The third day of the sixth month, the twenty-third year of Chengping.
Chongshan Town's hundred-thousand-strong army went out through the pass, proclaiming itself an army of two hundred thousand.
With Regional Commander Zhang Shouwang as Great General Who Campaigns North, and Vice Regional Commander Ji Feiyu as Great General Who Displays Might, the troops split into two routes to campaign against the East Sea Hu Tribe.
Garrison Eunuch Zhang Yude accompanied the army on campaign, Governor Sun Xincheng served by imperial appointment as governor overseeing Chongshan Town's military affairs, and there was also Wu Mingzhen, Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, supervising the receipt and disbursement of grain and pay for the various routes.
The sixth day of the sixth month, the twenty-third year of Chengping.
Zhang Shouwang led the Zhenbiao Five Battalions, the Four Reinforcement Battalions, and the Seven Mobile Battalions, an army totaling sixty thousand, driving straight in without pause until his troops stood beneath Heiyun Mountain.
Heiyun Mountain. The Battle of Heiyun Mountain twenty years ago had been Chongshan Town's most glorious battle.
With that single battle alone, Da Rong's Northeast Border enjoyed peace for twenty years.
Now, Chongshan Town's army had come again to Heiyun Mountain. Whether it could recreate the glory of twenty years ago remained unknown.
Yang Zhengshan went on campaign with the Zhenbiao Left Battalion. The Zhenbiao Left Battalion had the strength of three Qianzongs, as well as one Battalion Commander's baggage train, four hundred Battalion Headquarters Cavalry Guard, and two hundred Yebushou Elite Cavalry, totaling roughly four thousand three hundred men.
Aside from that, the Zhenbiao Left Battalion also had a thousand temporarily requisitioned civilian laborers, responsible for helping the baggage train transport grain, fodder, supplies, and the like.
Yang Zhengshan was the Vice Battalion Commander of the baggage train.