In August 1978, at a funeral in Beijing, the person who presided over the funeral on the stage was a very familiar figure, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be Marshal Ye Jianying.
This was not the first time that Marshal Ye Jianying had presided over a funeral, but this time he presided over not a comrade-in-arms who fought with him in blood, but a communicator, Wang Yi.
Chairman Mao once commented on Wang Wei and said, "He is the great master of our Communist Party's communications."
Chairman Mao's high appraisal of Wang Wei was not simply praise, but merely telling the truth.
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As we all know, the mass line that the Communist Party took at the beginning, when the Chinese people were very poor and had nothing, as the Communist Party of the masses who revolted, in the early days, really had to rely on the capture of the enemy's equipment to arm itself, so after each victory in war, they had to count the weapons, equipment, materials, and prisoners.
As the lyrics of the Partisan Song written by He Luting in 1937 describe it:
There is no food, no clothing, but the enemy sends it forward;
No guns, no cannons, the enemy made for us!
This was not the first funeral presided over by Ye Jianying, but watching one comrade after another lie in the coffin, and every time he participated in the funeral of his comrade-in-arms, the grief in Marshal Ye's heart multiplied exponentially. Ye Jianying and Wang Wei did not spend a long time together, after all, one was fighting on the front line, the other was studying intelligence circuits in the rear, and the number of times the two communicated could be counted.
However, Ye Jianying admired Wang Yi very much, otherwise he would not have personally presided over his funeral, and before Wang Yi's death, Ye Jianying also specially asked someone to draw a picture of an eagle to give to Wang Yi, and personally wrote a sentence with a pen: "The hero is still old and strong, independent and thoughtful" to express his appreciation for Wang Yi.
So who was this Wang Slanderer who actually let the famous founding marshal of the country preside over the funeral for him? Today, Fugui will take you to understand the legendary story of Wang Yi.
On November 5, 1930, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Lu Diping as commander-in-chief and division commander Zhang Huizhen as the commander-in-chief of the front, and with 100,000 troops, launched an encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region. However, in this first encirclement and suppression war, the Red Army led by Chairman Mao and Zhu De was counter-encircled and suppressed; in the Battle of Longgang, the Kuomintang not only did not encircle and suppress the Communists, but also surrendered a large amount of equipment, not to mention, even the commander of the 18th Division, Zhang Huizhan, was captured by the Red Army.
However, the protagonist we are talking about this time is not the biggest general who was captured in this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, but in the eyes of the Kuomintang, a small communications soldier who is inconspicuous, Wang Yi.
This Wang Yi can only be said to be a correspondent, because he has a skill, he can only give the commanders a phone call to pass on his internal news, why? Because in the battle between the Kuomintang and the Communists, there was no radio intelligence at all.
The Communist Party, which is poor and has left its people, is different from the Kuomintang, which plunders the people's fat and people's anointing; even if it is poor and bitter, it only pays materials from the enemy and never expropriates a penny from the masses, even if it is a gun or a knife, which is not easy for the Communist Party to come by. It is said that the rare object of the time, the radio station.
Radio
At that time, the Communist Party also wanted to have its own radio station, so that there was no need to use manpower to transmit information, and radio was fast and convenient, but in the hands of the Communist Party, there was neither a radio station nor a correspondent, and no one knew radio, and a large number of people could only look at the radio and sigh.
However, when counting the prisoners who were arrested in the first anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Guo Huaruo, chief of the General Staff Office, found that there were several people who were particularly special, did not hold guns or resist cannons, and did not know what they were doing.
Guo Huaruo told Chairman Mao about this matter, and at that time Chairman Mao was worried that there was no liaison officer, so he hurriedly explained to Guo Huaruo: Ask them if anyone is willing to stay, unwilling or forced, and those who are unwilling to stay will be given some entanglements to let them leave.
Guo Huaruo told the captured correspondents what Chairman Mao meant and asked them: Do any of you want to stay?
Immediately, one person raised his hand, and there was the first person, and then another person stepped forward. It was not until Guo Huaruo disbanded the liaison officers who did not want to stay that he learned that these two people were originally a pair of masters and apprentices, the master was called Wu Renjian, and the apprentice was called Liu Darui.
After the investigation of the Communist Party, it was learned that this Wu Renjian had actually entered the wrong party organization.
This Wu Renjian, a native of Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, was born in May 1909, with a well-off family, he was sent by his family to study private school since he was a child, and later in February 1928, he was admitted to the Sixth Communication Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, which was a high-end major at that time, and the people in it belonged to rare talents.
The Whampoa Military Academy was the alma mater of most Kuomintang generals and the cradle of the upper echelons of the Kuomintang, so Wu Renjian was called to the Kuomintang after entering the Whampoa Military Academy in 1928 and staying for a year.
After two years in the Ninth Division, Wu Renjian was transferred to the Kuomintang Eighteenth Division led by Zhang Huizhan as a radio operator because Chiang Kai-shek was preparing to launch the first encirclement and suppression war against the Communists.
However, as early as the two years of the work of the Kuomintang Ninth Division, Wu Renjian, as a telegraph operator, vaguely guessed the intentions of the Kuomintang, and only then was he horrified to find that he had actually turned to the opposite side of the masses!
Wu renjian later changed his name to Wang Yi
He knew more information than some of the small soldiers who charged into the battlefield, although he knew what he was doing, but at this time Wu Renjian had no way back, as a messenger with intelligence, their identities were clearly investigated, and Wu Renjian could only sneak a life in the Kuomintang for the safety of his family.
When Wu Renjian was captured, he was ready to defect to the Communist Party, and he learned that the Communist Party was the democratic party that fought for the people to be the masters of their own affairs, which was exactly what he aspired to, so when Guo Huaruo said it, Wu Renjian was the first to stand up.
Although Liu Darui and Wu Renjian only met in the Eighteenth Division, the two people took the same position, one day as a teacher, a lifelong father, he respected and followed the master's choice.
In order not to be discovered by the Kuomintang and to persecute their families, Wu Renjian and Liu Darui assumed the pseudonyms Wang Yi and Liu Yin.
In this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, our army not only absorbed two correspondents, but also captured a radio station, but because the soldiers were fighting, because they did not know what it was, they accidentally broke this delicate big guy, and when the crowd was at a loss, Wang Yi went forward to check the radio, and helplessly said that this radio station was broken.
This bad news made some of the little soldiers burst into tears, blaming them for being too careless, otherwise they would have owned a radio station. This is the radio station that Chairman Mao has in mind, and if they had it, they would be able to quickly deliver military reports and would never again suffer losses because of untimely intelligence.
Unable to bear to see the soldiers and Chairman Mao disappointed, Wang Yi rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll try to see if I can fix it."
In the end, this radio station was repaired by Wang Yi half, why say half of it.
Wang reported to his superiors that this radio station could only receive intelligence, not send reports.
Wang Defamation
But this is enough, Guo Huaruo said passionately: Since we can collect the first radio station, there will be a second, and most importantly, we have a correspondent!
In December 1930, after Wang Yi and Liu Yin joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, they met Chairman Mao in January of the following year, and Chairman Mao had great hopes for these two correspondents.
Living up to the expectations of Chairman Mao and President Zhu, Wang Yi used this broken radio station to decipher the urgent telegram sent by Wang Jinyu to He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the bandits, in the second Kuomintang war to encircle and suppress the Communists.
Wang Jinyu said on the radio that because most of the officers and men in the army were sick due to the insubordination of water and soil, and there was constant turmoil in the army, although three of them had been put to justice on the spot, in order to avoid the Red Army taking advantage of the chaos to raid, it was hoped that the superiors could pave the way for the march to build bridges in order to transfer the army.
Wang Yi quickly reported the news, and the leaders who learned the news were overjoyed, and they could not praise Wang Yi, so they immediately dispatched troops and surrounded the Kuomintang troops in Buchuan overnight, because they learned in advance that Wang Jinyu's troops were now like a sick cat, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly increased, and Wang Jinyu was directly caught off guard.
The second encirclement and suppression campaign of the Kuomintang ended in half a month, and the communists' second counter-encirclement and suppression not only won a triumphant victory, but also confiscated a large amount of armaments and materials from the Kuomintang, promptly replenishing the attrition in the war.
After this victory, Chairman Mao also specially praised Wang Yi and Liu Yin, saying that they were the tailwind ears and clairvoyants of the Red Army, and that they were a great magic weapon for them to defeat the enemy.
These words were like a shot of reassurance for Wang Yi and the two men, who were even more attentive in intercepting enemy intelligence for the Red Army.
Even when Zhang Guotao was crushed with the intention of splitting the Red Army and intending to attack the Red First Army, it was also discovered by Wang Yi, who had also captured intelligence, but it was useless to know Zhang Guotao's plan, at that time, the Red First Army was already wounded, sick and disabled, and the armament was not enough, and they urgently needed the Red Second Army. But because the radio was damaged, the signal was very unstable, the leaders gathered in the radio room, time passed little by little, the air gradually became more and more solemn, and Wang Yi constantly adjusted the channel until they heard a response with a Hunan accent, and the atmosphere was instantly relieved.
Relying on radio, the Red Army's war was more smooth, and at this time Wang Yi was not only a radio intelligence officer, just as Chairman Mao said, Wang Yi was a magic weapon for the Red Army to win.
Because there was always something wrong with the radio stations he had paid, Wang Yi began to teach himself to repair radio stations, and relying on the radio stations he had paid from the Kuomintang, he drew up the radio pattern little by little, and understood the radio stations more thoroughly.
In order to prevent the Kuomintang from intercepting the Intelligence of the Red Army, Wang Yi also transformed the radio stations equipped by the Red Army and trained radio operators hand in hand, thus making great contributions to the development of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's intelligence work.
Seven soldiers Xiangjiang held up the most precious treasure of the Red Army
But when it comes to why Wang Yi followed the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army so stubbornly, it is also necessary to talk about the Long March in 1934, because the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression failed, the Red Army had to carry out the Long March, Wang Yi, as the commander of the radio brigade of the General Headquarters of the Red Army, was surrounded by the soldiers around him for protection, and the troops also gave him a horse, but seeing that so many wounded people could only walk on foot, Wang Yi told himself in his heart that horses could only be used to drive equipment, and he was resolutely unable to ride a horse.
But as the Kuomintang sent fighters to bomb the troops, even Wang Yi, who was in the center of the line, was bombarded by artillery fire, and Wang Yi was not a fighter, but he was a correspondent more important than the fighters. In order to protect the comatose Wang, the little warriors took turns carrying the precious technician and placing him on a tree row to cross the river.
However, the artillery fire fell on the side again and again, the tree platoon was blown up, in order to take Wang Yi away safely, the warriors carried Wang Yi in the cold water of the Xiang River, one warrior fell down with all his strength, and immediately another soldier made up for it, just like this, he took Wang Yi across the Xiang River.
When Wang Yi woke up, he learned that at least seven warriors had stayed in Xiangjiang forever to protect him. They may sleep in the cold waters of the river, or they may be brought back by their comrades-in-arms, but they will never return to their hometown.
When Wang Yi learned of this, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he could not speak for a long time, only tears blurred his vision. For the sake of the sacrificial soldiers, Wang Yi vowed that he must use his communication technology to help the Red Army achieve victory, so as not to disappoint the soldiers who sacrificed for him.
Wang's ability is not only to steal intelligence and contact friendly forces, but in the Korean War, Wang And Zhang Luqian worked together to solve the enemy's plan to use electromagnetic waves to interfere with our radar.
Later, when China was studying two bombs and one satellite, because the Kuomintang used a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft called U-2 to frequently harass the experimental base, due to the interference of the U-2 on the guided radar, the missiles have not been able to hit.
Under the research of Wang Yi and Zhang Luqian for several months, they created a way to change the working system of missile radar, using continuous illumination to carry out target tracking and missile guidance, and after the fourth and fifth U-2s were destroyed, the U-2s no longer dared to enter the mainland.
It is not without reason that Wang Yi was called by Chairman Mao as the well-deserved "founding father of China's red communications."
Lieutenant General Wang died in 1978, but he remained at work the year before.
At Wang's funeral, Marshal Li Jianying spoke of his inscription to Wang Wei: "The hero is still old and strong, and he is independent and thoughtful."
Wang Yi's generation has been working for the country and has never rested, because his life has never been his own, he has the will of the Xiangjiang soldiers, for victory, the soldiers have fought with their lives and the enemy, for the sake of the country, Wang Yi will always run to the front line of electronic communication.