In 1931, when the Red Army had won victory in counter-revolutionary encirclement and suppression, red army soldiers discovered a radio station while collecting booty, chairman Mao knew the importance of radio communications to the battlefield, so he immediately summoned personnel to check it out.
At this time, a prisoner of the Nationalist army stood up and said that he would use the radio, and looked at this dirty prisoner, everyone laughed, this prisoner did not look good, how could he use such an advanced thing? However, Chairman Mao said very seriously: "Well, then you can try it!" ”
Surprisingly, the captive actually used radio to solve the Red Army's problems, and 25 years later, he grew into a founding lieutenant general. So, who was this captive? How did he go from captive to founding lieutenant general?
The captive, wu renjian, studied radio technology at the Nanjing Military Transportation College and worked as a telegraph operator in the Kuomintang 18th Division after graduation.
During his tenure as a telegraph operator, Wu Renjian made many contributions to the transmission of news to the Nationalist army on the battlefield, and was deeply valued by his superiors, because of his excellent performance in the post, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant by his superiors, at that time Wu Renjian was only 21 years old, and became a lieutenant at a young age, which can be described as a moment of glory.
However, Wu Renjian did not expect his fate, but it was changed because of a battle.
On November 5, 1930, Chiang Kai-shek decided to encircle and suppress the central revolutionary base area in Jiangxi, and Wu Renjian followed the 18th Division to Jiangxi as a newspaper operator. After the battle began, the soldiers of the Red Army won a great victory with superb combat skills, and the 18th Division was completely destroyed, and even the division commander Zhang Huizhen was captured alive.
In addition, the Red Army captured a radio station of the Communications Department of the 18th Division and captured Wu Renjian and other telegraphers. Due to the Kuomintang's malicious propaganda against the Red Army, many Kuomintang soldiers had many misunderstandings about the Red Army soldiers.
Therefore, after some of the messengers were captured, they were very panicked and afraid that they would be mistreated, and Wu Renjian was as worried as the other soldiers.
But Wu Renjian found that the truth was not what they imagined, and after coming to the Red Army team, the Red Army soldiers did not bind them, but just gathered them in one place, took care of them, and ate three meals a day like ordinary Red Army soldiers.
Not long after, a man who looked like a commander came to the prisoner camp, and Wu Renjian suddenly became nervous, thinking that he was going to be pulled out and shot, but he did not expect that the commander was very kind to him and said: "Comrade, I know that you are a talent, if you are willing to stay in the Red Army, we will be very welcome, if not, we will also send you a travel fee to let you go home." ”
This chief of staff, Guo Huaruo, persuaded Wu Renjian to surrender according to Chairman Mao's instructions, so why did Chairman Mao attach so much importance to Wu Renjian?
In fact, because a few months ago, the Red Army repeatedly lost in attacking Changsha, and Chairman Mao believed that the main reason for the failure of the attack on Changsha was because the Red Army did not have a radio, the legions could not communicate with each other, and they missed the fighters.
Chairman Mao realized that if there were no radios in the ranks of the Red Army in the future, they would only lose repeated battles, and radios became a piece of Chairman Mao's heart. Fortunately, when a radio station was captured after the victory of the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, since no one in the Red Army could use a radio, Chairman Mao personally ordered Guo Huaruo to talk to the captured Kuomintang radio personnel.
Guo Huaruo's sincerity made Wu Renjian very moved, and he thought of his life in the Ranks of the Red Army in the past few days, believing that the Red Army soldiers were by no means demons who killed people and did not blink in the mouth of the Kuomintang, bandits, but they were more humane than the Kuomintang.
Therefore, Wu Renjian immediately decided to stay in the ranks of the Red Army and become the first radio personnel in the ranks of the Red Army, and in order to avoid persecution by relatives and friends by the Kuomintang, Wu Renjian changed his name to Wang Yi from then on.
Guo Huaruo was very pleased to see Wang Yi's transformation and immediately took Wang Yi to see Chairman Mao. After arriving at Chairman Mao's office, many Red Army cadres thought that Wang Yi was just an ordinary prisoner and did not believe that he would use the radio, only Chairman Mao cordially came forward to shake his hand and said: "Welcome to join the Red Army." ”
Then, after a careful inspection of the radio, Wang Zheng found that the transmitter had been smashed, leaving only the receiver to use. So he said, "This radio station can only be regarded as half of the radio station." ”
Guo Huaruo then asked, "Then is this half of the radio station still useful?" ”
Wang Zheng thought about it and replied, "It can be used to listen to domestic and foreign news releases and listen to intelligence." ”
In this way, this half of the radio became the first radio reconnaissance station of the Red Army, which Wang Used to listen to the news of the Kuomintang Central News Agency and choose to transcribe it to Chairman Mao. When Chairman Mao saw Wang Zheng's transcription, he said with great pleasure: "Isn't this just the newspaper of the newspaper?" Wang Yi also laughed after hearing this.
Soon after, the Red Army captured a good 15-watt radio station in the Battle of Dongshao, and in mid-January 1931, the First Radio Communications Team of the Red Army was officially established, and Chairman Mao personally appointed Wang Yi as its captain and gave Wang Zheng a technical allowance of 50 silver yuan per month.
This is more than Wang Zheng's allowance in the Ranks of the Kuomintang, which shows Chairman Mao's pity for talent. Wang Zheng was very touched by this, but when he learned that Chairman Mao only had a allowance of 5 silver dollars per month, he felt ashamed and immediately asked his superiors to waive the technical allowance.
In April of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek launched a second encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, and Chairman Mao asked Wang to use the radio to spy on the enemy's movements. Because the Kuomintang did not know that the Red Army already had a radio station, and still used unencrypted contact methods when communicating with the radio, they never dreamed that there were not only radio stations in the Red Army at this time, but also a professional radio personnel.
When Wang Yi was listening to the radio of the Kuomintang army, he found that the Twenty-eighth Division fighting the Red Army had sent a string of messages to the Ji'an Garrison, and Wang Yi quickly recorded it for translation, and this telegram showed that the Twenty-eighth Division would go to Donggu, the headquarters of the Red Army, tomorrow morning, and it seemed that the enemy army was preparing to attack the Headquarters of the Red Army.
After receiving the news, Chairman Mao quickly adjusted his strategic deployment in light of this situation, occupied favorable terrain in Donggu before the next morning, and ambushed the local area. The next day, the Twenty-eighth Division did indeed arrive in Donggu, the Kuomintang army was defenseless, entered the ambush circle of the Red Army, with a clarion call, the Red Army suddenly launched an attack, the enemy army was in a chaotic mess in an instant, after a day and a night of fighting, our army won a complete victory.
At the rally of the military and the people in the Soviet region to celebrate victory, Chairman Mao happily praised the radio station as a great magic weapon for victory, and he patted Wang Yi's shoulder and said: "This still depends on Comrade Wang Yi, and when victory is won in the future, the radio stations throughout the country will let you take care of it." Chairman Mao's admiration gave Wang Yi endless motivation, he worked harder in his work, and eagerly awaited the arrival of victory.
After the end of the First World War in Donggu, Wang Yi's work was busier than before, because our army captured a 100-watt radio station, and several new members came to the wireless communication team, so Wang Yi not only had to train the new members, but also did a good job in battlefield communications.
However, in the midst of such a busy schedule, Wang Yi led the members to use a small number of radio stations to skillfully play the comprehensive functions of liaison, reconnaissance, deciphering, and camouflage of the radio stations, so that Chairman Mao could fully understand the situation of the enemy when commanding the battle.
On this day, as usual, Wang Yi used the radio to listen to the enemy's radio and found an encrypted telegram sent by Chiang Kai-shek, and based on Wang's experience in the Kuomintang ranks, he realized that this telegram was certainly not simple, because only very important documents would use such a complex encryption method, and ordinary radio personnel could not translate such a telegram at all.
Fortunately, Wang Yi was experienced and quickly cracked the telegram, which showed that Chiang Kai-shek decided to take advantage of the main force of the Red Army to attack eastern and western Fujian to carry out a surprise attack on the southern Part of Gannan Province. Chairman Mao, on the basis of this telegram provided by Wang Yi, immediately ordered the main forces of the First and Third Armies to return to Gannan and avoid their main forces and fight their weakness in the form of a mobile war, so that the Kuomintang's third encirclement and suppression also failed.
Chairman Mao stood up excitedly at the post-war summing-up meeting and said: "With wireless communications in our Red Army, the troops will be able to spread out and gather together more, and they will never again lose battles because of the problem of communication." ”
With the victory of these battles, the Red Army's radio stations increased, and the wireless communication team continued to grow, and by 1934, Wang Had gone from chief of communications to director of the Communications Liaison Bureau.
During the Long March, the enemy army carried out crazy bombardment of the Red Army, dozens of reconnaissance planes roared over the Red Army contingent every day, and hundreds of thousands of enemy troops on the ground were encircled and blocked.
Under such a tense battle situation, Wang Yi not only had to undertake the communication and communication work of various corps, but also constantly listened to the movements of the enemy troops, so that the Central Military Commission could correctly command the operation. Although the number of radio stations at that time was sufficient, there were very few professional radio personnel, so Wang Yi ordered all radio personnel to march and work alternately, ensuring that there was radio work 14 hours a day.
As the director of the Communications liaison bureau, Wang Wei not only had to direct the liaison work, but also worked on duty like ordinary telegraph personnel, with little time to rest, and often had to sleep when translating telegrams. In addition, under the dense enemy gunfire, the safety of the radio has become a problem.
At this time, the Kuomintang army already knew that the Red Army had a radio station, so it would deliberately look for the Red Army radio personnel to bomb it. Although Wang Yi had experienced many wars, he did not use guns, so in the face of enemy artillery fire, Wang Yi had to run wildly with other personnel holding the radio.
After the Zunyi Conference was convened in January 1935, Chairman Mao's leadership position in the Central Committee was established, and Wang Was overjoyed and prepared to send the resolution of the Zunyi Conference to the various regiments of the Red Army, but just as Wang Was about to send out the news, the enemy suddenly began to bomb. Wang Yi hurriedly ran outside with the radio, and when he fled, he was accidentally scratched by the shells, and his clothes were burned, and Wang Yi still held the radio in his hand and refused to give up.
After reaching the safe area, a signal soldier said, "Director, how dangerous it was just now!" Why don't you think about your own safety? Wang Yi carefully looked at the radio in his hand, and after seeing that the radio was intact, he breathed a long sigh of relief before replying: "It is not easy for our army's liaison and communications to develop to this step today, and we must not lose a radio station." ”
Then, without making the slightest pause, Wang Yi continued to devote himself to his work, smoothly spreading the news of the Zunyi Conference throughout the entire Red Army.
After the Zunyi Conference, the Red Army contingent faced another severe test, and Chiang Kai-shek laid a net of heaven and earth around Zunyi, preparing to annihilate all the main forces of the Red Army. Chairman Mao was not in danger, ordered the Communications Bureau to listen to the enemy's movements in a timely manner, and Wang Defamation lived up to the expectations of the people and intercepted almost all of the Kuomintang's telegrams, enabling Chairman Mao to have a clear idea in mind when commanding, realizing the operational intention of "attacking the west with sound from the east," and finally allowing the Red Army to break through the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of people, which was Chairman Mao's most proud campaign of "crossing the Red Water in Four Directions."
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Yi studied several secret codes of the Japanese army day and night in order to obtain intelligence for the Japanese army, and soon cracked some secret telegrams between the Japanese Navy Foreign Fleet Headquarters, the Japanese Naval Headquarters in Shanghai, and the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, which were already approaching Wuhan, and then successfully cracked several secret telegrams between the Japanese KoumengJiang Garrison Headquarters and the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters, all of which were related to army movement and combat arrangements.
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At that time, it was a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, and the two armies would exchange information on the Japanese army. Therefore, when Wang Yi handed over these contents to Chairman Mao, Chongqing would also receive news. Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised when he saw this, and admired the efficiency of the Yan'an telegraph intelligence personnel, and he did not know that this intelligence officer whom he praised once belonged to his camp.
In 1955, at the first conferment ceremony of the People's Liberation Army, Wang Yi attracted much attention, after all, he was once a prisoner of the Red Army, and Wang Yi also understood that his life could change so drastically, all because of the trust and appreciation of the Party Central Committee, so when Premier Zhou Enlai personally awarded the rank of lieutenant general, Wang Yi shed tears of excitement.
After the end of the award, Wang Yi continued to study radio communications, and under his efforts, China's short-wave radio communication equipment entered the world's advanced ranks, which can not only be used for national defense construction, but also provide convenience for civilian communications. As Chairman Li Xiannian commented on Wang Yi, "Half of the radio station started a lifelong conquest for the people." ”