In April, he rushed to the 14th and 16th divisions of the Japanese army on the North Road in Henan
More than 4000 people from each regiment were trapped in the torrential yellow water in Zhongmou, Zhuxian Town and Weishi. Cheng Qian ordered the war zone to open up.
The 59th Army and Liu Heding's 39th Army attacked decisively. After two days of fierce fighting, the Yellow River water flowed more than 1000 kilometers between Zhengzhou and Bengbu.
A huge barrier formed on the ground.
Due to the new military situation formed by the Yellow River bursting its banks, the Japanese army had to change their plans and attack the northern part of the city.
Instead of focusing on ground operations on the south road, the attack along the Yangtze River waterway on the south road was mainly carried out. The time for the north and south to join forces to attack Wu Han was delayed.
Three months.
On June 9th, the Huayuankou dike burst, which was also the beginning of the confrontation between China and Japan along the Yellow River flooded area. The Japanese army, which relied on mechanized military equipment to attack the Longhai line and the Pinghan line, was forced to change their original strategy of advancing west and south along the railway line.
On the other hand, they withdrew their troops from Weishi, Zhongmu, Naling, Tongxu, Chenliu, Sixian, and other counties in eastern Henan to the east, moving and gathering to the border area of Henan, Jiangsu, and Jiangsu with Shangqiu and Xuzhou as the center. On the other hand, they determined the route to the west along the Huaihe River Road and divided many passers-by.
Ma besieged Wuchang.
The plan of the Japanese army to surround the south of the north road completely went bankrupt. They had to turn back and make a difficult detour along the northeast of the Yellow River flooded area to gather in Hefei. These Japanese troops did not attack Xinyang until the end of August and rejoined the battle to capture the city of Wu Han.
The war moved southward to the vast lakes, marshes, and mountainous areas of southern Henan, western Fujian, northern Jiangxi, and eastern Hubei. The battlefield in eastern Henan gradually cooled down, and the area around Hubei became a new battlefield for the armies of China and Japan. In this way, from Zhengzhou diagonally through the southeast
The new Yellow River that crossed the Great Plain of Eastern Henan became the military dividing line, separating the Japanese army from the east of the flooded area. The Chinese army defended along the west bank and built a "anti-flooding western dike" along the west of the new Yellow River, while the Japanese army also built a "anti-flooding eastern dike" on the opposite bank.
It continued until 1944 when Japan launched a campaign to open up the mainland's traffic line.
The Japanese army in North China reported to the Central Army Department: In order to prevent our army from entering, the Chinese army attacked the northeast of Zhengzhou in early June.
They dug up the Yellow River embankment, causing the Yellow River water to overflow to the southeast, and adopted the flooding tactic.
It formed a great barrier that connected the Huaihe River through Zhongmou, Weishi, Zhoujiakou, and Yingzhou. Due to the flooding of the new Yellow River, the situation was serious. It seemed that it would be difficult to sweep through the city from the north.
For decades, historians and politicians have been arguing about the merits and demerits of the breach of the dike at Huayuankou to stop the enemy and the drowning people.
Perhaps only history could make the final judgment.
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