Erlongshan Fortress

Erlongshan Fortress

Erlongshan Fortress is located in Xiaonan Village, Shuishiying Subdistrict. It has witnessed the flames of both the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. In 1894, during the Battle of Lüshun in the First Sino-Japanese War, Qing army commander Jiang Guiti led the troops here in a courageous resistance against the Japanese invasion, leaving his name in history.

The fortress is the largest in area among those built by the Russian army in Lüshun. It stretches 120 meters from east to west and from north to south, with a perimeter of about 630 meters and a total area of approximately 30,000 square meters. Constructed from stone, cement, and pebbles, its thickest section reaches 0.9 meters. It was equipped with five 15-centimeter cannons and 47 other types of artillery, and housed over 340 troops. This was one of several permanent fortresses built by Tsarist Russia using the blood and sweat of the Chinese people to encircle the rear of Lüshun Harbor. Today, it stands as a shameful testament to imperialist aggression against China. In September 1994, it was designated as a patriotic education base in Dalian.

In August 1999, the Dalian Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Dalian Municipal Government combined two municipal-level patriotic education bases—the Erlongshan War Site and the former North Fortress of Dongjiguan Mountain in Lüshun—into one site named “Lüshun Dongjiguan Mountain Russo-Japanese War Site.”