In order to support and reduce the pressure on Maoershan, the Battle of Lanfeng broke out in May 1938 (the 27th year of the Republic of China). It was a battle in the Battle of Xuzhou in the Anti-Japanese War. The 12 divisions of the East Henan Corps of the Chinese Army

Under the command of Xue Yue, he conducted an offensive operation against the Japanese army's lone Ken 2nd Division (14th Division) in the Lanfeng area of ​​Henan Province.

The troops in the first theater began to attack the Japanese 14th Division. After fierce fighting, the 51st Division of the 74th Army and a brigade of the 88th Division of the 71st Army recovered Neihuang, and the 87th Division of the 71st Army recovered

The 71st Army and the 74th Army recaptured Ximaogu Village, Yanglou, Helou and other villages, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy.

In the ensuing battle, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Japs, coupled with the equipment gap, and failed to make any progress. The headquarters' response to the troops in eastern Henan failed to attack and annihilate the enemies near Lanfeng and the First Army within the time limit.

There is some dissatisfaction with the deployment of the war zone.

Chiang Kai-shek issued an order: "The enemy near Lanfeng can only number five or six thousand at most, but I can't attack them with the strength of the 12th Division. Not only are the troops complex, they blame each other, and they are in danger of being defeated; even if they are conquered, they will only be defeated by a thousand in the history of war."

Ancient laughing stock. Please be resolute, quickly draw more than 6 divisions to serve as reserves on the flanks and rear, and designate Li Tiejun, Li Hanhun, and Yu Jishi to be responsible for clearing out the remaining enemies in front of you. Even if I am broken through a few points and rush out of the encirclement, I can still

It would be more feasible to fight with them in the field. At this time, the enemy troops on the east route will rush westward within two or three days, from Zhoukou to Xuchang and Zhengzhou, and then the rear will be in Kanyu. If our army did not make a plan early, we would have such a large force.

clustered in small areas, and left

Limiting the Yellow River, it is very easy to annihilate. Wu Xi made a decisive decision and implemented it tonight, while organizing the front line and deploying troops to prepare for emergencies. He also conveyed this intention to Xue Boling (Xue Yue) and Hu Zongnan, determined to follow it without any delay. "

The first theater distributed the contents of Chiang Kai-shek's order and theater measures to all armies in the form of telegrams.

The 16th Division and the 13th Mixed Brigade captured Yucheng on the 26th and attacked the outer positions of Shangqiu. That night, Huang Jie's 8th Army retreated to the suburbs of Shangqiu. On the 27th, Cheng Qian ordered Huang Jie via telegram: He must defend Shangqiu.

, must not give up before the enemy in Lanfeng area is defeated. But Huang Jie did not carry out the orders of the commander of the theater at all.

On the 28th, he led the 40th and 24th Divisions to retreat to Liuhe and Kaifeng without authorization, leaving the 187th Division to guard Zhuji Station and Shangqiu. At dawn on the 29th, Peng Linsheng, commander of the 187th Division, also led the division to retreat. Shangqiu was the Japanese army.

Occupation. The loss of Shangqiu seriously threatened the flank of Xue Yue's army attacking the Japanese 14th Division.

Under such circumstances, Xue Yue issued a transfer order, requiring "the battlefield cover troops dispatched by each army must calmly respond to the battle, resist hard, delay the enemy, and ensure the safety of the transfer of our main force." Sun Tongxuan, Commander-in-Chief of Shang and Zhen

The headquarters "should begin the transfer on the night of June 3 as soon as the transfer of our main force is completed."

The westward advance of the Japanese 14th Division and the 16th Division seriously threatened the security of Zhengzhou and Pinghan Road, where the commander-in-chief of the First Theater Division was located. At that time, although the First Theater Division had nearly 30 divisions and hundreds of thousands of troops, most of them

The so-called main force, which was directly affiliated with the central government, could not resist the westward advance of more than two Japanese divisions.

Chiang Kai-shek decided to destroy the Yellow River embankment and create a water barrier to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward. Chiang Kai-shek's idea was not temporary. As early as July 1937, his chief German adviser Falkenhausen had suggested that he "block the Yellow River"

Embankment" to stop the Japanese troops.

On April 13, 1938, when the Chinese Communist Party's pursuit troops attacked the defeated Japanese troops near Yi County on the Taierzhuang battlefield, Chen Guofu sent a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, preparing to breach the North Embankment of the Yellow River near the mouth of the Qinhe River in Wuzhi County, Henan Province. But he was

In order to "fear the enemy to breach the embankment"

He suggested countermeasures to be taken to control us. He said: "The terrain on the north bank of the Yellow River near the Qin River is low, so if the embankment is breached at any point on the downstream bank, all the yellow water can flow northward is as long as the north embankment near the Qin River is breached.

If we move toward the Zhang Guard, we will be able to avoid our great calamity, while the enemy will be in a dangerous position."

Chiang Kai-shek gave instructions: "The Chief of Electrical Engineering will approve the matter." After the fall of Xuzhou, Yao Cong and others advocated breaking the dike of the copper tile box in Henan to restore the old route before the 5th year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), so that the Yellow River water could pass through Xuzhou and enter the sea to the north of Huaiyin.

Chen Cheng and his subordinates proposed execution sites such as Heigangkou on the south embankment of the Yellow River.

When the Japanese army occupied Suixian County on June 1 and approached Lanfeng and Qixian County, Cheng Qian, commander of the First War Zone, immediately decided to break the embankment. He asked Chiang Kai-shek for instructions through Lin Wei, director of the attendant's office, and received Chiang's verbal consent. However, Cheng Qian

Qian and others were well aware of the serious consequences of this move, so they sent a formal message to request instructions, and only implemented it after receiving Chiang's approval via message.

The First War Zone convened a meeting of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission and military and political personnel related to river defense to study the location of the embankment breach, and finally selected Zhaokou, Zhongmou County. The 20th Army Shangzhen was ordered to take charge, and the embankment was dug and released at 12:00 on the night of June 4.

The headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the First Theater Command moved to Luoyang.

Shang Zhen ordered a regiment of Wan Fulin's 53rd Army to carry out construction work. As of the morning of June 5, the work was still not completed due to terrain conditions. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Shang Zhen on the phone to "strictly supervise the implementation." Shang Zhen took Wei Rulin, director of the Staff Department, to supervise the work.

, sent an additional regiment of Liu Heding's 39th Army to assist, and ordered engineers to use explosives to blow up the sloping stone foundation inside the embankment. At 8 p.m., water was released, but it failed again because the gap collapsed and the waterway was blocked.

On June 6, the breach was dug again, but still failed. The headquarters and the First War Zone were "extremely anxious about this and asked about the breach three or four times a day." Shang Zhen also ordered the new 8th Division, which had just blasted the Yellow River Iron Bridge, to increase its number.

One regiment was sent. After observation, the division commander Jiang Zaizhen suggested breaking the dike at Huayuankou instead. Chiang Kai-shek and Cheng Qian approved.

Reconnaissance was carried out on June 7. On the 8th, the 2nd Regiment, 3rd Regiment and the engineer company directly under the division carried out the dike digging task. The water release was completed at 9:00 on the 9th.

It was raining heavily at that time, and the breach became bigger and bigger, and the water spread down. On the 12th, it merged with the water that was washed away at Zhaokou, and flowed south along the Jialu River, turning the villages and towns in the Jialu River and the Wohe River basin into a vast ocean. The water flow

Flooded Zhongmou,

Weishi, Fugou, Xihua, and Shangshui areas formed a broad water barrier. When the rapid Yellow River water poured into the Huaihe River, it flooded the Huaihe River embankments. On July 13, it broke through the Bengbu Huaihe River Iron Bridge, extending from Bengbu to Suxian.

This area also became Zeguo.

The Japanese 14th Division captured Zhongmou on June 7 and sent a cavalry regiment to blow up the Beijing-Hankou Railway south of Zhengzhou on the 10th; the ### team led by Shinohara Jiro, commander of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division

(3rd Infantry Brigade) bombed Xinzheng on June 12

To the south of the Beijing-Hankou Railway, due to the formation of water barriers, all Japanese troops stopped pursuing. Part of the 14th Division was surrounded by floods in Zhongmou County. The Japanese 2nd Army organized an engineer regiment and 6 engineers.

The squadron's rescue team used a large number of boats to rescue the victims.

Trapped troops. The vehicles, artillery, tanks and other heavy weapons of the Japanese 16th Division located in the center of the flooded area that were too late to evacuate sank to the bottom of the water and were washed away, drowning a group of soldiers. The Japanese aviation force dropped food from planes.

A total of 61 and a half tons of medical and life-saving equipment

The Japanese troops located to the east of the flooded area also quickly retreated. The five brigades of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division, which were separated to the south of Xinzheng by the flood, organized defense on the spot and relied on airdrops to solve military supplies. Finally, the Japanese 2nd

The navy dispatched a fleet of boats to withdraw it.

The Yellow River burst blocked the pursuit of the Japanese "North China Front Army" that violated the instructions of the base camp and crossed the limit. It also changed the Japanese army's march route for the Battle of Wuhan, and the Chinese *** team that retreated to the Zhengzhou area was also spared the pain of being pursued.

However, hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who should be protected by the Chinese Communist Party died as a result, and tens of millions of people were ruined. The Nationalist Government was very aware of the political, economic and moral implications of this move, so while digging holes to release water, the Nationalist Government

commander of the first theater

The official publicized: "After the enemy occupied Kaifeng, they continued to invade the west and fought bloody battles near Zhongmou for several days. Because our army resisted to the death and had a strong position, the enemy failed in the end, so they dug up the Yellow River embankment north of Zhongmou in order to

Destroy my position and drown my army."

Chiang Kai-shek also called Cheng Qian with three instructions: First, we must publicize to the public that enemy planes blew up the Yellow River embankment. Second, we must carefully examine the flooding situation, use it as a front-line position obstacle, and improve our deployment and

Line of defense. Third, the ministries on the first line must cooperate with the people to build embankments and divert water to the southeast into the Huaihe River to ensure traffic on the Ping-Han line. For the millions of people who are homeless and have no food to eat.

On June 9, 1938, the Yellow River burst its banks like a roaring dragon, tumbling down from the breach. Wherever it went, there was a vast ocean, which temporarily blocked the Japanese attack, putting it in trouble and forcing it to change.

Take Zhengzhou in the west and move south along the Ping-Han Line from north to south, changing the direction of the attack.

In order to detour to the Dabie Mountains and the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, they attacked Wuhan from east to west. When the Japanese troops were flooded, 54,000 square kilometers of land in 44 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces became a water town. 890,000 people drowned, and more than 10 million people died.

People have left their homes and become homeless...

This was a shocking tragedy. Compared with the Nanjing Massacre, how bloody was it! But at that time, the Chinese people did not know that it was Chiang Kai-shek. All kinds of information prepared by Chiang Kai-shek proved that it was done by the Japanese. The Chinese people hated the Japanese very much.

I believe it so deeply that my heart aches every time I think about it!

This battle can be regarded as Chiang Kai-shek's support for Zhang Minghui, at least that's what the Chinese and Chiang Kai-shek think!

In fact, this is not the case, because the Yellow River burst its banks and the Japs could not go south. Many troops returned to the Northeast in order to help Okamura Neji defeat this serious trouble in the Northeast!

The Japs invaded the Maoershan area in a large scale this time. The battle had already entered a stalemate stage, but the Yellow River burst its banks. The focus of the Japs shifted. A large number of troops rushed to the northeast. The Maoershan area was in danger. This was the time when the gcd was preparing to call Chen back.

Nuo and Xiaofan are preparing to conquer Mao'er Mountain.

Chen Nuo refused to exercise. The reason was that Zhang Minghui was not awake, and Mao'er Mountain was in danger. As the backbone, he could not leave for the time being, so Xiaofan had to go alone. Gcd knew that if he wanted to conquer this gang of iron-clad people, he would have to come up with enough.
Chapter completed!