After two days of R & R leisure time, a mass message was passed to all commanding officers by General Hou Fei to meet at the beach for assembly by 0800 hours. Jin was there early to prepare the necessary pamphlets and booklets to distribute, but he can't help to notice how orderly and punctual the soldiers were when it came to their appointed time.
Instead of coming on the dot to assemble, each and every one of them had already been there at 0730 hours for roll call. They even performed their basic set of exercises in their standard army uniforms before standing at attention waiting for the commanding officers to collate and record the people who were present.
All five thousand were waiting at the shoreline silently, and the only thing that could be heard was the sound of the artificial sea waves hitting the beach. (To them it's rather real though)
