Are you a spy? Killing the enemy is too cruel.

Outside Zhengzhou city.

Seventy miles to the south.

Tens of thousands of ordinary people were busy digging trenches and building defensive fortifications every day under the noses of the Japanese.

For many days in a row, the people worked hard, as if they didn't feel tired at all.

Even though Japanese troops occasionally attacked the city, causing certain casualties, the people were not scared away. Instead, the number of people hired to work increased every day, and their enthusiasm became more and more high.

"Tired, what the hell? The most worthless thing these days is my strength. If there is still work to be done in the underground party unit, I can work from the beginning of the year to the end of the year."

"This job actually requires a little bit of physical effort and does not require any skills. More importantly, we are not working for free, we are not oppressed, we are not forced, we have enough food to eat every day, and we get paid for a day's work."

"Hehe, it's good to work for the underground party. My family of more than a dozen people can't survive, especially my mother. She has been fasting a few days ago and refused to drink porridge. She said that there is not much food left and she is old. There is no point in living. She wants to give the saved food to the children. I was tormented every night in those days. Later, the underground party issued a notice that as long as you work, you can get money and food. After working for a few days, the food jar at home is full."

"It was the same for me. During this chaotic war, we couldn't grow crops on the land. We could only eat one meal a day and starve the next. My family was completely hopeless and thought we would die together. But who would have thought that the underground party would come and save my family!"

"This is a good army. It belongs to China."

"Yes, since the Japanese invasion, other troops have been chased and beaten all the way, fleeing from north to south, and they were simply defeated. Many times, even if the troops were ten times as many as the Japanese, they could not win. The underground party troops were different. After entering the Central Plains, they fought continuously and won every battle. The Japanese were beaten and hid in the city and dared not show their heads."

"Yes, the only way out is to follow the underground party!"

"That damn mountain city is a regime made up of a bunch of warlords. They are not human beings at all, and they have never treated us as human beings."

"When the Yellow River dike was blown up, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were drowned, but our situation was even worse. Tens of millions of people were left homeless, and countless people drowned, starved to death, or froze to death."

……

Ye Feng saw everything that happened on the construction site. When the people mentioned "blowing up the Yellow River embankment", his heart was deeply gripped, because the consequences of this incident that year were too serious.

Ye Feng remembered very clearly that this event, which was enough to make every Chinese compatriot in China feel heavy grief, happened in the second year of Japan's full-scale invasion of our country.

After the Japanese army launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, the Japanese relied on their powerful firepower and launched a very fierce offensive.

They adopted the strategy of attacking from north to south, quickly occupied the North China and Southeast regions, and then continued to occupy the East China region.

At this time, the strategic direction of the Japanese army was directly towards Wuhan. If they wanted to attack Wuhan, they would have to go through the two provinces of Central Plains and Jiangxi, so the Japanese army began to march towards these two provinces.

The local terrain in Jiangxi is very complex, so it is very easy to resist the Japanese army.

But the Central Plains is different.

Zhongyuan is located in the Central Plains area. The entire province is a vast plain with flat terrain. It is a place that is easy to attack but difficult to defend.

At that time, the railway in Zhengzhou had been completed. Once the Japanese army entered Zhengzhou, they could use railway transportation to go directly to Wuhan.

At this time, the Shancheng government, especially the senior military officials, racked their brains to think of defensive tactics. However, after one meeting after another, they still could not come up with any good ideas and could not come up with any effective strategic approach.

Faced with such a critical situation, the military commanders of the mountain city finally chose to use water instead of soldiers without considering the consequences, using the water of the Yellow River to slow down the Japanese army's offensive.

The results of it?

It only slightly slowed down the Japanese offensive and had no strategic effect at all.

And this plan is too costly!

If the Yellow River bursts its banks, just think about it, and you all know what the consequences will be.

This foolish strategy sacrificed the entire Central Plains region.

At that time, the local soldiers in the Central Plains were very opposed to this plan and they never agreed to it.

In the end, they could only recruit soldiers from other provinces to dig the embankment of the Yellow River.

It is said that the Central Plains was in the rainy season at that time. When the Yellow River dam broke, it rolled to the southeast. More than 40 counties in three provinces including the Central Plains, Anhui and Jiangsu were all affected by the Yellow River floods. The total number of people affected reached more than 1200 million, of which more than 1000 million acres of farmland were submerged by the Yellow River!

The scale of this flood was really too large, and the disaster in Central Plains was the most serious.

The local soldiers and civilians in the Central Plains were full of resentment towards the military. Many of them lost their homes and were forced to flee to other places.

In the following 10 years, the Central Plains suffered from successive years of drought, and the people were in hardship and living in misery.

According to historical data, it was not until the establishment of New China that the harsh conditions in the Central Plains were slowly restored under the leadership of underground party members!

Thinking of this, Ye Feng said with emotion, "Our underground party is the people's team, and every soldier is a soldier of the people."

"Now that our troops have entered the Central Plains, we must shoulder our responsibilities."

"Let's do our best to save more suffering people!"

The regiment commander Luo Yong, who was following him, sighed and said, "Commander, the current situation in the Central Plains is not so easy to solve. When the Yellow River embankment was dug up, tens of millions of people were displaced and homeless. In order to survive, they had no choice but to leave their homes. Many of those who stayed behind also..."

Ye Feng said, "There are still two years before that terrible famine. Everything can be done in time."

Terrible famine?

Two years?

Luo Yong asked in confusion, "Commander, what are you talking about?"

Ye Feng changed the subject and said, "Nothing, I was talking about the predicament of the Central Plains. If we start to improve it from now on, everything will not be in time."

The famine he talked about two years later has not happened yet!

That was a terrible famine disaster that occurred in Ye Feng’s previous life, in the world before he traveled through time.

Great famine in Central Plains.

Ye Feng remembered clearly that there was a severe drought in the Central Plains at that time, and most of the crops were lost in summer and autumn.

After the severe drought, there was a locust plague, and famine spread to 110 counties in the province. Countless people died along the way from starvation, disease, being squeezed and crushed while climbing on trains, or being bombed by the Japanese army.

At that time, only a very small number of refugees fled by train, and most of them fled on foot.

There were corpses of famine everywhere along the way, and the starving people were eating each other, which was a horrible sight.

Ye Feng made up his mind that since he had traveled through time, he would never allow a great famine to occur in the Central Plains in this life.

His purpose of traveling through time was to change history.