The East Marching Corps of the day approached Tashan, which at this time was related to the success or failure of the Battle of Jinzhou, and at this time it was also related to the fate of the main force of the 700,000 Northeast Field Army, when it came from the direction of Huludao, it was very wide but suddenly narrowed, and then after passing through Tashan, it became wider, which obviously showed that this place was very thin. At that time, the enemy troops on the opposite side had ten times more troops than the People's Liberation Army, but no one in the People's Liberation Army chose to retreat, and they fought here for nearly six days and nights in a fierce battle to ensure that the main force retakes Jinzhou. Why would the leader get angry and say don't mention the casualty figures to me, I just want Tashan? How important Is Tower Hill to the country. The result of this war was that the Northeast Field Army, which joined the Chinese army, blocked the Kuomintang's advance and assistance and won this victory. However, in this war, the Northeast Field Army was inferior to the Kuomintang army in terms of terrain and various branches of the army, and it was not an advantage in any way, but in the end it still won. Why is that?
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Although Tashan is called Tashan, it is actually just a small piece of land, and only a few hundred families have established a small fishing village in this spacious land. This small hill is tightly wrapped around a small stretch between the Jinzhou Belt and Huludao in the east of Liaoning. On its left is the Bohai Sea, and on the right is a mountain that slowly surrounds Tashan Mountain. In This place of Tashan, there was a battle of resistance that is remembered in history, but it is famous for an earth-shattering armageddon, and this war is also a war for Jinzhou, which is related to the happy life of the people in the northeast region.
Oil painting of the Tower Hill Resistance Battle
After the liberation of Jinzhou, the commander of the Jinzhou belt at that time did not believe that in this small hill, the road to the survival of the more than 100,000 Kuomintang troops would be ruined.
In 1948, the Northeast Field Army launched the Liaoshen Campaign. It was planned to annihilate the Kuomintang troops in the northeast in one fell swoop and thus liberate the northeast in one fell swoop, but at this time, the northeast field army was facing many difficulties.
At that time, the Kuomintang was very powerful in northeast China, and they carried out wanton burn robbery and a series of exploitative activities against ordinary people, preventing workers from going to work and not allowing students to go to school. They controlled several large and small cities such as Changchun, Shenyang, Jinzhou and Huludao. It also controlled a number of various railway lines, and stored a large number of heavy troops in places such as Changchun and Shenyang. Moreover, a lot of fortifications were built on the battlefield, and more fortifications were arranged at the two locations of TashanBao and Tashan Bridge, and in order to take precautions, the mainland army also used the advantages of the terrain to hide a part of the troops, and this hidden team could support the frontal battlefield at any time, and the mainland army also arranged a lot of fighters next to the tower mountain.
The comparison between terrain and arms: Tashan is more than thirty kilometers away from Jinzhou, and four kilometers away from the west of Jinzhou, but only five kilometers away from Huludao. The surrounding terrain environment is undulating, and it is very unfavorable to want to fight in terms of terrain. If you want to go to Jinzhou, you must go through Tashan, and this is the only way for the Nationalist army to go west to march west to Jinzhou and launch support for Jinzhou, of course, this is also the place where our army in the northeast is here to block the support of the nationalist army.
Battle offensive map
It can be seen from the direction of the troop deployment of the two sides participating in the battle: On October 7, 1948, the superior leadership ordered that Tashan must be held firmly, and ordered the Fourth Army of the Northeast Field Army of our army to advance towards Tashan for support. After fifty kilometers, the Northeast Field Army hurriedly reached the vicinity of Tashan overnight, occupied the highlands on both sides of the entire village, and began to build various engineering undertakings here, and our combined infantry and artillery joined in the Tashan blockade battle.
At this time, when we look at the deployment of the National Army here, we can see that they have gathered a lot of senior commanders in many places such as Huludao, and they have dispatched various energy units of the Navy, Army, and Air Force to attack Tashan. The leader of the Kuomintang at that time, Lao Jiang, hereby sent his subordinate Hou Jing to command the dispatch of troops to the east of Tashan, and Liao Yaoxiang to command the regiment of troops sent to the west of Tashan, because of the reinforcement of Jinzhou from the east and west of Tashan.
It can be seen from this that the Kuomintang occupies a great advantage in this aspect, whether in terms of terrain or in terms of troops and troops. Now it can be seen that the Tashan Blockade Battle is still being fought, and the desire to win or lose has begun to have an idea.
In 1948, the war had already broken out in an all-round way, and in order to win victory in this war, the Northeast Field Army of our army had placed a lot of troops in this place, and also built a lot of defensive buildings on the battlefield, and also arranged a lot of fortifications at both tashan and tashan bridges, but for the sake of the national name party sneaking into the northeast field army, a part of the troops were specially hidden at the top of tashan, and if an accident occurred on the battlefield, they could get up at any time to come to support, and there were many fighters hidden next to tashan.
Platon soldier
In the early morning of October 10, the Nationalist army began to sneak to Tashan, when the Northeast Field Army was still resting, and the Nationalist Army fought for many years under the leadership of Old Chiang Kai-shek and had many years of combat experience. While the Northeast Field Army was resting, it took a day of artillery to carry out a random artillery bombardment of our army's positions, and it took only half an hour for the Nationalist army to destroy a large part of the defensive project built by the Northeast Field Army. Although the enemy was powerful, the Northeast Field Army was not a vegetarian, and the awakened soldiers took up their guns and launched an attack on the opposite side, a bombardment.
The war between the two sides broke out in an all-round way, and the Nationalist army actually used a large number of artillery and navy to launch an attack on our army's positions in an hour's time, and from time to time there would be bombs dropped from the opposite side in the sky, and the artillery attack was quite fierce, but this was also unprecedented in this war, and after a period of time our army occupied a mess and fell into a sea of fire. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the entire battalion of the Nationalist army launched an attack on our army, this time the regimental commander led the team to supervise and direct the war, and all the enemies rushed to the position in one breath, making the soldiers breathless in an instant.
Our army immediately ordered Wu Kehua to be the commander of this operation, and after Wu Kehua accepted it, he immediately analyzed why the enemy's attacks were constantly flowing and what was the enemy's way of fighting. He compared this war to the mode of war in the lower pavilion, Wu Kehua in the shortest possible time to find out the enemy's way of fighting, the enemy's charge is because of whether his second echelon can continue to fire in time. After knowing the cause of the incident, Wu Kehua immediately ordered the artillery in the troops to bomb, so that the enemy's stormtrooper army could not continue to fire, Wu Kehua's move hit the enemy's key door with one life, the enemy did not have the timely follow-up of the second echelon, at this time the enemy's charge troops were not sustainable, and the Kuomintang's first day of attack was not self-defeating. In the evening, the Northeast Field Army was sweeping the battlefield and found the weapons of the Nationalist army captured on the positions, which were already more than a thousand corpses of the enemy army.
Hold one's ground
However, the Northeast Field Army also paid a huge casualty in this battle, when the number of several armies in the battle was hundreds of people, and only more than fifty people were left at the end of the day. The casualties of the soldiers were heavy, many soldiers were blurred by the enemy's shells, some soldiers' eyes were about to fall out, and their ears were deafened by the enemy's artillery fire, but even if the soldiers were seriously injured, they still did not go to the fire, here we can see that the soldiers are tenacious and indomitable in combat, and vow to die to resist the enemy to the end.
Until October 13, the Nationalist army was more rampant, the Nationalist army's attack was even more frantic, and they still chose to launch a fierce attack on the Northeast Field Army before dawn. Under the command of the nationalist leader Lao Chiang Kai-shek, who urged him to launch a fierce attack, our army also increased its firepower point this time, and in the face of the enemy's pursuit and urgent charge, our army's bullets fell like rain and fell on the enemy's body.
The superior leader ordered Que Hanqian to lead his troops to the position to carry out a fierce attack, and this day was different from the first day at that time; Que Hanqian ordered the artillery to bombard the positions of our army, and the nationalist army immediately broke into the positions with guns, and the two sides began a fierce war, and the enemy's artillery fire did not take into account the soldiers who went to their own ranks and continued to make fierce attacks on the positions of the soldiers of our army.
In Que Hanqian's heart, he only wanted to take Tashan down as soon as possible, and then go forward to support Jinzhou. But now it was completely different from what he had in mind, the enemy quickly launched a fierce attack but was repelled by the Northeast Field Army, but Tashan was ten kilometers away from Jinzhou, and the Nationalist army could not attack it, and the angry nationalist leader Lao Jiang directly attacked the anger.
Tower Hill Block Station Monument
The battle was fierce in this small tower hill, which was only a little bit of a place, and the two armies had to fight for this land. But the real opponent of the Northeast Field Army is still on the way. The people called this unit the Zhao Zilong Division, which was also the Ninety-fifth Division of the Nationalist Army. This unit never lost a single gun or a variety of weapons in the North China Battlefield at that time, nor did it kill a single company commander in the battlefield, and this division and regiment won a Japanese dalian team in the battlefield. This force can be said to be a very experienced and capable unit.
In order to allow the Ninety-fifth Division to integrate into the battle of Tashan as soon as possible, the Nationalist Army specially allowed the whole team to rest for a few days before starting the battle. On the third day, just after dawn, the war began, and the environment of the battlefield was particularly quiet. At this time, Wu Kehua felt that the situation was not good, and he felt unsteady in his heart, and the quieter the battlefield at that time, the more quiet it was, the storm was coming.
At this time, Wu Kehua ordered the soldiers of the reconnaissance company to go and arrest who was climbing the wall, and as a result, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company arrested a deputy company commander of the nationalist army, who explained that he was also going to the Ninety-fifth Division, but now the Ninety-fifth Division was in the process of resting, and the Ninety-fifth Army had been resting here for a day, in order to familiarize the soldiers with the environment here. If we observe any changes in our national army, we will also make changes with our army.
When Wu Kehua heard this news, he hurriedly let the army with more than half of the casualties retreat and directly replace them with fresh troops. But the army, which suffered more than half of the casualties, did not want its superiors to replace their troops, each unit had its own sense of collective honor, and the leaders of the troops told Wu Kehua that as long as their own troops were in us, they could hold this position.
oil painting
Early in the morning of the fourth day, the enemy's Ninety-fifth Division launched a hasty attack on the Northeast Field Army, and they pounced violently. But the Ninety-fifth Division was not the same as the Nationalist Army, and the Ninety-fifth Division was particularly cunning, using the fallen warriors as their cover, and then they stepped on the remains of the soldiers and attacked forward. They rushed forward as hard as if they were not fatal, and the swarms of people who spared their lives had to pounce on our army's position. They were one of the fiercest wars in the history of the liberation wars of the time, to such a rarity. The enemy troops charged forward with submachine guns, and they did not care at all about how strong the firepower of our army was, and they charged forward desperately.
At the end of the day's fighting, the Northeast Field Army suffered heavy casualties, and the battalion and company commanders of each position changed several batches. At the same time, the Ninety-fifth Division was not much better, and they also lost a lot of soldiers. The troops of both sides suffered heavy losses, and at that time the two units of our army had more than seven thousand troops, and in the last war there were only about one hundred and twenty soldiers left. After cleaning the battlefield, when the soldiers of our army cleaned the battlefield, the position was full of pistols, submachine guns and explosives discarded by the enemy's Ninety-fifth Division. These weapons could have helped our soldiers in combat at that time. In the past, each combat squad had only one machine gun and one artillery, but now one squad has become three machine guns, and the firepower in the war has been greatly enhanced.
On the evening of the fourth day, the headquarters of the Northeast Field Army sent a message from Jinzhou that once the nationalist troops attacked Jinzhou City, it would be meaningless for us to hold Tashan now. When the soldiers heard the news, they immediately launched a sneak attack mission to the position of the Nationalist Army that night, and the Northeast Field Army watched that the sneak attack mission was about to be won, but the Nationalist Army in an inadvertent act disrupted the entire operation of our soldiers.
Pre-war mobilization
The soldiers who had fought the war that night were resting behind the hill, and the soldiers of the cooking class brought food, and the old squad leader called them to eat. At this time, the deputy company commander sensed that something was wrong outside, and saw a group of nationalists with submachine guns swinging toward our army's position, and the deputy company commander immediately realized that these nationalist troops were ready to sneak attack our army, and beckoned the soldiers to put down their bowls and chopsticks in their hands and prepare for battle.
A cannon war broke out, and under the attack of the cannon, Jinzhou at that time had become a sea of fire. It took only about thirty-one hours for the soldiers of our army, and it was not until the early morning of the fifteenth that the soldiers of our army completely snatched Jinzhou back from the hands of the Nationalist army.
Old Chiang Kai-shek was particularly angry when he knew that the Northeast Field Army had taken Jinzhou, and immediately sent out the most elite unit of the Nationalist Army, and the appearance of this unit did not take down a small Tashan, and the soldiers of our army repelled this group of Nationalist troops.
On the sixteenth day, old Chiang Kai-shek saw that the situation was not good, and decided to let the nationalist army withdraw from the Jinzhou belt, and finally our army occupied Tashan, and the Tashan blockade battle was victorious.
It began on October 10, 1948, and ended at the end of the Fifteenth War. Our army has been holding its position, and the soldiers have been holding on to the position for six days and six nights before taking Jinzhou down and holding Tashan. The victory of this war also sacrificed most of the soldiers of our army, and this war was won.
Artillery positions
First of all, the first point is that our army has the correct combat deployment, they have always maintained contact with the first-line positions and second-line positions in the battlefield, and at the same time, the troops led by Wu Kehua have maintained the greatest strength in the rear.
The second point is that the superior leaders have carried out various ideological activities for the soldiers, and while fighting, the soldiers have been shouting the slogans of "defending Jinzhou" and "victory in Jinzhou", and then carried out a number of awarding ceremonies to encourage the soldiers to fight heroically and kill the enemy and not be afraid of sacrifice. A total of sixteen people were awarded the title of this war, and more than seventy members were withdrawn from the Party.
The third point is that after the first cannon of the blockade war was fired, the superior leaders immediately carried out the meeting to conduct post-war selection work, pointed out the wrong points in the meeting, and even commented on the combat methods of each soldier and directed how the soldiers should win the war. The combat methods of the Nationalist Army were taken out for discussion, and the soldiers made real comments after the discussion. This has given the soldiers more confidence in winning the war.
This war can be won, and it has a great influence on the local people. During the war, the masses of the people actively and enthusiastically supported the soldiers in fighting, and after the war, they took the initiative to cook and wash clothes for the soldiers to take care of their daily lives. It is precisely because of the encouragement and support of these ordinary people that this war can be won in the end.
The Nationalists used the navy, air force, submachine guns and artillery to attack Tashan in the war, and it is reasonable to say that the Kuomintang had full confidence that Tashan would be taken, but why did it suffer more than 7,000 casualties in the end, and why did the Nationalist army suffer heavy casualties in numbers, why did it not take Tashan in the end. Here we can summarize the following points:
The PLA took cover with tanks
First: Although the Kuomintang's command and leadership at all levels are gathered in Huludao, the opinions of each leader are not unified, and they cannot all be gathered together to sum up these issues. Although every navy and air force has commanders, these commanders cannot command the army, which makes old Chiang very angry.
Second: The Nationalist army always charges upwards with a single brain, and it is the personnel of the whole army who charge forward, and the artillery fire of the Nationalist army does not distinguish whether it is the enemy or its own people, and it will launch a fierce attack, resulting in the fate of its own people beating their own people. Therefore, the war caused heavy losses to the Kuomintang, and in just two days, the Ninety-fifth Division had already suffered two-thirds of the nationalist casualties.
Third: the weapons of the Nationalist Army at that time were very advanced at that time, they matched more submachine guns, but they did not concentrate on using, and under various factors, they caused huge casualties.
Chinese Army
Every soldier in the Battle of Tashan held on to their posts with the spirit of not giving in, and the soldiers who were stunned by the explosion woke up and continued to stand up and fight. Even the flesh-and-blood warriors had to tie their grenades to themselves and rush out of their positions to die with the enemy.
Of course, the victory in the Tashan Blockade Battle is inseparable from the meticulous arrangements and arrangements of the leaders of our army, and there have been many battles of all sizes in the history of the Chinese nation. Regardless of whether these battles ended in victory or fiasco, this can reflect the mainland's certain combat tactics in the military field and the spirit of the soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice for collective interests. However, these spirits have also been infecting the people of all ethnic groups in China.
There is still a heroic monument in The Village of Tashan, and although these warriors have all passed away one after another, but the spirit of the warriors will always infect us, these warriors are protecting our land in another way. No matter what era we were born in, we must remember that our ancestors left this beautiful life for the sons and daughters of China. Where there are good years, it is just someone to carry the weight for you! Let's pay tribute to the heroes of the War of Resistance!
Video link: With less losses than the other side, it has achieved a crushing victory, known as one of the three major blockade battles!