Way of Overlord
Chapter 414: Rivers and Lakes

Chapter 414: Rivers and Lakes

Valgrun heard about him since the time of his father.

His father once spoke to him about an Ashana that roams around the west and near the border.

He does not have permanent dwellings but when he does stay at the west, he would stay there for ten years before going away.

The reason why his father believed that the Ashana Zad live that long is because his father before him had also met Ashana Zad.

In other words, his grandfather had also met Zad.

And his grandfather father also met Zad. Around four generations of the Khagai chief had seen this Ashana.

And later, when his father met Ashana Zad, his father was surprised that after almost forty years there is not much change about the Ashana.

No wrinkles that is too much, no weakness that is evident

Yes, Ashana Zad looks a bit older than the Ashana Zad in his memory but other than that, he does not look like a hundred years old man.

Instead, he looks more like a forty years old man.

And it is said that Ashana Zad is a true practitioner of the heavenly arts. He learns Kusa, Mana, or Qi whatever some people wanted to say it.

This is the reason he could roman all over the Steppe and survives its treacherous domain

This is why Valgrun was so eager to find him. Because when he heard about the appearance of Ashana Zad he remembers one set of skills that the Ashana Zad has that could complement the strategy that he had in mind

He searched everywhere around him but he was also running out of time.

The Bolghar will not wait for him to craft the perfect plan.

Valgrun could only use Ota to buy him some time

But after a few days of delay, he gave up and then returns to his camp.

He was about to make a new plan and when he goes to bed that night, someone enter his tent.

When Valgrun was awoken by the sound in his tent, he was surprised to see an old man, around forty years old inside his tent, looking at him

A face that he had seen when he was young.

And now he sees that face again. Did not change much.

Maybe there is a few more wrinkles but all in all, his face did not change that much.

He has a white beard and his hair is also white.

He wears a fur clothes like some kind of warrior and he has a bow and arrow behind his back.

Valgrun did not escape the cruel hand of time but Ashana Zad certainly has crack the code for longevity.

These Ashana always like to appear dramatically.

Especially the one with ability.

He has been searching for Ashana Zad for days, mobilize hundreds of men to scour the area but he could even found a trace.

But then, he appears

This is the Ashana penchant for theatrics.

In a way, it is their way of telling you they have talents.

He could hide from Valgrun soldiers and after Valgrun gives up, only then would he shows his face. One could not help but admit this does lend credence to their ability when meeting a chief like Valgrun who appreciate talented people.

Even though at that time, Valgrun had just awaken to his sleep, he ignore the tiredness of his body and treated the Ashana with the greatest hospitality that he could at that moment.

The Ashana simply said that he is here to help and that he knows what Valgrun wanted from him and he would not be averse to help

That is the words that Valgrun wanted to hear. It is only with the assistance of this Ashana that Valgrun managed to create that strategy

And what kind of attack he is thinking of doing?

The Flood Attack. Valgrun is a man of the west.

He has been here since he was young.

And he has been thinking on how to defeat the Bolghar tribe since he was in his youth

And he even tried to fight against the west in the past

He failed but that did not mean he forgot all of those strategies he thought of when he was young. Now, everything come full circle. He is now attacking the west and is about to take down Bolghar tribe

And unlike before, nothing is going to stop him now.

Everything is falling into place.

Yes, Khagai tribe might not be the one that wins the world in the end, but they will get a share of it

Valgrun is a practical man and he knows what to choose. Only someone like him could dare bet on a young chief

Because of that bet, now, he could finally break free and did some things he could not do before.

He is doing this so that his descendant would have an easier time later.

As for the strategy.....the strategy has something to do with the river

More precisely, the Empatarah river

When he was young he would study the Empatarah river.

This river is quite a mystery in itself.

There is as many stories about this river as there is stories about the Skyfather

Some said it is created when two godly beings fought each other.

Some said it was the giants that diverted the water from the far north to the rest of the Steppe.

Some said this river is to seal something and that is why it looks so weird that it spans all four regions of the Steppe

Whatever the case, the miracle of this river is that it never floods.

Never.

Not in Valgrun time and not in his father time and not in his grandfather time

There would tornadoes, there would be overflowing of water, there would be storms but not flooding

Not like the Yellow River in Yan dynasty which could flood and create damage

The Empatarah river did not flood.

And so, he studied it.

Of course, he did not study it because he wanted to be a scholar or Ashana or the wise men but he studied it to know the course of this water.

Because it is the lifeblood of all the regions

Most settlements of the tribes is near this streams of this river. Some are smalls streams and some are larger streams and it is this places that is visited and habituated with more large settlements.

The river itself is not that fast and most young would bathe near the streams during the hot summer day

The horses drinks from it, the Tayaks washed themselves in it.

A river that is winding through the vast plains in all directions

And because he studied it, he knew the river seasonal fluctuations and its tributaries. And that was his plan to use against the Bolghar.

The valley itself would direct the flood to the campo of the Bolghar if he could direct the water well.

No one would even thought of using such strategy. Maybe in Yan where there is a lot of rivers but flooding tactics on the plains?

That is just absurd.

But such absurd thing could happen in the area of the west.

Because even though the area of the west is a plain, there is also valley and hills, more so than the other parts of the other region

This is a peculiarity of the western border.

Stretching to all the western border is these formations of valleys and hills separated by large plains and small streams of water river that originated from the main river.

But Valgrun had thought about it since he was young

He has a lot of time to perfect this plan. And it probably could only be used once and in only special circumstances

He believes that is the perfect way to defeat Bolghar tribe that is even bigger than his tribe. Lure them to fight a decisive battle and in one battle destroy them all

In the past when he wanted to create this situation, luck was not on his side

He did not have enough strength to force the Bolghar to fight a decisive battle with him. This time however it was different

Everything lined up perfectly.

But then, he lack one thing.

Most of the time, at this season, rain would fall heavily in this area. Valgrun wanted to dam the streams and it is easy because of the valley

Direct the course of the stream to the valley and cut off the valley creating a makeshift dams.

There is sands and there is mud and it could be done

That was the plans if Mayeux plans did not work.

Mayeux plans is more of an ambush type plans.

Whittling down Bolghar forces and take the head of the leader, thus making them leaderless and swift attack any allied forces of Bolghar.

Even if they did not take the head of the leader, as long as they could create a situation where the Bolghar tribe force sis ambushed on all sides, they would win.

That plan whoever requires the control of key points like the valley that created maze-like region near the Bolghar tribe.

Clearly even though Mayeux did not goes to the west, he knew about this hidden valley

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