The garrison had been bustling since early morning. With forces hastily organized to defend it and Fried's light cavalry joining up, we'd mobilized a large number of Euz castle residents to begin repair work on the garrison. We drove stakes in tight clusters to prevent enemy cavalry from easily crossing and set up traps.
"Move faster! Drive those stakes in solid and get them positioned right!"
The person directing the repair work was, naturally, Michael. He reinforced the defensive facilities to block enemy cavalry raids as much as possible and buy time, adjusting the archers' optimal positions for attack, among many other tasks. But time was tight.
So we were taking only minimal measures, but even those alone were threatening enough for a raiding party. Michael knew how to effectively block enemy attacks. From an attacker's perspective, he was a pretty tricky type of commander to deal with. If the enemy supply base had been this well defended, I would've given up.
