Chapter 711: Deception and Lies
The bursting of the embankment of the Yellow River and the flood of thousands of miles, as vigorously reported by the newspapers of the Nationalist Government and the speech made by the chairman of the National People's Congress himself, made the people of the whole country hate the Japanese army with itchy teeth, and they almost wanted to eat their flesh raw and drink their blood to vent their anger.
All parts of the country have also organized to try to raise funds for the people in the Yellow Flood Area and provide disaster relief.
It's a pity that the scope of the disaster is too large, and they are all in the area where the Japanese army clashed, and the first and lower levels have suffered heavy defeats and low morale, and the government has taken into account that although the Yellow River embankment has temporarily stopped the Japanese offensive, it cannot completely eliminate the threat of the Japanese army, and is fully operating the matter of moving the capital to Chongqing again.
The exaggeration of domestic newspapers, coupled with the tragic situation of tens of millions of people being displaced and suffering from uncounted, has finally attracted the attention of the international community.
Major newspapers in Britain and the United States and other countries have reprinted the cruel acts of the Japanese army deliberately blowing up the garden entrance and drowning the Chinese people, and well-known figures from all walks of life have published newspapers to express their opinions, strongly condemning the Japanese Empire!
On the one hand, they donated money and materials to fully support the domestic anti-Japanese struggle, and on the other hand, they launched large-scale demonstrations in various places, petitioning the governments of the countries where they lived, asking all countries to unite and let the Japanese militarist government give an explanation and be responsible for the thousands of victims and those homeless people.
Under pressure from all sides, the governments of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries finally sent a telegram to the Japanese emperor, demanding that he severely punish the perpetrators of the bombing of the garden entrance, give an explanation to the thousands of innocent and dead people, and even threaten to impose an embargo on the Japanese Empire if the Japanese government did whatever it wanted to poison the ordinary people!
All along, Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union were so busy waging an arms race with Germany and Italy that they did not notice the Chinese battlefield at all, and did not respond positively to the international mediation that Chairman Chiang prayed for, but this time, it is obvious that several countries can no longer stand idly by!
The embargo is absolutely an unbearable blow to the resource-poor Japanese Empire, after all, all the materials that support the war must be transported by sea, and once the embargo is really comprehensive, it will be absolutely devastating for the Japanese Empire.
In mid-May, the Japanese emperor made a speech, severely condemning the fact that the government of China had dug up the entrance to the garden in an attempt to block the attack of the imperial ** team because of the strategic failure of tens of millions of people, and blamed the imperial ** team.
At the same time, a large number of photos were released, showing the imperial army such as the 14th Division, the 16th Division is now trapped in the Yellow Flood Zone, and the plight of no supplies, indicating that with the well-trained Imperial ** team, if you really want to use the flood to attack the Chinese army, then the elite troops of the empire will never be trapped in the flood.
The emperor's statement was justified and well-founded, and international public opinion was immediately divided into two factions: one group believed that the Huayuankou embankment tragedy was absolutely the work of the Japanese army, and the other group held more objectively that the Nationalist Government, which was at a disadvantage, was more likely to make such a decision!
The two sides argued, and the decision to impose a total embargo on Japan came to an end, after all, they had a more important enemy to face than the suffering of the people of China, who were far away, and that was Germany and Italy, which were on the verge of reveling!
At this time, the Soviet Red Army urgently contacted the Central Red Army in the country, and after many discussions and verifications, Yan'an issued a notice, resolutely exposing the conspiracy of the Nationalist Government to blow up the entrance of the garden and replace the soldiers with water!
In fact, at this juncture, it may be a good choice to let the Nationalist Government dominate public opinion, splash this dirty water on the heads of the Japanese army, arouse the hatred of the compatriots of the whole country, and resist the Japanese by the whole people, but the Red Army has obviously seen that this is a golden opportunity, a great opportunity for the Nationalist Government to deviate from Germany, and the Red Army to take advantage of the opportunity to rise strongly!
Such an opportunity should not be missed by any clever politician.
"Compatriots, I regret to tell you the tragic news that the Huayuankou embankment burst incident was a stupid decision made by the Kuomintang, and this decision has plunged tens of millions of people into floods, countless people have suffered tragic disasters, and countless people have been displaced.
Yan'an Radio clearly pointed out that the decision was made by Chairman Chiang, and at the same time said that the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army would send a large number of rescue teams into the disaster area to carry out comprehensive rescue work for the people in the disaster area.
The public announcement in Yan'an was like a bomb, and the people from all walks of life, who were already heartbroken by the flooding of the Yellow River, scolded the Nationalist Government for not treating the people as human beings, and denounced Chairman Chiang as a selfish and cold-blooded politician.
Even the ** subordinate departments that heard about this matter were full of complaints, and they fled personally, and even led the team to defect to join the Red Army, and the incident on the Eighth Route reached a small peak in a few days, and tens of thousands of ** people changed their doors with guns.
"This group of red guys with evil intentions, damn hopeful, this is simply wanting me to kill someone!"
Chairman Jiang of Wuhan was angry like thunder, gritted his teeth with hatred, and temporarily put aside his differences with the cooperative united front to fight an all-out war of resistance, he felt that he had given face to the Communist Party, but he didn't expect the other party to stab himself fiercely at this moment, which was simply unbearable for him!
However, in this extraordinary period, of course, he knew that if he immediately turned his face against the Communist Party, the situation would only worsen for him and the already scattered Nationalist Government, so he had to forcibly endure this breath first, and at the same time ordered the major newspapers to publish articles, strongly stating that his own order to bomb the garden entrance was a means for the Japanese army to divert hatred, and he would never do this, so that the people of the whole country and the Eighth Route Army must not fall for the devils.
At the same time, he strictly ordered all units in the vicinity of the Yellow Flood Area to make full preparations for attack, and as long as the flood waters receded slightly, they would launch a counteroffensive against the 14th and 16th divisions of the Japanese army, which were trapped in the flood and the supply line had completely collapsed, to recover the lost ground, so as to calm the people's anger.
At the same time, Gui Yongqing, who was the first to escape in the Battle of Lanfeng, was arrested and executed for the crime of fear of war, firstly to calm the people's anger, and secondly, to kill chickens and monkeys, so that the ** generals could take warning in the follow-up battles.
After doing this, Chairman Chiang finally had a chance to take a breath, and then he thought of the stabbing of the Communist Party this time, and his face was hideous and terrifying.