When the Song-hu Campaign was lost, Nanjing fell into the enemy's hand; after the battles in Xuzhou were lost, the Kuomingtang army was in full-scale retreat; the Japanese invaders swiftly occupied the north and east of Henan, and Zhengzhou fell, and Wuhan was about to fall... The war against the Japanese army went uglier and uglier, and the internal conflicts within the Kuomingtang became increasingly intensified. In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek gave order to break the Huayuankou river bank, using the flooding as a military tactic and turning the flooded area into a natural barrier against the enemy. However, people there suffered from the flood, hunger, and homelessness...