"Whenever I think of my comrades who died in the Tashan Blockade Battle, my heart is very sad. When I die, I will scatter my ashes on Tower Hill and be with the warriors. ”
The above sentence is the last words of General Wu Kehua, the "famous general of Tashan", and from the last words, we can see that General Wu Kehua misses the soldiers who died in the Tashan sniper battle, and it is estimated that many young comrades do not know much about the Tashan sniper war, right?
The main purpose of the Tashan Blockade Was to ensure that our main force captured Jinzhou, so as to carry out defensive operations against the Kuomintang troops who reinforced Jinzhou. The battle was indeed extremely fierce, and the result was that our People's Liberation Army lost more than 3,000 people, while the Kuomintang army was more than 6,000.
Of course, the final victory of the Tashan Blockade Battle was naturally directly related to the progress of the Liaoshen Campaign, and even ultimately affected the course of the entire Liberation War, and in the Tashan Blockade War, several generals of our People's Liberation Army really became famous in the First World War.
For example, today's General Wu Kehua, the four columns commanded by Wu Kehua at that time were incomparably brave, and put forward the heroic slogan of "coexisting and dying with the position", and finally fought fiercely with the enemy for six days and nights, and repelled the attack of 11 enemy divisions, ensuring the victory over Jinzhou.
Subsequently, Wu Kehua also had the reputation of "Tashan Famous General", but for General Wu Kehua, it was true that Tashan sniper victory, but he had already sacrificed so many soldiers of our army, for which he was extremely sad in his heart, which also had his last words on his deathbed, thinking that after his death, his ashes could be sprinkled on Tashan, so that he could be accompanied by so many PLA soldiers who died that year.
General Wu Kehua is a Geyang man, and he can be reborn in fact has a lot to do with the martyr Fang Zhimin, when Fang Zhimin opened the school, and Wu Kehua was a member of the school, but at that time Wu Kehua was not a student with excellent grades, on the contrary, he was a poor student, for which it was possible to be expelled, fortunately, Fang Zhimin learned about it and Wu Kehua had a long conversation, and since then Wu Kehua has completely transformed.
After Japan's surrender, Wu Kehua was transferred to the northeast and served as the commander of the column of the fourth column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army; in the subsequent liberation war, Wu Kehua's troops also fought with great bravery, especially in the Tashan sniper battle, which undoubtedly made Wu Kehua's name resound in our army, and later the "Tashan Hero Regiment" and the "Tashan Heroic Garrison Regiment" were reviewed by Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, and other central leaders.
After the founding of New China, General Wu Kehua was also highly valued by our party, and served as deputy commander of the 15th Corps of the Fourth Field Army and commander of the 41st Army, chief of staff of the South China Military Region, commander of the Hainan Military Region, and in 1963, he was appointed by Premier Zhou Enlai as the commander of the PLA artillery.
However, what makes people feel sad is that during the special period, Wu Kehua was imprisoned for 7 years, and indeed these 7 years were still very difficult, but After all, Wu Kehua was an excellent old comrade of our party, so he persevered until 1972, when he was released from prison and resumed organizational life.
Later, Wu Kehua also held many important positions, such as commander of the Guangzhou Military Region and the central advisory committee, and finally died in Guangzhou on February 13, 1987, at the age of 74.