"Nearly 8,000 people?" Napoleon frowned and said to the staff, "Please first let those who don't have adult males under 45 at home go back.
"The rest should run 8 laps around the training field. Anyone who can't understand orders or runs around aimlessly should be dismissed.
"Only keep the first 4,000 who finish running."
He had visited various tribes in recent days and knew that due to occasional famines, many indigenous people's physiques were very poor, and these people must be filtered out.
Of course, the main reason for limiting the army's size was still the number of officers.
The French and Spaniards in the colonies combined only had 22 middle-ranked officers and less than 190 non-commissioned officers.
These officers could manage at most over 3,000 people. Including some promoted through training, the total number of soldiers shouldn't exceed 5,000.
As for the Indians who had never been exposed to modern warfare modes, they couldn't possibly handle officer positions.
