It is true that lowering the standards could increase the size of conscription, but it will certainly lead to some problems.

Most people must be treated equally, and a small number of cronies are okay. However, once there is a serious bias towards one group, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among other groups.

It's like Tang Taizong was born in the Guanlong Group, but the Shandong Group has always looked down on the Guanlong Group, and the JAC Group is also ambiguous. This Liu Xiu's Nanyang Group and Hebei Group have also been fighting openly and secretly for many years.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there will inevitably be competition between the Yanzhou soldiers and the soldiers recruited in the hometown of the Song Kingdom, so the treatment of the soldiers must also be unified.

This newly recruited soldier also needs a new commander, and this commander must be a neutral officer, at least not an officer who is biased towards the Yanzhou faction.

"Chen Zhuang, you are first responsible for recruiting soldiers, and the officer in charge of command and training is to be determined."

"Okay, I'll arrange the conscription."

After Chen Zhuang walked out, Lu Zhan picked up the brush and turned it in his hand. There are still such people in the army, and some officers from the Lu Zhanshuo soldiers who came to Yanzhou together in the capital were selected to serve in the new army.

These Yanzhou soldiers dragged their families to settle in Yanzhou, thanks to their second uncle Lu Ji.

After solving the military affairs, Lu Zhan lay on the marching bed and listened to the sound of insects outside the military tent. It's a pity that there is no entertainment in the barracks, and now they are a little homesick. Now there are too few harems, and now there is only one main palace lady.

Thinking about it, Lu Zhan gradually closed his eyes, and was shouted by his own soldiers in the early morning of the next day.

"What's the matter, early in the morning." Lu Zhan yawned and looked at the anxious pro-soldiers.

"This is the news from the day before yesterday, there is an emergency in Fuyuan." As he spoke, he picked up an envelope marked with an urgent matter.

Originally, this self-established system was designed to prevent people around them from waking up in an emergency, so they were required to wake up as soon as a letter was marked as urgent.

After opening the letter, Lu Zhan's face darkened suddenly, and his originally sluggish expression suddenly became energetic. The expression on his face gradually became eerie.

The letter stated that Fuyuan City was besieged by bandits, and now reinforcements are continuing.

"Can a bandit have such a great ability? can even gather to besiege the city, is this the Water Margin? Lu Zhan began to mumble in his mouth.

After handing the envelope to Chen Zhuang to read, Chen Zhuang's expression became serious, "The bandits written on this letter should be some routs gathering in the mountains and forests. These people have been trained to a certain extent, they are not ordinary bandits, these people do have the ability to break through the city, these cities are not as tall as Dingtao, so this Fuyuan City is in danger. ”

At this moment, Fuyuan City has been besieged by bandits composed of defeated soldiers for more than three days, and these bandits are clamoring that if they don't hand over 30,000 taels of silver, 2,000 taels of gold will break through the city gate and sack the entire Fuyuan City.

This Fuyuan City is the perfect target for the bandits, the city is not tall enough, and the garrison is not enough, but there are many rich families in such a city.

The heads of these cities and the rich families also wanted to avoid disaster, but the conditions of the bandits were too great. Moreover, these wealthy families also vigorously supported the garrison, not only giving money and food to reward the garrison, but also letting their own soldiers join the army defending the city.

However, even the soldiers in the city, including their own soldiers, could not resist the enemy forces outside the city. After these bandits saw that the gate of Fuyuan was closed and had no intention of breaking the fortune and avoiding disasters, they built ladders and chariots for their siege.

Most of these bandits are soldiers who have escaped from the battlefield, and building equipment is naturally a piece of cake for them.

The soldiers guarding the city walls couldn't help but swallow a little as they looked at the siege weapons being built in the distance, there were still many new sprouts that had just emerged on these ladders.

"What can you do here, there are so many bandits outside here, there are at least several thousand, and the defenders are only more than 800 people, how can this be good." Jia Fuhu's expression and tone were like mourning.

"Mobilize the whole city, so that you can resist it for some time. But if reinforcements don't arrive in time, we're in danger. ”

This Fuyuan was originally an agricultural city, and the bows, arrows, swords and guns stored in the warehouse were not enough to arm all the people. The people took their poles and kitchen knives and stood on top of the wall.

The bandits outside the city also possessed a large number of weapons and equipment, complete with knives and guns, but insufficient armor. But these people are much better than the people who have been improvised to be drafted.

After Lu Zhan saw the letter, he immediately ordered his troops and horses to prepare for the expedition, although this Fuyuan was only taken a few days ago, but it was also under his own rule.

"General Chen, you take 6,000 infantry, and I will take 3,000 cavalry to Fuyuan immediately for reinforcements." Lu Zhan ordered his soldiers to dress themselves in armor and battle robes.

"The enemy situation of the lord is unknown, the letter did not say how many bandits besieged Fuyuan, and I don't need to say more about the reason that the son of this daughter is not in the court, it is too dangerous to charge into battle in person." Chen Zhuang blocked Lu Zhan's way, as a courtier, he naturally didn't dare to let the lord face the danger.

"Charge forward and move forward fearlessly. This is what every man dreams of. ”

There is still danger on the battlefield, and no one dares to say that there will be no harm on the battlefield. However, Lu Zhan believed that the soldiers under his command could not be defeated by the bandits composed of those routs.

Moreover, there are hundreds of dragoons among these cavalry, and the so-called dragoons are infantry riding war horses, which is equivalent to the ancient motorized troops. The term is also thanks to Napoleon the Great, coined at the time of the French Revolution.

These dragoons were armed with muskets, and the deterrence of muskets and the charge of cavalry could definitely crush those who dared to besiege Fuyuan City.

The siege equipment of the bandits besieging Fuyuan City has long been prepared, but the siege means huge casualties, and these are not something that the bandits can bear.

None of these bandits, who had gathered together for profit, wanted to risk their lives to attack the city. After all, if you die, the money will be divided among the rest of the people.

So these bandits just pretended to make a siege posture, and did not really intend to attack the city.

The bandits planned to besiege them for another five days, because five days later it was almost time for the Yanzhou army to arrive.

But the speed of the cavalry was far beyond imagination.