After breakfast, everyone began to attend to their physiological needs on the periphery. It was a military custom that before a major battle, eating, drinking, and relieving oneself had to be done collectively and all at once.
Once the real fighting and killing began, who would have the time to urinate or defecate?
Ran Min had heard from his squad leader that he had once seen a unit of the Northern Conquest Army. When these men drank water by a creek, they would always position themselves with their backs to the water, facing outwards. During breaks on the march, they took care of eating, drinking, and relieving themselves all together.
It might sound somewhat indelicate, but such details were key to revealing whether a military unit was truly elite.
They weren't men, but a cluster of sharp blades.
