July 5, 1938, Tianjin Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters
Sugiyama Gen's face sank when he saw the telegram sent back by Konoe Fumi.
Takeshita Jun, the young master of the Takeshita family, he had no choice but to do anything about it. However, this matter was indeed too much, so he immediately gave instructions that except for his military status, he would never be hired in the future.
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In Laiyang County, Takeshita Jun looked at the military headquarters' reply and finally smiled and murmured, "Weiguo, you and I can finally be friends."
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Zhou Weiguo stood on the top of Qingfengzhai and looked to the southwest. Over there was the direction of Wuhan. The Battle of Wuhan was a battle between the Chinese army and the Japanese invaders in the Wuhan area during the Anti-Japanese War. The twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1938)
From June to October 2016, China's 5th and 9th theater troops deployed outside Wuhan along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River. The battlefields covered the vast areas of Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, and Hubei provinces. It was the largest and longest strategic defense phase of the Anti-Japanese War.
It was the longest battle in which the most enemies were wiped out. After this battle, the Chinese Anti-Japanese War entered a stage of strategic stalemate. The Battle of Lanfeng in the Battle of Xuzhou was the prelude to the Battle of Wuhan. The Henan East Corps of 12 divisions of the Chinese army was under the command of Xue Yue
In the Lanfeng area of Henan Province, they attacked the 20,000-strong Doihara Ken 2nd Division (the 14th Division) where the Japanese army was alone. The generals of the direct line fled before the battle, and finally had to dig up the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou? In order to block the Japanese attack
.Due to the incompetence of the Kuomintang general Long Muhan in this battle, he was executed, becoming the first direct line general of Chiang Kai-shek to be executed during the Anti-Japanese War.
Even so, the Yellow River burst at Huayuankou is irreversible. After the Huayuankou breach, the rushing Yellow River water quickly discharged. It was the rainy season in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the river water surged. The breach at Huayuankou was quickly washed away, and the Zhao River was silted up at the same time.
His mouth was also washed open by the flood.
The two floods of Zhaokou and Huayuankou merged together, like wild horses, and the rushing water of the Yellow River rolled up huge waves. It lasted for 4 days and 4 nights. The river flowing from west to east broke the Longhai Railway, causing a huge loss.
It flowed mightily to southeastern Henan. It submerged Zhongmou, Weishi, Fugou, Xihua, Huaiyang and other places. It also passed through the Yinghe River and Xifeihe River and poured into the Huaihe River upstream of Bengbu. It submerged the banks of the Huaihe River and broke through
The Huaihe River Railway Bridge near Bengbu. From Bengbu to the north via Cao Laoji to Suxian, it also became a vast ocean. After the Japanese army was blocked by the Yellow River, the entire Yellow Flood Area was more than 400 kilometers long from northwest to southeast, flowing through Henan
, covering an area of more than 300,000 square kilometers in 44 counties in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, causing immeasurable losses to people's lives and property in this area. According to incomplete statistics, more than 1.4 million homes in Henan were washed away, and 800 acres of cultivated land were submerged.
More than 11 million acres of cultivated land in Anhui and Jiangsu were submerged, and 4.8 million people lost their homes. More than 890,000 people were caught off guard and died, and tens of millions of people were displaced. This has caused successive disasters in the Yellow River Flood Area.
The consequences that Chiang Kai-shek did not expect... The Yellow River was diverted. The Nationalist Government's "Records of Disasters in Yu Province" outlined the disaster in the Yellow River Flood Area: residents in the Yellow River Flood Area were caught off guard because they had no prior knowledge, and the embankments suddenly collapsed and floods
They arrived one after another, and all their property and property were paid in the running water. At that time, the ground was shaking, and the shouts were shaking the sky. It was so tragic and horrifying that it is unbearable to think about it.
Those who were lucky enough to survive could only survive, and most of them lacked food and clothing, and were in a state of shock. Those who migrated from place to place were also suffering from hunger, exhaustion, and disease, and their corpses often littered the roads and filled ravines.
Fortunately, they were able to escape and reach the other side, but they all had a narrow escape. They had to prepare hard to survive, and instead of becoming drowned ghosts, they became refugees... Therefore, selling children and marrying girls was commonplace. The Henan Provincial Archives recorded a death toll of 890,000 people.
The number of people affected by the disaster was as high as 12 million. The Huayuankou embankment burst incident brought serious disasters to the Chinese people in Henan (Henan), Anhui (Anhui) and Jiangsu and other places in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. More than 12 million acres of cultivated land were submerged, creating a yellow flood zone.
A total of tens of millions of people were affected by the disaster and 3.9 million people were displaced. The Huayuankou embankment burst caused billions of tons of sediment from the Yellow River to flow into the plains along the breach every year, blocking the river, flooding the fields, overflowing the lakes, blocking traffic and shipping, and forming a
"The vast yellow flood zone" that crosses 44 counties in the three provinces of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu means that during the flood season every year, the yellow water will overflow and backflow, submerging farmland. After the flood, there will be a locust plague. Sand dunes are everywhere, and the surface is abrupt and concave, making it impossible to cultivate at all, causing serious damage to local agriculture.
Serious destruction.
This breach directly caused two consecutive years of large-scale drought from 1941 to 1943, which triggered the famous "Henan Great Famine". Tens of millions of people became refugees, and 3 million farmers died in Henan alone.
Due to hunger, the Japanese war history "Army Combat History of the China Incident" records that more than 7,400 people in the Second Army died in the battle in Xuzhou at that time, and they were not killed in floods as some people claimed.
Millions of people in our country died not at the hands of the devils, but at the hands of our own army. It has to be said that it is a tragedy. But now, the people have been fooled, and Chiang Kai-shek has not admitted it.
He asked his subordinates to blow up Huayuankou, but said it was the action of Japanese bombers. At the same time, the New 8th Division also used camouflage materials to deal with reporters who were interviewing and taking photos. No one in the country doubted this, which aroused the country's enthusiasm for the war of resistance.
.Only Japan strongly denies it because the international impact of this incident is too bad.
Thinking of the breach of the Huayuankou embankment, Zhou Weiguo felt his chest tightening for a while. Thinking of the millions of people thousands of miles away who were now homeless, as a soldier, he was helpless.
In any case, as a national leader, Chiang Kai-shek was unqualified at this time.
Whether or not to blow up Huayuankou was the difference between right and wrong for Chiang Kai-shek, but for the common people it was the difference between life and death. What was chilling was not only that Chiang Kai-shek ordered the bombing of Huayuankou, but also that this tragedy could have been inevitable
It could be avoided or better remedies could be made. However, it did not happen. Tens of millions of people were displaced, and millions of people became refugees. These ordinary people who were forcibly sacrificed by the country, the last survivors among them did not have much time to live.
. Now that Huayuankou has become a positive example of bearing humiliation and bearing heavy burdens, it means that the current National Government also needs to sacrifice a group of people in the name of the country, because the people are just a series of numbers on someone else's merit book. Even if the people
No one will remember the suffering of wives and children separated, displacement, hunger and cold, and history books will only contain the decisions of great men, not the blood and tears of ordinary people. What's more, in today's world
It was a bad era. Under Chiang Kai-shek's control, everyone would only blame the Japanese for this debt.
Zhou Weiguo sighed. It was only the beginning of July, and the Battle of Wuhan had just begun. He was thinking about whether to make some moves for the Japanese rear. The few troops he had now were all new recruits who had never been on the battlefield, and he was reluctant to part with them.
Send them to the front battlefield. What's more, he can't send so many people there.
"Eh." Zhou Weiguo sighed. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. He didn't want to watch these battles and remain indifferent.
At this time, the system issued another mission, "Special Mission: Fighting behind enemy lines in the Battle of Wuhan, taking the lead in blocking the Jinpu Railway and preventing the transportation of Japanese military supplies (the deadline is until September 31, 1938, and rewards will be determined based on the completion of the mission).
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Zhou Weiguo thought for a while, and now that was all he could do. Then he smiled helplessly and said, "It seems that you are quite reliable. None of the tasks you are given are impossible to complete."
"Of course! I am the smartest system in the universe!"
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July 6, 1938, Qingfengzhai Juyi Hall
"Now the Wuhan battle is imminent," Zhou Weiguo looked at the people present, "Japan is determined to conquer China. In May this year, Japanese bombers destroyed more than 300,000 square meters at the Huayuankou of the Yellow River and 44 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces.
In the area of 10,000 kilometers, tens of millions of people narrowly escaped death, either from hunger or plague, and endured hardships, becoming refugees."
"Damn little devil!" Fang Shengli muttered.
"Our troops are now behind enemy lines and cannot rush to the frontal battlefield, but this does not mean that we will not resist the Japanese." Zhou Weiguo said loudly, "So, I decided to select 18 people to join the special forces within three days and follow me to bomb.
Destroy the Jinpu Railway to block the transportation of Japanese military supplies." Three people in the special force now serve as regimental commanders, and Xu Hu serves as the deputy brigade commander of the second brigade. Counting Zhou Weiguo, there are only 8 people left among the original 11 people.
"!!" Fang Shengli looked at Zhou Weiguo in surprise. You must know that things like this are usually done by the Eighth Route Army. The National Army rarely does this. However, now that they are behind enemy lines, they really have no choice but to do it.
Nodding, "You must pay attention to your own safety."
"Master, I want to go with you." Xu Hu stood up and said.
"Huzi, you are the deputy brigade commander now." Zhou Weiguo shook his head, "You are responsible for the normal training of the Second Brigade."
"Brother, just ask Xu Hu to go with you. I will take care of the normal training of the Second Brigade!" Zhu Ziming promised.
Zhou Weiguo smiled bitterly. He put Xu Hu in the second brigade as deputy brigade commander because the second brigade was based on the people of the original Qingfeng Village and had no military foundation, and Xu Hu was relatively familiar with them. As for the third brigade, Xie Weiwei's subordinates
There is no special little boss, so the following three regiment leaders are all from the special operations team and have high military literacy, so he can feel more at ease.
"No, Huzi wants to stay. I will take my third brother with me." Zhou Weiguo still shook his head and refused.
"Master! If this is the case, I don't want to be a deputy brigade commander!" Xu Hu stood up and shouted, actually feeling aggrieved. He really didn't care whether he was a brigade commander or not, he just wanted to protect Zhou Weiguo.
, after all, it was Zhou Weiguo who asked him to be a guard at that time!
"Huzi, don't make trouble." Zhou Weiguo frowned, "How can you just say you don't want a military position and just don't want it?"
"Master, I just want to go with you. Although I am no longer in the special forces team, I am still a veteran of the special forces team!"
"Master, so are we! We ask to go with you!" Zhang Ruikuan, Chen Ming, and Tang Shan stood up and looked at Zhou Weiguo. For them, being the leader of the regiment meant obeying Zhou Weiguo's arrangements, but Zhou Weiguo wanted to leave them and lead them.
They can't do it if they send special forces to go on an expedition.
Zhou Weiguo was angry and slapped the table, "Do you still have some discipline? Is being in the military a child's play? Huzi, most of the brothers in the Second Brigade do not have enough military literacy. Why do I let you be the deputy commander of the Second Brigade?
?Isn’t it just for you to watch some training and help big brother lead the second brigade?"
"And you, Ruikuan, Chen Ming, and Tangshan, are now the group leaders, so you are disobedient?"
They had never seen Zhou Weiguo angry with one of his own people. Therefore, they remained silent, did not sit down, and did not agree with what Zhou Weiguo said.
Fang Shengli rubbed his brows. The special force was brought out by Zhou Weiguo. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is Zhou Weiguo's guard. Now that Xu Hu and others have been decentralized and their military ranks have been greatly improved, Zhou Weiguo naturally has considerations. After all,
, the brothers of Qingfeng Village, who were born bandits, and Xie Weiwei, too, all need military officers with high military literacy.