Li Shuchun, who was walking on the same boat, looked at the rushing yellow water and sighed: "If I hadn't personally seen the disaster area and saw it clearly, I would have thought that the guards would take advantage of the fisherman when Mr. Jiang was fighting with the Japanese snipe clams. But after looking at this yellow area, I completely understood that Chiang Kai-shek treated the people like grass, but Chairman Zhao led the People's Party to shoulder what kind of burden! The National Government's energy is probably going to be over, and the dead are like this..."

Li Shuchun and Huang Taiming were originally inspecting the old trough of the Yellow River and the lower reaches of the Huai River in Lianshui and other places, but after learning that Sui River, Wuhe River, and some sections of the Wohe River were also included in the management scope, Li Shuchun and Huang Taiming rushed to the disaster area to inspect the situation.

Lao Chiang scattered the Yellow River and flooded tens of millions of people in the three provinces. After the guards occupied northern Jiangsu, the first thing they thought was to control the harm of the Huanghuai River. Now they occupied northern Anhui, they thought about helping the victims of the Yellow River and the control of the adjacent rivers. Compared with the two sides, Li Shuchun's feelings were naturally indispensable.

"It's too mysterious. In our gentleman's words, people's hearts are the standard for measuring whether a party's policies are right." Yu Dehai smiled and said disdainfully, "Some people criticize our party and say we are buying people's hearts. But in the past few years of the Kuomintang's rule, not only has it caused foreign invasions, but it also ignored the lives and death of the people, but also had to point fingers and put a label on our People's Party, trying to prevent our party from helping the affected people. I really don't know what those people are feeling!"

"I heard that the cicadas were still not farming? What else could those royal literati do besides playing with their pens and putting their hats on people? Ignore them!" Zhu Qinglan snorted and said in a deep voice, "When the Yangtze River flooded, the Supreme Government was busy fighting a civil war, regardless of the lives and death of the people; the previous year and last year, tens of millions of people in Sichuan were affected by the disaster, and Mr. Jiang refused to save him. Now he has broken the dam and flooded tens of millions of people in three provinces! After all, the prestige of the National Government among the people is almost consumed, and it is time for the world to replace him!"

Zhu Qinglan was a veteran of the Republic of China. He actually said something like "The world should be replaced" from his mouth. It shows how disappointed he is with Lao Jiang and others. Of course, this is also related to his own experience of the People's Party's armed efforts in disaster relief.

After the escort army eliminated the few Japanese troops in Shangqiu, Xuzhou, Boxian, Suxian and other places, they dispatched more than 40,000 special operations brigades, the 11th Division, the 4th Division, the Air Force, the Bomb Bridge Unit, etc., to participate in disaster relief. A net-style search and rescue was launched in the northern part of the Yellow River Flood Zone.

Although the search and rescue work has only been carried out for only four days so far, the number of disaster victims in Henan and Lyon, northern Anhui provinces has reached about 1.77 million.

Among them, Huaiyuan, Mengcheng, Woyang, Wuhe, Xuyi and other places near the Wohe River Basin spontaneously fled northward to the newly occupied area of ​​the Guards, with about 980,000, and about 530,000 victims spontaneously fled from Luyi, Taikang and Zhecheng counties in eastern Henan. These victims have been guided by the Guards to resettle in designated areas.

In addition, tens of thousands of troops of the guards also used the collected wooden boats and rubber boats transported from the northwest and Shandong to rescue disaster relief tools. More than 260,000 trapped victims were rescued from the yellow water within four days.

However, the population of Luyi, Taikang and Zhecheng counties was originally about 1.4 million, including Huaiyuan, Mengcheng, Woyang, Wuhe, Xuyi and other counties near the Huaihe River. The original total population was about 1.9 million. After two comparisons, due to war and floods, more than 1.5 million people were unknown. If there were no timely assistance from the guards, it would be unknown how many more than 1.77 million victims could survive. At least the 260,000 people surrounded by Huangshui would definitely have no way to survive.

During the disaster relief years ago, Zhu Qinglan had also run between the Jianghuai River and Huai River many times, knowing the general population of the Woe and Huai River Basin. Although the guards have rescued 1.77 million victims and can rescue another part of them in the future, the more than 1.5 million people who are unknown to the whereabouts made Zhu Qinglan feel unspeakable and heavier.

"Commander Yu, I shouldn't interrupt the battle. But since the guards have captured southwestern Shandong and occupied four counties in eastern Henan, why not just drive the Japanese devils from eastern Henan to the north bank of the Yellow River to the north bank of the Yellow River? This can at least help more victims in eastern Henan." Zhu Qinglan was worried about the victims in the eastern Huanghe area and asked.

"Old Zhu, we also want to kill all the Japanese devils in one go, but the conditions are not met now!" Yu Dehai explained helplessly, "After the Yellow River breaks, although the river in Shandong has not yet been cut off, the water level has dropped rapidly, and some places are almost at the level of traversing. If our army advances westward to Kaifeng and drives all the Japanese devils to the north bank, it will be really good, but the Qianli River defense below Kaifeng will take a lot of troops and material resources to defend us.

At that time, the Japanese army can use the Jinpu Line and the Pinghan Line to achieve rapid transportation of troops and combat materials. In addition to the railway transportation on the east bank of the canal, our army will rely entirely on automobiles and horse-drawn carriages to transport. In terms of the support of combat materials, the Japanese army is invisibly missing.

Moreover, our army is now fully helping millions of victims in the Yellow River Flood. If it weren’t for the increase in personnel and material support from the northwest, the stability of the newly occupied area and the recovery of production and construction would make us unable to do so. We also want to eliminate the Japanese as soon as possible, but we can’t eat a bite.

As for the Yellow Flood victims in eastern Henan who are still under the control of the Japanese army, we can only mobilize them to transfer to the area controlled by our army through planes to receive assistance. No matter how many, we are powerless now..."

In fact, Gu Haichuan and others did have the idea of ​​occupying the area east of Kaifeng to pass through the Yellow River channel and the southern part of Shanxi controlled by Yan Xishan to achieve material and personnel exchanges with the northwest. However, after the Yellow River broke, due to the rapid decrease in the water level in the lower river channel, the river section below Huayuankou not only did not have navigation conditions, but also increased the possibility of crossing rivers on both sides of the north and south sides. Gu Haichuan and others had to give up their original ideas.

Although being able to cross the river alone also brought convenience to the guards' march into northern Shandong, the guards' military force had approached the limit after occupying northern Jiangsu, southwestern Shandong, eastern Henan, and northern Anhui. It was impossible to enter northern Shandong within at least the next six months.

Zhu Qinglan knew that Yu Dehai's words were not a refusal. It was the truth. For this disaster relief, the guards took out their wealth that had accumulated for many years, and even used the air force to participate in the search and rescue work and transport clothes, rubber boats and other disaster relief supplies from the northwest. The People's Party did do its best in the disaster relief. After a long time of stunnedness, Zhu Qinglan sighed sadly: "This surging yellow water has made the people of the three provinces suffer..."

Seeing that Zhu Qinglan was frowning, Yu Dehai comforted and said, "Mr. Zhu and we are preparing enough supplies to rescue four or five million victims. Although there are less than two million victims rescued, after the news that our army occupied the northern part of the Yellow River Flood Zone came out, there will definitely be victims coming. All we can do is to do our best to make these refugees who fled to the area controlled by our army to survive."

Gu Haichuan and others prepared disaster relief supplies according to the upper limit of five million victims, but before the escort troops sent troops, the Yellow River broke its mouth for half a month. The officials and landlords and gentry who were able to escape had already walked through their own paths, and most of the remaining were the large and lower-class people who were home to their families.

However, the victims in the northern part of the Yellow River Flood did not expect that the escorts would send troops to rescue the disaster. Therefore, the escape routes were chosen in various ways, which not only increased the difficulty of the escorts' search and rescue, but also caused unnecessary casualties during the escape.

According to the current situation in the disaster area, Yu Dehai estimated that the ultimate rescue of the victims would not exceed four million. However, Zhao Zhenzhong asked Gu Haichuan and others to prepare materials as needed by five million victims, and the extra ones would be offset against the reserves of the Guards in order to prepare for future operations or sudden disasters. Of course, Zhao Zhenzhong was also allocated from the northwest of the government staff and material gaps in the Guards.

Although the reduction in the number of victims in the disaster relief means the reduction of the burden on the guards, just think about the many unknown people represented by the reduction numbers, the guards and local people participating in the disaster relief will be filled with depression and resentment!

It has been twenty days since the breaking down. The longer the delay, the less hope for the trapped people to survive. However, during this period, in addition to instructing his subordinates to identify the culprit as the Japanese army and criticizing the People's Party for "mongering rumors and slandering", he did not have effective disaster relief measures due to financial difficulties. This naturally disappointed some people who still had fantasies about Chiang Kai-shek, and made many disaster victims resentful. Even Zhu Qinglan, a veteran of the Republic of China, believed that "it's time for the world to be replaced."

However, there was something that comforted Zhu Qinglan, that is, the victims rescued were basically properly resettled by the guards.

After being guided by the guards to the designated area, the victims first drank two bowls of porridge to fill their stomachs, then went to bathe in batches, then changed into clean clothes, and then stayed in temporary housing or tents in epidemic prevention and isolation areas with lime and sprayed with disinfectants for the first half of a month. After the epidemic prevention observation period expires, the victims will be organized to engage in farming and building roads, building water conservancy and other labor, and settle the victims by using work-for-relief, and escort the production of the newly occupied area as soon as possible.

Although the escort army invested more than 40,000 troops into the disaster area and organized more than 60,000 local people to participate in relief activities in Bo, Su, Si and other places, the resettlement of 1.77 million victims still kept the disaster relief personnel busy.

Of course, in the process of rescuing the victims, the staff of the escort army also disclosed the truth about the Yellow River breaking. The victims were shocked and unbelievable at first, but as they understood, more and more people believed that the breaking was done by the troops in the First World War Zone and the order issued by Lao Chiang! This truth not only made the rescued victims who lost their homes and relatives angry, but hated Lao Chiang to the extreme, but also made other people in the newly occupied area of ​​the escort army no longer have hope for the Chiang Ji government.

The ancients said, "The king regards his ministers as grass, and the ministers regard him as enemies." The relationship between the government and the people has always been mutual. It is strange that the government blindly seeks and exploits the people, and it is strange that the people can support the government.

In fact, if you think carefully, what Chiang Ji National Government has gradually lost the people's hearts through repeated actions of betraying the people.

In the 1930s, in order to win the supreme leadership, Chiang Kai-shek first fought a war with Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and Li Zongren in 30 years. The Central Plains region, which was most affected by the war, was almost ruined, and tens of millions of people were affected. The people of Jin, Ji, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces who suffered the war, would definitely be false to say that there was no resentment in their hearts.

In 31 years, there was a flood in the Yangtze River. Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen were criticized for disaster relief, which made many people disappointed Chiang, Song and the entire National Government. Then, during the September 18th Incident, the National Government lost the three northeastern provinces and the people's hearts of the three provinces.

Subsequently, while the Chiang Ji National Government stepped up its efforts to eliminate the ** armed forces and the People's Army, they also conceded step by step to the Japanese army, which eventually led to the North China Incident, and the Central Army withdrew from North China. Most of the people's hearts were lost in several provinces in North China.

The People's Army rose in the northwest. Gansu, Ning, Qing, Xin, Tibet and other provinces have been fully mastered by the People's Party. In a few years, the people in the northwest have completely turned to the People's Party. Even the people in the Sichuan province were desperate to save the disaster in Chiang Kai-shek, and the Northwest has been free to rescue the disaster.

Now that the truth about the Huayuankou Burning Burning was revealed by the People's Party, there are not a few people in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu who regard Chiang Kai-shek as a great hatred.

After all these things, it can be said that the Chiang Ji National Government has lost the hearts of the people north of the Yangtze River.

If there is no other factor inspiring it, with the long-term submissive nature of the Chinese people, there will be no major opposition to the measures of the National Government of Chiang Ji in the short term. But if everything is afraid of comparison, Chiang Kai-shek regards the people as a must, but the People's Party vigorously rescues and takes in disaster victims and refugees. Even in the past few years, the saying that "if you go to the northwest, you will have a way to survive" was widely circulated in the affected provinces in China.

Chiang Kai-shek abuses the people and slanders. The People's Party saves and protects the people. In contrast, people who learned that there is another hidden secret in the Yellow River breach in eastern Henan, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu and other places almost turned to the People's Party one-sidedly. This also stabilized the newly occupied area of ​​the Guards in a very short period of time.

In history, the truth about the dam breaking in the Gardenkou was concealed by Chiang Kai-shek until after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Under the guidance of Chiang Kai-shek propaganda machine, the Chinese people believed that the Japanese army was the culprit in the creation of the Yellow River Flood. Therefore, while hating the Japanese invaders, they also supported Chiang Kai-shek's National Government to insist on anti-Japanese resistance. Until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the "five sons passed the imperial examination" and the astonishing inflation and gold coupon reform made the true face of Chiang Kai-shek's government fully exposed to the Chinese people. In addition, the ** re-exerted the weapon of "land reform", which made the people completely betray Chiang Kai-shek.

But now, the People's Party has gradually disclosed the truth about the Gardenkou bursting in front of the people of the country through relevant reports, and gradually revealed the painted skins of Chiang Chiang. In addition, the repeated failures since the War of Resistance Against Japan have triggered a crisis of trust among the Chinese people in the Chiang Ji government in advance.

Of course, due to regional factors and Chiang Kai-shek's control, the National Government can still order heroes in central China, south China, southwest China and other places. In North China, Yan Xishan, a force that still respects the central government. However, Yan Xishan, who has always been good at calculating, also Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the Guangxi clan who have opposed Chiang Kai-shek many times, and Liu Xiang, who is secretly competing with Chiang Kai-shek, will still respect Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme authority, for how long will it take.

The disaster relief activities of the Guards were very popular and vigorous. Not to mention the disaster relief victims who were properly resettled and approaching two million people, not to mention the tens of thousands of troops conducting search and rescue work in the sky, the ground and the water every day, not to mention the disaster relief materials transported to Xuzhou, Suxian and other places through the Jiaoji Line and the Jinpu Line south of the Yellow River to Suxian section, as well as the highways, the strong organizational capabilities shown by the Guards in less than ten days of disaster relief activities are enough to shock all parties!

The rescued victims were not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of victims, but nearly two million victims. Since the guards could organize and resettle such a large number of people in such a short time, what if they had received military training?

You should know that after the Guards occupied most of Shandong at the beginning of the year, they generally established militia reserve organizations in more than 60 counties. The population base of 26 and 7 million south of the Yellow River and east of the canal is as long as one or two years pass, if the Guards are willing, their military cap can easily exceed the million mark. Not to mention that the Guards now occupy southwestern Shandong, eastern Henan, northern Jiangsu, and northern Anhui, and the population base has expanded to more than 40 million, and their military source base has been further expanded.

If a million escort troops appear in the areas of Shandong, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, they will not only be adjacent to their controlled areas but are still under the control of the Japanese army, but also under the control of the Japanese, and even the entire Hebei and even Pingjin will be under the escort troops!

As the commander of the North China Front Army, Sugiyama Tsuki will have a headache as long as they think about the possible consequences. Fortunately, this subversive consequence does not appear now, Sugiyama Tsuki still has time to cushion. At the moment, Sugiyama Tsuki is most worried about the safety of the southward corps commanded by Minorhiko.

The Gardenkou broke the dam, except for the trapped Japanese troops who abandoned some heavy equipment that could not be transported out, did not cause much casualties to Minorhito's troops. However, the air force mobilized by the People's Party to support the guards' disaster relief, made Sugiyama Moto and Minorhiko worried every day.

In order to increase the transportation of materials, Zhao Zhenzhong ordered the Air Force to carry out turns to ensure that two bomber regiments and one fighter regiment are responsible for the transportation of materials or personnel every day. Nearly 150 aircraft of the three flight regiments are northwest-southeast, and they whistle past Minamiya's troops every day. This is a move that tests the Japanese army's nerves.

Although Sugiyama Yuan urgently transferred several anti-aircraft artillery troops near Kaifeng through the Pinghan Line in case of trouble, Sugiyama Yuan also issued an order to Minorhiko that the conflict shall not be initiated without authorization before the Guard Air Force attacks the ground, so as not to escalate the situation.

After receiving the order, Minami frowned and felt dissatisfied.

"Your Excellency, although the People's Air Force now transports disaster relief supplies from northwest to Shandong and Xuzhou every day, since the enemy can transport supplies, it can also attack our headquarters. We now have some air defense forces, but it is regrettable that the Imperial Air Force still lacks fighter jets that can compete with the People's Air Force." Chief of Staff Suzuki sighed and said softly, "If a conflict is triggered, not only will our headquarters be attacked by the People's Air Force, but the northern Shanxi and Beijing-Tianjin areas will also be within the range of the enemy's air strike. Our existing air defense forces are not enough to suppress the enemy's air force. The front army's current military strength and firepower are not enough to suppress the People's Air Force, so we have to endure it for the time being."

Minorhiko exhaled a long breath and said depressedly: "Suzuki, I understand the truth, I just hope we don't have to endure it for too long. It's a shame for the Emperor to bow to the Chinese people!"

The forces of the North China Front Army are now restrained and scattered in northern Shandong, eastern Henan, northern Shanxi, Chanan, southern Shanxi and other places. Except for the southern Shanxi controlled by Yan Xishan, which is not easy to pinch, the other places are all heavy troops with the advantage of the People's Party armed forces. In this case, although Minori claims to be "shamed", if he does not want to trigger a comprehensive crisis in North China, he can only accept it with his nose!
Chapter completed!