"I cannot manage to procure fifteen thousand warhorses in seven months, Your Majesty!" After much deliberation, Zhou Kui confessed to Emperor Chongzhen.
The first batch of cavalry was short fifteen thousand warhorses.
Following the Battle of Wenyu River, nearly ten thousand horses had been captured. Emperor Chongzhen had split them in two, giving one portion to Li Xingzhong and incorporating the rest into the Yongwei Battalion. Yan Yingyuan had exchanged for a few thousand more at Xuanfu, bringing the total number of horses under Li Xingzhong's command to roughly fifteen thousand.
Chapter 375