This force was the main force of the Italian army, and the proportion of blacks was not high, just over 5,000 people. And a brigade of the Italian army not only has two regiments and four battalions of infantry, but also an artillery battalion, an armored battalion. Such an army still has some combat effectiveness, but they have struggled to support it for a day and a night in the wind, and the Italian army ravaged by the wind and sand in the field has lost their armor and has become like a flower child. The tortured Italian army could not even gather its troops, let alone organize a march, and it was even more impossible to fight.

On the 19th, after the storm had ceased for two days. Bao Gang's field battalion and Qin Zhan's armored battalion advanced 300 kilometers and captured 10,000 Italian troops in the desert 60 kilometers south of Erigabo without any fighting.

These Italians and Negroes begged the Navy's forces to come and take prisoners, and after a day and a night of strong winds and sand, and two days of staggering under the scorching sun, many of them lost food and water bladders. If the Naval Resistance Army had come a little later, the Italian army might have killed each other over water and food, and in fact there had been many vicious incidents of cannibalism among the Italian army over food and water.

Yang Weiwu, the mountain battalion of the Naval Resistance Army, actually suffered a lot of losses, and when the wind blew, they were collecting prisoners. Hundreds of people stayed up for a day and a night in the yellow sand, but fortunately, the wind at the top of the Somali Peninsula was not as strong as in the central part of the country, and there was no loss of personnel.

It wasn't until Su Qing of the jungle camp arrived with reinforcements that Yang Weiwu's crisis was solved. You must know that Yang Weiwu is a combat unit, and in order to achieve unexpected results, most of the soldiers advanced lightly, and did not prepare too much water and food at all.

After being tortured by strong winds for a day and a night, Yang Weiwu's battalion also rested for three or four days before regaining its combat effectiveness. The majesty of the storm can be seen from this, and it is conceivable what kind of torture the Italian army suffered. The wind and sand in Somalia have really taught the Naval Resistance Army a lesson.

However, Su Qing's work of capturing the captives was as smooth as Bao Gang's, and these captives were even worse than the Italian army in Eligabo, they did not bring water and food at all, and they began to flee, and they were already dying for two or three days.

Colonel Bianchi was not found after the war, and it is estimated that the chances of surviving in this windy sand are extremely small.

On 23 February, the Naval Resistance Forces had completely occupied the Somali peninsula. The total number of captured Italian troops exceeded 40,000. Occupy six cities.

In Berbera, the "special logistics" Hu Bofeng found something good, two thousand mines. The cost of mines is higher than that of bombshells, and the Navy's resistance forces have not been willing to buy them in large quantities, but these 2,000 mines have helped the Navy's resistance forces a lot. These mines were originally intended by the Italian army to blockade the Gulf of Aden, but unfortunately all the ships were sunk by the naval resistance army, and it was difficult to find even a fishing boat in Berberra, so these mines that could destroy almost half of the city fell into the hands of the naval resistance army.

After three days of rest, in fact, it is not called rest, and the field camp actually did not fight much on these days, and was busy collecting prisoners all day long. These days they were mainly waiting for two thousand recruits to receive prisoners.

Bao Gang turned around with Qin Zhan and began to attack westward again.

In the following ten days, the fighting became even more lackluster, and the naval resistance army encountered little effective resistance, taking Hargeisa, Gabylai, and Bora like their counterparts. It even advanced all the way to the southern tip of French Djibouti - Sayrazi.

In the past few days, Bao Gang and Qin Zhan have been fooled by Hu Bofeng, the special logistics chief, and have applied to Li Guang several times to attack French Djibouti. To be honest, although Li Guang was mentally prepared for the most famous noodle army in World War II, he did not expect that the battle process would go smoothly to this point. He doesn't doubt that he will win, but it is estimated that there should be a process of hard work and exhaustion, and finally get the fruits of victory. However, the entire naval resistance army, except for the two-hour hard battle at the Baipei land, after a big storm, the Italian army lost all the will to resist. The victory came too suddenly, and it was too "tortuous". Li Guang was a little unsatisfied.

In addition, Li Guang was somewhat greedy for Djibouti's wealth, so he decided not to notify Britain and committed a slight foul. So the order was given, and Bao Gang captured Sayrazi.

In the battle to capture Sayrachi, Baugon's infantry pinned down the French front. Qin Zhan's armored forces were in charge of the flanks. The result was once again that the tactics of the Naval Resistance Army were successful.

Especially Qin Zhan, the attack speed was too fast. Before dawn, they rushed to the harbor dock, and the two French battleships had not yet ignited and anchored, and naturally they were captured. The panicked French defenders, before they were ready, the flanks of the city were occupied. Almost without firing a shot, he evacuated Sayrazi.

After Bao Gang occupied the city, he wanted to immediately advance to the next goal without resting. But at this time, Li Guang received an order from the British. This order did not come from the British East Africa Commander, Lieutenant General Cunningham, but directly from Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London.

If he did not receive an order, Li Guang could continue the offensive under the pretext that his troops were chasing down the Italian army, or that the French of Visy were covering the remnants of the Italian army. However, after receiving Churchill's clear telegram, Li Guang could no longer disobey the order to continue the attack, after all, the air force of the Naval Resistance Force still used British airfields, and the commercial side still needed the British-controlled port of Yangon.

This also illustrates a problem, don't look at Vichy France has surrendered to Germany, but Britain still has a lot of scruples about France, and there is actually a lot of private contact between the two sides, otherwise it would not be possible to have such a high liaison efficiency.

In this battle on the Somali Peninsula, it is not only the army's weaponry and supplies that have been greatly gained. The naval gain was not small, and the capture of two French warships made the forces under attack, and the navy was somewhat replenished.

One of the larger ones was a French Navy Braque-class torpedo boat with a displacement of 1,300 tons, and the smaller one was a small torpedo boat of 600 tons.

Although these two warships are not advanced goods, they are still one level higher than the quality of the warships built by the Naval Resistance Army.

Li Guang had some contempt for these two French torpedo boats, especially the Clarke-class torpedo boats. WITH A DISPLACEMENT OF 1,300 TONS, THERE ARE ONLY THREE 127MM SINGLE-MOUNTED GUNS AND TWO TRIPLE-MOUNTED TORPEDO LAUNCHERS, AND WHAT MAKES LI GUANG EVEN MORE DESPISED IS THAT THE SPEED IS ONLY 33 KNOTS.

You must know that the speed of the Jairus torpedo boat built by the Maritime Resistance Army itself is also 35 knots. In addition, the functional positioning of this battleship is too vague, the firepower as a destroyer is too weak, and its guns are outdated, and the rate of fire is extremely low. As a torpedo boat, it is a little bigger and too slow.

Li Guang didn't know that this battleship was originally a French destroyer, and the French were not idiots, but they found that it was too unqualified to be used as a destroyer, so they converted it into a torpedo boat. So this fully functional and weak combat effectiveness of the second mixed battleship appeared.

But in any case, these two torpedo boats are of great significance to the naval resistance army, which is extremely short of warships, and it is impossible to spit it out when it comes to Li Guang's hands. A large torpedo boat was named Baxia No. 1 by Li Guang. The small torpedo boat was named Jairwood No. 1, and due to its poor seaworthiness, it was slightly modified and arranged to be used as an anti-submarine patrol boat.

The warships of the Maritime Resistance Forces in the Indian Ocean were again replenished and returned to the level of six surface ships after the war.

Later, these two warships caused a lot of disputes between the naval resistance army and the British army. The main reason for such trouble was that the British did not agree with the naval resistance army to attack French Djibouti, saying that it was to win allies. Even wanting Li Guang to return these two small warships to the French is simply cutting Li Guang's flesh, and it is impossible to agree to it no matter what.

After such a dispute, the land offensive of the Naval Resistance Army immediately stopped, and all efforts were turned to the "great cause" of rushing supplies.

This low-intensity "blitzkrieg" of the Maritime Resistance Forces on the Somali Peninsula has come to an end. However, although the intensity of the war is low, the intensity of the propaganda of the Naval Resistance Army to the outside world will not be low, and a large number of literati have already had the experience of writing advertorials, and this novel that meets the tastes of Westerners, especially Americans, will be released quickly.

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