At the moment, Ragnar and his Track-Laying Division were crossing into the borderlands of Wessex.
His armies had recently split into the three-pronged strategy outlined in the Nottingham board meeting.
Ragnar was now in command of a force numbering roughly 3,000 men in total—half of which were his veteran "Iron Gear" soldiers, and the other half the conscripted "Interns" from the Midlands.
The other two armies were securing the perimeter and transporting the "Screaming Kettle" locomotive respectively.
Unlike Ragnar's core workforce, which was filled with the most veteran members of his engineering and security units, the Saxon interns were poorly equipped with standardized shovels and mass-produced helmets.
Many of them had never held a tool heavier than a pitchfork in their lives.
At most, they would act as the manual labor for Ragnar's grand vision; their role was to dig the trenches and lay the gravel while his troops provided "Site Security."
