As soon as the news from William's side came out, it immediately made the entire Tskema Kingdom boil, and when Duke Bunkerson carried out a reign of terror in the country, those squires and commoners still questioned William in their hearts why he did not send troops.

Everyone in the kingdom knew that Count William was the strongest among all the nobles, and even the royal family could not match him, but he did nothing when Duke Bunkerson was doing evil, so many people had resentment.

However, when William announced that he was going to send troops, those resentments immediately disappeared, and they did not dare to publicize it openly, but secretly discussed the matter with their own better people.

Everyone believed that the powerful and benevolent Earl William would be able to drive Duke Bunkersen out of the kingdom of Tskema as soon as he sent his troops.

While these rumors were spreading secretly, William was also actively preparing for the expedition, and from the information of where the Dark Dagger came from, Duke Bunkerson hired a large number of mercenaries.

William, the two hired mercenaries, had also heard of it, and they had fought side by side during the Holy War, of course, especially the Blackstone Army, which had no good relationship with William.

On the contrary, there is some resentment between the two sides.

Truckloads of grain were transported out of the granary, and the grain production in William's domain was extremely large, and the grain and grass for the 30,000 men to go out was not too hard.

After all, agriculture is the foundation of everything, and William would not dare to develop business if he did not have extremely strong agricultural strength.

Even if the number of people on the expedition was doubled, it would not make William's food reserves insufficient.

The ordnance is almost ready, weapons such as swords, spears, and lances have long been prepared, and as for arrows and crossbows, after being distributed to the inhabitants to make them, the reserves are also very large, and the quality is also very good due to the strict inspection system.

The only deficiency now is the armor of the soldiers, the plate armor of the knights of the inner palace has been built, and the armor of the knights has been installed for a long time.

The heavy infantry and the Golden Lion Guards have not yet been trained to fight, and even so, there are still some gaps in the armor of the Dengrenberg infantry.

William doesn't pay so much attention to the speed of soldiers now, because the strategy of rapid surprise attack is not practical here, but it is the hard power combat of the army that is more popular.

So William planned to wait another month, and after a month, with the help of hydraulic stamping, he would be able to leisurely supply the soldiers who went out on the expedition, and he should be able to gather all the armor.

When Charlemagne was fighting against the Checkers, he was promoted from officer to column commander because of his bravery, commanding 120 men.

In this battle, he was also one of the sequences of expeditions, and as William's son, he would inevitably eventually gain the right to command the army.

A month later, the Blackstone Legion and the Iron Forest Legion finally rushed from the central part of the continent to the kingdom of Tskema in the southeast of the continent.

They traveled mightily along the way, and the Iron Forest Legion was fine, they usually brought their own food and grass, and the military discipline was quite strict.

Although there were also cases of burning, killing and looting along the way, it was much better than the Blackstone Army's style of plundering everywhere they went.

The team of 11,000 people has all gathered in the city of Brijek, although the city has been restored to order, but it still cannot regain its former glory, at least not for a year.

Therefore, there are only one or two thousand people in the current city of Brijek, and the Blackstone Army can't find anyone who wants to harm people, and they can only do nothing in the barracks all day.

As for the Iron Legion, they were ordered by the Marquis of Croton not to leave the barracks, and they had to conduct a large-scale training camp every three days.

Wearing uniform iron armor, they often have to train, which is one of the ways for the Iron Forest Legion to maintain their combat effectiveness.

Duke Bunkerson was indeed a little nervous when he learned that William was going to send troops against him.

He was well aware of the strength of Earl William during his holy war, and it is said that he had recently carried out a large-scale expansion of his army, which numbered 20,000 men, a huge number that he could not have imagined.

His only hope now is to rely on Brijek City to resist William's attack, and then pay some price to stabilize William, and then he will pay the price for the Pope to crown him.

In that way, even if his position as the king of the Tskema Kingdom is secure, as long as the Pope crowns him, William will definitely not dare to touch himself.

Although the successive kings of the Kingdom of Tskema were crowned by the first king, the situation at this time was different, only by letting the Pope crown himself, William would definitely not dare to act rashly, and then he would think about the future.

By this time, a month had passed, and the first snow of the year 1233 had fallen in the holy calendar, and a heavy snow of goose feathers fell from the sky and fell on the helmets and armor of the Denlenburg army.

They stood neatly in the middle of a huge school yard, wisps of white air exhaled from their mouths, because it was snowing at this time, so it was not particularly cold, they stood majestically in the snow.

In addition to them, the armies of William's vassals were also divided into small phalanxes, and the nobles gathered around William, riding war horses around the troops and slowly inspecting them.

William was wearing a heavy bearskin coat at this time, with a heavy layer of leather armor on the inside and iron armor on the outside, the bearskin coat was almost the warmest equipment in winter, so William hardly felt the cold.

The other nobles were similar, fox skins, wolf skins, deer skins, and all kinds of precious animal skins were draped on their bodies.

As they became richer, they gradually began to value enjoyment and face, and there were even a few nobles who were more burnt with precious stones.

They were more hedonistic, and the army was weaker among William's vassals.

After reviewing for a while, William ordered everyone to line up in a marching line, with the grain and grass troops going first, and then the rest of the troops following.

Since it was winter, all the baggage carts were replaced by sleds, and there were even some horses that were used for marching and pulling sleds, on which were soldiers sitting.

In addition to this, William also built a large number of parts for siege equipment, which were pulled by sleds, and if the enemy was holding the city of Brijek, these equipment would only need to be assembled to come in handy.

The snow had been falling for a day, and finally stopped, and it had been raining for a whole day, causing a snowstorm to fall knee-deep on the ground.

It was very difficult to march in this situation, so the Denlenburg army also had a set of equipment for the winter.

It is a thick layer of leather boots that can be extended below the knee, and then tied with leggings to tie the gaps in it, so as to prevent snow from pouring into the boots, and also to enhance the soldier's ability to march.

The soldiers' bodies are also very warm, and the cotton and leather armor lined in the innermost part are very warm, which is a common equipment throughout the year.

In addition to this, there is a thick cowhide hat, which only shows a pair of eyes, and even the neck is protected by cowhide fur.