217 Battle of Africa No. 8 "Noodles"
Just when Li Guang was puzzled, a new situation appeared on the battlefield, Bao had just solved four or five bunkers, and the Italian army actually raised a white flag --- surrendered.
With the surrender of the Italian troops on the flank position, Qi Ruixuan, the commander of a company, ran to the headquarters, and Ai Ai reported in some periods: "The foreign devils seem to have retreated." ”
The first company was the main force of the field battalion, and its task was to attract the fire of the Italian army in the front.
"What's the situation?" Li Guang asked.
"I haven't fired a shot for almost an hour." Qi Ruixuan obviously made a mistake.
Li Guang understood at that time that the Italian army was definitely using the flank position to drag the naval resistance army, and the main force had quietly retreated.
At this moment, Bao Gang has already begun to roar: "What are you doing to eat, you can't find out when the enemy is retreating?" ”
Bao Gang didn't care about reprimanding Qi Ruixuan, and immediately ordered to pursue the Italian army. The battle for the past two days was a good fight for the field battalion, but seeing that victory was in sight, it let go of the main Italian army. For Bao Gang, this result is like eating a fly, nauseous and uncomfortable.
The battle was a victory, but Li Guang was not so cool, and after a long time, the Italian army was holding a flank position to drag the naval resistance army, and the large army quietly slipped away. Only when the main forces were withdrawn did the Italian troops on the flank positions surrender.
Nima, this Italian army is too much of a thing, and Li Guang's prepared back hand didn't even have time to use it. But in any case, the main purpose of the battle was achieved, and the warriors could cheer victory. This battle exposed a shortcoming of the Maritime Resistance Army, and the quality of the officers was still lacking.
Most of the officers of the Naval Resistance Army had generally been on the battlefield as squad and platoon commanders or even soldiers before this battle, and although the training of the Naval Resistance Army was sufficient and they had learned a lot of military teaching materials, there was a huge gap between the officers who had grown up in the rain of bullets and gunpowder in their determination to face the enemy. Qi Ruixuan is a fierce general in both training and combat, but he is obviously deficient in judging the enemy's situation.
This is a matter of no choice, the seeds of famous generals are available but not sought, or why did the ancients say that the three armies are easy to obtain, but one general is difficult to find. During the interval of the battle, Li Guang not only arranged the defensive tasks of the Naval Resistance Army, but also ordered the whole army to sum up lessons and lessons.
This Qi Ruixuan performed very well in yesterday's battle, but this mistake of losing a fighter plane is very serious for a commander. In view of his mistakes, Qi Ruixuan was demoted to acting company commander, and he was guilty of meritorious service to see the after-effects.
Now that this pass has been occupied, the Naval Resistance Army can be regarded as having strategic depth. Originally, if the main force of the Italian army could be eliminated, while the Italian reinforcements were still far away, the naval resistance army could take advantage of the situation to go to Borasao, more than 30 kilometers away, to get some oil and water. You must know that the "special logistics" led by Hu Bofeng has done a good job in Gandala and has gained a lot. Borasao, on the other hand, is a city several times larger than Gandala, so it must have more oil and water.
Li Guang was actually very satisfied with the performance of the troops, after all, no matter how well they were trained, the soldiers lacked battlefield experience, and it was quite good to be able to achieve such a situation. Although it felt a bit of a fly in the ointment, two hours later, Bao Gang, who was commanding at the front, sent back the news that the Italian army had fled all the way along the road, encountered the city without entering, and continued to flee for their lives to the southwest.
Li Guangxi, the "Noodle Army" lives up to its name. Originally, if the Italian army had entered Bossaso, Li Guang would definitely not have engaged in street fighting in order to seize this town. Although Li Guang had never experienced the horror of street fighting on the battlefield, the conclusions he had reached in several exercises of the Naval Resistance Force were not optimistic. It can be said that the street battles fought for one room and one house are not good news even for the victors, and the losses are really large enough.
There is a cheap do not occupy the king-eight-egg. The Naval Resistance Army occupied Bossaso that night.
A standoff between the two armies ensued at the Kalin Valley, a mountain pass southwest of Bossaso. Colonel Bianchi, after several hours of desperate running, finally rested in the Karlin Valley. Bianchi ran really fast enough, you must know that the first battalion of the Naval Resistance Army is a mechanized unit, and even the infantry at least has a bicycle to travel. And the pursuit of armored forces is even faster.
In fact, Bianchi's retreat began at one o'clock in the afternoon. This Italian aristocratic officer is not very good at commanding battles, but his eyes are very bright. Watching the Naval Resistance Army deal with the Italian army's outlying positions like a cleanup, the fear in my heart appeared again.
Bianchi quickly made a judgment that, although the fortifications of the main position were very strong, he had lost the confidence to hold on. So, while giving the order to the Italian troops on the flank positions to hold to the death, he commanded the retreat. Bianchi's little trick deceived Qi Ruixuan, and he escaped successfully, which was really lucky.
Troops of the Intentional Army were stationed in the Valley of Carlin, who remained under Bianchi. After counting the numbers, Bianchi found that in less than two days of fighting, he had lost nearly 600 troops. That's not all, a large amount of supplies and munitions were all thrown to the Naval Resistance Army, and the Italian soldiers who fled to the Carlin Valley threw all the supplies on the road, except for war horses and light weapons.
The terrain of the Kalin Valley was far less dangerous than the fortress of Billivo, which had been fought before, and the valley was flat and open, three or four kilometers wide, and Colonel Bianchi now had no more than 1,500 troops, including more than 800 local indigenous black soldiers.
He didn't think he could hold the Kalin Valley under the strong offensive of the Naval Resistance. But the supreme commander of the Italian army in Somalia de. General Simon ordered him to defend it to the death. In just two days, Colonel Bianchi had been completely discouraged, and he was stationed in the Karlin Valley in trepidation, ready to flee at any moment. To Colonel Bianchi's astonishment, the ensuing days turned out to be quite mild.
Li Guang's purpose in fighting was not to sell his life to the British army, and it was naturally impossible to attack on a large scale.
The war situation in Somalia is drying up like this, and the naval resistance forces do not want to pay a greater price to attack the Italians. And the Italians did not have the courage to attack. With the arrival of Italian reinforcements, the strength of the Italian army gradually increased to more than 3,500 men. However, on the road to reinforcements, the Italian army suffered a lot, and the fighters of the naval resistance army bombed and strafed almost non-stop. In less than 200 kilometers of reinforcement roads, the Italian army lost more than 1,000 troops. Among them, 800 black auxiliaries who had barely experienced military training and had never even seen an airplane escaped and were killed by bombing. The 200-kilometer road took the Italian army for six days.
Even if the Italian army had reinforcements, it was still a crippled reinforcement with no desire to attack. The two sides confronted each other in this Gobi Desert, where birds don't poop.
In the days that followed, the Italian army continued to increase its troops. Li Guang was very surprised, didn't he say that the Italian army only had 30,000 troops in Somalia? By the middle of January, the Italian army had amassed more than 20,000 troops in the Karlin Valley. By this time, Li Guang had also figured it out. Of the 20,000 troops, there was only one Italian infantry regiment of more than 1,500 people, and the rest were all black indigenous troops. It's scary to look at, but it's hard to say how powerful it is.
Li Guang had no interest in destroying the Italian army, the fortress of Billy Vico was in hand, the naval resistance army was now in depth, the rear was well supplied, and there were a large number of materials for Hu Bofeng to loot, and the small life was quite good.
Of course, the battlefield was not completely quiet, and the field battalion's arrangements for cold guns and artillery and reconnaissance operations were very tight. After several skirmishes, the Naval Resistance Army also captured several key points and gradually established its own front.
What's more, during the battle, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army and the black indigenous soldiers gained combat experience, and quickly eliminated the fear of blacks in their hearts. You must know that in the eyes of the peasant fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army, blacks are even more terrifying than whites. In their hearts, they turned the black people into demons and monsters, and after fighting, they found that the technical and tactical level of these black people was extremely inferior, and they could not even shoot guns, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low.
Li Guang felt that this kind of intensity of combat was the most suitable for training, and he saw that the naval resistance army was rapidly maturing. After adapting to the battlefield, the soldiers have changed greatly, and the Naval Resistance Force has begun to show its advantages in the rigorous training in the early stage.
At the same time, the British army in North Africa, under the command of General Wavell, was victorious one after another. The total number of troops was less than 50,000, and 300,000 of the Italian army lost their armor. A famous quote appeared on the battlefield: "Want to eat fettuccine?" Moving Forward ......"
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