During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army had just eaten breakfast, and fishermen came to report that an iron guy (a Japanese mine) had floated up in the East China Sea, round and large, larger than a bamboo plate for drying grain, and about one

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army had just eaten breakfast, and fishermen came to report that an iron guy (a Japanese mine) had floated up in the East China Sea, round, large, larger than a bamboo plate of sunbathing grain, about as high as a man's shoulder.

Gu Lichang, head of the propaganda and education section of the district party committee, discussed with Captain Chen Qiaogui and prepared to go to see it first. So, with their weapons, they walked north for about two miles and passed through a small harbor, and sure enough, they saw a large iron ball, tapped with a rifle, and there was a sonorous sound, and there was a small head like a head on the ball, which was actually the lid of this iron ball, and the lid was also round, and there were more than ten thick screws, and the lid and the round body were firmly screwed together.

Gu Lichang said to Captain Chen, "We can't stop here. Be sure to open it and see what's inside." He said, "Of course, as you would have thought."

So Gu Lichang sent someone to invite Miao Baochang, and borrowed axes, pliers, kitchen knives and other tools. After knocking with an axe for a while, the iron ball only went down a little, and it could not be knocked down again.

Gu Lichang and several people used pliers to open the screws separately, but the screws were very tight and could not be screwed. Later, the two people 4 hands worked together to twist a screw, as if the screw had signs of loosening, everyone saw hope, gritted their teeth, used all their strength, and finally unscrewed the first screw.

Unscrew one screw without worrying about the other screws. When Gu Lichang and others were beating and dismantling the screws, about 200 farmers who returned from fishing for fish and picking clams from the sea gathered at the beach to watch the liveliness and marvel at it.

Some people say: This guy is so big, iron, very heavy, why not sink to the bottom of the sea, can still float on the surface of the water, float here? Some people say: It is the bomb of japanese devils.

Some people retorted: The bomb thrown by the plane in the sky is long, this guy is round, where is the round bomb? Some people also said: Is it a mine planted by a Japanese devil who wants to blow up an American warship?

Gu Lichang and others could not answer everyone's questions, and still concentrated on disassembling the screws. After about an hour of hard work, the lid was finally opened, Gu Lichang first saw a rectangular piece of paper pasted inside, there were two lines of words on the paper, or Chinese characters, all recognized, one line was "Showa fourteen years (according to 1939) made", the next line was "300" words, probably this is the weight of gunpowder;

In the center there is a copper pipe about a foot long, and there is a very hard spring in the copper pipe, and there is a thick-pointed "iron rod" in the spring, which is the firing pin of the mine; the copper pipe, the spring, the firing pin is the core part of the mine, and this core part is buried in the black-brown explosive.

The iron ball is not filled with explosives, and there is not a small amount of space, probably for this reason, the mine has buoyancy, will not sink, can be with the help of the wind, from the Pacific Ocean with the help of the southeast wind to the south of the Yellow Sea coast.

At this moment, Gu Lichang was so frightened that he sweated, and everyone invariably stuck out their tongues and said: Pick up a great creation. If when knocking and removing the lid, knocking on the center of the central head, hitting the hit needle, causing an explosion, hundreds of people will become meat paste, fly to the sky, and become "Heavenly Goddess Scattered Flowers".

Gu Lichang picked up a little gunpowder with soybeans, walked a hundred meters away and lit it with a match, and suddenly squeaked, and a few feet of smoke appeared. At that time, I was both nervous and happy, feeling that I had a luck to pass a level, and finally found something, but there was also a profound lesson.

Since the nature of the mine had been determined, Gu Lichang was afraid that the enemy stationed in Licha would get the news and would be able to rush to the scene in more than an hour, so there must be no slackness or delay. Gu Lichang immediately found Miao Baochang, who was present, and he mobilized four young and strong militiamen, borrowed a wooden wheel cart, 4 clean dung barrels, all filled with explosives, and covered the barrels with things, and immediately set off to quickly send the explosives to the arsenal of the military sub-district near Dongtai Sancang, which was about 150 miles away from us.

Later, the chief of staff told me that the militia came back and said that the director of the arsenal was very happy to see gunpowder, saying that it was high-grade explosives, and that they could not buy it with money, and that they were ready to keep the shells of the mortars they had made. The militia also brought back a letter of commendation. After that, Gu Lichang sent someone to get the reward: 20 grenades.

The mines that drifted from the Pacific Ocean to the South Yellow Sea were originally buried in the Pacific waters after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 in a vain attempt to blow up the US warship. Later, this mine reached the hands of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, and the New Fourth Army could be used to fight the devils.

Since then, in the northern region, peasants have also found many mines along the coast, some of which exploded during the knocking, some of which took out gunpowder and hid them in their homes and exploded, and many peasant houses were destroyed and killed, causing heavy losses to their neighbors, and this was also another heinous crime committed by the Japanese devils in the war of aggression against China.