Description
The men and women of this unit fight like warriors from antiquity: terrorizing the enemy with the edge of their swords, favoring hand-to-hand combat, and getting close enough to their opponents to see the whites of their eyes as they overpower them, one after the other, as unstoppable as they are unrelenting. [1]
After the experiences in tunnel warfare for Yu Jing during the Syndicalist Revolts of the Aquitaine commercial circuit, Captain Hu Zheng was given carte blanche to create a battalion-sized unit specialized in tunnel and close quarter battle tactics. Their main recruits were the most part volunteers who had responded to the campaign request for men and women from frontline units, troopers who were experts in urban combat and skilled martial artists who did not know fear. Most of them came from units that used the opportunity to get rid of undisciplined or problematic elements, but all were personally approved by Captain Hu Zheng, who was looking for hard and implacable people for his shock unit. However the captain could not cover the necessary quota of personnel through the conventional means, and so resorted to an unorthodox solution, one which would establish the character of the unit. Remembering an old Chinese proverb that says: 'Unreliable men frequent the same places,' Captain Hu Zheng traveled the worst slums in the port areas of Shanghai on Earth, and Yinguo on Mars, recruiting the worst and most quarrelsome individuals he encountered. All of them were intensely trained in martial arts, urban combat, and close quarters battle, in addition to tunnel warfare, focusing on assault tactics, as well as shock and awe techniques. In this way, Captain Hu Zheng’s battalion specialized in overwhelming assaults, often at night, on enemy lines and positions without ever taking prisoners, and forging a fearsome reputation in the process. The men of this unit fight like Warriors from Antiquity, terrorizing the enemy with the edge of their swords, favoring hand-to-hand combat, and getting close enough to their opponents to see the whites of their eyes as they overtake them, one after the other, as unstoppable as they are unrelenting. Their ruthless actions have earned them the nickname 'Hǔláng' (虎狼, jackals), a sobriquet that also refers to their admitted lack of discipline in the barracks. As the Imperial Agent assigned to the battalion wrote when he heard of the divisional nickname: 'I have the feeling that luck has thrown me among a group of true demons, animated by a spirit of absolute chaos. They are all madmen, but I will do my best to keep them under control. They are the most insolent and miserable bastards I have seen in all my years of service.' This is the shock unit of the Invincible Army, all reports from the Imperial Service says that it may cause more problems. But problems are exactly the type of missions that are usually assigned to these unstoppable warriors, dressed with light servo-powered armor and thirsty for blood and violence.
