On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Wei Gong, the allied forces were assembled and stationed in Lingzhou Mountain (today's west of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province) starting from Xingxing. This place is the commanding height to the west of Nanhai City, close to Yushui, and the coalition forces use it as their base camp to attack Nanhai.
Seeing the coalition forces coming from all over Lingnan, Chen Leng was also ready