The ancient town of Huangqiao south of the Yangtze River, east of the Yellow Sea, north of the vast northern plains of Jiangsu, is located in Rugao, Jingjiang, Taixing, Jiangyan, Hai'an and other counties (cities) in the center, since ancient times, is the merchants gathered, trade distribution, but also a pivotal military town. According to legend, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous anti-Jin general Niu Gao had camped here; around 1930, the 14th Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was born in this area, and the peasant movement led by the **** Producers' Party took off here.

In 1938, after the New Fourth Army was founded in Wuhan, the general headquarters was moved from Nanchang to Yunling in southern Anhui. Comrades Chen Yi and Su Yu led the advance detachment of the New Fourth Army to advance into the enemy rear in southern Jiangsu, established the Jiangnan Command Headquarters in ShuiXi Village of Liyang, and opened up an anti-Japanese base area centered on Maoshan. In June 1938, Comrade Su Yu commanded the famous "Weigang Battle", wiped out more than 20 Japanese soldiers, blew up 4 Japanese military vehicles, and seized a large amount of war trophies. Comrade Chen Yi poem in praise of it, "the bow shoots the sun to the south of the river, all night noisy call the enemy chills, Zhenjiang city under the first encounter, off the hand chopped a small Loulan". Since then, the New Fourth Army night attack Xinfeng station, night attack Hongqiao airport and more than ten battles, so that the Japanese invaders fear, fear and trepidation.

In order to carry out the strategic mission of the CPC Central Committee to "open up the north of Jiangsu Province and develop central China", the Jiangnan New Fourth Army pushed into the north of Jiangsu Province in the spring of 1940, and crushed two Japanese and pseudo-pseudo-pseudo-sweeps in the areas of Jiangduqiao Bridge and Wujiaqiao, thus opening up the prelude of the eastward march to Huangqiao and the opening up of the north of Jiangsu Province for the anti-Japanese base area.

In contrast to the CPC, Chiang Kai-shek determined the reactionary policy of "military anti-*** as the main focus, supplemented by political restriction***", and secretly issued the anti-*** document "Restriction on the activities of dissident parties", which moved the center of friction from North China to Central China. The center of friction was moved from North China to Central China. Before the New Fourth Army advanced into the north of Jiangsu Province, the people were in deep water, and in December 1937, after the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese occupied the small and medium-sized cities along the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal; Han Deqin, the chairman of Jiangsu Province and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Russo-Soviet War Zone of the Kuomintang, colluded with the Japanese, and was active in opposing the Japanese and oppressing the people, committing all kinds of evils, as the song goes: "The New Fourth Army is a great successor to the New Fourth Army. There is a song: "There is a broomstick in the sky, there is a Han Deqin under the ground, his men raise millions of soldiers for nothing, put the devils he did not fight, specializing in anti-*** anti-people". Huangqiao area was entrenched by the stubborn security four brigade He Kexian, a folk song says: "Huangqiao is a hell on earth, He Kexian is a murderer of the devil". The people of Huangqiao are looking forward to the rescue of our army.

In May 1940, the New Fourth Army moved to Guo village to deal with the enemy and pseudo-sweeps. However, the local powerhouse in Taizhou, the Kuomintang guerrilla headquarters in Suzhou, Luwan and Anhui, Li Mingyang, Li Changjiang, but under the provocation of Han Deqin on the pretext that our troops occupied his territory, unreasonably refused to negotiate, detained our representatives, and on June 28, 1940 gathered thirteen regiments to besiege the village of Guozhen. Zheng Shaoyi, a 19-year-old member of the underground party, disregarded his personal safety and swam across the Seven Rivers overnight to deliver information to Guo Village. The New Fourth Army, led by Ye Fei and Guan Wenwei, rose up to meet the battle. During the battle, Comrade Tao Yong led a detachment of the Soviet Union and Anhui Province from Anhui Province to Tianchang; underground member Chen Yusheng led a regiment to revolt and participate in the battle; underground member Wang Cheng led a battalion to hold a harbor riot. Our army changed from passive to active, eliminated three regiments of Li's army, and chased them all the way to the city of Taizhou.

On July 3, Comrade Chen Yi rushed to Guo Village, ordered Ye Fei to withdraw his troops to the outskirts of Taizhou, and sent Zhu Kexing to meet with Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang to make it clear that our army's policy of destroying the enemy, opposing the recalcitrant, and uniting with Li would remain unchanged, and returned all the captives and guns, and demanded that Li Mingyang maintain neutrality to assist our army's eastward march to fight against the Japanese.

In July 1940, Comrade Chen Yi led all the main forces of the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army across the river to the north. Renamed the Jiangnan Command as the North Jiangsu Command, with three columns under its jurisdiction. Chen Yi and Su Yu were the commander and deputy commander; Ye Fei, Wang Bicheng and Tao Yong were the commander of the first, second and third columns respectively.On July 25th, the New Fourth Army marched eastward into Huangqiao from Guocun, and on the way, it annihilated more than 2,000 people of He Kexian's department of the four brigades of security guards and Chen Taiyun's department of the general regiment of the tax and police, liberating Huangqiao and its neighboring areas. From then on, Huangqiao got a new life.

After arriving at Huangqiao, the New Fourth Army set out to establish an anti-Japanese base centered on Huangqiao. The former Huangqiao Middle School I-word building became the New Fourth Army North Jiangsu Command Headquarters, Chen Yi, Suyu, Zhong Zhiguang and other leading comrades in the planning here, leading the anti-Japanese struggle. At the same time, the Party Committee of North Jiangsu District was established. The anti-Japanese democratic government--Tongru Jingtai Provisional Administrative Committee was set up in Huangqiao Ding's garden. In the autumn season when the bamboo shadow reflected the bright moon and the fragrance of osmanthus was full of fragrance, Comrade Chen Yi met with Zhu Cuxian and other representatives of various circles who were famous gentlemen of northern Jiangsu for many times, and carried out the effective united front work, which laid the foundation of the victory of the Battle of Huangqiao. In Huangqiao, mass organizations such as the Labor Resistance Association, the Agricultural Resistance Association, the Youth Resistance Association, the Women's Resistance Association, the Commercial Resistance Association, and the Children's Corps were also established one after another. The anti-Japanese democratic government vigorously carried out rent and interest cuts to improve people's lives. in mid-August, the New Fourth Army attacked the Japanese and pseudo strongholds of Lushan and Xilai in the south of Huangqiao, and annihilated more than 30 Japanese soldiers and more than 100 pseudo soldiers. The New Fourth Army further prestige greatly, a sensational anti-Japanese salvation movement in Huangqiao vigorously set off.

However, the anti-*** intransigent Han Deqin hated our troops eastward into Huangqiao. September 3, secretly ordered its direct line 117 division and independent six brigades plus security 1 brigade to our attack, our troops were forced to return fire in self-defense on September 6 in the area of Yingxi. In the fierce battle, the commander of the ninth regiment, Xu Xukui, was the first to lead the charge, and unfortunately died heroically.

Han Deqin was not willing to Huangqiao, Yingxi two failures, and in Jiangyan this land and water transportation terminal, grain and salt distribution of 36 bunkers, trying to cut off my food source. Our army repeatedly appealed and warned were ineffective, decided to attack Jiangyan on September 13th. Our army sent two platoons of "brave team", with rubber tires wrapped in large iron pincers, cut the enemy's power grid, carrying the breakthrough, destroyed the power plant, fighting for a day and night, wiped out the stubborn security guards of the ninth brigade Zhang Shaohua Department of the two regiments of more than 1,000 people, and victoriously entered the Jiangyan.

After our troops entered Jiangyan, Chen Yi invited eight counties and ten gentry to hold a peace conference, calling for unity and resistance. Han Deqin, however, refused to attend, on the one hand, preparing to attack Huangqiao with full force, on the other hand, blackmailed: "If the New Fourth Army has the sincerity to cooperate, it should first withdraw from Jiangyan"! Comrade Chen Yi in order to politically not give Han Deqin again to provoke friction excuse, military to facilitate the concentration of forces to deal with Han Deqin south, decisively ordered the New Fourth Army to withdraw from Jiangyan. At the peace conference, Comrade Chen Yi made a generous speech, demonstrating the sincerity of our army's cooperation against the Japanese, exposing Han Deqin's plot to stir up friction, and winning wide sympathy and support from all walks of life, greatly isolating the Kuomintang intransigent faction.

September 30, 1940, Han Deqin gathered 26 regiments *** more than 30,000 troops to attack Huangqiao in three ways. Our army, on the other hand, had only 7,000 men, of whom only 5,000 were combatants. The clouds of war were dense. The New Fourth Army faced a life-and-death test, either to go down to the Yangtze River to drink, or to fight back. However, for the sake of fighting the Japanese and surviving, the only option was to fight with their backs to the water! In the face of several times the number of stubborn troops, Chen Yi, Su Yu carefully planned, decided to Huangqiao as the axis, to take the enemy into the depths of the policy of individual attack.

On the eve of the decisive battle, our army quickly carried out mobilization, training, disintegration of the enemy and the united front work. Comrade Chen Yi personally drafted the "Huangqiao decisive battle against the combatants comrades book", held a mobilization meeting in the square of the northern Soviet command. Sent Comrade Guan Wenwei to Qintong to continue to negotiate with Li Mingyang, to fight for the two Li and the Tax Police General Corps Chen Taiyun headquarters continue to remain neutral. Chen Yi, Comrade Li Yu also quickly battle deployment, ordered Comrade Ye Fei rate of a longitudinal hidden, gathered in the northwest of Huangqiao Zhangzhuang, Henggang Bridge line, waiting for an opportunity to attack, Comrade Wang Bicheng rate of two longitudinal hidden, gathered in Gu Gaozhuang, Jiang stacks a line, such as the stubborn troops into the encirclement, and then quickly attack; cut off the stubborn troops retreat, split the encirclement, the annihilation of each; Comrade Taoyong rate of three longitudinal Huangqiao hold position.

Comrade Chen Yi moved his command post to Yan Xuzhuang, and Comrade Su Yu took command of Huangqiao and personally visited the front headquarters of the third column of the New Fourth Army. Comrade Tao Yong quickly held a meeting of cadres above the company, said categorically: "Comrades, Han Deqin wants to drive us down the Yangtze River to drink, what do we do?" Everyone unanimously said: "people in the position in, sworn to defend Huangqiao"! We put forward the "three good and three fast"; "tie the leg well, run fast; steel gun well polished, fight fast; bayonet well sharpened, kill fast"!

During the duel, stationed in Taixing, the Japanese devils came to Yaojia Dai, lost the fan around the "sit and watch the tigers"; Li Mingyang sent people day and night in the Tongyang River on the lookout, once my army lost, he will come to Huangqiao to share the profits; Huangqiao near some of the miscellaneous army also want to move, presumptuous attempts to "fall into the well". Falling into a well", the formation of the two sides of the battle, many parties surrounded by the strange situation, in the face of this situation, our army must be a quick victory.

October 4, known as "Mei Lanfang-style" troops of the ace army stubborn independent six brigades first from the high bridge south to the north of Huangqiao. Our army a vertical sudden attack, with the "weasel eating snake" method will be stubborn troops "long snake formation" chopped into several sections, each annihilated, trying to grab the first prize of the independent six brigades in a flash seven collapse, the guard will be brigadier general weng da defeat suicide.

At the same time, the stubborn thirty-three divisions through the Gali, the boundary to the east of Huangqiao invasion. Our army third class tenacious blockade, repeatedly organized counter-charge, repelled the tenacious army's child ten attacks, victoriously defended the position of Huangqiao. At this moment; our second column from Gu Gaozhuang, Jiang stack - belt quietly to the east, straight into the boundary, cut off the retreat of the stubborn thirty-three divisions, with the three columns of the thirty-three divisions will be surrounded and annihilated in the east of the Huangqiao Jiaozhuang and Xiao Erfangzhuang area, the commander of the division Sun Qiren was captured alive by our troops.

The stubborn 89th Army and the 117th Division, led by Lieutenant General Li Shouwei, settled their troops in Noyaki, northeast of Huangqiao, in an attempt to attack Huangqiao and reap the benefits. Our army -, second and third columns launched a general attack on Noyaki at dusk on October 5th. Li Shouwei jumped over the wall and organized a breakout, the battle was very fierce, and both sides engaged in seven physical combat. Li Shouwei before the war threatened to drive the New Fourth Army to the Yangtze River to drink water, and after the war, but drowned in the dug foot ditch north of Huangqiao. October 6, the New Fourth Army pursued the whole line, on the 7th, the capture of Hai'an, on the 10th, in the territory of Dafeng County in the town of Baijiao and the Eighth Route Army Fifth Column triumphantly met. Huangqiao duel, our army **** annihilated more than 11,000 recalcitrant troops, captured 3 mountain guns, 59 pursuit guns, 189 light and heavy machine guns, more than 3,800 long and short guns. Han Deqin sent a guilty telegram to Chiang Kai-shek after the defeat.

The victory of the Huangqiao duel is inseparable from the selfless support of the people of Huangqiao. At that time, the town's thirteen mills, sixty-six bakery stores and eighty carts for the support of the front all night busy. Huangqiao people put Huangqiao specialties "Huangqiao baklava" and other supporting materials are concentrated to support the front, and then risked by the stubborn army artillery blockade Zhifu Bridge to transfer the materials to the front.

The victory of the Huangqiao duel created a glorious example of our army winning many battles with fewer troops, dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the Kuomintang's intransigent faction, realized the triumphant division of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, laid the foundation of the anti-Japanese democratic base in northern Jiangsu Province, and opened up a new situation in the war of resistance in central China; in January 1941, the Kuomintang launched the shocking Anhuinan Incident, which resulted in the New Fourth Army suffering serious losses. However, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, the New Fourth Army rebuilt its military headquarters in Yancheng. In the war of resistance against Japan and the war of liberation; in the baptism of blood and water, the New Fourth Army continues to grow stronger and stronger, towards victory.