The Battle of Menglianggu was a famous battle in the middle of the Liberation War, which was attended by famous generals and ace troops of the two armies, and the battle broke out in the Menglianggu area of Mengyin, Shandong, which was a large-scale offensive battle, when hundreds of thousands of troops of the Nationalist army gathered in southeastern Shandong and launched an attack.
At that time, Zhang Lingfu led the reorganized 74th Division to venture into the Menglianggu Mountains southeast of Mengyin, and was seized by the East China Field Army of our army and forcibly broke through; zhang Lingfu's reorganized 74th Division, about 30,000 horses, was forced by our army, and after four days of bitter fighting, the reorganized 74th Division, which was known as one of the five ace main forces of the Nationalist army, was completely annihilated, and the situation in the East China battlefield was reversed in one fell swoop.
But in fact, when the 74th Division was surrounded, there were two nationalist troops in the surrounding area that were fully capable of supporting the 74th Division, so why couldn't so many troops save Zhang Lingfu?
First of all, the troops capable of rescuing at that time were the integrated 25th Division to the west and the integrated 83rd Division to the southeast.
At that time, the commander of the 25th Division, Huang Baitao, did his best to rescue Zhang Lingfu after receiving the order, Huang Baitao's troops were in Taoxu and Niulan, after hearing that Zhang Lingfu was surrounded, he immediately led his main force to launch a strong attack to the east, and even more by virtue of the advantage of weapons, he quickly hit Tianma Mountain.
However, at that time, Zhang Lingfu's misjudgment did not move closer to the nearest Twenty-fifth Division, but instead retreated south into the Menglianggu area, and then reached the original garrison of Duozhuang, which became one of the reasons for the total annihilation of the 74th Division.
And the other reason is a person who is ignored by Zhang Lingfu. At that time, the 7th Army in the east received rescue orders only after the siege of Zhang Lingfu, and the 7th Army was located in the Heyang area east of Menglianggu and was fighting with the Seventh Column of the East China Field Army, so the rescue mission was arranged to the reorganized 83rd Division.
However, Li Tianxia, the commander of the 83rd Division, and Zhang Lingfu were not compatible, because the two had previously competed for the position of commander of the reorganized 74th Division, completely tearing their faces, and they were in the same situation with each other. Therefore, Li Tianxia deliberately acted perfunctorily when she first started the rescue, and it was too late to gather a large army when she really felt that things were not good.