In addition to this, there is a layer of cotton clothing made of linen, which is filled with warm materials, and these equipment are enough to make the soldiers ignore the cold.

The knights, on the other hand, were much better, and they didn't even need William to equip them with winter clothing, they had their own fur and fur clothing.

There was no snow on the stone roads of Denglenburg that were cleared of snow, but they did not take the main road because the team was all carrying supplies on sleds.

Instead, he marched on a sleigh with a pull-back horse in the flats, and William, who had conquered the Chekers, was now definitely not short of horses, and it was not difficult to march with a horse.

Soon, they went beyond the borders of Denlenburg and into the territories of other lords.

There are no big nobles adjacent to his territory, they are all the territories of some barons and viscounts, and there is nothing unusual along the way.

Except for some castles that were heavily guarded and some of which were defenseless, there were no other suspicious enemies.

And in both cases, it was also because of the absence of their lord, except for some young noble heirs, and even in a territory, there was only one principal, the lord's wife.

Most of the army was also taken away, leaving only three or two kittens to defend the castle.

This didn't bother the residents, but the local squires were a little worried, and law and order had declined due to the lord's absence.

William led a huge army through many castles, and such a huge army frightened the people inside, and they were afraid that they would never see so many troops in their lifetime.

Everywhere he went, William strictly restrained his troops from disturbing the people, and if he could, he would show favors to the civilians, and more importantly to the squires.

This is all to buy people's hearts and lay the foundation for future rule, of course, the Denlenburg army has strict military laws to restrict, and there is almost no need for William's orders.

However, for the sake of insurance, he still gave the order, and the main purpose was to let the vassals restrain their troops.

After more than ten days of marching, the distance that would have taken nearly a month to reach was not delayed by the snow, but was much faster, thanks to the help of sleds.

Within a dozen days, William led his army to a distance of forty kilometers from the city of Brijek.

William could almost be said to be unimpeded along the way, and there were no enemies in front of William, after all, Duke Bunkerson had decided to rely on Brijek City to defend William's attack, so he reduced all his forces to be stationed in Brijek City.

The rest of the enemy had no garrison at all, and he could not waste any troops to do useless obstruction.

The closer you get to the city, the more miserable the situation becomes, with almost all the villages around the city devastated and even the bodies of the brutally killed piled up on the houses and roads.

The mangled and mutilated bodies lay on the ground, almost half covered by snow, but even with such a thick layer of snow, it still could not hide the traces of smoke and fire on the houses.

It was a living hell, and after the Duke of Bunkerson's forces wreaked havoc, the Blackstone Legion carried out an even more horrific slaughter and plunder.

William frowned at all this in front of him, and many recruits were very sad to see this scene.

Most of them were natives of Denlenburg, and most of these recruits were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and they were less than ten years old when William first ruled Denlenburg, and the rest of his life was carefree under William, and he had never seen such a terrible scene.

In their opinion, although the battlefield is cruel, it is a dignified battle with the enemy, no matter how cruel and bloody it is, it will not make them sad.

And now such a scene is obviously beyond their comprehension, the young children are dismembered, disemboweled, and separated, and those women, the lower body is almost a piece of rotten flesh, and the wounds on the body are also dense, you can imagine what pain they suffered in their lives.

Innocent children, ladies, and old people were all brutally killed, and the bodies of men were scattered all over the village.

Perhaps this was quite common in the eyes of the inhabitants or soldiers in other places, and even veterans over the age of thirty or twenty-five who served in the army of Dellenburg considered this situation to be very common for war.

This is all because these veterans were sensible people who had been in town before William ruled Denlenburg and Issamdenburg, and they knew what it was like before and what the world outside Denlenburg was like.

But this group of young recruits is different, they have lived carefree since childhood, and they don't even need to think about whether they can eat enough, William's free goat's milk and cheap meat make their food very rich, and now there are two more prairie counties, and it seems that the price of meat will drop a lot.

The indignant recruits boosted the morale of the army considerably, and the soldiers clamored to destroy all the enemies who had done evil.

William did not stop the clamor of the soldiers, and if such emotions were channeled, it would be a good help.

At noon the next day, William finally led his army to the bottom of the city of Brijek, and he ordered his soldiers to build a strong fortified camp under the castle to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.

In fact, the walls of Brijec were quite good, and they were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if it weren't for the lack of defenders in the city, Duke Bunkerson would never have been able to conquer them in a month.

And now, apparently, the number of enemies is sufficient, so it can be called difficult to attack the castle.

However, William did not intend to attack it without going up, and piled down the castle with a human name.

It's a big deal to fight a war of attrition, anyway, William's supply line is not tight now, not to mention anything else, William's grain harvested in a year can be enough for these 30,000 soldiers plus tens of thousands of horses and horses to eat for twenty years.

Not to mention the grain that William did not collect, just the annual tax he collected, William was able to feed the entire population of Denlenburg for five years.

And the supply line was also divided into four by William, and from the four routes there was a steady stream of transportation, even such a huge demand, but it did not make William's warehouse much empty.

William did not let the troops shout at the first time, but set up a solid camp, placed the pit to resist the horses, and asked the soldiers to assemble the siege equipment.

The wells, torsion trebuchets, rushing carts, and ladders were quickly assembled under the operation of the soldiers, and William even brought fifty bed crossbows with him when he arrived.

Originally, this kind of thing had not appeared on the mainland, but William was from the Celestial Empire after all, how could this kind of weapon for attacking and defending the city be forgotten.

Let the scientific research institute study it, after having a crossbow, this technology is not too difficult, although some craftsmen find it a little difficult to make this thing, but at the request of William, it is still made.