When did those Golden Sword Cultivators arrive at the military camp? Anyway, Zhang Qian and Gan Lin had no clue at all beforehand, and they never imagined that this expedition into the Bamboo Sea would involve a joint operation with the dynasty's most mysterious and legendary group of cultivators.
Under Zhang Qian's command were two battalions, totaling two thousand men. Of these, there were one thousand lancers, five hundred logistics troops, three hundred sword-and-shield soldiers, and two hundred crossbowmen. Gan Lin's forces were about the same as Zhang Qian's, with slight differences in the numbers of sword-and-shield soldiers and crossbowmen.
