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✦ History

Menglianggu Campaign

May 13–16, 1947 · Menglianggu Campaign

Result PLA victory

The East China Field Army surrounded and destroyed the elite Reorganized 74th Division in Shandong.

On the map Contemporaries

Nationalists

Communists

Republic of China

Communist-controlled China

Tang Enbo military commander

Hu Lian military commander

Zhang Lingfu military commander

Gu Zhutong military commander

Chen Yi military commander

Su Yu military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 600,000
Killed: 14,000
Captured: 18,000

Strength: 200,000
Killed: 3,500
Wounded: 7,500

Units

Reorganized 74th Division

Third Field Army