In modern society, if you take a central elementary or middle school at the county level, the size of the students can reach about 1,000.

Elementary and middle school students in modern society are trained by queues all year round. Whether it's in physical education or recess exercises, they have to march in a group. However, before the sports day, these primary and secondary school students, who have been nurtured all year round, still have to rehearse under the organization of the school to ensure that there are no problems with the review activities at the sports meeting.

Compared to elementary and junior high school students in modern society. The 1,000 or so soldiers carefully selected by Yao Zongwentong and Chen Jianye from the four guards in Xiangyang and other guards are not at all comparable to the primary and secondary school students in modern society, whether in terms of physical or cultural qualities.

They were all purely illiterate and pure serfs. Although their average age is about 20 years old, they have not received any systematic military training. They are not required to be able to march in a neat queue, and simply walking one by one without falling behind is not a small difficulty for them.

In modern society, a modern adult with normal body nutrition can walk about ten miles per hour. Walking for seven hours in a row, walking for seven or eight days in a row, is generally too problematic.

That is to say, without the need to carry weights, the distance of 400 miles from Xiangyang to Jingzhou, a healthy modern person can complete this journey in six days at most.

But the problem now is that the 1,000 rookie "soldiers" currently led by Chen Jianye are actually completely incomparable with a healthy modern person.

Don't look at them, they were selected from tens of thousands of guards. In fact, their health was just as bad as the rest of the guards. The perennial lack of food and the perennial overdraft of the body made these young soldiers, who looked healthier and more decent than those older guards, in quite poor physical condition.

Not to mention making these soldiers, many of whom can't wear shoes, walk ten miles an hour. The speed of three miles per hour, whether they can last five hours, this is very questionable.

More importantly, because there are no experienced low-level military attachés to manage these rookie recruits. How to organize and lead them is also a big problem. Chen Jianye also struggled with this question for the first few days.

Chen Jianye is a man from all over the world, and can be called "timely rain" by his superiors, colleagues and subordinates, but his kindness is only for people of his own class. As for ordinary soldiers, he, like the military attaché of a qiē feudal society, considered them consumables that could be replaced at any time. Therefore, Chen Jianye, the "timely rain" who is a person from all over the world, doesn't care about the state of the soldiers at all.

Chen Jianye, who took office as a new official, still followed the unspoken rules of military attachés: after the army is formed, he will eat empty salaries as much as he wants. He will deduct his wages as much as he wants.

However, Chen Jianye is relatively knowledgeable compared to local military attachés. Long before leaving Beijing, he paid for it himself, and hired thirty or forty strong and martial arts masters from Beijing as his own family.

These thirty or forty family members can be regarded as saving Chen Jianye's straw bag in a hurry. Each of them has some experience with a bodyguard. Organizing a team is actually quite organized. However, compared to the serious officers of 800, these thirty or forty people managed more than 1,000 recruits as executioners. The whole team looked like a big team of bodyguards, more like an army.

For example, the investigation team marching on the road, supplies and civilian and military officials were in the wagon. And these carriages were surrounded by thirty or forty dart masters, leading the executioners (soldiers) under their respective names, in the middle of the whole procession.

In the sense of bodyguards, this arrangement can protect materials and important personnel very well. However, from the perspective of military command, there is no systematic command system. The commander and the soldier were in a state of complete separation. In the event of a surprise attack such as an ambush, such a team is completely a food delivery.

Starting from Xiangyang City, the entire investigation team walked for more than ten days before gradually approaching the territory of Jingzhou Prefecture.

Even straw bales like Chen Jianye also found that the boundaries of Jingzhou were different from those in other regions. What he saw along the way made him very alert.

Each village built its own castle (in fact, it was a fortress-style dwelling inhabited by the villagers of the base village of the Revival Society and the farm workers directly affiliated to the Renaissance Society). Each village practiced the use of the Bird Gun (a Fuxing II rifle that was eliminated by the Revival Society and was not suitable for modification. At present, the Baath Army has begun to replace the Fuxing Type III rifle. The Revival Type 3 rifle is the Murata rifle that the Japanese remodeled from the improved version of the Grasse rifle of Xia Saibo).

This tense situation made the group nervous. Even Chen Jianye began to feel that the report of Zhang Hong, the prefect of Jingzhou, was not necessarily Jingzhouwei's prevarication. After all, such a tight defense and tense atmosphere did not look like it was specially designed to deal with the investigation team.

Because in the eyes of these civil and military officials from the landlord class, this kind of well-guarded fortress in the countryside was often built by the big landlords in the countryside. If it weren't for the fact that the local security had indeed become very poor, the big landlords would not have been so noisy.

For example, when the team tried to enter a village, they were warned by the villager's strong gunshots. Before the team could approach the village. The alarm sounded in the fortress of the village. Then there was a group of people in strange costumes (militia uniforms) and a much higher level of organization than the Suzhì of the Investigation Mission, and quickly climbed the wall and sounded "guns" to the Investigation Mission's troops.

Chen Jianye sent a master to negotiate with the people in the village. However, the people in the village did not allow the investigation team to approach the village. Even if they showed the documents of the governor of Huguang, they didn't believe it.

What Chen Jianye didn't know was that the village he came into contact with was actually a farm directly under the Renaissance Society. The production and construction soldiers on the entire farm are all agricultural workers under the Revival Association. All of them have received adequate military training, cultural education, and ideological education from the Renaissance Society.

Not to mention the order of the governor of Huguang, it is the holy decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and don't want to command them.

As farm workers who had received a full education and had developed a clear class consciousness from the Revival Society, they did not directly send troops to eliminate this group of people, but that was because the Revival Society had a clear order.

In fact, Chen Jianye, who felt offended and very angry, did not know how lucky he was. Under normal circumstances, a team of more than 30 people would rush into the confines of the farm without notice from the Revival Society, and under normal circumstances, they would only end up in a dead end.

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