| dc.description.abstract | On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. Both the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were In order to be the first to receive the Japanese occupation then cause military conflict, meanwhile, the US begins to reconcile the dispute but the peace is temporary, finally, in July 1946, led to the civil war broke out.The KMT decided to eliminate the CCP in the south of the Great Wall, then transfer their troops to the north to recover the entire northeast China.
From January to the end of February 1947, the CCP in the Battle of Lunan and the Battle of Laiwu in eastern China defeated the KMT. Therefore, in March 1947, the KMT change guideline from a comprehensive attack to a key attack. On May 16th, 1947, the battle of Meng Liangzhu in Shandong Province, the 74th Division commander Zhang Lingfu, the KMT elite troop, was the main attacking force, but the army was besieged then annihilated by five times of the CCP troop. This result was a heavy blow to KMT. Aftermath, the CCP began to take military superiority and lay the foundation for its future attack in eastern China. | en_US |