Chapter 82 Internal Contradictions
This seemingly incompatible relationship is not uncommon among the various tribal forces in the entire Lost Plain. It has even formed a normal state, which is the disadvantage of the tribal alliance system.
Only the Kingdom of Ryan Tribe in the north has a little concept of centralization, so it is the strongest and can gather the greatest force to attack the other two tribes.
In order to achieve greater development, the originally weak strength gradually became the most powerful force in the entire Lost Plain under this process of getting more and more refined.
And the tribal leader of the Korla tribal alliance, because when the alliance was formed at the beginning, decisively imitated the system of the Ryan tribal kingdom and intervened in the affairs of the small tribes in the alliance.
In this way, he gained some right to speak in the internal affairs of the tribe under his command. It is possible to extract the power of these small tribes and provide more support for the development of their own tribes.
The strength naturally surpassed the Edel Tribal Alliance, which was still standing still, and the system did not change in any way. It was simply formed as a loose alliance.
Therefore, when the Edel Tribal Alliance wanted to work hard and change the existing system, it was delayed by all the tribes that were accustomed to this kind of joint discussion of politics with a higher degree of freedom.
And when the Edel tribe gained an advantage in foreign wars, sometimes because their leader gained an advantage in battle, they would hold him back.
It is because they are afraid that their lord is more powerful, and after one step, they will start to insert things in their territory, slowly reducing their rights as a tribal leader.
So, for those large alliance forces in the Edel Alliance, what effect does it have on this alliance!
These large tribes with tens of thousands of people and the small tribes under their command, for the strongest leader tribe, the most important role is to serve as a reserve team of firefighters.
When the other two large alliance forces attacked their leader, if their leader held on and repelled the enemy's attack.
Then these tribes knew that they were just sitting on the sidelines. At most, they would support the already powerful leader with some supplies, and then let the leader lick his wounds secretly.
And once the leader is too weak to support the attack of the two alliance forces, then these tribes behind will act as reinforcements?
Although the strength of their leader is not as strong as the combination of the two forces, or even a single force, it is still possible to stick to the city, hold on for a while, and wait for reinforcements.
And during the period of their defense, taking advantage of the city wall defense can delay the vigor of those enemy troops and make them become tired soldiers.
The latter two tribes brought out his tens of thousands of reinforcements, and they could use the new army to defeat the exhausted army, thus breaking the siege of their leader in one fell swoop.
In this way, everything will go back to the original development, and the leader's strength will be greatly damaged due to the siege, and it will take a period of time to recover before he can reach the grand occasion.
And because the enemy consumed too much power for this attack, they were unable to launch more attacks for a period of time, and those tribal forces could have a leisurely and trouble-free life.
Having said so much, the main thing is to introduce the distribution of forces in the entire Edel Alliance, and what is the relationship between them?
The entire alliance is in a state of incongruity, except in critical moments, it may be temporarily united because of the interests of survival.
Most of the time, they are in a state where they do not belong to each other, but they only respect their leader in name and unite under this alliance.
Cao Cao's army marched all the way north, sweeping the idle small tribes in the north of the entire southeast region, and the entire southeast region was a forbidden area that the leader regarded as something in his pocket.
The leader of the Edel tribe does not want to annex the entire southeast all the time, thus gaining the supplement of tens of thousands of people in the entire southeast, thus gaining a power that surpasses most of the forces in the entire alliance in one fell swoop.
At that time, the leader's desire to unify the entire alliance all the time will no longer be vain. However, the tribes in other alliances are not fools either.
Naturally, they will not allow their leader to annex those small tribes wantonly. If those small tribes perish, will the leader who has greatly increased his strength let go of his stagnant big tribes?
So they have been dragging the lord's back, and forcing the lord to agree to the conditions reached after all their tribes united together and negotiated.
That is, all the small tribes in the southeast, no tribe can be annexed wantonly, they can only be allowed to develop, until a tribe with thousands or tens of thousands of people is born among them.
Of course, that is the case, but other people in the tribe will not really agree that those small tribes in the southeast region have really become a tribe with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Didn't that find him a smiling ghost behind him who might stab him at any time? So they will definitely secretly destroy those tribes that have a tendency to unify.
As for sowing discord, or instigating a group of small tribes to besiege the big tribe, or directly sending someone to assassinate the patriarch of that tribe? That is the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom!
Along the way, those small tribes who were sneaky and kept sending people to investigate the direction of their own kingdom were directly crushed by Cao Cao's 50,000-strong army.
Those tribes saw the overwhelming army from a distance, like dark clouds on a rainy day, pressing over, as if the world was about to be destroyed.
So shocked that he couldn't help himself, he hurried back to the tribe and called some tribesmen to move away on the spot. However, Cao Cao, who had been prepared for a long time, had already dispatched, and he could only count 5,000 cavalry.
Touring everywhere, he had already discovered the intention of those tribes to escape, so thousands of cavalry surrounded them all the time, took out their bows and arrows, and aimed at those tribes who wanted to escape.
The tribesmen stopped in embarrassment for a while, looking at the army riding a custom monster, trembling all over.
Most of the people stopped in place, not daring to move, so as not to arouse the hostility of those troops, thinking that they wanted to resist.
However, there were also some barbarians who were not afraid of death, or were still young, and possessed a sense of blood and courage. They all yelled and rushed towards the cavalry.
However, the general leading the cavalry on the opposite side sneered, raised his hand, and said to the guard beside him:
"Raise the bow, aim, aim and scatter at will after the enemy approaches thirty steps!"
The guards around him quickly conveyed the general's order to the cavalry, and one after another the sharp arrows aimed at the dozen or so barbarians who came.
With a whizzing sound, the arrows rushed towards the barbarians like a runaway horse. Soon, the arrows came to those barbarians, and under their horrified eyes, they were inserted into their chests.
Ahhh, there were several screams, and every barbarian was filled with more than a dozen arrows, and he trembled all over, and slowly fell to the ground.
What's more, when he ran into those powerful archers, he was abruptly dragged several meters away by the arrows with distance.
For a moment, the surviving members of the barbarian tribe with hundreds of people on the opposite side fell silent and knelt down on the ground trembling, using their ugly body language to express their respect for submission and surrender.
In this way, a tribe of barbarians was subdued by Cao Cao's army, and transported to various places designated by Zhong Yu to establish villages and towns, and implement the rule of Yu Kingdom here.