章 172: Chapter 131: Observing the Wind Direction_3

Later, Lu Yuan began to think that Xinhua County was unlikely to hold on until his rescue, it was probably done for. So he simply upped his expense allotment and recruited an additional hundred men.

Thus, after supplementing the prefecture troops and county soldiers, they now numbered two thousand. After selecting another three thousand sturdy village braves, Lu Yuan had a five-thousand-strong army.

The massive army had been assembled, but he didn't immediately order a departure.

Firstly among the county soldiers, many new ones had been supplemented, they varied greatly in quality and desperately needed training to familiarize the new soldiers with the battlefield. Not to mention those three thousand village braves, they were all a disorganized mess, unable to even stand in a proper formation.

Of the five thousand-strong army, only the thousand Prefecture troops personally led by Lu Yuan, having been trained for almost half a year, seemed barely presentable.