"Chen Huiting, this is the seventh time that an order has been given to you, why haven't you acted yet? "I order you to immediately attack the enemy aircraft**! If you let the enemy plane go, you will face a court-martial! ”
The serious voice of the superior echoed in Chen Huiting's ears, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and his clothes were already soaked with sweat. However, despite his hesitation, Chen Huiting did not give the order**.
So, who is Chen Huiting, and why did he disobey the orders of his superiors? What will happen to him?
The movie "Top Secret 543" is based on Chen Huiting's deeds and tells his legendary experience. Chen Huiting, a native of Pingdu, Shandong, joined the army at the age of 18 and served in the anti-aircraft artillery unit.
At about 9 o'clock in the morning of January 23, 1968, Chen Huiting received an order from the command post of the Seventh Air Force to make all preparations and resolutely shoot down the invading US-Chiang plane.
However, just as the enemy planes were getting closer and closer to the position, Chen Huiting made a shocking decision - he did not give the order**. His instincts told him that something was wrong.
So, what was the reason for Chen Huiting to make this decision? Let's find out in the movie together!
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Chen Huiting fell into deep thought, constantly searching for answers. Chen Huiting remembered that on the way to the command post, he saw four J-6 fighters of our army taking off from Ningming Airport.
His heart was full of doubts. He stared at the radar carefully, but through the radar screen, he could not tell whether the planes were enemy or ours. If these four planes were ours, then shooting them down by mistake would have entailed huge losses.
The J-6 is China's first supersonic fighter, and it took six years of hard work and the painstaking efforts of countless scientific researchers from development to equipment. The pilots who fly the J-6 are even more precious, and their training process is very difficult.
In order to avoid mistakes, after receiving the order, Chen Huiting did not rush to give the order, but asked the operator to verify the position of the four J-6s that took off in the morning to the headquarters of the Seventh Air Force at the moment, so as to avoid accidentally damaging our fighters.
The reply came quickly: there were no planes taking off from Ningming Airport, and our planes were not in the airspace, so they could resolutely shoot down the incoming enemy planes. However, Chen Huiting was still suspicious: he saw with his own eyes four J-6s taking off in the morning, which could not have been a hallucination.
Therefore, he reported to his superiors for further verification of the situation. Although as a subordinate, repeatedly questioning the decision of the superior may be regarded as "committing a crime", Chen Huiting believes that if an abnormal situation is discovered, it cannot be left alone.
In the end, the superiors confirmed that it was the US plane. As the minutes passed, the four fighters got closer and closer to our positions, 200 kilometers, 150 kilometers, 120 kilometers ......The situation is extremely critical, and if enemy planes invade, it will cause incalculable losses to our side, and we must respond quickly.
Chen Huiting was faced with a serious decision-making task, he ordered the missile to be electrified, and began preparations for aiming, locking, and launching. Despite this, he still had doubts in his heart, and repeatedly communicated with the superior command post to confirm the identity of the plane.
The fighter plane is like an arrow off the string, time is pressing, and there is not much time left for Chen Huiting to make decisions. However, the reply from the higher authorities was still delayed, and four enemy planes had already approached the position of the second battalion, which was only a little more than 90 kilometers away.
Chen Huiting's mood was extremely nervous, and he could see very clearly that the four enemy planes were flying in a dense formation, and if they were enemy planes, they should have dispersed a long time ago. However, he also knew that the enemy might deliberately set up a maze array to paralyze our troops, so he had to follow the orders of his superiors and enter the missile launch procedure, ready to annihilate enemy planes at any time.
In such an urgent situation, Chen Huiting could no longer hesitate, he decisively ordered: "Open the antenna and capture the target!" ”
In a scene in "Top Secret 543", combat staff officer Guo Xinping reported to the battalion commander Chen Huiting that the target was 80 kilometers away from them. After hesitating, Chen Huiting decided to adopt the front-loading method and ordered the launch of three missiles to shoot them down at a distance of 16 kilometers from the target.
Having received the order, the fighters excitedly began to turn the launch vehicle, ready to lock on to the target. As long as they waited for Chen Huiting's order, the missiles would explode the enemy planes like arrows from the string.
However, the command post also gave an order at this time, questioning why they had not yet launched the missile.
Chen Huiting was caught in a dilemma over whether to order the shooting down of the unidentified plane. If it were someone else, he would probably not hesitate to give the order to shoot down, and even if it was a mistake, he would not be blamed, because this was the execution of the order of the superiors.
However, if those planes were really enemy planes and let the enemy go in a hesitating manner, or if the enemy planes came to sneak attack, the consequences would be very serious, and Chen Huiting would definitely be held accountable, and he might even face a military trial.
If Chen Huiting was only thinking from a personal point of view, he should decisively order the plane to be shot down, so that he would have the least risk. However, if a mistake is made, the damage caused to the country will be incalculable, and it will also cause extremely bad effects.
After going through a painful struggle, Chen Huiting decided that no matter what the cost, he would put the interests of the country and the people first, and even if his future was affected by this, he would not be able to launch missiles at planes that had not been identified as friend or foe.
When the target was 17 kilometers away, when the combat staff officer Guo Xinping reported to the battalion commander again, the missile had been locked, and the finger of Yang Lianxing, the guide technician, was close to the launch button, and with just a light press, the missile could rush to the fighter plane in the air.
However, at this time the scene at the beginning of the article appeared, in which the missile was not launched, despite several orders from the command staff. His superiors angrily questioned Chen Huiting and warned him of the consequences of disobedience.
Chen Huiting hesitated in his heart and decided not to give the order to launch the missile. In order to ensure that Yang Lianxing, the guidance technician, would not touch the button by mistake, he personally walked onto the launch vehicle and removed his hand from the operating table.
This move stunned all the cadres and fighters of the second battalion, and they could not understand why the battalion commander did this. Chen Huiting explained: "Don't worry, it's a big deal that I will take responsibility. ”
Although he said this, his expression was very serious, and his heart was full of contradictions and doubts. He was not sure whether the plane in the sky was friend or foe, and if it was an American fighter, then his mistake would be difficult to make up.
Seeing the nervousness of the battalion commander, everyone remained silent. At this moment, Guo Xinping, an operational staff officer, announced loudly: "The superior orders to immediately stop all attack plans!" ”
Hearing this, the fighters of the 2nd Battalion cheered.
Chen Huiting's correct judgment has been verified once again, proving that he is a comrade with high consciousness and strong professional ability. The superiors were surprised by his continuous disobedience, but thought that it was wrong.
Because he had commanded the U2 reconnaissance plane that shot down the US military in 1962 and 1963 respectively, he was received by great men and promoted to captain. Therefore, the superiors took the matter very seriously and immediately conducted an investigation.
However, the results of the inquiry showed that our army did not dispatch fighters near the airport that day, so it repeatedly urged Chen Huiting to carry out the order. However, it was precisely because Chen Huiting continued to disobey orders later that all levels also realized the seriousness of the problem and began to verify again.
In the end, through verification with the person in charge of Ningming Airport, it was confirmed that the four fighters in the air were our military fighters. This incident proved that Chen Huiting was a very good operational staff officer, and his correct judgment and calm handling saved the lives of four precious Jian-6 fighters and four pilots.
Everything is proceeding step by step, the J-6 of the test flight is flying according to the route stipulated by the superiors, and the ground intelligence radar accurately grasps the flight dynamics of the test flight aircraft and reports the position of the aircraft in a timely manner.
However, when the plane flew over several hills, the radar actually misjudged and lost the test plane, mistaking it for the test flight plane to do a turning and circling check and test the flight performance of the turning and circling.
And the pilot also made a mistake and drove the plane over the Gulf of Tonkin . The pilot immediately realized his mistake, turned the nose of the plane, and headed back in the direction of Nanning. It was not until the plane returned that it was discovered by our anti-aircraft intelligence radar and reported to the command post of the radar regiment.
As soon as the officer on duty at the command post saw that the plane was coming from the direction of the Gulf of Tonkin and concluded that it was an enemy plane, he immediately reported it to his superiors. The command post of the Seventh Air Force did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered four Jian-6 planes of the aviation regiment stationed at Ningming Airport to take off urgently to search and intercept them.
The ground is like a big enemy, but the test flight plane has returned according to the prescribed test flight route and landed safely. The four J-6 planes did not know that this was a misunderstanding, and they were still cruising and searching in the airspace where the enemy planes were active.
As a result, when the four planes returned, they were treated as "enemy planes," and the command post issued an operational order to the 2nd Battalion, demanding that the 2nd Battalion resolutely destroy them. Due to a mistake on duty, there was no record of sending planes in the logbook, so despite Chen Huiting's repeated doubts, the command post still believed that it was a US military plane in the sky.
It wasn't until Chen Huiting disobeyed the order for the seventh time that the command post investigated and learned that 4 fighters had indeed been dispatched. Shocked into a cold sweat, they immediately ordered the cancellation of the attack plan.
Fortunately, Chen Huiting was calm and daring to take responsibility, so that the tragedy was avoided.
After General Liu Yudi retired, Liu Yudi, commander of the Seventh Air Force, personally led four Jian-6 fighter pilots to visit Chen Huiting, and they hugged the calm battalion commander to express their respect and gratitude to him.
Chen Huiting said humbly: "Mainly thanks to the prudence and calmness of my superiors, otherwise I would not be able to bear the pressure." Looking back on the whole process, it is not difficult to find that Chen Huiting's calmness and caution are beyond ordinary people, his judgment is excellent, and he has a strong sense of responsibility and responsibility!