On August 5, 1918, the citizens of the Russian city of Kazan were so frightened by the rumbling sound of artillery that they hid in the basement and did not dare to come out!

The city was controlled by the Bolshevik Red Army, which had seized power for less than a year by Revolution, while two anti-Bolshevik White Guard units, the Czech Corps, and the corps of Kolchak, led by Kolchak, which was subordinate to the main White Guard general at the time, tried to capture the city of Kazan.

Outside the city, there was a constant sound of artillery and gunfire, and the residents were wondering how long the Red Army could hold out.

The residents' worries are not unfounded. Although the Red Army had a numerical advantage, the newly formed unit was poorly disciplined. Two days later, Kazan was captured, and the White Guards entered the city.

The young general Korbel first commanded the troops to occupy the telegraph office, the station and one of the most important places for the whole of Russia at this time: the Kazan Bank.

The Reds had occupied the city for a long time, and Kerber believed that if there was any treasure in the bank, it would have been taken away by the Reds long ago.

The next day, one of Kerber's henchmen suddenly broke into his headquarters with an anxious look.

"What's the matter, tell me quickly!" Kerber shouted. The henchman remained silent.

Kerber told everyone else to go out and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The henchman whispered in Kerber's ear about what he had just discovered. Kerber's expression began to tense, and the hand holding the whiskey glass tightened tighter and tighter. After the henchman finished speaking, Kerber's body tensed, and it took a long time to slowly relax.

What the henchmen told him was: we have found the Tsar's treasure trove of gold in the bank vault!

How did the tsar's treasury get to Kazan? This question is a mystery.

There are only two explanations for this problem. First, the Tsar's gold was kept in the banks of Britain, France, Poland and other countries in batches, and was later retrieved and kept in the vaults of Moscow and St. Petersburg. During World War I, Russia faced a German invasion, so the Tsar transported some of the treasure to Kazan.

Second, after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks occupied Moscow and St. Petersburg, and for security reasons, decided to preserve the treasure in Kazan.

Knowing that the stakes were high, Kerber decided to transfer the treasure immediately, as the Reds could return at any moment.

Kerber was an excellent military commander and a self-disciplined soldier. At that time, Kerber faced a very complicated environment, the Red Army could return at any time, and the area around Kazan and the road to transport treasure were full of bandits.

If Kerber was a soldier who lacked self-discipline, I'm afraid this treasure would have been divided up long ago.

In this way, Kerber, who loaded the treasure onto the car, led his troops to begin a long march. They first reached Samara, and then headed for Omsk, located in Siberia.

In the end, Kerber managed to deliver the treasure to his loyal general: Kolchak!

With the support of this batch of gold, Kolchak, who had the dream of "liberating Russia", began to buy guns, ammunition, and medicine from Britain and France to arm the army, looking forward to the next battle with the Red Army.

The British and French governments, who learned that Kolchak had mastered the tsar's gold, took the opportunity to knock Kolchak on a "bamboo pole", and his army bought the required equipment at a price several times higher.

Kolchak expected that Denikin, who was also a general of the White Guards, could resist in the western part of Russia for a while, but unexpectedly, the Red Army quickly routed Denikin's troops and began to march south.

Kolchak hurriedly commanded the army to respond to the battle, ordered the army to fight to the death, and did everything possible to delay the advance of the Red Army. The words he didn't utter were:

Buy time for the rush to transport gold!

The hastily armed army did not have much combat effectiveness, not to mention the fact that Kolchak, who was born as an admiral, was completely unable to perform on land. In battles with the Red Army, Kolchak's army was crushed.

However, this time was enough to deal with the transportation of gold. Soon, Kolchak's troops began to flee east by train, the mysterious "Golden Train" filled with the Tsar's treasures.

Kolchak's army was more than 500,000 men, accompanied by 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and cherished the Tsar, of whom 270,000 were bishops, monks and nuns. In addition, there are more than 200,000 noble ladies and their children! …,

In fact, there is an amazing secret hidden in the more than 1.2 million fugitive teams: nearly 500 tons of gold!

The average temperature in winter in Omsk is minus 22°C. An army of 1.25 million embarked on a journey of 6,000 kilometers under the leadership of Kolchak, and minus 20 degrees Celsius is not uncommon for people living in the European part of Russia, but no one expected that after just a few days of walking, the temperature dropped sharply from minus 30 °C to minus 60 °C at the time of departure.

The small town of Tomsk, more than 1,000 kilometers east of Omsk, where the disaster began, is the coldest town on earth.

The bitter cold wind roared, and the blizzard pierced the body like a tug-of-war, bringing unspeakable suffering to the people of the Great Migration, which was rare in history. It wasn't long before the endless snowfields of Siberia were covered with frozen people, discarded sleighs, frozen horses, dead bodies and a never-ending snow all around.

From November 13, 1919 to February of the following year, for three months, a human tragedy caused by an unbelievable cold turned into a drama without stopping. The 28 armed escort trucks carrying the nuggets ran out of fuel, and they had no choice but to exchange the nuggets for horse-drawn sleighs. However, the extreme cold caused the sledding Siberian stallions to die one by one, and the huge treasures inherited from Tsarist Russia had to be thrown into the Siberian wilderness.

However, the march did not end there, and the people were like zombies on the move, with only one pair of feet still moving alternately from left to right. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the whole universe seems to be a huge package sealed by snow flakes. At first, the conductor shouted "No sleep" in a hoarse voice to motivate the people. But later, even they themselves were seduced by the god of sleep.

The ranks of the Great Migration are attritioning at an ever-increasing rate every day. The bitter cold of Siberia, which has not been seen in a century, has turned into a cruel suffering, cruelly tormenting people. The snow fell like crazy, and 200,000 people froze to death in just one night near the city of Nikolaevsk.

By the end of February 1920, the number had been reduced from 1,250,000 to 250,000. After many hardships, these people finally made it from Omsk to the shores of Lake Baikal, 2,000 kilometers away. However, for the last safety, it is necessary to cross Lake Baikal. The 80-kilometre-wide lake was covered with 3 metres of ice, and 250,000 living people began to cross the ice.

The ice on the surface of the lake sparkles, like the floor of a slick dance floor. The surface of Lake Baikal, which was frozen solidly, was extremely cold. The temperature dropped to minus 69°C, and the violent blizzard roared as if it was about to freeze the bone marrow of the victims. It is useless to wear bearskins and seal skins in such places, and the extreme cold only makes bearskins act like ice masks on their bodies. Thousands more froze to death. Completely unimaginable sights appeared on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal:

A general's wife was about to give birth on the ice, but there was no one who could go over to help, and people walked past her with heavy steps and expressionless faces. The general used his body to block a partition wall, originally to prevent people from seeing his wife give birth, but he really froze motionless like a wall. The general's wife froze to death along with the child who was about to be born, and in a few moments all froze to death.

The blizzard finally subsided, and a deathly silence enveloped all around. It's all gone. Sadness, pain, sighs, whispers, hatred, indignation, everything disappeared with 250,000 souls.

But where did the 500 tons of gold go?

There are only two people in the headquarters, Dai Li and Zhang Zuolin.

Hearing Dai Li's finish telling the story related to the golden treasure, Zhang Zuolin opened his mouth wide and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Oh my God, 500 tons of gold, what kind of terrible concept is this?

"Actually, to be precise, there were 520 tons of gold when it was handed over to Kolchak." The expression on Dai Li's face was very calm: in the first half of 1919, Kolchak spent some money on the purchase of armaments, and there should be about 400 to 500 tons of gold left, and the purpose of my visit this time is to find this batch of gold! ”…,

Zhang Zuolin was shocked again.

No one knows the whereabouts of this batch of gold, no one!

All those who fled with Kolchak are dead!

"Someone knows." Dai Li's expression was very firm: "He also died, but before he died, he left us a clue." He was the man sent by the president as soon as the Russian Civil War broke out, and he was always in the White Guards. ”

Zhang Zuolin sat there in a daze.

Oh my God, oh my God! How did the president know in advance that there was such a gold deposit? According to Dai Li's previous story, Kolchak also got the gold by chance after conquering Kazan.

However, the great president who was in Nanking seemed to know early in the morning that a huge sum of gold was lying quietly in Kazan.

"You already know where the gold is?" Characters like Zhang Zuolin couldn't help but lower their voices.

Dai Lian shook his head: "I don't know, we only have clues, some say that the gold sank into Lake Baikal along with the carriage, and some people say that before Kolchak reached Irkutsk, out of a prudent consideration, he ordered one of his most loyal men to take the gold to another route, and the only purpose of my coming here is to find this batch of gold!" ”

"How can I help you?" Zhang Zuolin, who had regained his composure, asked.

"In addition to the accompanying people, a special force will soon arrive, and the president will order the commander-in-chief to attack immediately to cover the purpose of our trip, we will go to Lake Baikal and find the clues to this batch of gold!"

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