TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 988: Chapter 409: Thirty Years of Cultivation_2 Chapter 988: Chapter 409: Thirty Years of Cultivation_2 Therefore, despite enjoying thirty years of peace, the Chu army had not deteriorated; on the contrary, they remained in the midst of warfare, receiving training that was no less rigorous than that of other nations.

Even because the Chu army’s rotation policy, unlike other nations constrained by multiple frontlines and intense border pressures, often led to a large force getting trapped and overused to the brink of death, allowing no effective rest.

As a result, a large number of veteran elite soldiers were needlessly lost on the battlefield, necessitating the recruitment of numerous new soldiers to replenish the army’s size.

The army was mixed with veteran and new soldiers, resulting in uneven soldier quality.

Benefiting from the rotational system, those veterans who had experienced battle were well preserved, with the army primarily composed of veterans.

Even the two million new soldiers recently recruited by Lu Yuan from within the country were actually veterans who had been discharged and then re-conscripted.

Twenty years ago, sensing the increasingly fierce warfare among the nations, to reserve more quality troops domestically, Lu Yuan forcefully implemented reforms within the army.

It was mandated that a Soldier would stay in the army for a maximum of ten years after enlistment.

No matter the age, after ten years, they were to be forcibly discharged and enrolled into the reserve force.

Possibly a soldier would start serving at the age of fifteen or sixteen and be discharged by twenty-five or twenty-six.

From this point on, the lifelong conscription practiced by other nations, where young and old mixed, where one would join the army at fifteen and return home at eighty, was completely eradicated in Chu State.

Consequently, Chu State gained a substantial number of prime-aged, military-trained men in their twenties and thirties, or thirties and forties.

These retired reservists, registered in the local governments, could be assembled instantly at the command of the local military officers, and then according to their previous military ranks, they formed small-scale armies.

Under such a system, not to mention two million new soldiers, even three million or five million could be easily assembled by Chu State, ensuring a certain level of combat effectiveness.

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The Chu soldiers trained under this system, even if they were reservists re-enlisted, were much stronger than recruiting a new soldier from civilians, as practiced by other states.

Therefore, on the level of soldiers, the Chu army was naturally far superior to the Liang army, which was a mix of young and old, veterans and recruits.

As for the quality of the officers, that goes without saying.

The wars fought by the Chu army over the years were consciously controlled in scale and intensity, intended only for border defense and army training.

This was fundamentally different from the cutthroat power struggles between nations.

In such a situation, the loss of soldiers was much lower, and as officers were protected by so many soldiers, they were even safer.

Over decades, the Chu army cultivated countless excellent officers of high, medium, and low ranks.

The nobility and powerful local families within Chu cultivated many exceptional descendants, numbering in the millions.

Under Lu Yuan’s advocacy, these individuals received good military education and were capable of serving as competent military officers at all levels.

These two sources of officers not only ensured command over Chu State’s existing standing forces, but even the civilian workers conscripted were managed by numerous officers at various ranks and trained and directed as if they were an army.

Compared to the Liang army’s shortage of officers, it was a vast improvement.

When it came to the coordination of the large army, it needed no further mention.

With the presence of Lu Yuan’s Avatars commanding troops of a hundred thousand each, facing “Immortal Technique” cheating by the Liang people, even if they came up with all sorts of tricks, they couldn’t compare.

Hence, various advantages combined to form the Chu army’s overwhelming superiority over the Liang army in all aspects.

So, on a day when early winter descended, before the full onset of biting cold,

After hundreds of small-scale probes, the Chu and Liang finally embarked on a grand battle, deploying a hundred thousand soldiers each to confront each other on the plains between the two armies.

The result was Liang’s devastating defeat.

Yan Yunqing immediately realized the gap between the two sides.

He then commenced a defensive stance within the camp, ignoring Chu’s provocations, and after enduring several days and the arrival of the Great Snow of Heaven and Earth, which sealed everything,

He took this breather to summarize the many problems he had identified and dispatched a messenger back to the capital, promoting his findings and requesting the emperor to send enough qualified officers to address the deficiencies within the Liang army.

Now, with winter serving as a buffer and surrounded by heavy snow, the Chu army could not initiate battles from their camp.

Meanwhile, the Liang army had these three to four months of winter to reorganize their troops, replace unqualified officers, and thus reduce and recover from the disparity with the Chu army.

If they waited until the winter passed and the great snows melted, allowing the Chu army free movement,

And if the Liang army remained unchanged, a disastrous defeat would not be far off.

Yan Yunqing shared his concerns in his letter, thus warning the Monarch and Ministers inside the great walls of Liang.

After thirty years of accumulation and preparation, the Chu army was nowhere near as impetuous and weak as it appeared on the outside, and the gap with the Liang State had widened.

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This battle demonstrated Chu’s thirty years of effort while Liang was exhausted after a hundred battles, indeed in grave danger.

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While the armies of Huang Xuan and Yan Yunqing were engaged in heated battle on the borders of Jiaodong and Yangxia,

Lu Yuan was busy at home, conducting the last round of mobilization before the Northern Expedition.

After half a year of preparation, aside from the troops already dispatched to the front lines of the Yangxia Expeditionary Army,

The Hanzhong and Xiangyang Military Camps within Chu, responsible for the campaign against Wei Country, were completely ready a month ago.

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