This is a special tomb.
A large number of remains of soldiers were discovered next to a garbage dump in a border village in Yunnan!
These remains were buried under the garbage. There was no coffin, but several people were lying together in a "special" coffin.
What is even more heartbreaking is that after testing, it was found that their average age is only 20 years old!
What kind of army are they? Sacrifice because of this? Why was
buried under the garbage heap?
Oil drums next to the garbage dump
In 2017, an old farmer in Wumu Village on the border of Yunnan went up the mountain to collect medicine as usual.
As soon as he walked to a garbage dump at the foot of the mountain, the old farmer found a few herbs nearby, so he put down the bamboo basket and picked up the hoe to dig them out.
Who knows, after a few shovels, the farmer felt something was wrong, and there was still a "clang" sound.
Curiosity drove the old farmer to dig a few more times. It turned out to be a large oil drum. Covered by the soil, the oil drum was severely corroded.
The old farmer felt a little strange. How could there be oil barrels in this remote mountain forest where no one cares?
Intuition told him that this was unusual. Could someone have secretly hidden something here? Could it be a treasure?
So the old farmer didn’t bother going up the mountain, and quickly returned to the village to find a few villagers to help him dig out the big oil barrel first!
After a while, a group of people dug out the oil barrel. Not to mention, the oil barrel was quite heavy. When they turned it out, there was the sound of objects colliding with the oil barrel. There must be something inside. thing!
A brave farmer stepped forward and pried open the lid of the oil drum with a hoe. When he picked it up and took a look, he was so frightened that he stepped back several steps and fell to the ground.
Everyone was very confused, what exactly was inside? Why are you still scaring people like this?
Before the farmer could slow down, several people gathered around him. At this time, everyone was frightened and stepped back, and some even shouted.
There is indeed something in the oil barrel, but it is not the treasure that everyone imagined, but a pile of bones!
No one dared to act rashly, so they took their hoes and hurried down the mountain and ran home.
When they came back to their senses, everyone couldn't help but wonder, who are they? Why was it put in a big oil drum? Who buried them here?
Although these farmers had not studied for a few days, they realized that this incident was unusual, so they gathered together and reported it to the village leaders.
The village leaders heard their description and immediately reported it to the police.
After receiving the news, the police, together with several experts, immediately rushed to Wumu Village. Under the leadership of several villagers, they arrived at the scene.
At this time, many people in the village heard the news that the remains were found at the foot of the mountain, and they came to watch, and the scene was completely surrounded.
No one expected that a cruel historical past would be revealed soon.
The hero who was hastily buried
An old farmer in Yunnan went up the mountain to collect medicine and accidentally found an oil drum full of human remains next to the garbage dump.
The local police immediately intervened. They discovered that the large oil drum contained not one body, but several bodies!
The police initially suspected that this was a homicide? The cruel gangsters killed the victims, put them in large oil drums, and buried them hastily.
If this is really a murder case, then this gangster can be said to be crazy.
When the surrounding villagers heard about the "murderous maniac", they were so frightened that they closed their doors tightly and did not dare to come out.
However, the police quickly overturned this guess, because they found that there was not just one oil barrel like around, but one!
The police cleared out the garbage pile next to it, and there were such oil drums buried underneath. There was no doubt that they contained human remains.
Experts looked at these oil barrels thoughtfully, as if they were a cemetery built against the mountain.
None of these corpses had coffins. Instead, several people were put into an oil drum and then buried hastily. It is enough to imagine the rush at that time.
The clueless experts took part of the skeleton to the laboratory for testing and visited local villages.
Checked the local county records and found that experts did not find that a large number of people died here.
At this time, the old man in the village gave the experts a hint. During the Anti-Japanese War , the expeditionary force had fought with the Japanese here!
Could these remains be those of soldiers who died during the war?
At the same time, the test results of the remains came out. These remains were only a few decades old, and based on the judgment of the teeth, the age of these remains was approximately 18 to 20 years old.
At the cemetery site, experts also found some cloth fragments. According to testing, they were indeed clothing fragments from the war years.
Experts have initially judged that the owners of these remains should be soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
Most people in their 20s are still studying on university campuses and enjoying their youth wantonly.
Back then, in order to defend the motherland and drive away the enemy, they went to the battlefield without hesitation and sacrificed their lives.
So which unit of the expeditionary force are these soldiers? In which war did he die? Who buried them here?
Chinese Expeditionary Force
They were less than 20 years old. After they died in battle, they were hastily buried in oil barrels. When they were discovered again, they were under a pile of garbage.
After learning their true identities, everyone could not help but shed tears.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia in a short period of time.
The Burma Highway is the main material supply line for the Chinese army, and international aid and purchased materials rely on this to be transported to China.
In order to cut off this important supply line in China, the Japanese army sent troops to Myanmar and India, cutting off the international channels for aid to China from Britain, the United States and other countries, and entering China from the rear.
In order to kill the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the 5th, 6th, and 66th armies, totaling 9 divisions with more than 100,000 people, to form the Chinese Expeditionary Force to go to the Yunnan-Myanmar border and go deep into Myanmar to assist the British army in fighting the Japanese army. Preserve the Burma Highway.
Because the British army was arrogant and distrustful of the Chinese army, they initially did not agree to the expeditionary force entering Myanmar. The Chinese expeditionary force could only be temporarily stationed on the Chinese border.
After the battle started, the British army was quickly defeated and even wanted to abandon Burma and retreat to India.
At this time, the expeditionary force had already broken through to the vicinity of Tengchong, Yunnan. The allies were not strong enough, but the expeditionary force must hold its position for the sake of the domestic situation.
After the first battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force was ordered to retreat. However, the difficulties on the retreat were unimaginable.
There is a Savage Mountain at the border of India and Myanmar. It is a primitive forest that no one has ever entered. The terrain of Savage Mountain is dangerous and densely covered with jungles, mosquitoes and even wild beasts.
In addition to being wary of enemies, soldiers also had to fight against the harsh environment. Many soldiers were bitten by poisonous insects and died on the way.
According to statistics, 60,000 expeditionary troops retreated at that time, and more than 30,000 people stayed in Savage Mountain forever.
Under the desperate struggle of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, they finally protected China's only international channel open to the outside world and destroyed the Japanese army's encirclement and suppression plan.
and recovered nearly 83,000 square kilometers of lost land in western Yunnan, and also helped Myanmar regain more than 50 cities.
But at the same time, the Chinese army also paid a very heavy price, and many soldiers stayed on this land forever.
After research, it was found that the remains in these large oil barrels in Wumu Village were the units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that fought for the first time.
They should have been surrounded by the enemy on the way back, and unfortunately died while covering the retreat of the large force.
Due to the urgency of the war, the comrades had no time to bury them, so they placed their bodies in large iron barrels and buried them on the spot.
It is a pity that due to the passage of time, the remains have turned into bones, and even the clothes they wore have rotted into pieces.
Which army do they belong to? What are their names? It has been impossible to verify.
Experts took the remains of these heroes out of this special "coffin" and carried out simple arrangements.
Under the unified arrangement of the government, these remains were buried in the local martyrs cemetery, and they finally had a home.
The place where their remains were found was voluntarily protected by local villagers. Every Qingming Festival, the villagers would go to visit the graves.
Although their identities cannot be verified, they have a common name, which is the glorious Chinese Expeditionary Force.
I hope that one day, with everyone’s joint efforts, the families of these heroes can be found!
