Especially the Frank people love cavalry, and the ambitious Charles III directly announced: Five cavalry corps and ten knight corps will be established within five years.
For a great Empire, sixty thousand troops are nothing, but the issue is that these are cavalry.
The increased military spending is by no means minimal. Even for the wealthy Frank Empire, it is still a painful expenditure.
If not for the Five Nations Alliance as a backdrop, Charles III's massive military expansion would indeed be considered exhausting soldiers and wars.
Once the plan is completed, the Frank Empire's standing army will surpass the Alpha Kingdom, becoming the largest among the Human Race and the largest on the Continent.
The Iberia Kingdom's plans are slightly smaller, also planning to expand five cavalry corps, but the number of knight corps was cut in half.
With two leaders taking the lead, various countries in the South Continent invariably followed suit.
