The Holy War was outnumbered, and if they were gathered together, the food and grass would not be able to keep up, so the Holy War could march separately, as it had done last time in Norweed.

This time, the Holy War Army was divided into ten parts, and each team was about thirty or forty thousand, so that they could barely supply food and grass.

This time, the jihad was much farther away than the last Norweed jihad, which was a huge logistical challenge.

This time alone, the men and slaves who were responsible for transporting grain used a rare seven or eight hundred thousand people, plus the food consumption on the road, which shows how much food was consumed in this war.

Even now, the war has not yet begun, and the amount of food consumed is an astronomical amount, which is enough for half a year's grain production in the Kingdom of Lorik.

Even for the Church, they have to admit that providing the food they need for these holy wars is indeed a bit of a struggle for them.

Fortunately, they only provided half of the food, and if all the food needed for the holy war had to be borne by the church, I am afraid that even the deep pockets would not be able to afford it.

This is a huge siege, and there are only more than 400,000 regular soldiers on the expedition, but more than 800,000 people are responsible for logistics and transportation, and these logistics and transportation people also need to live.

As a result, a large number of merchants began to set up stalls to sell goods on these transportation and supply lines, of course, most of these people were doing their duty, and only a few of them were hired by their lords.

But even so, there were always some overseers and wealthy among these people, and the merchants only had to do their business to maintain a fairly good profit.

In this holy war, at least two million people have profited from this war, and countless more people want to get what they want in this war.

Prostitutes, merchants, mercenaries, and many more outlaws try their luck in this war to see if they can profit from it.

After more than three months of arduous trekking, they finally arrived at the kingdom of Arishera after spending the entire cool autumn.

The arrival of the huge Jihadist Army made the citizens of the Kingdom of Arisela feel reassured, although there were many scum among these soldiers who had broken down their military planes and disturbed the law, but they still preferred these Holy Religious soldiers to stay in their country more than the merciless killing of the Piars.

This time, under the control of the Empire and the Church of Rodland, there was no large-scale looting or massacre of the inhabitants as before.

The nobles also did not obtain food by plundering the villages, after all, the current jihadist army was not short of food.

In this way, the jihadist army was gathered and stationed outside the city of Arisrah, and every day there was a huge consumption of food, and even excrement was piled up.

However, the army of the Kingdom of Lorik was completely different, they had strict sanitary regulations, excrement had to be buried in a centralized manner, water was boiled before drinking, and raw food was not allowed.

Soldiers who did not comply would be whipped, and William did not want to take away his army with a great deal of effort and money because of the epidemic of dysentery.

The Holy Cult World has amassed such a large army, and the Piars are not left behind.

At first, they only gathered 130,000 troops on the border of the Arisera Kingdom, which was already an irresistible force for the previous Arisera Kingdom.

However, this number was obviously not enough in front of the 410,000 troops of the Holy War Army in front of them, so they also temporarily withdrew from the territory of the Kingdom of Arisella.

Then, in just two months, the Piyards began to increase their troops, and the Khajisai dynasty was already very powerful, plus the four major sultanates and some other minor sultanates and sultanate lords, and also gathered an extremely large army.

The two peoples were almost equal in strength and population, but in recent decades the Khagisai dynasty has become so powerful that it has gradually integrated the power of the Piars.

They also gathered 430,000 troops, all of which were fully armed regular troops, and the army had reached this number, and the difference between 10,000 and 20,000 was not too big, and the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and 20,000 people could not become the key to victory.

At this time, it had officially entered the depths of winter, and the holy war army had taken advantage of the retreat of the other side to gather troops, recovering all the territory of the kingdom of Arisera, and approached the territory of the Qagisai dynasty for thirty kilometers, and began to build camps here.

They built a simple wooden barracks, not enough to be a fortification like a city wall, but after all, it was a place where 400,000 troops were stationed, and it would have been too difficult to build if it was too elaborate.

Charlemagne was in his big tent, and as the nominal commander of the army of the Kingdom of Lorik in the Arisera Kingdom War Zone, he certainly had a rather tall tent.

Richard was also in the tent at this time, and he was sitting next to Charlemagne.

Charlemagne patted Richard on the shoulder and asked with a smile, "How's it going?" How does it feel to be in the kingdom of Arisella? ”

Richard smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay, I was a little uncomfortable here at first, but now it's much better, but so far I've only participated in one small battle, I took one hundred and twenty soldiers under my command and fifty enemies in an encounter, and it was easy to solve the other party!" ”

"Hmm!" Charlemagne smiled approvingly, and then said, "Very well done, this holy war will make you successful!" But after what are you going to do? ”

Richard thought for a moment, and then said, "I haven't thought about this yet, but I don't want to go back to the Kingdom of Lorik, I want to travel on the continent for a long time." ”

Hearing this, Charlemagne was silent for a moment, and then said: "Okay, this is your idea, I will tell my father, but it is not necessary if he agrees or not!" ”

The two brothers were talking in the tent, during which the Jihadist offensive had been relatively smooth, and the two important border towns of the Khajisai Dynasty had been successfully captured by the Jihadist, and the Piyards had fled.

However, everyone knew that the real time for this war was not yet to come, and they also believed that they would win this war and then get a lot of loot and make a fortune.

Recently, the activities of the Jihadist have been somewhat reduced, and all but necessary patrols have withdrawn from the camps.

For they had received the news that the Piars had gathered an army of 430,000 and were heading here.

Sure enough, within four or five days, the Piar army appeared near them and was stationed, and the two sides confronted each other.

However, neither side made any moves, and neither wanted to pierce this huge powder keg for the time being.