The leader of the ninth regiment of the second column in the Battle of Huangqiao was Chen Yi.

In 1940, the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army led by Chen Yi used 7,000 troops to annihilate more than 11,000 government troops led by the Kuomintang Jiangsu Provincial Chairman Han Deqin. Li Shouwei, commander of the 89th Army, was fleeing in embarrassment. Drowned, Sun Qiren, commander of the 33rd Division, and Miao Ruilin, commander of the 88th Brigade, were captured. Weng Da, commander of the 6th Independent Brigade, committed suicide and seized a large amount of ammunition and military supplies.

The victory of the Battle of Huangqiao brought together the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, China's most progressive, most determined in the war of resistance, and most revolutionary, allowing each other to have better cooperation and development.

Campaign background

In the spring of 1940, the Kuomintang die-hards who insisted on passive anti-Japanese and active anti-Japanese policies were repelled from the first anti-Japanese climax and secretly ordered the third , the 5th Theater and the Lusu Theater troops launched a massive attack on the New Fourth Army in Central China. In June, the New Fourth Army Jiangnan Command followed the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on May 4 to let go of the development of anti-Japanese forces and resist the attacks of the anti-Japanese diehards.

In order to carry out the strategic mission of independently opening up northern Jiangsu and developing the anti-Japanese war behind enemy lines in central China, he led his main force to cross the Yangtze River north and advance into northern Jiangsu in early July. In the second half of the year, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Headquarters was established. Chen Yi and Su Yu were appointed as chief and deputy commanders. It had jurisdiction over 9 regiments of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd columns, with more than 7,000 troops.

In order to establish an anti-Japanese base area with Huangqiao as the center, the troops of the Northern Jiangsu Command immediately moved eastward into the Huangqiao area. In August, in order to support the New Fourth Army's development in northern Jiangsu, the 5th Column of the Eighth Route Army marched eastward into the Huai (Yin) Hai (zhou) area, forming a favorable situation for cooperation between the north and the south and opening up the anti-war situation in northern Jiangsu. Han Deqin, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army's Lusu Theater and chairman of Jiangsu Province, boasted of having 100,000 troops.

Considering the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu troops as a serious threat, they attempted to first concentrate their forces to attack Huangqiao to eliminate or expel the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu troops whose foothold was not stable, and then move their troops northward to annihilate the 5th column of the Eighth Route Army moving south.

The Northern Jiangsu Command adhered to a rational, advantageous and measured self-defense stance. With the cooperation of the 5th Column of the Eighth Route Army, it actively prepared to meet the attack of Han Deqin's department, and flexibly used struggle strategies to win the victory. Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang Department of the Shandong-Suzhou-Anhui Border Region guerrilla troops stationed in Taizhou and Chen Taiyun Department of the Tax Police Corps in Qutang area remained neutral.