1938年6月9日,月黑风高,蒋介石国民党当局为阻滞日本侵略军的进攻,下令工兵炸开了花园口的黄河大堤,让滚滚的黄河水改道南下,淹没了豫东、皖北和苏北44个县5万平方公里的广大地区。浑浊的黄河水整整夺走了89万人的生命。河水泛滥之处,房舍漂没,田园沉入水底,“黄泛区”的人民生命财产遭受了一次空前浩劫。 On June 9, 1938, on a dark and stormy day, Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang authorities, in an attempt to block the attack by the Japanese aggressors, ordered the engineers to blow up the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou and divert the billowing Yellow River waterways to the south and inundated eastern Henan and northern Anhui And 44 counties in northern Jiangsu 50,000 square kilometers of vast areas. Turbid Yellow River water completely took the lives of 89 million people. Flood waters, houses drift, pastoral sink into the water, “Yellow River Pan” people’s lives and property suffered an unprecedented catastrophe.