Ever since the defeat in the Western Expedition, Shen Qiu had led his remnants of defeated soldiers back to the homeland, he had not lived a single day of peace.
Over this past year.
He desperately expanded the recruitment of soldiers, drafting men from all across the country. The aristocratic families of Linhai County also contributed funds and grain, sparing no effort. Finally, with great difficulty, he managed to restore the national forces to a pre-war strength of eight hundred thousand.
But although the number of troops had been restored, they were only numbers after all.
The reconstituted Ning Army, whether in terms of the quality of soldiers or training time, fell far short of those elite troops that Ning Country had spent ten years raising and training before the war.
