Girls Going to War Too?

In the end, the Onyx Principality's main army chose a high slope outside the city to set up camp.

It took more than a day to finish pitching the camp.

Once the camp was complete, they began constructing siege equipment and filling in the moat the next day.

It was then that Nalant and the others were finally summoned by the count to begin receiving their assignments.

For the moment, the tasks were fairly easy, all preparatory work.

For instance, some vassals were assigned to build the siege equipment needed for the assault.

Other nobles had to send men to help fill the moat, which was the task requiring the greatest number of people.

Others were assigned to suppress the enemy attacks from atop the city walls and assist the laborers in filling the moat.

In the end, Boris, Rell, and the others were assigned to fill the moat.

Though Nalant was a knight, he too was assigned to provide cover.

For no other reason than Nalant's Siege Crossbows and more than ten Longbowmen.

Nalant naturally had no objections. On the second day after the camp was set up, he led the five completed ballista carts and his subordinates outside the camp to assemble.

When he arrived at the gathering point outside the camp, he realized he seemed to have risen a little late, because the retainers of many minor nobles had already begun working.

Since they were filling the moat, they naturally needed to dig earth.

A full seven or eight thousand serf laborers were already hard at work, swinging hoes and carrying baskets.

The carts responsible for hauling the dirt had begun loading up as well.

Fortunately, the covering forces had not yet set out.

The king sat astride that brown Magic Beast horse, with the six