The road to Lettra ran southeast from the provincial capital, passing through the agricultural lowlands that fed the eastern province before rising into the foothills where the Lettra barony's estates occupied the terrain between the plains and the Tekarr approaches.
It was not a road that appeared on any Threian military planner's list of strategically significant routes, because it did not connect to anything that military planners considered significant.
It connected farmland to barony and barony to capital, the internal arteries of a civilian economy whose designers had assumed that the province's defenses lay at its borders rather than within them, that the roads inside the frontier existed to move grain and timber and wool rather than soldiers and siege equipment.
The assumption had been reasonable for two centuries. The assumption was now the foundation of a maneuver.
