March came with the wind, and in the blink of an eye, more than half of it had passed. The weather remained clear and dry, ideal for travel.
From all around, villagers came with their surplus agricultural products, heading to the great market of Tlatelolco in the North City to exchange what they needed. As they passed through the North Gate of the Lake Capital City and the village of Tepiiyaga, they would be surprised to find that the houses here had been temporarily requisitioned by the Alliance, and new legion campsites had been set up on the nearby drilling grounds.
In the spacious drilling grounds, a regiment of exactly eight thousand long spears had already assembled, forming a dense spear formation. This included six thousand sturdy and obedient miners, a thousand repeatedly selected militia from the villages, and finally a thousand samurai who served as the core.