On the vast Gobi Desert, Knights in blue robes and red and white robes formed a winding long line.
They crossed steep slopes and passed through intersecting dry river valleys.
Behind them were large groups of soldiers.
The long and arduous trek caused the soldiers to complain endlessly.
A war that should have lasted a long time turned into a grand military parade.
But aside from those farmer soldiers forced from the fields, the vast majority didn't see this as a matter to be celebrated.
They simply found the consecutive long marches to be quite tormenting.
When crossing the Jordan River.
The large troop of nearly thirty thousand had already shrunk by one-third.
Knights and soldiers from various vassals' commands had already followed their lords back to their respective territories.
Serving the liege was a duty to be fulfilled, calculated by time and varying from month to month depending on the contract's stringency.
