In 1947 Sun was dispatched to Taiwan to train new forces, and Lin Wang boarded the ship Haiji to cross the strait to Taiwan. In Taiwan he first lived at the Fengshan Military Training Department, which has now become a military academy.
一九四七年，孫立人奉派來台訓練新軍，林旺也跟著搭上「海基號」漂洋過海來到台灣，住在鳳山陸訓部（即現在的陸軍官校）。