Battle of Menglianggu Whether Li Tianxia reinforces the 74th Division in time 5

According to the war history, Li Tianxia did reinforce the 74th Division, but it is not known whether it is true.

The Battle of Menglianggu ended victoriously. More than 30,000 people in a regiment of the 74th Division and the 83rd Division of the Kuomintang were all annihilated! Chiang Kai-shek lamented the loss of the tiger general and lamented that the annihilation of the 74th Division was his "most painful and regrettable thing."

** The commander was so happy that he wrote a poem about the majestic mountains and rivers with a pen: "Meng Lianggu is howling with ghosts and gods, and the 74th Division has no place to escape." The signals are flying and the stars are dazzling, and the lighting is burning everywhere.

The knives rushed to the top of the mountain, and the rain of blood came to wet the robes. I am glad to see that the thieves are exhausted, and our army is heroic. ”

Answer: I was wrapped in dumplings and wiped out.

Because the two fought for the position of commander of the 74th Division, they fought openly and secretly, but Zhang Lingfu squeezed Li Tianxia down, and Li Tianxia has always held a grudge against it.

On May 13, 1947, the Battle of Huamenglianggu began, and the two sides were the nine main columns of the East China Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the 74th Division of the Kuomintang Army.

At 10 o'clock on May 14, after the 74th Division lost Tianma Mountain, Mamuchi, Leishi Mountain and other places, it felt that there was a danger of being surrounded and annihilated, that is, it hurriedly retreated to the direction of Menglianggu and Duozhuang, and organized a force to counterattack. The East China Field Army found that the reorganized 74th Division had withdrawn south, and immediately took advantage of the victory to attack fiercely.

On the morning of 15 May, the entire 74th Division was besieged on several hills with Menglianggu as the core, mainly 520, the East and West Highlands, and Lushan and Diaowo. At 13 o'clock, the East China Field Army launched a general offensive, and all units attacked from all directions, and the 74th Division was reorganized to resist stubbornly.

The closest reinforcement to the 74th Division was the Kuomintang 83rd Division, and the division commander was Li Tianxia. Zhang Lingfu and Li Tianxia are both graduates of Huangpu, and they are both close associates of Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 74th Army (the predecessor of the reorganized 74th Division).

However, before that, the two of them fought openly and secretly for the position of commander of the reorganized 74th Division, but Zhang Lingfu squeezed Li Tianxia down, and Li Tianxia has always held a grudge against it.

When Zhang Lingfu was fighting Menglianggu, although Li Tianxia was only 10 kilometers away from him, Li Tianxia only symbolically sent a company to advance to the east side of Menglianggu, while the rest of the troops stood still and watched Zhang Lingfu being beaten.

At about 15 o'clock on the 16th, Menglianggu and 600 heights were captured. Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 74th Division, Cai Renjie, deputy commander of the division, Lu Xing, commander of the 58th Brigade, and other generals were killed, and Wei Zhenyue, chief of staff of the 74th Division, Li Yunliang, deputy chief of staff, Chen Chuanjun, commander of the 51st Brigade, and Chen Shuyun, commander of the 57th Brigade, were captured.

After hearing the news, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram ordering "Tang Enbo to be removed from his post and investigated, and Li Tianxia to be shot on the spot." Later, because Commander Tang went to Nanjing to report to Chiang Kai-shek about the command system and the situation on the ground, Li Caien pardoned his death.

In the Battle of Menglianggu in May 1947, the 74th Division, known as one of the five main trump cards of the Kuomintang, was annihilated, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu also died on the battlefield. Within the Kuomintang, Li Tianxia, commander of the reorganized 83rd Division, was responsible for Zhang Lingfu's death, and everyone believed that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely execute Li Tianxia.

During the Battle of Menglianggu, Chiang Kai-shek arranged for the closest army to Zhang Lingfu, that is, Li Tianxia's department, to cover Zhang Lingfu's right flank. But Li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu have deep contradictions, and their grievances have been going on for a long time.

One is that Li Tianxia's military qualifications are deeper than Zhang Lingfu, Li Tianxia is a third-term student of Huangpu, and she does not have a high evaluation of Zhang Lingfu in the fourth period, thinking that he is a person like Zhang Fei, who can only rush in battle, and has courage but no strategy. I can't get used to Zhang Lingfu's vassal elegance, and he likes to ride horses, practice calligraphy, and buy antique calligraphy and paintings, which are not like soldiers. Second, the two formed a grudge when they competed for the position of commander of the 74th Division.

At that time, Wang Yaowu, the superior, had a good relationship with Zhang Lingfu, and favored Zhang Lingfu when the two were fighting for the throne of the commander of the 74th Division of the Ace Army. Third, in the coordinated anti-Japanese operation, Zhang Lingfu complained to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Li Tianxia was greedy for life and afraid of death, and feared the enemy, and Li Tianxia was dismissed from the post of commander of the first column. Fourth, all Kuomintang troops wanted to preserve their own strength, for fear that the support would weaken their own strength during Zhang Lingfu's departure and thus be annexed by others.

Therefore, this time Chiang Kai-shek asked Li Tianxia to save Zhang Lingfu, he was reluctant, but when the overall situation of resistance against Japan was at the head, he did not dare to openly disobey Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and still sent troops to rescue. But he played tricks on his heart, and did not do his best to rescue Zhang Lingfu according to Chiang Kai-shek's requirements. He sent only one company of troops, but posed as a regiment to carry out the rescue.

He also ordered the 57th Regiment, which was closest to Duozhuang (the original station of the reorganized 74th Division), to assist in the defense of Duozhuang to ensure the retreat of Zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division. However, Li Tianxia was very cunning, and once vaguely said that Luo Wenlang, the commander of the 57th Regiment, should be clever and retreat at any time when the situation was critical.

So when Li Tianxia saw death and could not be saved, Zhang Lingfu ended up tragically and was completely annihilated.

The Battle of Menglianggu was a battle in which the 74th Division of the five main forces of the Kuomintang was completely annihilated, and the commander of the Lieutenant General Zhang Lingfu was killed. Li Tianxia was loved by Chiang Kai-shek, and felt that he could not make meritorious contributions desperately, and was reluctant to let his troops fight.

Because of the contradiction between Li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu, the two competed to be the division commander in the 74th Army, and later Li Tianxia failed and was extremely resentful of Zhang Lingfu.

Kuomintang officers valued their own troops very much, and they were the capital for their own promotions and fortunes, and they were not willing to lose their own troops in order to save others.

Li Tianxia cheated and played tricks, she didn't want to fight, and Zhang Lingfu was still a celebrity around Lao Jiang, so she couldn't fight for him, so in the end she only sent a regiment of troops but didn't attack.

Because Zhang Lingfu and Li Tianxia did not have a particularly good relationship, even if there was an order from Chiang Kai-shek, they were all shaking themselves.

Zhang Lingfu was overconfident, and even expected someone to support him, but Li Tian never wanted to send his troops up to fight.

Because these two people themselves have a lot of contradictions, Li Tianxia will not risk her life to save Zhang Lingfu.

Li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu have a deep personal grudge, and Li Tianxia is not the kind of person who has a strong sense of the country.

In this battle, the People's Liberation Army annihilated the 74th Division and the 57th Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 83rd Division, killed and wounded 10,000 enemies, and captured 190,000 people, a total of 10,000 people, captured 28 mountain and field artillery, 14 infantry guns and anti-aircraft guns, 235 mortars, 987 light and heavy machine guns, 9,828 long and short guns, and 43 rocket launchers.

The PLA suffered 2,043 casualties and 9,300 wounded (not including reinforcements**), which is almost equivalent to the number of 74th Division**. 6 mortars, 153 light and heavy machine guns, 531 long and short guns, and 3 shells were consumed30,000 rounds, 1.99 million bullets, 10,000 grenades.

The combat area was the old liberated area, and not only the fortified walls were cleared, but also 760,000 civilian workers accompanying the army, 10,000 second-line migrant workers, and 690,000 temporary civilian workers transported ammunition, food, and the wounded, making great contributions to the victory of the campaign.