The bursting of the embankment at Huayuankou can be called the biggest humanitarian disaster in China in the 20th century.

Although there are no and cannot exact statistics, according to the most conservative estimates, at least one million people were drowned, and more than 10 million people were destroyed and displaced because of the flood that year's grain harvest failed, leading to a large-scale famine.

Yes, the Nationalist Government not only did not allocate grain for disaster relief, but even set a grain levy target for the disaster area!

In some areas, a very small number of high-ranking generals of the National Army even secretly resold military rations at high prices! Take the opportunity to make a fortune!

The starvation and disappointment of the victims eventually turned into anger of departure, and in some areas there were even irrational behaviors that cooperated with the Japanese army in attacking the Nationalist army.

But this is only an isolated phenomenon.

Most of the hungry people have fled the famine.

However, for the people of the Yellow Flood Zone, this is just the beginning.

After three years, because of the diversion of the Yellow River, the entire Yellow Flood area suffered from drought and locust plague in succession, forced by famine, more people were forced to embark on the road of escape, according to the most conservative estimate, there are more than 30 million people in Huanghuai who fled the famine, Feng Da's "Reminiscences of 1942", the real restoration of that unbearable history.

The original intention of Chairman Chiang to order the opening of the Huayuankou was to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Wuhan.

So, how does it work? It should be said that the bursting of the Yellow River still had a certain impact on the Japanese army, at least the 9th, 13th, 14th, and 16th divisions of the Japanese army that merged in the north and south were besieged by the flood and were forced to suspend the pursuit, which also helped the national army on the northern front to evacuate calmly.

The Kumamoto Division and the Kikuchi Brigade were trapped near Huainan and Bengbu, and the Kumamoto Division and Kikuchi Brigade were soon divided and surrounded by the surging flood on hundreds of small plateaus, and the food was quickly exhausted.

However, that's all there is to the Yellow River's bursting.

If you want to say how much loss of personnel and materials was caused to the Japanese army, there is really nothing.

It is even more strategic naïve to believe that the bursting of the Yellow River could force the Japanese government to abandon its plan to attack Wuhan.

On the second day after the Yellow River burst, the Japanese army's base camp had basically been determined, the strategic goal of gathering and annihilating the main force of the Nationalist Army on the Xuzhou battlefield had been defeated, and the Battle of Wuhan was inevitable.

At the same time, the base camp of the Japanese army also reorganized the North China and Central China Fronts.

The former commander of the Central China Front and the Shanghai Dispatch Army was transferred to the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and the 2nd Army, which was originally subordinate to the North China Front, was transferred to the Central China Dispatch Army, and at the same time, the establishment of the 10th Army was abolished and reorganized into the 11th Army.

After the reorganization, the Central China Dispatch Army commanded 14 divisions and detachments, plus an aviation regiment.

Among them, the Central China Command directly governs the 3rd, 9th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, and 116th divisions plus the aviation regiment, and the 2nd Army is under the jurisdiction of the 10th, 13th, and 16th divisions.

Speaking of this Higashikure Palace Tsukihiko, it can be said that he is a famous prodigal son of the Japanese imperial family.

In the early years, after graduating from Lu University, Higashikurenomiya Tsusahiko followed his brother Fushiminomiya Toshihiko to study at the French Army University for further study, but unlike the studious Fushimiya Toshihiko, although Higashikuru Palace Tsusahiko is talented, he is not self-motivated at all, and during his study abroad, he only knows how to chase beautiful women.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Fushimi Palace Toshihiko quickly returned to China, but Higashikure Palace Tsusahiko was obsessed with the gentleness of French women, and refused to return to China! His imperial nephew Hirohito threatened to cut off his imperial throne, and Dongkure Palace Twist Nian didn't even pay attention to it, because he didn't care about this royal status at all.

However, after receiving the news of the death of his brother, Toshimiya Toshihiko, Higashikuremiya Tsukihiko finally returned home.

Moreover, without the royal family to urge, the East Kyure Palace Twist Hiko took the initiative to come to ask for war, and proposed to serve as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, obviously, the East Kyuru Palace Twist Yan was holding his breath and wanted to find Xu Rui and avenge his brother, but his uncle, the Chief of the Army General Staff, Xianyuan Gong Zairen, did not agree.

Although the old devil of Xianyuan Gong Zairen has mediocre military ability, he is still familiar with basic human nature, with the mentality of Dongjiu Gong Twist Yan at that time, if he really wants him to take over as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, he will definitely take revenge on Xu Rui crazy, then the final result is likely to be that revenge has not been avenged, but has taken his own life.

Therefore, Xianyuan Gong Zairen transferred Dongjiu Gong Twist Yan to the relatively safe Shandong battlefield, and asked him to replace Kazuki Kiyoji as the commander of the 2nd Army, preparing to let him adapt to the battlefield atmosphere in the Shandong battlefield first, and then entrust him with important tasks, and after Dong Jiu Gong Twist Yan arrived in Shandong, he really did not disappoint Xianyuan Palace Zairen, and the soldiers occupied Jinan without blood, and the strange soldiers highlighted the occupation of Qingdao It can be called a classic.

After half a year of precipitation, Xianyuan Gong Zaihito felt that Higashikurenomiya Tsusahiko had fully adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield, and at the same time believed that he had come out of the mentality of being eager to avenge his brother, and finally decided to send Higashikurenomiya Tsusahiko to Central China to participate in the Battle of Wuhan, which decided the fortunes of the empire.

In addition to the 2nd Army of the Higashikure Palace, there was also the newly formed 11th Army in the sequence of the Central China Army.

The commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, was even more notorious, and the so-called "Showa Sanyu Wu" headed by Okamura Ninji can be said to have played a key role in the road of Japan's militarization.

The so-called three feather blacks actually mean three masters, such as the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty.

In addition to Okamura Ninji, there are also Nagata Tetsuyama and Toshiro Obata Toshiro, it was these old devils who created the Baden-Baden League, overthrew the old political order produced after the Meiji Restoration, and truly made the Japanese emperor have supreme military power, and Japan really moved towards militarism.

It should be noted that after the Meiji Restoration, Japan took the last train of capitalism and quickly became one of the great powers in just 30 years, but after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese emperor actually had no military power, and the military power in Japan was in the hands of the bureaucratic samurai group of the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories headed by Meiji Mihagu.

Meiji Miyu Uchu, Saigo Takamori, Okubo Ritsu were born in the Satsuma Domain, and Kido Takayoshi was born in the Choshu Domain, after the Meiji Restoration, the bureaucratic samurai group of the two domains firmly held the military power, if you are not from the Satsuma Domain, you don't want to enter the top of the Navy, and if you are not from the Choshu Domain, it is impossible to enter the top of the army.

In the 20s of the 20 th century, corruption in the Japanese navy and army was already very serious, and the reason why China, which was extremely weak at that time, was able to withstand the attack of the Japanese army was also an important reason for the 128 Shanghai War of Resistance and the Great Wall War of Resistance.

Military power was held by the samurai class of the Satsuma and Choshu domains for a long time, which of course caused dissatisfaction among the imperial family.

Hirohito was still a prince at the time, but he was very dissatisfied with this situation, so in the course of Hirohito's only mission to Europe in his life, after leaving aside the eyes of the two domains of Satsuma and Choshu, he secretly summoned Okamura Ninji to the imperial front and instructed Okamura Ninji to collect wings for him and form a young officer corps with Hirohito as the object of loyalty!

So Okamura Ninji found Nagata Tetsuyama and Toshiro Obata to form the Baden-Baden League, in fact, Tojo Hideki also participated in this secret meeting, unfortunately, at that time, Tojo Hideki was only a small minions in charge of the sentry, and this Baden-Baden League was the predecessor of the later Showa Warlord Group.

After the Baden rally, Okamura Ninji and the three of them successively introduced Umezu Mijiro, Yamashita Fumi, Nakamura Kotaro, Nakajima Imago, Shimomura Ding, Matsui Ishine, and Isoya Ryosuke into the Baden League, and these eleven people together formed the core backbone members of the Showa warlord group, which was also the cornerstone of the Japanese army to start World War II.

Before being transferred to the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji was originally the division commander of the 2nd Division stationed in the northeast.

As the division commander of the 2nd Division, Okamura Ninji tried his cage fortress policy for the first time in the war to encircle and suppress the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, that is, to confine the common people of the four eastern provinces in large villages one after another, and each village was guarded by military police, so that the troops of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance could not be fed, and soon fell into decay due to hunger and cold.

When the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation had its largest strength, it had grown to more than 30,000 people, but under the imprisonment and strangulation of Okamura Ninji, it was soon beaten to less than 1,000 people, and it also lost its fixed base area, so it could only fight guerrilla attacks everywhere.

It was precisely because of his outstanding performance in the Second Division that Okamura Ninji was reused and was promoted to the commander of the 11th Army, which caused great dissatisfaction among the commander of the Central China Army, Shunji Hatata, because in Shunroku Hata's view, Okamura Ninji belonged to a small generation and was not qualified to serve as the commander of the group army at all.

This also laid the groundwork for the hard battle when Okamura faced Xue Yue later, because he could not get the full support of Shunroku Hata from the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, but the old devil of Okamura Ningji was indeed powerful, even with the elbow of Shunroku Hatata, even if he was defeated on the Nanxun Road, he still broke through from the middle and won the Battle of Wuhan.

In this time and space, because of the appearance of Xu Rui, the pre-war situation of the Battle of Wuhan has changed somewhat, but basically, it is still not much different from history.