Tang Mo's contingent of more than 600 people had about 70 who were hastily recruited, and these hundred or so were basically untrained, nearly equivalent to a bought "suicide squad."
Even calling them a suicide squad is not quite right because they were not the kind to fight to the death; even when Tang Mo was recruiting them, he never mentioned anything about sending them to their deaths.
He recruited them as odd-job workers, coachmen, army cooks, and laborers. In short, they were without much combat ability.
Moreover, to cultivate his own direct line of followers, he had also brought out a youth class of about 40 boys, who also lacked any fighting capability.
They had only undergone semi-military training and had received shooting training on the way here, their combat effectiveness was practically zero.
