"Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; Heal me, O LORD, for my bones tremble. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info My heart trembles greatly, O LORD, turn back and deliver me, and save me for thy mercy.

I was weary with groaning, I wept every night, I lifted my bed, I soaked my mattress, my eyes were shriveled with sorrow, and my eyes were faint with all my enemies.

Answer me, O God who manifests me righteous, when I cry. You have enlarged me in my afflictions. Now have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. for thou hast smote the cheekbones of all my enemies, and hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed. They will turn back, and be ashamed suddenly.

I lay down and slept, and I was awake, and the Lord blessed me.

Salvation belongs to the Lord, bless your people. ”

- Excerpt from the Old Testament - Psalms

Pre-war mobilization.

From ancient times to the present, whether it is the East or the West, whether the civilization is developed or barbaric, it is a link that has never been missing.

And it's a very important part.

The emperor, or the lord, or the tribal chieftain, prayed to the heavens, or to God, or to the god of the wilderness, for the great god to grant them victory, so as to raise the morale of the soldiers, and thus gain the justification for waging war.

Magnus is not immune.

Not only is he not exempt from vulgarity, but he also has to do a very big job, to let the entire duke know that he, Magnus, is not waging war for money or land, but for justice!

Although even he himself did not know what this justice was.

But it doesn't matter, the Bible is not the same, the first part is about how the Lord is forgiving and loving the world, and the second part is about the story of the Lord sending a flood of destruction and destroying everything.

This fully shows that it does not matter whether there is real evidence or not, and it is even less important whether there is logic or not, what matters is that someone has to propagate it, and the lie has been told 10,000 times before it will come true.

But......

Magnus was somewhat dissatisfied.

Look what Father Adolphus is thinking!

'Because I'm weak', 'Because my bones warn', 'My tears soaked my mattress wet', it's like the oath of a pure woman wailing, like an army that is about to go out and is covered in steel!

In Magnus's mind, this mobilization, if not without the domineering spirit of the East's 'Edict of the Emperor in Heaven,' had to at least have 'the Lord slew all the firstborn sons in Egypt, from Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the firstborn of those who were imprisoned in captivity, and all the firstborn livestock.' And Pharaoh and all his servants and all the Egyptians rose up in the night. There is a great wail in Egypt, and there is no one who does not die.

But Father Adolphus thought what this was!

It is no wonder that Aragon will eventually perish, and if its whole country is so dull as the prayer recited by the priest, it can only be said that the time is also fate, and it is not to blame on anyone else.

Fortunately, however, the average person could not understand what the priest was saying.

They just need to follow up with 'Amen' at the end.

After mobilization, the army was ready to move.

But in reality, this time the army cannot be called a large army.

Because Magnus did not recruit peasant soldiers.

After a big battle, the prime men of Brittany were already very scarce, and Magnus was counting on them to work overtime, cheer up, and quickly get a few cubs for him to come out, so naturally it was impossible to waste them on the battlefield in vain.

Without a large number of peasant soldiers, the army seemed somewhat lacking.

But absolutely no one can underestimate them.

First of all, the infantry, the Praetorian Guard, which numbered 100, and the licensed mercenaries of the Carol Mercenary Guild, which numbered 500, constituted the main body of the army.

But it's just the main body, and I can't even say most of it.

Louis VII's generosity was far beyond Magnus's imagination (mainly to protect Philip), and he originally thought that it would be complete to borrow Lefebvre and his 100 horses, but Louis not only borrowed 100 horses, but even the heavy cavalry, this expensive, ferocious, real battlefield machine!

The number is likewise one hundred.

Counting the forty knights under Magnus, at this moment, in his army, there were two hundred and forty cavalry, accounting for more than a quarter of the entire army!

Such a high percentage is rare everywhere except for those nomads.

Of course, with so many cavalry, the amount of food consumed is definitely not a small number.

It does not refer to the bread eaten by men, but to the oats eaten by war horses.

War horses are very different from pack horses in general, and those wild horses that run on the prairie, war horses eat beans, hay, barley and oats, preferably oats, but fresh grass, this is absolutely not to eat.

Because the fresh grass is not clean, the war horse will be strained when eaten.

When people are strained, they will still feel weak and unable to move, not to mention war horses, and when they go to the battlefield, they have to carry a live iron can.

In case you run halfway and the horse's legs are weak and you fall to the ground, the knight has to rise into the air, not to mention the fall, even if you are lucky enough not to be injured, you just fall into the enemy's camp, is it a war, or a head?

A glorious death in battle, the knights don't think there's anything wrong with it, but a funny death like this is not what they want.

Then, having said about the cavalry, it was time to talk about their commander, General Dugan.

Magnus felt that this was a problem that was more of a headache for him than the lack of food for the horses.

The lack of grain is nothing, there are no oats, the war horse can still eat barley, eat beans, but there is nothing, and occasionally let the war horse gnaw on fresh grass for two days can not eat them; This was a war that took place in Brittany, and it was either a long march of half a year, and Magnus did not find it much difficult.

But Dugan, from the first sight of him, Magnus decided that this was a similar figure to Odegar.

Absolute loyalty to the Capetian family.

And completely different from the fledgling Lefebvre, Dugan, can't fool at all.

As the commander-in-chief of the cavalry, Magnus did not feast Dugan once or twice, but he just didn't eat any oil and salt, sent money to collect, and gave it to his cavalry with a twist of his head; Not only that, but he also strictly restrained Lefebvre, and every time Magnus wanted to catch up with Lefebvre, he could always see Lefebvre shaking his head with a wry smile.

In a sense, this is the right strategy.

Who is Dugan?

He was Louis's cavalry commander-in-chief, the first of the generals, and he was among the top three in the entire Île-de-France, within the control of the Capetian family.

The first was King Louis and the second was Prince Philip.

With a heavy army and a high status, what would Louis think if he had too close contacts with his foreign ministers?

That's why Dugan forbade Lefebvre to meet Magnus.

As the commander-in-chief of the kingdom with an almost doomed future, Lefebvre has all the trust of the king and the prince, and the next thing to do is to keep that trust.

The generals under his command have too close contacts with outsiders, which is definitely the king's first taboo.

However, these political wisdoms accumulated over decades cannot be easily spoken, and Dugan can only restrain Lefebvre by his side and slowly remind him.

This is in terms of small sections, and in terms of major sections, Dugan has nothing to fault at all.

Dispatch troops and set up camp, those unruly knights are better than rabbits in Dugan's hands, and they don't dare to breathe, not only Odega, who is also a general, is admired, but even Magnus, who knows nothing about military affairs, also feels that he has benefited a lot.

The army marched rapidly in this atmosphere, and soon reached the line between Magnus and the area under the actual control of the Count of Brest.