Other border regions typically have 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers, but the entire Taiyuan region only has about 50,000.
It is much less than in other border areas.
Their combat effectiveness is not as good as those soldiers who have been fighting against foreign invaders on the border for a long time, but they are better than those soldiers in the interior.
It can be said that among the three armies that have recently come to the rescue of the capital, the Xuanfu army is the strongest in terms of combat power, number of troops, and equipment.
Once the army in Xuanfu is dealt with, the remaining two routes, Taiyuan and Henan, are not a concern.
Looking down at Dugu Yu, Li Qin weighed the options in his mind.
He said to Dugu Yu below:
“I agree with your plan. I will allocate five thousand cavalrymen, twenty thousand horses, and corresponding equipment and food for you.”
Upon hearing that Li Qin had agreed to her plan, Dugu Yu immediately bowed to Li Qin and said:
"This humble general will not fail the young marshal's high expectations and will surely capture Xuanfu in one fell swoop."
When the surrounding generals saw that Li Qin had actually agreed to Dugu Xin's risky plan, some of them tried to dissuade him.
But Li Qin suppressed them all.
After deciding to give Dugu Yu 5,000 cavalrymen and have him take a detour to the outside of the pass to launch a surprise attack on Xuanfu.
Li Qin then summoned his nephew Li Xuanshang and gave him the 30,000 troops. He also allocated another 10,000 troops to Li Qin, in addition to the 30,000 Jurchen troops that he had just taken control of.
The army consisted of 70,000 men, with his nephew Li Xuanshang as the commander-in-chief and Zhang Hengshuo and Wang Taihe as his deputies, to contain and resist the army from Xuanfu.
At the same time, Li Qin also wrote a letter to his "nephew" Wanyan Gun.
He said he urgently needed 20,000, no, 30,000 warhorses and asked him to send them over immediately.
Their Jurchen army came from beyond the Great Wall, and in order to maintain high mobility, each person was equipped with several warhorses.
Although he himself had captured a large number of warhorses from the armies of Jizhou and the capital during those successive battles.
He could easily produce those 30,000 horses.
But why pay for it yourself when you can have someone else pay for it?
Although he could certainly provide it, 30,000 warhorses was no small number.
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