1940 10 June10, the fifth column of the eighth route army led by Huang Kecheng occupied Yancheng in the south, and the new fourth army moved to Dongtai in the north. The vanguard troops of the two armies joined forces in Baiju Town between Yancheng and Dongtai.
This makes the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in northern Jiangsu, under the leadership of the China Producers' Party, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army merged into one, opening up the largest anti-Japanese base area in Central China. Since then, the New Fourth Army has led the Jiangsu people in the War of Resistance.
1944 The New Fourth Army of Huazhong launched an offensive operation against the Japanese puppet troops. The soldiers and civilians in northern Jiangsu carried out the campaigns of Gaogou and Yangkou and coastal offensive operations, and conquered more than 40 enemy strongholds, connecting Huaihai and Yanfu.
1in August, 945, the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in northern Jiangsu held a big counterattack. In September, we conquered Huaiyin and Huai 'an. In June 5438+10, the Central China Bureau and the New Fourth Army decided to launch the Yancheng Campaign, and Yancheng was captured in June 5438+10.
Extended data:
In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army fought and contained 6.5438+0.6 million Japanese troops and 230,000 puppet troops, fighting more than 22,000 times, including 6.5438+0.9 million Japanese puppet troops and 3.65438+0.1 million body count.
Fighting against tenacious self-defense for more than 3,000 times, eliminating more than 65,438 Kuomintang die-hards +0.4 million people. The New Fourth Army suffered more than 80,000 casualties. The New Fourth Army has grown from an initial population of 654.38+10,000 to a main force of 265.438+10,000, with 970,000 local armed forces, accounting for 365.438+10,000.
There are also more than 960,000 militia self-defense forces. Eight anti-Japanese base areas covering Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, namely southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, Huainan, Huaibei, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi, were established, covering an area of 250,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 34.2 million, which made an important contribution to the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
References:
People's Network-Eight years of blood left behind, Jiangsu chapter in the great War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression