When Michael said Burgundy had mobilized roughly fifteen hundred troops, I doubted my ears at first. Had I mistaken a full-scale war for a local conflict? The numbers were far too large for a local conflict. If the Besançon reinforcements had successfully joined them, the total would have been close to two thousand.
"At a point when civil war has broken out with the French royal family, mobilizing that many troops means they hired mercenaries. If you hadn't interrogated that eccentric knight and extracted the information, we'd have been stuck on the defensive."
"Isn't facing mercenaries more dangerous than facing levies?"
"It would have been if the civil war hadn't broken out."
