On the sixteenth day of the second month of the sixth year of Hongdao, Lan Zhaoyun led sixty thousand Miao soldiers to withdraw from Shiyang County, returning to his old base in Wuling Prefecture.
Zhou Country's Pillar State Grand General Li Yanjing assembled his troops and set up four camps outside Anxiang County, leading a forty thousand strong army to defend the city.
The following day, upon receiving news, Shangguan Ming immediately left ten thousand men to guard Baling City. He then personally led an eighty thousand-strong army, first recapturing Shiyang County, then advancing to Anxiang to surround the city.
In Yueyang Prefecture, the city was shrouded in the clouds of war.
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On the seventeenth day of the second month of the sixth year of Hongdao, on the official road to Shaoyang Prefecture within the Shuangfeng County of Hengyang Prefecture, dust swirled and banners clouded the sky.
