After a night's rest, the second day of the standoff between the two armies began. Following a day of chaotic fighting and adjustments, the Iron Bone Tribe had become increasingly adept at using these Barbarian herders and laborers.
Especially after the Faith Order had stepped in yesterday and helped organize the afternoon's assault force, the Faith Order's fair and impartial management had greatly appealed to many Barbarian herders and laborers.
These people had not originally been very enthusiastic about this battle. After all, there was little to gain from victory, while the lives being spent were their own.
But after seeing the benefits received from the Faith Order by people who, like them, were herders and laborers, they became far more eager to take part.
Priest Sparison and the others took the opportunity to expand their ranks. Previously, perhaps due to a shortage of manpower, they had only organized forces of thirty to forty thousand men.
But now that more and more Barbarian herders wanted to join, they could more calmly select suitable personnel for this operation.
Chief Bone Baldy had no objections to this. On the contrary, he strongly supported the Faith Order's expansion. He no longer cared what Sparison intended to do, so long as the ditch-filling task was completed on schedule.
As long as they could fill the enemy's moat and trenches while continuing to wear down these Barbarian herders, he would be able to account for it to the Great Chieftain.
Before long, Priest Sparison had nearly doubled the force, organizing a full six ten-thousand-man units, made up mostly of able-bodied young men.
The elderly and weak had not gone to waste either. The Faith Order organized them to make grass sacks filled with earth and stones. Naturally, they could not earn wooden tokens by doing