In 1935, 300 Red Army soldiers died mysteriously, and the central government repeatedly investigated without success, and the mystery was unveiled 54 years later
One day in October 1935, a small force of about 300 people of the Red Army crossed the Liupan Mountain at an altitude of more than 1800 meters, the towering mountains, the thin air, so that the soldiers who had not eaten for a long time were tired, and after crossing the mountain, the soldiers came to a small village in the local town of Gengwan.
The local people were oppressed by the warlords, and they were very wary of these foreign troops, and when they came, they found that every household was closed, and in order not to disturb the people, the troops chose to stay and rest, and then went to chase after the large troops on the second day. When stationed, they specially chose a place close to the spring.
In order to ensure that the upper echelons were familiar with the movements of the troops, they immediately transmitted the message by telegram to the large troops not far away after they were stationed here. On the second day, when counting the number of people, the large units of our army counted and found that there were more than 300 red army soldiers missing. After checking, it was found that it was the same unit that was stationed near Gengwan Town yesterday, and when the chief learned of it, he immediately sent a correspondent to urge them to come and assemble.
After arriving at the troops' garrison, the correspondent found that everyone was sleeping, and none of them were awake, so he shouted, "Don't sleep, get up and assemble!" Unexpectedly, no one responded to him, he felt something was wrong, and quickly stepped forward and shook the warrior lying on the ground, but the warrior was motionless.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he touched the pulse of this warrior, but found that there was no beating long ago, and he hurried to touch the pulse of other warriors, and without exception, all the more than 300 people stationed here had no heartbeat.
Frightened and panicked, the correspondent hurried to check whether there was an ambush around him, found that there were no signs of fighting around, and then looked closely, and the soldiers did not find any wounds on their bodies, so he hurried back to the large unit and reported the matter to the chief.
Because the incident was so bizarre, the chief could not believe it, and he rushed to the scene with a small unit and found that this was indeed the case. This was no small matter, and he hurriedly sent a telegram to inform the central authorities of the matter.
Chairman Mao was furious after hearing this, and more than 300 soldiers died in such an inexplicable way? Without knowing who the murderers were, not knowing where the enemy was hiding, they died. Chairman Mao ordered that this matter must be thoroughly investigated.
After receiving the order, the security office immediately rushed to the scene of the crime, sealed off the scene, and then checked every soldier, but there was no trace. The Security Service suspected that someone might have been poisoned, and there was no other way to make all the fighters die at the same time. But after investigating the nearby villagers, they still did not get any clues.
As the war became tense, the security office had to bury the more than 300 soldiers, and then the large troops withdrew from Liupanshan to meet in northern Shaanxi. After the end of the Long March, Chairman Mao did not give up the investigation of this suspicious case, but after many investigations, he had no clue.
Premier Zhou suspected that the incident was related to the Kuomintang, so he secretly sent someone to investigate all the Kuomintang agents, but still did not find the truth of the incident.
It wasn't until 1989 that the mystery was solved. After the reform and opening up, all parts of the country are vigorously developing the economy, in order to enable the people in the mountain villages to also enjoy the fruits of reform and opening up, improve the quality of life of the rural people, the central government has formulated relevant poverty alleviation policies to help the rural people get rich.
When planning Gengwan Township, the relevant staff took the lead in visiting the area, and they found that most of the water drunk by the local people was well water and spring water. In order to ensure the safety of the people's lives, the staff took the lead in surveying the local water source.
In the course of the investigation, some villagers reported that there was a spring not far from the village, and the water here seemed to have a problem, and once they drank the water, they would be mentally weak and had no energy to do anything.
The staff came here, took a variety of samples and brought them back to the laboratory, and the results were surprising, it turned out that these springs contained a large number of potassium ions, which were harmful to the human body. There is also a way to deal with it, as long as the resin is exchanged with a weak acid, the water quality can be improved.
After completing this, the engineer went to the village to tell everyone that the water was safe to drink, and during the conversation, they heard an old local man talk about the case that had been unsolved.
The engineers were shocked, returned to the studio and began to go through the historical files, and further surveyed the spring water, they found that the spring water has other secrets, the water not only contains a large number of potassium ions, which also contains a large amount of hydrogen, hydrogen once it acts with potassium ions, it will produce potassium hydride, as long as the intake of more than 50 grams, it will seriously damage the central nervous system of the brain, and then lose consciousness.
They hurriedly reported the information and inferences they collected to the higher-level units, and after learning about it, the central government organized a number of laboratories to conduct research and analyze the results, and those Red Army soldiers at that time died of suffocation due to drinking spring water poisoning.
