Su Yu has a very important position in our army, ** once said that he is the person who is the best at fighting, especially during the Liberation War, he is invincible, and has fought many classic battles, especially in the Battle of Menglianggu, he successfully annihilated the integrated 74th Division, and even *** said frankly afterwards that even he didn't expect it, which shows how shocking this battle is.
All along, the Northeast region is very important to both the enemy and us, among which Shandong is one of the most important hubs of transportation in China, if you can control Linyi, Shandong in your hands, you can send troops to the Northeast more smoothly, from 1947, Chiang Kai-shek has formulated a plan for the decisive battle in Luzhong, and gradually take the Shandong region as his own, however, the strength of our army is not bad, Chiang Kai-shek soon found that they did not have much chance of winning in the face of our army.
After that, Chiang Kai-shek sent a large number of troops to concentrate on the attack, of which the main force of the Shandong battlefield was the reorganization of the 74th Division, with a strength of up to 450,000, and at that time Su Yu had only more than 200,000 people in his hands, according to the original plan, Li Tianxia was responsible for commanding the reorganization of the 74th Division, the 83rd Division, and the 7th Army, but Zhang Lingfu was at odds with Li Tianxia, and naturally did not want his integrated 74th Division to be controlled by Li Tianxia, so he sent a letter to Tang Enbo to explain the situation.
Chiang Kai-shek has always valued Zhang Lingfu, and his record is also very good, Tang Enbo can not help but consider his feelings, but he does not want to offend Li Tianxia, when he is in a dilemma, Li Tianxia violated the order and led the troops to retreat, which just gave Tang Enbo a chance, so he immediately gave the command of the 74th Division to Zhang Lingfu. The plan after that was that Zhang Lingfu led the 74th Division as the main force, and the other two divisions were responsible for covering.
At this time, our army is waiting for a big battle, the action of the 74th Division just gave our army a rare opportunity, although the 74th Division has sufficient troops, advanced equipment, and two divisions to assist, but Su Yu still insists on fighting head-on, he has long found that although Zhang Lingfu has good military ability, but has been very arrogant and domineering for many years, so he has angered many people, ** has never been an iron plate, our army can completely annihilate the 74th Division through Zhang Lingfu's weakness.
Moreover, as the main force of the Kuomintang army, the 74th Division has a high prestige, and if our army can defeat it, it can deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Kuomintang army, so this battle must be fought. What Su Yu has to do is to dig out the tiger's heart, because the gap between the 74th Division and other troops is large, our army can completely divide it and completely annihilate the 74th Division when it is isolated and helpless.
When Su Yu submitted the battle plan to **, ** quickly approved it, and then Su Yu and others immediately got busy, made all preparations in advance, and only waited for the 74th Division to fall into the trap of our army. On the other hand, Zhang Lingfu has always been very confident in himself, they have captured many regions along the way, and they also have the best American equipment, Zhang Lingfu has been carried away by all this.
Su Yu understood the contradiction between Zhang Lingfu and Li Tianxia, in his opinion, Li Tianxia must not fully assist Zhang Lingfu, so he focused on the 25th Division, so that the connection between the 74th Division and the 25th Division was cut off, and at the same time sent troops to cut off the access to the left and right sides of Zhang Lingfu, in addition, he also sent a ** army, that is, the Sixth Column, they quickly went north, concealed all the news, and waited until the critical moment to send them into battle.
After our army launched an attack, Zhang Lingfu quickly panicked, although he also tried to deal with it, but our army's offensive was too fierce, Zhang Lingfu could only retreat, after arriving at Meng Lianggu, Zhang Lingfu was unable to break through, although Chiang Kai-shek quickly ordered to send troops to support, but it was already too late, and finally the 74th Division was annihilated, and Zhang Lingfu was also killed by our army.
After the end of the war, he was very happy, and couldn't help but bluntly say that neither he nor Chiang Kai-shek expected this result. Chiang Kai-shek was even more heartbroken, not only did he lose Zhang Lingfu as his favorite general, but at the same time, the overall plan was also disrupted, and even his morale became extremely low.