1938. Garden Mouth - Yellow River Sorrow

Author: Deng Xian
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The failure of the Shanghai–Hangzhou Campaign, the fall of Nanjing, the defeat in the Xuzhou Campaign, the full-scale retreat of the Kuomintang (KMT) army, the frequent bombing of Wuhan, and the continuously deteriorating situation of the War of Resistance. The conflicts among the KMT factions also intensified. The Japanese invasion forces swiftly occupied northern and eastern Henan. The life-and-death battle between Chinese and Japanese forces became unprecedentedly brutal. Zhengzhou fell, and Wuhan was on the brink of capture. Chiang Kai-shek ordered the levee at Huayankou to break, using "water as a substitute for soldiers." The flood-prone area became a natural barrier, but millions of people in Central China either drowned or starved to death, becoming refugees.