皖江解放区(包括皖中和皖南两块抗日根据地)正式形成于皖南事变之后。初建时,解放区范围局限于巢湖以南严桥、石涧为中心的一个狭小地区,创建该解放区的新四军第七师仅三千人左右。经过四年多浴血奋战,到日本投降时,已发展成为全国著名的十九块大解放区之一,其东到南京郊区,南抵黄山山脉,西接大别山,北越巢湖深入到合肥城郊,总面积达十五万平方公里,指战员总数增加到三万余人,并拥有民兵十余万人。解放区越战越大,军队越战越多,主要原因之一,在于以曾希圣为首的党组织, The liberated areas of Wanjiang (including two anti-Japanese bases in Anhui and southern Anhui) were formally formed after the Southern Anhui Incident. When it was first built, the liberated areas were confined to a narrow area centered on Yanqiao and Shijian in the south of Chaohu Lake, and the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, which created the liberated areas, was only 3,000. After more than four years of bloody battles, when Japan surrendered, it has developed into one of the 19 famous liberated areas in the country. Its east reaches the outskirts of Nanjing, the Huangshan Mountains to the south, the Dabie Mountains to the west, and the Chaohu Lake in the north Vietnam to the suburbs of Hefei. The total area Up to 150,000 square kilometers, the total number of officers and soldiers has increased to more than 30,000 and there are more than 100,000 militiamen. The larger the war in the liberated areas and the more the Vietnam troops fought in the war, one of the main reasons is that the party organizations headed by Tsang Hsi-