Before writing this, let's state the following:
1. I have been thinking about traveling to Menglianggu for two years, and for various reasons, it was finally realized this year;
2. "Gu", mostly refers to the steep around the mountain, the top is flat, Shandong has the famous "Yimeng Seventy-two Gu", Meng Lianggu is one of the representatives.
3. When I was in the second grade of primary school, I knew about the "Menglianggu Battle". In the fifties, there were people who rented villain's books on the roadside in Qingdao, and they could rent a book for one or two cents, but because it was not easy to get one or two cents, they were willing to pay back the rent after reading it many times. In addition, there was a movie "Red Sun" back then, which was often played in the open air, and the little boy was definitely a fan of this movie, so he had a deep impression of Meng Lianggu;
4. This visit to Meng Lianggu has a deeper impression, many plots are different from the knowledge points in childhood, and there is a feeling that is more tragic than the three major battles of the Liberation War;
5. There are two roads to walk in the Menglianggu Battle Memorial Hall, one is the asphalt road that is easier to walk, but it is a little farther, and the other is the mountain road, which is difficult to walk, but less closer. In order to experience the tragedy of that time, I chose to walk the mountain road.
After walking through the mountain road, I had a more profound experience of this battle. Some places are simply not roads, which shows how the People's Liberation Army attacked the top of the mountain and defeated the elite army of the Kuomintang 74 ace. So some people say that no one dares to beat Meng Lianggu except Su Yu. It is said that Su Yu did not close his eyes for three days, and a phone call in 5 minutes shouted to his subordinates: I don't want the number of dead and wounded, I want Meng Lianggu!
The result of the battle of Menglianggu is not to say that Chiang Kai-shek did not expect it, even Chairman Mao did not expect it, if it were not for Su Yu to command, the second commander would not be able to fight such a fairy battle.
The "Battle of Menglianggu" should be the largest battle in the War of Liberation, and the number of people on both sides participated in the battle was also the largest, and it was fought for three days and three nights.
According to incomplete statistics of the battle at that time, more than 270,000 people of our Huaye Field Army participated in the Menglianggu Campaign, while the number of Kuomintang troops participating in the battle was more than 450,000, and more than 700,000 people participated in this battle.
The battle of Menglianggu lasted for three days and three nights, and the battle was very tragic, and the casualties on both sides were also very tragic.
Our army suffered more than 21,000 casualties in total, of which more than 9,000 were wounded, while the number of casualties of the national army was more than 10,000 more than that of our army. After the battle of Menglianggu, the entire mountain was full of corpses of soldiers on both sides, and the common people did not dare to come up the mountain again for several years. I had an eerie feeling when I climbed this mountain.
The 74th Division was reorganized from the 74th Army, and it was the first to be reequipped with all-American equipment during the reorganization. The division has more than 32,000 people, well-trained and powerful firepower. There is an example to back this up. In the Battle of Menglianggu, our army captured 2.08 million rounds of ammunition and more than 7,000 shells.
The performance of the 74th Division in the Battle of Menglianggu was not bad, and it launched counterattacks against the PLA many times when it ran out of ammunition and food, and the 74th Division was also a unit in the national army that was rarely able to fight the PLA to the end, and many soldiers of the 74th Division dared to engage in field and hand-to-hand combat with the PLA.
In 1954, the State Council allocated special funds to build the Menglianggu Martyrs Cemetery, which became a national key revolutionary martyrs memorial building protection unit. The Menglianggu Battle Memorial Hall was renovated and constructed in 2007, and consists of four parts: the memorial hall, the martyrs' cemetery, the battle site area, and the sculpture garden. With a total construction area of 3,682 square meters, the memorial hall is 19.47 meters high and has the shape of two red triangular battle flags.
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