Baoling was training a squad of soldiers with great enthusiasm. It had taken sixty recruits five days to clear the overgrown wasteland behind the houses under his direction. According to infantry training standards, Baoling then took another two days to turn it into an extremely rudimentary training ground, but at least the land was leveled, and wooden targets had begun to take shape. Baoling was confident that from this training ground would emerge the first qualified infantry soldiers of the Caucasus.