After Li Qin drafted the imperial edict, he sent it to Zhu Qizhen, who then approved it with a red ink mark and stamped it with his seal.
This was an official imperial edict from the court.
After the imperial edict was approved, Li Qin immediately ordered it to be sent to Tianjin by fast horse.
He ordered Geng Zhixiang to immediately lead a large army to join him in attacking the capital.
Not long after Li Qin delivered the two imperial edicts to Geng Zhixiang.
He then received a letter from Wanyan Jian.
After reading the letter, Li Qin's brows gradually furrowed.
Wanyan Jian wants me to join him in attacking the capital. What's going on?
What is his purpose?
Attacking the capital would bring him no benefit whatsoever.
He had already dispatched Zhang Hengshuo with 30,000 troops to garrison not far from Jizhen.
What is he trying to do?
However, in the end, Li Qin still wrote a letter agreeing to Wanyan Jian's proposal.
He was to join him in attacking the capital.
After all, he led a large army to attack the capital, leaving tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry, whose fighting power was so strong, behind in Jizhou.
He wasn't at ease.
It's safer to keep them by my side and watch over them personally.
In this way, I can also take back Zhang Hengshuo's 30,000 troops.
This will give us more strength to attack the capital.
After doing all of this.
Li Qin looked into the military tent and began to calculate exactly how many troops he had at his disposal.
When he asks how much force he can mobilize to attack the capital, he will be in charge.
At that time, he originally had 80,000 infantrymen, 30,000 cavalrymen, and 8,000 personal guards.
There are approximately 118,000 people in total.
Now, after a series of major battles, although they have won one after another.
However, there were also many casualties, as well as some non-combat casualties.
His younger brother, Li Wenqi, also had several thousand men in Shanhaiguan.
He then dispatched Zhou Wentong with three thousand cavalry to persuade various prefectures and counties to surrender.
Now, including the 30,000 men under Zhang Hengshuo's command who just arrived.
He still had 67,000 infantrymen and 25,000 cavalrymen under his command, but he had also lost 1,000 of his 8,000 personal guards.
There are about 7,000 people left.
The loss of over a thousand retainers was what pained Li Qin the most; these were the elite of the elite.
Most importantly, each and every one of them is willing to die for him.
It is the essence left to him by his father, Li Chengliang, over several decades.
In these continuous battles, they actually lost a thousand men.
The majority of these more than a thousand casualties were from the bloody battles fought against Zhu Qizhen's most elite imperial guards during the capture of Zhu Qizhen.
It must be said that the imperial guards who protected the emperor were truly formidable in combat, especially those who fought with the determination to die.
Their imposing presence was in no way inferior to an army of ten thousand men.
They truly deserve to be called the most elite troops of the Great Wu.
If I hadn't sent out my eight thousand personal guards to intercept them, I would have had to send other troops to carry out this important mission.
It's quite possible that Zhu Qizhen really did escape.
Looking at the report in his hand, he realized that the army that had followed him from Liaodong could be led to attack the capital.
There are still about 99,000 people left, nearly 100,000.
This doesn't even include the Green Standard Army, which consisted of surrendered soldiers. During this period, Li Xuanshang recruited and persuaded many more surrendered soldiers to surrender.
They took in all the stragglers who had voluntarily surrendered to the prefectures and counties.
In these continuous battles, the Green Standard Army also suffered considerable casualties.
However, after this period of replenishment, the number has expanded to 20,000.
This is also a part of the fighting force.
Of course, he also captured quite a few prisoners in this battle.
In the great battle with Qin Yong, they captured 30,000 prisoners, and in the subsequent battle, they captured another 80,000.
That's more than 100,000 prisoners.
Moreover, they are all soldiers who have received military training and are professional soldiers when they pick up weapons.
He certainly wanted to recruit from among them to supplement the Green Standard Army.
But he didn't dare.
These people's families are all in the capital. Once we give them weapons, we can send them to attack the capital.
What if they suddenly switch sides?
If he wants to incorporate them, he should at least wait until he captures the capital.
Besides the Green Standard Army, there was also Geng Zhixiang, the Marquis of Jinshun, who had just surrendered and was granted the title of Marquis by him.
He still has 30,000 troops under his command.
If he also brings an army of 30,000...
When he attacked the capital, he had 150,000 troops at his disposal.
The only threats to him are the armies of Xuanfu and Datong.
As for Wu Jun in Shandong, Henan and other places.
He didn't say that those places still had hundreds of thousands of troops on their books.
However, these places are all in the heartland of the Great Wu, and have not experienced war for decades.
The original owner had been to these places before.
Those hundreds of thousands of troops now only exist on paper.
They'd be lucky if each province could spare tens of thousands of people.
As for the fighting power of tens of thousands of people, how should I put it?
That's enough to fight off bandits.
But compared to his soldiers who fight on the border year after year, he is far inferior.
Next, all he had to do was to quickly head to the capital after the army had finished resting.
He then continued to look at the map in front of him.
Their attention turned to Shandong, where Qin Chenyao, the current governor, held military power.
Shandong has over 100,000 in its accounts, but he estimates it's only 70,000 to 80,000, and the proportion of those with combat capability is not large. Currently, only 50,000 to 60,000 can be mobilized to support the capital.
Their fighting ability was only enough to fight off Japanese pirates and bandits.
He wasn't too worried about it.
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