Way of Overlord
Chapter 407: The Restless Chiefs

Chapter 407: The Restless Chiefs

Before, Ultar tribe could not easily move some of their reserve forces. Because they fear Aestan tribe would do something.

But now with Brolgadhr tribe taking over the area of Wustkazan tribe, Aestan tribe must think twice before they sent an army against Ultar tribe.

After all, if Kan Aeryon could attack Wustkazan without saying anything, why could he not attack Aestan tribe?

Ultar tribe itself has many settlements and they did not have to do such desperate thing like the Wustkazan tribe and defend one settlement until death.

And even if that is true, actually Yanlan could have retreated. Of course, this is the thought of many chief.

It is easy when it is not you in that situation and circumstances.

The truth is if they were in the same situation and circumstance that Yanlan were in, they probably would make the same choice.

Because the morale of his people would have collapsed back then if he had run away.

Their people, their wives, mothers, sons and daughter were all in that settlement. If Yanlan had run away and retreated at that time, knowing Aeryon, he would have used all of those people to make his people surrender.

And then he would lose almost immediately. And that is only one of strategy that Aeryon could use if Yanlan had run at that time

Yanlan and his soldier could run but the others could not. And once they show that they are easily defeated, the morale would collapsed more easily and desertion would be high

Yanlan himself knows that he did not need to defeat Brolgadhr tribe. he just needs to delay them

What some chief don’t understand is that the battle between the Brolgadhr tribe and the Wustkazan was not so one sided.

Because the chief of the Great Steppe only see the result.

And that is fine.

But it also give a lack of understanding of how Aeryon become so strong and how he was victorious in every battle

Without understanding the reason for defeat, these chief could not learn from the mistakes of others.

They did not understand that the reason why Aeryon wins was because the lack of information between the tribes.

The swiftness of the attack.

The almost desperate kind of maneuvers to win the battle.

Killing Yanlan was not easy. Belarion was bogged down and Aeryon was blocked.

If Wustkazan have many more warriors and many more soldiers, the scheme of taking the head of Wustkazan chief could have backfired.

That is because Aeryon needed a swift victory and Yanlan needed to delay.

If not because of Belarion and Aeryon cutting through the rank of the enemy and took Yanlan head, there is a chance that given enough chance, the Wustkazan could have repelled the Brolgadhr tribe, establish contact once again with the neighbouring tribes and form an alliance to defend against the aggression of the Brolgadhr tribe.

But all these "if" have now become nothing but the sigh of the loser. Yanlan is dead, Wustkazan is destroyed.

But to the eyes of the chief that is not in the situation and did not see it from the circumstances of Yanlan they believe the Wustkazan defeat is because Wustkazan chief did not retreat in time, he got killed, his army demoralized and leading to his territory being carved up among his subordinate.

So now Aestan tribe, could not make any moves

Even if Aestan decided that Kan Aeryon would not attack them and they decided to attack Ultar tribe settlement, the Ultar tribe could always reside on the settlement of the former Aksak tribe and launch a counterattack.

One of the things that most chief learned after the death of Wustkazan chief is to separate some of their forces so that attacking their main settlement would no longer mean the fall of their position.

Some of them also made allies so that if their main settlement falls, they could first rest in an allied tribe and then mount a counterattack.

It is not such things has never been implemented before. In the central Great Steppe, losing the settlement rarely means the destruction of the entire tribe.

This is because the Central part of the great Steppe has always been plagued by wars.

If there is one reason why such thing has deteriorated so much in the Southern Great Steppe, it is the fact that there is a rigid status quo.

There is even a trend of inheritance-based succession. What does this shows? It shows that land possession is now a concept that is no longer foreign to the people of the Southern Great Steppe

The Southern Great Steppe have many disadvantages but there is also something that they have that not many parts of the Great Steppe have.

And that is the fact that their lands could be used to cultivate food.

Not all of these places, yes, but in the lower part of the Southern Great Steppe, at least some kind of food plant could be cultivated.

And so, even though most of the tribe still migrate from time to time, they also have settlement.

And these settlements existed for quite some time and quite stable.

And so, the family that control these settlements become powerful as years go by and to keep stability, most of the next chief is chosen from the same family

Slowly becoming this family succession.

Many parts of the Steppe in the past did not uses this succession method before.

Instead, it is the one that contribute the most to the development of the tribe, the strong among all of the tribe would be considered as candidate of the tribe.

But Aeryon conquest revives back the fiery blood of the Steppe people.

And once they are awakened, these docile wolves that is more dog than wolves turns into wolves and it is the most fiercest wolf there is.

Ino tribe was not only attacked on their northern area.

On their eastern front Nergui tribe come raiding. Two front and both front shows that Ultar tribe and Nergui tribe is attacking for the win.

Straight to the neck!

Cutting the source!

Ino tribe leader had no choice than to retreat from the Haltur frontline to protect their people.

And the moment that Ino tribe send back it warriors back, Chagai tribe push the front and half of the Haltur area is now occupied under the influence of the Chagai tribe.

To those who were paying attention to this battle of conquest of the Cha Ner Ul Alliance, the ending of Haltur tribe is already written in stone.

At the same time when many people are looking at the west, there was something else that probably slips the mind of many chief.

There was a messenger that come from the Nogai tribe to the Brolgadhr tribe.

Some chief read it and find nothing wrong with it.

After all, the Nogai tribe is now neighbours with the Brolgadhr tribe. Surely, the chief of the Noga wanted to find some kind of understanding or probably establish some kind of diplomatic channel between the two.

A small news.

A blip in the current situation.

But to those who in the know, this small news, would change the entire history of the Great Steppe and would change the pattern of power in the Southern Great Steppe.

This news however is overshadowed by the news of Kan Aeryon victory, the Haltur crisis, the Cha Ner Ul Alliance intense fighting and the Khagai and Bolghar battle that is on stalemate near the valley of Bolghar.

And the west is not the only place in the Southern Great Steppe that is full of excitement

There is also something afoot in the east. Those who have lived in the period of stagnation for the past hundred years in the Southern Great Steppe, had to adapt with the fast-moving world of today.

Wars everywhere, powers changing as fast and as unpredictable as the prairie wind

On the east, there is more restless move.

Why? Because now the rumoured ambitious young Kan is having access easily to the east.

The one that is restless is the Yindir and Dayan tribe. Even so they should not be that shaken. After all, it is not the first time that these two tribes has been fighting other tribes.

But this is different than before.

Most of the time, it is the power of one tribe against the other.

Almost equal in power.

Even if it’s not, there is still strategy and bravery in battle that could turn the tide of victory toward one side.

Brolgadhr is different.

They are no longer just a strong and large tribe.

They are massive and they are winning support left and right.

They could support wars toward the West and yet, muster enough people to expand toward the north and with two men of great strength and five thousand horsemen they defeated ten thousand horsemen.

If that is not shocking, what else could be conspired shocking in this world?

And the most terrifying part of this, was that no one even suspected that Aeryon would attack Wustkazan.

Even Wustkazan tribe itself did not even suspect such a thing

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