抗日战争时期，华中东濒黄海，西起汉水，南跨长江三角洲，北至陇海铁路。该地区物产丰富，人口众多，交通发达，无论在政治、经济还是在军事方面，都具有十分重要的价值。因此，华中就成为敌、顽、我三方必争之地。1940年上半年，蒋价五顽固派逼迫新四军撤出华中，退至黄河以? During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the central and eastern China Yellow Sea, west from Han River, south across the Yangtze River Delta, north to the Longhai Railway. The region is rich in natural resources, rich in population and well-developed in transportation and is of great value both in political and economic terms as well as in the military. Therefore, Central China will become the enemy, stubborn, and I must contend for. In the first half of 1940, Jiang Jiawu die-hards forced the New Fourth Army to withdraw from Central China and retreat to the Yellow River.