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Chapter 796: Chapter 345: The Three Kingdoms of Lingnan

By mid-May, Qingyunzi finally led sixty thousand elite soldiers back to Baling.

Lu Yuan immediately ordered these sixty thousand men who had been on campaign for half a year to take a leave of absence. They were each given a month off to go home and reunite with their families.

Upon their return from leave, they were to rotate through various placements in Baling and join the local defense forces within the jurisdiction.

This force had been on campaign for a long time, falling under the category of tired veteran soldiers. For this southern expedition, Lu Yuan did not plan to use them.

After all, there were still ten legions remaining in Dongting jurisdiction. If he wanted to select three from among them, it would be extremely simple.

He certainly wouldn’t need to use a single force to the point of exhaustion.

Moreover, among the ten legions originally stationed in Dongting, most were new recruits. The longest serving among them had only just completed a year of training.

In one year’s time, they had become proficient in the use of signal flags and battle formations, and understood military law and order, barely meeting the standard of qualification.

Being merely qualified, however, was nothing more than the standard for county soldiers.

To become elite soldiers, to become brave members of the imperial guard, they would have to go through the refiner’s fire of warfare, roll through life and death, and pass this endurance test. Only then, after seeing blood, could a qualitative transformation occur.

Once their will had been strengthened, they would spend another two to three years honing their skills and martial abilities to become elite soldiers.

These recruits had just taken the first step, transitioning from greenhand soldiers to qualified soldiers. Now was the perfect time to send them to the battlefield, to undergo the baptism of blood and fire, and complete the second step.

Perfect.

Compared to the powerful elite forces of Zhou Country in the north, the standards of the various countries of Lingnan were really quite ordinary.

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