Two sailors shot and killed six comrades, hijacked a boat and defected to South Korea, what was the end of 1985?
In the early morning of March 23, 1985, the Yellow Sea was covered in thick fog. The South Korean Navy patrol boat suddenly spotted 3 ** while patrolling, and the crew on the boat suddenly became nervous.
Because there have been no training missions here recently, these 3 are obviously foreign ** ships. They immediately sent an alert to the base and closely monitored their movements. One of the officers asked the captain: "Is it the ** from the north?"
The captain replied: "Absolutely not, their ** is not so big!" As soon as he finished speaking, a sense of fear surged over the hearts of all those present. There are only a few countries near the Yellow Sea, either their own nor to the north, so the only thing left is China.
As the South Koreans feared, these 3 ** are medium ** ships. So, why are they in the vicinity of South Korea? This began with a vicious incident that occurred within our navy two days ago.
On the afternoon of 21 March, a certain unit of the North Sea Fleet dispatched six torpedo boats to carry out daily training tasks. Among them, No. 3213 served as a command boat and carried 19 officers and soldiers.
In the evening, the exercise ended, and the boats returned to the base one after another. However, when No. 3213 was in the back of the palace, he encountered an accident. When the other speedboats embarked on the return journey, the captain Zhang Xiaosheng ordered to return.
However, telecommunications soldier Du Xinli broke into the operation room, armed with a submachine gun. Zhang Xiaosheng realized that the situation was not good, but before he could ask the reason, Du Xinli had already fired. The bullet was fired at 7 people in the operation room in an instant, 5 of whom died on the spot and 2 were injured.
The people outside the operating room heard the gunshots and rushed to check, only to find that their comrades had been killed, and they turned out to be former comrades. Someone sensed the seriousness of the situation and wanted to take a gun from the ** cabinet for emergency.
But it was found that the cabinet was locked, and next to him stood Wang Zhongrong, an electric aviation soldier, holding a pistol. Wang Zhongrong ordered them to stay in the cabin. Several others were also coerced into the cabin by Du Xinli at gunpoint.
Du Xinli asked Wang Zhongrong to watch over them, while he went to the wheelhouse, turned the bow of the ship and sailed quickly eastward.
After nine hours of agony waiting, the hijacked torpedo boat finally ran out of fuel and had to drift with the tide on the sea. Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong thought that they should have approached South Korea, so they took advantage of the night to launch signal flares into the sky, hoping to attract attention.
However, the flares they fired did not receive any response, and they had to wait helplessly. It wasn't until noon on March 22 that they spotted a South Korean fishing boat that had gone out to fish, and they knew that this might be the only hope, so they desperately waved to the boat in the hope that it would come close to them.
When the South Korean fishermen found the torpedo boat, they could not approach it due to the language barrier and immediately notified the military police. The military police received the news that it might be a threat from the north, but the fishermen's reports made them realize that they might not understand Korean.
Koreans have a hunch that this may be a tricky issue, but at this point, they have to deal with it head-on. The patrol boat approached the torpedo boat that had lost power and found the terrible situation on board.
The Koreans transferred Du, Wang and the rest of the crew to their own boats and dragged the torpedo boat back to shore. They secretly took the dead and wounded to the hospital, and the rest were kept into custody for further information.
While the Chinese Navy was searching for the missing vessel No. 3213 in the waters of the Yellow Sea, South Korea** also received a report on the relevant situation. After learning that the 3213 had lost contact and had not returned to the base as planned, South Korea immediately launched a search and rescue operation, dispatching ships, aircraft, submarines and other equipment.
However, due to factors such as the vast sea area and bad weather, the progress of search and rescue has been slow. By daylight on March 22, the search and rescue scope and force had expanded even further, even in the waters near South Korea.
At this time, we already expected that the ship might have fallen into the hands of South Korea. In view of the previous use of South Korea as a transit point by defectors, we have decided to take action to warn South Korea and urge it to return ships and personnel.
In the early morning of March 23, three Chinese ** ships flying rescue signal flags appeared in the waters around South Korea to carry out search and rescue missions.
The South Korean ** ship was sitting on pins and needles next to the Chinese ** ship, and immediately sent a signal to our ** to leave, but it was refused, and the two sides fell into a standoff. Although the place of occurrence is South Korea's territorial waters, and the number of the other party's ** is only three, South Korea seems to be underconfident.
During the standoff, South Korea not only added more**, but also sent planes to conduct reconnaissance in close proximity. The Chinese ship is on high alert, activating various air defense and anti-ship ships, and the atmosphere is tense, as if a naval war between China and South Korea is about to break out.
With the passage of time, the South Koreans have no way to retreat, but they are unwilling to fight China, so they can only pray that the other side will let go first. Fortunately, their prayers seemed to work, and the squadron retreated on its own initiative.
This is not because the front line is afraid of South Korea, but because they have received instructions from their superiors to retreat, and the South Korean side has promised to properly deal with the problem of torpedo boat No. 3213, and the purpose of military pressure has been achieved.
Do you still want another war with our country? If you lose again, don't expect us to wipe your ass! The two sides disagreed, and in the end, the Ministry of Defense agreed to allow *** 24 hours to deal with the matter.
At that time, China and South Korea had not yet established diplomatic relations, so it took a lot of twists and turns to deliver the news to our country. After receiving the news, our country withdrew its **, which was at the forefront of the confrontation. After I left, South Korea also relaxed its vigilance and turned to focus on incident 3213.
South Korea, which hosted the 10th Asian Games in 1986, needed the support of China, an Asian power. Therefore, for the 3213 incident, South Korea wisely decided to return the ship and personnel to Chinese mainland as a sign of respect and friendship.
Although some forces tried to use this incident to hype themselves up and even used the "diplomatic relations" with South Korea to intervene, South Korea has always adhered to its principles and resolutely refused to accede to the requests of traitors Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong to seek political asylum, nor did they allow them to appear in public.
South Korea has always insisted that the incident was just an ordinary brawl and had nothing to do with politics, in order to prevent some people from taking advantage of the incident to create trouble.
South Korea has demanded an apology for China's previous standoff. Although this request is to a certain extent for the sake of South Korea's face, it needs to be admitted that at that time, due to an emergency, our ** did enter South Korea's territorial waters.
Now, South Korea has pledged to return people and ships, and China has handed over a memorandum of apology to South Korea through its consulate general in Hong Kong. South Korea accepted this and quickly returned all the personnel and ships involved to China.
On March 28, 1985, according to the prior agreement, China and South Korea handed over at sea. The bodies of the six martyrs who died bravely were placed on torpedo boat No. 3213 and set off with the rest of the crew.
Previously, the traitors Du Xinli and Wang Zhongrong had been detained by the Han ** police, and what awaited them would be severely punished by a military court. Although they had begged the Koreans for mercy, did they foresee such an outcome when they shot and kidnapped their comrades-in-arms?
Content**: Wikipedia entry "Torpedo Boat 3213 Incident".