Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Shenggong left northern Shaanxi and returned to familiar places such as Modu and Jinling to serve as the secretary general of the Yangtze River Bureau.

After reading the newspaper, he suddenly understood it all!

"It turned out that Qin Dashao, who was infamous on his back, had been silently supporting our work! Since he had been in charge of the Qin family more than ten years ago, only he could do this kind of thing by selling medicine at a discounted price! If someone else did it, how could he escape his supervision? And the radio station he provided back then, this matter cannot be forgotten......

In addition, as the secretary general of the Yangtze River Bureau, he had received a report from General Migu that the Qin family had donated a batch of guns, medicines, gold and US dollars.

He thought seriously for a while and said secretly: "It seems that it is time to send someone to contact Mr. Qin head-on! Who should handle this matter so that it can be better kept secret?"

He checked the internal information for a long time, and finally selected Han Jiang.

Han Jiangnai is a veteran party member, low-key and trustworthy.

So, Li Shenggong wrote a letter, sealed it, and asked Han Jiang to send it to Qin Di.

Qin Di opened the letter and looked at it, and said to Han Jiang: "Three months later, there will be a cargo ship with a load of 1,300 tons, flying the American flag, and arriving in Minqiao Town, Gaoyou Lake, and you prepare a company of soldiers to carry supplies there." ”

Han Jiang asked tentatively, "Mr. Qin, can you reveal what supplies you have?"

Qin Di said: "I put 10,000 rifles in the cabin, equipped with 300 boxes of ammunition. Buried underneath a whole shipload of soybeans. You take someone to move all the supplies and put the empty ship back. ”

Han Jiang's heart was beating wildly, and he almost stopped breathing!

10,000 rifles! This was the spring of 1938, and there were only more than 10,000 people in the entire Xinhua Army! Moreover, if it was a large-scale operation, rifles would be much easier to use than pistols! Pistols had a short firing range and were not easy to set up ambushes.

Han Jiang said: "Mr. Qin, thank you. The Xinhua Army is not afraid of lack of food and clothing, but of guns and ammunition! You have done a great favor. ”

Qin Di smiled: "This matter must be kept secret, not leaked out, otherwise I will be in big trouble!"

Han Jiang said: "I understand, Mr. Qin, you can rest assured." ”

Qin Di thought to himself: "You don't understand! What I'm afraid of is to bear the cause and effect and suffer from the thunder and thunder of the sky! If there is another catastrophe, it may kill me!" Because the soldiers of the Xinhua Army are all good, if each person is issued a good gun, it will burst out with amazing combat power, and it is possible to change the situation of the battle.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, it's so difficult for me!"

Han Jiang thought that he was tormented between the two parties, and comforted: "Mr. Qin, now it is the National War of Resistance, no matter which side you fund, it is to drive out the Japanese. ”

Qin Di shook his head slightly, and didn't explain more.

After Han Jiang left, Qin Di sat there and thought for a while.

He felt that everything that should be done was done, so he called Yan Xue, left the demon capital, and went to the small world of Wuyi Mountain to cultivate.

In the months that followed, the Japanese swooped around like mad dogs.

On April 18, it attacked Xuzhou. On the 19th, Linyi was captured. On May 11, Xiamen was captured. On the 13th, Hefei was captured.

On May 16, Chen Cheng held a foreign press conference in Hankou to expose the Japanese army's use of poison gas and poison to harm Chinese soldiers and civilians. It can be seen from this that the Japanese army is so desperate that it even uses poison gas bombs, even because it has a huge advantage in firearms!

At 7 o'clock in the evening of the 17th, Li Zongren led his headquarters to break through from Xuzhou. On the 19th, the Japanese army captured Xuzhou. On the 23rd, Lanfeng was captured. On the 29th, it was captured and guided.

On June 1, Mr. Qing convened a supreme military meeting in Wuhan, at which it was decided to make a strategic transfer of the defenders in eastern Henan to the mountainous areas of western Henan, and at the same time secretly decided to break the embankment of the Yellow River to block the westward advance of the Japanese army, and designated Shang Zhen, commander-in-chief of the 20th Group Army, to supervise the implementation.

In the early morning of the 6th, the Japanese 14th Division destroyed the northern city of Kaifeng with heavy artillery, and then used tanks to cover the infantry and rushed into the city, and then captured Kaifeng.

On June 9, the Yellow River burst at Huayuankou, and the rushing river water quickly drained. At this time, it was the rainy season, and the upper reaches of the Yellow River were swollen, and the Huayuankou breach was rapidly enlarged, and the silted Zhaokou was also washed away by the water.

Zhaokou and Huayuankou two floods converge together, such as getting rid of the stiff wild horse, rushing down the Yellow River, rolling up the monstrous waves, lasting 4 days and 4 nights, the river water rushing from west to east broke the Longhai Railway, and flowed to the southeast of Henan. It flooded Zhongmu, Weishi, Fugou, Xihua, Huaiyang and other places, and then passed through the Yinghe River and Xiqi River, and poured into the Huai River upstream of Bengbu, flooding the embankment of the Huai River and breaking the Huai River Railway Bridge near Bengbu. Bengbu to the north through Cao Laoji to Su County, has also become an ocean.

The entire Yellow Flood Area stretches for more than 400 kilometers from northwest to southeast, and flows through more than 300,000 square kilometers in 44 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, causing immeasurable losses to the lives and property of the people in this area. According to incomplete statistics, more than 1.4 million houses in Henan were washed away, more than 800 mu of cultivated land was submerged, more than 1,100 mu of cultivated land in Anhui and Jiangsu were submerged, and 4.8 million people were bankrupt. More than 89 million people were caught off guard and died in the belly of the fish, and tens of millions of people were displaced......

The bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden poured billions of tons of sediment from the Yellow River into the plain every year, silting up the river, flooding the fields, overflowing the lakes, blocking traffic and shipping, and forming a vast yellow flood area that passes through 44 counties in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. Every year during the flood season, the yellow water floods back to the farmland, and after the flood comes the locust plague, which is full of sand dunes and the surface is abrupt and concave, making it impossible to cultivate at all, causing serious damage to local agriculture. This led to the famous "Great Famine in Henan", in which tens of millions of people became refugees, and 3 million peasants died of starvation in Henan alone.

After the levee broke, the Japanese troops who broke into the eastern Henan area were caught off guard by the rushing Yellow River, some were flooded, some were abandoned due to wounds and diseases, and some were annihilated by the Chinese army, and others had to stop the pursuit and gather east of the Yellow Flood area.

"Toshiro's Diary" records that in the morning, as soon as he put up the pot and was about to have breakfast, the army came with an order that "the enemy blew up the Yellow River embankment, and the brigade evacuated in time", and the soldiers urgently moved, and before they ran two steps, they found that the turbulent turbidity current was rolling in and washed away one village after another...... "In the diary of the next ten days, it was recorded that the Japanese army and the logistics unit lost contact, their supplies were cut off, and they were closely pursued by the Chinese army. The frightened Toshiro and other soldiers boarded the train and retreated all the way to Anhui.

Within a month after the Huayuankou embankment burst, the Chinese army launched a counteroffensive, and the Japanese troops in eastern Henan were basically wiped out, and the Japanese troops were forced to flee to the junction of Henan and Anhui.

Later, the Japanese army admitted that it had "suffered considerable losses", and judging from the materials disclosed by the Chinese and Japanese sides, this number was about 7,000.

The heavy damage caused by the bursting of the Yellow River to the Japanese army was not only in the reduction of the occupied area and the attrition of troops, but also in the far-reaching effect that the expected offensive line of the Japanese army was broken. As the battlefield in eastern Henan gradually cooled down, the new Yellow River, which crossed the Great Plain of eastern Henan, became a military demarcation line, blocking the Japanese army to the east of the Yellow Floodplain. It was not until 1944 that Japan launched a campaign to open up the mainland lines of communication, and Zhengzhou was captured by them.