Zeigler's staff officer, Major Seewurd, waits nervously in front of the colonel's headquarters. The invading force should be setting off into the bishopric right about now. Troops have been marshalling, wagons assembling, light troops thieving, and hussars playing with one another's tassels. But what has been missing has been a set of orders to guide this Nabstro-Bachscuttel force in its attempt to find the emperor and loot Schrote! Even for jagers, a plan and some orders are usually recognised as being useful in the conduct of a military campaign. That, and a supply of ladies' underclothes. Time, surely, is of the essence, and it must be a suspicion that every minute lost now is one minute more for whatever enemy there are to organise themselves and to call on reinforcements!
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