Introduction
In folk tales, there are always some bizarre legends, but the truth has not been found, and they are pushed as "supernatural phenomena".
It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, a bizarre incident occurred, involving billions of dollars, involving three countries and causing a sensation. However, so far, people have not discovered the truth of the incident, this is the "Kobe Maru missing incident"!
In 1945, the Japanese invaders retreated across the board and began to search for Chinese property to transport back to Japan. A Japanese transport ship named "Kobe Maru", after being loaded with billions of dollars worth of gold and silver jewelry, antiques and cultural relics, planned to enter the Yangtze River via Poyang Lake, and then turn to sea. Japan.
For this operation, the Japanese side sent more than 200 people to escort the ship. But when passing through the waters of Laoye Temple in Poyang Lake, the ship mysteriously disappeared, and the 200 people on the ship also lost their lives and corpses.
The Japanese military was shocked by the disappearance of such a huge wealth!
They were not reconciled, so they transferred professional divers to explore the water. However, not only did these people find nothing, but they also disappeared as a whole.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang government was unwilling to sink such a huge wealth into the bottom of the water. In 1946, it invited a professional diving team from the United States to explore it. This time, nothing was found, and only one person in the diving team survived.
When the time came to the end of the last century, the local department was trapped by various bizarre legends and organized several large-scale underwater surveys, again empty-handed.
So, people can't help but ask: Is there anything weird about this water? Why can't the "Kobe Maru" ship full of jewels and gold be salvaged? What is the truth of this matter?
below,We just follow the diagrams, one by one.
01 Legend: The bizarre encounter of the "Kobe Maru"
In 1945, the Japanese invaders withdrew from South China , which intensified the process of searching for China's wealth, and was transported in batches by land and water. Back to Japan.
Because there was too much jewellery gold in the search, and worried that the land transportation risk would be too great, the Japanese rented a 2000-ton transport ship named "Kobe Maru" and loaded the treasures collected from the search on the ship. Because these treasures are worth more than one billion U.S. dollars, the Japanese side also sent a squadron of Japanese troops stationed on the ship to escort them.
In the early morning of April 16, the "Kobe Maru" sailed from Jiujiang to the Laoye Temple waters of Poyang Lake. It was almost noon.
The weather was clear and the clouds were thin, and the "Kobe Maru" sailed smoothly.
In the afternoon, the Japanese soldiers downstream from the ship did not find the ship at the scheduled time, so they went upstream to search for it. However, until they came to Jiujiang, no sign of the "Kobe Maru" was found.
When the Japanese military learned that the "Kobe Maru" disappeared in Poyang Lake, it was shocked and believed that the cargo ship could not have disappeared for no reason. It was likely that it was attacked by the Chinese army or was driven away. Either sank at the bottom of the lake.
The Japanese secretly dispatched a large number of troops, including reconnaissance planes, to search along the lakeside exits and over the sky, but no trace of the "Kobe Maru" was found.
It should be noted that with the technical conditions at the time, it is impossible for a ship of this size to be hidden in a short period of time!
Therefore, the Japanese side believes that the ship should have been sunk or sunk in severe local weather.
The next day, the Japanese army stationed in Jiujiang sent a diving team of more than 30 people to search and rescue the waters where the accident occurred.
After these people came to Poyang Lake,Inquiring around, coupled with their searching and groping all the way, it is basically certain that the "Kobe Maru" should be sunk in the area of Laoye Temple . Because, according to locals, this is the water area where climate change is the most impermanent, and there are often passing ships sinking; and the water depth in this area can reach up to 30 meters. With the technological level of Japan at that time, it could not be detected on the water. .
After determining the approximate waters, the group of people quickly took two boats to the center of the lake, some of them went into the water for search and rescue, and some of them guarded equipment and instruments on the boat, waiting for news.
But something strange happened again!
After this search and rescue team got off the waters of the Laoye Temple of Poyang Lake, it never came up again, and disappeared with the "Kobe Maru" ship!
By this time, the Japanese realized that the problem was not as simple as they thought, and began to send people to investigate nearby.
However, the survey results show that there is neither resistance nor bad natural weather in the vicinity. Could it be that this is another accident?
When things developed to this point, the Japanese realized that the matter was far less simple than imagined. So they sent troops to investigate nearby, especially the fishermen by the lake, because if they were attacked, the fishermen would definitely hear Gunshots.
However, the results of the investigation exceeded everyone's expectations. None of the nearby fishermen heard the gunshots. Later intelligence also proved that there was no Chinese army near Poyang Lake.
Is this an accident?
However, if it is an accident, these diving team members are very skilled, at least a few have come back alive, right?
Just as the Japanese military leaders were shocked and distressed, a diver who went to search and rescue really came back alive. And more than ten days after the entire army of the diving team was destroyed, the people who were sent to search for it found it by the lake.
The appearance of this person made the Japanese military leaders seem to have found the hope of retrieving the treasure.But when they learned about the player's condition, it was like a basin of cold water pouring from head to toe.
This diver is crazy!
After resting for a few days, this team member is still pale and dull-eyed, and trembling from time to time, as if seeing the most terrible thing in the world. No matter how others calmed and questioned, he just shook his head in horror, occasionally seemed to think of something, shrank into a ball in fear, and hid in the corner of the room.
This team member's condition irritated the Japanese high-level officers, but they couldn't ask anything useful. In addition, Japan's defeat was imminent, they had to give up the investigation, and the matter was gone.
02 The American diving team encountered "Waterloo"
The Japanese army abandoned the investigation of the "Kobe Maru" because of time constraints, but after the victory of the War of Resistance, the national government had a lot of time.
After hearing the local fishermen talk about this, the National Government was moved.
The National Government, not reconciled with a ship of treasure sinking into the bottom of the lake, decided to invite more professional diving experts and explorers from abroad to find out what happened to the "Kobe Maru", and spent a huge amount of money for this and leased it. A lot of advanced equipment.
The diving expert they found was an American named Edward Ball.
Boll once hosted an underwater shipwreck salvage mission all over the world and has a very rich diving experience. Moreover, he has a well-equipped diving team of his own, and all the members are master divers.
In the summer of 1946, Boll led his diving team to Poyang Lake, and the salvage work officially began.
For this salvage mission, Ball is confident.
He calculated that the average water depth of Poyang Lake is 8.4 meters, and the deepest place is only about 30 meters. Such waters are not a problem at all for diving teams with ultra-high-quality and well-equipped diving teams.
There are not many members in this team,There are only 12 people.
Just like the Japanese, they came to the suspected waters on a professional boat. The plan was to divide them into groups of 4. The first group dived to half of the observation environment, the second group continued to dive to the bottom to search, and the last group People meet on the boat.
In order to witness this process, the National Government also sent people to board the ship as a guide.
When the first group of people went into the water, they reached the depth of more than 20 meters smoothly. At this time, the underwater light was very good, and each other could be clearly seen within 10 meters.
The second group of people was instructed to dive and Boll was among them.
After they dived to the bottom, the two groups above received information about their safety. Then, Ball and other four people began to search underwater.
Time passed by minute and second, when Boll and the others were supposed to go up to the lake to exchange oxygen, they were never seen.
The remaining two groups were panicked and dived to the bottom, searching for Boer and others everywhere.
But, the accident happened again!
After they were all launched, this professional diving team never came up again!
Several guides on the boat panicked, and after waiting for a long time, without seeing anyone coming up, they sailed out of the waters and turned to their heads.
The disappearance of Boll and others caused an uproar in the salvage industry. You must know that this is a professional team that has been well-known in the West for a long time. Even they are missing. Is there a mysterious "Bermuda" in the ancient East?
Just when people were talking about it, Boll came back.
After Boll went ashore, he was neither crazy nor boastful as before. However, what is incomprehensible is that since he went ashore, he has been silent about his underwater experience.
So, what did Boll and the Japanese diving team experience underwater? Why do they all seem to have received a huge stimulus and keep their mouths shut?
until 40 years later,In his later years, Boll finally overcame the fear in his heart and published the only "Waterloo" in his diving career through a newspaper.
That year, the first group of Boll and the others dived into the water and found nothing unusual.
When I reached the bottom of the lake more than 30 meters away, I found that the water was very clear, there was no undercurrent, and it was very calm. At the bottom of the lake, they searched for nearly 30 minutes, but found nothing. Just when they were about to surface, they suddenly found a beam of white light passing by quickly...
All four people saw this light and thought it was there. Weird, he decided to surface quickly.
But before they were climbing up the rope, suddenly, the clear bottom of the lake suddenly surged, and a large amount of sand spewed out, forming a whirlpool. And that white light is in the center of the whirlpool, emitting a powerful suction!
Before a few people had time to react, they were swept over by the sand, and then whirled and sucked into the whirlpool...
At that time, Bohr was also dark in front of him and passed out.
When he woke up, he was surprised to find that he had been washed to the shore by the current. At this time, three full days have passed, and all the others have disappeared!
After Boll’s dictation appeared in the newspaper, it caused many people to speculate, and the focus was on the white light. Is this a substance, or existence, capable of swallowing the 2,000-ton "Kobe Maru"?
03 The local department also returned to no avail
When Boll’s experience spread, the local department also developed a strong curiosity.
Because, according to locally available and authoritative historical records, more than 100 ships have sunk or disappeared in the waters of Laoye Temple in the past 60 years.
In the private sector, there have been more than 200 cases of shipwreck or disappearance in the past 20 years alone. There was even an accident that sank 13 ships in one day.
In order to find out the secrets at the bottom of Poyang Lake, the local department organized a scientific expedition team in the 1980s, hoping to use scientific means to discover the truth about the shipwreck here.
Through the scientific research team’s inductive analysis of the "wreck incident", the results show that the occurrence of accidents here is regular:
first, almost all shipwrecks occurred in March and April;
Second, the weather was fine on the day of the accident, either with a clear sky or a bright moon;
Third, when the accident happened, there were violent winds and black fog was instantly permeated.
In the first two rules, there is no factor that led to the incident, so everyone puts the goal on the last point: Is it because the strong wind caused these ships to sink or disappear?
As we all know, the wind of typhoon at sea is very strong, and Poyang Lake is inland, it is impossible to have strong winds that can sink 2,000 tons of ships. If such a strong wind is really going to sink, the wind must reach level 15 or above, but there is no such level and frequent hurricane in the inland.
So, why does an inland lake generate such a large wind? Where does the black mist come from? What is the connection between wind and black fog and that white light?
The scientific expedition team found nothing on the lake, so they set their sights on Lushan not far away !
Mount Lu is in the northwest direction of Laoyamiao waters, with a straight line distance of 5 kilometers. In March and April, there will be strong winds from this direction. Poyang Lake is shaped like a gourd,The narrowest place is only 3 kilometers.
The scientific expedition team speculates according to the wind direction: if a strong wind blows from Mount Lu, it first enters the small scoop above the "gourd", passes through the "gourd waist", and then enters the big scoop below. As a result, the wind at the narrowest "gourd waist" will suddenly increase, and the waters of the Laoye Temple are in the position of "gourd waist"!
This is the "narrow tube effect" effect in wind mechanics.
However, even the scientific expedition team does not believe that the wind will increase to above level 12 here, and it happens frequently. What's more, since the fog is permeated, it should be water vapor and white fog, not black.
Because scientific methods cannot explain clearly, in 1990, the local government organized another expert expedition team and invited several professional diving team members to assist.
Fortunately, after the diving team went down, there was no accident and no weirdness was found. After a full circle under the water, everyone returned to the shore smoothly.
However, after a round of searches, no previous sunken ship or materials were found at the bottom of the water.
Such an authoritative expedition team did not find any clues, which made everyone very discouraged. Some people even thought that the so-called "Kobe Maru" was a fictional story, including Boll's expedition.
Just the day before everyone was ready to go back, the accident happened again!
One of the divers is called Shen Dahai, who has been fishing many times at sea, and is very unwilling to this result. Determined to investigate again, he took his assistant Xiao Wang to the waters of the Laoye Temple again.
Shen Dahaiyi was bold, so Xiao Wang watched from a distance on the shore, and dived into the water alone.
As time passed, Xiao Wang became more and more anxious on the shore, until 2 hours later, Xiao Wang was completely panicked, and the oxygen in the sea was only enough for one hour!
Shen Dahai has an accident,The panicked Xiao Wang immediately reported to the team.
After learning about it, the expedition team realized that something was wrong, and immediately organized all the divers who could be found to search for it. The strange thing is that after searching all the nearby waters, no one was born, no corpse was seen, and Shen Dahai was missing!
Just when everyone was sad, but the next afternoon, Shen Dahai appeared again!
It turned out that there was an old local farmer who went to the mountains to do farm work in the afternoon. His mountain land was above the Changba Mountain Lake 15 kilometers away from Poyang Lake. While resting from work, he inadvertently looked at the lake and found a person floating on it, clearly visible.
Kindly he shouted from a high place to remind the man to go ashore quickly, it was already late.
However, the man on the lake did not respond, and remained motionless on the lake. At this point, the old farmer realized that it was not good, so he called for help from the villagers and picked up the man.
People from the expedition team came to see that this person is Shen Dahai, but unfortunately he has lost his breath.
04 The magical legend about the "Laoye Temple" of Poyang Lake
Changba Mountain Lake is higher than Poyang Lake, how did Shen Dahai get here?
Is there an underground passage between Changba Mountain Lake and Poyang Lake? Otherwise, how could Shen Dahai appear from downstream to upstream? The expedition team was puzzled, so they visited the local people, trying to find some clues from folklore or stories.
Kung fu pays off, and there are some magical legends about the "Laoye Temple Waters".
According to legend, in the last year of Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought decisively in Poyang Lake, but they won more with less and laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
When starting the battle, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to lead the main ship to attract Chen Youliang’s firepower,On the outside, there will be a wonderful division. Once the two sides fight inextricably, they will take the opportunity to directly penetrate Chen Youliang's ship from the outside to capture the thieves and the king.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's main navy was inadequate in combat power. After a battle, he lost his troops and lost his generals, causing countless casualties. Moreover, Chen Youliang has been chasing his ship behind him, aggressively, vowing to destroy its main force.
In desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang had to order to retreat and head to the waters of Laoye Temple. At that time, there was no "Laoye Temple" in this water area.
As soon as he retreated into this place, Chen Youliang's army chased him. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the remaining navy to blockade the "gourd waist", and he led people to find an exit from this waters.
Just when he was anxious, suddenly, a huge black shadow appeared on the water, which was extremely fast, and instantly came to Zhu Yuanzhang's ship.
Zhu Yuanzhang fixed his eyes and saw that it turned out to be a giant cat with a few desktop sizes on its back!
I saw it looking up at Zhu Yuanzhang, seeming to be behaving for him to jump on his back and take him to escape from here.
Zhu Yuanzhang was desperately ill and went to the doctor. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already desperate, no longer thought about it. He greeted the two entourages and got off the ship and came to the back of the giant horse. This giant dragon seemed to be very spiritual, and quickly swam to the shore with Zhu Yuanzhang, letting him escape.
At the time of parting, Zhu Yuanzhang squatted down, stroking the head of Ju Yuan and said: "Today you helped me Zhu Chongba escaped this disaster, and I must be very grateful in the future!"
In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang not only escaped the catastrophe, but also quickly returned to the partial division. He raided the army of Chen Youliang who was still attacking the "gourd waist" from the back, surprisingly winning.
After winning the world, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget the life-saving grace of Ju Yuan. He built a "Dingjiang Temple" by the lake and named Ju Yuan the "General of Yuan". This Dingjiang Temple is still there today.
Over time, local people called this temple "Laoye Temple".
And according to folklore,That giant cat became a spirit later, and often came out to make waves.
Of course, this is just a folklore, it is impossible to believe. So is there any monster in Poyang Lake?
In the course of the visit, the expedition team also learned about the story of others.
It is said that in the 1970s, some people once said that "monsters" were seen in the waters of Laoye Temple. According to local fishermen who eat by the lake, the thing is about 30 meters long and shaped like a huge broom.
However, there are witnesses who said that the "monster" is like a white dragon. It travels extremely fast in the water...
So, is there really a dragon like a dragon in Poyang Lake?
However, according to the research of the expedition team, they believe that such a huge "monster" cannot exist in the inner lake.
Firstly, there is not enough food for them to thrive in the lake; secondly, this legend is very old, and there is no real evidence, which cannot be believed; thirdly, the inland climate and the oxygen concentration of the lake can not be nurtured. Out such a huge creature.
Finally, the expedition team left without any results.
Since then, no one has come here to explore the "Kobe Maru".
Postscript: Unexpected and reasonable truth
Time came to 1991, , in order to film the TV series "Lone Mountain", Xiong Jianhua, the original screenwriter of a film and television company, and the crew came together Look for the location of the play in the waters of Laoye Temple.
It happened that a magazine editor gave Xiong Jian ’s manuscript, and explained that it’s better to write more mysteriously.
So, after learning about the legend of the "Laoye Temple", Xiong Jian hua conceived a story in his mind.
In this story,There is a real side: For example, the locals once salvaged the sunken ship on the lake and found some porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and disputes arose because of this; another example, in the local navigation station data, it was indeed recorded that people were in the waters. The detailed process of discovering the "Water Monster", and many people saw this scene.
Of course, since it is a story, there is a fictitious side: For example, the Japanese "Kobe Maru" full of treasures; for example, the American and Chinese divers.
In 1992, in the "Ken Chunni" magazine, Xiong Jianhua's novel came out with the title: The terrifying " China Bermuda "-a report from the "Devil's Triangle" of Poyang Lake.
There is a true and false in this novel. That’s why has been passed down to this day and is believed by many people to be true.
And this is the whole truth of the "Laoye Temple Waters" of Poyang Lake! This is the real reason why the legendary "Kobe Maru", which is filled with billions of Chinese treasures, has not been salvaged!
Because, the incident itself is nothing.
The wise man stops rumors.
The Japanese "Kobe Maru" sank as early as 1942, but a few years ago, Poyang Lake was exposed to the bottom of the lake due to a drought. Naturally, the truth about the shipwreck of the Japanese invaders at the bottom of Poyang Lake became clear to the world.
However, the legends and stories are really attractive. This should be the reason why the so-called "Oriental Bermuda" can be passed down to this day.
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