Jabali look at his sworn brother, and he is hoping his sworn brother would listen to him. And then Khunbish opens his eyes.
This ti the eye is full of determination
"A man bon into this world, he should aim to beco a hero and admired by all. Forging immortal achievent and letting your na to be rembered for eternity!" Khunbish look at his brother and nodded
"My teacher would not bla !" Khunbish then ask Jabali what the plan is. But Jabali did not tell him the plan.
Instead, Jabali simply brings him to another place. In that place, there is around three hundred riders.
They are around a lower reach of a hill not far from where Jabali set up his tent
Jabali talk to soone and then that soone look at Khunbish.
But before Khunbish could make sense of anything he was captured. Jabali look at Khunbish and spoke
"The Mingghan order you to be detained until the matter is settled"
And Khunbish nodded
he could understand why. He just defected and it would be weird if the Brolgadhr trusted him without reservation.
He nodded and then the three hundred n ride out of the valley with his brother n. Among his brother n he recognized most of them.
All of them are descendants of his brother n that had died and Khunbish sighed
"My brother had prepared for long"
Seeing all of this Khunbish could not help but think this is one of the reasons why the Khan had never been defeated
How could Nergui tribe defeat the Khan right now?
From the very beginning, the thod of attack of the Khan is very different.
He attacks the people and attacks the hearts. Not many people could withstand such attack.
"Sending spies to infiltrate the tribe and persuade the warrior to defect. How many tribes could use such tactics" Khunbish sighed and then close his eyes.
Even though he had betrayed his tribe, this did not an he wanted to hear the outside battle.
After all, these are still people he knows and hearing them die and defeated is not sothing he takes pleasure on.
Those who knows the tis are heroes. This is sothing he himself understood. And he could not betray his brother.
Nor does he have a choice.
The reason why he follows his brother in his defection is not only because he weighs pros and cons.
But also, because at that ti he really didn’t have a choice.
He is not so naïve to think that his brother will just let him go if he refuses.
Khunbish believe if he had rejected his brother offer at that ti, he would either be captured and knocked unconscious or worse.....he would be killed.
So, instead of being captured or being killed, it is better to show that he follows willingly. This is just him bowing to the current circumstances. It did not an he sincerely wanted to follow the Khan.
But since he is already bowing under the current circumstances, he could only make the best of it.
"If a miracle happens..." he knows this is a farfetched desire, but he could help but think of it.
Then he shakes his head and close his eyes and pretend like the world did not just change
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The world has always changed a lot.
Every mont, every day, every year and every decade, each ti a mont passes, things change. It is just so change is more noticeable than other, and so are unknown and could not be seen or known until decades or even hundreds and thousands of years had passed
Things with ti is always like that. You sotis could not see the change that is happening in front of your eyes. You did not know you are living in history and in that mont of history
Those great historical figures when they do the feat that make them famous for a thousand years, many of them did not know that their action warrant them a pave in the history books.
It is just people living in the mont and sohow becoming a main event of history
But for the people of the Steppe, the unceasing winds of the Steppe, the grass swaying in the green hills has always felt the sa
But the Khan has breathed a new life to the Steppe, and the peaceful life of the chiefs has ended.
The Steppe had entered the period of unification.
And no one could stop this wind from gathering to beco a storm.
While Aeryon is breaking through the defence line of the Chagai tribe and Belarion and his deputies are breaking through the Karaldyk settlent forcing the Nergui tribe to be pinned down in their own territory, in the north of Nergui tribe was the Ultar tribe.
And the one that is attacking this tribe is two Noyan.
It ans twenty thousand n. Twenty thousand horsen.
There is Noyan Burchu and there is Noyan Mukhulai.
They at first attack different region of the tribe.
Mukhulai had even once attack so of the Nergui tribe defence and settlents bringing ten thousand n with him to raid and rob the tribes of the west. But now the gathered around a plain
Around thirty-five thousand horsen in in the plain against thirty thousand n of the Ultar tribe.
Nergui tribe did not fight a decisive battle yet with Belarion.
It is the sa for the Chagai tribe.
This is only a few weeks after the expedition to the west and there is ti and place for such a decisive battle.
But sohow, the Ultar tribe and the forces of the Brolgadhr tribe that has been sent to the Ultar region has managed to force the Ultar tribe to et them in a decisive battle
And today they would fight that battle that would decide whether Ultar tribe could continue fighting in these five front battles or if they are forced to retreat from the battlefield and could only defend their own territory.
Burchu and Mukhulai both commanded their own army, and both have their own objectives.
As Noyan they have considerable freedom to act, and they are beholden only to the Khan. As long as they fulfil the order of the Khan everything else is permitted
But Burchu and Mukhulai, these two great n who have been elevated and trusted by the Khan did not have such arrogance and before they attack the Ultar tribe, they both coordinated with each other
This is because their objective is the sa and they did not have such arrogance to look down upon the other.
Which is rare considering that Mukhulai is a forr slave and so people would take ti to ignore this fact.
But Burchu did not look down on Mukhulai and instead cooperated with him. It is precisely because of this they managed to force the Ultar tribe to an early decisive battle
Most battle in the steppe is fought on the open fields.
Their armies depended on horse mobility, and an open plain is their natural battlefield. The horse and the Steppe people are like sothing harmonious matched together.
And everyone knows how they fight each other
Fast cavalry manoeuvre, hit and run attacks, encirclents, feigned retreats.
There is no one better in this kind of thod than the people of the Steppe.
It is the sa reason why those empires could never subdue them for long
They could curse them with a thousand words yet, in the end, when the horse of the Steppe enters their city, a thousand curses and a thousand articles could not stop them
But Burchu and Mukhulai has mastered this thod.
They mastered the thod of using space to deploy multiple mounted wings, from let right and centre.
And they are more lethal at it.
Their n are armoured and their heavy cavalry and light cavalry complinted each other.
And most decisive battle happened always so distance away from the settlent
Why?
Because yurts, encampnts and settlent were vulnerable and the horse needed pasture
And those who fight wanted freedom to manoeuvre.
But mostly it is even if you are there to destroy your enemies, you wanted the land to thrive and you did not want to go scorched earth on a land you wanted to occupy for your horses and for your people.
As for the decisive battle between Ultar tribe and Brolgadhr tribe today, they are in an open grassland.
To achieve this battle today, Burchu and Belarion had fought the Ultar in ambushes and counter ambushes and field skirmishes along river valleys and plains all over the territory of the Ultar.
One must understand sothing about the Steppe.
The fight and battle in the Steppe is rarely fought in the settlent itself. Most of them are fought...near...the settlent
But this attack is unlike the siege battle in Roma or in Yan but in raids.
In the Southern Great Steppe, so great tribes do have so permanent settlents
But even this so called permanent settlent is not really permanent.
When the fertility of the land receded, when there is threat so powerful that it threatens the tribes the tribes of the Steppe did not have so many attachnt and could easily relocate unless there is sothing special about so place
It isn’t until Aeryon created a city that there is one tribe in the Steppe that is now settled.
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