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Throughout human history, many disappearances took place in which an individual or a group of people disappeared mysteriously and many of them were never found. But in this incident, not only a normal individual or a small group of people vanished with no trace, but a whole battalion with around 3000 Chinese soldiers mysteriously disappeared who were not found to this day.
The Incident
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The Second Sino-Japanese War started in 1937 between the Republic of China and Imperial Japan was really getting tough for China as the Chinese army wasn't strong compared to the Japanese army.
Unlike today, China was a weak state at that time and Japan was one of the strongest and their army was also very strong with well-trained soldiers equipped with modern weapons.
In this war, Japan had the upper hand and the Japanese Army was heading fastly into the mainland by defeating the Chinese troops and came near the capital Chongqing.
To defend their boundaries against the Japanese and to push them far from the areas near the Capital, Colonel Li Fu Sien was given the responsibility to defend the hills near Nanjing Province.
For this Colonel Li was given a battalion with 2988 soldiers and Colonel Li posted all of them on the place to be defended.
The only route that connects Nanjing and the southern part of China was a bride made on the Yangtze River.
Colonel Li knew that if he manages to secure the bridge, he could stop the Japanese from advancing.
But things started to get weird on the next day when Colonel Li was informed that the communication with the Nanking battalion had lost.
Colonel Li and others in the base feared that the Japanese army might have attacked them and Colonel Li sent a team to check their position.
But they were shocked to see the sight of the position of the Nanking Battalion. They found that none of those 2988 soldiers was nowhere to be seen or in other words all of them had vanished.
But what's even more shocking is that all of their supplies including their weapons were in their place which clearly indicates that they weren't attacked by the Japanese Army.
There were more posts of the Chinese army near the area and when colonel Li and his team enquired there they clarified that there were no attacks in this area last night.
Also, there were no footprints seen of these troops.
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| Chinese Soldiers During the Second Sino-Japanese War |
The Chinese Army tried hard to find these troops. They looked every nook and corner, from the area to the house of each of these soldiers but they never found them.
The Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945 and the relations between these two states improved after that the Japanese Government cleared that their Army never attacked that area nor they held them as Prisoners of War which confirms the fact that those 2988 soldiers weren't attracted by the Japanese Army and their disappearance remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries.
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