Although Shaobao Yu had worked assiduously over the years, he had only managed to restore ninety thousand cavalry troops.
These ninety thousand cavalry were scattered in the big nine frontier towns. Less than fifty thousand could be mobilized to stations in Xuanfu and Datong.
Before the major defeat in Tumu Fort, the Jin dynasty had a sheer fifty thousand heavy cavalry, and the rest were light cavalry amounting to a total of one hundred and ninety thousand men. This shows the horrendous loss of strength incurred by the Jing Dynasty during that battle.
Li Xuan frowned and said, "If we can delay this way, surely the Jin Dynasty has the advantage. But Ye Xian, he's a master strategist of our time, won't he recognize this?
If Meng Wu fails this time, I wonder how many of the eight million people will be hit by famine next year. I bet he has some plan to break the stalemate."
The problem was, Li Xuan, while conscious of this, couldn't think of Ye Xian's countermove at the moment.
