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When the Japanese army invaded the mainland, they burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, and the people of the country hated it bitterly.
In order to fight the Japanese army, even the Yellow River came in handy.
In 1938, in order to resist the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Yellow River embankment to be blown up.
After the Yellow River burst its banks, it was unstoppable, causing countless casualties.
So how many Japanese soldiers drowned in the operation to blow up the Yellow River that year?
Sick Doctor
In May 1938, Chiang Kai-shek received two pieces of information from Tianjin and Shanghai. sky
The information on Tianjin was concise and clear, directly pointing out that the Japanese army had targeted Wuhan for the next step of the war.
The Shanghai intelligence also indicated that the Japanese army had attacked Wuhan, and attached a detailed strategic deployment of the Japanese army, "The Japanese army will march west along the Longhai line to capture Zhengzhou."
Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that if Zhengzhou fell, the Japanese would be approaching Wuhan next.
At that time, the anti-Japanese forces on the mainland were no longer enough to completely confront the Japanese army, and if they wanted to keep Wuhan, they had to think of another way.
If you can't stop it, you can do it with the help of nature.
Chiang Kai-shek came up with a "brilliant" idea of blowing up the Yellow River dikes and using the power of the flood against the Japanese invaders.
The general strategy has been released, but the specific implementation plan needs to be decided after discussion with subordinates.
In mid-May of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek convened a military committee in Wuhan to discuss how to use the Yellow River to break the embankment and destroy the enemy.
There was no consensus within the KMT on this decision.
Some people believed that it was wisest to use the flood to resist the enemy under the premise that the army was powerless to stop it, and they firmly chose to support Chiang Kai-shek's proposal.
There are also some people who disagree with this, saying that the risk of the Yellow River bursting is not just talking.
Since ancient times, the Yellow River has threatened the safety of countless people, and after many repairs, the Yellow River dam has been formed.
Eight hundred enemies were wounded, and one thousand were self-inflicted
If it is blown up rashly, the rushing flood will not only destroy the enemy, but also injure the nearby residents.
If you hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800, it is not worth it.
The ruthlessness of the flood is not just words, if it is really uncontrollable, it is no less lethal than the murderous Japanese army, and it will cause many people to be displaced and even lose their lives.
In addition, it is also a very important question where to locate the blasting point in order to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.
In the midst of opposition, Chiang Kai-shek also gradually realized that this method was not advisable.
After several days of delay, the Kuomintang was never able to think of a way, and saw that the Japanese army was in a state of strength and had the momentum of attacking Wuhan in one fell swoop.
Chiang Kai-shek could no longer sit still, regardless of the 3721, and on June 1, 1938, at a meeting he announced the order to dig the Yellow River embankment.
The next day, Chen Weiru led his soldiers to dig the Zhaokou embankment, but unfortunately the water flow here was too small to achieve the purpose of resisting or destroying the Japanese army.
Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to change the location of the embankment again, and finally chose the embankment at the mouth of the garden.
In order to protect the people, the Kuomintang urgently evacuated the people of four nearby villages, including Shaoqiao and Shijiadi, and did not expand the scope of evacuation.
Facts proved that the Kuomintang seriously underestimated the power of the Yellow River's burst, causing huge casualties on the mainland.
An explosion occurred at the mouth of the Yellow River's garden, and the Yellow River officially burst its embankment, and muddy water gushed out from the mouth of the embankment.
The man-made burst of the Yellow River's banks flooded an area of 23,000 square kilometers, killing 890,000 people and destroying the homes of 12 million people.
Cruel truth
The Nationalist government's failure to manage the risk of the levee burst led to the loss of the lives of 890,000 innocent villagers.
It stands to reason that the bursting of the Yellow River caused such huge casualties to the mainland, so the Japanese army should have suffered countless casualties, but it is surprising that only more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers died due to the flood.
The blowing up of the Yellow River dam failed to wipe out more Japanese troops, but it also had a huge impact on the Japanese army.
The Japanese army's continuous invasion plan was interrupted, and many heavy weapons could no longer be used in combat after the flood, and the Japanese army's combat capability was greatly reduced.
Because the bursting of the Yellow River's banks brought extinction to nearly one million people on the mainland, the Kuomintang blamed the Japanese army for blowing up the Yellow River.
It was not until the 80s of the 20th century, as the relevant documents were declassified little by little, that Chiang Kai-shek arranged for his subordinates to blow up the Yellow River Garden Mouth The truth was exposed.
A surviving Kuomintang veteran said that if it were revealed that the Nationalist Government had killed nearly one million compatriots, the masses would certainly lose confidence in the Nationalist Government.
And the reason why the blame was put on the Japanese army was also to arouse the hatred of the Chinese compatriots against the Japanese army, so that the anti-Japanese war could proceed smoothly.
After the Yellow River burst its banks, the Yellow River flood area covered an area of 54,000 square kilometers, and the silt was everywhere, and the river water flowed backwards, making the fertile land uncultivated and the houses uninhabitable, which directly induced the famine in Henan in 1942.
Later, when Chiang Kai-shek talked about the decision to blow up the Yellow River embankment, he also called this act a subordinate policy, and he also bluntly said that the act of blaming the Japanese army was an act of covering people's eyes and ears and deceiving the world and stealing fame.