So popular is the boy's movement following your endorsement that overwhelming numbers of untrained and undisciplined recruits have joined the marchers' ranks, hungry for glory. Sadly, there are far more of these would-be crusaders than could ever have been expected. There are neither enough rations nor equipment to go around, and hygiene is poor. Disease spreads like wildfire through the press of bodies, while still more succumb to fatal malnutrition.
Hunger and sickness ravage the helpless crusaders. Many will never return home.
Hunger and sickness ravage the helpless crusaders. Many will never return home.