After the feasting and celebrations that happened in cordoba the next day Sigurd who went through the change to a man went to the hall to see sweyn,Ragnar and Olaf siting with what seemed to be generals and Mohammed the emirs son and when they saw him Ragnar smiled and said "look at that a boy became a man, you look to happy."
Sigurd felt more confident after hearing this and saw the smile on his father face who looked to the emirs son and spoke "so we will move to Zaragoza and take a rest there and from there we march into their territory to attack them will we have the advantage of surprise attack on our side," to which he nodded to and got up and went to ready the army and Olaf looked at Ragnar and said "get the men ready we will match when the emirate force is ready," to which he nodded to and went, Sigurd who didn't know what was happen asked sweyn who explained the situation and that they were hired mercenaries to attack Leon kingdom, Sigurd who heard this asked his father "why didn't you let me attend the meeting," Olaf smiled and said "I wanted you to have fun and you now know everything, so take a breath and get ready we move to Zaragoza."
which Olaf pointed on the map and Sigurd calmed down and went to get ready.
In Burgos the kingdom of Leon there was an army forming outside the city and the king Garcia was in the city taking with his nobles and telling them " after the army is formed we will march to Zaragoza as it's a wealthy city and is know to do trade with the Muslims and Christians and alit if the wealth flows back to the emir but I will stop it and show that the time of the emirate if cordoba is over and that Spain is ours to take," the other nobles started praising the king, one noble spoke "my king from the scouts it says that the emir has sent his son to the city," to which the king nodded and said "good when we defeat them it will weaken them further and allow us to expand more and take what's ours, and they cheered, but they didn't account for what would happen next.
In Zaragoza Olaf and the emir son with the translator was chatting, Olaf said "we should move at night and make the city look like we are still here and make the Leon kingdom confident while we move to through their territory and attack them when they don't see us," after hearing this Mohamed who heard this was elated as he wanted to go and attack them not wait for them to go through his peoples lands and destroying everything along the way. When nighttime reach the army left and traveled through the border and march close to the city and entered a forest to hide the army.
Olaf, with his jarls and the emirs son moved closer and saw the army that was resting and waiting for the time for their march, Olaf spoke "we rest an hour then attack them as they don't know we are here," one of the emirs general spoke "why can't we wait for night and attack with its cover," Sigurd replied "we are in enemy territory we don't know when we will be discovered so it's better we att k while they don't know and risk them getting ready for an attack if word gets out," the emirs son agreed and Olaf went to telling the way of attack.
In the castle the king was looking at the map with his nobles and spoke "we have most of the army here so I'll tell you of my plan, we will send a small force to Toledo as a distraction to the Muslims as they may send out their army to chase them leaving Zaragoza free for attack."
one noble spoke "my king what if they don't?" to which the king responded "well then they will have to as they can't have a force attacking them so close to the capital without responding but if they don't it won't matter this will hurt their morale and we will march to attack the city anyway but the emir son cares about his people and will rise to rescue them and that's when we will attack," and there was praises going around but a man ran in panicked and said "my lords we are under attack."
After hearing this the king walked quickly to the entrances of the gate and climbed up to the top of the front wall to see to his dismay was his army being attacked on almost all sides by what looked like the emirs army and he looked to his nobles and said " go and get the men in formation or the entire army will be destroyed," and they left while he looked part of an army that was different from the emirs and noticed that they where the description of northmen that attacked frankia and he saw the banner of the man and now he knew that the emir recruited them to help them and this made him angry as he saw that his army would soon be destroyed he turned to his solider and said "we are leaving," and walked to his horse as to escape since he knew that if he was trapped his kingdom would weaken greatly and swore revenge on the emir and northmen.