Chapter 242: The People's Hearts Are Back
After three months of cultivation, Qin Di's skill once again reached the second level of foundation building. Yan Xue was also promoted to the first order, reaching the ninth level of qi refining.
Qin Di returned to the magic capital, bought a newspaper and read it, only to find that the embankment at the mouth of the garden had burst!
He secretly hated in his heart: "Mr. Qing, what you have done is too inauthentic! Although it is said that this move can be regarded as a ruined boat, but the cost of killing and injuring millions of people is too great, what kind of face do you have to be the head of state? If you do this, it is tantamount to digging a pit and burying yourself!"
Yan Xue read the description in the newspaper and felt very unbearable: "Sir, let's go and save the people there." ”
At this time, Gu Rumei came over.
So Qin Di took them out of the magic capital and went to the Yellow Flood Area to save people.
When I arrived at the place, I learned that the scope of the Yellow Flood Area was too large, with an area of more than 54,000 square kilometers in 44 counties in 3 provinces!
With such a large range, how can you save people?
Although they are cultivators, they can't show abilities beyond the ordinary, otherwise they will become supernatural events and will easily cause trouble.
So, Qin Di had no choice but to use the cost of five dimes a day to find 3,000 sturdy young people to search and rescue the people along the flooding Yellow River. He also used the storage belt to secretly carry a batch of food, and took it out at night to help the victims.
For more than ten days in a row, they saved many people, and also buried a large number of bodies soaked in water, and sometimes they saw a family drowning, their faces swollen and miserable, and their hearts were very uncomfortable.
That afternoon, Yan Xue couldn't help but ask: "Sir, I have been thinking about it and have never understood why he wanted the Yellow River to break? Is he crazy?"
Gu Rumei gritted her teeth and said, "I think he's crazy!, otherwise how could he do such a thing?"
Qin Di pondered quietly: What is the "Huayuankou Incident" all about, and why did Mr. Qing do this?
The cause of the Huayuankou incident was due to the rout of the Battle of Lanfeng.
The Battle of Lanfeng was a battle launched by Kenji Tufeihara in order to support the already troubled Battle of Xuzhou, because the lone army went deeper, and soon Tufeiyuan's army was surrounded by heavy troops of the national army, and the national army intended to annihilate Tufeiyuan's army at this time.
Originally, the situation was very good, and the national army almost completed the encirclement of the Japanese army, but two accidents occurred one after another.
First of all, Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan's 27th Army encountered a Japanese brigade attack in Lanfeng, Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan only held out for one day, and before the Japanese infantry charged, Gui Qiu and Qiu led their troops to escape, so that Tufeiyuan captured Lanfeng and jumped out of the encirclement. Secondly, although Xue Yue recovered Lanfeng, Huang Jie fled without a fight in Shangqiu, causing the back road of the national army to be copied. In order to flee for their lives, the national army broke the embankment at Huanghuakou and sacrificed all the people in the Huanghuai area in exchange for their own survival.
In fact, it was originally Song Xilian, a famous general of the national army, who guarded Lanfeng, but in order to cultivate his descendants, Mr. Qing dropped Song Xilian away, parachuted the arrogant and timid Guiqiu and the two men, and equipped them with a strong military force (the 27th Army) and sent a tank reinforcement battalion, but the biggest use of tanks in this battle is to run fast when escaping.
After the war, Gui Yongqing, Qiu Qingquan, and Huang Jie were only lightly punished, and the three of them rose to prominence in the future, like Gui Yongqing, who became the commander-in-chief of the navy.
What is the significance of the Huayuankou incident?
In terms of immediate benefits, a large number of Qingbai troops were able to escape, preventing the pursuit of the Japanese army. In the long run, the Qingbai Party did not take any remedial measures after the Huanghuakou embankment burst, but instead carried out more wanton expropriation and expropriation, causing the people of Henan and Huanghuai to no longer have any hope for the Qingbai Party, but hated the Qingbai Party to the core, so they did not hesitate to join the side of the Great Red Party in the subsequent Liberation War. Without the Huanghuakou embankment, there would not have been the 1942 famine; without the 1942 famine, there would not have been so many carts in the Huaihai Campaign; and without the carts, the Qingbai Party would not have suffered so heavy losses that it quickly withdrew from the mainland. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, the Qingbai Party has lost the hearts of the people, and the outcome is already doomed.
But these things involved too much, Qin Di couldn't say it one by one, he could only shake his head and sigh.
"Mr. Qing dug his own grave, God will punish him!"
On June 12, the Japanese captured Anqing, and the Battle of Wuhan began.
On the 17th, the Japanese army captured Qianshan. On the 26th, the fortress of Madang was captured. On July 4, Hukou was captured. On the 23rd, Jiujiang was captured. On August 4, Huangmei was captured.
Here I want to mention the victory of Wanjialing.
In 1938, in the Battle of Wuhan, under the leadership of Commander Xue Yue, the 101st Division and the 106th Division of the Japanese Army were almost completely annihilated in the Wanjialing area and the Nanxun Railway Battlefield.
On the Chinese side, the First Group Army, the Ninth Group Army, the Tenth Group Army, Yu Hanmou of the Fourth Army, Ye Zhao of the 66th Army, and Yu Jishi of the 74th Army under the command of Xue Yue, acting commander of the Ninth Theater, totaled more than 100,000 troops.
Gu Ruhu led the officers and soldiers of a brigade to also participate in this battle, and took the lead, striking and rushing, bursting out with amazing combat power, and overturning a wing from the front.
In this battle, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, the 101st Division and the 27th Division that came to the rescue, as well as their subordinate brigades, wings, large, medium, small, and detachments, were almost wiped out in the encirclement, and only 1,500 remnants of the 106th Division broke through and escaped, and the 106th Division and the 9th Division also suffered heavy losses, known as the "Wanjialing Victory" in history.
It was not until many years later that the Japanese war history admitted that in this battle, four divisions suffered heavy casualties, so that the number of people killed in the worship at the shrine increased exponentially, but at that time they did not dare to admit it, for fear of causing panic in the country.
After the war, Gu Ruhu was once again commended for his bravery in battle, won a medal of blue sky and white sun, and was promoted to division commander! His promotion was like blowing bubbles, which attracted the attention of many generals of the national army, but he had to admire it, because the gun holes on his body had become an amazing and bewitching tattoo!
When Mr. Qing presented the medal, he specially asked him to pick up his clothes and show them to the generals present.
Those people were dumbfounded, and they all thought it was incredible!
A person is full of bullet holes, how can he survive?
These people chased after Gu Ruhu and inquired, asking him what kind of kung fu he had cultivated, was it from the Shaolin Temple Muren Alley?
Gu Ruhu was so worn by them that he couldn't help it, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "I practiced martial arts with the master of Qingcheng Mountain when I was a child, and my ancestor is Mr. Zhang Kongshan, he is a peerless master hidden in Qingcheng Mountain, but unfortunately he passed away two years ago. ”
Some people also chased and inquired: "Qingcheng Mountain's kung fu is so powerful? Then I will also send my son to study for two years?"
Gu Ruhu said: "Master leads the door, and the cultivation is in the individual. Although Master Zhang Taizu has passed away, there are still masters in Qingcheng Mountain, and outsiders worship at the mountain gate, whether they can pass on peerless martial arts, or whether they can be practiced, it is difficult to say. ”
There were several generals who insisted that he show the kung fu he had learned in front of him, and Gu Ruhu split the four-inch-thick bluestone slab with one palm, which made everyone breathtaking!
Mr. Qing was overjoyed and praised him as "Zhao Zilong in the world"!
The victory at Wanjialing failed to stop the Japanese attack, and on October 12, the Japanese army landed in Daya Bay. On the 21st, Guangzhou was captured. On the 25th, the Nationalist army abandoned Hankou and the next day abandoned Wuchang, and the Battle of Wuhan ended.
At this point, the Japanese army was almost at the end of its strong crossbow, and it was not as energetic as it was at the beginning.
There was no way, China's territory was too large, the Japanese army's battle line was elongated, and the troops were relatively insufficient, so they could only occupy the cities, and in the vast countryside, it was a blank. This provided the Xinhua Army and the Kyushu Army with an opportunity for guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
It cannot but be said here that the Blue and White Party also had guerrillas.
As early as 5 July, Mr. Qing sent a telegram to Cheng Qian, Yan Xishan, Gu Zhutong, and Li Zongren, instructing the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th theaters to carry out guerrilla warfare, saying: "...... At present, when the Qingsha tent is beginning and the guerrilla is at its best, the guerrilla units designated by the theater should take active action, strive to attack the enemy, and try to disrupt communications and communications as much as possible, so as to disperse the forces of the attack on Wuhan. If it is considered that the guerrilla strength is insufficient, it is necessary to increase the number of guerrilla troops at the discretion of the enemy, so as to completely cut off the enemy's lines of communication. We look forward to formulating the deployment as soon as possible and implementing the report accurately. ”
According to statistics, in 1938, the number of Nationalist troops participating in guerrilla warfare was about 600,000.
In addition to the regular troops who were ordered to stay behind enemy lines, there were also civilian armed forces led by local soldiers and party officials. These armed forces were constantly active behind enemy lines, striking at and pinning down the Japanese army.
Around 1940, the guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines of the Qingbai Party reached its heyday, and a number of anti-Japanese base areas were established, including the Taihang Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain, Luliang Mountain, and Hengshan Base Areas in North China, the Yizhao Mountain Base Area in East China, the West Zhejiang Base Area, the East Anhui Base Area, the Dabie Mountain Base Area, the Eastern Hubei Base Area, the Dayun Mountain Jiugong Mountain Lushan Base Area, and the Hainan Base Area in South China. The total number of troops is about 1 million.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the guerrillas of the Nationalist Army also had some typical examples of guerrilla warfare, such as the ambush of the Zheng Ancestral Hall, the raid on Nan'ao Island, the siege and annihilation of Luliang Mountain, the capture of Huangmei, the anti-sweep in eastern Hubei, and the night attack on Madang.
There are also hundreds of generals of the national army who died in the battlefield behind enemy lines, and the higher ranks are: Lieutenant General Liu Guiwu, Tang Juwu, Liu Zhendong, Zhou Fu, Wu Shimin, Fang Shuhong, Major General Wang Fengshan, etc.
The existence of the guerrillas effectively played a role in cooperating with the frontal battlefield, supporting the long-term war of resistance, containing the Japanese army and troubled its rear, assisting the Nationalist Government in restoring political power in the occupied areas, and maintaining the people's hearts and minds in the occupied areas.
Of course, the guerrillas of the Big Red Party were even more powerful, and they let go of the masses and mobilized the masses, a skill that the Green and White Party could not match. This is the nationwide War of Resistance, and only by mobilizing the common people to participate in it can we truly complete the awakening of the Chinese nation. This is also the key to the persistence of the protracted war of resistance. And the guerrillas of the Blue and White Party, because they were separated from the masses, some units became puppet armies while fighting.