What about the troops who went deep into the mountainous area of Luzhong to seek a decisive battle with Hua Ye? He is the 65, 438+07 reorganization division of the first corps, the second corps and the third corps in Ouzhen. Roughly speaking, it accounts for 70% of all mobile forces in ancient times, with about 330 thousand people. It should be noted that, except for the whole 74th Division and the elite division of the whole 1 1 Division, most divisions of Jiangjun have only more than 20,000 people. Commander-in-Chief Gu's only consolation is that these three corps include the third of the "five main forces" (the whole 74, the whole 1 1, the fifth army) and the whole 25th division, the Guangxi Seventh Army and other elite trump cards, and their combat effectiveness is really first-class.
The East China Field Army has just won a great victory in the battle of Laiwu, captured many weapons and reformed prisoners. During this period, the 1 1 regiment was upgraded and incorporated into the field army, so there were ten columns (nine field columns and one special forces column) on standby in Luzhong Mountain area. What's the average number of people in Hua Ye's main column? According to the telegram sent by Su Yu to Xibaipo to prepare for an adventurous action, there are actually more than 82,000 people in the second, seventh and eighth columns, with an average of more than 27,000 people in each column. Please note that these three columns are not the first-class main forces in Hua Ye, with more than 30,000 people in columns 1, 4, 6 and 9.
In other words, in the battlefield of Meng Lianggu in May/947, more than 330,000 Chiang troops attacked 270,000 Hua Ye, and the strength contrast was only 1: 1.22, with little difference. After the start of the campaign, except for the whole 74th Division surrounded by Hua Ye, Gu Neng mobilized only ten reinforcements from the BGF Division nearby, of which the whole 1 1 Division was not close to the 5th Army. What concept? Specific to the front-line combat troops, only less than 300,000 Chiang Kai-shek attacked Hua Ye's main force, and any anti-encirclement campaign and the blossoming of the center were all nonsense, because Chiang Kai-shek's total strength had no obvious advantage at all.
This is the reason why Gu ordered the three regiments to "close together intensively, strengthen maintenance, slowly but surely, and gradually advance". He knew very well that Chiang Kai-shek was only slightly superior in strength when he got together, but once he was dispersed, he would be divided by Hua Ye, thus dividing them one by one. However, after scouting the location of Hua Ye headquarters, Tang tried to showdown with Hua Ye with eight BGF divisions in the headquarters, regardless of the pre-war deployment of the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces and the advancing speed of the other two regiments, which was simply a seasoned road. His 200,000 people can eat Su Yu's 270,000 troops?
In particular, the decisive battle position is even worse for Chiang Kai-shek. Meng Lianggu is located in the old Yimeng mountain area, and Hua Ye has a good mass base. When maneuvering, the confidentiality is particularly strong. However, Chiang Kai-shek was not only well-equipped in mountainous areas, but also paralyzed in intelligence work. This is the old base of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. So, according to Xibaipo's instructions, "one is not impatient, and the other is not divided." As long as the main force is in hand, there is always a chance to destroy the enemy. "Su Yu will not avoid the war at all, but will find the enemy along the way. Originally, the first hammer was to hit the Guangxi 7 th Army and the reorganized 48 th Division on the enemy's right wing.
Therefore, Zhang rashly made a "central breakthrough", threw off the cover of the entire 25 th Division and the entire 83 rd Division, and went straight to Tanbu. In May 1 1, there was an exchange of fire with Hua Ye 9. According to the inside information, Su Yu fully grasped the position of the eight reorganization divisions of the Tang Corps, and it was more clear that the whole seventy-four division in trouble had started a one-to-two-day trip with other neighboring troops. I've been looking for fighters for months, and I can get them as easy as blowing off dust.
The whole battle between the 74th Division and the 9-longitudinal outpost of Hua Ye took place at the western foot of Meng Lianggu. Many military enthusiasts believe that it would be a big mistake if Zhang didn't give up heavy weapons and go up the mountain. According to Ye Fei, the commander-in-chief of the 1 attack, "The whole 74th Division went up the mountain unexpectedly, which interfered with the original deployment of the wild division, so Zhang Duo stayed for two days. Otherwise, according to the original plan, Hua Ye will be in motion and no defensive position of the whole seventy-fourth division into the valley north of Meng Lianggu, attack from above, panic, within five hours can end the battle "!
The final battlefield situation was that Hua Ye surrounded Zhang with five columns1.5000, and the other four columns were not less than1.2000 to stop the enemy's aid. The nearest enemy, the whole 83rd Division and the whole 25th Division of Huang, only have more than 50,000 people, and they are not active, while the whole 1 Division and the 5th Army from Xintai and Laiwu are too late. In fact, it took only two days for Hua Ye to attack from May 14 to arrive on May 16, and the downfall of Zhang and the whole 74th Division was completely understandable.
Even if all the ten reorganization divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's reinforcements arrive at the battlefield, there is not much advantage in terms of strength. At most, Hua Ye quit and let Zhang go. There is no suspense. However, the inconsistency of Chiang Kai-shek's tactics, the stubborn disease of "friendly troops are in trouble and don't move like a mountain" and Zhang's arrogance all make the victory or defeat of the campaign not a big suspense. Hua Ye wiped out the whole 74th Division and a regiment of the whole 83rd Division, the first of the "five main forces", at the cost of 12000 casualties, and then successfully transferred the prisoners to the periphery for rest in the heavy rain.
Lin Biao certainly won't fight this battle. After all, there are still some risks. I'm afraid this is also the difference between Surin's two heads of state fighting. "Fighting immortals" is not an expression. Therefore, the conclusion is not complicated, because Chiang Kai-shek split his troops to attack the battlefield in Shandong, and needed to be blocked by many parties. His first-line combat strength did not occupy much advantage, and various factions and regiments could not cooperate effectively, so it was no accident that he lost the battle. This is also the reason why Su Yu dared to be an ill example in the uneven lines.
After the victory of the Battle of Meng Lianggu, Xibaipo's congratulatory message was originally written like this: "It is costly to destroy the 74th Division, but it is of great significance"!