In 1945, after the surrender of the Japanese, they were transferred to Nanjing as garrisons, and soon after, their leader Zhang Lingfu was promoted to the commander of the Nanjing garrison, and even reorganized them according to the organization of the US army, and even reorganized them according to the organization of the US army.
However, such a unit, in May 1947, and the army led by General Su Yu launched a peak duel at Meng Lianggu, and the final result was,
This royal division of the Nationalist army was completely annihilated by our army's East China Field Army.
Even the division commander Zhang Lingfu died tragically at the muzzle of our army's guns.
Some people once said that the Seventy-fourth Division was completely destroyed because of the deep penetration of the lone army, and behind this was because Zhang Lingfu was eager to win, too aggressive, and later broke away from the large army of the Nationalist Army.
This led to the defeat of Meng Lianggu by Zhang Lingfu's Seventy-fourth Division.
But is this really the case?
Battle of Menglianggu
In fact, there were many reasons for the failure of the Seventy-fourth Division, and now that all the blame was placed on him, it would be a bit of a small consideration for this national army general
The strength of General Su Yu is also obvious to all,
war
The outcome of the dispute has a lot to do with his foresight.
In the end, this battle was also a miracle battle created by our army, at that time
The army under General Su Yu was far inferior to the ace army of the Nationalist army in terms of equipment and strength
So why was it finally possible to win the war? How exactly did the Seventy-fourth Division perish throughout the campaign?
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Soldiers of our army
Battle background
In 1947, the nationalist army's attack on the liberated areas of the mainland had been completely defeated, and old Chiang was naturally unwilling, so he wanted to gather troops to make a comeback.
A plan for the decisive battle between Luzhong and Luzhong was formulated
His real purpose was to encroach on the liberated areas of our army in Shandong and other areas.
Soon, they encroached on the main roads between Linyi and some villages, and even carried out large-scale cleaning of the local Party personnel.
This has also led to the living space of our party being continuously squeezed by the national army.
In desperation, our army had no choice but to transfer to the northeast region of Shandong.
During this period, our troops were constantly rising, and many local people and soldiers chose to join the team.
The survival pressure of the entire army is even greater
The Nationalist army also found our embarrassment and immediately made a corresponding battle plan, trying to find an opportunity to strike our army.
During the march
In late March, the Nationalist army officially began a key offensive against the Liberated Areas of Shandong, and Lao Jiang successively mobilized twenty-four reorganized divisions to the Shandong battlefield, with a total of 450,000 people.
The main force was the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division.
Together with Qiu Qingquan's Fifth Army and Hu Lian's reorganized Eleventh Division, the former Anti-Japanese Seventy-fourth Division was invincible all the way by virtue of its outstanding achievements on the battlefield.
At this time, Su Yu was not yet forty years old, and for such a general who had never attended a military academy, everything that had happened before showed his superb combat command ability.
He had just achieved a series of victories in the central Soviet Union
However, this time the situation he faced was probably even more dangerous, you know, the enemy's strength is twice that of our army's troops, in the face of such a situation, he can only lead his team to continuously shift, and carry out a very arduous struggle with the enemy.
Immediately afterward, General Su Yu made a detailed analysis of the situation on the entire battlefield, and he decided to change the previous way of fighting, first eliminating the enemy's strongest team and then attacking other troops. And that means
His primary goal was Zhang Lingfu's Seventy-fourth Division,
In May, the main attacking forces in the Nationalist army began their operations.
Soldiers of the Nationalist Army
The Battle of Menglianggu was officially launched
With the order of Tang Enbo, the Battle of Menglianggu also gradually began, and on May 11, our generals discovered that the enemy's vanguard was not the Seventy-fourth Army, but the Forty-eighth Army, and General Su Yu guessed that the enemy must have made a deployment.
They wanted the Seventy-fourth Division to attack our army's headquarters, Tanbu, first.
After that, they cooperated with other troops, seized the opportunity of the chaos of our troops, and took all the liberated areas of our side in one fell swoop, so as to smoothly take their control over the Shandong region.
In the face of the enemy's battle plan, General Su Yu did not panic at all, but he thought that this was the best time to annihilate the enemy army, this time,
He decided to use the tiger's heart-wrenching method to fight against the enemy's living forces
。 Cutting directly through the middle of the enemy and annihilating the enemy's middle vanguard first, when he said this idea, it was simply shocking to the four seats.
You must know that the Seventy-fourth Division has a strength of nearly 30,000 people, all equipped with American equipment, experienced in hundreds of battles, and extremely rich combat experience.
Now directly attack the Seventy-fourth Division in the enemy's heartland
, the difficulty can be imagined. If there is any mistake in the middle, I am afraid that our side will be directly surrounded by the enemy's two wings.
Seventy-fourth Division
In the face of everyone's constant doubts, Su Yu still insisted on his own ideas, and he told everyone that although the Seventy-fourth Division looked very powerful on the surface, it was still very powerful
He also has a very fatal weakness
When they enter the mountains, their proud heavy equipment will be greatly limited.
Moreover, this unit has always been the most important unit under Lao Jiang, and Zhang Lingfu, as the commander of the division, is particularly rampant, always targeting others with his own military feats, which is also the result
There must be a great gap between him and the generals of other troops
Therefore, when we take action against the Seventy-fourth Division, the other troops will inevitably have to do something at their discretion, nor will they necessarily do their best to rescue them. In this way, our army will have more time to effectively strike at it
If our army can defeat this unit, then the enemy's subsequent battle plan will certainly be greatly affected, and it will also be able to greatly damage the enemy's combat morale. I have to say,
General Su Yu's thinking is really not something that ordinary people can do.
On May 12, seeing that the enemy was about to march to Tanbu, our army finally decided to adopt Su Yu's battle plan, and then Su Yu and General Chen Yi's troops confronted each other
All the East China Field Armies made specific arrangements and arrangements
The Special Forces Column and the remaining five columns were the main force of the campaign, while the other units were responsible for coordinating on both sides.
If necessary, some of the nationalist aid forces could also be blocked, and in addition, Su Yu gave the Ninth Column a more special task, that is
Responsible for defending from the frontal battlefield,
However, the enemy's attack speed cannot be made too fast during the whole process, nor can it be repelled.
At the same time, in order to prevent accidents from happening, they
It has also contacted many local armed forces in Shandong.
There was an intention to cooperate between the two sides, and the organizations in these places promised that when our army needed help, they would also lend a helping hand, and would also intersperse the rear of the enemy army at critical moments to attack, completely disrupting the enemy's strategic plan.
With the meticulous planning of General Su Yu, the troops of our army not only occupied an absolute superiority in terrain, but also had a very sufficient number of troops, which was five times that of the enemy.
The Seventy-fourth Division finally reached the Tanbu area on May 14.
Ready to gather all their forces to launch a general offensive against our army, then why did they arrive at the place of operation they had planned before arriving at this time?
Zhang Lingfu
In fact, they had already been influenced by the strategy of enticing the enemy formulated by General Su Yu before that, and as early as two days earlier, one of the brigades of the unit had already engaged the fighters of the Ninth Column, in the course of the engagement
The Ninth Column did not suffer serious casualties,
However, the whole process of the battle was in a passive state, and it was always chased and beaten by the enemy, and he had to constantly retreat towards the rear.
This also made Zhang Lingfu think that our army no longer has any ability to resist, as long as they continue to increase their strength on the battlefield and launch a crazy artillery attack on our army.
We will certainly be able to annihilate our army completely
It was precisely because of this thought that Zhang Lingfu thought that he was not far from victory, and he did not let his army advance at full speed, but leisurely marched towards Tanbu.
But what Zhang Lingfu never expected was that the Ninth Column did not exert its true level, and the reason why it did so was because of this special task that Su Yu had given them before.
The real purpose is to lure the enemy deeper
When the enemy was completely contained, the remaining troops of the East China Field Army were directly interspersed into the marching path of the Seventy-fourth Army, and then they were divided and surrounded by them without preparation, and finally they were completely annihilated.
General Su Yu surveyed the terrain
After the battle began, the Third Division of the First Column controlled all the junctions near the position, and the task of the Eighth Column was to attack some of the more important strongholds such as Nose Mountain.
Thoroughly link the Seventy-fourth Division with other units
The fourth and ninth columns were responsible for blocking the enemy's sixth column deployed in the Baibu area, and some of the remaining soldiers directly attacked Yaoshan and other places, completely cutting off the relationship between the enemy's Twenty-fifth Division and Zhang Lingfu's troops.
At this point, our army even laid a net for the Seventy-fourth Division, waiting for him to drill into our trap himself. This is the thing that Zhang Lingfu has planned. He's this man
Although usually a little good luck
However, it has to be said that there are still some military command talents, and when he knew that the forward positions had been attacked by our army, he found that he had been deceived.
However, having experienced hundreds of battles, he has developed a strong sense of combat, and he believes that our army must have made relatively perfect arrangements, and under such a critical situation,
Zhang Lingfu realized the seriousness of the matter,
After some thought, he decided to put the plan in place, so without hesitation, he ordered all the troops to retreat to the Menglianggu area, ready to wait for an opportunity in the process to launch a counterattack against our army.
The two sides fought fiercely
After all the units of our army cut off all the links between the Seventy-fourth Division and other units, they immediately changed their strategic direction and pursued them in the direction of their retreat.
In order to form a siege of it,
Our army decided to send two columns to occupy Duozhuang, which was the only way for the enemy to retreat, so occupying this place was equivalent to blocking their rear road.
The reason why Zhang Lingfu would make this decision and be willing to use his troops as bait was to attract all the main forces of Huaye.
The two sides could only start a big battle in Menglianggu
However, this battle is not as simple as imagined, and the Seventy-fourth Division will face the dilemma of food and material shortages.
In this difficult combat environment, it was difficult for them to persevere, and for a time, the Seventy-fourth Division fell into a desperate situation, and our army was very good at this way of fighting, and under a fierce attack, the various units formed a closed encirclement of the enemy army, gradually approaching the main force of the enemy army.
At that time, our army had nearly 100,000 troops and surrounded Zhang Lingfu's 30,000 soldiers, and this matter quickly reached the ears of Old Chiang Kai-shek, and after learning about this, his heart was very panicked.
After all, this unit is his own very beloved concubine unit
However, he also believed that if he sent some troops again at this time to surround our army, he could cooperate with Zhang Lingfuli.
Our army is in hiding
At this point, our army has completely become a sandwich biscuit, the belly and back of the enemy, at that time is the best time to annihilate our army in one fell swoop, which is also a huge challenge for our army, we must seize the opportunity to eliminate the enemy completely, in case the enemy's reinforcements have not yet destroyed the enemy army.
He had already taken the lead in coming to Meng Lianggu
Then our army will be in a life-and-death situation.
When the war reached this point, time was particularly important, and both sides had to seize all the time to accomplish their combat objectives as quickly as possible, and Old Chiang kai-shek also obviously felt the tension of the war, so he immediately rushed to Xuzhou, the front line of the operation, and immediately issued a death order and demand to Zhang Lingfu
He must hold his position, and then strictly demand reinforcements from all sides,
Moving rapidly toward the southeast of Mengyin, the Kuomintang gathered countless troops within a hundred kilometers of Menglianggu.
On May 15, we also gathered all our forces together and prepared to encircle and annihilate the Seventy-fourth Division from all directions, and General Chen Yi also issued an order
It is necessary to annihilate the enemy army and capture Zhang Lingfu's orders alive
Our army's plan was to launch a general offensive against the enemy in the afternoon of this day, and General Su Yu did not hesitate to make a series of strategic arrangements.
Chiang Kai-shek
The fighting became more intense
After arriving at the designated time, the soldiers of our army poured into the enemy's position from all directions like a tide, and the two sides launched a bloody battle, the soldiers heroically killed the enemy, and the national army resisted desperately.
The two warring sides fought each other completely, and the white-knife war between the two sides became more and more intense
The position was even easier to occupy every inch of land, and it was necessary to pay a painful price, and the enemy's various units were simultaneously attacked by our side, and the casualties were very heavy, and they could only ask for support from other troops.
However, the other side is also entangled with our army, there is no time to care about the lives of other troops, seeing that there is no assistance, Zhang Lingfu can only choose through his own efforts.
Break out of our encirclement
。 However, as soon as he launched his attack, he was blocked by our army, and was finally completely repelled, and in desperation, the remnants of their troops could only shrink to a high ground and Lushan and other places.
This high ground is more than five hundred and thirty meters, the enemy's heavy weapons simply can not go up the mountain, which led to a great decline in their combat effectiveness, and soon, our army launched a fierce attack on them again, when our army fired shells are indeed innumerable, the entire battlefield is full of smoke,
The enemy paid a very heavy price
。 During the break in the middle of the battle, Lao Jiang also sent some planes to airdrop some grain materials and weapons and equipment to the soldiers on the front line, but in the end all these things fell into the hands of our army.
The long period of isolation and helplessness caused the seventy-fourth division to be shaken, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the whole unit had fallen into a state of chaos. As the battle continues,
While the enemy reinforcements had not yet arrived, we continued to compress the encircling circle that had been deployed.
Soon, the time came to May 16, and our army launched a final attack on the enemy troops on Meng Lianggu, first a fierce bombardment, for a long time,
The deafening sound of shells echoed in the air
When the enemy's breakthrough troops were facing the suppression of our fire, they began to flee everywhere, and many soldiers wanted to flee to the positions to the east.
At this time, the Meng Lianggu position was already full of corpses of soldiers, and Zhang Lingfu realized that the difficulty of breaking through was too great, so he had to send telegrams to Lao Jiang and Gu Zhu and others one after another to request support.
When Li Tianxia of the Eighty-third Division received the telegram, she immediately replied
The telegram said that his troops were in the process of rescuing, hoping that Zhang Lingfu's troops would be able to hold out for three hours.
Huang Baitao
However, Li Tianxia did not really want to save him, but only sent a part of the troops to the rescue. So why on earth was he unwilling to save Zhang Lingfu? reputedly
At that time, the two of them had competed for the position of commander of the Seventy-fourth Division
Later, he did not succeed as he wished, and naturally had a lot of unwillingness in his heart. Old Jiang also ordered Huang Baitao and other troops to do everything they could to rescue the Seventy-fourth Division.
Although he has tried his best, our blocking team is also not to be underestimated. When they found the enemy's reinforcements, they immediately engaged them,
The warriors knew very well in their hearts that after the enemy had successfully reinforced
What kind of situation our army will face, so they have also done everything in their power on the battlefield, and the enemy's Fifth Army has been successfully pinned down by our army.
Later, only two enemy units successfully approached the encirclement of our army, and at this time their position was only five kilometers away from the Seventy-fourth Division.
Immediately formed a fire cross point against it
Old Chiang Kai-shek's heart was also extremely anxious, and he could only order these two units again to break through our firepower and rescue the Seventy-fourth Division.
In a fierce battle
Naturally, our army would not let the enemy achieve its goal so easily, so General Su Yu immediately ordered all troops to accelerate to the high ground of Meng Lianggu and tell all the generals,
This is the most important moment for the siege of the Seventy-fourth Division,
It is hoped that all the troops will cooperate with each other and work together to win the final victory of this battle.
After hearing the order, the commanders said that they would resolutely complete the task and mobilized the soldiers passionately. As the battle begins again,
As if killing red eyes, the soldiers of our army shelled fiercely in the direction of the enemy.
The entire position was burning with fire, the enemy's combat formation had been completely destroyed, the soldiers could only scatter in all directions, and Zhang Lingfu could only choose to hide in a cave with some of his henchmen.
Surprisingly, under these circumstances, he still did not give up the call for help from other troops, and at the most critical moment, a general named Wang Bicheng directly used the special task force as a reserve, and at that time, this special service group was under the leadership of the entire He Fengshan.
Desperate to pounce on the top of the hill,
However, in the end, it was still met with the stubborn resistance of the enemy, and He Fengshan could only give orders for the warriors to take out the light and heavy weapons in their hands and continue to strafe in the direction of the enemy.
Soon he attacked the cave where Zhang Lingfu was hiding, he saw that he had been defeated, still not dead, or ordered his escort to put up a resistance, but they had just come out of the cave and were ready to attack.
He had died at the muzzle of our army's guns.
The only regret is that in the course of this engagement, an instructor of our army's special task force regiment was killed on the spot.
This incident further aroused the anger of the warriors, who shot and shot whenever they saw the enemy
Under such circumstances, Zhang Lingfu also fell in a pool of blood, and after that, the rest of the enemy also laid down their weapons and chose to surrender to our army.
The Seventy-fourth Division was completely destroyed
Finally, our army won a complete victory in the Battle of Menglianggu, and the soldiers stood on the positions and cheered continuously, so that all the positions were occupied by our army.
The Seventy-fourth Division, the king's division of the nationalist army, was also completely annihilated by our army
In this battle, our army annihilated more than 30,000 enemy troops and gained a lot.
After this battle, Old Chiang was very distressed, and once built a monument for the Seventy-fourth Division as a reward. In order to punish Li Tianxia, who failed to rescue,
He sent it directly to the warlord for punishment
Our army lost more than twelve thousand people in this battle, and General Su Yu made great contributions in the process.
In fact, there were many battles commanded by Su Yu, however
Behind these achievements is the dedication of General Su Yu's life
He has paid too much for the establishment of the mainland, and we should always remember those revolutionary ancestors. Then today's content ends here, everyone has any views can leave a message in the comment area, we will see you in the next issue.
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