The strike was so unexpected that they were thrown into disarray the mont Belarion enters
But this settlent would not fall easily. Not to ntion that settlent is never sothing permanent in the eyes of the Steppe people
But it is also because there are so many people here.
Tens of thousands of n. It is night. And even though the moonlight is no longe obscured by the clouds, it is still night
If any other n try to do what Belarion had just done, the mont the Nergui attack back, there is a high chance they could be overwheld and this full attack at night would have faltered even before it could have the chance to breathe
But Belarion is no common man
The mont he attacks, it is like a storm had rages on in that part of the battlefield. But just because Belarion could do this did not an everyone could do this
On the other side of the battlefield, Murong and Tuoba opens a path
Murong and Tuoba is fighting on one side.
As for so of Belarion deputies most of them is concentrated around Belarion
Cahya, Chulun rides alongside Belarion creating his right and left flank.
Mu Cha fought on another side.
Five thousand n, ten thousand n, one thousand n follows from behind many commanders and generals of the Brolgadhr.
The horses arrives first and amidst the chaos and fire, they quickly co into formation.
This is one of Aeryon reason for maintaining discipline among his n.
By now the formation that the Brolgadhr forces could employ is no longer simple formation. It is not like in the beginning where the formation doesn’t look like a formation.
That is because there is no discipline.
But discipline is only one part of it. The other part is they did not know where they should go or why the formation is like that
The reason why the Steppe people did not listen to Yan people when they told them to form formation is simply because the Yan people did not share to them what reason such formation is employed.
And when you don’t know, and in a war, where your life and death depend on your choices and decision, you would fall back and lean on your experiences until now
Aeryon when he teaches his n to create formation he tells them what the use of the formation is and why they do it.
And once his people knows that the formation could save their lives and wins them victories, they follow it without deviations
Aeryon knows he needs to fit the tactic that he had and this world. In the tactic he envisioned, personal bravery must be put last.
No generals should rush toward the front and attack the enemy
In his world, however, there is no people like Belarion.
Innate strength that is like a tank in an army
Not to ntion, so people who learns martial thod could fight ten n alone.
This kind of people may not be able to fly, and they might not possess the power to defeat ten thousand n alone, but given the right condition, they alone could decimate thousand.
Aeryon knows this and this is why he also gives freedom for the talented warrior under him to fight and initiate duels
It is why he allows the commander and the generals to make their own decision when in the battlefield.
However, right now, while Belarion is decimating the front and basically beco like an an arrowhead to go straight to the main camp and attack the general of this army, on the other side, the power of the army of Brolgadhr shows itself
Aeryon decided to attack the west right now, facing three large tribes by his own because he had already sowhat integrated sothing in the cavalry
The cavalry, the main force of Belarion is different from the cavalry in the early skirmish
What did Aeryon do?
What did he integrate?
The integration of heavy and light cavalry.
So people believe that Mongols were only powerful because of their horse archers.
That is not true at all. Aeryon also knows this. How he knows and why he rembered it, is still sothing of a mystery to even him.
Because when he checks his mory, the Steppe itself is not ntioned much in the story he had read
But he knows very well about the Steppe.
Sotis, it just cos to him, like so kind of a hidden mory suddenly appearing when certain prerequisite is fulfilled.
But contrary to popular perception, the Mongols fielded substantial heavy cavalry alongside their more famous horse archers.
And Aeryon copied it exactly.
But of course, he could not copy it all from the start.
Not only that he did not have any blacksmith capable enough in his tribe, but there is also no iron mines that they could developed in a land full of grass
But that changes the mont they took down Nurshira. Aeryon did not stay
He did not stay because he knows he could not hold it.
But he does take the wealth of that city. He took the engineers, took the blacksmith, the artisans, the inventors and talents that those cities have.
Most of them are Yan people. So of them are mixed. Border people are rarely loyal to the central governnt. In this era, governnt propaganda is not as strong.
The people are more pliable and easily deceived but the propaganda of the royal family could not reach the countryside.
But just because the people did not listen to royal propaganda did not an the people in the borderlands did not have any propaganda struck into their mind
What replaced royal propaganda is none other than the propaganda of the powerful families.
The aristocratic families the scholar families control the flow of knowledge and guided public opinion in the countryside.
Even more so for Nurshira who could be cut off from the Yan lands just by destroying the bridges that connects the cities of Yan and Nurshira.
So, there is also Yan people in his tribe. But in this era, those who co to the Steppe beco barbarians, but the barbarians who co to Yan would never beco Yan
Not to ntion, national consciousness is not sothing common people knows or cares about.
Even in the modern world it requires propaganda to make the common people to go to war to fight wars for their lords.
In the modern world, the lords are corporations and money interest, military industrial complex and the people who profited from the death of people and destruction and reconstruction of a country
The common people thought that they die for a noble cause when in the end, it would only enrich the ruling lass elites while the common people who fought in wars would be denied their benefits and gain PTSD for nothing
So, the common people in this era, the Yan people how got captured and brought to the Steppe and work under the Khan is loyal to the Khan.
Aeryon did not treat these people like he treat the people of the Steppe.
Their culture is different; their belief and their values are also different and so the way to win their hearts is also different
For these Yan people, Aeryon gives them freedom that they did not have under the rulership of Yan, and he gives them fortune and the chance to climb the social ladder that they could not have in Yan
Given them food, give them fortune, give them things that is blocked from them
They work and they contribute and they would be rewarded. Do not underestimate the power of using reward to compensate rit
In Yan reputation is everything.
Even if you have great talents, if you don’t have the great backgrounds you could not rise in your social station and could not use your talent.
If you are born of a farr, even if you have the ability to govern the world, you are a farr.
A craftsman for example is not widely regarded. rchants are despised instead of being used.
Aeryon on the other hand treated them with respect. Those who listen, those who contribute would get their just reward.
He punished disloyalty with great punishnt, but loyalty and rit would surely be rewarded.
If even Mukhulai who is a slave from a different tribe could be promoted to beco Noyan, then doesn’t that shows the Khan does not discriminate?
The Yan people change their allegiance to the Khan simply because the Khan dares to give what the emperor and the noble families of Yan did not dare give
And there is even Yan people under the command of Belarion.
But the leading commander of these Yan forces are all Brolgadhr tribesn.
And on the rear side fighting the defending forces is one of these army. Leading two thousand n, they break the army of the Nergui forces that tries to regroup.
And they did it easily.
This army is different from the raid army or the skirmishes riders that attack the Nergui tribe a few days ago.
This army is full of armoured riders. Aeryon defeated all of the tribes around him easily since he destroyed Nurshira.
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