Li Yunlong was shocked by hosting the independent group at the beginning

The arrow on the map marking the offensive line of the Volunteer Column clearly told Miyamoto the importance of the Three Arms Village, "I command."

He turned his head and said to the adjutant: "The Okada Regiment and the Kurume Regiment quickly gathered at Sanarm Village, attacked the foreign column from the flank, and pushed the foreign column to Yiduozhuang and Zhaojia Village. The column draws a full stop! Hahahaha!"

The efficiency of the enemy's actions was very fast, and the two infantry regiments immediately assembled to the Three Arms Village according to the order. The soldiers were extremely fast. After a few hours, Martinez felt the pressure exerted on him by the enemy.

The Belgian regiment and the Antonine Praetorian Guards were forced to stop their advance, drawing valuable troops to defend their flanks, but due to the fact that the enemy's troops gathered in the village of Three Arms were too strong.

The Belgian regiment could only retreat steadily. According to Miyamoto's intention, the enemy was not in a hurry to attack the Belgian regiment, but instead pressed it eastward with the Anthony Guards, pressing towards the encirclement that the enemy had already deployed.

A brigade of the enemy army occupied Duozhuang in advance and built a solid fortification. The squeezed Belgian regiment failed to capture Duozhuang after three charges.

Martinez was keenly aware of the enemy's intentions, and hastily ordered the Anthony Guards to launch a quick attack. Before the enemy officer could react, he transferred the Anthony Guards to the direction of Zhaojia Village and took Zhaojia Village.

However, the enemy has already deployed a strong force in this direction, thus building a triangular encirclement on the front line of Sanarm Village, Duozhuang, and Zhaojia Village, and two volunteer regiments under the command of Martinez.

The Belgian regiment and the Antonine Guards were surrounded, and although the French and Dutch regiments escaped, Martinez was already terrified.

If the 88th Division and the Independent Tank Battalion cannot open the gap, not to mention the failure to rescue Shangqiu, the lives of these foreign heroes who volunteered from all over the world to help the Chinese people are also at stake. convention.

Countless massacres and abuses were carried out on the prisoners of war who fell into their hands. After falling into the encirclement, the fate of the 3000 people in their two regiments has all been in the hands of others.

The crisis came so quickly, Martinez was in a good mood on this morning, because the Volunteer Division was in an offensive situation at that time, but before sunset on this day, Martinez's mood was extremely bad.

His troops had been surrounded by enemy regiments, and the intelligence brought back by Italian scouts showed that the enemy troops surrounding him belonged to four regiments.

If it is true, there are more than 5000 enemy troops. It is really impossible to break out of the encirclement only by relying on the strength of our own troops. Moreover, the troops have been fighting for a day and are very tired. They urgently need to rest and replenish ammunition, but the enemy will not give him this opportunity.

Throughout the night, the enemy continued to dispatch small units to launch night raids, harassing the positions of the volunteer divisions, making them restless.

Martinez will not be idle either. He dispatched multiple Italian reconnaissance teams to scout out weak points in the enemy's encirclement, trying to target the weak points after dawn.

In the early hours of the morning, Martinez called the head of the Belgian Regiment Roones, the head of the Anthony Guards Regiment Rolando, and Lieutenant Colonel Lahe to him, and told them his plan.

According to Martinez's judgment, the enemy's position in Duozhuang should be a weak point, and he should go all out to put all his strength on Duozhuang, and open a gap from here. If he fails, he can only retreat to Zhaojiacun. , Waiting for the rescue of reinforcements.

But what Martinez is worried about is that the Huaxia army is not enthusiastic about fighting the enemy at present. Most of them are passively waiting for the enemy to attack.

The battle after dawn fully verified Martinez's judgment, although the Antony Praetorian Guards captured Duozhuang with the brutal bull tactics at any cost.

But the enemy deployed two more lines of defense behind Duozhuang, and the intensive crossfire caused heavy losses to the Italians. Commander Rolando cried bitterly. This battle alone caused more than 400 Italian casualties.

Since he was unable to break out of the encirclement, Martinez had no choice but to withdraw his troops. The advantage of this attack was that the Volunteer Division temporarily had a foothold, and the Anthony Guards guarded Duozhuang.

The Belgian regiment guarded Zhaojia Village, and the two sides formed horns with each other.

However, Martinez knew very well that the Volunteer Division did not carry too much ammunition and supplies, and could only hold out for two to three days at most, otherwise, the Volunteer Division would really overwhelm the whole army here.

Martinez kept sending reports to the 88th Division, asking him to come to rescue him as soon as possible, but Mr. Song Lian of the 88th Division had other ideas.

His troops stopped at Baicun, more than 20 miles away from Duozhuang, regardless of Martinez's distress telegrams sent one by one.

Song Lian is not ordering the troops to move forward. It is impossible for the independent tank battalion to attack independently without the infantry, so they can only stop and wait for the infantry to act together.

Chapter 249 Can't Resist

Miyamoto knew the reason very well. Martinez was usually rebellious and had repeatedly publicly criticized senior Chinese military officers for only preserving their strength and unwillingness to fight against the Japanese invaders, and continued to have frictions with other Chinese troops.

There are quite a few accusations about the bad habits of senior Chinese military officers, so many senior Chinese military officers don't like Martinez, nor do they like his volunteer division.

It is suspected that these foreigners came to China for the same purpose as the enemy bandits, and they all came for the wealth of China.

Martinez said that the enemy's heavy artillery is indeed on the road. The 150st Heavy Artillery Battalion of the enemy's Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment used ten large trucks imported from Germany to drag ten [-]mm heavy artillery newly produced by the Kobe Arsenal on the road leading to Duozhuang. Easy road.

Nakamura, head of the enemy brigade, is looking forward to this.

After all, his three wings attacked the two regiments of the Volunteer Division for two consecutive days and nights without making any progress, so he was very much looking forward to the ten 150mm heavy artillery that could bring him a little surprise.

However, I am afraid that Nakamura's brigade commander will be disappointed, because on the way to Duozhuang, that is, at the fork of the road more than an hour away from Duozhuang, the vanguard battalion led by Zhuang Hailong launched a surprise attack on the enemy artillery brigade.

Enemy trucks crushed landmines on the road, and many enemy soldiers' limbs and arms were thrown around. A heavy artillery was lying in pieces in the ditch beside the road. The wreckage of the bombed car blocked the road. Enemy artillery vehicles were unable to move an inch.

The Huaxia soldiers ambushing on both sides threw grenades at the enemy vehicles behind. The continuous explosions made the enemy dizzy and at a loss. The howling debris cut a big hole in the throat of the enemy captain.

The captain of the artillery battalion of the enemy army fell to the side of the road clutching his throat, twitching his hands and feet. He was lucky, because he did not witness the complete destruction of his beloved troops.

The enemy artillery battalion was only equipped with rifles and pistols. These light weapons could not protect the enemy artillery until reinforcements arrived.

After the Huaxia soldiers threw the last row of grenades, they rushed to the enemy artillery who were still hiding under the car with their bayonets in their hands. After a few rounds of chattering, more than 200 enemy artillery soldiers all fell on their own. Next to the cannon.

Zhuang Hailong knew that the enemy had air superiority, and they didn't have extra troops to use these cumbersome cannons, so in order to prevent the enemy from using these cannons to kill the Huaxia people again.

Zhuang Hailong ordered the soldiers to throw grenades into the barrels of each cannon. After more than a dozen explosions, all the enemy cannons exploded and lost their use value.

The sound of the explosion attracted the attention of the volunteers. Perhaps it was the arrival of the long-awaited reinforcements. These foreign volunteers suddenly became excited, and they tried their best to look into the distance.

They hoped to find traces of the friendly army, but to their disappointment, they looked around for a long time, but did not find the shadow of the Huaxia army.

As if there was a divine protection in the dark, the Volunteer Division escaped like this, without the support of heavy artillery, the Nakamura Brigade surrounding the Volunteer Division had no time to wait for another batch of artillery to arrive.

Facing the crisis of being dismissed, Commander Song Lian could only strictly order the troops to advance, and the independent tank battalion who cooperated with them fought bravely.

Around the afternoon of the next day, the encirclement of the enemy was breached, and the volunteers who had been besieged for two and a half days became more motivated when they saw the arrival of friendly troops.

Under the command of the commanders of Roness and Rolando, the troops divided into two groups and launched a fierce attack on the enemy. The commander of the Nakamura brigade was very embarrassed and issued an order to retreat across the board, and fled with his commanders in embarrassment. It has completely lost the original chic demeanor.

After marching east for a certain distance, Li Feng's troops turned to the northwest again. There was only one goal, which was to reach Shangqiu as soon as possible and participate in the battle of Shangqiu.

The puppet and enemy troops who tried to stop Li Feng's advance along the way collapsed at the first touch, and even fled upon hearing the news. Lieutenant General Miyamoto also turned his attention to Li Feng's side.

Not being able to seize the opportunity to destroy the volunteer division made him very disappointed. If he could not capture Shangqiu, for him personally, the opportunity to climb up would be completely lost, and he would never have the opportunity to command thousands of troops again.

And he likes to watch tens of thousands of soldiers fight each other, and likes to see the big scene of Li Feng's blood flowing into rivers, so in order not to let him be laid off, Miyamoto must not let Li Feng's troops reach Shangqiu.

However, there are only four divisions that Miyamoto can use. Most of the troops can only be used to besiege the Chinese army in Shangqiu City, and the only troops that can be called are the two brigades of Zhongcun and Xicun.

In order to be able to surround Li Feng from Shangqiu, Miyamoto decided to cooperate with the Sasaki Brigade, and use the West Village Brigade and the Sasaki Brigade to eliminate Li Feng in the Xiayi area.

Because there is a flat river ahead, nothing can stop Li Feng from moving forward.

Huang Wenshi led the New Eighth Division to march towards Xiayi as a pioneer. According to the investigation of Zhuang Hailong's troops, the enemy currently has only about one brigade in Xiayi.

If Xiayi can be occupied before the arrival of the large enemy troops, it will undoubtedly be very beneficial to the troops' next move. Therefore, under the leadership of Huang Wenshi, the New Eighth Division came straight to Xiayi at the fastest speed.

Huang Wenshi stationed his troops in Wenjiazhuang, [-] miles outside Xiayi City, and led a small troop outside the city to investigate the real situation of the enemy. He found that the enemy's defense was very empty, and the enemy's investigation was not tight, and the fortifications were only completed. half.

Huang Wenshi was overjoyed, thinking that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so instead of reporting to Li Feng, he immediately ordered the troops to attack Xiayi.

The soldiers of the New Eighth Division were chased all the way by the enemy, and they were suffocating in their hearts. Finally, they had a chance to vent their anger. They wiped out the enemy's fortifications outside the city in just one round, and the remaining enemy troops were defeated and returned to the Xia Dynasty. In Yicheng, they fought stubbornly with the help of city walls and machine gun fortifications.