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In order to support and reduce the pressure on the Maoer Mountain Department, the Battle of Lanfeng broke out in May 1938 (the 27th year of the Republic of China). It was a battle in the Xuzhou Battle in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Under the command of the Lanfeng area of ​​​​Henan Province, the offensive operations against the Doihara Kenji Division (5th Division) that the Japanese army went deep into alone.

第一战区的部队开始向日军第14师团发动进攻。经激烈战斗，第74军的第51师及第71军第88师的1个旅收复了内黄，第71军的第87师收复了仪封。第71军及第74军又夺回了西毛姑寨、杨楼、和楼等村庄，给敌人以沉重打击。

In the ensuing battle, they were stubbornly resisted by the little devils, coupled with the gap in equipment, and did not make any progress. The command headquarters failed to attack and annihilate the enemies near Lanfeng and the first army within the time limit against the troops in eastern Henan. Deployment in theater was somewhat dissatisfied.

Chiang Kai-shek issued a warrant: "The number of enemies near Lanfeng is no more than five or six thousand at most, and I can't besiege with 12 divisions. Not only is the army complex, but they are pushing each other, and they will be defeated; even if they conquer, there will be one thousand in the history of war An ancient laughingstock. Please be resolute and determined to draw more than 6 divisions quickly to the rear as a reserve team, and designate the three armies of Li Tiejun, Li Hanhun, and Yu Jishi to be responsible for sweeping out the remnants of the enemy in front of us. It is more strategic to fight against them in the field. At this time, the enemy army on the east road will rush westward within two or three days, and go straight out of Xuchang and Zhengzhou from Zhoukou, and the rear will be in danger. If our army does not plan early, such a large force will Gathered in a small area, and the Yellow River on the left, it is very easy to wipe out. Wuxi made a decisive decision and implemented it this evening. While rearranging the front, he mobilized troops just in case. With this intention, Xue Boling (Xue Yue) and Hu Zongnan were determined to Do it without delay."

The first theater issued the content of Chiang Kai-shek's warrant and the theater's measures in the form of telegrams to all armies.

The 16th Division and the mixed 13th Brigade captured Yucheng on the 26th, and at the same time attacked the outer positions of Shangqiu.That night, Huang Jie's 8th Army retreated to the suburbs of Shangqiu. On the 27th, Cheng Qian sent an order to Huang Jie: You must defend Shangqiu to the death, and you must not give up until the enemies in the Lanfeng area are wiped out.But Huang Jie did not carry out the order of the commander in chief of the war zone at all. On the 28th, he led the 40th and 24th divisions to retreat to Liuhe and Kaifeng without authorization, and left the 187th division to defend Zhuji station and Shangqiu. At dawn on the 29th, Peng Linsheng, the commander of the 187th Division, also led the division back.Shangqiu was occupied by the Japanese army.The fall of Shangqiu seriously threatened the back of Xue Yuejun who attacked the Japanese 14th Division.

Under such circumstances, Xue Yue issued a transfer order, requesting that "the battlefield cover troops sent by each army must respond calmly, resist hard, delay the enemy, and really cover the safety of our main force transfer." Commanders Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen The headquarters "should begin to transfer on the night of June 6 after the transfer of our main force is completed."

The westward advance of the 14th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army seriously threatened the security of Zhengzhou and Pinghan Road, where the commander-in-chief of the First Theater Command was located.At that time, although the first war zone had hundreds of thousands of troops with nearly 30 divisions, and most of them were the so-called main forces directly from the central government, they could not resist the westward advance of two Japanese divisions.

Chiang Kai-shek decided to break the embankment of the Yellow River and create a water barrier to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward.Chiang Kai-shek's proposition did not arise temporarily.As early as July 1937, his chief German adviser, Falkenhausen, had advised him to "break the banks of the Yellow River" to stop the Japanese army.

On April 1938, 4, when the squadron's pursuit troops on the Taierzhuang battlefield attacked the defeated Japanese army near Tuiyi County, Chen Guofu sent a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, planning to break the North Yellow River Dyke near the mouth of Qinhe River in Wuzhi County, Henan Province.However, he suggested countermeasures to "fear the enemy to break the bank to contain me".He said: "The terrain on the north bank of the Yellow River near the Qin River is low, so if the embankment is broken at any point on the downstream bank, it is only necessary to break the north embankment near the Qin River, and all the yellow water will flow northward to Zhangwei. But the enemy is in danger."

Chiang Kai-shek gave instructions: "Officer Dian Cheng will approve and handle it." After Xuzhou fell, Yao Cong and others advocated breaking the embankment in Tongwaxiang, Henan, and restoring the old road before the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (5), so that the Yellow River flows north of Xuzhou and Huaiyin into the sea.Chen Cheng and his subordinates suggested breaching at Heigangkou on the South Yellow River embankment.

When the Japanese army occupied Sui County on June 6 and was approaching Lanfeng and Qi counties, Cheng Qian, the commander of the First War Zone, decided to break the embankment, and asked Chiang Kai-shek for instructions through the director of the attendant office, Lin Wei, and got Chiang's verbal consent.But Cheng Qian and others were well aware of the serious consequences of this move, so they asked for instructions in a formal telegram, and the implementation began only after Jiang's telegram approved it.

The first war zone convened a meeting of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee and relevant military and political personnel of the river defense to study the location of the embankment breach, and finally chose Zhaokou, Zhongmu County.So Shang Zhen of the 20th Army was ordered to take charge, and he was limited to digging embankments to release water at 6:4 on the night of June 12. At the same time, he moved the commander-in-chief of the first theater to Luoyang.

Shang Zhen ordered a regiment of Wan Fulin's 53rd Army to construct.As of the morning of June 1, the project has not yet been completed due to terrain.Chiang Kai-shek ordered Shang Zhen to "severely supervise and implement" on the phone.Shang Zhen took Wei Rulin, chief of the staff department, to supervise the work, and sent an additional regiment of Liu Heding's 6th Army to assist, and ordered the engineers to use explosives to blow up the sloped stone foundation in the embankment.At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the water was released, but because the gap collapsed and the waterway was blocked, it was unsuccessful.

On June 6, the gap was dug again, but it still failed.The high command and the first war zone were "extremely anxious about this, and they must inquire about the situation of the breach three or four times a day."Shang Zhen also ordered the New 6th Division, which had just blasted the Yellow River Iron Bridge, to send an additional regiment.Jiang Zaizhen, the commander of the division, suggested breaking the embankment at Huayuankou instead.Chiang Kai-shek and Cheng Qian approved it.

6月7日侦察，8日以第2团、第3团及师直属工兵连执行掘堤任务，9日9时完工放水。

It was raining heavily at that time, and the breach became bigger and bigger, and the water flowed down. On the 12th, it merged with the water that was washed away at Zhaokou, and flowed along the Jialu River, making the villages and towns in the Jialu River and Guohe River Basin a vast ocean.The water submerged Zhongmou, Weishi, Fugou, Xihua, and Shangshui, forming a vast water barrier.When the rapids of the Yellow River flowed into the Huaihe River, it submerged the bank of the Huaihe River. On July 7, the Bengbu Huaihe River Bridge was broken, and the area from Bengbu to Suxian became the country of Ze.

日军第14师团6月7日攻占中牟，派骑兵联队于10日炸毁郑州以南的京汉铁路；第16师团第30旅团旅团长筱原次郎所率的＃＃＃队（步兵3个大队）于6月12日炸毁了新郑以南的京汉铁路。由于水障的形成，日军各部队均停止了追击。第14师团的一部被洪水围于中牟县城。日第2军组织了1个工兵联队、6个工兵中队的救援队，用大批舟艇援救其被困部队。位于泛滥区中心的日军第16师团一部来不及撤走的车辆、火炮、战车等重武器均沉于水底，并冲走、淹死一批士兵。日军航空兵以飞机投食物、医药及救生设备共61吨半。位于泛滥区以东的日军也迅速后撤。被洪水隔于新郑以南的第16师团第30旅团的5个大队就地组织防御，也是靠空投解决军需物资，最后由日军第2军派出的船艇队将其撤回。

The breach of the Yellow River 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 marching route for the Wuhan Battle.

However, hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who should be protected by the squadron lost their lives, and tens of millions of people went bankrupt.The Nationalist government was very aware of the political, economic, and moral impact of this move, so while digging to release water, the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone publicized to the outside world: "After the enemy occupied Kaifeng, they continued to commit crimes in the west and fought bloody battles near Zhongmou for days. Our army resisted to the death, and the position was strong, but the enemy failed, so they dug the embankment of the Yellow River north of Zhongmou in an attempt to destroy our position and drown our army."

Chiang Kai-shek called Cheng Qian again and ordered three points: First, it must be publicized to the public that it was an enemy plane that blew up the Yellow River embankment.Second, we must examine the flooding situation in detail, use the positional obstacles as the first line, and improve our deployment and defense lines.Third, all ministries on the front line must cooperate with the people to build embankments and divert water to the southeast into the Huai River to ensure traffic on the Ping-Han Line.For tens of thousands of people who are homeless and have no food to eat.

On June 1938, 6, the Yellow River that broke its embankment was like a roaring dragon, rolling and rushing down from the breach. Taking Zhengzhou from the west along the Ping-Han line and going south from north to south, the attack direction was changed to detour to the Dabie Mountains and the north and south banks of the Yangtze River to attack Wuhan from east to west.While flooding the Japanese army, it also turned 9 square kilometers of land in 44 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces into water towns, 5.4 people drowned, and more than 89 million people left their homes and became homeless...

This is a shocking tragedy. Compared with the Nanjing Massacre, how bloody is it!But the Chinese people at that time did not know that it was Chiang Kai-shek who did it. The various news that Chiang Kai-shek made proved that the Japanese did it.

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

In fact, otherwise, because the Yellow River broke its embankment, the little devils could not go south, and many troops returned to the Northeast, in order to help Okamura Ningji get rid of this serious trouble in the Northeast!

This time the little devils invaded the Maoershan precinct on a large scale. The battle had already entered a stalemate, but the Yellow River broke the embankment, and the center of gravity of the little devils shifted. A large number of troops flocked to the northeast, and the Maoershan precinct was in danger. Nuo and Xiaofan were ready to take over the matter of Maoershan, but Chen Nuo refused because Zhang Minghui hadn't woken up, and Maoershan was in danger. As the backbone, he couldn't leave for the time being, so Xiaofan could only go alone. gcd knew that if he wanted to subdue this group of clank and iron-boned people, he had to show enough sincerity and just find a way to cooperate with Maoershan to get through this crisis!