January 27, 1938!

The four-way tour group arrived in a small town outside Zhengzhou.

Gong Shaoxun led a cavalry company to arrive in Zhengzhou two days in advance and negotiated with the Zhengzhou City Defense Command.

Although Henan Province seems to be stable at the moment, it just half a month ago to re-adjust the defense zone responsible for defending the first war zone that was expanded along the Pinghan Line, which is actually more treacherous than the fifth war zone that has begun to fight against the Japanese army.

In order to complete the strategy of opening up the Jinpu Road and then going west along the Longhai Line, cutting off the Pinghan Line and occupying Jiangxia, the Japanese army located in North China not only invested heavily in Xuzhou to cooperate with the Central China Expeditionary Force to launch north-south attacks on Xuzhou, but also began to attack frequently in the defense areas of the First War Zone, and it was in a big way to break through the Yellow River defense line in Henan Province.

The entire First War Zone was also very nervous. Although the Four-Road Group was not considered heavy-loaded, it was also a long line of pack horses and carts. From a distance, it looked like thousands of people. If you didn't say hello in advance, it would be strange if the generals from the first War Zone were not angry.

It was covered with the military order sealed by the 43rd Army and the pass issued by the Fifth War Zone Command, and the blessing of the 200-ocean New Year gift brought by Gong Shaoxun, Gong Shaoxun and his party did not sit on the bench at the Zhengzhou City Defense Command for a long time, and soon approved the location where the Four Corps wanted in the past few days.

As soon as the four-way group arrived, the whole town was decorated with lights and colorful colors to welcome the whole people.

It’s not that this quiet town that has not been invaded by the Japanese army has supported the army, and the people of Henan Province are simple but practical.

The four-way team military supplies department that arrived in the town was really full of local tyrants. After arriving, they posted a notice to buy a large amount of rice, noodles, chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, eggs, vegetables and other daily necessities. The purchase price was 10% higher than the current market price.

Just Chief Zhuang, the logistics officer of the Four Army Corps, was almost broken!

At several meetings of the regiment headquarters, he angrily criticized the leader of the Tang Dynasty as a prodigal spending money! But Tang Dao used the veto power of the highest commander to firmly implement his decision.

Just buying something is nothing, but the Sixing Group has a lot of demand!

This made the farmers around the town feel frustrated.

Henan Province is basically a plain and the center of China. As long as the weather is good, it is absolutely qualified to be one of the granaries of China. Otherwise, there would be no saying that those who win the Central Plains will win the world.

In wars from ancient times to the present, Henan Province was a must-see place for the north to the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Although war broke out in North China and East China in 1937, the unaffected Henan Province had a bumper harvest of grain. This was also the last resurgence of the people of Henan Province since the terrifying Jianghuai flood in 1931.

Since embarking on the land of Henan Province, Tang Dao's heart may not have been completely quiet, because he is familiar with history and knows that if the most brutal killing of the Japanese army in the War of Resistance Against Japan was in Jiangnan, the people in Jiangnan were suffering, but compared with the people of Henan Province who had all had natural disasters and man-made disasters, they were really not the most miserable ones.

The suffering of the people of Henan Province actually started six years ago and reached its peak in the next three years. It was definitely the most unbearable scene in Chinese history.

Four months later, in June 1938, the Japanese army rolled into Zhengzhou, and was about to advance to Jiangxia hundreds of kilometers away, and the Yellow River broke the dam.

But this time, it’s not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster!

The Huayuankou embankment was ordered to explode, and the rolling floods covered the sky and destroyed more than 40 counties in Henan Province. The Japanese tanks and cannons were trapped in the mud and marched slowly, but this was a large area of ​​farmland that was destroyed and 800,000 people were killed.

The people of Henan Province, who had just been freed from the last disaster, fell to the bottom again.

But for the people of Henan Province at this time, just like the future capital market, when you think it is already the bottom of the valley, no, there is a basement below the bottom, and there is hell below the basement.

In the next three years, the War of Resistance Against Japan had entered a white-hot stage. In order for the soldiers on the frontline anti-Japanese war to have enough military rations, the principal took out another trick to collect food.

According to statistics, in that year alone, the wheat authorities collected 340 million jin, which did not include other crops.

This has once again increased the burden on the people, and the people in Henan Province cannot take out a single piece of food.

And this is just the real beginning of that great disaster.

In the spring of the second year after the forced military ration, Henan Province suffered an unprecedented drought. This drought lasted for half a year, and sometimes it could not rain for a month.

Even so, the military representatives stationed in Henan Province at that time still chose to execute orders and force food to be collected. Even if many local officials were kneeling in front of him, they still could not change his determination.

The commander of the Tang army stationed in Henan Province has transformed into Commander Tang. Not only did he forcefully collect food with the support of military representatives, but he also took many young and strong laborers away forcing labor on the grounds of tense wars.

It can be said that at this time, the people in Yu Province encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters, and man-made disasters created by their own people.

However, the people of Henan Province are used to suffering, and they think that they will be fine after they have been reclaimed. It is difficult to get until July, and seeing that the fields are not as good as usual, the people of Henan Province have not had time to be happy, and the locusts come again.

The overwhelming locusts swept across the entire Henan Province, eating up all the food that was not already there.

The new grain that had been waiting for for half a year was gone, and the original reserve grain had long been collected, which completely cut off people's hope of survival.

An unprecedented escape officially kicked off in July of the fifth year after the war began.

At the beginning, people might be relatively restrained, after all, they are all neighbors, and they don’t look up and see each other.

But when a person is hungry to a certain level, he still cares about what kind of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness are, and what kind of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame are, and all kinds of riots occur one after another.

The darkest moment has come.

I want to grab the package when I see it. Even though I know that there is no food, I want to see it with my own eyes.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But gradually, people also realized that the food was taken away by the army, and no one in the hands of the people had any food.

But if they were allowed to rob the army with bare hands, they would not be able to do so.

So people began to find ways to save themselves.

The first way to think of is to eat wild vegetables and dig grass roots.

At first, people only searched near the village, but gradually, they found that these could no longer satisfy the whole village's belly and could only start to escape from the famine.

However, under years of drought, even if there are wild vegetables and grassroots, how can it supply tens of millions of people in Henan Province?

There was no way, and people looked at the trees along the way.

At the beginning, people were just eating leaves, but I don’t know when it came out. Some people found that the bark could be eaten, and everyone began to eat the bark.

Although this did make some people survive successfully, it should be noted that not all bark can be eaten.

Some barks are not easy to digest after eating, and accumulate in the stomach and can easily cause blockage, and many people are starved to death.

But the hungry people can no longer care about so many, and they rush up when they see the trees.

I chew wherever I escaped, and the trees along the way were all plucked clean.

But soon, people discovered that even the trees were not enough to eat.

At this time, the so-called "Guanyin Land" came on stage.

This is a white clay, which is delicate, so it will not break the stomach and intestines after eating it.

After learning the news, many people searched like crazy. When they returned home, they steamed wild vegetables. After eating, they would feel a warm feeling of food and clothing.

However, this soil has a characteristic, which is that it will solidify after encountering water.

This leads to the accumulation of Guanyin soil in the stomach and intestines and cannot be pulled out.

It may not have any effect in a short period of time, but eating too much will cause the abdomen to become hard and swelling.

However, natural disasters are not fatal, and the most fatal thing is the human heart.

The man who was the chairman of Henan Province at that time was the confidant of the principal. For his official position, he actually concealed the disaster in the middle school. He even said that the harvest in Henan Province this time was bumper, and there was still a lot of surplus grain.

There is no spare grain, even if there is one, it is in the hands of these officials in this sect.

At the end of the autumn of that year, Guo Zhonghuai, the government's government-sponsored government, saw disaster victims everywhere on the way to Shancheng. Many people sold their children and daughters to exchange for a bite of food. They burst into tears. At the National Political Consultative Conference in October of that year, they spoke righteously and asked for the people of Henan Province. Only then did the whole country know that the disaster in Henan Province was serious.

But before the so-called disaster relief funds were allocated, the people in Henan Province had starved to death by 3 million, which was definitely a terrifying astronomical figure.

You should know how many people in the entire Henan Province are. During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were only more than 3 million casualties on the front battlefield. However, Henan Province believed that 800,000 deaths from floods and 3 million famines were considered to be a major famine.

Why did Tang Dao go north when he came to travel north? In fact, it also had a purpose. He wanted to meet a very important person and hoped that he could do something within his ability for the future, which was suffering in Yu Province. Even if he was still crushed by the ruts of history, Tang Dao had to give it a try.

When we came to this town, the Sixing Group could not do more, so we could only purchase a wave of supplies and exchange the grain that local villagers could not take away in four months with a convenient ocean to carry.

Of course, the farmers around the town were happy. They had too much food, so they were not panicked if they had a real ocean, not to mention that the market price in Zhengzhou was 10% higher.

I don’t know how much white flour and the materials needed by the Sihang Group gathered into the town. The Military Control Commission purchased 50,000 kilograms of white flour alone. In addition to chicken, duck, fish and meat, the Sihang Group paid nearly 10,000 yuan.

Not only the farmers around the town benefited, but the residents in the town also received notices that the four-way group needed 300 private houses for living, and purchased 16,000 pairs of cotton shoes, with the unit price of each pair of shoes being 0.25.

Although the rental period is short, only four days, a room also gives a large amount of rent. The price of single and pairs of cotton shoes is twice that of daily cotton shoes. Moreover, the orders are huge, which is difficult for women in the town to do so.

The mayor wisely spread the news out, hoping to help the local tyrant army collect such a huge order for cotton shoes within 4 days.

As for the house, the residents of the town can completely digest it independently.

The town is not big, with less than 2,000 people. More than 300 families can basically spend a room at each room. It is considered that the Sihang Group stays in the town for four days and gives each family a piece of the New Year. This is a great thing.

Moreover, the military supplies from the Four Army Corps came with the ocean, and the supplies sent by the villagers were settled on the spot. Faced with such a local tyrant army, why don’t the mayor and the residents of the town welcome it?

In order to facilitate the establishment of the Sihang Group, the town mayor also specially suggested that the whole household should be moved out and stayed at other homes for a few days, and the houses would be left for the Sihang Group, and the rent would be equally divided by the tenant and the houses they were living in.

This is naturally something that the Four-Entertainment Group cannot get.

Houses and cotton shoes are really what the Sixing Group needs most at present.

What is the most expensive thing for the Four-Road marching is shoes, especially the four-Road gangs. When the Four-Road marching was incorporated into the Four-Road marching group, they were still wearing straw sandals in the cold winter.

It was not that the battle of the Golden Killing campaign wiped out more than 2,000 Japanese troops, and they cleaned up the cowhide shoes worn by the Japanese troops. The four-line group's outfit was actually no different from beggars.

But this is only 2,000 pairs, most of which were sent to soldiers with excellent performance, and a small number were stored as military supplies.

To be honest, Japanese cowhide shoes look warm, durable and have anti-puncture functions, but this thing is OK on the battlefield and is extremely heavy when marching. If it gets mud on rainy days, it is not as good as straw sandals and cloth shoes.

Many soldiers put this thing in their backpacks and carried it on the battlefield before wearing it. They still wore their own slack cloth shoes and straw sandals when they marched, even if they were very frozen.

It was only when Tang Dao arrived in Xuzhou that he barely equipped everyone in the regiment with two pairs of cotton shoes. However, many people were reluctant to wear them. When they marched, they wore straw sandals they made. In the winter, they were so cold that their feet were cracked.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! It is really heartbreaking to watch. Tang Dao even issued a military order that everyone must wear cotton shoes to march.

But the long-distance marching and load-bearing, the shoes were really overwhelmed. A pair of new shoes broke in a week. As a last resort, many people tied the soles and uppers of the shoe with straw ropes layer by layer.

It looks both funny and sad from afar!

Therefore, you must buy these shoes, and in large quantities, the soldiers' feet are the most important objects to charge and must be protected.
To be continued...