The Battle of Huangqiao took place from October 4 to January 14, 1940.

In 1940, the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army, led by Chen Yi, won the decisive battle of Huangqiao with a force of 7,000 against 15,000 troops of the government army 89th Army, led by the chairman of Jiangsu Province, Han Deqin, and wiped out more than 11,000 of its men.

It is generally believed that the Huangqiao incident was one of the causes of the South Anhui Incident. It is one of the most famous battles since the reorganization of the New Fourth Army, which was fought against the Kuomintang intransigent forces under Han Deqin, a member of the Central Committee of the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) and Chairman of Jiangsu Province, who insisted on carrying out the policy of "preventing ****, dissolving ****, restricting ****, and opposing ****" to which they belonged.

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War results:

On October 10, the 2nd Column Vanguard, under the New Fourth Army's North Jiangsu Command, and the Eighth Route Army's 5th Column vanguard, met victoriously at Baiju Town, north of Dongtai. During the Battle of Huangqiao, the local people, under the leadership of the Central ****Su Bei District Committee, actively supported the New Fourth Army in combat, which played an important role in ensuring the victory of the battle. In this battle, **** wiped out more than 11,000 people from the Kuomintang's intransigent Han Deqin's ministry, of whom more than 3,800 were captured.

Impact of the war:

The victory of the Battle of Huangqiao laid a solid foundation for the anti-Japanese base in northern Jiangsu and opened up a new situation for the anti-Japanese war in central China.

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