After Wang Bin returned from Chongshan Pass, he immediately summoned the officials of all the departments under his command to Gather Together at the Assistant General's Shogunate. This Time, Yang Zhengshan was qualified to attend.
As the assistant general of the Chongshan Town East Route's Songzhou Guard, Wang Bin had two Reinforcement Battalions and five Garrison Battalions under him, with a total battalion strength of around eleven thousand.
In addition, he also had three guard stations—the Songzhou Guard, the Songzhou Forward Guard, and the Songzhou Rear Guard—with around fifteen thousand garrison soldiers.
Of course, that was the troop strength under the normal establishment. In reality, there were not that many.
In the past, the problem of drawing empty salaries in Chongshan Town had been extremely severe. Under normal circumstances, a thousand-man Garrison Battalion having five hundred men was already considered not bad, and among those five hundred there were also many old, weak, sick, and disabled.
As for the Tun Fortresses of the various guard stations, they were also seriously short-staffed. The garrison farmland had been seized by officials, causing large numbers of military households to flee.
In fact, compared with the other Garrison Commander's Offices, the former Anyuan City Garrison Commander's Office had already counted as good. At the very least, there had not been too much of a shortage in troop numbers.
The Reason Why it had been like this was also because the former garrison commander, Cao Han, had looked down on the tiny fly-head profits from drawing empty salaries and had put all his thoughts into smuggling.
Now, the various departments of Chongshan Town had recovered quite a bit, but there were still shortages in troop numbers.
At present, the troop strength under Wang Bin was roughly eighty percent of the total establishment—that was, around ten