In September 1958, the land of China was dyed with autumn colors, but Karamay was covered in a snowstorm, which contrasted with the beauty of the golden leaves. In the early morning, the body of Yang Zhenglu, the daughter of Yang Hucheng, was found in the ice and snow, with her ten fingers deep in the snow and a drawing in her arms. General Yang Hucheng's name is a household name, but the name of his daughter Yang Zhenglu is less known. So, why did she die in Karamay?What kind of drawings did she have in her arms?To unravel the mystery of all this, we have to start with the well-known Xi'an incident. A life of wandering. On December 12, 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng resolutely launched the Xi'an Incident to force Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan in order to save the nation from peril. And Yang Zhenglu was only 9 months old at the time, still in infancy, but he was involved in a whirlpool of fate. After the Xi'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek soon betrayed his word and began to carry out ** against Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng.
Chiang Kai-shek first seized Yang Hucheng's military power under the pretext of sending him abroad to investigate, and then imprisoned him for 12 years upon his return, during which time he brutally tortured his family and eventually killed the general. However, General Yang Hucheng had already anticipated the Xi'an Incident when he launched it, so he arranged for his children and grandmother to flee Xi'an for safety**. Yang Zhenglu, who was only two years old at the time, fled with his grandmother to Sichuan, where he had to escape from the Kuomintang reactionaries, but with the protection of the underground party, they were able to survive and settle down in a remote village in Sichuan, escaping the pursuit of the enemy. The daughter of Jiangmen has been wandering and working hard since she was a child, and even her life has been threatened, which is the fate that Yang Zhenglu must face, but she did not complain or be unwilling, but studied harder to make life gradually more exciting. In May 1949, news of the liberation of Xi'an reached a remote mountain village in Sichuan, which meant that Yang Zhenglu could finally escape the fate of living from the enemy and return to Xi'an.
After Yang Zhenglu returned to Xi'an, he studied in Xi'an Girls' Middle School, with outstanding academic performance and outstanding performance, and was soon elected as the secretary of the general branch of the school's Youth League. A few years later, Yang Zhenglu successfully graduated from high school and was admitted to Northwest University, majoring in oil and gas geological exploration. Yang Zhenglu: The Intrepid Women's Geological Exploration Mission As we all know, geological exploration is a difficult professional field that few women choose to pursue. However, Yang Zhenglu is not an ordinary person. As the daughter of General Yang Hucheng, she not only excelled in her studies, but also resolutely decided to choose this difficult field when choosing a college major. Her choice stemmed from a simple but profound reason: New China was facing the challenge of lack of resources at that time, and it was in dire need of geological talents. Therefore, Yang Zhenglu resolutely devoted himself to the oil industry, hoping that the motherland would be stronger!This feat reminds people of two famous sayings: one is "reading for the rise of China" said by the prime minister when he was studying, and the other is "tiger father has no dog girl". The young Yang Zhenglu is admirable, but her adventurous spirit doesn't stop there.
After graduating, she made an unexpected choice. At that time, she could choose to stay in Xi'an to develop, after all, the exploration work urgently needs scientific researchers, but she resolutely decided to go to the bitter cold land or the Gobi Desert to conduct field research for oil exploration. With his excellent grades and prominent status, Yang Zhenglu is fully capable of choosing to stay in Xi'an. Instead, she opted for fieldwork. This decision baffles almost everyone who knows her, however, she has her reasons. At that time, China's lack of resources restricted the development of various industries. In the field of the oil industry, the most urgent task is not scientific research, but the search for new resources, that is, the search for oil fields in remote areas. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was faced with many international restrictions, and the import and export of many resources was extremely difficult. The discovery of new oil fields will have a profound impact on China's development. This is an important reason why Yang Zhenglu gave up the opportunity to stay in Xi'an and resolutely went to the desert of Xinjiang to look for oil fields.
It can be said that Yang Zhenglu is worthy of being behind Jiangmen, inheriting his father's patriotic aspirations, regardless of personal gains and losses. After arriving in the desert of Xinjiang, she directly devoted herself to the field work department, where the working environment was the most difficult, and continued to learn knowledge from the veteran team members through practice, and soon became quite capable, and also learned to identify topographic maps and fill in geological maps. She dedicated herself to the desert, and after September 1956, she was transferred to the Karamay region in the eastern Junggar Basin for field exploration. Karamay, the name may sound romantic and poetic, but its geography is extremely harsh, with boundless deserts and desolate Gobi forming the main body of this land, and it is difficult to find even a trace of life, not to mention the bare mountains on the barren land. In addition to the harsh geographical environment, the climate in Karamay is also very harsh, with extremely hot during the day and bitterly cold at night. In such an environment, Yang Zhenglu and her team must engage in a non-stop struggle against nature.
Due to its remoteness, it is extremely difficult to replenish Karamay, especially water, which must be transported from distant places. Because of the scarcity of vehicles and many remote and difficult sections, Yang Zhenglu had to go on foot, and she relied on her legs to explore every inch of Karamay, leaving behind valuable geological data that played a huge role in the discovery of the oil field 30 years later. In the early morning of September 25, 1958, the rare good weather in the Karamay area made Yang Zhenglu happy. However, not long after the departure, the weather suddenly changed when the temperature plummeted and a violent snowstorm followed. The team members who stayed at home were also shocked when they saw the sudden change in the weather. Such rare bad weather is likely to trap ill-prepared outgoing team members outside, and they must be picked up as soon as possible. Thinking of this, the remaining team members immediately followed the route of the team members who went out, but the violent snowstorm made it difficult to travel and blocked their vision.
The two drivers braved the snowstorm and drove each car to search for it, and one of the cars was lucky enough to quickly find a group of exploration team members, but Yang Zhenglu and Zhang Guangzhi's team never found it. Time passed minute by minute, the sky gradually darkened, but the blizzard became more and more violent, even if the nearby villagers were mobilized, they never found the traces of Yang Zhenglu and Zhang Guangzhi. Eager villagers lit torches and searched for them, while others rode horses to search, but the glimmer of the torches was soon swallowed up by the endless darkness, and searching for two men in the midst of a raging storm was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Everyone was busy for a long time, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that they finally found Yang Zhenglu and Zhang Guangzhi under a small hill not far from the station. When Yang Zhenglu and Zhang Guangzhi were found, they were covered in heavy snow. Yang Zhenglu clung to a drawing, his hands still maintaining the posture of crawling forward, while Zhang Guangzhi fell not far behind Yang Zhenglu.
There were still many messy footprints around, and it was clear that Yang Zhenglu had tried to help him up after he fell, but to no avail, he chose to return to the station afterwards. However, at this moment, he could no longer hold on, and finally collapsed. Everyone quickly launched a rescue, but they could not save their lives, so Yang Zhenglu and Zhang Guangzhi died. At that time, Yang Zhenglu was only 22 years old, but his life will always stay at this flower-like age. The drawings in her arms were the geological maps she had when she went out to explore that day, and they were also the last gift she left to the oil industry.