Way of Overlord-Chapter 446: Ambition of A Warrior

They are like the fabled band of warriors

like the bands of warriors in the Steppe during the ancient Empire where they would roam the Steppe and fight and create immortal feat

While Aeryon was expanding his power in the Steppe, the barbarian tribes in Nurshira that has been suppressed all of these years also begins rising up.

Aeryon had the right idea when he attack Nurshira.

The Yan people had filled the heads of the barbarian tribes living in their borders, that the Yan army and the Yan people is strong.

But the Steppe came with four tribes, breaks the city of Nurshira, kills tens of thousands of Yan men and robbed the city of all of its riches.

The myth of invincibility of the Yan dynasty was torn apart. Their lie is exposed. They are still just herders and farmers and the only thing they are good at is using their tongue to lie and subvert truth and lies.

And the tribes living in this region is waking up

And once that myth of invincibility as shattered, they found their courage.

Right now, all over Beixuan, bands of warriors are formed.

Some small tribe merged with other tribes near them and slaughter the people of Yan

The current situation of Beixuan, would look like hell for the people of Yan

But after torturing and abusing the ethnic minorities for hundreds of years, suppression, discrimination, killings and wanton massacre, it is like all of those anger and resentment finally blows up

And they pay what they deserved. A policy of reconciliation is always seen as humiliating or a submission.

But ruling an empire, one needs to know when to fight and when to recuperate. When to show force and when to show benevolence.

The Yan dynasty subsequent tragedy is nothing more than the results of their own cause an effect.

If you expect that the barbarian tribes would be grateful to them after all the terrible things the Yan people and the Yan empire had done to them, that would be absurd.

At the same time, the steppe bands of warriors also come down south to make money.

With most of the cities of Nurshira abandoning it the surrounding area of Nurshira is raided by these bands of warriors.

To the people of the Steppe right now, if you have strength and could convince men to follow you to raid to the south, you could make money and return to your tribe with tales of glory and wealth.

Beixuan is now abandoned by the imperial court. Imperial court itself did not have the power to send any army up to the north

This probably something to do with Zhuo Bufan capture of the capital and the Eighteen Princes Against Zhuo.

These events are a far away event for the people of Beixuan. All they know is that there is no order.

The powerful aristocratic and scholar family have long abandoned Nurshira the moment Nurshira city falls.

Of course, there are some resistance forces that is from noble family entrenched in Beixuan.

But they are easily killed by the bands of warriors.

There is a few times when the noble families managed to repel the bands of warriors from the Steppe.

However, these bands of warriors did not come down south to conquer lands.

They just wanted to take slaves, gold, iron and grains to be brought back to their tribe.

To attack Yan would require one of those powerful warlords to take actions.

These bands of warriors is only a few dozen men.

the strong one among them would bring a thousand men with them

And their objective is also quite simple.

Come to the south, robbed their things and returned back to the Steppe

They are different from Tuge.

Tuge when he attacked a village, eh did not only rob them, he would kill them all. freēnovelkiss.com

But the Steppe tribe is different.

They do come to the south to create chaos.

But this chaos is for benefit. They took grains, they took iron and weapons, they took gold, silver and copper

And if they do not need to kill, they would not stain their weapon with the dirty blood of the treacherous Yan people

Instead, most of them wanted to participate in the contention of power in the Great Steppe.

Then there are Some who are tribes of the Steppe that used to live in Nurshira and is just coming back with a vengeance.

Tuge cooperated with them regardless of their reason for coming down south

And he has no conflict with these tribes because their interest did not clash.

Tuge wanted to create his foundation in Nurshira and these tribes simply wanted to get some benefit before they return back to their tribes.

The reason why there is so much chaos in Beixuan right now is none other because of the wall being breached

Since that wall has been destroyed and breached by the four tribes of the Steppe, never before, that it became so easy to ride down south.

When the expedition of four tribes from the Steppe bear down on Nurshira, they first take control of the northern wall.

And by taking it, the road to the south was opened.

Even now, if you go to the wall, it is garrisoned by many Steppe warriors.

Once they have control of that wall, they would never let it go

Some powerful tribes even set up toll.

Those that come from powerful tribes would not be harassed but small tribes and weaker warriors have to pay if they did not want to be harassed all the way toward the Steppe.

Tuge attacked villages and settlements, gathering money and weapons all to create a base for himself. When he is ready, he hired a few tribes of the Steppe to help him fight

And when all is ready, he finally make his daring move

He ambushed a Yan garrison stationed in a city, killing them all, open the city gates and capture the city

In that battle, Tuge become rich in one battle. He took valuable weapons, armours, gold and supplies.

He then recruited the Hu people and slaughter all the Yan people in the city.

The blood flowed out from the city streets to the road in the wilderness

The city was then burned down and Tuge now have five thousand men.

Horses, armour and gold. He got it all in one battle.

Rewarding the men lavishly while he himself took the small share of the war bounty, winning the admiration of his men.

And as he attack more and more villages and cities, more and more oppressed tribes join his rebellion.

Tuge then began forging alliances when he met with the Qiang and Songnu groups

Most of them did not hesitate to join his gang

They have common enemy and there is benefit that could be sought

Tuge also cleverly married the chieftain daughter of these tribes, cementing these alliances to become stronger

In just a year, he consolidate his power base and foster unity among the disparate factions in his gang

When his men reached nearly ten thousand men, they could no longer act as a gang or bandits and they need a place to stay.

A region that should be their own.

A base

Tuge has great ambition!

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Tuge is now in his new residence.

There is a small city that he managed to take. The Yan people here were all slaughtered and their bodies are exposed to the wilderness for the wild beast to eat.

But unlike last time, he did not burn the city.

The city itself is one of the many small cities in Nurshira.

From last year to this year, the attack from the Steppe tribes and the ethnic races of other than Yan people have intensified. Some occupied their original city and some burns down the city and slaughter their oppressor.

Tuge however knows the insidiousness of the Yan people. If the rebellion failed, then the Yan would change the matter from black to white.

They would not say that because of the oppression that they levied upon the ethnic group, the ethnic group rebel.

They would just say "The Xiongnu and Xirong are greedy for profit and have no courtesy or trust. When they are poor, they bow their heads; when they are at ease, they invade and rob. They all eat the meat of animals, wear leather and fur. The strong eat the fattest food, and the old eat the leftovers. They value the strong and healthy, and despise the old and weak. When their father dies, they marry their stepmother; when their brothers die, they marry their wives. Their custom is to use names without taboos, but not surnames... They can be said to be barbarians."

They would find ways or make it the matter to be a matter of disobedience and pour down dirty water on the ethnic tribes and justify the suppression and the killings of the ethnic tribe.

That is the only thing Yan knows how to do.

Beating the dead horse.

Only when the horse is dead, they would be brave.

As long as the horse is alive, they would bow, scrape, kowtow, beg with fear.

They are a cowardly race. They bow before power and righteousness is nothing but a slogan to fool the uneducated.

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