As soon as the New Year passed, Lu Yuan began to busy himself again.
By now, half a year had gone by. Before participating in the Inescapable Meeting, he had recruited 15,000 new recruits, who had trained for half a year and were now barely considered an army.
According to usual practice, once new recruits had reached this level of training, they needed to be taken outside for some actual combat experience, facing some enemies in several battles and accumulating battlefield experience.
Mere closed-door training couldn't produce elite soldiers.
Only by combining training and actual combat would one produce veterans.
However, with the current situation, whether or not to send troops left Lu Yuan somewhat torn.
Currently, although there were constant disturbances throughout Dongting jurisdiction, the main battlefields in both Yueyang Prefecture and Shaoyang Prefecture were more or less stable.
