Nine months earlier, King Arthur, the King of Knights, had launched a war against the Vile King, Vortigern.
But rather than a war to suppress Vortigern's rebellion, it was more a final ultimatum to the foreign peoples who had crossed the sea.
Seven Knights of the Round Table-Percival, Gawain, Bedivere, Gaheris, Palamedes, Tristan, and Sovell-joined Artoria on the front lines.
Agravain was appointed quartermaster, responsible for purchasing, storing, and transporting provisions.
The running of the Royal Court was entrusted to Kay, as always.
Pellinore and Ector, meanwhile, served as supervisory advisers.
They helped Kay handle affairs of state, while also using their seniority to silence the discordant voices at court.
Fifty thousand cavalry, twenty thousand archers, eighty thousand infantry, and three hundred thousand logistical support troops.
With a little rounding up, the total force was a full half-million strong.
For this war, Artoria had committed everything she had accumulated thus far.
It was a true all-out effort, on a scale even Liens had never faced.
The detailed strategy for the campaign had also been unanimously approved by all eleven Knights of the Round Table, including Artoria-
They would advance slowly, nibbling away at enemy territory, bypass the Royal City of Londinium, and drive out the foreign peoples everywhere outside it.
The Royal City itself would be the site of the final battle.
But faced with a plan aimed so squarely at them, the Vile King and the foreign commanders under him put up exceptionally fierce resistance.
Added to this were the enormous terrain disadvantages of siege warfare and the rejection of humans from the Age of Gods by England's lands of the Age of Man.
As a result, the Vile King's army, which included the foreign Saxons, had far greater fighting strength than Artoria's soldiers.
Although they won all eleven