In the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, at the beginning of July, the heat wave of Wuhan, which was a big furnace, hit together with an unprecedented anti-Japanese passion.

After the fall of Nanjing at the end of last year, the state capital was moved to Chongqing, but the main organs of the state government and the military headquarters were moved to Wuhan, the so-called "move the capital to Chongqing and work in Wuhan."

At the same time, the factories and schools that had been relocated from the occupied areas were also moved to Wuhan, and for a time, Greater Wuhan once again became the political, economic, military, and cultural center of the country.

I thought I could take a good breath in Wuhan, but I didn't expect that after the battle of Xuzhou, only a partial victory in Taierzhuang was achieved, and the general battle was still defeated and retreated.

Although General Xue Yue's First Corps almost encircled and annihilated the elite 14th Division of the Japanese Army in Lanfeng, in the end, it fell short because the troops who blocked the reinforcements failed to stop the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.

However, although the First Corps did not encircle and annihilate the 14th Division, it also supported the retreat to Xuzhou, resisted the 14th Division that wanted to copy the back road, and let 600,000 people successfully jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army around Xuzhou.

However, after several fierce battles, whether it was Xue Yue's First Corps or the 600,000 main forces retreating from the Xuzhou area, they were either exhausted or incomplete because of continuous battles and marches.

The units that can really be used are almost impossible to use, and some nominally a division has no more than 1,000 troops, which is not worth a regiment, and it also takes time for these large armies to rest, replenish, and retrain.

But the Japanese army will not give you time to repair, what they are pursuing is this, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, so the main force of the Japanese army marched west along the Longhai line, trying to capture Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and then went south along the Pinghan Road, directly ending Wuhan's lair.

For a time, the air in Wuhan suddenly became tense, and according to the speed of the Japanese army's mechanization, it would advance westward along the Central Plains of Yima Pingchuan, and then go south along the railway line, and at most a month and half a month at the earliest, and then it would be possible to reach Wuhan.

This was the fate of China, and almost all the possessions and talents that China relied on to resist Japan at that time were still in Wuhan.

Almost all the organs, schools, hospitals, and millions of people in the national government, these are the elite of the country, and they need to be transferred to the rear of the Southwest University as soon as possible.

In particular, hundreds of factories, including arsenals, garment factories, and daily necessities production plants, as well as hundreds of thousands of tons of machinery and equipment, and hundreds of thousands of technicians and skilled workers transferred from Beiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Nanjing, are all in Wuhan.

If this already fragile industry falls into the hands of the Japanese army, the weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies on the battlefield ahead will be paralyzed.

If this is the case, China's resistance against Japan will really become an empty word, there is no need to fight, just surrender, and it will only be futile and sacrifice to fight again.

At most, it is to run into the mountains of Sichuan to fight guerrillas, can you carry it? How many years can you carry? I can't say for sure, according to the history of later generations, it will definitely not be able to carry the day of Japan's surrender in 1945, and China will definitely be destroyed.

The Chinese nation has really reached the most dangerous time, and at this time, even if it takes the flesh and blood of 40,000 compatriots, it will not be able to withstand the torrent of the Japanese army.

In the end, there was no way, and the Military Commission had to adopt the most helpless and desperate method to dig the Huayuankou embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward.

Suddenly, the flooding water of the Yellow River, like a ferocious man-eating beast, surged out.

The great water of the Yellow River went all the way along Zhengzhou, Henan Province to Kaifeng, and went to the southeast until it reached Jiangsu, Anhui Province, becoming a vast ocean and flooding the Japanese army.

Therefore, it also blocked the Japanese mechanized troops from continuing to advance westward to the Pinghan Road, temporarily preserving Wuhan, and gaining valuable time for millions of talents and factories to move to the southwest rear.

The water of the Yellow River, which can burst the embankment, is no longer the heroic spirit of "the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky and flows to the sea and does not return", but is like a vicious beast, devouring the lives and property of people in the disaster areas of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.

According to later statistics, when the flood passed, at least nearly a million people died, and tens of millions of people were homeless and became refugees.

The disasters caused by the Yellow Flood Zone continued, and since then, the famine and plague caused by it have cost millions of people their lives.

History has its own judgment. Sacrificing some innocent people in exchange for the opportunity for the entire Chinese nation to escape the clutches of the Japanese army, weighing the pros and cons, in exchange for any decision-maker, will do so.

What makes people helpless and desperate is that any decision-maker, faced with such a decision, is extremely painful, but has to do it.

On the surface, this act of breaking the embankment of the Yellow River was dug by the Chinese themselves, and it seems that the Chinese killed their own people, but in fact it is not.

This account must be credited to the heads of the Japanese invaders, and without the aggression of the Japanese army, no one would have dared to commit such an act.

After arriving in Wuhan, although they will not let the people know that digging the Yellow River embankment is the first thing to do, but within the army, they know a little bit.

It's just that the army or the soldiers will face this problem very rationally, fighting a war is not about eating, drinking, and having fun, it is all about death, just like when retreating, who is allowed to cover after the break, in fact, is to let someone die.

But everyone, whether they are the executors or the gainers, can calmly accept this arrangement, because if no one dares to stand up and sacrifice, everyone will die in the end.

Whoever is the turn, it is who, there is no complaint, because you have benefited from it before, and if it is not your turn this time, it may be your turn next time, what is there to say.

War is cruel, and there is not so much explanation, but it is a shame for all armies and a shame for the country to let the people who were supposed to be protected become victims of war.

Originally, the army was to protect the safety of the people, not only did they give up and did not protect them, but they also released water to flood them.

Looking back on the past, it can be considered that this was forced by the Japanese invaders, but if we go back to the source, it is still ourselves who do not fight for it, and if China itself becomes strong quickly, it will give Japan a hundred dares, and it will not dare to invade China easily.

Therefore, in the end, it is because of my own reasons, in the past few decades, China has been full of warlords, for their own selfishness, regardless of the people and the country.

The warlords, who couldn't even build ordinary cars, were beaten under their noses by the Japanese army, and they were still holding outdated weapons such as "Hanyang-made" and "Gongxian-style" rifles and broadswords, and they fought in the dark for the sake of turf and annexation of the other party, and even for the sake of fighting for a woman......

Turning to Japan, the Japanese military has developed, developed, and produced new fighters, heavy bombers, armored vehicles, tanks, as well as aircraft carriers, battleships, ocean-going ships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other important weapons of the country.

This is the gap, such a big generation gap, the most direct problem is war, look at China itself, not so much to be invaded, but rather to retribution, but also punishment.

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