Time: April twelfth.
Mission: venture a thousand li beyond the border; any Hu Bandits encountered were to be killed without exception.
The entire military order was only those sixteen words.
The meaning within it was also very clear: Yang Zhengshan was to lead the Anyuan City Garrison Battalion beyond the border to campaign against the Hu Tribe.
There was no detailed plan, no specific marching route, and no rigid commands—only the requirement to kill without exception.
Of course, merit in this battle would certainly be judged by heads taken. How much battle credit he could scoop up would depend entirely on Yang Zhengshan himself.
As for anything else, that was not something Yang Zhengshan needed to concern himself with.
This sort of expedition plan seemed somewhat unreliable at a glance, but in truth, it was the best plan for dealing with the East Sea Hu Tribe.
Because a thousand li outside the pass, the settlements of the East Sea Hu Tribe had no fixed homes. Trying to find all of their gathering places was extremely difficult.
For three hundred years, the Da Rong Dynasty had been unable to completely wipe out the East Sea Hu Tribe precisely because it was very hard for them to locate every one of the East Sea Hu Tribe's settlements.
And now, Lu Chongde and Liang Chu were sending a large number of Garrison Battalions from Chongshan Town beyond the border, breaking the whole into parts and using dozens of Garrison Battalions to sweep the thousand li outside the pass. By doing this, they could find as many of the East Sea Hu Tribe's settlements as possible.
Of course, there were risks in this as well.
A Garrison Battalion had at most around a thousand troops. Facing a slightly larger settlement, it might suffer heavy