This kind of deployment, purely out of obligation with no benefits in sight, would hardly see any enthusiastic participation.
Including within the front line at Cleston County itself, the military mobilization has only been half completed.
It's not that people don't want to move fast; there's simply a lack of experience in mobilizing the entire populace, making it fundamentally difficult to speed up.
As a consequence of such sluggish response, some Noble territories close to the Black Stone Mountain Range have already turned into hunting grounds for the Centipedes.
The city may appear to have fifty thousand troops, yet in reality, ninety percent are just for show, with less than ten percent of the Noble's Private Army being reliable.
This is already the result of a county-wide strategic contraction, concentrating the private armies of smaller Nobles; otherwise, the situation would be even worse.
