Majestic, angry, across the Yalu River! - "Battle Song of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army"
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the people of the new Chinese lived in poverty and were in ruins to be rebuilt. Neighboring North Korea split into two countries as a result of the Yalta agreement. The United States and the Soviet Union, which had just ended World War II, began without interfering in the war in Asia.
But Stalin, in order to ensure Soviet influence and control in Asia, urged Kim Il Sung to launch a war in an attempt to unify the Korean Peninsula by force.
The North Korean people's army began to report many successes, but the American army could not sit still. After the US troops took the field, with the landing of Inchon, the situation on the Korean Peninsula underwent a great change, the DPRK army was gradually defeated, the flames of war once burned to the Yalu River, and the US Air Force even dropped artillery shells into the Dandong area, and even made a big provocation.
In October 1950, China accepted a request for support from the Korean government, and the People's Volunteer Army began to fight in Korea.
Among the many volunteers, there is a volunteer air force, he is 17-year-old Tao Wei, who joined the army and aspired to serve the country.
All this has to start with the Chinese Air Force.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression brought a huge blow to China, and China's heavy industry after the war was at zero foundation. China can build benches, teacups, and cloth, but it can't build rockets, cannons, and airplanes.
The independence of a country lies not only in economic strength, but also in military strength, without strong military capabilities, it can only be slaughtered.
Based on this, Chairman Mao Zedong presided over the establishment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1949, but because China had no experience in this regard, and Stalin in the Soviet Union, worried about direct conflict with the United States and causing war, he was hesitant to assist and send troops.
The Chinese government had to borrow money from the Soviet Union, plus a special appropriation from the Chinese government's finances, to buy aircraft from the Soviet Union.
There is equipment, but there is no technology and talent.
At this time, China's young people with lofty ideals have thrown their pens and signed up for the army, and the Chinese government has formulated the training methods of China's air force according to the situation. Through soviet instructors, our country adopted the teaching method of "crash courses", and each person often had less than 100 hours on the plane and had to go to the battlefield.
Although this kind of assault training has established China's air force team at a very fast speed, the shortcomings are also obvious.
Due to the lack of technology, the number of take-off accidents was as high as five percent; Chang Qiankun, who was then the director of the Training Department, carefully analyzed the problems, summed up the four principles, and put forward the policy of "stabilizing training and ensuring safety." The emergence of this policy has alleviated the impatience that has appeared in the air force units, and has dealt with them steadily and steadily, and has successively put forward methods such as teaching in actual combat.
At that time, China's economic strength did not go up, there were only a few dozen aircraft, and there were only more than a hundred captured enemy aircraft, most of which were still old models, and there was no comparison with the thousands of the most advanced models of the US military.
Most of the US Air Force soldiers on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were soldiers with combat experience, with an average flight time of more than 1,000 hours, and their strength should not be underestimated.
At this time, the strength of the air forces of China and the United States is not only a huge disparity that can be described.
However Chinese since ancient times, there has been a kind of tenacity that emanates from the bones, and if the strength is not enough, it will be compensated by hard training, and if the equipment is not good, it will fight with a tenacious spirit.
Under the cover of the Soviet Air Force, the Chinese Air Force officially boarded the battlefield, and with the passage of time, the strength of the Chinese Air Force continued to increase.
Here is an exaggerated remark, a senior US official said at a press conference: The Chinese Air Force has become the forefront of the world from overnight, although this is an exaggeration, but it also shows from the side how fast the strength of the Chinese Air Force has progressed.
The strength of the Volunteer Air Force is inseparable from the efforts of every pilot, when Tao Wei was the first air force soldier who made meritorious contributions in China's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was born in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, the youngest of the family, and there were older brothers and sisters on it.
They were a typical intellectual family, their father was an engineer, and their older brothers and sisters were all studying in Nanjing.
As the youngest child, Tao Wei stayed with his mother to go to school in Wuhan. His mother, a native of Tianjin, was deeply touched by foreign aggression, and when the government announced the anti-US and aid-Korea action, 17-year-old Tao Wei resolutely raised his hand to register, and a total of 19 students in his class passed the physical examination to join the army, including three female classmates, and his parents were also very supportive of him.
Soldiers are always well respected, heroic and fearless for the sake of their country, and embark on battles in foreign lands. At that time, 130,000 people in Wuhan sent a farewell to the Volunteer Army in North Korea.
Tao Wei's family was also among them, and two years later, when Tao Wei's first good news of meritorious service was transmitted back to his hometown, his mother felt deep pride and framed the good news on the wall.
After coming to the army, everyone underwent a second physical examination, selected more than 200 people, including Tao Wei, and divided them into four aviation schools, Tao Wei became a cadet of the Third Aviation School in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, during which Time Li Han, commander of the Fourth Division of the Chinese Air Force, successfully destroyed the first American aircraft, which gave Tao Wei and other students great encouragement.
Tao Wei went through theoretical study and tactical training, and after more than seven months, Tao Wei graduated. After graduation, Tao Wei was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Air Force, had his own battle number, and became a full-fledged Air Force soldier. It was very coincidental that the unit that Tao Wei was assigned to was Li Han's unit, and Tao Wei was similar to the mood of success in chasing stars at that time, which gave him even more fighting spirit.
In 1953, with less than 100 hours of flight time, the 19-year-old Tao Wei participated in the battle as the "starter" of the 4th Division of the Air Force, and the young Tao Wei was very excited and proud.
On this mission, only eight of our planes went into battle, and because the plane piloted by Tao Wei had been renovated many times and the high-altitude propulsion was insufficient, he was quickly left behind, and it was obvious that he was left behind.
Tao Wei, a young combatant who was on a mission in the Great Forest for the first time, did not panic, but flew unhurriedly according to the designated route.
At this time, four small black dots appeared in front of him, and Tao Wei's heart immediately mentioned the throat eye, which was most likely an enemy aircraft. As the distance lengthened, Tao Wei saw that these were four F-86s, which were American aircraft models. The four planes slowly approached Tao Wei from the rear in an encircling situation, which was a common trick used by the US Air Force: encircling the single aircraft and annihilating them in one fell swoop.
Under normal circumstances, after the pilot finds the enemy aircraft, he will adjust the position of the handle and head to adjust the shape of the aircraft, so as to send a signal to the enemy aircraft "I found you". But Tao Wei, as a novice, could not do this, so he decided to calculate it.
The four American planes did not expect that the front would be a stunned and unconscionable card. They saw that Tao Wei's plane did not react at all, thinking that he had not found the enemy plane behind him, so they moved more quickly and decided to make a quick decision.
Tao Wei kept his speed constant, the plane flew smoothly, and he had been closely observing the situation of the enemy plane behind him. At the tactical seminar, when introducing the combat experience, the old pilot once said that when carrying out a counterattack, the timing is very important, and mastering the timing of the counterattack is equivalent to half the success.
At this time, the enemy aircraft was far away from him, and the enemy aircraft could catch up from the inside and launch an attack.
After about a minute, Tao Wei slammed the handle to the left, and the plane immediately rotated to the left, and the enemy plane behind it immediately accelerated. Tao Wei seized the opportunity and swung back from the right side, and after tactical adjustments, the plane piloted by Tao Wei jumped out of the encirclement.
He then accelerated closer to the enemy plane, launched an attack at about 600 meters, fired three consecutive shots, directly hit one enemy plane until it disintegrated, and the other three enemy planes saw the failure of the sneak attack and immediately fled in a hurry.
The whole process was completed in just two minutes, Tao Wei, as a novice pilot, encountered an enemy plane on the battlefield for the first time, he had a flexible mind, knew how to integrate and use it, did not hurry in a one-on-four situation, and defeated the American pilot who was much stronger than him with a surprising performance.
There can be no but say that there is indeed luck in this, but more is his steady accumulation and on-the-spot calm play.
This time, the Chinese Air Force only dispatched eight aircraft, but the battle situation of the large troops was fierce, and deputy captain He Youzhen shot down an enemy plane and died heroically.
Tao Wei later recalled that the vice captain was impressed by him, and He Youzhen, as the vice captain, was usually responsible for their training, he was strict and meticulous in training. In the formation training, there was a flying action, and Vice Captain He Youzhen let Tao Wei train many times.
He Youzhen, as Tao Wei's long plane (the long plane's duty is to lead the formation on a mission), has a tactic: the height of the wingman (the aircraft flying with the long plane in the air formation) is generally lower than the height of the long plane, so that the adjustment can be observed at any time. However, when the long machine makes a sharp turn in the direction of the wingman, the wingman has no time to manipulate the pusher to lower the height, at which time the wingman should slightly raise the height above the long plane, and follow the long plane from the observation angle from here.
It is precisely because of this tactic that Tao Wei was of great help in this experience.
On May 7, 1953, Tao Wei's Volunteer Air Force 8-plane formation, after annihilating two enemy planes in Yichang and other places to complete the task perfectly, on the way back, Tao Wei and the long plane were tracked and attacked by two enemy planes.
At the critical moment, the results of the usual training were perfectly displayed, Tao Wei and the long plane cooperated tacitly, the two planes turned to the left at the same time, Tao Wei's turning arc was larger, and it directly swung back to the rear of the enemy aircraft.
The two enemy planes did not have time to change their speed and course, and both chased after the long planes, while Tao Wei bit down on the two enemy planes. At this time, the four planes were very fast, and soon approached our airfield, and the two enemy planes immediately opened fire and shot down the long planes. Then he forced a deceleration, trying to take advantage of the F-86's good maneuverability, and wanted Tao Wei's plane to rush to the front of their aircraft and enter the attack range of the enemy aircraft.
Tao Wei's plane flew straight past as they thought, and Tao Wei knew their intentions and pulled the putter up quickly to the highest position.
The aircraft was forced to ascend at high speed, and then the aircraft swung 365 degrees and turned to the left side of the enemy aircraft, with the nose facing the enemy aircraft. At this time, Tao Wei's plane was only 120 meters away from the enemy plane, and in the process of continuous rolling, Tao Wei decisively chose to open fire and shot down the enemy plane at such a close distance.
The battle surprised the enemy, and another enemy plane decisively chose to flee without any attack.
All this was recorded on the film of the aircraft, and the counterattack process created an example of the volunteer army annihilating the enemy at the closest distance.
At that time, the deputy mayor of Tao Wei's division said: Isn't this a bayonet in the air? Tao Wei's combat experience was written as a good news and sent back to China, which appeared on the largest page of the Yangtze River newspaper at that time, which greatly encouraged the spirit of our people.
Tao Wei was also one of the five heroes who annihilated the enemy in china's later close air melee combat. Four of the five heroes appeared in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Later, on an air mission on May 3, 1953, Tao Wei's unit was assigned a mission to the Suzhou area. At that time, the starting altitude was more than 10,000 meters, and a fierce struggle was waged against sixteen enemy planes, and finally a complete victory was won. On the way back, Tao Wei and his long plane were pursued by US enemy aircraft.
The aircraft used by the U.S. military at that time was the F-86, which was tens of kilometers faster than the MiG fighter they used, and the enemy aircraft quickly caught up.
The long plane decided to first hit the left and then the right, so that the plane formed an "S" route and detoured behind the enemy aircraft. This method sounds simple, but the actual operation is very difficult, and the operation of the aircraft instrument is a little worse, and the result may be completely different.
Because of the difficulty of operation, the method of the long plane was not successful, and the enemy plane caught up with the long machine as a great threat, and the long plane had to rapidly reduce its height in order to protect itself.
At this height, only Tao Wei was left, he was surrounded by two enemy planes, at this time the knowledge tao Wei learned came in handy, he quickly pulled up the pusher, so that the altitude of the aircraft rapidly lifted into the air, the enemy plane was indeed caught up.
However, Tao Wei occupied the initiative, the height of the enemy plane has not been able to catch up, in this case can not open fire, and if it does not detach, it will lose the initiative, after tens of seconds of stalemate, the two enemy planes fled.
But by this time Tao Wei was already far from the airport, lost his way, and lost contact with the tower, and the radar also failed. Moreover, this is in the mountains, and it is difficult to distinguish the location. Fortunately, I talked about the use of "full compass" during the class. Tao Wei eventually returned to the airport and was praised.
At that time, Commander Nie Fengzhi came here specifically to speak, and according to Tao Wei's recollection, he did not bring a speech. Commander Nie Fengzhi analyzed the tactical methods of the US and Soviet Air Force units, including the use of ammunition, the cooperation of groups, and so on, and also carried out psychological counseling. This speech contributed directly to the victory of the battle on May 17. In this battle, Tao Wei's unit was not impatient, rationally distributed and used ammunition, and finally annihilated the enemy aircraft.
It is precisely because Tao Wei and other Chinese Air Force pilots continue to learn, treat things with an open mind, are not as arrogant as the US military, and accumulate experience in many combat missions, that the Chinese Air Force can develop so rapidly.
But there is no ever-winning general in the world, and even Napoleon had a waterloo day.
Tao Wei was ordered to take off one day in 1953, and the mission was to fly to the Iron Mountain area to conduct operations against U.S. Air Force aircraft that had been bombing the ground. The U.S. military has always believed in intimidating the people, and the war will be won quickly, so it has been harassing the people. The Chinese volunteers did not allow such a thing to happen, hence the mission.
At that time, the flight altitude had reached 3,000 meters, and when Tao Wei and his teammates flew to the designated location, they found that the ground was not attacked, and they hovered in mid-air.
The mission was communicated with the ground in real time, and the ground instructors eagerly demanded that they immediately open fire on the enemy aircraft, and Tao Wei sensed that something was wrong, but it was too late at this time, and the enemy aircraft fired fiercely at them. It turned out that after the enemy plane attacked the ground, it hid high in the air.
When Tao Wei pulled the pusher, it was too late, the shells of the enemy aircraft hit the front hatch of his plane, and the front windshield immediately exploded, the glass at that time was not as high-tech as today, and the glass shards and shell fragments immediately reached Tao Wei's thighs, necks and other places, a total of twenty-one injuries, and the sound of the shells exploding also caused him to lose his hearing for a short time.
At that time, the speed of the aircraft was very high, and the powerful air current blew into the cabin, blowing Tao Wei could not open his eyes at all, and the specific situation can refer to "Captain China", but this is different from the movie, because Tao Wei was on the battlefield at this time, surrounded by enemy planes in front of and behind, and was at a critical juncture of death.
At this time, Tao Wei relied on his strong belief as a soldier and Chinese, he felt that the plane was a precious property of the Chinese army, it did not matter if he died himself, as long as the plane could still move, he must drive the plane back. Tao Wei endured tremendous pain and difficulties, commissioned the plane, and drove the plane back to the airfield where our army was stationed.
All this was recorded by the camera on the US military aircraft, and this video was found in the public war history materials of the US military after the war, and it can be seen that Tao Wei's aircraft is constantly making tactical maneuvers, flying up and down, and still flexible in the case of being shot.
Tao Wei once said: The most important point in going to the battlefield is not to be afraid of death, not to be afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, if you are afraid, if you have a little hesitation, it will be over; you must have blood, you must have the momentum to overwhelm all enemies, and dare to meet the enemy.
Tao Wei's words reflected the bloodiness of the Chinese soldiers of that era, who had a homeland in their hearts and a world in their hearts, and were not afraid of difficulties and dared to challenge. The soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea are our eternal examples.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a war to defend the homeland and defend the country; countless enthusiastic sons and daughters of China threw their heads and scattered their blood on the battlefield; Tao Wei joined the army at the age of 17 and was awarded the second class meritorious service after joining the army, which is the epitome and true portrayal of the combat process of China's air force from weak to strong.
Kissinger once wrote in his memoirs that Chinese was always protected by the bravest of them.
Today, we remember history, and to remember heroes is to hope that the tragic history of "why should the body be wrapped in ma ge" never happen again, and let the dove of peace fly in every corner of the world.
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