On this day, 78 years ago, on May 16, 1947 (March 26, 1947, the Kuomintang general Zhang Lingfu was killed in the Menglianggu area. On May 16, 1947, the East China Field Army, which was moving rapidly towards Meng Lianggu, the reorganized 74th Division, one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang's ace army, was completely wiped out by the East China Field Army, and its commander Zhang Lingfu was killed. In this battle, 19600 Kuomintang troops were captured and 13000 were killed and injured. At the beginning of the battle, an old lady from Yimeng Mountain pointed out the target to the People's Liberation Army artillery. In March 1947, the Kuomintang army gathered about 450,000 people from 24 integrated divisions and 60 brigades to launch a key offensive on the Jiefang District in Shandong. Among them, the main force of 255,000 relatives attacked Xintai and Mengyin areas in central Shandong. On the 29th, the Kuomintang army occupied Mengyin. The East China Field Army withdrew its main force to areas east of Laiwu, Xintai and Mengyin. On May 11, the Kuomintang army marched north from the front lines of Linyi and Tai 'an in three routes, forcing the East China Field Army to retreat to the narrow area of Jiaodong. The East China Field Army concentrated its main force and adopted the tactics of central breakthrough and two wings to encircle and annihilate the advancing Kuomintang reorganization 74th Division. On the 13th, the East China Field Army launched a fierce attack. On the 14th, it divided and surrounded the 74th Division in the Yulianggu area. Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly dispatched 10 reorganized divisions and assembled them to Mengyin and Qingtuo Temple, but was blocked. On the 15th, the East China Field Army launched a general attack on Meng Lianggu, and the fierce battle lasted until the 16th. Zhang Lingfu, lieutenant general commander of the 74th Division, was killed. Zhang Lingfu, Zhang Lingfu (1903.08.20~1947.05.16), who was killed, was named Zhong Lin, and the word Lingfu. Born in 1903 and admitted to Peking University in 1923. Later, he joined the military and was admitted to the fourth term of Whampoa Military Academy in the autumn of 1925. After graduation, he served as platoon leader of the Second Division of the First Army, and later promoted to company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander. In 1935, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering his wife and was released after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan in 1937. He has served successively as regiment commander, division commander, deputy army commander, etc. He participated in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Nanjing Defense War, the Wuhan Battle, etc., and was awarded the Yunhui Medal and the Baoding Medal. In April 1946, he was promoted to lieutenant general commander of the 74th Army and concurrently served as commander of the Nanjing Garrison. In May, the 74th Army was reorganized into the reorganized 74th Division and served as lieutenant general commander. In the spring of 1947, he participated in the key offensive on the Jiefang District of Shandong and led his troops into the Menglianggu area southeast of Mengyin. Zhang Lingfu and his wife Wang Yuling Zhang Lingfu Zhang Lingfu and his wife Wang Yuling