Special operations are specialized in carrying out surprise attacks and sabotage on the enemy's important military, political, and economic targets. Operations carried out by special forces or units temporarily assigned to special operations to achieve specific objectives or objectives, such as airborne operations, landing operations, and hostage rescue, attacks on enemy head organs, important military installations, and other key targets.

And the troops that carry out special operations are what we usually call special forces. They carry out special tasks, conduct special training, are equipped with special equipment, and are led and commanded by the highest military command organs.

Since the Far Eastern Army came to this era, it has always attached great importance to the training of special forces, and has continuously dispatched special operations units in all battles, and has achieved very brilliant results.

Although only more than 100 trainees pass the final assessment every year in the Scout Training Center in the Far East, all of them are special operations elites at the level of the king of soldiers.

Every year, several thousand cadets are selected to the Scout Training Center, all of whom are elites selected from hundreds of thousands of units of all the main forces of the Far Eastern Army.

These selected elites will go through three examinations before they can become trainees of the Scout Training Center, and the elimination rate has reached 90 percent.

The officers and men who have been eliminated in the third assessment will be assigned to the special service group of the Air Force and the special brigade of the Navy, as well as the special operations groups of various field armies for training. Become the core force of the reconnaissance units of various ministries.

The officers and men who pass the three examinations will eventually become trainees of the scout training center, and they will undergo two years of brutal training, and they will also go to various complex environments to receive field training; they will have to cross dangerous swamps, climb towering snow-capped mountains, cross uninhabited deserts, fight poisonous snakes, insects, and pythons in tropical rainforests, and be in the company of wolves in the vast grasslands.

They specialize in a variety of combat skills such as shooting, fighting, rock climbing, armed swimming, and battlefield ambulance. Everyone is a master of heaven and earth.

But even if they become trainees of the training center, the trainees of the Far Eastern Army Scout Training Center will have to undergo the last assessment after completing two years of hard training.

There are many contents of the assessment, and it is extremely difficult to pass the final assessment. These include being fully armed, carrying an average of more than 30 kilograms of equipment per person, covertly navigating through dense forests, swamps, and rivers for more than 150 kilometers, and at the same time having to evade the hypothetical enemy and attack the decapitation mission of the imaginary enemy's headquarters.

There is also the completion of wilderness survival training in various cruel environments with very little supplies. Not only must they survive in an extremely harsh environment, but they also have to face an all-out encirclement and suppression by the air boat unit, the ground search force, and the river patrol boat detachment.

As for the environment in which the trainees are assessed, it is completely decided by lottery. Therefore, in the usual training, the trainees must master the survival skills of various environments, and there is no room for luck. After two years of brutal training, the elimination rate of these students in the final assessment was 50 percent.

Of course, in the end, there are many objective factors involved in this assessment, and the students with the best performance in the training may not be able to pass the assessment due to some accidents.

Therefore, even if the trainees fail to pass the assessment, they will still become a special operations unit of the Far Eastern Army. It's just that the direction of assignment is different, and the trainees who have passed the assessment, or the trainees who are very specialized in some aspects, will generally stay in the Central Garrison Corps.

Cadets who fail to pass the examination are assigned to the special operations brigades directly under the various field armies, and although their rank is lower, they will have more opportunities to participate in battles in the future and have more opportunities to award meritorious service awards.

Although the Far Eastern Army Scout Training Center has been established for several years, there are not many qualified special forces. Especially after the company established the Central Garrison Corps, the trainees who graduated in the past two years, regardless of whether they passed the assessment or not, were assigned to the Central Garrison Corps.

In addition, the special operations brigades of the major field armies and the cadets who graduated from the scout training center have also been transferred. As a result, the backbone of the reconnaissance and special operations units directly under the various units have been wiped out in one go.

Li Ming and Song Tao, led by Wang Xiaojie, Liu Handong, and others, visited the training of officers and men of the special operations brigade. Nowadays, the training environment in this season is extremely difficult, the field is extremely muddy, and when the troops are carrying out armed cross-country, it is very difficult to run with dozens of pounds of weight on their backs.

Tactical drills in the field are even more arduous, and the soldiers are crawling and rolling in the field, doing all kinds of tactical movements, one by one like mud monkeys.

"There is less than a month left before the time of the general offensive. The special operations brigade should enter the territory of Daming before the main force. During this time, it is necessary to actively coordinate and prepare to make the fighters fight in the best condition. ”

Everyone listened to Li Ming's words and responded loudly.

Song Tao also smiled and said: "You and the intelligence department must coordinate well, Zhou Billy will come to the Hetao area in the next two days, and the heads of the Daming intelligence station will also come with him, and you must have a good exchange with them at that time." ”

At the same time that the Northern Corps was actively preparing for war, the Northeast Corps and the Southern Corps were also in full swing to make final preparations before the campaign.

Although the main force of the Central Plains Campaign was the Northern Corps, the task of the Eastern Corps was also very arduous. They not only had to sweep the Liaoxi Corridor and capture Shanhaiguan, but also drove all the way to join the Northern Corps under the city of Daming Jingshi.

Moreover, with the cooperation of the Admiralty, it was necessary to land along the coast of Nanzhili, cut off the southward escape route of the Ming army of the Beijing Division, and cooperate with the Northern Army to encircle the Ming army in Nanzhili and annihilate the elite Ming army in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

With the cooperation of the Admiralty, they will blockade the waterways of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, completely cut off the connection between the north of the Ming Dynasty and the south of the Yangtze River, and block the passage for the Ming army and the gentry and wealthy households to flee south.

And took the navy's inland river sailing ships and steam deck barges to go deep into the south of the Ming River, plunder grain and other materials, and eliminate the Ming army's inland river division in the south of the Ming River.

The commander of the Eastern Corps, Qiang Quansheng, met with the heads of the various units participating in the battle every day, and all the logistical materials of the troops had been distributed to the troops, and the ships supported by the Admiralty had been deployed and ready to go into battle at any time.

Now that the Southern Corps is stationed on Jeju Island, Commander Hao Changfeng is also so busy that he hits the back of his head and goes down to the troops every day to check the troops' preparations for the campaign.

Although there is still nearly a month to go before the Central Plains Campaign, all the participating units of the Far Eastern Army are ready to go. The breath of the war has spread, and even all parts of the Ming Dynasty have felt the smell of war, and they have begun to actively deal with it. (To be continued.) )