After a year and three months, the Expeditionary Army was finally successfully formed, which had already exhausted the Pope.
The main reason was the judges and Discipline bishops were dragging their feet too much. During this time, he tried to physically eliminate these two archbishops to force them out of the church center.
However, the result was a failure, simply because there were spies from the two factions within.
If this move had succeeded, there wouldn't have been a problem. The issue was he failed, and he suffered backlash from the two archbishops and their followers, which made their allied attacks against him increasingly fierce.
Although the Expeditionary Army was re-established now, the power was not solely in his hands. Two-thirds were divided by the judges and Discipline bishops, who instead completely suppressed him.
