Since ancient times, whenever the Chinese nation has been bullied by outsiders, there will always be heroes who stand up to resist, and in the face of the great righteousness of the country, they have disregarded their personal lives and left behind many names that have been famous for eternity. In the past 100 years since we have given birth, countless national heroes have been born, who seek the truth and yearn for the independence and prosperity of the motherland.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the national spirit continued to be maintained, the volunteer army participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to go abroad to fight, the People's Liberation Army participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, they bravely attacked, they were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, which made countless Chinese people weep. Today we introduce to you Wang Wei, the first heroic model of the People's Liberation Army since the 21st century.
On the morning of April 1, 2001, over China's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, a US EP-3 conducted reconnaissance in our airspace. The EP-3 was the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft of the US military at that time, which could seat 24 people, was equipped with advanced electromagnetic signal monitoring equipment, and could easily monitor all electronic signals such as radar, broadcasting, telegraph, and mobile phones in the coastal area, which was a great threat to me.
According to the custom, navy pilots Wang Wei and Zhao Yu took off urgently, piloted two J-8II fighter jets to track and monitor them, and warned them to drive away. But the EP-3 is holding on to its own advanced performance, continuously making dangerous flight moves. At 9:07 a.m., Wang Wei piloted the fighter to make a sideways approaching action, what he did not expect was that the EP-3 suddenly turned sharply, and then with a loud noise, the tail wing of the J-8II fighter was directly hit by the EP-3 propeller, the tail was instantly stirred into pieces, and Wang Wei began to roll at a high altitude.
At this time, Wang Wei did not panic, and he calmly reported: "The aircraft control has failed. Subsequently, he tried his best to control the fighter plane that was about to fall, and another pilot, Zhao Yu, urgently issued an order to jump quickly. After Receiving it, Wang Wei said the last words of his life: "81192 received, I can no longer return, please continue to move forward." ”
Zhao Yu repeatedly recalled the picture at that time, Wang Wei's fighter plane fell rapidly, and he personally saw that Wang Wei had successfully parachuted, and there should be a possibility of survival. However, Wang Wei disappeared at sea. The Navy and relevant rescue and salvage departments sent a large number of aircraft and ships to the parachuting sea area to search and rescue, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians were dispatched before and after for 14 consecutive days of searching. In the end, everyone had to accept the fact that Wang Wei had already sacrificed, and he was only 33 years old at that time.
Wang Wei's wife, Ruan Guoqin, wept silently, and she recalled that the last thing Wang Wei said to her was to be on duty today and could not go home, and she did not expect that this sentence would become a farewell. On April 14, the Navy Party Committee posthumously recognized him as a revolutionary martyr, and the Central Military Commission posthumously awarded him the honorary title of "Guardian of the Sea and Air".
Born in April 1968 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wang Wei wanted to be a pilot from an early age and applied for the Air Force Flight Academy at the age of 18. In his 15-year flying career, he has reached the point of obsession with flying. Of all the flight cadets of the Academy's contemporaries, he was the first to fly solo. After graduation, every time the equipment of the troops was renewed, he was the first to take on the task of combat readiness, and compared with his peers, he was the first to fly 1,000 hours, the most combat take-offs, and the most major tasks.
After martyr Wang Wei paid the price of his life, what happened to the EP-3 of the US military and the pilots on board? At 9:33 a.m. on April 1, due to the serious damage to the EP-3 reconnaissance plane, it was unable to return to the Okinawa airport in Japan, and it was forced to land at Lingshui Airport in Hainan without china's permission. We detained 24 members of the plane, including pilot U.S. Navy Captain Shane Osborne.
Shane Osborne
On the same day, Zhou Wenzhong, assistant chinese foreign minister, urgently summoned US Ambassador to China Prueher to strongly protest the US military's hegemonic and criminal acts and sternly demanded that the US side must bear full responsibility for this matter. What makes people indignant is that in order to clear up its responsibilities, the United States has wantonly slandered in the international media that the plane collision is entirely Wang Wei's responsibility.
US President George W. Bush was even more excessive, asking the Chinese side to return the EP-3 and 24 onboard personnel to the United States intact, and as for our pilot Wang Wei, whose life and death were unknown at the time, he did not even mention it in his speech, as if he had never been such a person. Subsequently, China's vice premier Qian Qichen, Zhang Wannian, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, and other important leaders spoke out one after another that the United States must give an account to Wang Wei's relatives and our people.
At the strong request of our government, the US side gradually relented from its strong words at the beginning to the end, and has changed its apology letter 6 times. On April 11, U.S. Ambassador to China Plih handed over a letter of apology to Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan on behalf of the U.S. government, expressing "deep regret" over the plane collision in the South China Sea. On April 12, 24 murderers flew back to China from Haikou Meilan Airport.
What people did not expect was that when our people and Wang Wei's family were still immersed in the great sorrow of Wang Wei's sacrifice, the American people actually welcomed the 24 crew members home with joy, and the pilot Shane Osborne was also received by President George W. Bush. George W. Bush awarded him a medal of bravery, praising him for saving the lives of 23 crew members.
The major media in the United States then conducted overwhelming interviews with Osborne, praising him as a hero. Osborne actually described the collision process as follows: Chinese fighters continued to provoke him, and he was forced to fight back. This is a complete reversal of black and white. In order to maintain his popularity, Osborne published another book, which Chinese translated called "Top Gun: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Sino-AMERICAN South China Sea Plane Collision", which portrayed him as a hero.
Later, with the blessing of his self-proclaimed "national hero" aura, Osborne declared himself in politics, and he was elected minister of the Nebraska Treasury and a member of Parliament. In every campaign speech after he entered politics, he took the plane collision incident in the South China Sea as his biggest speech of political capital, adding fuel to the fire and painting the color. The American people thought he was a hero, but he was a real murderer.
Now that 20 years have passed, our national strength is strong and our military strength is getting stronger and stronger, and we already have the ability to say "NO" to US hegemonism, and we can finally comfort the heroic soul of martyr Wang Wei in heaven.