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July 8th, Moscow, 3:00 PM, the sun blazed high in the sky.
Outside the city, dust billowed. Onufri and Ravel, who had long since recovered from their injuries, led the 15th and 19th Cavalry Corps, departing ahead with over ten thousand cavalrymen. They split into two groups, racing down the roads on either side, advancing towards Tver from both the east and west directions.
Not long after, the train loaded with cannons also set off. The remaining tens of thousands of infantry queued up at the station to board the train, with their marching packs on their backs and 'Edward the First' Rifles in their hands. The faces of each were marked by the weathered traces left by blizzards.
This was a force of real veterans, an army personally trained by Emperor Peter, shaped through the trials and tribulations of war, and also the last of the Romanov Kingdom's elite.
