology can make it possible for him to return to his hometown.
It was also a creation from heaven, Chiang Kai-shek planned to form an air force in Taiwan, Xu Tingze knew about it and immediately signed up, and undoubtedly became the first batch of members of Taiwan's air force.
Because of his own mastery of information and knowledge, coupled with his flexible brain, he was diligent and studious, and soon mastered the essentials of fighter flight.
At that time, the research and development technology of aircraft, especially fighter planes, was controlled and monopolized by big capitalists like the United States, even if Xu Tingze became a first-class flight instructor and was promoted to the rank of captain through his own ability, he felt humiliation in his heart, and there was no honor at all.
Coupled with the longing for his hometown and the kneeling and licking behavior of the Taiwan authorities to curry favor with the US Government, Xu Tingze simply felt disgusted and unbearable.
Even when an American adviser raped the wife of a captain liaison officer at the Air Force headquarters, no one was asked.
After Xu Tingze learned about the incident, he felt his powerlessness unprecedentedly, thinking that he joined the army at the age of seventeen, in order to protect his family and defend the country, and he learned knowledge and technology for the national defense of the motherland, but now he heard such a thing but he didn't even have any power at all, did he have to live the rest of his life like this?
Xu Tingze questioned his situation, and in the face of complete disappointment with the Kuomintang authorities, he finally made up his mind that as long as there was the slightest opportunity, even if it was death, he would return to the land of the motherland.
Soon the opportunity came, this was an air force fighter combat flight exercise, how did Xu Tingze do it?
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In 1963, on a military mission, Xu Tingze finally reunited with his relatives who had been thinking about it day and night.
A captain of the Taiwan Air Force suddenly flew an American jet fighter to the mainland, and Xu Tingze was not afraid in the face of the danger in front of him?
It was a sunny morning, and it was also a day when Xu Tingze's fate was rewritten.
Xu Tingze boarded the plane, because he was the best pilot, and there was no limit to the choice of aircraft, and he directly boarded an American-made F-86F jet fighter.
The captain of this mission was also lucky to fall on Xu Tingze's head, because he was a new pilot as a wingman.
Hovering in the air, Xu Tingze tried every means to get rid of the wingman, but at this critical moment, it seemed that God blessed the wingman and the wingman malfunctioned.
In order to ensure the safety of the flight operation, Xu Tingze asked the base for the wingman to return home. Out of trust in Xu Tingze, the wingman immediately turned around and returned home.
Just after the wingman returned, Xu Tingze stepped on the accelerator and flew in the direction of Fujian without hesitation.
When the abnormality was discovered, the Taiwan Air Force Base thought that Xu Tingze's fighter plane had malfunctioned, and kept questioning Xu Tingze and urgently calling him to return home.
The moment Xu Tingze boarded the plane, he had already made up his mind to die, and even if he was shot down by the plane of the Taiwan authorities or shot down by the artillery of the People's Liberation Army, he regarded death as if he were at home, and he would definitely return to the homeland where he was born and raised.
Taiwan's air base did not receive a response to Xu Tingze's message for a long time, suspecting that it should be about to defect, and immediately ordered four fighters to pursue and intercept in a zigzag shape.
It is conceivable that the four fighters are Xu Tingze's opponents, and they were thrown off by Xu Tingze after a while, and at this moment, suddenly Xu Tingze was stopped by a dark cloud in front of him.
In order to return to his hometown, Xu Tingze couldn't estimate much, gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator, relying on his years of driving literacy and longing for his hometown lover, and rushed into the dark clouds.
When the pilots of the four fighters behind saw Xu Tingze running madly into the dark clouds of lightning and thunder, they knew that it was impossible to recover or shoot them down, so they could only launch a request to the Taiwan Air Force Base to return home.
In desperation, Taiwan's air base could only repatriate the four fighters, and immediately reported to Chiang Kai-shek the absconding of Xu Tingze.
Chiang Kai-shek knew that the anger was thundering, and he had no choice but to order the news to be blocked, and announced that Xu Tingze had made a mistake in piloting the fighter plane, resulting in no news so far.
It was not until later that Chiang Kai-shek heard that it was because of the poor treatment of air force pilots that Xu Tingze defected, and immediately increased the income and treatment of Taiwan air force pilots, after all, pilots were particularly scarce talents at that time, let alone such an excellent fighter pilot as Xu Tingze at that time.
The United States also scolded Chiang Kai-shek when it knew the news of Xu Tingze's defection, after all, the United States had extremely strict control over science and technology at that time.
Moreover, various technical blockades were imposed on China, and Xu Tingze's defection was undoubtedly almost to provide technical means for the Chinese side, because the United States even transferred technical advisers back to China many times in this incident, and Chiang Kai-shek was also heartbroken, and he could only retain part of the American aid through repeated compromises.
After escaping from the sniper interception from the Taiwan Air Force, Xu Tingze did not have time to rest and recuperate, and he had already seen the attack of anti-aircraft fire from the mainland, and Xu Tingze could only hide back and forth in the clouds to avoid the attack.
But it must not be a long-term solution to go on like this, and the fuel in Xu Tingze's fuel tank is also exhausted, in the face of such a thorny problem, Xu Tingze immediately rushed directly to Fujian Longtian Airport without hesitation, preparing for an emergency landing at any time.
At this time, underground, the air defense team of Fujian's Longtian Airport trembled in their hearts, and in the face of such a sudden combat plane, they hurriedly launched the strongest anti-aircraft firepower in order to shoot it down.
But under the protection of God, as well as Xu Tingze's excellent flying skills, the dense anti-aircraft firepower was skillfully evaded and defused by him, and finally the hard work paid off and the forced landing was successful.
Xu Tingze was already sweating profusely at this time, and when the People's Liberation Army rushed into the cabin to carry him off the plane, he saw that Xu Tingze was already unconscious.
But despite this, when the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army carried Xu Tingze to the ground, Xu Tingze pushed everyone away and rushed to the land of the motherland.
When the People's Liberation Army helped Xu Tingze up again, this battle-hardened soldier was already in tears of excitement, and kept saying that the motherland, your unfilial descendants, have returned.
When the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army saw this scene, they were shocked and moved, and some soldiers even shed tears one after another, for the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, too many sacrifices, too much reluctance, too much longing, these friendships can only be understood by the warriors who have experienced the war.
After returning to China, what is Xu Tingze's life like?
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He was an unprecedented pilot, and soon after he surrendered, he was awarded a major and rewarded with 2,500 taels of gold.
After being awarded the rank of major and winning 2,500 taels of gold, what else did Xu Tingze do?
The news of Xu Tingze's surrender soon reached the ears of Marshal Ye Jianying, and when he knew that Xu Tingze was a pilot who sincerely returned to the mainland from Taiwan, he immediately pushed aside other things and directly met with this unprecedented pilot soldier who abandoned the darkness and surrendered to the light.
Ye Jianying held Xu Tingze's hand tightly and said, The motherland welcomes you, Xu Tingze's eyes moistened and said, Thank you for your concern, I have been looking forward to this day for a long time.
Due to various reasons, Xu Tingze failed to join the Communist Party at the beginning, but after so many years of feelings, Xu Tingze profoundly realized that the establishment of New China is inseparable from the Communist Party, and only the Communist Party can make China rich and strong.
This return is not only the return of Xu Tingze, who has top flying skills, but also the return of an American-made F-86F jet fighter in China.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yalou, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, directly appointed Xu Tingze to the post of major in the Air Force, and not only that, but also rewarded him with 2,500 taels of gold on behalf of the party and the government.
Faced with this reward of 2,500 taels of gold, Xu Tingze refused at first, because he felt that returning to the motherland was a longing for the motherland, not for money.
But Liu Yalou persuaded him that this was to set an example, and only in this way could more Taiwan compatriots return to the embrace of the motherland without any scruples.
After accepting the bonus, Xu Tingze only kept a part of it, and most of it was donated to the state to do some scientific and technological research and development and infrastructure construction.
Xu Tingze's return, Premier Zhou also specially received him, Premier Zhou asked him to return to his hometown to visit relatives first, and then come back to accept work, Premier Zhou's words also deeply touched him.
Xu Tingze immediately got in the car and returned to his hometown after a fourteen-year absence, and re-embarked on the familiar path at home, thinking that the hard work of his brother and sister-in-law had supported him, and tears flowed in an instant.
What shocked him the most about returning to his hometown this time was that although there were no high-ranking officials and celebrities like Taiwan, every working person was full of happy smiles, which was in stark contrast to Taiwan, and Xu Tingze loved his motherland even more.
Soon after returning to China, Xu Tingze also gained his own love, married Comrade Jia Xiujun, their love is also very romantic, Jia Xiujun is an excellent comrade of the Women's Federation, and has always wanted to find a heroic character as Ruyi Langjun.
At this time, Xu Tingze's appearance really touched her heart, the two loved and gave birth to a son and a daughter, and under the influence of their parents, they both made a lot of contributions to the country.
However, even in the face of all kinds of hard labor, Xu Tingze did not complain of tiredness at all, Xu Tingze always said happily that labor is also a contribution to the motherland, as long as we work hard, I believe that the party and the country will not forget us.
In 1978, Xu Tingze finally joined the Communist Party of China as he wished, making up for the regret of humiliation, and was successfully elected as a representative of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth National People's Congress.
In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's good conditions and treatment and the great prospects of some American technology, Xu Tingze chose the side of humanity and chose to have blood and dignity.
Interpreting the living national spirit of standing and dying rather than humiliation, in the face of the country's golden reward, Xu Tingze did not choose to enjoy life selfishly, but mostly returned to the country to serve the people, which is also a spirit of selfless dedication.
In 1988, Xu Tingze retired and returned to his hometown to retire, even so he still watched the news every day to understand the country's news, Xu Tingze also looked forward to his comrades in Taiwan can return to the embrace of the motherland like him, until 2005, 77-year-old Xu Tingze died of illness, the first person to fly to the light came to an end.