The Battle of Menglianggu was a very important battle during the Liberation War, which had a great impact on the psychology of both sides at that time and had a great deterrent effect on the Kuomintang troops. After this war, no Unit of the Kuomintang Army dared to go deep into the hinterland of the PLA base area alone.
In the Battle of Menglianggu, the People's Liberation Army faced the reorganized 74th Division, which was known as the number one main force of the Kuomintang army at that time. The reorganized 74th Division was reorganized from the 74th Army of the former National Revolutionary Army, and although this unit was not formed for a long time, in the eight years of the all-out War of Resistance, it repeatedly made great achievements and gradually surpassed some of the old senior ace units and became the number one main force of the Nationalist Army. The combat effectiveness of this unit is also very strong, especially at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which was equipped with American weapons, and its combat effectiveness was no less than that of the Japanese army.
During the Liberation War, this unit acted as a thug for the Chiang family dynasty, launching a large-scale attack on the PLA base areas and wantonly maiming the PLA soldiers and civilians. Division commander Zhang Lingfu was even more blind and arrogant, and did not pay any attention to our East China Field Army; before the Battle of Menglianggu, Huaye had already suffered losses in many units to reorganize the 74th Division. Before the Battle of Menglianggu, Zhang Lingfu actually knew Huaye's intentions, but he fantasized about using the reorganized 74th Division as bait to attract Huaye's main force, so as to buy time for the troops on the periphery, and finally severely damage or even completely annihilate Huaye's main force.
In order to annihilate this force, Hua Ye did use all the troops that could be mobilized, and Hua Ye's 270,000 troops were all mobilized, of which the four best troops of the first, fourth, sixth, and ninth columns attacked the reorganized 74th Division on MengLianggu. At the time of the fierce battle between Huaye and the reorganized 74th Division, the 450,000 troops of Xuzhou Were watching from the sidelines, and the three units closest to the reorganized 74th Division, the Reorganized 83rd Division, the Reorganized 25th Division, and the Guizhou Seventh Army, only the reorganized 25th Division were desperately reinforcing.
Huang Baitao's reorganized 25th Division was a miscellaneous unit, and he himself was neither Huangpu nor Zhejiang. However, in the Battle of Menglianggu, only Huang Baitao led the reorganized 25th Division to fight for reinforcements, hua ye did not pay attention to this unit at the beginning, only let a column send four regiments but blocked the 25th Division, but these four regiments were almost all destroyed in the blockade battle, if it were not for the fact that a unit of the fourth column happened to pass by, Huang Baitao would probably rescue Zhang Lingfu.