Captain Cao experienced the hellish drill for a first since his last drill when he just entered the military. Hellish was the right choice of word for this level of the drill. If when he entered the military was a level 3 hellish drill, then this was a level 9 hellish drill.
They ran non-stop from one village to another village. Of course, it was not they did not have a rest, but the rest was barely– No, the rest was simply not enough. They barely stabilized the breathing before they were forced to follow the elite squad to run.
At first, they were simply running, but when they started attacking the Level 2 Ogre Village, they had to join the fight as well. Of course, the fight was not that hard or even life-threatening since what they had to face was one or three stage-1 ogres at the maximum. Everything else was slaughtered by the elite squad in no time before they had to run to the next village.