Yulin

There is a famous "Yulin fortress", which starts from Luhuitou Cape in the West and ends at Jinmu Cape in the East. It is an excellent seaport at the southernmost tip of China and an important base for supporting the islands in the South China Sea.

Yulin port, a world-famous port with deep water and quiet waves surrounded by mountains, is a good natural port and an important place for national defense. Looking far and wide, east of Yulin port, the coast is tortuous, and there are many harbors. There are hutouling, qiongnanling, Chiling, and nanwanling points protruding from the sea, embracing Yalong Bay, tuqu Bay, and Lingshui Bay. To the west of Yulin port, the coast is flat, with Luhuitou, Maling and Nanshanling protruding from the sea, forming a maritime barrier with the East and West Maozhou islands.

Yulin

Yulin port is also one of the bases of the South China Sea fleet of the Chinese Navy and an important submarine base in the Far East. Yulin port (Y ú L í n g ǎ ng)

Historical evolution

The military defense of Yulin port was formed as early as the Yuan Dynasty.

In August of the thirtieth year of Zhiyuan (1293 AD), the imperial court sent Zhang Ren, a garrison officer, to garrison here. It can be seen that at that time, Yulin port had implemented coastal defense for more than 700 years.

To the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 18 years (AD 1385) the imperial court sent imperial commander Yang Gui to guard Yulin. Sending Imperial military officers to a frontier port shows the importance of their duties.

In the 16th year of Guangxu (1890 AD), Xu zanbiao was appointed as the Deputy General of Yazhou Association. He led the troops to garrison Yulin port. He was alert to the French ships to measure the water in the port. Therefore, he engraved stones to show the date: "it is the beginning of preparing for coastal defense.". In fact, the Yuan Dynasty has laid a foundation for maritime defense. The second stone carving day: "Qing Dynasty guerrilla Jin Guangyu". Guerrilla, official name, for the barracks general. Of course, Jin is also a serving officer guarding Yulin port. His inscription on stone has the intention of connecting the past and the future.

In ancient times, Yulin port also had military hardware. According to the records of Yazhou, "Yulin Fort: in front of Yulin port, the second fort of Fenghou was set up", and Zhang Yili in the eighth year of Hongzhi (1495 A.D.). Yulin port therefore has the name of yandunling. When the garrison observed the sea at yandunling, they raised a beacon fire to report to the police. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, five fort were set up in each port along the coast of Yazhou. Yulin port fort was the most important, with one resident foreign agent and 15 defense troops. After the defense system was reformed, the third patrol battalion of QiongYa was stationed and concurrently in charge of Sanya port.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the defense of Yulin port was relaxed. On February 6, 1934, the Japanese warship ball mill invaded Yulin port and anchored near Anyou. More than 40 sailors on board, dressed in black and wrapped in white cloth, explored the water depth in the harbor area for about 50 minutes. On the 7th, more than 20 armed Japanese soldiers came ashore and broke into Hongsha Village to take pictures. They were all dressed in yellow uniforms, wearing white hats, wearing red sun symbols on their backs and short guns on their waists. After the local government sent a letter to the Ministry of foreign affairs of the CPC Central Committee for negotiation, the Japanese side falsely claimed that "the ship went to patrol in Nanyang and berthed midway.". As a matter of fact, the Japanese plot is to survey the situation of Hong Kong, to detect the reality of our military and to prepare for the war of aggression.

During the Second World War, in January 1939, the Japanese Imperial Council decided to take Hainan Island. In the north of the island are Haikou and Qiongshan, and in the south are Yulin and Sanya. In February of the same year, 730 Japanese special Marines (Wu liute) of Wuzhen garrison No. 6, 860 Japanese special Marines (Heng site) of Yokosuka garrison No. 4 and 860 Japanese special Marines (Zuo bate) of Sasebo garrison No. 8, with a total of 2450 soldiers, led by the commander-in-chief otashi (Colonel), Kato Rongji (Lieutenant Colonel) and Inoue sawji (Lieutenant Colonel) On the 14th, they sailed to Sanya harbor at dawn by three warships, namely "gechengwan", "yiliwan" and "guangdewan". The Japanese army had absolute superiority in this battle, while Yulin's defense was empty. However, when the Japanese side sent its advance troops to the Yulin port, they were shot and sniped by Wang Xingya Squadron, a local army of the Kuomintang. The Japanese side thought that there was defense in the port, and was frightened by the dangerous situation of the port. They hurriedly withdrew from the open sea, fired more than 10 feints from the ship, and turned the main combat force of more than 1000 people to the West Beach of Sanya Bay to land, and then detoured. Yulin port was lost in the end, but it can be seen from this that its geographical shape is superior and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

After the Japanese army occupied Yulin, it immediately accelerated the construction of military facilities around it, built land airports and water bases, built simple railways, military factories and power plants, and plundered resources madly, making it a naval and air force base for the Japanese army to move south.

In 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered unconditionally. All the Japanese troops in the south of the island boarded the ship from Yulin port and were repatriated to Japan. At that time, Jiang Xiong's headquarters of the 19th division of the 46th army of the Kuomintang army, which accepted the surrender, entered Yulin. Since then, it has been a military restricted zone and a coastal defense fortress.

On the eve of liberation, the commander of Yulin fortress was a major general, equivalent to the rank of the army.

On May 30, 1950, Quan Qiong was liberated, and the Kuomintang was defeated. It was also the last to board a ship from Yulin port and flee to Taiwan. The PLA pursued here, sank an enemy ship and annihilated more than 2000 people. This was the last battle of the PLA in liberating Hainan.

Since liberation, Yulin has been a coastal defense fortress of 2 million square kilometers in the South China Sea. It is also the most ideal, direct, firm and convenient rear military supply base and command front for more than 1000 islands and reefs in Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha.

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Haigang, Southeast of Sanya City, Hainan Province. Wankou starts from Luhuitou corner in the West and ends at Jinmu corner in the East. The Bay covers an area of about 37 square kilometers. Located at 109.5 degrees east longitude and 18.2 degrees north latitude, it is an excellent seaport at the southernmost tip of China and an important base for supporting the islands in the South China Sea. There are big east China Sea, small East China Sea beach. There is the famous "Yulin fortress".

Yulin port, a world-famous port with deep water and quiet waves surrounded by mountains, is a good natural port and an important place for national defense. Looking far and wide, east of Yulin port, the coast is tortuous, and there are many harbors. There are hutouling, qiongnanling, Chiling, and nanwanling points protruding from the sea, embracing Yalong Bay, tuqu Bay, and Lingshui Bay. To the west of Yulin port, the coast is flat, with Luhuitou, Maling and Nanshanling protruding from the sea, forming a maritime barrier with the East and West Maozhou islands.

Address: Haigang, Southeast of Sanya City, Hainan Province

Longitude: 109.54925

Latitude: 18.203916

Chinese PinYin : Yu Lin Gang