 The original plan was to destroy the dike in Zhaokou, but due to difficulties in that place, the Huayuankou dike on the south bank was destroyed on June 5 and June 7 by excavation, with flood waters over eastern Henan, central Anhui, and north central Jiangsu.The floods covered and destroyed thousands of square kilometers of agricultural land and displaced the mouth of the Yellow River hundreds of miles to the south.Thousands of villages were flooded or destroyed and several million villagers were force to evacuate from their homes.