Changlu is definitely an old qualification in the Manchurian army, and his status is not lower than the so-called five bigwigs such as Tan Shaoguang, but he has not left the town, but has always been by Guoxing's side. And he is an outlier, a major general in North Manchukuo should be at the level of division commander, but Changlu has the same rank of lieutenant general as Bi Yuntao, Tan Shaoguang and others, but he is only a brigade commander. Because he commanded a special unit, the North Manchurian Guards Special Operations Brigade.

After the great military reform, many of the units directly under the Gu'an Army during the period were changed to the management of each military region on its own, such as engineers, artillery, baggage, and so on, and even special services such as railway troops and engineering troops, which were also under the jurisdiction of the General Staff Headquarters. There are only three units left in Goxinga's own directly administered troops, namely Kong Zhen's strategic artillery group, Fuquan's Guards Special Infantry Brigade, and Changlu's Guards Special Operations Brigade. Kong Zhen's strategic artillery group is actually just an elite artillery group in North Manchuria, which is under the name of Guoxing'a, and most of the time it is transferred by the staff headquarters, and it does not even have the name of the guard. There are only two directly subordinate armed forces in the true sense of the word, namely the Guards Task Force Infantry Brigade and the Guards Special Operations Brigade.

Needless to say, Fuquan's Guards Task Force Infantry Brigade is a very good soldier from top to bottom, and it can be regarded as a pro-soldier unit in Goxinga. The soldiers of this unit must not only have excellent military quality, but also be politically excellent, and all of them are equipped with weapons that transcend the times and are specially produced by Guoxinga. They were responsible for the daily security work of Goxinga, and in wartime they were the last card of the Manchurian army. When the flames of war burned in front of Guo Xing'a, Fuquan's Guards Special Infantry Brigade would fight for the general to the last man with unparalleled combat effectiveness.

Changlu's Guards Special Operations Brigade is much more mysterious, and their establishment is very small, with only more than 3,000 people in the name of a brigade. Moreover, they were not equipped with any heavy weapons, not even heavy machine guns, and the heaviest equipment in the brigade did not exceed one hundred and fifty pounds. If it is a positional war, it is difficult to say whether they can defeat the ordinary main special infantry brigade. But Guo Xing'a regarded them as the sword in his hand, and it was the killer weapon that Guo Xing'a relied on the most.

Although the Guards Task Force Brigade is strong, their mission is to defend the general, and they are an army whose main task is defense, and they are the shield of Goxinga. The Guards Special Operations Brigade is an offensive force, they are not easily mobilized, but as long as they make a move, they will be brought to the head of the enemy chieftain in front of Goxinga, they are Goxinga's sharp sword.

The reason why they are so good without heavy equipment is because their light weapons are particularly against the sky, and their tactics are very special. In terms of rifles, they are equipped with the same Type 56 semi-automatic rifles modified by Guoxing Amo, and they are named Tongzhi semi-automatic rifles in North Manchuria. Guoxinga's magic change is actually because of obsessive-compulsive disorder to change the magazine, changing the five or six types of upper pressure bullets to the lower magazine loading, and the ammunition volume has changed from ten rounds to twelve rounds. The enemy's rifles are still *, and the guards are all semi-automatic, so the comparison of firepower can be imagined.

In addition to ordinary rifles, Goxinga also produced a batch of special operations brigades at a high price*. Even the Guards Brigade is currently the same as the front-line troops, with a medium-fledged rifle equipped with a quadruple optical scope*. But the special operations brigade is different, theirs * is special, even the bullets are special, they use a tenfold optical sight, and one gun is worth 100,000. For their sake, Goxinga deliberately copied the originator of Hyundai*, the M40A1 of the U.S. Army, and spent enough money to feed the people of a small county.

On machine guns, special operations units are not the same as guards brigades. The Guards Brigade is still the routine of the regular army, and a squad is issued with a ZB26 light machine gun copied by Goxinga, and North Manchukuo is named Tongzhi light machine gun. Then a platoon was armed with a Tongzhi water-cooled heavy machine gun, which was being used by the main forces. The special forces are not armed with heavy machine guns, they are armed only with light machine guns, but the proportion of distribution is very large, one per combat group, that is, three in a squad. In order to save money, the Tongzhi light machine gun is still using a twenty-round magazine to feed ammunition, and the fire continuity is not very good, so the special forces are equipped with different machine guns. They used the Type 56 light machine gun directly modified by Guoxing'a, and the North Manchurian was named the Tongzhi Type 2 light machine gun. This machine gun uses a 100-round drum to feed the ammunition, and the firepower has been greatly enhanced, and Goxinga borrowed from the use of the American army in the Vietnam War, adding a handguard on the barrel, once in a hurry, it can be picked up and swept away, and the effect is extremely amazing.

In terms of equipment at the next level, the Guards Brigade is almost the same as the rest of the main forces, but they don't have to worry about supplies, so they don't need to use small guys like rifle guns, from the battalion level onwards, they are all big guys of more than one hundred and five millimeters. The Guards Brigade took the train wherever they went, and they also had animal power, and they always followed Guoxing'a in all directions, and they also carried a few 220-millimeter pipes. The special forces are no longer equipped with these big pipes, they have to be flexible and mobile to stealthily break through, and they can't take these big guys at all. Therefore, the team level is equipped with a large number of * launchers, basically one per person, and all mortars above the company level.

Of course, Guoxinga has already come up with the mainstream product of mortar, and the reason why it has not been distributed to the troops is because all departments are more optimistic about infantry artillery. The weight of the infantry artillery is several times that of the mortar, but the Manchurian army is rich in animal power, and there is no need to fight in areas with complex terrain, so the front-line troops do not care much about the weight. Moreover, the infantry artillery has a function that the mortar does not have, that is, it fires directly at the fortifications, and the effect of attacking the fortification is much better than that of the mortar. As for clearing the trenches, the Manchurian Army had a large number of * launchers, and the elevation angle of the infantry guns could also be adjusted to about 80 degrees, and they did the same work without mortars, and the effect was not bad at all. Originally, the bazooka could be used in combination with mortars to replace the position of the infantry, but Guoxinga didn't have to fight tanks, so naturally there was no need to spend energy on rocket launchers. Mortars were abandoned by the main forces because of their bias.

But special forces are different, they have no animal power to rely on, and they need to enter complex terrain to fight, so mortars have become their first choice. For the sake of the special forces, Guoxinga is really willing to pay for it, and the 60 mm, 82 mm, and 100 mm mortars have been carried out all over the place, so as to ensure that the special forces are flexible and mobile at the same time, they can also get the support of artillery of various calibers. The problem of direct-fire artillery, the special forces are not worried either, they have their own way to solve it.

In all previous exercises, the special forces have all participated, but even against the ace main force such as the 1st Division, they have never used more than one company of troops. Tan Shaoguang, Bi Yuntao, Actun, Chengtai, Ji Ying and others were all inexplicably killed or captured by Changlu. Because it has not participated in real combat, the Guards Special Operations Brigade is still only the strongest in the exercises.

Guo Xing'a suddenly named Changlu today, and Changlu knew that his sword finally had a chance to be unsheathed.