Way of Overlord Chapter 611: Taking the Centre

Nothing in this world remain static. In these four hundred years, the people of the grassland also learn the tactic of the settled people.

And they modify it to suit the people of the Steppe.

Roma on the other hand once had been raided by the barbarian tribes.

And the barbarian tribes at that ti from the cold lands reached Roma and at those tis, every statesman in Roma itself feel that Roma was about to fall.

Hence, they never relaxed their vigilance against the barbarian tribes that surrounds them.

Of course, if they could have integrated the barbarian tribes around them successfully, they could have it easier.

After all, those barbarians’ tribes also yearn to beco Romans

But just like any other empires and just like any other civilization of this era, there is this great distinction between others and you.

Enlightened rulers all knows that if everyone work together, unify the hearts of the people, create an empire that benefits the people, everyone will beco the wall of this empire.

It is just that the ruling power never has that one trait that made this possible. And that is sharing power.

The rulers did not have the bravery to share power with the people, to tie the people with the imperial power. Instead, they tied themselves to the aristocratic families.

Aeryon himself is not sure he could do it.

For now, he uses the power of the warriors and maybe soday he too would share the power with warriors or the aristocratic family.

But that is a later problem.

"It’s good. I hope there is more chaos. Right now, Xiahou Cao must be gathering his strength in the central plains. I only vaguely rember the outline of that story. After all, it reads a lot like a duplicate Three Kingdom novels."

Of course, now Aeryon himself doubted his mories.

There are so things he could not share to anyone.

At night when he sleeps, he sotis dreams of things.

Things that made him question a lot of his mories.

The more he delves into his mories, the more things that did not make sense.

And sotis, different kind of mories enter his mind, a mory of a different life, of a different ti and it made him question all he had known.

Aeryon did not intend to ignore all of these things.

It is just that he focused on surviving first.

After everything is settled and he have enough breathing room, then he could focus on unravelling those dreams and those mories.

One thing he had learned since his ti here is that sotis being too rash, could sotis lead you to the wrong answer.

It is better to calm himself down first, take his ti and then calmly analyse what he had seen, and he had speculated and reach the right conclusion

And now the first thing he needs to do is solve this war. Then he could think about all of those things

"There are now five major fronts" he mutters to himself

He is now sitting cross legged in front of his low table looking at the crude map in front of him

Sotis, he sighed. Sotis, he would massage his temple. Other tis he would sip his water.

He never knew thinking could exhaust people.

But now he understands why so rulers could die of exhaustion just by thinking.

One that believe that only thinking does not equal to fighting, never really thinks.

Physical problem could be seen. Thinking too much could bring about a ntal problem

ntal problem is invisible and sotis the symptoms does not show up until it is too late

Aeryon not only have to think he also has to fight. Of course, certain matters are simple. But this one is not a simple thing.

This one would determine whether he could really have the capital to fight for the Steppe. If he loses the west, then it would take years for things to line up again for him

If he failed, the west would get stronger and by the ti he made a second expedition to the west, it would be too late and costlier.

And he not only need to win this war, but he also needs to win this war without a pyrrhic victory.

There is chaos on the East, that is true, but it is also true, that Dama might have prefer Aeryon to go to the war with the west.

Because if Aeryon loses, it is a chance for the east to attack the west. Even if Aeryon won, if the cost is high, then that is good news for Dama

That is probably why they did not hinder that much other than sending a few skirmish forces around the eastern border

Though, if an opportunity presented itself to him, Dama would surely take it.

"Karnain is a man who cares about his tribe. And he still has use for his reputation"

"The letter he sent is enough to show that he would not conspire with Dama....at least for the ti being. Maybe he is even waiting to see the conclusion of this war"

It is not that he couldn’t see in that letter how he is honest. But even this honesty make Aeryon feel that this honesty is a performative honesty.

The kind of honesty given to him so that he could him more.

His cunningness is a trait that Aeryon did not expect. It shows how deep he hides himself.

This kind of cunningness.... "He reminds of Tokugawa Ieyasu"

Waiting for the right ti.

And he is good at using the mask of reputation to shield his cunningness.

Garron uses the bad reputation to make a na for himself and to lower down the guards and motivate himself.

Karnain is different

Aeryon had to think all of this.

The war in front of him and the one on the rear. The larger the territory, the more the politics, the more the interest.

And the more he needs to deliberate on his decision.

"But one thing is clear. All of this intrigues and plots undoubtedly are the way of the weak. As long as I win, it would remove all contradiction. This is how rightful rulers maintain control. As long as you could win, you fear no intrigue and plots"

Aeryon shakes his head and thought about the five front and the five main forces

The five main force belongs to Aeryon, Mukhulai, Burchu, Durka and Belarion

Each one of them commands ten thousand n or more. Hence, there is fifty thousand n give or take in this main force

Then the smaller force belongs to Murong and Tuoba and a few others that is fighting all over the western line

There are also so that defend the lower western region.

Even now, when he is fighting all over the borders and regions of the Cha Ner Ul alliance, there is detachnt that would attack other parts of his region.

There is no walls and tall mountain on the plain. With a horse you could travel all of the plains.

So, there would be even attack deep in the area of his rule.

Of course, small forces could not hope to attack large settlent.

That is not helping the cause that is a suicide attack

But they could harass and spread terror.

It is one thing that they are very good at.

The reason why the grassland people could inflict so much fear on the Yan people and the empires around them even though they are not united and not many or as organized is because of the use of terror.

Many of these empires did not record this and these empires truly believe that the grassland people is people without wit and strategy.

But the grassland people is very adept at psychological attack. One of them is the thod to capitalise fear.

And they mastered the use of trick. If not, why would all of those empires throws words like cunning and tricky to the nomads?

It is a thod they perfected in this era.

The more they fear the people of grassland, the smoother the journey toward these empires.

And it is the sa thing they would use against each other.

Aeryon is quite sure even when he is fighting here, soone is trying to attack the small settlent under his area.

So, he left people to help defend the region.

Aeryon rides from Kanun to attacks the southern line of defence by the Chagai tribe.

Durka commanded the forces of Duhai and Zlata tribe to bypasses them and attack from behind.

The objective was to regroup

After they had significant headway into the region then they would be regrouping in the middle so that they could fight a decisive battle.

And what is the middle?

What is the focus?

Chagai tribe.

As long as Chagai tribe falls, then it would not be long that the other two could easily get conquered and subdued

The glue that kept this alliance together is Chadha. Chagai tribe.

Aeryon of course, knows that things would not always go to plan.

There is a chance that those two could unite against all circumstances.

But even then, as long as they could take Chagai, the road to the west is truly open wide. The range of operation that they could now operate would widen.

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