扬中,又名太平洲。它由江心诸小洲组成,洲与洲之间形成众多的自然港口,来往于扬子江中的船只,一遇风险即“倚为屏障”。自古以来,扬中就是一个战略要地。抗日战争时期,扬中是日、顽、我三方力争之地,国民党韩德勤保九旅所属贾长富团盘踞扬中,妄图凭借有利地形阻挠江南新四军渡江北上抗日,我军与其展开了争夺战。1938年夏天,新四军一、二支队遵照党中央的指示,挺进苏南敌后,开辟茅山根据地。新四军一支队司令员陈毅念念不忘党中央关于“在茅山根据地大体建立起来后……再分一部分渡江进入江北地区”的指示,积极准备主力渡江。他在多次实地考察后,对挺进纵队司令员管文蔚说:“……看来,扬中是渡江最理想的地方,以后就可以从 Yangzhong, also known as Pacific Island. It consists of various small continents in the heart of the river, forming a large number of natural ports between continents and continents, ships coming and going in the Yangtze River, once the risk that ”lean to the barrier “. Since ancient times, Yangzhong has been a strategic place. During the period of the War of Resistance against Japan, Yangzhong was the place where Japan, Japan and Nepal tried their utmost to fight. The KMT’s Han Jiaotong-Jiubao Jiu-brocade belongs to Jia Chang-fu and lured himself in vain in trying to block the New Fourth Army over the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese War. In the summer of 1938, the first and second detachments of the New Fourth Army, following the instructions of the Party Central Committee, advanced into enemy bases in southern Suonan and opened up Maoshan base areas. Chen Yi, Commander of the New Fourth Army Detachment, never forgot the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China about ”basically establishing itself in Maoshan base area ... ... and then subdividing a part of it into the Jiangbei area“ and actively prepared the main force to cross the river. After many field trips, he remarked to Guan Wenwei, the commander of the advance column: ”... It seems that Yangzhong is the best place to cross the river and can later