In July 1967, in Beijing, there was a sudden sound of slapping the table in Lin Biao's office. Lin Biao was holding a document and looked angry. It turned out that the document said that in the southeastern region of Xinjiang, a 120 cannon waiting for repair suddenly disappeared

In July 1967, in Beijing, there was a sudden sound of slapping the table in Lin Biao's office. Lin Biao was holding a document and looked angry. It turned out that the document said that in the southeastern region of Xinjiang, a 120 cannon waiting for repair suddenly disappeared overnight.

Lin Biao read the file again, then suddenly picked up the red pen and wrote in the blank: must be strictly investigated and recover the cannon! So, what exactly happened on the day the cannon was lost? Who stole the cannon?

In early July 1967, the Xinjiang Aksu Military Region sent three artillery to the gun repair center located in Asher Khan for repairs. At the same time, the military region stated that after the repair, it could be used to train local militias.

Soon, the gun management office completed the repair and maintenance of all artillery, so it decided to test the artillery. On the afternoon of July 22, 1967, everyone used their cars to pull the three cannons and headed to the Gobi Desert 12 kilometers away from the gun site. It was sparsely populated and was a good place to test the cannon.

Originally, everyone thought the test gun would end soon, but the process was unexpectedly long. It turned out that it was because a cannon had a malfunction. The military engineer repaired for a long time and finally found the cause of the malfunction of the cannon, but the materials on the scene were insufficient and he needed to go back to the firearms site.

However, since the repair process took too much time, the Gobi Desert is also far away from the gun station, and it will definitely be dark after going there. Therefore, everyone discussed and repaired the cannons tomorrow and pulled them back first.

But at this time another problem occurred. There were only two cars at the scene. There were three cars originally, but because when repairing the cannons, someone could not withstand the hot weather and fell into a coma, so one car was used to send people urgently.

At this time, several officers said: left the broken cannon in place and sent it back well. Anyway, there was only one night, so I could not have any problems when I sent someone to guard it. At this time, the militia battalion commander also said that he could be responsible for the arrangements of the guards. Everyone thought about it and agreed. But it was this decision that made everyone regret it

The militia battalion commander immediately appointed 4 militiamen and asked them to come to duty immediately after dinner. When they were having dinner, the other two militiamen were watching the scene first.

Early in the morning of July 23, a militia named Huang Dadou suddenly discovered that the 120 cannon they were guarding disappeared! He quickly woke up the others, and the others were stunned when they saw it. They were still there when the meal was handed over last night, and everything was normal later. Why did they disappear when they opened their eyes?

When Huang Dadou had no time to think about it, he rushed to the gun station to report the matter to Section Chief Lin in the station. When Chief Lin heard this, his face changed and he pulled Huang Dadou to run to the director's office.

The so-called Yang from the gunhouse was once participated in the Anti-Japanese War. He had seen everything, but he had never seen the cannon throwing. He was stunned for a moment. After he realized that he was cursed.

Minister Huang Dadou's face changed color because of his fright. This is not only because he has never seen this scene, but also because he remembered that last night, none of them carefully guarded the cannon and left the post without authorization. After scolding him, Director Yang immediately called the garrison headquarters. There was a regiment political commissar who was Director Yang's comrade. He didn't know what to do now, so he called to ask for help from his comrades.

But the political commissar of the league didn't know what to do, but he reminded Director Yang to report the matter to the top first. So soon, Director Yang reported the matter to Xinjiang Military Region .

The Xinjiang Military Region was naturally shocked. Because Xinjiang was wide and complex at that time, there were still remnants of the Kuomintang bandits operating deep in the desert in Xinjiang.

There have been many cases of residual bandits robbing military supplies in Xinjiang. If this 1 2 0 cannon was robbed by the robbers, the consequences would be particularly serious! Therefore, the military district leaders immediately sent a call back, strictly ordering the gun station to do its best to find out the situation quickly.

As for the specific investigation, the telegram instructed: "You can contact the local public security organs to obtain support." Firearms Repair Institute immediately reported the case to the local public security organs after receiving the military order. On the evening of the same day, the local public security organs sent eight scouts and arrived in Asher Khan in two batches.

At the same time, several security personnel were sent to the military region, led by the security section chief Zhong Tie to conduct an investigation with local public security personnel. The two sides were immediately established, and a "120 Special Project Investigation Team" led by the Party Committee of the Firearms Institute was jointly responsible by Zhong Tie and Ma Wenxin, deputy director of the Regional Public Security Department.

The investigation team quickly drove to the scene, intending to look for clues at the scene, but due to the special climate of the Gobi Desert, no traces of discernibleness can be seen on the ground at this time! The clues at the scene were gone, and Ma Wenxin and Zhong Tie discussed and decided to hold a case analysis meeting.

At the analysis meeting, the task force members talked about their opinions based on the existing information. Finally, everyone thought that it would be difficult to investigate the four people ordered to guard the cannon first, because they had all left their posts, which was unlikely to be accidental.

After the meeting, the task force immediately interrogated the four guards. They also gave their own reasons for leaving their posts. They visited and investigated based on the testimony they gave and found that they were not suspicious, and they also had witnesses to prove it, so the suspicion of the four guards was cleared.

Almost as the task force interrogated the four guards, Lin Biao, who was far away in Beijing, also learned about this. Lin Biao was the vice chairman of the Central Committee at that time. He would often look through documents to avoid missing any key documents and materials. Just then, he saw a briefing from the Xinjiang Military Region, which included the content of "120 cases".

The loss of the cannon is not a trivial matter, and as an old soldier who grew up in the war, Lin Biao has a very special relationship with weapons. In his eyes, the weapon is like a good friend of him,

Therefore, when Lin Biao saw that he actually lost a cannon and the case had not progressed for a long time, he couldn't help but get angry, stood up suddenly, slapped the table hard, and then picked up the red pen aside, wrote two lines of words in the blank of the file: must be investigated strictly and recovered the cannon!

Then he found a staff member and asked him to give it to the Ministry of Public Security. When the Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi saw it, he immediately sent a telegram to the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, asked him to send strong and experienced scouts to Asher Khan to assist the task force in investigating the "120 cases".

On the afternoon of July 26, 1967, three scouts sent by the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau finally arrived in Asher Khan. After the three scouts arrived, everyone held another meeting to discuss how to go next.

At the meeting, someone suggested that we should put in the investigation of the remnants of bandits, because Ashel Khan was only 4 or 500 kilometers away from the center where the remnants of bandits often appeared, and they had the conditions and ability to commit crimes.

But at this time someone refuted this view because no matter who commits the crime, he will have a clear motive for committing the crime, and the "120 case" is no exception. If this is what the remnants of the bandits do, then what are they doing? Is it easy to use heavy weapons like cannons to attack? However, judging from the current situation of the remnants of the bandits, they have no conditions to use cannons:

First of all, the cannon target is large and the mobility is inconvenient, and secondly, there are no shells, and it is difficult to get close to the target they are going to attack. For the remaining bandits who are still active in Xinjiang, survival is the first priority. Stealing cannons will hinder their survival, so they will not be interested in cannons.

After hearing this analysis, others had to give up their original views, so the meeting reached an agreement: temporarily exclude the possibility of the remnants of the crime. Since the remnants of the bandits did not commit the crime, who would it be? No one had a clue, and the case was in a stalemate for a while.

, and Lin Biao has been paying attention to this case at this time, asking about the progress almost every day. When the task force members learned that Lin Biao was so concerned about the case, they felt even more urgent and had to solve the case as soon as possible and give everyone an explanation.

However, although the murderer was not found, everyone was inspired by the reconnaissance process: if you want to transport the cannons, you must use tools. What function can you transport the cannons? Everyone thought of a means of transportation: car!

Everyone immediately followed this clue to check. At that time, there were few cars in Xinjiang. There were only a lot of cars and fewer cars there, so it was very clear, so it was very convenient to check and touch. As a result, in less than two hours, the task force received an unexpected news: a car was lost in a fruit processing factory in this county.

The factory has not reported the case to the Public Security Bureau, but is organizing forces to investigate it on its own. Zhong Tie, the security chief who had been frowning, jumped up suddenly when he heard the news: "Contact them quickly and ask when the car was lost?"

So the scout quickly drove to the factory. As soon as I learned, it turned out that the car was lost when it passed by the location of a nearby commune on the evening of July 20. The task force issued an emergency order to the whole Xinjiang to search for this car through the Autonomous Region Public Security Department. The fourth day after the issuance of the

, the car had already emerged and was locked up with the people and the car! The scouts rushed to Alar day and night and found that they were two young men. During the interrogation, they said that they just stole the car and started transportation and did not use it to steal artillery.

After investigation, it was found that the facts were indeed as they said, and the scout could only return without success again. Seeing that there was no clue, the task force held another case analysis meeting. Maybe after exchange, there would be new ideas. As expected, at the meeting, a public security officer with rich experience named Zuo Xiankun proposed a new idea.

He said that in the past, people have been put on cars by crime tools, but can't they use other tools to transport them? For example, pulling with animals. Zuo Xiankun said: "In the war years, I have seen with my own eyes that I used the cannons to pull the cannons with animals, so this is possible. We should check the animals."

Everyone suddenly opened up their minds, changed the direction of investigation, and started to explore a new way from checking animals. Since it is impossible for animals to go far to pull cannons, the task force decided to investigate from our commune first. The scouts went to each production team and visited each team one by one.

did not make any progress at the beginning, and everyone was mentally prepared for this, so they were not discouraged. It was not until the fifth day that there was finally progress. When the scout was investigating in a village called Fumaogou, he found that four animals were sick there. The villagers said that the veterinarian had already visited and said it was because he had eaten bad feed.

scout didn't understand either, so he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but just mentioned this when he met others at night. But this attracted Zuo Xiankun's attention. He immediately asked how many animals there were, and whether the sick animals were the strongest among all animals.

It’s not that Zuo Xiankun is so sensitive. Who said that four animals can pull a cannon? The scout didn't understand at all, so Zuo Xiankun said that he would go to Fumaogou again tomorrow and he would go with him.

The next day, Zuo Xiankun and others came to Fumaogou. Zuo Xianluo first asked the production team leader about the situation of the breeder: named Wang Ziling, who entered the feeder last year. had already arrived at the feedlot while speaking. Wang Ziling looked at the scout, suddenly turned around and ran out, jumped on the bicycle quickly, stepped on it and left, while riding, he left a sentence: "Wait a minute, I'll call someone."

production team leader hurriedly wanted to stop Wang Ziling, but was stopped by Zuo Xiankun. Zuo Xiankun asked, "Do those four animals usually get sick." The production team leader said that these four animals are the best animals in the village and never get sick.

Zuo Xiankun asked again: "When did you start getting sick?" The production team leader pointed his finger and said: "It seems that it was last month 23, right? Yes, it was last month 23!"

Zuo Xiankun was happy. Isn't this the same time as the day the cannon was lost? At this time, Wang Ziling also came back, and there was also a young man wearing Zhongshan outfit next to him. According to Wang Ziling, the young man was Veterinarian Wu from the commune. Wang Ziling said impatiently: "He specializes in treating animals. If you have any questions, please ask him."

Wang Ziling's series of reactions forced Zuo Xiankun and others to be careful. They looked at Wang Ziling, then looked at Wu Veterinary, and then asked Wu Veterinary many questions about sick animals, but his answers were nothing strange. In addition, it was already lunch time, so the scouts did not ask again, but asked Wang Ziling and the others to go for lunch first.

After Wang Ziling left, Zuo Xiankun and others and the production team leader went to the brigade headquarters. The brigade branch secretary was a cheerful person. After learning about this, he asked the production team leader: "Isn't there an old Huangtou in your village? He is an old veterinarian. Why did he go far and go to hire a veterinarian from the agricultural technology station?"

production team leader replied: "I don't know. On the day the animal got sick, my child had a high fever. It was the veterinarian that Wang Ziling went to hire. Maybe that veterinarian Wu was his relative, so it's easier to talk to."

After listening to their discussion, Zuo Xiankun and other scouts looked at each other, feeling that this was becoming more and more suspicious. It seemed that he was going to find Lao Huangtou and let him see what the animal got sick.

Zuo Xiankun and others immediately found Lao Huangtou. After Lao Huangtou knew their purpose, he said he didn't have to see him again, because he had secretly visited the sick animals while Wang Ziling was away.

Those animals get sick because after doing super physical work, such as taking heavy work, walking long distances, running too hard, and drinking a lot of cold water.

The scout was immediately excited when he heard this. After thanking Lao Huang, they immediately began to investigate Wang Ziling's situation. The investigation continued until the next day, and a total of 17 people were investigated, including two of whom often mingled with Wang Ziling.

task force believed that it had grasped the situation sufficiently, and then sent Wang Ziling and his two friends respectively. After an hour of interrogation, the result was finally reached: is Wang Ziling and these two people who stole 120 cannons with animals, and they stole the cannons in order to disassemble the cannons and sell the parts in the cannons!

At this point, the investigation of the "120 case" has come to an end successfully, and everyone is very excited. Afterwards, the cannon was found, and Wang Ziling and the other two were soon sentenced to death by the Military Court .

The so-called net of heaven is vast and unconfused. If a person commits a crime, don’t think about escaping the legal sanctions, because if you want others to know, don’t do it unless you do it!