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Preface
935, more than 300 Red Army stationed in Gengwan Town, all died mysteriously overnight. The central government sent people to investigate and became a unsolved case at that time.
Until 54 years later, by chance, our party finally discovered the truth of this unsolved case.
So, how did these Red Army soldiers sacrifice? How to reveal the truth in the end?
Red Army Stills
1. Bizarre sacrifice
One morning in 1935, the Red Army gathered its troops in the Liupanshan area and prepared to carry out the next combat plan according to the instructions of the central government.
Unexpectedly, he could not contact the Red Army stationed in Gengwan Town. The leader in charge of this military assembly thought that their radio station was broken, so he ordered the correspondent to rush to the station to inform the station.
When the correspondent traveled to Gengwan Town through mountains and rivers, he found that the soldiers were all lying on the ground and motionless. The Red Army was disciplined and it was almost noon. It was impossible for them to rest.
So the correspondent suddenly felt bad, so he hurriedly checked the situation of the Red Army soldiers beside him. When it was discovered that all the Red Army soldiers in the area were killed, the correspondent sat on the ground with his legs limp.
He murmured: "It's over, something big happened!" then endured his grief and reported the news to the military leaders. The leader knew the situation was serious and reported the matter to the central government.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was shocked after receiving the emergency telegram. The content of the telegram was short : "All three hundred Red Army soldiers stationed in Gengwan Town died overnight, and the cause of death is unknown."
Chairman Mao felt heartbroken after seeing it, and then slapped the table and shouted: "Check it out for me! More than 300 soldiers, how could it be said that they were gone? Send someone to investigate the reason for me immediately!"
You should know that under the urgent situation at that time, every soldier of the Red Army was the spark of revolution. More than 300 soldiers died overnight, which was a big blow to the Red Army at that time.
So Mao Zedong immediately sent the security department to investigate the reason, saying that the soldiers must not be sacrificed in vain. The people from the Security Department knew the seriousness of the situation, so they hurried to the site to investigate and collect clues.
Security Department
Security Department people arrived at the scene without any ambiguity. They carefully inspected the bodies of each soldier and speculated on all possible situations last night based on the on-site situation.
After a check, the investigators from the Security Department were stunned. There were no signs of fighting at the scene, which shows that the sacrifice of the Red Army soldiers may not be the enemy sneak attack originally envisioned.
Could it be caused by traitor poisoning?
So the people from the Security Department verified the information of the Red Army soldiers one by one and found that all the Red Army stationed here were sacrificed. If the traitor poisoned, there was no need to poison himself to death.
Moreover, every soldier here has experienced the baptism of war and has long been a comrade-in-arms who share life and death. If a relative is better than a relative, it is impossible for him to betray the Red Army.
Red Army
Could it be that the hostile spy was poisoning secretly?
Following this idea, the security department investigated the suspicious people nearby, but except for the people who were purely supplemented by the folk customs, no valuable clues were found.
The investigation also stagnated for a while. Considering the subsequent march arrangements, in order not to delay our army's Long March plan, the people from the Security Department could only bury the sacrificed soldiers on the spot.
Due to the large-scale round-up of the Kuomintang army at that time, our army had to choose to transfer urgently, so this unsolved case was forced to be put on hold, but this incident has always been a thorn in the hearts of our party leaders.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou Enlai also personally investigated this matter. According to most people at that time, the bizarre sacrifice of the Red Army is likely to be inseparable from the enemy spies.
Zhou Enlai
So Premier Zhou led experts to investigate for several months, but in all the information on enemy spies in our party, there is no information on the activities of enemy spies in Gengwan Town.
Then Premier Zhou changed his mind and found an extremely hidden information point.
If it was done by the hostile spy agency, it means that our army's route had leaked at that time, but the enemy army was still confused. How did the spy know? This obviously doesn't make sense.
So this case has been pending, becoming a local unsolved case that has been blocked for decades.
So, how did this unsolved case discover the truth in the end?
Red Army Oil Painting
2. Clues emerge
After the founding of New China, my country has been committed to the development and development of poor areas in the west, and has formulated a series of support policies to improve the quality of life of people in poor areas.
In 1989, the Lanzhou Military Region ordered the subordinate military region water supply regiment to go to the Liupanshan area for water quality survey work in accordance with the instructions of the Party Central Committee, hoping to change the local water use problems.
Wang Xueyin and Wang Senlin, as local senior engineers who gave water group , naturally took on this arduous task without hesitation, and soon took the instrument deep into the mountains.
Their first stop was Gengwan Town, but at this time Gengwan Town had been renamed Gengwan Township . Under the leadership of local villagers, Wang Xueyin and the others completed the survey without much effort.
Later, Wang Xueyin brought the collected water sample specimens back to the laboratory and compared the water quality in Gengwan Town. Then he discovered a situation that surprised them.
According to experimental results, a spring in Gengwan Town contains a large amount of potassium ion . If people drink this spring for a long time, they will be depressed at the least, and seriously, they will have heart problems.
So Wang Xueyin and his wife returned to the spring in Gengwan Township with the idea of improving water quality, preparing to neutralize the potassium ions in the water by exchanging resin with weak acid.
In the process of improving water quality, Wang Senlin looked at the spring water and thoughtfully, as if he had thought of something. He hurriedly pulled Wang Xueyin and said, "Do you still remember the history of the Liupanshan Party?"
Wang Xueyin was a little stunned. How could this improve water quality be related to the history of the Party? Wang Senlin's thinking was a little too reckless, so he replied, " "Remember, but why did you ask this?"
Wang Senlin seemed a little excited and quickly explained, " "The Red Army Long March back then, there were more than 300 Red Army soldiers who died bizarrely in this area of Gengwan Town. Do you still remember this? "
Liupanshan
Wang Xueyin was shocked after thinking for a moment, and said in a trembling voice: "What do you mean is the bizarre sacrifice of the Red Army, which may be related to the spring in front of us?"
Wang Senlin slapped his thigh and said firmly: "I think it is very likely, otherwise it will not be enough to explain this unsolved case that has been covered with for many years."
In order to further verify his guess, Wang Senlin forced Wang Xueyin to Gengwan Township for investigation. After several twists and turns, they found an older man and asked about the situation that year.
According to the old man, he did see him here when he was young, but at that time the people knew very little about the Red Army and thought that the Red Army was a "Communist bandit", so they did not dare to take them in.
Later, the Red Army had no choice but to choose to station outside the village, and there were many people drinking water in the spring. By the next day, the group of soldiers fell to the ground and had already lost their lives.
Red Army
Wang Xueyin’s two conjectures were confirmed, and he couldn’t help but feel excited. Unexpectedly, the unresolved mystery of more than half a century made them discover clues.
However, as the investigation unfolded, Wang Xueyin and the others fell into trouble again, because even if the potassium ions in the spring exceed the standard, it will not be fatal in a short period of time.
It is obvious that the potassium ion exceeds the standard in spring water is not the direct reason for the sacrifice of the Red Army. The truth of the matter is probably not as simple as the two of them think. It requires further investigation and verification.
So what is the real reason for the sacrifice of the Red Army?
Survey
3. The truth is revealed
In order to further find out the truth of the facts, Wang Xueyin and the others came to the spring again to conduct the work, hoping to find some clues from it.
By chance, Wang Xueyin found bubbles coming out of the water surface when collecting water samples, which aroused Wang Xueyin's curiosity, so he carefully observed these mysterious bubbles.
The frequency of these bubbles is not low, and it is accompanied by an almond-like smell. As an engineer in geological and water quality, Wang Xueyin immediately determined that this is cyanoga .
So why does cyanide appear here?
Cyanogas
According to Wang Xueyin and others' speculation, the mountains in the Liupanshan area are continuous, and it is very likely that there are a large amount of mineral or oil resources inside the mountain and below the surface.
The spring, as an important link connecting the groundwater veins and the surface water system, may be connected with the oil resources hidden deep under the surface, so these cyanides will return to the surface in the form of bubbles.
. When these cyanide gases float to the surface, combined with potassium ions with excessive content in water, they will produce potassium cyanide crystals through chemical reactions, and this potassium cyanide is highly toxic.
After the human body consumes potassium cyanide, the body will experience numbness of mouth and tongue, and then the brain will lose its effect unknowingly due to poisoning, and finally stops functioning quietly.
It seems that the Red Army soldiers at that time misused the water here and inhaled a large amount of potassium cyanide, which led to the bizarre situation of all soldiers being killed.
Red Army
. In order to further verify their conjectures, Wang Xueyin and Wang Senlin contacted the top domestic laboratories to conduct comprehensive sampling and testing of the water quality near Gengwan Town.
Later, Wang Xueyin and the others also found the people involved in the investigation at that time, carefully learned about the situation at that time, and had a basic understanding of the status of the soldiers' bodies.
Finally, after dozens of comparative studies, Wang Xueyin and Wang Senlin could almost determine the cause of the death of the Red Army at that time, because they overdrinked spring water rich in potassium cyanide.
But there is another problem in front of everyone, that is, why are these people living in the local area here okay? Haven't they ever drunk the water here?
They conducted a local investigation with questions. According to the confession of the local villagers, it was not that they had never drunk the spring water, but that the water tasted good and bad, so they did not drink it all the time.
control experiment
About a few years, some bubbles will appear in the spring water from time to time, and there will be a strange smell. Local villagers are worried about water pollution, so they will use it staggeredly.
This attracted Wang Xueyin's attention. The good and bad water quality may be related to the geological activities in the area, which can also explain why the cyanide gas here has not been discovered before.
If this is true, everything makes sense. The Red Army was ordered to station here at that time, and the people did not dare to take in the Red Army because of fear. The soldiers had no choice but to station outside the city.
is the stage of active cyanide. The soldiers who traveled a long distance were thirsty and tired, so they did not notice the strange smell of the spring water and drank it all in one go, and then they lost their lives without realizing it.
Red Army
So Wang Xueyin contacted the local geological survey bureau and asked them to send staff to conduct a long-term survey of the geological structure in Gengwan Township area, and found that the results were as true as the villagers said.
After about several years of investigation and evidence collection, the local government finally uncovered the truth that has been buried for many years based on multi-party cooperation.
The incident has come to this point. The unsolved case of Gengwan Town, which has plagued the Party Central Committee for 54 years, has finally come to an end. When people feel sorry for the sacrifice of the Red Army soldiers, they can't help but recall the glorious years of the Long March.
We have not forgotten those revolutionary martyrs who died for some reason. I believe that when the truth is revealed to the world, their heroes will also receive great comfort.
Red Army
End
Afterward, under the leadership of the local government, scientists used chemical knowledge to neutralize potassium ions in spring water, making the spring water harmless.
also extracted potassium ions from spring water under scientific and technological means, making potassium fertilizer that is conducive to local agricultural production, benefiting a part of the land.
Later, in order to commemorate the spirit of the Red Army's Long March, the local government established a Red Army Long March memorial hall in the Liupanshan area to commemorate the past achievements and contributions of the revolutionary martyrs.
Looking back at the Long March at that time, the Red Army soldiers led by our party went through a lot of hardships to get a stable situation under the difficult situation of sharp decline in the number of people and the enemy's siege and interception.
Red Army sculpture
Every time I think of this, the resolute faces of the Red Army soldiers emerge in the hearts of the people. four crossings of Chishui , clever crossings of Jinsha River , forcing them to cross Dadu River , and flying to capture Luding Bridge . These battles are all thrilling.
When the Red Army soldiers traveled to the Liupanshan area for a long distance, they still had to face the regular Kuomintang army stationed here at that time. They could be said to have wolves in front and tigers in the back, and they were in a difficult situation and were in a dilemma.
But they don’t give up easily! In order to achieve lofty ideals and beliefs, we are not afraid of difficulties or hardships, we are brave enough to sacrifice and willing to make contributions, and finally show the world a heroic appearance.
Red Army
Chairman Mao once wrote a lyric and praised this feat:
"The sky is high and the clouds are light, and I look at the flying geese in the south. It is less than Great Wall is not a hero, and I am traveling 20,000 with my fingers. The peak on the Liupan Mountain is on the west wind. Today, the long tassels are in my hand, when will the blue dragon be bound?"
pay tribute to those heroes who sacrificed for the New China!
Chairman Mao's "Qingpingle·Liupanshan" manuscript
