On the eighth day of the twelfth month, before Dayao Mountain in the western district of the outer city, construction on the Yangwu Grand Barracks officially began. The Yanping Commandery Prince's Mansion, along with the heads of sixty-three powers large and small within the city, came to inspect the site. The spectacle was immense. The flesh and blood of a connate-level tiger fiendish beast was used to sacrifice to Heaven and Earth, fitting the baleful aura of the military.
On the fourteenth day of the twelfth month, the County King's Mansion—or rather, Lingwu City's City Lord's Mansion—issued an official notice formally establishing the Yangwu Army.
The fighting force would number exactly fifty thousand. Five men made a squad, led by a squad leader; two squads made a section, led by a section leader; five sections made a company, with a company commander; ten companies made a battalion, with a centurion commanding five hundred soldiers; ten battalions made a camp, with a commandant capable of commanding five thousand troops.
Above the commandants were three deputy generals, overseeing all troops. At the very top was the post of General Yangwu, a genuine Principal Fifth Rank appointment, also counted among the Imperial Court's senior generals.
The City Lord's Mansion further stipulated that, of these ten camps, one would be cavalry, called the Treading Swallow Camp. Its organization would be standardized: Dragon Scale Horses beneath them, Silver Scepter Spears in hand, Great Yellow Crossbows on their backs. Everything required would be issued by the Prince's Mansion.
Another camp would be selected to form the Divine Bow Camp, specifically taught the first three layers of the arrow-art cultivation method passed down by the Imperial Court, the Falling Star Arrow.
The remaining eight camps only needed to train according to ordinary infantry methods. They could be