In October 1948, in order to deal with the Jinzhou dilemma, Chiang Kai-shek personally supervised the battle and commanded the 11 divisions of the Eastward Advance Corps to rush to the aid of Tashan. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the Jinzhou Campaign, the Northeast Field Army decided to undertake the task of blocking the attack at Tashan with the Fourth and Eleventh Columns under its command and two independent divisions. The Tashan Resistance Battle played an important role in the liberation of Northeast China, and both sides held an attitude of victory. The victory finally stood on the side of our People's Liberation Army, but this battle was by no means easy, and after many years, it is still regarded as a model of military history.
Tashan is a small village located between Jinzhou and Jinxi, with the mountains and the sea in its back, with an area of just over 50 square kilometers. In the case of the siege of Jinzhou, the strategic importance of Tashan increased sharply, because it occupied the main transportation route from the Central Plains to the northeast, and controlling Tashan was equivalent to controlling the hub of north-south transportation. In Chiang Kai-shek's mode of thinking, the Northeast cannot be lost, and Jinzhou cannot be lost, otherwise it will affect the war situation in the whole of China, and "everything that has been defeated will be over, and history will be turned upside down" (from the military conference convened by Chiang). The reinforcements sent by Chiang Kai-shek to Jinzhou were not only large in number but also supported by a strong air force, and once they entered the Jinzhou area, they were bound to have the impact of turning the overall situation around. To launch a military operation of this magnitude, it is necessary to have absolute control over the important transportation hubs along the way, and Tashan is such a special location that Chiang Kai-shek is bound to win. Entering Jinzhou, Tashan can not be bypassed, only captured.
What Chiang Kai-shek could think of, of course the Dongye Command could also think of. The Fourth Column, commanded by Wu Kehua and Mo Wenhua, was tasked with not allowing the enemy to break through Tashan Fort and Tashan Bridge. In order to avoid the mutual demolition that often occurred in the past, Chiang Kai-shek rarely came to command in person. According to the memories of the veteran soldiers who participated in the battle in those years, before the infantry charged, the enemy's planes threw ammunition at our position for a long time without stopping, and the originally uneven tower hill was gradually blown into an overall sunken terrain. After the bombing, the Kuomintang troops adopted a battalion-based assault charge, and the offensive was like a wave, wave after wave, and there seemed to be no end in sight. In order to repel the enemy's attack, the fighters of the four columns paid a terrible price. After five enemy charges, only nine fighters remained of the guard company holding position No. 7, and only one of them did not have a prize. Even so, they still used their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's sea of people.
The 95th Independent Division, which was responsible for the attack on Tashan Fort, was pinned on by Chiang Kai-shek. Under the cover of naval artillery, the 95th Division was menacing, and as soon as it made a move, it broke into the forward positions of our army. Our soldiers put life and death on the line, braving artillery fire and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. After repeated counter-charges, the enemy paid the price of being wounded and killed more than 1,300 people, and did not occupy the main position. On October 14, the roar of the artillery fire of the last siege of Jinzhou reached Tashan, and the enemy, who was eager for reinforcements, became even more frenzied, and the charge of the whole battalion was changed to a whole regiment charge, and the artillery was also changed to the maximum caliber. Countless enemies, fallen under the machine-gun fire of our troops, and the front of the position was littered with their corpses. After six days and nights of bloody fighting, our side finally welcomed the heavy equipment troops that reinforced Tashan, and after they entered the battle, the balance of superiority between the two sides immediately reversed. The 95th Independent Division suffered a heavy loss, and in the end there were less than three battalions left, and it was no longer able to launch a deterrent attack on our positions.
On October 15, the Battle of Jinzhou ended in a complete victory for our side, and the news reached Tashan, where Chiang Kai-shek lost his mind for a time and demanded that Du Yuming retake Jinzhou at any cost. Under such circumstances, Chiang Kai-shek's ideas can of course only be fools' dreams. A total of more than 6,000 people of the Eastern Advance Corps, in the pursuit of our heavy artillery, finally escaped from the waterway, and the Tashan blocking battle ended. After Tashan and Jinzhou, the Kuomintang completely lost its dominant position in the northeast. In the siege and annihilation of western Liaoning, more than 100,000 people of Liao Yaoxiang's corps were annihilated, and Chiang Kai-shek no longer had large-scale troops to mobilize in the northeast. The progress of the war in the northeast has had a great impact on the situation of the liberation of the whole country.
All the martyrs who died in the battle were buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery of the Tashan Resistance War located in the Lianshan District of Huludao City. Today's people can see the Martyrs' Monument built in 1963 in the center of the cemetery, and the monument is inscribed by Comrade **
The revolutionary martyrs of the Tashan Resistance War are immortal! ”