In the two Lianshui battles before the Battle of Menglianggu, Zhang Lingfu had inflicted heavy losses on Huaye, and the Huaye soldiers also seemed a little sluggish because of this defeat, and even rumors in the army that most of them suffered"Tension phobia".
This is not Zhang Lingfu who is boasting about the 74th Division, after all, Zhang Lingfu played well in the second dozen ripples. But Zhang Lingfu's opponent is Su Yu, who is a god of war, how can he let Zhang Lingfu be conceited?
Su Yu. So in the later Menglianggu Battle, Su Yu directly sent Zhang Lingfu back to the west, it is worth mentioning that the decisive victory in the Menglianggu Battle was actually related to a box of ** materials that Su Yu stumbled upon, what is going on?
During March 1947, Chiang Kai-shek transferred nearly one-third of the army, about 450,000 troops, to the Shandong battlefield, and appointed Gu Zhutong as the commander-in-chief, Gu Zhutong had Tang Enbo, Wang Jingjiu and Ou Zhen 3 large corps, and the corps had Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division, Hu Lian's 11th Division and Qiu Qingquan's 5th Army.
Gu Zhutong. At that time, Huaye was only about 270,000 people, but 12 columns, the strength was only half of Chiang Kai-shek's, it can be said that whether it is soft power or hard power, Huaye can not compete with **.
Chiang Kai-shek also absorbed the problems of the Laiwu Campaign, and this campaign was directly formulated:
Intensively approach, steady and steady, gradually advancing, and avoiding prominence.The 16-word strategy of warfare.
Although the ** army is strong, there are many factions, each with a ghost, no one looks down on anyone, it seems to be intimate, but they have different dreams in the same bed.
However, on the contrary, Huaye has the advantage of being in the same step, united in his heart, flexible in his tactics, and strong in his mobility.
Qiu Qingquan. Now it is whimsical to intensively get closer to abandon the heavy troops and Huaye than to be more mobile and flexible.
Sure enough, Su Yu quickly grasped the weakness and decided to retreat to the Yimeng Mountain area first, and then dragged the enemy around the Yimeng Mountain in the way of "playing dragon lanterns", and took the opportunity to catch the enemy again.
played the half-moon dragon lantern so easily, and directly ate the 72nd Division of Wang Jingjiu's corps, allowing the 72nd Division to cry wolf for help, but there was no power to return to the sky.
Although the 72nd Division was swallowed and Huaye was given the opening prize, this was obviously not enough, it was just the icing on the cake. **The main trump card still exists, and the Shandong battlefield is still not optimistic.
Wang Jingjiu. However, Su Yu played the dragon lantern to let Chiang Kai-shek know, and the confused old Chiang thought that Huaye was most likely on the verge of extinction, and hurriedly ordered Gu Zhutong to speed up the attack on the Shandong battlefield.
At the same time, the Tang Enbo Corps also discovered the Huaye Army in the Tangbu area, and also discovered the Huaye Command Post stationed here. Tang Enbo happily immediately commanded Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division to start attacking Huaye, wanting to take the first credit.
In order to confuse Su Yu to transfer the main force of Huaye, he also pretended to order the 7th Army of the Gui Department and the 48th Division to attack the south of Yishui, pretending to be a lone division to lure the main force of Huaye.
Townenburg. I have to say, Towneburgh has become a lot smarter!
But this ** can escape Su Yu's eyes, Su Yu used the captured prisoners of war to break Tang Enbo's plan, but now there are two ways in front of Su Yu:
Clause.1. Leave the battlefield without damaging a single soldier or soldier.
Clause.Obviously, neither of these is the best approach.Second, the plan will be calculated, besieging the 7th Army and the 48th Division that came to Yishui, but before the 74th Division rushes to come.
Although the first one will not **, tossing back and forth will inevitably make Hua Ye's previous efforts go down the drain, which will greatly damage Hua Ye's morale.
Hu Lian. The second is even more of a bad idea, not to mention whether the 7th Army and the 48th Division can be sent back to the west before the 74th Division comes, the 7th Army and the 48th Division are people of the Gui family, known as the "Steel Army", no worse than Ye Ting's "Iron Army" troops, it is too difficult to eat.
After thinking about it, Su Yu said directly:
"If you don't retreat, you don't retreat, just hit the 74th Division. ”This idea is really crazy, the 74th Division is the first of the five ace main forces of the Kuomintang, the United States, heavy, and absolutely world-class elite troops.
The division commander Zhang Lingfu is also a fierce general who is in the same class as **, and as I said before, Zhang Lingfu has two times of ripples, and even some people in Huaye have suffered from "fear of tension", Su Yu's idea is really crazy.
Zhang Lingfu. Su Yu never does things that he is not sure of, although the 74th Division is well-equipped, and Huang Baitao's 25th Division and Li Tianxia's 83rd Division are **, but Su Yu is determined to complete the feat of taking the first rank of the superior in the million-dollar army.
Su Yu naturally didn't have this idea impulsively for revenge, which inevitably made Su Yu think too naïve.
First of all, Su Yu believes that the 74th Division is not invincible, it is completely impregnable, and the 74th Division, as the first trump card, if it can be annihilated, it can not only improve the morale of our army, but also punish Lao Jiang.
* After hearing this, he immediately made a decision to support Su Yu, and the peak showdown between Huaye and the 74th Division was coming.
*。Since it is necessary to achieve the "first rank of general in a million army", it is necessary to create conditions, first of all, to make the 74th Division stand out and become an absolute lone division, and it is best to let Zhang Lingfu fall to death, and then Su Yu directly chose Zhang Lingfu's cemetery - Meng Lianggu.
Why Menglianggu?
First of all, let's talk about the significance of Meng Lianggu to Zhang Lingfu, because Meng Lianggu was the blessed land chosen by Zhang Lingfu from the beginning, and here is the agreement between him and Tang Enbo to implement"Stick to the help, the center blossoms".The strategic location, according to the original military order, Huang Baitao and Li Tianxia are going to be the first to be the first to Zhang Lingfu.
But when the 74th Division crossed Wenshui, Huang Baitao and Li Tianxia moved too slowly, and they had already opened a distance of hundreds of miles from Zhang Lingfu.
Huang Baitao. After Su Yu found out, he immediately sent Xu Shiyou and Ye Fei's column to step forward to launch a semi-encirclement posture against Zhang Lingfu.
Zhang Lingfu has no ** left and right at the moment, and has become a lone teacher, and there are only two retreats in front of Zhang Lingfu at this moment
One is Duozhuang, and the other is Meng Lianggu.And the battlement village and Menglianggu are very different, the battlement village has water and food, but the terrain is not easy to defend;Meng Lianggu has no water and no food, but the terrain has an advantage, and there is no way to defend the opponent.
Zhang Lingfu naturally wanted to choose Meng Lianggu, and Su Yu would not leave the battlement to Zhang Lingfu, and directly ordered Wang Bicheng's column to seize the battlement.
Wang Bicheng. Zhang Lingfu naturally could only choose Meng Lianggu, and sure enough, Meng Lianggu was indeed not easy to fight, and Su Yu besieged several times without any breakthrough victories.
However, a few days later, the 74th Division began to fail, first of all, the lack of water is a big problem, in addition to the soldiers' water, most of the heavy machine guns of the 74th Division are water-cooled, and the barrel cannot be fired without water refrigeration, and no matter how advanced it is, it is just a pile of heavy iron.
Zhang Lingfu also became anxious, and hurriedly telegraphed Nanjing, hoping to send planes to drop supplies including ammunition, fresh water, and food for them.
However, the terrain of Menglianggu is complicated, and the airdrop is not easy, and some materials are even directly thrown into Huaye's troops.
Su Yu. At this moment, Huaye is actually facing great difficulties, after all, there is still no progress in attacking the 74th Division many times in a row, and even the proportion of our army's deaths is not much smaller than **, Su Yu also began to hesitate a little.
But suddenly, the materials dropped by the ** plane gave Su Yu inspiration, and Su Yu personally opened the materials and found that they were all filled with fresh water, and after opening several boxes in a row, he found that the proportion of fresh water was very large.
Su Yu guessed and affirmed that Zhang Lingfu was extremely short of water and should immediately attack the 74th Division again, and then Huaye played a style of overcoming fatigue and continuing to fight, and directly annihilated the integrated 74th Division entrenched in Meng Lianggu in one fell swoop, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu also died in this battle.
Ironically, not long after the 74th Division was completely annihilated, Meng Lianggu suddenly rained heavily, and it seemed that the 74th Division would be wiped out here.