There was a small squad stationed on the Twin Islands, coming from the Recovery Army, with just around five hundred men.
Leading them was a military officer named Jiang Tian, at the Standard Fifth Rank, with eight Sixth-Rank deputy generals, and the rest were Seventh-Rank.
They were not summoned by Zhao Xing but were stationed there based on Sun Shizhao's report to Chongming Prefecture, requesting the garrison.
Initially, Zhao Xing disagreed with deploying troops to the Twin Islands.
Because the open strength of the island, the weaker it was, the less likely anyone would bother to attack, thus naturally safeguarding it.
What was the use of having an extra five hundred soldiers?
Previously, He Wu of the Wuluo Army and Fang Ze of the Jiujiang Army both mentioned they could send a five-hundred-man squad led by a Fifth-Rank officer for defense.
But Zhao Xing had refused.
Still, he repeated, it was useless.
