After the founding of New China, the motherland was a thriving scene, especially chairman Mao's decision to send troops to korea to resist the United States and aid Korea in 1950, which shocked the whole world by sending the invincible US troops back from the banks of the Yalu River to the vicinity of the "38th Line." This also completely dispelled Chiang Kai-shek's arrogance of "counterattacking the mainland." Although Chiang Kai-shek was still clamoring for "counter-offensive" later, it was nothing more than a kind of self-consolation in his heart.
In contrast to the thriving scene of the mainland, Taiwan Island has been enforcing "martial law" for 38 years since 00:00 on May 20, 1949, which is also the longest martial law in the world. As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and martial law cannot suppress the people's pursuit of light on the island. From the 1950s to the 1980s, dozens of pilots flew various types of aircraft from Taiwan to the mainland to surrender to the uprising.
We all know that the navy and air force is not as easy to train as the army, a qualified pilot needs to spend a lot of time and money, some people say that the cost of training a pilot can be equal to the gold of the same weight of the pilot, which shows the value of the pilot. However, on January 7, 1956, Wei David, who had served in the Kuomintang Navy and Air Force, actually flew back to the mainland with Jiang Weiguo's special plane, which made the islanders very frightened.
Why did David Wei take Jiang Weiguo's special plane back to the mainland? Why is it a special plane? How did it end?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, deceived Taiwan Island, secretly determined: "Lao Tzu must come back."</h1>
Wei David, born in 1930 in Guilin to a military family, three uncles are air force pilots, two died in the air battle of the War of Resistance, one died in an air show. Under the influence of his uncles, David Wei has been very eager to fly since he was a child, and at the age of 11, David Wei was admitted to the Air Force Kindergarten School, but the family was frightened by the end of the three uncles and did not agree to his participation in the Air Force. At the age of 18, he was even sent to Guilin to learn music (vocal music). But after all, he is still young and wants to join the army to save the country, and at the same time satisfy his air force dream.
In April 1949, the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and fought all the way to Lingnan, and the Guangdong Campaign was officially launched on October 2, and Guangzhou was invaded on October 14. It is conceivable how chaotic Guangzhou was in July, but it was at this time that David Wei and two classmates came to Guangzhou, why did they come to Guangzhou? Because he often made some progressive remarks during his school days, he was targeted and had to flee, after all, Guangzhou at this time became the "temporary capital city" of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and people with many eyes would not notice their own small person.
David Wei wanted to find a school to continue his studies, and he saw on the street that all the units of the sea, land and air force were recruiting, and the recruitment advertisements of the military school were all over the street. In August, David Wei and his classmates were "tricked" into boarding a warship, and then dragged to the Fengshan Army Training Base in Taiwan, where they originally wanted to find a naval academy, but they were pulled to "Zhuang Ding", and after simple training, they were sent to the "front line" of Hongmao Port in northern Hsinchu to guard the ground. David Wei was very angry, and secretly decided on the warship that was pulled to Taiwan: Lao Tzu must come back.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, it is not easy to get warships to return to the mainland, then jump to the air force and fly planes back to the mainland</h1>
David Wei was angry that he had been tricked into going to Taiwan, and was even more dissatisfied with guarding the "front line" (Hongmao Port is located in the western part of Taiwan Island, which can be counted as the "front line"). To the "front line" David and two other "comrades-in-arms" have been plotting to escape, and finally slipped out of the eyes of the guards on a stormy night. David Wei first hid in a fellow countryman's home for a few days, and then was left behind by his "comrades-in-arms".
David Wei was afraid of implicating his fellow countrymen, so he also left, spending 21 days in a sugarcane field, thirsty to chew sugarcane, drink stream water, and hungry to catch some fish and shrimp in the next stream. After three weeks, David Wei felt that the wind and noise had passed, after all, in this chaotic period, who would bother for these few small soldiers? So David Wei walked out of the sugarcane forest to Pingtung in the south, and finally arrived in Pingtung after a thirsty meal and wanted to return to the mainland from here. However, this idea is difficult to realize, had to find a temporary worker in Pingtung to make a living, and later under the introduction of a fellow villager, David Wei arrived at the 11th Brigade of the Taiwan Air Force and was admitted to the Air Force Officer School, but after a few days of study, he felt that the Air Force was not interesting, it was better to be a navy, and later find an opportunity to drive back to the mainland.
After all, he was trained in the military and had a degree, so he was admitted to the Naval Officer School, and two years later, Wei David served on the Yongtai ship of the Navy, which is one of the eight major ships in Taiwan, which shows that Wei David's academic performance is still very good, and when he graduated, Wei David was still fantasizing about making a boat uprising and driving back to the mainland. But when he came to the ship, Wei David found a situation that there were too many crew members on the ship, and it was too difficult to get everyone, after the founding of New China, there were repeated uprisings by the air force, but there were ten times that the success of the ship uprising was one or two. In 1949, there were 21 ship uprisings, only 4 were successful, and in October 1949, the "Meisong" uprising failed, and the captain Mao was not killed in the left camp.
Seeing all kinds of corruption on the ship, the desire in his heart to return to the mainland became stronger and stronger, and David Wei realized that it was more likely to return to the mainland by plane uprising, and the idea of "job-hopping" of the air force came up in his heart. But I was in the Navy, how did I get to the Air Force?
Once went to the Air Force Kindergarten School, the family has an Air Force tradition, when David Wei went to the Air Force to apply for pilots, after examination was admitted, but the Navy did not agree, how can he easily let go of the excellent talents he has worked hard to cultivate for 2 years, requiring him to serve in the Navy for 5 years before agreeing to release people? In another 5 years, the broccoli will be cold, what should I do? David Wei came up with a "brilliant plan": desertion.
When David Wei told the captain about his idea of joining the Air Force, the captain said that even if he left, he would be punished one by one at most, and there was no big problem. A few days later, the "Yongtai" will sail to Mazu Island to carry out the mission, set sail at midnight, and David Wei left the "Yongtai Ship" this night. David Wei sneaked out of the Yongtai and ran to the Air Force office in Tainan, where the officer in charge of enrollment was very fond of David Wei, after all, the talent was very fond, and this Air Force officer gave David some money to live and arranged for him to be trained at the Donggang Air Base in the south, so that the Navy could do nothing about him. The Navy was very angry, and directly sought out important people in the Air Force, and the Air Force did not release people, so it directly went to the "Ministry of Defense" to file a complaint, but obviously the Navy did not win the war, after all, it is not easy to train a pilot. In this way, David Wei began his Air Force study career in the 25th flight of the Air Force Officer School. During the study period, Wei David also met a person Xu Tingze, and 7 years after Wei David's uprising, Xu Tingze also took the opportunity to revolt.
Later, Air Force Commander Wang Shuming saw Wei David and ridiculed: "You are the famous Wei David, for you, the Air Force and the Navy are fighting lawsuits, and the files of the 'Ministry of National Defense' are so thick." ”
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the uprising failed, and the heart did not change</h1>
After half a year of study, David Wei can already fly, after all, the plane of that year is still relatively easy. The Navy has always been very dissatisfied with David Wei's "betrayal" behavior, so it issued a document to the Air Force, saying that David Wei was suspected of "communism". The Air Force was also suspicious because David Wei spoke radically, had his own thoughts, and infected a group of classmates. The Air Force asked David Wei to join the Kuomintang, but he firmly disagreed, which made the Air Force very embarrassed. On the one hand, Wei David's thinking is a bit radical, and he is unwilling to join the Kuomintang, on the other hand, there is no definite evidence, so the Political Department often finds him at night to "talk with candlelights", although what he says is some blank big truth, but Wei David does not understand why it is commonplace every day, his instructor said the reason, wanted to consume his energy, let him fall to his death when driving the plane, after all, there is no evidence, there is no way to catch. The instructor advised him that homeless and unemployed in Taiwan, "why hang himself on a tree?"
This plan is exactly in David's mind, the plane has been almost learned, at this time do not go to stay longer? So he planned to fly an uprising, but Wei David felt that his uprising was not shocking enough, and called on the remaining 11 people to revolt together, thinking about the joint uprising of 12 planes, what a scene, it was definitely a huge blow to Jiang Jun, but the night before Tao Kaifu and Qin Baozun acted alone, fighting grass and snakes. Not long after, David Wei was transferred to the headquarters in Taipei. Wei David knew that he was afraid that he would be more fierce and less fortunate when he went to Taipei this time, that he had not yet graduated and had no combat experience, and that it was obviously not a good thing to be transferred to Taipei. David Wei wanted to slip away again, but this time he didn't succeed.
Sure enough, he was arrested as soon as he arrived in Taipei to report, and 7 other people were arrested, all of whom were detained in the Air Force Prison, but fortunately one of them had an uncle, Zhou Zhirou, who was a close associate of Chiang Kai-shek and was in a high position, so the light of the people was released, otherwise they would have to be sent to Green Island in southeastern Taiwan and imprisoned. It's an island of nine deaths, so don't think about it.
After being released, the other 7 people all returned to the Air Force to continue to work as pilots, but David Wei could not go back, and once he went back, he might really be thrown to death one day, so he sneaked to Taipei, hoping to find a job here, and then slowly tried to do it.
However, as a mainlander, military status, no legal documents, can not find any job, once as the "proud son of heaven" of the Air Force can now only become a tramp, in order to maintain survival, he has wiped cars, cut grass, dumped garbage, but also with the vocal music he once learned to sell songs in the dance hall, in the process of cleaning the american car is very hard, got a good feeling, was recommended to work in the United States advisory group.
Although life has been slightly settled, a heart to go home has not changed.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, "Trouble bring a word to Chiang Kai-shek, just say that Lao Tzu is gone."</h1>
Now David Wei is a person without identity, it is impossible to return to China through legal channels, he is a pilot, of course, he hopes to fly back, and the military plane will take the road of civil aviation if he can't do it. With his work on the U.S. Advisory Board and his former status as a pilot, david Wei entered the Taipei Flying Society as a flight instructor in April 1955.
The Flying Society has more than 20 aircraft, but most of them are slow and short-range, making them unsuitable for flying back to the mainland. Wei David took a fancy to Jiang Weiguo's special plane, which is an American-made "Cessna" with very good performance. However, the plane had 6 guards on turn, and there were special pilots and mechanics, and no one else was allowed to get close.
Wei David first found the relevant information of this aircraft from the market, when the plane took off, Wei David was still observing with a telescope at a distance, so that he had mastered the basic operation of the aircraft, but there were two problems, one was that he did not have the key to the plane, and he could not take off without the key, and the other was that the plane had a guard who was not easy to board.
Wei David, as a flight instructor of the flying club, took the opportunity to come with a key on the grounds of visiting, and also engaged in relations with 6 guards, often inviting them to eat and drink, after all, he worked a year ago to earn a lot of money, nothing is a meal of wine can not be determined, if not then two meals, Wei David and 6 people are familiar with each other, and now everything is ready before the East Wind.
Time came to January 6, 1956, this day the guard of the special plane and Wei David's relationship with Wei David is the most "iron", Wei David said to this guard that this plane will fly to Hualien in the east tomorrow, need to "test the plane", according to the reason, Wei David can not board the plane, but after the exchange of wine and meat, he completely relaxed his vigilance against Wei David, what is the "test plane", why "test the plane" He is not clear, so he let Wei David board the plane, and help him fill up the oil, which is actually Wei David's advance preparation, Just wait for tomorrow morning to board the plane with two other friends (Liang Feng and Zhai Xiaowu). When everything was ready, David Got off the plane and went to the ballroom with his friends for the final revelry, singing and dancing, and staying up all night.
At about 5:00 a.m. on January 7, Wei David and his party left the ballroom and went straight to the airport, because from 6 to 8 o'clock in the morning, this guard was still on guard, and Wei David originally wanted to drag him back together, otherwise the plane flew back to the mainland from his hands, leaving him to be punished, but this person was very "reactionary" in his thinking, and there were no relatives on the mainland, so he had no intention of going back at all. In this way, the "friend" had to be sacrificed, because the ambush had been fought in advance the night before, and today he was going to fly the lotus on a mission, so the guards were not wary, and the guards also helped him get the plane out of the hangar. Taking advantage of the gap between himself and the guards to drink coffee, two friends sneaked into the cabin.
Sadly, the key that he secretly assigned, all of a sudden twisted and did not fire, he had to get off the plane to repair the key, in order to prevent the guard from boarding the plane to check, let the two friends get off the plane first to hide, when they re-boarded the plane to fight the fire, Liang Feng and Zhai Xiaowu immediately boarded the plane, which directly looked at the stupid guard, realized that the matter was not good, immediately called the plane to stop, and drew a gun to shoot. However, in apparent panic, the guards did not shoot well, and did not even shoot five shots. Although he could not get on the airstrip, but this is a small plane, does not need too long take-off distance, can only take off on the open space on the tarmac, although the distance is very short, David Wei still relies on his own technology to pull the plane up.
At this time, the microphone came the order of the airport tower asking for an immediate landing, but how could David, who had already flown into the sky, listen to his words, but instead replied:
"I am David Wei, tell Chiang Kai-shek that Lao Tzu is gone!"
It is said that this phrase has spread very strongly in Taiwan.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >5, bumpy homecoming:</h1>
Because David Wei did not stop taking off, the tower contacted two other airports, sent 4 F-86 jet fighters to intercept, saw that the F-86 was going to intercept, David Wei changed course, low altitude flew away from the official residence of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan, F-86 as a jet fighter did not dare to fly at low altitude, so that wei David's plane could not be found, but it was difficult to fly over the Taiwan Strait, and encountered 3 DD-class destroyers of the US Seventh Fleet, the anti-aircraft fire was very fierce, and had to turn around again. Flying over the port of Keelung, it flew ultra-low above the sea.
From Taipei to the mainland, the shortest route is to land in Fuzhou, but Wei David thought that he did not get in touch with the mainland, Fuzhou's anti-aircraft fire is definitely the strongest, maybe it will be shot down, or change places. So David Wei flew to southern Fujian, a decision that saved the three people on the plane, because Wu Baozhi, who later flew to the mainland to reconnoiter the shot down and captured, said that two F-86s were already waiting for him over eastern Fuzhou.
Wei David flew south to the vicinity of Quanzhou, just flew into quanzhou bay, was bombarded by anti-aircraft artillery, Wei David had to pull up the plane and continue to fly inland, at this time Ye Fei, who was in charge of the front line, thought that this might be an uprising aircraft and ordered to stop shooting, but some troops who did not receive the order still shot with machine guns, rifles and other weapons. Because David Wei needed to fly at a low altitude to find the airport, he was hit four times, and it was even more difficult to find a flat place in Fujian except for a mountain or a mountain.
David Wei suddenly found a school, ready to land on the school playground, the result of the playground is full of students, had to pull up again, just when he was anxious, found that there is a dirt road on the west side of the school, although the road is very narrow and there are trees on both sides, but this is the only hope, decisively choose to land here. The forced landing was thrilling, but in the end it landed without any danger, and was immediately surrounded by fighters shouting "surrender their guns and don't kill". And when David Wei and others revealed their identity to the uprising, the villagers began to cheer.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >6, framed and imprisoned for eight years, risking death and escaping from prison</h1>
David Wei became a hero, was received by Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and others, and was invited by major organs and enterprises to give speeches, which was praised by the whole country. David Wei was assigned to work in civil aviation as a pilot, and for the next 12 years, David Wei's life has been smooth. Until 1968, Wei David and Pan Guoding, the "uprising of the two airlines," secretly ran to Xi'an, were posted in Beijing with big posters, and when they returned to Beijing, they joined these people, and it was not long before they were arrested on the charge of "piloting a plane treason and surrendering to the enemy conspiracy", and the Jiang Weiguo plane that flew back was also regarded as a "counter-revolutionary plane" and destroyed.
After entering the prison, David Wei was inhumanly abused, beaten so badly that even two ribs were broken. His left ear was broken and his lungs were injured, but David Waswolf was a man of discontent since he was a child, and had been confronting his interrogators. In order to force Wei David to submit, he forced Wei David's wife Xue Lianli to divorce him, and although he was not afraid of authority, he chose to break up for the sake of his wife and daughter.
On October 30, 1974, David Wei, who had been imprisoned for 8 years, seized an opportunity to jump out of the grid from the lookout without the guards noticing, fortunately the power grid was not energized during the day.
After escaping from prison, Wei David was wanted, disguised to avoid the search, stole a truck into the city, and finally came to the central reception room to petition and appeal, and finally Wei David's case was personally handled by Ye Shuai, after a six-month review, Wei David was declared "innocent" and was rehabilitated, but his wife did not remarry himself, after ten years, he took his daughter to the United States, and Wei David remarried with his neighbor Jin Yuzhen under the mediation of Pan Guoding.
Time flies, in 1987, Taiwan opened up the people to visit relatives on the mainland, and the next year Jiang Weiguo sent his confidential secretary Meng Zhaoxu to the mainland and found David Wei. Meng Zhaoxu told him that Jiang Weiguo was very concerned about him, which made Wei David very surprised, and he drove his plane away, didn't he hate himself? Meng Zhaoxu said: "He does not hate you, General Wei Guo admires you, knows that Taiwan cannot keep you, and also feels that Taiwan is unfair to you." ”
After that, David Wei applied twice to go to Taiwan to meet Jiang Weiguo, but both sides refused, which became a major regret for David Wei.
After 1989, without the surrender of new pilots, Lin Xianshun became the last pilot to surrender. But will the pilots on the island really fight to defend the "island"? Reunification is the trend of the Chinese nation, and it is necessary and inevitable to unify. In the more than 70 years since the founding of New China, the national strength has long been unmatched in the 50s, and no force can prevent the reunification of the country.