Courtyard House: From Deputy Division Commander to Civilian, Progressing All the Way

A red signal flare shot into the sky.

More than two thousand special task force soldiers, like a flood bursting its banks, charged frantically up the path with bayonets in hand.

Besieged on both sides, the ammunition depot was bombed.

The more than two thousand enemies on Tiger Head Mountain were completely wiped out in less than an hour.

In the chaos, the bandit leader "Drilling Dragon" had his head smashed by Wei Heshang's punch. The Kuomintang remnant regimental commander was shot in the head by Lin Yang.

At dawn.

The heavy rain has stopped.

At the summit of Tiger Head Mountain, smoke filled the air and corpses littered the ground.

Lin Yang stood on a pile of unburnt ammunition boxes, his face covered in soot and blood.

He looked at the enemy corpses scattered on the ground, as well as the large number of radios and documents he had captured, and a cold glint flashed in his deep eyes.

This is just the beginning.

Over the next month.

Lin Yang's special independent regiment has completely transformed into the Grim Reaper in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

They do not engage in positional warfare or large-scale offensives.

Relying on Shen Jian's accurate intelligence, they took advantage of the cover of night and the inclement weather...

Like a sharp scalpel, it precisely pierces the enemy's heart time and time again.

Within half a month, they destroyed seven important enemy strongholds!

Three remaining Kuomintang major generals and more than a dozen colonels were killed!

Nearly 20,000 bandits were wiped out and scattered!

The name "Lin Yang" spread rapidly through the mountains of Southwest China, like a plague.

Those once arrogant bandit leaders, upon hearing the special task force's number, would abandon their strongholds overnight and flee in panic.

The entire campaign to suppress bandits in the southwest was completely revitalized because of the relentless infiltration of this sharp blade!

Li Yunlong's main force swept through the enemy lines, dividing and encircling the bandits who had lost their command, and annihilating them one by one.

Meanwhile, Bai Chong, the "Ghost Fox" hiding deep in the mountains, looked at the telegrams of defeat on the table, and a deep fear finally appeared on his sinister face.

He knew that the living Yama from Beijing was approaching his throat step by step!

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The Battle of Tiger Head Mountain was like dropping a bombshell on the stagnant battlefield of bandit suppression in the southwest!

Overnight, more than two thousand fully armed bandits and remnants of the Kuomintang army were wiped out. The news spread throughout the entire Shiwan Mountain area with chilling speed.

In the front-line command post, Li Yunlong looked at the battle report and was so excited that he smashed three rough porcelain teacups, laughed loudly, and exclaimed how exhilarating it was.

Meanwhile, the Central Military Commission, far away in Beijing, upon receiving this detailed battle report, highly praised Lin Yang's ghostly special infiltration tactics.

Just three days after the great victory at Hutou Mountain, a top-secret transfer order bearing the official seal of the Central Military Commission was sent directly to the southwestern front via radio.

In view of Comrade Lin Yang’s outstanding command ability and remarkable achievements in the anti-bandit operations, the Central Military Commission has given special approval to expand the Special Independent Regiment on the spot!

The Fourth Field Army Special Mountain Independent Division was formally established!

Lin Yang was promoted to division commander, a promotion that was made exceptionally!

A nineteen-year-old teacher!

This appointment sent shockwaves throughout the entire Fourth Field Army. But at the front lines, not a single person voiced any dissent. For the star on Lin Yang's shoulder was earned with the blood of the enemy and countless charges into battle.

Over the next six months.

The vast mountains of Southwest China have become Lin Yang's exclusive hunting ground.

The rainy season in the south is long and despairing. The primeval forests are filled with suffocating miasma all day long, and leeches, poisonous snakes, and venomous insects are impossible to avoid. Many soldiers from the north suffer from boils all over their bodies due to the change in environment.

But Lin Yang did not back down an inch.

He took off his general's uniform, put on the same camouflage as ordinary soldiers, smeared mud on his face, and led the way through waist-deep mud.

He was like a tireless wolf king, leading his independent divisions to bring the guerrilla tactics of "breaking up into smaller units, harassing the enemy when they are stationed, attacking when they are tired, and pursuing when they retreat" to their peak.

Those bandits who were entrenched in the deep mountains and forests originally thought they could use the terrain advantage to fight the People's Liberation Army for three to five years.

But they were wrong, terribly wrong.

Lin Yang's troops were more like bandits than they were! They knew the jungle better than they did! They were far more ruthless and merciless than they were!

Often, in the dead of night, when torrential rain was pouring down, the Independent Division's assault teams would appear like divine soldiers descending from the sky at the high ground of the bandit stronghold. Without any persuasion or nonsense, they would immediately unleash a barrage of PPSh submachine gun fire and grenade attacks.

In just three months, Lin Yang single-handedly wiped out more than 50 of the 72 notorious bandit groups in western Hunan and Guizhou!

The remaining bandits were terrified and threw down their weapons, fleeing the mountains to surrender to Li Yunlong's main force. They preferred to go to jail rather than encounter the young division commander known as the "Living Yama" in the forest.

The final turning point in the war occurred six months later on the Yunnan border.

Seeing that all was lost, Bai Chong, a top Kuomintang military intelligence agent known as "Ghost Fox," led his last two thousand elite loyalists into a primitive canyon called "Death Valley" in an attempt to escape across the border.

Bai Chong was extremely cunning. He took hundreds of innocent people from three nearby villages hostage on the only road through the canyon and laid landmines all around the area.

He had calculated the PLA's discipline of treating civilians well and attempted to use these hundreds of lives to force the pursuing troops to give way for their lives.

In the frontline command post, Li Yunlong looked at the map, cursing angrily, but he was hesitant to order a full-scale attack due to fear of unforeseen consequences.

At the critical moment, Lin Yang stepped forward.

Instead of negotiating with Bai Chong head-on, he led Political Commissar Shen Jian and three hundred of his most elite commandos, spending three days and three nights traversing the snow-capped mountain, over three thousand meters high and perpetually covered in snow, on the side of Death Valley!

That's a forbidden zone for life that even birds can hardly cross!

When Lin Yang, covered in snow and appearing like a divine warrior descending from the heavens, arrived behind Bai Chong's headquarters, Bai Chong was sitting in a military chair, smugly drinking coffee, waiting for the People's Liberation Army to compromise.

"Bang!"

Lin Yang kicked open the wooden door of the command post and pressed the submachine gun in his hand directly against Bai Chong's forehead.

Until that moment, even this top agent, who was known within the Military Intelligence Bureau for his unparalleled cunning, couldn't figure out where these People's Liberation Army soldiers had come from.

"Bai Chong, your path has come to an end." Lin Yang looked at him coldly, his eyes devoid of any warmth.

Bai Chong looked at Lin Yang's excessively young face, then at the ferocious commando team members around him, and dropped his coffee cup on the ground with a "clang," shattering it into pieces.

He knew he had lost completely.

With Bai Chong's capture, the campaign to suppress bandits in Southwest China has achieved a decisive and complete victory!

In this battle, Lin Yang not only annihilated the remnants of the enemy army and safely rescued all the detained civilians, but also completely eradicated this venomous tooth that had been entrenched in Southwest China!

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