Late July, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee, the formation of the New Fourth Army North Jiangsu Command, Chen Yi, Su Yu, respectively, as the commander and deputy commander, Liu Yan, Zhong Zhiguang, respectively, as the director and deputy director of the Political Department. The troops belonging to the North Jiangsu Command were organized into three columns, nine regiments and about 7,000 men. The first column commander and political commissar Ye Fei, governed the first, fourth and fifth regiments, the second column commander Wang Bicheng, political commissar Liu Peishan, governed the second, sixth and ninth regiments, the third column commander Tao Yong, political commissar Liu Xiansheng, governed the third, seventh and eighth regiments. Through the integration, unified command, unification of the formation, the troops military and political quality has improved, a new look.
At this time, Chen Pixian, the youth minister of the Southeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China (PRC), led a group of cadres from Jiangnan to the north of Jiangsu Province to assist Chen Yi in leading the work of the local party. From then on, the situation in northern Jiangsu began to undergo qualitative changes, and the struggle with the Kuomintang hardliner Han Deqin entered a phase of head-on confrontation from the struggle for intermediate forces.
After the integration of the troops in the north of Jiangsu Province, the first question was where to establish a base, and there were three ideas: one was to go north into Xinghua, the other was to hold the original place, and the third was to go east into Huangqiao. North Jiangsu Command weighed the pros and cons, comparisons of gains and losses, that: Xinghua is the center of Han Deqin's rule, the north into Xinghua violation of the principle of self-defense, the chokehold in situ, the area is narrow, the food to feed the problem, outward development, inevitably clash with the two Li, not conducive to the United Li Lone Han, Huangqiao is in the Jingjiang, Rugao, Taixian, Taixing County and other counties of the center, the east can be to the Tong, such as the sea, the development of Kai area, the south can be controlled by Yangtze River corridor! The Huangqiao area has the foundation of the work of the Chinese ****productivity party and the influence of the period of the Land Revolutionary War, the masses are in a better condition. Entrenched in the Huangqiao area of the fourth security brigade He Kexian Department, collusion with the Japanese and the hypocrites, active anti-***, assessed taxes, extortion, no evil, long lost the hearts and minds of the people. Therefore, the third conception of the east into Huangqiao, politically justified, militarily favorable.
So, the northern command of the rapid deployment of the east, first issued a political mobilization order, put forward the unity, resistance, anti-narcotics slogans, requiring all combatants to do a good job in the movement war, the war of annihilation of the full preparedness. Chen Yi in the company cadres above the General Assembly, said: our eastward, can only win, can not fail. We are breaking the boat, backwater, never return to the west. He called on all the commanders to make up their minds to fight for victory.
July 25, the Soviet North Command led the eastward, 26, 27 through the two Li defense area, the two Li compliance to give way, the troops fired into the air to cover the ears of Han Deqin, the New Fourth Army is pretending to take the road and pass. Han Deqin found that the New Fourth Army eastward, that is, He Kexian rate of the Fourth Brigade of security by the Huangqiao and the area south of the attack to the north, ordered Chen Taiyun tax police regiment by the Qutang south to the area of the North Xinjie, the north and south pincer attack, in a vain attempt to eliminate the eastward advance of the New Fourth Army troops in the movement.
Su Bei command according to He Kexian, Chen Taiyun two departments of different situations, respectively, to take countermeasures, Chen Taiyun department, in the rout of its two regiments, wiped out more than a battalion, then as a result of the number of prisoners, return guns, as a sign of unity against the Japanese. Chen Taiyun expressed his willingness to cooperate with the New Fourth Army. The North Jiangsu Command deployed the second column to occupy Jiangyi, Guxi and Yingxi in the northeast of Huangqiao, the first column to occupy Mojing and cut off He Kexian's retreat, and the third column to occupy Huangqiao and its south. On the 28th, after a night of fierce fighting, the first, second and third columns completed their tasks victoriously, annihilating He's main force of nearly 2,000 people and fighting for the revolt of Chen Zongbao's secret service regiment of He's ministry. On the 29th, the New Fourth Army occupied Huangqiao. The eastward advancing troops took advantage of the victory to capture the Japanese and pseudo strongholds such as Lushan and Xilai Town in the northeast of Jingjiang, annihilating more than forty pseudo soldiers and crushing two retaliatory sweeps by Japanese and pseudo forces.
According to the instructions of the central government to "steadily develop" the northern part of Jiangsu Province, the New Fourth Army dispatched cadres, a task force for the democracy movement and a service group to mobilize the masses in cooperation with the local party organizations and to actively build an anti-Japanese democratic base area after it was stationed in Huangqiao. At the beginning of August, the establishment of the Huangqiao civil-military joint office, by the northern command of the first, the deputy director of the political department of the column, Chen Tongsheng, concurrently director of the office, presided over the local administrative work
Operation and war work, and successively resumed the Huangqiao around the four districts of the administrative work.
In late August, the Tongru Jingtai Provisional Administrative Committee was established, with Guan Wenwei and Chen Tongsheng as the head and deputy head, Zhu Yi, Wei Yiping and Xue Hanyang as members, and with a secretariat, an administrative office, a financial office, a cultural and educational office, a military office, a judicial office, and a civil movement section.
At the same time, the four county governments of Tai County, Taixing, Rugao, and Jingjiang were established, and Huizhou Yu, Chen Tongsheng, Liang Lingguang, and Liu Wanli were appointed as the governors of the four counties.
In mid-September, according to the instructions of the Central Plains Bureau, the Central Suzhong Regional Committee was set up, with the following members: Chen Yi, Su Yu, Liu Yan, Chen Pi Xian, Liu Xian Sheng, Ye Fei, Wei Yiping, Wu Zhongchao, and Chen Guang, and Chen Yi and Chen Pi Xian as the head and deputy secretaries. At the same time, the Special Committee for the North of Jiangsu and the Special Committee for the North of Jiangbei were abolished. ①Two central county committees, Taixing and Rugao, were set up. Wei Yiping, secretary of the Taixing central county committee, led the work in the four counties of Jiangdu, Taixing, Taixian and Jingjiang; Zhong Min, secretary of the Rugao central county committee, led the work in the five counties of Rugao, Nantong, Qidong, Haimen and Chongming.
In order to speed up the construction of the base area and prepare for the return of Han Deqin's attack, the North Jiangsu Command of the New Fourth Army and the military branch issued the "Instruction for the Creation of Huangqiao Great Base Area" on August 20, which emphasized: "The current work task is: actively enrich the main force, strictly train the troops, work hard on the people's movement to establish the basis of the work of the democratic regime, and be ready to meet the anti-sweeping and anti-friction victories." And specific guidelines and tasks were proposed for the training and expansion of the troops, the mass movement, administrative work, and Party work. From then on, the construction of the base area centered on Huangqiao was gradually carried out.
The Administrative Committee promulgated the anti-Japanese democratic policy agenda, the "25th Rent Reduction" decree and the law on mass organizations. When the slogan of "25th Five-Year Rent Reduction" was put forward, it aroused a reaction in the northern Soviet society. The landlord class, having heard the slanderous propaganda of the Kuomintang reactionaries, was afraid of "disguised ****production" and "chronic ****production"; the masses of peasants wished to implement the land policy of the 14th Red Army and were worried that the 25th rent reduction was not a real ****production party policy. In response to these circumstances, the Party, government and military leaders explained the rent reduction decree to the peasants and the landlords and gentry in various ways, while leading the peasants to carry out a campaign of rent reduction and interest rate cuts. A large number of peasants received the benefits of the rent reduction. In order to open up financial resources, to protect the supply, the establishment of the Huangqiao, Zhoujiaqiao, Dingjiaxin, Gaojiawan, Guangling Town,, the boundary √ shrimp toad Wei and other seven tax offices, the implementation of a tax system policy, reduce the tax rate. In mid- to late August, the tax collection of 110,000 yuan, increased to 210,000 yuan in September, the highest month of 800,000 yuan.
In order to train military and political cadres, the North Jiangsu Military and Political Cadre School was set up, absorbing a large number of intellectual youth. A party training class was held to train and improve new party members. Anti-Japanese mass organizations such as the Farmers' Resistance Association, the Women's Resistance Association and the Youth Resistance Association were set up. The New Fourth Army emphasized training and expansion of its troops, and in August it expanded its force by more than 1,200 recruits. The local armed organizations established were; Tong Ru Jing Tai Administrative Committee with more than 200 people, Rugao County with more than 200 people, Jingjiang County with more than 100 people, Taixing County with 50-60 people, and some districts also established local armed organizations with 20-30 people. In this way, the Huangqiao as the center of the base construction has begun to take shape.