There were two thousand and five hundred mercenaries from Ten Thousand Armies amongst the troops that had come to crush Hamed this time.
Originally, the officers from Ten Thousand Armies had also underestimated the enemy just like the commander of the government.
They felt that they had already seen the level of the Syrian anti-government forces and that they would be able to destroy them easily.
So, they did not do enough preparatory work at all. They only thought about how they would imme