Zhang San led six thousand elite soldiers from the Great Sui.
Among them, each region sent out ten thousand elite soldiers. Zhang San himself brought ten thousand troops from his Divine Martial Army.
The remaining ten thousand were all new recruits recommended from various places.
The money sent over from various places just for recommending these new recruits was actually enough for the six thousand troops to settle on the grassland for almost a year.
After all, everyone was stationed here, regularly communicating and exchanging riding techniques with the Tujue people, learning about Tujue tactics, to gain sufficient understanding of them.
So the consumption of the troops wasn't significant.
And those ten thousand new recruits, apart from bringing sufficient provisions to the army, their remaining task was to be sent back to the Great Sui, buying large amounts of grain at the cheapest price and then transporting it to the grassland.
