Way of Overlord-Chapter 447: Ominous Wind

The battle in the Central Plains right now, aren’t just princes fighting against each other using Yan soldiers.

The Hu people become their mercenaries but they did not get any pay, did not get any titles, did not get any lands. All they get is leftover food from the Yan people

On the south, the Shanyue people is treated even worse and the Nanman tribe is oppressed.

A life like that...should be avenged.

But there is this ambition ins Tuge hearts but no ability to make it a reality. He did not know where to start

He learned that when Aeryon defeated the tribe, he united the tribe and then expand the tribe. The grazing area become larger, the sheep and cattle become numerous. Rewards are bountiful, prosperity abounded

Tuge knows how to fight. He knows how to kill. But he does not know how to administer people.

After all, Tuge is just a common person with no education

He does thing according to his heart.

He could fight and win battles. Bhut to govern people, that requires a different kind of specialties.

Now he has a city. But he does not know what to do with it

He sighed

"In this world, how could I realize my ambition?" he sighed. He was in his tent trying to think of a way. How to feed his men, where to attack and what to do.

It was during this time suddenly one of his warriors come inside the tent.

"Tuge, there is someone from the Steppe tribe that wanted to see you. They are camped outside the city"

"From which tribe?" Tuge ask. By now, he also knows the composition of the tribes in the Steppe. At least the closest one to Nurshira which is the Southern Great Steppe.

The strongest one is the Brolgadhr. Of course, to rank these tribes to number one or two is very hard. Aeryon himself did not dare claim his tribe to be the strongest one. Even though his tribe has the potential to swallow the Steppe, Aeryon would not declare things without certainty.

The fact that he did not claim anything like being number one tribe in the Southern Great Steppe is because he still knows his limit.

There is the Esbizuk tribe and there is also the Cha Ner Ul.

There is no need to be boastful and attract hate for no reason.

Cha Ner Ul could mobilize more men than him. Esbizuk tribe has mountain men that seems endless and fierce and crazy when they are in battle. The tribes of the north could be quite unified when they share the same desire.

The strength of the tribe could not only be counted by looking at the size of an army, and the quantity of the soldiers.

But to Tuge who did not know all of the intricate details thought that since Aeryon was the one who keep attacking and has never been defeated, it must be the strongest tribe in the Southern Great Steppe.

There is also the Esbizuk tribes and the tribes from the west and the north. Most of the steppe tribes that come down south, they come down from the east or the west.

"This man is escorted by a thousand horsemen" he warrior newer and the moment Tuge heard this he sprang up from his tent

"Lead me to meet this person" Tuge said rushing out of his tent.

Before he did not pay that such attention.

After all, he has more than a thousand men. Some of the Steppe tribe band of warriors bring only a few dozen men to him and these band of warriors is not something Tuge cares about

They raided villages and small cities and it is because of this Tuge band of man has grown so large and powerful that they could even occupies a city.

Tuge is now quite the lord after having a thousand men to fight for him.

And even though he said he has around ten thousand men, he actually only has around five thousand men that he could really mobilize and could really fight for him

But when he spoke of his army, he would say that he has ten thousand men. This only follows the method the Yan.

The Yan army if they won a battle, they would report to the emperor, that their number is less which make the victory even more impactful.

If they lost, the exaggerate the numbers of the enemy or lower the number of their soldiers.

And even if it is not reporting to the court or the emperor, most warlords exaggerate the numbers of his soldiers and the size of their army freёweɓnovel.com

Tuge doesn’t know why. But if he has a strategist, the strategist would surely point out the reason. To scare the enemy, to appear strong to the people, and to boost morale of the people fighting for them

No one likes to fight alongside a force that is weak and prone to fail. Even the common people knows this common sense

Most leaders knows that the peasant are uneducated and could fool them.

So, exaggerating the numbers of men they have and the size of their army is a common method used by all warlords

Tuge in an effort to increase his weight in the minds of his soldiers, his men , his people and his enemies boast that he had ten thousand men.

But even if he has ten thousand men, this ten thousand men would be hard to command.

Even when he only have five thousand, it is already hard to command these five thousand men.

They all have different desires and sometimes, they would just go up and leave when they no longer want to play army

This is one of the reason why he wanted to grab a city.

A foundation needs to be laid.

He at least have that kind of consciousness

Before he could unite them under common hatred. But to continue, hatred alone is not enough

It turns out to have this much people under you, needs more than just a common enemy. He also needs resources. Resources to make sure that his army is strong, resources to make sure that these people would listen to him

Unlike the warlords in the Great Steppe, he did not have any background. He is not even a chief of a tribe or a leader of a village.

He is just a young man who is angry, raise his sword against the world and luckily won.

But luck would not help him for long

He just didn’t know what kind of things that he should give so that these people would stay.

And he could not kills them to maintain military morale. Because then he would only alienate them further.

It is not like these people follow him because of an order.

All of them follow him because they all have the same kind of pain like he did.

Many of the original warrior of Sirong follows him because they could not stand the oppression by the Yan people.

They kills the officials and kill the Yan people. When they broke into a city, they killed the men, raped the woman and then after these are done, they burn the villages and cities to the ground

Sacking every Yan village they found, killing every single Yan person they could see. Blood filled the land of the north and bones are strewn below the ground

It is like the men under him is now releasing the anger that has been suppressed all of these hundreds of years

And now their anger has been dulled a bit.

not many of them have the same kind of vision like Tuge.

Tuge army is a loose army.

And loose army could not achieve anything in the real world when met with the real elite.

He needs to transform his men into elite army.

Only then could they amount to something and only then they could achieve something great

Tuge is uneducated but he have vision.

Now the world is in chaos, heroes and villains rising together, and this is the right time and moment to change the status quo.

If this is the era of peace, an era of prosperity for Yan how could someone like Tuge, a child of the mountain and forest, a child of Sirong people who is not the son of a chief or a tribe leader could rise to the current position?

He could not.

When he heard that someone out there come with one thousand horsemen, he knew this is not someone that he could underestimate.

He is coming out and give such importance because he wanted to ask for help. What this men doesn’t know is that there is a force coming toward his city.

The scouts he had sent before had relayed that there is a militia army lead by some brave men to retake the city.

A thousand horsemen would be a great help

He run to the gates and then he brought around five hundred of his men outside the city

They stopped near the camp. And then someone from that camp invited him inside the encampment

Tuge then was escorted toward the largest tent in the encampment.

That is how Tuge and Jayeux met with each other

The strategist that wreak havoc all over the Southern Great Steppe is now in the South, on the north of Yan

An ominous wind is blowing in Yan right now!

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