During the Liberation War, the East China Field Army moved to east China, south China, and the provinces of the Central Plains, and spent three years with hundreds of thousands of elite Kuomintang troops, and finally, with the cooperation of friendly forces, it pacified the area north of the Yangtze River and liberated the southeastern provinces, making major contributions to national reunification. During the Liberation War, Hua Ye fought the most shocking thing in the world than the Battle of Meng Lianggu.
After the liberation war began, Su Yu led 30,000 officers and men of the Central China Field Army to achieve good results in seven battles and seven victories in central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, and finally joined forces with the Shandong Field Army to form the East China Field Army, and won major battles such as the great victory of Laiwu and the great victory of Lunan. In the battle with the Kuomintang army, Huaye not only did not suffer heavy losses, but gradually developed and grew, and in the Battle of Lunan, Huaye formed a special forces column due to the capture of too many tanks and cannons. In the Battle of Laiwu, Huaye Liuzhong directly armed a division with captured American weapons and equipment, and the support of Kaishen Logistics laid a certain foundation for Huaye's later Battle of Menglianggu.
In May 1947, after the failure of the all-out offensive, the Kuomintang army launched a key attack on the Shandong base area where the East China Field Army was located. At that time, the Kuomintang army concentrated 450,000 troops in East China, and Zhang Lingfu reorganized the 74th Division, Hu Lian reorganized the 11th Division, and Qiu Qingquan's Fifth Army all participated in the battle, posing a huge threat to Huaye. Among the many units of the Kuomintang army, the most arrogant was the reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu. Although before the war, Gu Zhutong, Tang Enbo, and others issued a strategy of fighting steadily and steadily, Zhang Lingfu still made meritorious contributions and led the reorganized 74th Division to go deep alone.
At that time, Hua Ye felt that the timing was not enough, and at first he did not want to confront the reorganized 74th Division, the number one main force of the Kuomintang army, because the strength of this unit was indeed not blown out, and the combat effectiveness was very strong, and even the Japanese army was afraid of this unit during the War of Resistance. However, Zhang Lingfu, with hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops behind him, supported him and led the reorganized 74th Division to chase after the whole of Huaye, and the generals of huaye's various columns had long wanted to fight this unit, and Su Yu finally made up his mind to destroy this unit.
In order to annihilate the reorganized 74th Division, Huaye's 270,000 troops were all dispatched, and later the famous founding generals of the People's Liberation Army, such as Ye Fei, Xu Shiyou, Wang Jian'an, Tao Yong, Wang Bicheng, Nie Fengzhi, Song Shilun, And Cheng Jun, all took part in this battle, and more generals were dispatched than at the Battle of Huaihai. In addition, Huaye also mobilized more than 600,000 former migrant workers to transport materials, support logistics, and damage roads.
In this campaign, Hua Ye dispatched five columns with the strongest offensive ability to attack the reorganized 74th Division, Ye Fei's first column, Tao Yong's fourth column, Wang Bicheng's sixth column, Xu Shiyou's ninth column, and Wang Jian'an's eighth column all led the troops and the reorganized 74th division to carry out fierce battles. In this battle, Su Yu, in order to command the troops to solve the integrated 74th Division as soon as possible and avoid being surrounded by heavy troops of the Kuomintang army, did not sleep for three days. In the end, under the powerful blows of huaye's various units, the reorganized 74th division was finally annihilated, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu was also killed. Throughout the Battle of Menglianggu, Hua Ye used almost all the materials captured in the previous battles such as the Battle of Laiwu and the Battle of Lunan, consuming a total of 34,000 shells, 2 million bullets, and 30,000 grenades. Fortunately, Zhang Lingfu put all his heavy weapons in Duozhuang before the battle, and only sent a regiment to guard it, and Hua Ye's supplies were replenished. Without the material supplies of the Kuomintang army, the battle of Huaye might not have been fought so smoothly.