Duan Qirui still somewhat underestimated the Wuliang Royal Court; he believed that Beiyuan Town could withstand the full onslaught of the Wuliang Royal Court, but he overlooked one fact: the severe shortage of soldiers in Beiyuan Town.
At this moment, Wu Tuo had already mustered a massive army of three hundred thousand. He drafted young and strong men from various clans, hundreds from small clans, one to two thousand from medium-sized clans, five to six thousand from large clans, and twenty to thirty thousand from clans of vassal kings.
Such a draft of the young and able would not even impact the agricultural and pastoral work of these clans.
In contrast, Beiyuan Town only had one hundred and twenty thousand Camp Soldiers, which included the Town and Rescue Camps, and besides the Camp Soldiers, Beiyuan Town supposedly had over three hundred thousand military households capable of providing the same number of soldiers.
