This kind of seemingly incompatible relationship is not uncommon among the various tribal forces throughout the Lost Plains. It has even become a norm, which is the disadvantage of the tribal alliance system.
Only the Ryan tribal kingdom in the north has a little concept of centralized power, so it is the strongest and can gather the greatest strength to attack the other two tribes.
As a result, greater development was achieved, and the originally weak strength slowly became the most powerful force in the entire Lost Plains through this process of becoming more and more sophisticated.
The tribal leader of the Korla Tribal Alliance decisively followed the system of the Ruien Tribal Kingdom and intervened in the affairs of small tribes within the alliance when they first formed the alliance.
As a result, he gained some say in internal affairs within his tribe. Being able to extract the power of these small tribes to support the development of their own tribe.
The strength has naturally exceeded that of the Edel Tribal Alliance, which is still standing still. The system has not changed at all. It is simply a loose alliance.
Therefore, when the Eder Tribal Alliance later wanted to make progress and change the existing system, it was held back by all the tribes that were accustomed to this kind of joint discussion of affairs by tribes with a higher degree of freedom.
And when the Eder tribe gained an advantage in foreign wars, sometimes they would hold back their leader because he had gained an advantage in battle.
It is because they are afraid that their alliance leader will be more powerful and will start to interfere with things in their territory and slowly reduce their rights as a tribal leader.
So, what effect do those large alliance forces in the Edel Alliance have on this alliance
For these large tribes with tens of thousands of people and the small tribes led by them, the most important role for the strongest leader tribe is to serve as a reserve team of firefighters.
When the other two large alliance forces attack their leader, if their leader holds on and repels the enemy's attack.
Then these tribes knew that they would just sit back and watch, and at most they would provide some supplies to the alliance leader who had greatly increased in strength, and then let the alliance leader lick his wounds secretly.
And once the alliance leader is too weak to withstand the attack of the two alliance forces, will the tribes behind them serve as reinforcements
Although the strength of their leader is not as strong as the two forces combined, or even as a separate force, they can still hold on to the city, hold on for a while, and wait for reinforcements.
During the period of their defense, they can use the advantages of city wall defense to delay the vigor of the enemy troops and turn them into tired troops.
The latter two tribes brought out tens of thousands of reinforcements, and they could use the new army to defeat the tired army, thus breaking the siege of their leader in one fell swoop.
In this way, everything will return to its original development. The leader's strength will be greatly reduced due to the siege, and it will take a period of recovery before he can reach his peak.
The enemy consumed too much power because of this attack, and within a period of time, they were unable to launch more attacks, and those tribal forces were able to have a leisurely and worry-free life.
Having said so much, I mainly want 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 seeming unity and separation. Except in times of crisis, they may be temporarily united because of the interests of survival.
Most of the other time, they are in a state of not belonging to each other, but only nominally respecting their leader and uniting under this alliance.
Cao Cao's army went all the way north and swept through the idle small tribes in the north of the entire southeast region. The entire southeast region was a forbidden area that the leader regarded as his own.
The leader of the Edel tribe always wants to annex the entire southeast, thus gaining the tens of thousands of his population in the entire southeast, thereby gaining power that surpasses most of the forces in the entire alliance in one fell swoop.
At that time, the alliance leader's ever-present desire to unify the entire alliance will no longer be an illusion. However, the other tribes in the alliance are not fools either.
Naturally, they will not let their leader annex those small tribes wantonly. If those small tribes perish, will the leader whose strength has increased greatly let go of his own large tribes whose strength has stagnated
Therefore, they have been holding back the alliance leader and forcing the alliance leader to agree to the conditions reached by all their tribes after discussions together.
That is all the small tribes in the entire southeast. No tribe can annex them arbitrarily and can only allow them to develop until a tribe with thousands or tens of thousands of people is born among them.
Of course, even if you say this, other people in the tribe will not really agree with the southeast region. Those small tribes will really become a tribe of thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Wouldn't that mean you found a smiling ghost behind you who might stab you at any time? So they will definitely secretly destroy those tribes that have a tendency to unify.
As for fomenting discord, or inciting a group of small tribes to besiege the big tribe, or directly sending people to assassinate the leader of that tribe? That is, the benevolent sees benevolence and the wise see wisdom!
Along the way, those small tribes that were sneaky and kept sending people to explore the direction of their kingdom were directly crushed by Cao Cao's army of 50,000 people.
Those tribes saw the overwhelming army from a distance, like dark clouds on a rainy day, pressing over them, as if the world was about to be destroyed.
He was so horrified that he couldn't help himself. He quickly ran back to the tribe and called some tribesmen to move away. However, Cao Cao, who was well prepared, had already sent out a cavalry force of five thousand.
While patrolling everywhere, they had already discovered that the tribes wanted to escape, so the cavalry, which numbered in the thousands, surrounded them. They took out their bows and arrows and aimed at the tribesmen who wanted to escape.
The tribesmen were embarrassed and stopped, looking at the group of troops riding a kind of customary monster, trembling all over.
Most of the people stopped in place and did not dare to move, lest they arouse the hostility of the troops and think that they wanted to resist.
However, there were also some barbarians who were not afraid of death, or were still young and possessed a spirit of bloody courage. They all shouted and rushed towards the cavalry.
However, the general in charge of the cavalry on the opposite side sneered, raised his hand, and said to the guard beside him:
"Raise your bow and aim. When the enemy approaches thirty steps, aim and scatter at will!"
The guards around him quickly conveyed the general's order to all the cavalry, and one sharp arrow after another was aimed at the dozen barbarians who came forward.
With a whooshing sound, the arrows rushed toward the barbarians like a runaway horse. Soon, the arrow came in front of the barbarians, and under their horrified eyes, it penetrated into their chests.
Ah, several screams rang out, and each barbarian was filled with more than ten arrows. His whole body shook, and he slowly fell to the ground.
What's more, when he encountered those powerful archers, he was dragged several meters away by those arrows with distance.
For a moment, the surviving members of the barbarian tribe across the street, which consisted of several hundred people, knelt down in silence, trembling all over, and used their ugly body language to express their respect for surrender and surrender.
In this way, a tribe of barbarians was conquered by Cao Cao's army and transported to the locations designated by Zhong Yu to establish villages and towns, and implement the rule of Yu's country here.
(End of chapter)