Chapter 46 1. The victory and defeat of Gongjin depends on Tashan

How to fight in Jinzhou, Lin Biao reported to the central government in a telegram at 9 o'clock on October 3, and got the approval of the central government.Lin Biao's deployment is: attack Jinzhou with six columns of one, two, three, seven, eight, and nine; The division dealt with the enemies breaking out of Changchun.Mao Zedong agreed with Lin Biao's deployment in his reply.However, Mao Zedong specifically pointed out to Lin Biao: "You can deploy the necessary troops on the communication line between the two Jinzhou while attacking Jinzhou, first annihilate the four divisions reinforced by Jinzhou from Jinxi, and then take Jinzhou." On this point, Mao Zedong It is clear that the reinforcements coming from Jinxi are very important to the whole battle situation, and must be resolved first.This is because the enemy in Jinzhou City has been besieged by me, and when to launch a general attack, the initiative lies with me.The enemy coming to aid from Jinxi is actively attacking me. If we can't successfully block the reinforcements in advance, so that the reinforcements can cooperate with the Jinzhou defenders, and the reinforcements from Shenyang are dispatched, my entire plan to attack Jinzhou is possible. destroyed, or even ruined.Afterwards, I learned that Chiang Kai-shek once said this in Shenyang: "The situation in the Northeast is good or bad in this battle", and we must "flank the main force of the Communist Army in the Liaoxi Corridor".On this point, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek's vision is "seeing the same thing".

On October 4, 1948, Lin Biao led the staff of the Northeast Field Army headquarters to Fuxin Station by train.Immediately carry out the relevant combat deployment. The highest military officer of the Kuomintang army stationed in Jinzhou is Fan Hanjie. Fan Hanjie is a native of Dapu, Guangdong. He entered the Guangdong Army Surveying School at the age of 16 and has been serving in the Guangdong Army and the Guangxi Army since graduation. In 1924, he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy as the commander of the Sixth Route Army of the Gui Army, and his qualifications were much higher than most of his classmates who entered the school as young students.After graduation, he participated in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, and participated in the famous Battle of Tingsi Bridge as a colonel during the Northern Expedition. In 1927, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Zhejiang Police Division. He was the first among the students in Huangpu to become the commander. In 1928, he was sent to Japan and Germany to study military affairs. He returned to China in 1931 and served as the chief of staff of the 19th Route Army. He participated in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and participated in the famous "Fujian Incident" with the 19th Route Army. He served as the deputy chief of staff of the First Route Army of the People's Revolutionary Army. After the failure of the "Fujian Incident", he followed Chiang Kai-shek wholeheartedly. In 1936, he was recommended by Hu Zongnan and appointed as the deputy commander of the First Army, which was then called "the first army in the world". commander.

In 1939, he led the 27th Army to the southeast of Shanxi Province and fought against the Japanese invaders in the Zhongtiao Mountain area for more than two years.During this period, he maintained a relatively good relationship with the Eighth Route Army. In 1942, Fan Hanjie was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the 34th Group Army, and later served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the first theater. As Hu Zongnan's deputy, he was responsible for the long-term task of blocking our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area. In 1946, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of National Defense and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Army. In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek asked him to concurrently serve as the commander of the First Corps to attack our Jiaodong liberated area in Shandong. In 4 months, our Shandong army and civilians wiped out 63,000 people, and returned to Nanjing with a big defeat. In January 1948, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the Jire-Liaoning Border Region. He was stationed in Qinhuangdao. His main task was to ensure the communication between the Northeast and North China and support the civil war in the Northeast. Two-headed leadership, two-headed command. In July, Chiang Kai-shek decided to transform the headquarters of the Jireliao Border Region into the Jinzhou Command Post of the "Northeast Bandit Suppression Headquarters", and Fan Hanjie served as the deputy commander of the "Northeast Bandit Suppression Headquarters" and the director of the Jinzhou Command Post.Wei Lihuang told him that "Jinzhou is the gate of the Northeast"; American consultants told him that "Jinzhou is the ladder of the Northeast".In short, let him guard the gate.

At this time, the troops under Fan Hanjie's command were mainly the 54th Army, the 93rd Army, the new Fifth Army and the new Eighth Army, as well as part of the Sixtyth Army and the Forty-ninth Army.The main force for the specific implementation of city defense tasks is the New Eighth Army and the Ninety-three Army.The fortifications in Jinzhou were built relatively early. According to the plan, they were all reinforced concrete structures, and Li Xian, the engineer commander of the Northeast "Suppression General", was designated to be in charge. However, due to insufficient materials and the lack of hard work of the subordinates, from May to September 1948, the project was still not completed as planned, and only about one-third of it was completed. Failed to complete.

It was only in September that Fan Hanjie learned that our Northeast Field Army had gone south.However, until this time, the intelligence system of the Kuomintang army had not figured out the situation of the Northeast Field Army. According to Fan Hanjie's later memoirs: "In late August, the Ministry of National Defense of Nanjing and the Northeast 'Suppression General' estimated the strength and movement of the Northeast Liberation Army, and believed that there were still 10 columns, and the strength of each column was equivalent to an independent division or reinforcement. Division." Due to the Kuomintang army's intelligence work mistakes, when Fan Hanjie was planning to concentrate his troops to guard Jinzhou and prepare to transfer the defenders of Yi County to Jinzhou, the Northeast People's Liberation Army had already surrounded Yi County.Soon, all the strongholds around Jinzhou were cut off or captured by our army, and Fan Hanjie could only defend Jinzhou City to the death. On October 2, Chiang Kai-shek sent a plane to drop a personal letter to Fan Hanjie from the air, asking Fan if he could move the Jinzhou defenders to Jinxi to join the aid troops.

At this time, it was difficult for Fan Hanjie to move freely, so he decided to stick to it, because the reinforcements from the east and west were already preparing to leave.Fan Hanjie is determined to wait for reinforcements. According to the decisions made by Chiang Kai-shek at the two military conferences in Beiping and Shenyang on October 1 and 2 respectively, the aid plans for North China and Shenyang were stepped up. On October 4th, Wei Lihuang sent Chen Tie, the deputy commander of the Northeast "Suppression General", and Peng Jieru, the deputy chief of staff, to Huludao to set up the Huludao command post of the Northeast "Suppression General", which specially organized and urged the Eastward Corps to assist Jin.On the same day, the Shenyang Aid Jinxi Corps led by Liao Yaoxiang also set off.

The situation is obvious, the two-sided attack that Lin Biao was most worried about has appeared, and the attack on the enemy who aided Jin has become the most important task. On October 5, Lin Biao ordered the Fourth Column and the Eleventh Column, together with the Independent Fourth Division and the Independent Eighth Division, to block the enemy's westward marching corps, and they were unified under the command of the Second Corps.The task of Sizong is to deploy defenses at Tashan and Gaoqiao. The name "Tashan" will make people think that it is a mountain, but it is not a mountain, it is the abbreviation of Tashanbao.Tashanbao is a small village with only more than 200 households. It is less than 20 kilometers away from the outskirts of Jinzhou in the north and less than two kilometers away from the enemy's forward position in Jinxi to the south.Both the Beining Railway and the Liangjin (Jinxi to Jinzhou) Highway pass through Tashanbao Village, where there is a small station, which is also the first station on the Beining Road from Jinxi to Jinzhou.In the south of the village, there is a small river that usually has no water, called Yinma River. A railway bridge was built to pass the railway through here.To the east of the village is the Bohai Sea, and to the west, the terrain gradually rises. There is a high Baitai Mountain, and the Hongluo Mountain and Beishan Mountain to the west of Baitai Mountain are continuous hills.This is the traffic channel for entering and leaving the pass, and it is also a relatively narrow passage in the Liaoxi Corridor. If the enemy wants to aid Jinzhou, he must pass through it.Ordinarily, here is indeed a throat to block the enemy.But the terrain here is basically flat land, except for Tashanbao Village, there are two small settlements by the sea, one is called Gaojiatan and the other is called Liangshan.There is also a small hill by the sea, called Fishing Mountain, which will be submerged by seawater at high tide.From the seaside to Baitai Mountain, and then to Beishan to the west is a little more than 12 kilometers. If we want to stop the enemy at this place, it can be said that there is no favorable terrain for us to use, and there is no danger to defend.In addition, Dadongshan, Xiaodongshan, and Yingbishan, which have been occupied by the enemy in the south and have been used as defensive positions in Jinxi, are all higher than Tashan. The Tashan position is actually within the range of the enemy's artillery fire.From the terrain, it is not suitable for defense.However, from an overall point of view, this place must be defended, and it must be defended, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.The reason is obvious. If the Tashan Fort is broken by the enemy, the enemy's eastward marching regiment to aid Jin can reach Jinzhou in only two hours, and carry out anti-encirclement of our troops attacking Jinzhou City.

The decisive battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist armies on the Northeast battlefield took place around the small village of Tashanbao.