Chapter 49 4. Tashan without a tower has a tower

The Tashan blockade was a very successful blockade in the history of our army.The fourth column of our Northeast Field Army repelled 5 enemy divisions in Tashan, where the time was short and the terrain was unfavorable, and the reserve column of the headquarters had not yet entered the battle (the total strength of the enemy at that time was 9 divisions. Tashan was attacked by 5 divisions) with the support of the air force and navy. After 6 days of fierce fighting, they defeated the enemy who was strong in strength and weak in strength, superior in equipment and inferior in equipment, and high in terrain. A total of more than 7,000 enemies were injured, including 5 regiment leaders.When the battle was intense on the 14th, the Field Army Headquarters jointly issued a letter to Hu Qicai, the deputy commander of the Fourth Column, and Jiang Xieyuan, the 12th Division Division, jointly issued by the four heads of the Field Army Headquarters, Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan, Liu Yalou, and Tan Zheng. , Political commissar Pan Shoucai's commendation telegram:

Hu, Jiang, Pan and the commanders and fighters of the 12th Division: With the cooperation of friendly forces, your division has fought bravely and resisted tenaciously for five days, repelling the 95th Division, the 8th Division, the 198th Division, the 197th Division, the 151st Division, and the Temporary 60th Division. The continuous fierce attack under the ground killed a large number of enemies and wiped out all the enemies in Diayushan, which ensured that our attacking Jin troops were fully prepared, and thus achieved a smooth breakthrough in Jinzhou.Your heroic and tenacious defensive battle is exemplary and worthy of praise.I hope you will continue to work hard, tenaciously block the enemy, ensure the complete victory of the Jinzhou Battle and create favorable conditions for the next battle.

After the end of the Tashan blockade, the head of the field army spoke highly of the military exploits of the Four Columns. The 34th Regiment of the 12th Division led by regiment leader Jiao Yushan and political commissar Jiang Minfeng was awarded the honorable title of "Tashan Hero Regiment". The 36th Regiment of the 12th Division led by political commissar Wang Chun was awarded the honorable title of "Baitai Mountain Defense Heroes Regiment", and the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division led by regiment leader Ju Wenyi and political commissar Zhang Jihuang was awarded the honorable title of "Defense Heroes Regiment" On the same day, the Fourth Vertical Artillery Regiment led by regiment leader Wang Yiping and political commissar Zheng Geling was awarded the pennant of "Shocking the Enemy's Courage".In the 12th Division alone, 2,026 people received awards for meritorious service, and 20 of them were combat heroes who won the Mao Zedong Medal.Throughout the Liaoshen Campaign, the collective heroes of the Four Columns who were awarded honorary titles and the hero models who won military exploits were the heads of all the columns of the Northeast Field Army, and the 12th Division was the head of each division.Two of the three regiments in a division were awarded the title of "Hero Regiment". In the Northeast Field Army, there are only four vertical and twelve divisions.

On March 25, 1949, when Mao Zedong and other central leaders entered Peking, a grand military parade was held at Xiyuan Airport in Beiping. Four vertical. On October 16, 1948, Chiang Kai-shek came to Huludao in his "Meiling" special plane, scolded his subordinates for their incompetence, believed that Que Hanqian should be responsible for the failure of the battle, and scolded Que, "You are not a student of Whampoa, you are a locust. , it’s locusts”!Que Hanqian was about to be shot on the spot.It was Roach and others who interceded that the scene of shooting an army commander on the spot did not appear.When Chiang Kai-shek left Huludao, he specially let the "Meiling" special plane circle over Tashan twice. He looked at the Tashan below for a long time, but couldn't understand: "Unexpectedly, with the cooperation of the navy and air force, the three armies Just can't beat Tashan!"

Why did the Kuomintang army fail to attack Tashan?In addition to the fact that the general climate at the time was a foregone conclusion, the hearts of the people and the army were common reasons at the time (for example, Hou Jingru, the supreme commander of the Northeast Kuomintang army, and Deng Zhaoxiang, the captain of the "Chongqing" ship, were not enthusiastic about the civil war. Another example is that our army was able to build so many fortifications in the shortest period of time because it received the full support of the local people, etc.), from the perspective of military command, various problems within the Kuomintang army played a very negative role.According to Lin Weichou, deputy commander of the 17th Corps of the Kuomintang and commander of the 62nd Army, and Shi Youren, deputy commander of the 8th Division of the 54th Army, there are three reasons.First, due to the unfavorable situation, the general will not work hard, and the scheduled troops have not been able to arrive.For example, the 86th Army refused to go, the 39th Army agreed to go but did not reach Huludao until the 16th, and the 92nd Army decided to go but only went to one division, so the whole battle was based on how many troops there were. .Second, Chiang Kai-shek has changed commanders many times and there are multiple commanders at the same time.First, it was decided that Que Hanqian, the commander of the 54th Army, would be in command. However, Luo Qi, a combat officer known as "Luo Qiansui", came to be the "Imperial Envoy". All action plans must be approved by him before they can be implemented.Two days later, Hou Jingru, the originally confirmed commander, arrived in the army, and there was still Luo Qi behind him.On the 16th, Chiang Kai-shek decided to change the command to Chen Tie, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General", and at the same time sent Gui Yongqing, the commander-in-chief of the navy, to command at the same time.In order to continue to aid Jin and counterattack Jinzhou, Du Yuming was sent as the fourth commander after that.Third, Que Hanqian and other commanders only cared about filling their own pockets, cutting corners and materials when building fortifications (the Kuomintang army used reinforced concrete fortifications in Jinzhou and Jinxi), and smuggled the materials, which made some insiders lose their morale. Master, I have my own place to keep my master; if I don’t leave my master everywhere, I will go to Balu.”

Tashan Fort originally had no towers, but due to the sweat and blood of the revolutionary martyrs, after the founding of New China, a monument to the revolutionary martyrs surrounded by green pines appeared on the site of the original command post of the Tashan Heroes Regiment. tower.The memorial tower has been rebuilt three times since 1952. On the tower is the inscription of Comrade Chen Yun: "The revolutionary martyrs of the Tashan blockade will live forever."Under the memorial tower, a martyr's cemetery was built, where there are 743 verified martyrs' joint burial tombs, and 5 general tombs, including Wu Kehua, the commander of the four verticals who commanded this fierce battle, Hu Qicai, the deputy commander, Li Fuze, chief of staff of the Fourth Column, Jiang Xieyuan, division commander of the 12th Division of the Fourth Column, and Jiao Yushan, head of the Tashan Heroes Regiment.Before they died, they all told their descendants that their ashes must be buried on the land of Tashan.On the marble tombstone in front of their tombs, there is an inscription written by Zhang Wannian, the former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission: "The heroes of Tashan will last forever in the Qingming Festival in 1998."