Because Stewart had found a manor that met Chu Tianjiang's requirements, the caravan had already left the camp, and only Andre stayed in the camp to wait for Chu Tianjiang and them to return.

When the eight people loaded all the ammunition, the minibus was almost crushed.

The maximum load capacity of this minibus was only 1.5 tons, and the ammunition brought back by the eight people was almost 3.5 tons!

In order to avoid the minibus "strike", Chu Tianjiang asked Isabella, who was the lightest weight, to drive slowly, and then asked Andre to walk with them.

"Nothing happened, did you?"

"No, it's just that Clara threw up again, and she certainly didn't sleep well last night. There are also some freelance mercenaries who are very upset with Connie. ”

"Dissatisfied?"

Andre smiled and said, "Those guys think that Connie and the others are not qualified to be their equals, and think that Connie and the others are eating and drinking. ”

"Someone is making trouble about this?"

"Not yet, but there's no guarantee that it won't happen."

"You keep an eye on it and try not to get into trouble before you get to Denver. When I get to Denver, it's time for those guys to get out, and I don't want to waste any more money on them anyway. ”

"We're not short of money."

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "I don't lack money, and I don't raise wine bags and rice bags." Besides, free mercenaries are unreliable, and if they follow for a long time, something will happen sooner or later. ”

"Most of them are unreliable, but a few are pretty good."

"Really?"

"I've been keeping an eye on them, Leonid and Valentin are also very interested, and the Fukushima brothers often train with them, and several of them should be trusted."

"Okay, let's talk about it when we get to Denver. Those who are reliable stay, and those who are unreliable are all gone. ”

Andre nodded, indicating that he understood what Chu Tianjiang meant.

Because Chu Tianjiang put forward a lot of requirements for the manor to settle in, especially the environment must be good, the manor that Stewart found was far away from the city.

At noon, Chu Tianjiang and the others arrived at the manor.

In Salt Lake City, the merchants were out day and night, and they had to go into the city at night to buy guns, so Stewart and the deacons of the caravan were sleeping soundly.

Let Nicol and the others go to Connie and distribute the ammunition, and Chu Tianjiang went to see Clara.

Through this period of observation, Chu Tianjiang found that Clara was very strong in front of him and never showed her pain and discomfort. Clara did this, obviously not wanting Chu Tianjiang to be distracted by her, so that Chu Tianjiang could concentrate on more important matters. Chu Tianjiang was also very emotional. When she was in Moscow, Clara was simply an empress, at least with the appearance of an empress, and lived a comfortable life with food to open her mouth and clothes to stretch her hands. followed him, but suffered a lot of hardships and suffered a lot of sins.

Before leaving Las Vegas, Chu Tianjiang thought about carrying Clara to the base one night, and asked Zhan Pengfei to arrange a transport plane to send her back to China, so that she could return to her home in the valley to raise her baby with peace of mind. It's just that Chu Tianjiang knew that Clara wouldn't agree, so he never said it.

"Feeling unwell today?"

Clara smiled reluctantly, pretending to be normal, but she could tell that she was uncomfortable.

"Clara, I know that you are very strong, and I know that you want to be with me, but in this case, not only will I not be able to take care of you, but I will make you suffer more."

"It's okay, I've asked several maids who have given birth, and they all said that it would be fine for a while."

"How long will it take?"

"No one knows about this, some people are a week, some people are a month."

"For others, I'm afraid it's a few months."

"Husband......"

"In the evening, I will send you back to the base, and let Lao Zhan arrange a transport plane to send you back to China."

"No!" Clara immediately vetoed Chu Tianjiang's proposal. "You promised me that you would never leave me alone at home until I had a baby."

"Of course not alone, and Anna."

"No, either."

Chu Tianjiang sighed and said, "Clara, this is for your good, and it is also for our children. ”

"I know, but I just won't agree." Clara gritted her teeth and said, "Well, if I'm still like this when I get to Denver, you'll send me back." ”

"That's what you promised."

"Of course, but you can't do anything to me, and you can't let Nicole and the others do anything to me."

"You think I'm like that?"

"You're not, but if you're doing it for me and the child, maybe ......"

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I want to be with you too." As long as you are well, I will naturally not drive you back. ”

Clara nodded, not saying anything more.

"Okay, go change your clothes, and I'll accompany you out for a walk."

"I was so weak that I couldn't walk."

"You want me to carry you?"

"Of course, otherwise what do you want your husband to do?"

Chu Tianjiang rolled his eyes and rubbed Clara's face before squatting down and carrying her up.

The estate is large, and it looks like it used to be a pasture, with dozens of hectares of grassland enclosed with barbed wire, in addition to barns for storing grain and fodder, a set of equipment for processing forage, and several cattle and sheep pens fenced off by wooden fences.

Because of the relatively poor land and low rainfall, the Midwest of the United States is dominated by pastures.

As far as Chu Tianjiang knows, when it comes to the Mississippi River Basin and the Great Lakes region, pastures are rare, mainly some large-scale farms.

Although the United States is about the same size as China, the land environment of the United States is much better. In the continental United States, with the exception of the higher elevation of the Rocky Mountains, most of the rest of the country is suitable for cultivation and grazing, or used as forest farms, and precipitation is relatively evenly distributed. More importantly, most of the places suitable for cultivation in the United States are plains, and the basic conditions for mechanized agriculture are available. Before the catastrophe, less than 5 percent of the U.S. population was agricultural, feeding all Americans and exporting enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people.

After carrying Clara around the manor, Chu Tianjiang heard the sound of crackling gunshots.

After rushing over, Chu Tianjiang found that it was Nicol and the others who were teaching Connie and the others to conduct shooting training, and the target was the scarecrow standing two hundred meters away.

Chu Tianjiang had to admit that even the five best women had extremely bad marksmanship.

Connie ran out of thirty rounds in a magazine, and only six hit the scarecrow, while Doris, Helen, Lucia, and Miranda were all about the same. As for other women who have not received special training from Chu Tianjiang, it is very good to be able to hit the target with one of the thirty bullets.

Practicing marksmanship like this is simply a waste of precious bullets!

"Nichol!"

"Something?" Nichol ran over, saw Clara lying on Chu Tianjiang's back, and immediately said, "Clara, you are so happy." ”

"Don't talk about Clara, didn't I run around with you on my back in New York?" Chu Tianjiang glanced at the several women who were firing. "Let them all stop and start with the basics."

"Basics?"

"Take off all the optical sights, first learn the correct aiming posture, what is the three-point line, and exercise their arm strength."

"No problem." Nichole understood.

"Also, let them figure out what bursting is and what is automatic. During the break, let them disassemble and assemble their carbine repeatedly. ”

"Okay, I'm done!"

As soon as Nicol ran over, the gunfire stopped.

According to Chu Tianjiang's instructions, Nichole first asked Connie and other fifty women to stand in a row, and then corrected their aiming posture with Rachel and others, and explained to them in detail how to use mechanical sights. After that, they were asked to hold their guns and aim at the scarecrows.

"You're not training them, you're torturing them."

"The best training is torture." Chu Tianjiang said to Clara, "I used to be in the army, and I had to hang a few kilograms of heavy objects on the muzzle of the gun. If it's winter, it's okay to say, but it's just to freeze the body. Standing in the scorching sun for hours in the summer is absolutely fatal. ”

"Have you ever suffered like this?"

"A soldier is not a civilian, and the more he suffers in training, the less blood is shed on the battlefield."

"The point is, they're not soldiers."

"Not now, but certainly in the future."

"You're going to make them into an army of women?"

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "I don't have such a plan, but they asked for it themselves." Think about it, how will they survive in this world in the future? ”

"This ......"

"I can't take care of you, Nicole and Anna for the rest of my life, and I can't even take them out of this hell on earth. If they have to stay, they have to fight for survival, and they have to develop a real skill that makes even the strongest men helpless. ”

"If that's the case, we have to take them with us when we leave the United States."

"For what?"

"They're really going to be as powerful as you say, a powerful force everywhere, and that's not what we lack?"

"With me, Nichol and Andre, the three brothers, aren't strong enough?"

"Have you grown three heads and six arms, or have you become a thousand-armed Guanyin?" Clara smiled and twisted Chu Tianjiang's face. "It's not a bad thing to have a lot of people, when you find that you don't have skills, you will know that the more Lu Dao subordinates, the better, anyway, you can't afford to raise them."

"Either way, they're not like you."

"Of course, and you train them so much that you don't treat them like women." Clara smiled and kissed Chu Tianjiang on the face. "Listen to me, promise nothing wrong. With your tutelage, they're sure to be able to become super female warriors no less than those freelance mercenaries. ”

Chu Tianjiang sighed secretly, Clara is indeed very good at persuasion.

The basic training lasted until the evening, and although it was very hard, not a single one of the fifty women complained, and not one of them took the opportunity to be lazy. It was precisely because they were so strong and that spirit of not admitting defeat that Chu Tianjiang decided to train them and make them real warriors.