Speaking of the Kuomintang's army, its military appearance, abundance of armaments, and the sophistication of its weapons have always been well known to the people, and it is also officially because of the superiority in these aspects that Chiang Kai-shek's confidence has greatly increased; soon after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he pretended to negotiate peace with our Party, in essence, to buy time to prepare for a civil war.
The excellent equipment and the huge number of people make the Kuomintang army look very elite, these elite troops carry chiang kai-shek's high hopes, and are a powerful weapon for Chiang Kai-shek to destroy our party and completely rule China.
However, it was these elite troops that were repeatedly defeated by the Platon Army in the Liberation War, and their sophisticated weapons and equipment were used to arm the PLA, and the Kuomintang thus fell into the title of "Transport Brigade Leader" as a result.
Among the elite units of the Kuomintang, the reorganized 74th Division and the 11th Reorganized Division, led by the famous generals Zhang Lingfu and Hu Lian respectively, were undoubtedly the elite of the elite, and the relationship between the commanders of the two divisions was quite good.
However, the same elite of the elite, the generals leading the troops are also rare famous generals, but when fighting against the East China Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, why was the 74th Division completely annihilated, while the 11th Division was able to severely damage the East China Field Army? What are the reasons for the different results of these two forces?
The location is poor
In 1947, Chiang Kai-shek began to carry out a major offensive against the Shandong region, and sent the Nationalist ace army, the reorganized 74th Division, and the 74th Division and the East China Field Army fought in the Menglianggu area, but the Nationalist ace army, the reorganized 74th Division, suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the entire division was almost completely annihilated by the People's Liberation Army.
Not to be outdone, Chiang Kai-shek gathered a large army to attack the Shandong region again shortly after the Battle of Menglianggu, and this time dispatched another ace of the Kuomintang, the reorganized 11th Division, and the two sides launched a battle in the Nanma area, but the results of the operation were very different from those of the previous months.
In the face of the 11th Division, the East China Field Army planned to follow the method of dealing with the 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu and encircle and annihilate the 11th Division when it attacked Yimeng Mountain, but this time it did not achieve the results of the Battle of Menglianggu, and the East China Field Army suffered heavy losses and had to be forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
The same sophisticated equipment, similar number of troops, the leading generals are also experienced in hundreds of battles, but why is there such a clear difference? The most fundamental reason is because of the difference in geographical interest.
At the time of the Battle of Menglianggu, the roads around Menglianggu were mostly rugged mountain roads, which were mostly suitable for personnel to walk and were not conducive to the advancement of mechanized equipment, so the mechanized equipment of the 74th Division could not reach the battlefield, the powerful firepower failed to really play a role, and the superiority of the 74th Division's weapons and equipment was gone.
However, in the Nanma area for several months, its terrain is relatively flat, there are many buildings that can be used for cover, the flat roads allow mechanized equipment to advance as soon as possible, and a large number of buildings can play a good ambush role, and the strong firepower advantage has been greatly exerted here, coupled with the large number of bunkers, the East China Field Army, which cannot cause damage to the 11th Division but has suffered heavy damage, also had to choose to retreat in this case.
Had to take the command from
In the eyes of some people, the demise of the 74th Division had a lot to do with its leader, Zhang Lingfu, but although Zhang Lingfu was indeed a bit crazy, as a general who had experienced hundreds of battles, how could he not understand the advantages and disadvantages of the upcoming battle with the East China Field Army?
What's more, before Meng Lianggu was even in progress, in Laiwu, the army led by the Kuomintang general Li Xianzhou was seized by the East China Field Army because of its position being too prominent, and it paid a terrible price for it.
It was precisely because of this that Zhang Lingfu profoundly understood that once he entered Meng Lianggu, he would break away from friendly troops, and what would happen after he broke away was unknown to people.
Although he knew that there might be a bad result, Zhang Lingfu was only a division-level general, and there was also a headquarters and a high command on it.
Before the Battle of Menglianggu, Zhang Lingfu, who had received the order, had made it clear that the terrain of the combat area was rugged and unsuitable for the 74th Division with many heavy weapons to enter the battle, but in the face of the strong orders of the superiors, Zhang Lingfu and his 74th Division could not resist and could only fight according to the original plan.
Hu Lian, the commander of the 11th Division, successfully broke through the encirclement of our army on many occasions because of his keen sense of combat smell, and after being surrounded by our army, he calmly made strategic arrangements, organized the army to launch a powerful counterattack, exerted the superiority of heavy weapons in the flat Nanma area, and successfully broke the encirclement of the East China Field Army.
Reinforcements that have been waiting for a long time
Zhang Lingfu's fears before the Battle of Menglianggu were not false, during the Battle of Menglianggu, the 74th Division, which was surrounded by the East China Field Army, struggled to hold on, but the 25th Division and the 83rd Division that came to support according to the original plan were blocked by the East China Field Army, and even if there were troops to rescue at any cost, they could not prevent the 74th Division from collapsing.
When the 11th Division was surrounded, in addition to the flat terrain and numerous buildings that were conducive to giving play to the advantages of heavy weapons and being able to persist for a long time, the rescue efforts of the surrounding friendly forces were also very large, which once caused a great crisis to the East China Field Army, and had to withdraw from the war under internal and external attacks.
Zhang Lingfu's vision came true, and after entering the Menglianggu area, the rugged terrain cut off the 74th Division from friendly forces. Once encircled, it was basically equivalent to the total annihilation of the army, and from this point of view, the different combat results of the 74th Division and the 11th Division were also very much related to the long-awaited reinforcements.
brief summary:
In ancient wars, both sides attached great importance to the weather, location, and people's influence on the battlefield, and with the development of war, thermal weapons and heavy weapons became the main force of war, but the time, place, and people were still the victory factors that affected the direction of war.
For example, the different operational outcomes of the 74th And 11th Divisions were due to geographical advantages (differences in terrain and terrain) and people (the arrival of reinforcements or not, and the intensity of rescue).
In the current era of peace, although the weapons of mass destruction in the hands of most countries can greatly ignore the time, location, and people' influence, they are limited by the overall international situation of peace, and most of the international wars are mainly small-scale conflicts, and the war situation is still dominated by soldiers and modern facilities under the control of soldiers.
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