Courtyard House: Home Alone

The next morning, after getting up and washing up, Lin Yifan had breakfast. The breakfast was quite plentiful, with meat buns, braised pheasant, and spiritual spring water for drinking.

After finishing breakfast, Lin Yifan first went to the Tianjin-side end of the ambush point. He was alone now, so he could only come here first to understand the Japanese troops' formation in order to deal with any emergencies.

The 20th Division was a camel and horse division, originally stationed in Korea. It was equipped with mountain guns and infantry guns, but not with large-caliber howitzers. However, it was given an additional 1700-man cavalry regiment.

At 10 a.m., Lin Yifan finally saw dust rising in the distance. "They're here!"

He hid behind a nearby hill, took out the captured binoculars, and began to observe. The weather was fairly good today, and the binoculars could be used to observe over ten kilometers.

Leading the procession was half a cavalry regiment, with about 500 warhorses, followed by two infantry regiments, then tank and armored vehicle detachments, supply trains and artillery, and then two more infantry regiments and half a cavalry regiment. The marching column stretched for about ten kilometers.

Lin Yifan almost drooled as he looked at the more than 500 Japanese warhorses at the front of the procession. These warhorses were exceptionally fine, with glossy coats and long, powerful limbs, clearly indicating that they were carefully selected and trained steeds.

In the city of Beiping, let alone warhorses, even decent draft horses are rare, let alone such a valuable Japanese warhorse.

Lin Yifan thought to himself, "I can't blow up these five hundred-plus horses! Once we've dealt with the Japanese devils, these horses will be mine!"

We'll give it to the Red Party then, so they can form a cavalry unit, which will greatly enhance their mobility on the battlefield!

Of course, there were also the tanks and armored vehicles in the middle. Although the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were thinly armored, they could still stop bullets without any problem. These were mainly captured.

He grew increasingly excited, suppressing his elation as he continued to observe the following troops through his binoculars, his eyes sharpening even more. Once he had ascertained the Japanese marching order, he used his light-footed skills to run towards the rear.

Soon, he arrived at the ambush point near Beiping and set up his position. After entering the ambush area, the Japanese soldiers became cautious due to the terrain, and their marching speed slowed down.

Two more hours passed before the vanguard cavalry finally emerged from the blast zone, creating a three-kilometer gap between them and the infantry. Just as the infantry's vanguard was about to leave the initial blast zone, Lin Yifan pressed the detonator buttons on both the front and rear infantry positions.

"Boom—boom—"

Two deafening explosions rang out almost simultaneously, and the earth seemed to tremble.

Lin Yifan had carefully chosen two detonation points: one in the area of ​​the two preceding infantry regiments, and the other within the main infantry force at the rear. At that moment, as he pressed the remote control, the TNT buried underground was instantly detonated.

At the explosion points ahead, the road surface suddenly bulged upwards and then exploded, sending mud, rocks, and fragments of the broken road shooting into the sky like a volcanic eruption, forming a huge wall of smoke and dust.

Caught off guard, the vanguard of the advancing Japanese infantry was directly blown away by the blast wave. Their bodies twisted and deformed in the air before crashing down, resulting in either death or serious injury.

The soldiers who followed were terrified by the sudden explosion, their formation instantly fell into chaos, and cries and screams filled the air.

The subsequent explosion, targeting the main infantry force, was even more devastating. Because it used a larger amount of explosives and was planted within a relatively densely packed marching column, the resulting destructive power was far greater.

The massive shockwave, like an invisible giant hand, violently pushed down and tore apart the Japanese soldiers within a radius of tens of meters.

Huge craters were blasted into the ground, and the surrounding soldiers were mangled and bloodied, with limbs, broken arms, and fragments of weapons and equipment scattered everywhere, a truly horrific sight.

The once orderly marching ranks were suddenly riddled with gaps, blocking the troops behind them, leaving them unable to advance or retreat, and plunging them into great chaos.

"Success!" Lin Yifan, hiding in a distant fortified position, watched this scene through binoculars, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth. This was just the beginning; the real show was yet to come.

Before the smoke from the explosion had completely dissipated, the Japanese command system was clearly also affected. For a time, various commands, whistles, and soldiers' shouts were mixed together, creating a chaotic scene.

Lin Yifan did not rush to launch the next attack. He was waiting, waiting for the smoke and dust to dissipate slightly, and waiting for the Japanese soldiers to reorganize and reassess the situation after their initial panic. He wanted to make them struggle repeatedly between hope and despair.

Sure enough, a moment later, the Japanese officers who were blocked on the road began to try to control their troops. Some soldiers, under the officers' orders, began to cautiously explore forward, while some machine gunners set up their machine guns and cautiously fired haphazardly at the forests on both sides of the explosion area, trying to suppress any possible ambush fire.

"Now!" A glint flashed in Lin Yifan's eyes.

He did not use the MG42 machine gun, which, although powerful, would invite a fiercer counterattack from the Japanese if exposed too early.

What he needs to do now is to strike precisely, further creating chaos and panic.

With a thought, Lin Yifan's mental energy instantly covered a range of 530 meters. He locked his target on the newly set-up machine gun positions and the officers who were trying to organize their soldiers.

One by one, RKG-3 anti-tank grenades, with their safety removed and a three-second delay, appeared silently at the feet of the Japanese soldiers, as if thrown by an invisible hand.

"boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

Another series of explosions rang out, but this time the explosions were more dispersed and more deadly.

At a newly erected Type 92 heavy machine gun position, the machine gunner was preparing to fire in a suspicious direction when a grenade precisely appeared between him and his assistant. A deafening explosion followed, the machine gun was blown to pieces, and both machine gunners were instantly killed.

A Japanese major, brandishing his sword and trying to order his soldiers to advance, was blown away by a grenade that exploded at his feet before he could even utter a complete command. His sword was also broken in two.

In just a few minutes, Lin Yifan used these "suddenly appearing" grenades to destroy more than ten Japanese machine gun positions and kill seven or eight officers who were trying to organize resistance.

Now, the Japanese soldiers were completely panicked. They didn't know where the attack was coming from; they could only see people falling around them, and explosions rising and falling. Fear spread like a plague, and the already chaotic ranks crumbled even further. Many soldiers began to disregard orders and flee.

"Very good, that's the effect I wanted." Lin Yifan nodded in satisfaction. He knew that the Japanese soldiers' psychological defenses were being gradually broken down.