The War of Liberation took only three years, and the Kuomintang army, which was in absolute superiority, suffered a total defeat, and its remnants retreated to the island of Taiwan. However, in this war, the Platon Army also fought dangerous situations, and many battles were fought very fiercely, and the Battle of Meng Lianggu was one of them.
The reorganized 74th Division was a well-known unit in the Kuomintang army at that time, and this unit was the 74th Army during the War of Resistance. The 74th Army was not formed for a long time, and was only formed in 1937 at the Battle of Songhu, and unlike the main forces of the other Kuomintang troops, this unit was not developed by special preferential treatment of relations and weapons and equipment, but by fighting hard battles with the Japanese army. Especially after Wang Yaowu became the commander of the 74th Army, the achievements of this unit became more and more prominent.
The Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Shanggao, the Three Battles of Changsha, the Battle of Changde, the Battle of Changheng, the Battle of Xiangxi, the 74th Army participated in almost every major battle between the Japanese Army and the Japanese Army during the War of Resistance. In the early and middle stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the units of the Kuomintang Army feared the enemy like a tiger and feared the Japanese army, only this unit did not take the Japanese army in their eyes, changde defense war, Yu Chengwan led the 74th Army 57th Division 8000 officers and men to defend Changde for 15 days, the Japanese casualties tens of thousands, the Battle of Xiangxi, this unit from the beginning to the end, the Japanese army is very afraid of the 74th Army. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, this unit was immediately transported to Nanjing, and in 1946, this unit was reorganized into the reorganized 74th Division, with a total of more than 30,000 people, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu was an old subordinate of Wang Yaowu, and his military ability was very high.
Although the 74th Army made great achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, during the War of Liberation, it acted as a thug for the Chiang Family Dynasty and as the vanguard of the civil war. This unit successively conquered Huaiyin, Lianshui and other important towns guarded by the Central China Field Army, and Su Yu led the Central China Field Army to retreat all the way to Shandong, where it merged with the troops of the Shandong Military Region to form the East China Field Army. The reorganized 74th Division, under the leadership of Zhang Lingfu, invaded Shandong again, supported the homecoming regiment, and wantonly killed ordinary local people in the base areas of the People's Liberation Army, causing the entire people of Shandong to complain about this unit.
In May 1947, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 450,000 elite Kuomintang troops to launch a key attack on the Shandong base area where the East China Field Army was located, intending to want the East China Field Army, and the reorganized 74th Division was again in the front. Whether it was firepower or the quality of individual soldiers, Hua Ye did not have the strength to fight hard with the reorganized 74Th Division at that time, so under the circumstances at that time, Hua Ye chose to retreat and avoid contact with the 74 Division, but Zhang Lingfu was overwhelmed and chased Hua Ye all the way, which made many of Hua Ye's generals very dissatisfied, and finally Su Yu finally made up his mind to eliminate this elite unit of the Nationalist Army.
After Zhang Lingfu led his troops up the mountain, Huaye's sixth column quickly captured Duozhuang, obtained all the heavy weapons left there by the reorganized 74th Division, eliminated a regiment of the 74th Division in Duozhuang, and cut off the last retreat of the reorganized 74th Division. In order to eliminate the reorganized 74th Division, Su Yu used five columns of the first column, the fourth column, the sixth column, the eighth column, and the ninth column, and all other field and local troops were dispatched, and Hua Ye not only dispatched 270,000 main forces, but also mobilized hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to support logistics.
Among the Huaye troops attacking the reorganized 74th Division, Ye Fei's first column, Wang Bicheng's sixth column, Tao Yong's fourth column, and Xu Shiyou's ninth column were the four units with the strongest offensive ability in Huaye, and their combat effectiveness was very strong. When the 74th Division was besieged for many days and cut off from water and food, Zhang Lingfu took the lead in drinking horse urine and eating horse meat, and also commanded the troops to carry out a large-scale white-knife battle with Huaye. Su Yu was also highly nervous when commanding this battle, and did not dare to sleep for three days and three nights. After the end of the Battle of Menglianggu, the entire mountain was covered with corpses, and the nearby people did not dare to go up the mountain for many years.