Chapter 343: Chapter 193: Five Thunder Enters the Door

After the previous series of battles, Lu Yuan's army, originally expanded to 60,000 veterans and new soldiers, had suffered a loss of 10,000 and was now left with only 50,000 men.

Fortunately, through the big battle, the new soldiers had experienced bloodshed, and their courage and experience had been tempered. After several months of training, even the youngest among them had served for one year and could be rightfully called elite soldiers.

However, 50,000 elite soldiers were still too few in number.

At the court in Baling City, there were 50,000 elite soldiers, and throughout the country, there were more than 200,000. The Zhou people had even more, with hundreds of thousands of troops stationed on the river.

Both sides far surpassed Lu Yuan.

Therefore, to gain the qualification to negotiate with these two sides, achieve the goal of securing a prefecture for himself, and expand his army in the next round was already imminent.