Since June 25th, 1950, after the Korean War broke out. The British invaders relied on the advantage of "the world's first air power." 1 100 More than one plane was dropped on the long and narrow Korean peninsula. From the east coast of Korea to the northern border, British planes bombed around the clock. At that time, Chinese people's Volunteer Army Air Force was still a very young team, precisely just starting, and neither commanders nor combatants had any air combat experience.

The birth of legend

1950 10, Comrade * * issued a call to the whole army to "resist US aggression and aid Korea, defend the country and defeat the US imperialist aggressors". At that time, I had just graduated from a military cadre school in Shenyang and returned to the company. I was ordered by the company to transfer to Anton (now Dandong) Langtou Airport. 1951June, our army set up an independent regiment of the second air force 203 and was ordered to enter Langtou airport. I was transferred as an instructor. On the day of registration, I heard the ticking sound as soon as I entered the studio. Technical cadres are wearing headphones, turning buttons in their right hands and working with rapt attention. The signals sent by the machine are all enemy communication signals.

Team 203 is located in Maokui Mountain in Anton, north of Yalu River. There is a mine hole on the mountain, which is an abandoned gold mine dug by the Japanese. At that time, the China-DPRK Joint Command was located there. Team 203 is stationed at the foot of this mountain. There is a very legendary story about its birth.

After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Professor Xiong Shiyi, a patriotic overseas Chinese and professor of ancient Chinese in China, Oxford University, personally sent his son Xiong Dewei, who had just graduated from the school, back to China to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. With fluent English, this young man of extraordinary birth was quickly organized as an interpreter in the Sino-DPRK Joint Command, responsible for interrogating the prisoners of the United Nations Army (the enemy forces that entered Korea at that time were mainly composed of the United States, collectively referred to as the United Nations Army).

At that time, there was an ultrashort wave radio station in the headquarters to direct operations, which was captured from the * * * Air Force. Xiong Dewei fiddles with this radio station in his spare time. One day, he overheard the enemy's distress signal, which was sent by an American pilot in the canyon. He immediately translated it into Chinese and reported it to the commander. Then he contacted the pilot in English and determined the position. After that, our headquarters captured the prisoner.

It turned out that on February 4th, 195 1 year, the China army stopped the attack of a battalion of the 27th British brigade at the highland of 6 14, and American warplanes also came to help. American pilots have never encountered ground shooting since they entered the DPRK. Therefore, they always fly very close to the heads of South Korean soldiers. When diving, their wings almost took off the hats of China soldiers. Machine guns, bullets and bombs dropped by airplanes have caused great casualties to China's army. At this time, Guan Chonggui, the vice squad leader and gunner of my 357th regiment who was fighting continuously here, was really bombed, so he rushed to the plane with a machine gun. Suddenly, a P-5 1 fighter, which just roared "America will win", cocked its wings, pulled out a black smoke from its tail and plunged into a ravine, followed by a violent explosion and soaring flames.

There was cheers on the ground. ...

The captured prisoner was handed over to Xiong Dewei for questioning. In addition to his own name, he also explained the contact band. Through interrogation, our army gradually learned the activity information of the enemy air force command system between air bases in Okinawa and other places in Japan, and it was very accurate.

This incident attracted great attention of the Central Military Commission, and technical reconnaissance monitoring stations came into being. Later, according to the needs of the development of the war, the Central Military Commission decided to formally set up the China People's *** 203 Independent Team to cooperate with the work of the Second Air Force and belong to the Intelligence Department of the China-DPRK Joint Command.

Shoot down the ace pilot fighter

195 1, about the early autumn, news that shocked the world came from the Korean battlefield. Zhang, a pilot of South China Air Force in his early twenties, shot down the fighter plane of American ace pilot Davis in one fell swoop, and Davis, a hero pilot of World War II, also died with the fighter plane.

This great victory is the information provided by our station. Since its establishment half a year ago, Listening Station has made such achievements because there are a group of elite talents here. They all come from famous universities at home and abroad, such as Oxford University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Shanghai St. John's University and Shanghai Jiaotong University. They are all excellent English majors. There are dozens of radio stations in this station, which monitor enemy air signals 24 hours a day and write down symbols at any time. As long as there is movement, we can immediately hear and decode it here, first translate it into English and then into Chinese, and report it to the joint command in time and report it to the Central Military Commission at the same time.

Mysterious radio waves on Bering Island.

195 1 At the end, according to the needs of the development of the war situation, my monitoring station needed to find a place where it could hear more clearly, so our team decided to send a six-member team to an island in the Yellow Sea, which has a nice name-Bailing Island. Bailing Island is small, but the trees are dense and overgrown with weeds. There are Korean People's Army and Chinese people's Volunteer Army on the island. Located at the seaside, the listening effect is very good. Our team members set up a tent in the bushes, and the top of the tent was covered with branches. It is equipped with three German-imported ultrashort wave listeners and a diesel generator for radio power generation. We cleverly put the antenna of the ultrashort wave radio station on a tree 15 or 20 meters high, and we work very covertly. In the air battle, we heard the enemy's air conversation very clearly. The main task here is to monitor, and then record the received enemy air signals, and then translate them into English and send them to the team headquarters, and then translate them into Chinese by the people in the team, and compile them into codes and send them to the joint command and the Central Military Commission. The information is very accurate. For example, we can clearly know how many flights the American plane took off today, what its code name is and who led it. Then the commander can directly tell which direction the other side takes off, how many planes there are, who is the commander and which one to hit first. At that time, our air force plane took off and hit the enemy's head (commander) plane. As soon as the head was in chaos, other enemy planes ran back. The enemy is most afraid of this move. We played very actively and smoothly. The enemy suffered a lot, especially after Davis was shot down, which made the United States lose face in front of the world.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/952, I took the train, then changed to a bus and secretly inspected the island. After the car drove to the island, an officer of the Korean People's Army greeted him and said in blunt China words, "I'll pick you up."

I walked into the tent on the island, and the room was quiet, only the sound of ticking. Eating together at noon is a compressed biscuit poured out of an iron bucket and eaten with boiling water. Xiao Xue, the 26-year-old leader of the working group, told me that the water was shipped from far away by the Korean People's Army and the rice was sent by the People's Army, but he could only cook in the cave for fear of exposing his target. He said to me: "Recently, American reconnaissance planes have always come to the island to hover at low altitude. We heard it on the enemy radio on the island. Americans say that the intercepted information of the enemy (referring to us) poses a great threat to us. Once discovered, it will be blown up at all costs. "

When the enemy finally understood that there was a listening station on the Korean peninsula, which is known as "three thousand miles of beautiful mountains and rivers" among more than 3,300 islands. They frequently sent planes to carry out ultra-low altitude reconnaissance countless times. 1in the autumn of 952, enemy planes continued to spy on Bailing Island for more than a month, and many bombs were blindly dropped on the surrounding islands by enemy planes. However, the interception of Bering Island did not stop immediately. It turns out that the job on the island is just to monitor, and the enemy plane does not send a signal when reconnaissance, and the signal sent to the team is also changed one at a time. But the signals of old friends are hard to change, because the signals they use must be studied by the United Nations Army once, and they will not care about the period of frequent wars. So once we have it, it is accurate.

Seal the door with wax and keep it secret.

At the end of 1952, the team quit the team secretly. Even after the war, the radio waves on Bering Island remained a mystery to the enemy.

It wasn't until the beginning of 1953, when the war was coming to an end, that the enemy knew that our country's listening station was in the Maokui Mountain in Anton, but they were afraid to fight. At this time, there were more people in the team, more than 80 people, with higher antennas and more advanced equipment. At that time, there was a peaceful scene in China, but our secrecy work did not relax at all, and we continued to do the monitoring work. The working procedure of our group is: the radio operator monitors the radio signals of enemy air contact, copies them to the interpreter, and the interpreter decodes them into English, then translates them into Chinese, and then sends them to the Operations Department of the Military Commission or the Intelligence Department of the Northeast Air Force Command. Our signals are changed one by one, either apples, begonia, sugar, flour, cabbage, radish and so on. This connection is top secret. Only the guessing translator works in the secret room, and no leader can go in. There are not many languages between people at ordinary times. This secret room is absolutely closed. I guess when the translator works in it, the door is sealed with a wax. When he came out to go to the toilet, the door was brushed off as soon as it caught fire, so they painted it with wax. When he came back, the paint outside fell off and the paint inside was painted again. Radio waves about the victory or defeat of the war situation flew to Shenyang and Beijing again and again, and then issued battle orders from there.

After the war, I have been thinking that we won that victory because we attached importance to talents, high technology, and especially confidentiality.