At a time when Shuten Doji riding a Tengu was sweeping across the Chinese Mainland and the winds of Absolute Evil, manifesting as Japanese soldiers, were setting new standards of evil and destruction, culminating in the `Rape of Nanking`, the temporary Chinese capital - an event occurred that contained something more than evil. Or less...However, disappearances are everyday tragic events, kidnappings or unexplained cases have always existed. Most often, they are individual disappearances. However, in China, perhaps in accordance with the size of the population - it happened that thousands of people disappeared at once.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), the most mystical disappearance of as many as 2,900 soldiers, members of the Chinese Army, took place near the city of Nanjing. On December 9, 1939, a battalion of the Chinese army under the command of Colonel Li Fu Hsien arrived as reinforcements for the units trying to stop the Japanese aggressors. It should be noted that it was probably a regiment and not a battalion, since the figure of 3,000 soldiers is much closer to a regiment than to a battalion, which is part of a regiment...
The unit was deployed on a section of the front of about three kilometers, with an outpost of several dozen soldiers ahead. The soldiers arrived in the evening and were deployed in positions by 4 a.m. No clashes were expected during the night, and after sunrise... there was neither a trace nor a sound of the Chinese battalion!
Some officers woke the colonel up because they were worried that they could not get in touch with his soldiers. After several unsuccessful attempts, it was decided to go by vehicle to the scene and see for themselves what the problem was. They had something to see, the trenches, the tents, the warehouses - they were empty. At first they suspected desertion - but desertion of 100% of the soldiers and officers - together is impossible. Besides, they would have left some trace of movement, after all, it was almost 3,000 people. None of that, apart from a few places where a fire had been lit in the evening - there was nothing that would have hinted at the fate of the soldiers.
From the moment of the last communication with members of the battalion to the arrival at the scene by the colonel, only three hours had passed...The colonel and some officers made their way to the outpost where a small group of soldiers from the same battalion were keeping guard and remained the only ones from the battalion who had not disappeared. But they too had seen and heard nothing and were themselves shocked by the news. The surrounding villagers were questioned but they too saw nothing, no one heard any shooting or movement
Another theory was that the battalion surrendered to the Japanese but that turned out to be untrue, as it was determined after the war that the Japanese units on that part of the front did not capture anyone that night and not only that but were not in combat with anyone that night. There was a bridge that had to be crossed to reach the Japanese lines but the Japanese guards did not see anyone. The missing never appeared anywhere, neither in their places of residence nor with their families and friends, they were simply literally swallowed up by the night.
The only Chinese who were more lost than the aforementioned soldiers were the tourists who, in their blissful ignorance, emerged from nowhere at the beginning of the summer of 1992...just in time for the closing of the ring of the Chetnik hordes around Sarajevo...
(Roger Mortis, 063)
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