Yellow River Sorrow: 1938. Huayankou

Author: Deng Xian
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The defeat of the Shanghai–Hangzhou Campaign, the fall of Nanjing, the failure of the Xuzhou Campaign, the full retreat of the Kuomintang (KMT) forces, the frequent bombing of Wuhan, and the continuously deteriorating situation of the War of Resistance. The contradictions among the KMT factions also intensified. The Japanese invading forces swiftly occupied northern and eastern Henan, and the unprecedentedly fierce battle between Chinese and Japanese troops took place. Zhengzhou fell, and Wuhan was on the brink of peril. Chiang Kai-shek ordered the levee breach at Huayankou, using "water as a substitute for soldiers," turning the flood-prone area into a natural barrier. Millions of people in Central China became either fish or fowl, or starved to death, displaced and suffering a tragic and shocking fate! The brutality! The shock!