Zhou Qing could only provide assistance to Lingnan and the southwestern eighteen cities with four Inborn Grandmasters.
As for other types of reinforcements, they had to be arranged by the local authorities of the two regions, which could be described as quite meager and stingy.
But this was a compromise that he had to make out of necessity, having no other choice.
Although Chu State had a strong military presence, with two million county soldiers organized in Yangzhou's main territory alone and another twenty-one Inborn guarding domestically, ensuring a solid foundation was left behind.
However, as the only country in the world today with its own territory of one entire state still intact, Chu State, with its ten prefectures and eighteen vassal states, had too many places to defend.
