"You mustn't be thinking of leaving a group of men in Half Moon City," Shen Zhui said somewhat helplessly.
"That's right!" Yun Wu replied. "Half Moon City is large enough to garrison five thousand soldiers. You now have nine army cities, and you've brought eight thousand men, plus the original five thousand, which makes it thirteen thousand. It sounds like a lot, but when divided among the nine cities, it doesn't seem like much."
"Your original five thousand men were divided among five cities, only a thousand men in each city!"
"As for the border cities I guard at White Cloud Peak, most of them are close to the Canglan River. Do you know what this means, young man?"
"It means that once a war breaks out, the border cities under my White Cloud Peak will be the first to be hit, and with only a thousand men, it would be somewhat difficult even to shrink our defenses," Shen Zhui answered.
