The young men at the red-wing army's training camp, Lingzhou, are outraged when they see that the young man, zhixing, is refusing to greet their chief instructor, instructor jiang. The instructors are shocked that a young man would refuse to obey an order, especially when the general has given him the rank of chief instructor. . The instructor tells the young men that if they defeat one of the instructors, they will acknowledge him as chief instructor and that they should pick their opponent and fight at once. He tells them that if the instructor is killed, they should not blame him for the death, but rather they should thank him for helping them rid the army of a "rotten apple." .