Meng Liang gu, a rocky hill in Yimeng mountain area in south-central Shandong province, lies between Mengyin and Yinan counties.

There are different reasons why a place is famous. Meng Lianggu is famous because of a battle. It is the main battlefield and an important battle was staged in its territory.

In that battle, "the heroic People's Liberation Army wiped out one of Chiang Kai-shek's five main forces-the Kuomintang reorganized the 74th Division. Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the 74th Division and a Kuomintang reactionary, whose hands were stained with people's blood, was shot dead on the spot.

This is the conclusion in the previous Chinese textbook.

in that battle, * * * wiped out 32,68 Kuomintang troops, including 19,68 captured and 13, killed. The People's Liberation Army sacrificed about 2,43 people, injured about 9,3 people, and other staff members reduced about 846 people, totaling 12,189 people.

this is the number I saw in the battle memorial hall.

Later, this campaign was named Meng Lianggu Campaign, which made Meng Lianggu famous at home and abroad.

Later, the Meng Lianggu Campaign Monument was built on the main peak of Meng Lianggu, and the Meng Lianggu Campaign Memorial Hall was built at the foot of the mountain, which is now a patriotic education base.

On that day, five of us, accompanied by a local friend, visited the memorial hall and climbed the mountain.

at the memorial hall, the tour guide told me vividly about the tragic death of that year, and I was somewhat absent-minded.

First, I have been a soldier for several decades, and the outline of this famous battle has been known; Second, with the progress of years, people feel that the process is not so important when counting the results of some events.

The wives of the entourage, the wives and daughters of comrades-in-arms are very interested.

no wonder, for such a scene, it just surprised them.

After visiting the memorial hall, we went to Meng Lianggu Mountain.

that battle was fought in 1947. After three days and nights of fighting, Zhang Lingfu was killed.

After Zhang Lingfu was killed, the battle was over. Those Kuomintang brothers who were really rescued or pretended to be rescued in the periphery retreated separately.

It is said that there are people who desperately want to save Zhang Lingfu, but more are those who are jealous of Zhang Lingfu's pretenders.

do or die tried the truth, but Zhang Lingfu didn't have a chance to screen the truth one by one.

after more than 6 years of wind and rain, blood shed has been diluted, and the once high and low hills and gullies are now mostly covered with green.

Although it is already a national forest park, the shade is not enough to shade the mountain on the way up. The hot weather, carrying a camera with little to shine on, covered in sweat, makes the mood more gloomy and irritable.

all the way up, silently.

Go to the place where Zhang Lingfu died and stop. For any tourist, this should be a place to stop. I am no exception.

Now this place has become a relic. The command post of Zhang Lingfu in those days has collapsed into a cave mouth because of too many years.

no, it's not even the hole, only a gap is left.

Maybe this is a deliberate precipitation of history, and I want to slowly bury this place.

Burying doesn't mean disappearing, but at least because of this burying, people's eyes will be forgotten and some dazzling blood will be lost.

There are still three stories about Zhang Lingfu's death:

One is that Zhang Lingfu fought a desperate battle and was shot dead on the spot by the PLA soldiers who rushed up the mountain first.

Secondly, the story that the Kuomintang brought to Taiwan Province is that Zhang Lingfu led the officers in the headquarters to commit suicide collectively.

The third argument is: Zhang Lingfu tried to commit suicide, but failed to raise his gun. Our soldiers rushed into the cave and captured all of them alive. The last grass-roots commander turned a cavity of anger into several irrational bullets and shot them into the back of the head of this generation of famous soldiers.

people can't step into the same river twice, and people can't die in two or more ways.

there must be one and only one truth about Zhang Lingfu's death.

the truth sometimes needs to be proved, sometimes it needs to be guessed, and sometimes it needs to be hidden.

I heard from a friend that descendants of Zhang Lingfu once came here. Needless to say, I can hardly guess their mood at that time.

"The place where Zhang Lingfu was killed" is not only dazzling, but also stinging.

However, in the face of history, future generations, no matter how miserable they are, have seen the place where their ancestors died. At this time, in their hearts, they should pay homage, not hatred.

It is said that under the cliff outside Zhang Lingfu's headquarters, on the afternoon of 16th, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which was desperately attacking, once left a body as thick as seven stories.

before, I always thought that Zhang Lingfu should be a military commander. This time, I learned from the introduction that Zhang is actually an authentic Confucian general. He is tall and handsome. He studied in the history department of Peking University, and then joined the army in Huangpu.

Wen Peking University, Wu Huangpu, and Wen Wu all had the highest academic qualifications at that time, and were good at calligraphy, and wrote many military books and articles. Zhang was also a rare talent among the generals of the national army with generally high cultural literacy.

such a talented person, who corrected himself to death, made me feel another way about this famous anti-Japanese soldier.

When I walked down from Meng Lianggu, I recalled the tragic events that happened between compatriots in different camps, and I suddenly felt a sense of sadness and could not help sighing.

what can I do except sigh?

it suddenly occurred to me who said something to this effect: the real human hero is the person who stands in a corner and calls for peace.

we need national heroes, and we also need human heroes.