#战争风云 #
Huayuankou embankment, also known as the Huayuankou incident, the Huayuankou massacre, is one of the three major tragedies in the history of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Changsha fire, the Chongqing air raid shelter massacre, the Huayuankou dike is the largest number of deaths, the largest scope of impact, is the first of the three major tragedies, what is the context here?
Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army won a great victory at Pingxingguan, which greatly encouraged the people of the whole country to resist the war, and Chiang Kai-shek could not sit still at first sight; after shooting the fleeing general Han Fuyu, he organized the Battle of Taierzhuang, annihilated the Japanese army with several times the enemy's strength, and saved face, but things were often complicated and tortuous, and Chiang Kai-shek was blinded by victory. Thinking that a few more battles like Taierzhuang would completely defeat Japan, he wanted to win a quick victory and underestimated the enemy's strength.
Battle of Taierzhuang
The main force of the Japanese army gathered in Xuzhou and Chiang Kai-shek was decisively fought, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to withdraw from Xuzhou for fear of being annihilated, the Battle of Xuzhou was lost at the beginning, and the Japanese army marched west along the Longhai Railway and the Yellow River, preparing to capture Zhengzhou and then attack Wuhan south along the Beijing-Hankou Railway.
The Japanese army's Doihara Ken II's lone army went deep, which was supposed to be a good opportunity to annihilate, but 150,000 people could not win the 20,000 Japanese army, and Chiang Kai-shek's two concubines did not obey the command, fled from the front, completely disrupted the strategic deployment, and annihilated the precious fighters of Theo Ihihara. Even Chiang Kai-shek himself had to admit that the Battle of Lanfeng was a laughing stock in the history of war.
Map of the situation of the War of Resistance
After the Japanese army captured Kaifeng, Chiang Kai-shek panicked, actually listened to the advice of his subordinates, dug the Yellow River levee to stop the Japanese army, this is a practice of losing his conscience, Chiang Kai-shek himself knows, but he desperately asked his subordinates to break all concerns and resolutely go to work, in the early morning of June 9, 1938, after two days and two nights of non-stop excavation, the garden mouth was finally dug open, after the garden mouth broke, the Yellow River water quickly leaked, the next day, the Yellow River fell a torrential rain, the Yellow River water soared, the garden mouth breach was washed up, The overflowing river broke the Longhai Railway and flowed southeast.
The garden mouth bursts the embankment
However, this flood did not cause much damage to the Japanese army, the Japanese army only drowned more than a thousand people, and after the Japanese army was blocked by the yellow water, it abandoned the plan to attack Wuhan from the Pinghan line. After retreating to Xuzhou, they went south to Bengbu, crossed the Huai River, and then joined other Japanese troops in Hefei, and began to attack Wuhan from the north bank of the Yangtze River.
But the unfortunate is the common people, the garden mouth broke the embankment flooded a large area of land, causing great disaster to the vast number of people, nearly 900,000 people were drowned, buried in the belly of the fish, is the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre killed three times the Chinese soldiers and civilians, the entire Yellow Pan area from northwest to southeast, up to 400 kilometers, flowing through Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu 3 provinces 44 counties more than 300,000 square kilometers of place, to the people in this area of the life and property caused immeasurable losses, according to incomplete statistics, the houses were washed away more than 1.4 million homes, Nearly 20 million mu of cultivated land were submerged, 4.8 million people were destroyed, tens of millions of people were displaced, and a yellow pan area was formed that was plagued by disasters for many years, and the opening of the garden mouth caused a man-made catastrophe in history.
At that time, the state media said that 1,062 people drowned, and even Chiang Kai-shek himself did not believe that the disaster caused at least millions of casualties and uncountable property damage, this beggar-thy-neighbor approach was shameful, and did not have much effect on the Japanese army, this time the Yellow River diversion affected the ecology of Henan, and later the drought of 1942 and locusts were related to it.
Chiang Kai-shek only cared about himself whenever he encountered difficulties, regardless of whether the common people were alive or dead, lost the hearts and minds of the people, and collapsed sooner or later; in sharp contrast to this, when the Communist Party was blockaded by the Japanese army and implemented the barbaric three-light policy of burning and killing the whole world, the Communist Party did not complain about the heavens and the people, and Chairman Mao issued a call to do it himself and have enough food and clothing to create a typical example of Nanniwan, completely smashed the enemy's attempts, won praise from all walks of life, and won the world sooner or later.
Victims of the Yellow River after the breach of the embankment