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After the defeat of the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek did not give up and still hoped to make a comeback and regain control of China. Therefore, when he fled to Taiwan, he took the air force away.
You should know that this is the trump card in his hand, but he is used to being dictatorial, and he did not realize that it would cause the pilots to be dissatisfied. However, because the duty of the soldiers is to obey orders, the pilots had to leave their hometowns and go to Taiwan.
Later, Chiang Kai-shek was also worried that the pilot would "defect" and return to the mainland, so he formulated many measures to control the pilot's actions. But it still failed to prevent pilots from flying back to the mainland.
But in the 1980s, Lin Xianshun's behavior of flying a fighter jet back to the mainland surprised many people because he was born and raised in Taiwanese, so why did he take the risk to return to the mainland?
Lin Xianshun
Flying dream of the farmer's son
Lin Xianshun was born in 1953 in a small village in Miaosu County, Taiwan. His father is a simple farmer and the family makes a living by farming.
Lin Xianshun, who had a dream of flying in the sky since childhood, was unwilling to grow up and became a farmer like his father. Finally, through hard work and strong physical conditions, he was admitted to the military academy.
In 1976, Lin Xianshun graduated from the military academy. Because of his excellent professional quality, he was assigned to work at the flight base. After working for a year, he finally realized his childhood dream and became a pilot. He also came to the air force base at Taoyuan Airport, Taiwan to serve.
was the biggest imaginary enemy of Taiwan at that time. Lin Xianshun's daily training was also how to fight when facing PLA Air Force . However, although Lin Xianshun was born and raised in Taiwanese.
But he never regarded the mainland on the other side of the strait as his enemy. This is because his father was not Taiwanese, but moved to Taiwan from Meizhou, Guangdong. Therefore, in Lin Xianshun's eyes, Meizhou, Guangdong is his hometown.
Lin Xianshun
However, at that time, the Taiwan authorities smeared the mainland for political purposes. This also makes the local people of Taiwan think that the people living in the mainland have always lived a tragic life in dire straits, including Lin Xianshun.
But what happened soon afterwards changed Lin Xianshun's idea. In 1981, Huang Zhicheng and flew back to the mainland from Taoyuan Airport.
Huang Zhicheng is Lin Xianshun's colleague at Taoyuan Airport. The two worked in the same flight brigade, and Lin Xianshun also regarded Huang Zhicheng as his confidant. Seeing that his friend returned to the mainland, Lin Xianshun also had the idea of leaving Taiwan.
But soon Lin Xianshun received a new appointment, and he was arranged to serve as an anti-communist propaganda counselor. During his work, he was very disgusted by the Kuomintang's down-to-earth criticism of the mainland's behavior.
For this reason, he contacted a classmate working in Seoul, South Korea. It was from his classmates that the mainland has made rapid changes since the reform and opening up.
Lin Xianshun
The Communist Party has governed the mainland very well. After gradually getting bored of life in Taiwan, Lin Xianshun wants to go to the mainland and start a new life.
From that time on, Lin Xianshun began to plan how to return to the mainland. He secretly wrote down the route back to the mainland, and at the same time he was waiting for a chance to go back.
Because many pilots in Taiwan flew fighter jets back to the mainland, the Taiwan Air Force was becoming more and more strict in the management of pilots at that time, and Lin Xianshun was also very careful to avoid his own thoughts being discovered. Fortunately, he didn't wait too long and found the opportunity to return to the mainland.
Return to mainland
In early 1989, Lin Xianshun, who was already a lieutenant colonel, made up his mind to fly a fighter plane to leave Taiwan. Since then, he has paid attention to the weather forecast every day and looked for an opportunity to escape.
On February 11, he heard the weather forecast that Taiwan will be cloudy the next day, and the mainland will be sunny. He realized that the opportunity he was waiting for was finally here.
Lin Xianshun
Because under cloudy conditions, it is difficult for Taiwan to discover the abnormal movement of its war machine at the first time, which makes it easier for him to break through the air force blockade and return to the mainland.
In addition, although he had engraved the locations of various airports in the mainland and the route of return in his mind, he was not very familiar with the mainland after all.
He was not confident that he could accurately find the location of the airport. The sunny weather in the mainland made him confirm the location of the airport, so he decided to implement the plan to return to the mainland on February 12.
On the same day, he went to the airport for routine inspection as usual and greeted every colleague he met. He first pretended to check all aspects of the airport, and then told others that he felt that he had not trained for a long time and his flight level had declined. He came early today in the hope of training alone.
The reason why Lin Xianshun said this is because according to the previous plan, he did not have a flight mission that day, nor had any reason to approach the fighter plane. He also hoped to rely on this excuse to fly the plane into the sky.
Lin Xianshun
Because of his realistic acting skills, the airport staff did not have any doubts about his statement. Instead, they praised his professional attitude and agreed to his request to fly the plane for training alone.
Then he began to select fighter jets, and soon he set his sights on an F-5E fighter jet. The fighter jet will be trained soon as planned, so the airport staff have already filled it with fuel in advance.
flew back to the mainland from Taiwan to the mainland, requiring sufficient fuel reserves to deal with possible emergencies. After learning that the fighter jet had been filled with fuel, Lin Xianshun was secretly happy and immediately ordered the staff to pack up the plane.
After everything was ready, Lin Xianshun jumped on the plane as soon as possible. He didn't dare to delay for a minute, for fear of any change. Then he flew into the blue sky in the plane.
At first, he pretended to train normally for a few minutes, and then immediately flew towards the mainland. He had practiced this route repeatedly in his mind countless times, and As soon as the plane arrived over Taiwan Strait , he immediately lowered the altitude and let the plane fly close to the sea, thereby avoiding the discovery of radar .
Taiwan plane
Because the weather was bad that day and the visibility was very low, the staff on the ground did not notice any abnormality in his flight at the first time. Until 5 minutes after he took off. The staff of
found that they could not see the plane Lin Xianshun was flying on the radar. They realized that something was wrong and immediately informed the command center. After receiving the news, the
command was also panicked. They made many calls to Lin Xianshun, but the other party did not respond. Because of previous experience, they knew that Lin Xianshun wanted to fly a fighter jet to "defect".
is safe and unsuspecting
After guessing Lin Xianshun’s true intentions, Taiwan naturally would not let him return to the mainland easily. On the one hand, Lin Xianshun is an excellent pilot, and more importantly, Lin Xianshun holds the most detailed information about the Taiwan Air Force's usual training.
If he brings this information to the mainland, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, the Taiwan Air Force immediately sent 12 aircraft to intercept.
Taiwan aircraft
The fighter plane Lin Xianshun flew when he escaped was the training trainer . Its performance is quite different from that of ordinary fighter jets. Before, many Taiwanese pilots also drove trainer jets back to the mainland, and they were all dead for life under the pursuit of enemy aircraft.
However, this time, because the ground staff failed to detect Lin Xianshun's intentions at the first time, this gave him 5 minutes. This precious 5 minutes greatly increased the difficulty of enemy planes catching up.
Because Lin Xianshun closed all communication systems after taking off, he did not know that there were fighter jets behind him, but he also understood that the Taiwan Air Force would not sit idly by, so he had only one idea at that time, that was, to fly to the mainland as fast as possible.
In fact, in addition to sending fighters to chase Lin Xianshun, the Taiwan Air Force also turned on all radar search fighters at the first time. Once they locked in Lin Xianshun, the missile will be launched immediately.
However, as an experienced pilot, Lin Xianshun knew very well how to avoid potential dangers, because he had been flying at a very low altitude after entering the Taiwan Strait, so the radar never could detect the plane.
Taiwan plane
This made the Taiwan Air Force very anxious because starting from the time of Lin Xianshun's departure, if he could not be found, it would be difficult to stop him.
So the command personnel immediately issued an order to the pilots of the 12 fighter planes, as long as Lin Xianshun's plane flew across the middle line of the strait and shot down immediately after discovering it, do not hesitate.
was too impatient, and the other party did not encrypt the command this time, and the signal was also captured by our army. After learning that a pilot was flying to the mainland, our army immediately sent 4 fighter jets to fly towards the enemy's 12 planes.
Lin Xianshun didn't know all this at this time. He had already flew over the middle line of the Taiwan Strait. He was very excited to think that he would be able to return to the mainland soon.
However, at this time the enemy was pursuing the plane was less than 20 kilometers away. Fortunately, the enemy plane and the intercepted fighter plane sent by our army met, and the two sides also began to confront each other over the Taiwan Strait, and a war was about to break out.
Chinese Air Force
However, Taiwan Air Force is worried about the situation, and Lin Xianshun has crossed the middle line of the Taiwan Strait for a distance, and Taiwan finally ordered 12 fighter jets to return.
Then our army's four fighter jets began to look for Lin Xianshun's plane and were preparing to pick him up and return to the airport. But the weather that had helped a lot before now has caused trouble.
Because the fog in the Taiwan Strait was too heavy, our army could not find his plane. In a short while, Lin Xianshun's plane disappeared.
Lin Xianshun was also very upset at the time because of the heavy fog and unfamiliarity with the environment. He had been waiting for our guide plane, but he had never noticed it.
In addition, because the radio equipment equipped by the fighter jets on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is different, even if he turned on the communication equipment later, he could not contact our army.
Chinese Air Force
In this way, he was hovering over Shantou for nearly half an hour, but he had no choice but to fly to Fengshun , but there he still did not find an airport where he could land.
At this time, the oil in his tank was in a hurry, so he had no choice but to come over an open land. At this time, one of the engines of the plane had already stopped due to insufficient fuel, and the other engine also had a malfunction, so Lin Xianshun had to parachute and escape.
Fortunately, he had found the open space before, and the out-of-control plane finally fell into an empty paddy field. The local people immediately found him. At first they thought Lin Xianshun was the People's Liberation Army.
After learning that he was a pilot who revolted from Taiwan, they immediately reported the news to the local police station, and Lin Xianshun was also sent to the county.
Chinese Air Force
Regained a new life
Guangzhou Military Region leaders attached great importance to Lin Xianshun's return. On the second day, a deputy commander of the military region arrived in Fengshun by helicopter and took him to Guangzhou.
was on the helicopter, and Lin Xianshun realized how thrilling his situation yesterday was. There were 12 fighter jets behind him preparing to shoot down him. After heard that our army's fighter jets almost fought fiercely with the enemy because of him, Lin Xianshun was even more nervous, but fortunately, he finally returned to the mainland without any danger.
After talking to him, the leader of the Guangzhou Military Region was slightly injured when Lin Xianshun landed, so he was allowed to recuperate in the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force Hospital for a week.
During this week, many Guangdong military and political leaders came to the hospital to visit him, which surprised him. Moreover, Ye Xuanping, the governor of Guangdong Province at that time, recognized his fellow villagers with him, and the two chatted in Hakka dialect for a long time.
But what made Lin Xianshun happiest was that he received a call from Huang Zhicheng, who was in Beijing. Both of his comrades were very excited during the call.
Chinese Air Force
While recuperating in Guangzhou, he visited Guangzhou and saw the streets of Guangzhou with tall buildings. He realized that Taiwan’s propaganda on the mainland was false. The mainland people not only did not live in dire straits, but were a vibrant scene.
This made him see the potential for the development of his motherland, and was very glad that he made the right choice and bravely took this step. He then attended a brief press conference attended by reporters from Hong Kong and Taiwan in Guangzhou.
issued a statement at the press conference and explained the regression incident. In October of the same year, he came to a aviation school of the Shijiazhuang Air Force to serve as deputy chief of staff and was awarded the rank of colonel.
This time Lin Xianshun returned to the mainland and did not carry any confidential documents. However, he had been serving in the Air Force 737 Wing. There is an elite simulated imaginary enemy force in this unit, which specializes in air combat training for the mainland's MiG fighter .
Lin Xianshun applied all the specific tactical intelligence and air combat skills of the Taiwan Air Force in his hands to teaching, cultivating a large number of pilots familiar with the combat characteristics of the Taiwan Air Force for the mainland, and making important contributions to the development of our air force.
Chinese Air Force
In addition to his job, since 1990, Lin Xianshun has served as a member of the Shijiazhuang Municipal CPPCC, a member of the Hebei Provincial CPPCC, a member of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC and a member of the National CPPCC for more than 20 years.
During the decades of returning to China, the government, troops and party organizations have given Lin Xianshun a lot of care, which touched him very much, but what made him happiest was seeing the motherland becoming stronger day by day.
Whenever he sees the ever-changing life, he secretly glads himself to the decision he made before. Lin Xianshun also said that when he chatted with some Taiwanese comrades, the other party also envied him for returning to the mainland early.
In addition to his career success, he also gained a happy life in the mainland. When he fled Taiwan, Lin Xianshun had a bad relationship with his wife, so he agreed to divorce his wife in 1991. Later, under the organization's arrangement, he also met his wife Zhao Shuang.
Chinese Air Force
Later, the two of them had a daughter. Although the family's life was dull, it was very happy. However, he still has a deep relationship with Taiwan. After all, that was where he was born and grew up, but he is still a wanted criminal in Taiwan until now, so he never had the chance to return to Taiwan.
However, Lin Xianshun was not worried, because he always believed that Taiwan would return to the embrace of the motherland sooner or later, and the motherland would develop better and stronger. It would not be too late for him to go back when the day of the motherland's reunification came.
