The Japs guarding the giant city stronghold had three squadrons, including two squadrons of infantry, plus a squadron of armored vehicles.

The armored vehicle squadron is equipped with 4 Type 94 road-rail dual-purpose armored vehicles. These armored vehicles are specially used to patrol the Jucheng Bridge and Jucheng Tunnel to prevent enemy attacks.

In addition, there is also a battalion of the Imperial Alliance Army.

Putting everyone together, the total strength is about 1,300 people.

In fact, this armored vehicle squadron originally had 5 armored vehicles, but a few months ago, they were snatched away by Wang Chengzhu, Duan Peng and Wei Monk who came to inquire for information.

They even took away the Japs' roast chicken.

So now there are only 4 cars left.

But even so, these four armored vehicles still caused great trouble to the attacking troops, because ordinary bullet attacks could not break through the defensive armor of the armored vehicles.

This also allows the Japs in the giant city stronghold to go out to fight, greatly increasing the defense radius of the Japs troops.

Attacking the Jucheng stronghold nearby was another main regiment of the 386th Brigade, Xu Shengji's 771st Regiment.

In addition, there is a new regiment that serves as a reserve team to coordinate operations.

Since the Jucheng Bridge is a railway bridge built specifically for the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway, rather than a road-rail bridge, moving on the bridge is far less convenient than on the highway, or even less convenient than moving in the wilderness.

However, the Japanese armored vehicles can pass at will on the bridge, easily intersecting and protecting railways, strongholds and tunnels.

As a result, it will be extremely difficult for the 771st Regiment to capture the giant city stronghold before these armored vehicles are eliminated.

The 771st Regiment tried several times in succession, but instead of destroying the Japanese armored vehicles, they lost many people.

Xu Shengji also tried to blow up the Jucheng Bridge directly, but unfortunately, under the double blockade of the firepower of the Japanese armored vehicles and the firepower of the Japanese strongholds, the soldiers of the 771st Regiment did not even have a chance to fix explosives on the steel beams of the bridge.

I tried several times in succession, but the result was just like attacking a Japanese armored vehicle. Instead of making any progress, I lost a lot of manpower.

In the end, there was really no other way, so the 771st Regiment could only launch a strong attack on the giant city stronghold.

Just like the 772 Regiment attacking the giant city stronghold, they planned to first fill in the trenches outside, then push to the barbed wire fence, and finally launch a full-scale attack.

Although the attack method was the same, the progress of the 771st Regiment was not as smooth as that of the 772nd Regiment.

Because these four Iron Kings are not just railway armored vehicles, but road-rail dual-purpose armored vehicles. Therefore, they can not only operate on railways, but also on roads, and can even operate in many other environments like ordinary armored vehicles.

Therefore, whenever the 771st Regiment reaches a critical moment in their operations, these four Iron Kings will rush out and harass them, and the 771st Regiment has no means of counterattack.

As a result, not to mention the loss of troops, more than three hours passed, and even the trenches were only less than half filled.

Just now, the 771st Regiment launched another attack, but unfortunately, the offensive was once again disrupted by the Japanese armored vehicles. Several soldiers who tried to blast the armored vehicles all fell into a pool of blood under the firepower of the Japanese machine guns.

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In addition, the company that invested also suffered less than half of its casualties.

Seeing the twenty or thirty injured soldiers being carried down by the stretcher team, Xu Shengji, who had always been elegant, was so angry that he cursed his mother like Li Yunlong.

"Damn it!"

The chief of staff on the side also frowned and said: "Captain, this is not going to work. If we don't try to destroy those four iron bastards, we will never be able to capture the giant city stronghold.

Just like the previous waves of attacks, each time our army had just reached the critical moment of the attack, these iron bastards came out to cause trouble, but we didn't make any progress.

This is not the way to go, otherwise, no matter how many troops we invest, we will not be able to fill this bottomless pit."

Xu Shengji said: "Of course I know that continuing like this is not an option, but we must resolutely implement the orders of the brigade and headquarters. If there are difficulties, we will overcome them. If there is no way, we will find a way!"

The chief of staff sighed and said: "Hey, it would be great if we had a few field guns."

Xu Shengji: "Isn't this nonsense? If we had field artillery, would we still let the Japanese be so arrogant in Shanxi?"

The chief of staff added: "I don't know if the New First Regiment, New Second Regiment, Independent Regiment, and Independent Second Regiment have captured the target?"

Xu Shengji's face darkened again: "Old Xu, our 771st regiment is the only two organizational regiments when the 386th brigade was reorganized. Although I usually don't fight or grab, it doesn't mean that I want to lose to them!

I don’t care whether they have captured the target, but we must capture the target this time, but we must capture the target before them, and at worst we must not fall behind the 772nd Regiment!”

After a pause, Xu Shengji suddenly changed the subject and said: "It's almost 4 o'clock, and we don't have much time left. We need to organize a new round of attack immediately."

"Correspondent, pass my order..."

Xu Shengji didn't say anything when a bright beam of light suddenly shone from the mountain col to the east, illuminating Jucheng Mountain on the other side, the mountain above the Jucheng Tunnel, as if it were daytime.

Immediately afterwards, a long and continuous sound of the whistle came over, shocking the eardrums and capturing the soul.

"This is..." Xu Shengji's words took a direct turn.

The chief of staff on the side changed his color even more: "Commander, this is the Japanese armored train!"

How could Xu Shengji not know that this was a Japanese armored train? When he saw this bright beam of light and heard the sound of the whistle that sounded like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, his face had already turned extremely ugly.

"The Japs' armored train turned back from Niangzi Pass. Seeing that the actions of the Wolf Fang Special Forces were not effective, Lao Li and Lao Cheng's attack must have been disintegrated!"

Chief of Staff: "Brigadier Commander, what should we do now? Should we continue to organize the attack?"

Xu Shengji said angrily: "Why don't you organize an egg! The Japanese armored vehicles only have heavy machine guns on them, but the Japanese armored trains also have heavy artillery in addition to heavy machine guns.

When the armored train was not there, our attack was already very reluctant. Now that the armored train is here, our continued attack is meaningless except for increasing casualties!"

At this time, the political commissar on the side suddenly put down the telescope in his hand and said: "Old Xu, Old Xu, look, the Japanese armored train seems to have stopped.

Moreover, there seems to be someone on the roof of the car!"

"Is there someone on the roof?" Xu Shengji and the chief of staff were both stunned, and then they both raised their binoculars and looked at the armored train.

Sure enough, the situation was just as the political commissar said. There seemed to be really people on the roof of the armored train, and not just one or two, but a large and densely packed area.

Under the moonlight, although you can't see clearly the appearance and clothing of those people, you can still see the shape of the person. They are people, and they are unmistakable!
Chapter completed!