The piercing cold wind swept across, causing the soldiers, whose faces were red and quivering, to shiver. Count Fidelis furrowed his brow.
The cold winter morning was undoubtedly a considerable challenge for the thinly clad soldiers.
There was no way around it, time was simply too tight.
This army was cobbled together by the private armies of various nobles, mobilized in an emergency. There simply wasn't enough time to prepare enough winter clothes.
Theoretically, the nobles should have provided clothing for their private armies. However, a few provinces in the southern part of the duchy have a tropical climate, and there is no need for winter clothes.
Things that weren't needed wouldn't have been stocked. Even after the mobilization order was issued, everyone's efforts to gather as much as they could still proved to be too little.
Given the shortage of supplies, priority had to be given to the main force, leaving ordinary soldiers to keep warm by shivering.
