Way of Overlord-Chapter 637: Murong and Tuoba

Belarion then waves his hand, and everyone knows that this is Belarion way of saying to them to get out.

They all nodded, put their right hand to their left chest, bowed a little toward him and then retreated from the tent

Belarion is alone inside the tent and then he could not help but sigh.

Then he smiles bitterly

"No wonder my brother always sighed"

it is only now after understanding some things and knowing the weight of responsibilities, after having the common sense of this era, he understood what his brother always sighs when he is alone in the tent

Everyone could consult him when they have trouble, but who could he consult with?

Being a leader is not easy.

Belarion never felt such feeling before. Because before, he did not understand thing and everything is simple to him

But after knowing certain things, you could not go back to the way of not knowing things. And knowing things made his heart feel heavy.

Because unlike certain generals and unlike certain people, Belarion does not calculate lives like numbers.

He is not cold and rational like Mayeux. When he sees people, he sees people. He did not mind killing enemies, but he does not want the people that trust him to die.

But in a war people die. He could not reconcile these feelings.

He still likes fighting.

But death....he did not like it. Now, that he understands death...more deeply, he also felt an aversion to it.

There is still a lot for him to learn

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Outside the tent, Murong Long and Tuoba He look at each other.

While the other goes to their tent, these two people met each other in Murong Long tent

The servants came and served hot water and a few refreshments and then they dismissed all the servants

"The Brolgadhr could win this" Tuoba He said, his eyes is sharp.

In the tent, he never said anything, he did not offer advice nor did he dissuade anything. He was like just one of the furniture inside that war tent

He was as timid as a turtle and his eyes seems uninterested. But now, his eyes seem sharp and there is a certain sharpness to him that he suddenly released

Murong Long nodded

"I believe so. This army of this young chief....I have never seen such an elite army in all of my life. Even a thousand of them, if they are used to fight against the cavalry of the Yan, could surely inflict them with great damage"

Murong Long was not lying.

He had never seen such an army that treat death like nothing like these people under the Brolgadhr tribe.

Aeryon ensure complete obedience and discipline. He does it by giving benefits and giving punishment.

The punishment is cruel and no one is exempted. It is because of these rules that these steppe people under Aeryon was so disciplined that if Aeryon told them to jump a mountain they would do it without asking why

But punishment alone is not enough for the people to treat Aeryon like this. It is because Aeryon also dares to give

He gave when other chief would not give and he trust where those other chiefs would not trust.

When the discipline had been created, the laws become flexible, there is a Steppe touch to it.

Those who ran from the battlefield and did not follow orders would have no glory and would only gain punishment

For a warrior not to have any glory at all, that is worse than killing them

This is one of the few things that made Aeryon army a one of its kind in the steppe.

The benefit is high and the punishment is strict.

And the way the Brolgadhr tribe structured their army is different than any other tribe

It is not so much a tribal army but an imperial army like the imperial army of those empires and kingdoms that Murong Long had read about and even in some cases sees with its own eyes

Then there is the way the Khan governs his army, even if he is not here, there si traces and shadows of his method in the army itself

Murong Long had long heard that Belarion is a simple man.

Tuoba He also heard such rumours so they both went here, instead of going down to the south to see Belarion.

This general is not as simple as some people said he is.

The other generals and commander that is from inside the tent are all returning to their tent and thinking about the battle.

Each one of them returned back to their own tent and they did not meet up and did not discuss about Brolgadhr tribe or Belarion or thinking about the Khan

They all think of how to defeat the enemy.

But why were these two different?

The Murong and Tuoba clan

These two clans originated from the Steppe.

Or at least they used to.

The Murong and Tuoba clan was not always called Murong and Tuoba. They have different names in the past

And they were one of the original tribes of Nurshira back when they are considered a part of the Steppe.

Nurshira at that tie have many clans and tribes just like the Steppe of today.

They have frequent fights with the Xun dynasty and then when Yan dynasty replaced the Xun dynasty, they fight the Yan

Unlike the stories Yan people told their people, for the people of Nurshira it was a struggle for independence.

Yes, they did not have such formalized state where one rulers rules all the Nurshira region but they see themselves as related and they see themselves as part of a big family

This unification and commonality only intensified when the Yan dynasty claims them to be the same

Whether it is a different tribe or not, to the Yan, they are all barbarians and Hu people

This in turn only make them closer. When the yan people finally conquered this land, they raped, pillaged and kill.

Of course, these Yan people has always been hypocrite.

When the barbarians come down south and inflict untold horrors onto their people, they forget that their government did just the same to their people.

Most tribes are peaceful.

They herd their sheep’s and they plant their fruits. There is fight about water and stolen Tayak, but they were not all brutal.

But the Yan kills the people of different race, lumping them together as barbarians and Hu people

Even a kind man would be angry.

And so, the "barbarians" learns.

Learn how to kill.

And suddenly they find themselves very efficient in killing.

They live a rough life, exploited and harsh which only breed even more powerful warriors.

Why is there so many innate warriors all over the Steppe?

And there is only a few in Yan.

The cozier and comfortable the life, the lower the chance for it to produce a great warrior.

Murong clan and Tuoba calm are one of the clans that survived the massacre of Yan people.

Of course, if one look at their history book it would just be a few lines and it would surely be just words like "the barbarians attacked the Yan officials and the Yan officials give punishment" or something like that

But tens of thousands of innocent people die.

Hence why Murong Long and Tuoba He felt no pity when they raided the Yan people and rape and pillage all over the Yan lands.

One day, the Yan lands will be trampled on the hooves of the Hu people, and they would deserve every bit of it.

Ass kicking doesn’t just come out of nowhere.

Everything has its cause and effect.

You say the people of Yan is innocent?

Then were the people of the Steppe guilty?

Murong Long and Tuoba He doesn’t understand those lofty words. All they know was that the people of Hu has always been exploited by the Yan people

They know what they saw and they know what they experienced, what their ancestors saw, and experienced

When they fight for the Yan people, not only they did not get any rewards, they are looked down upon.

They were the first to charge but the one that got the title are these Yan people and not the Hu people.

There is no future for the Hu people under a Yan supremacist.

Murong Long and Tuoba He had shared this same sentiment.

And they themselves knows the way the Yan people operate because of their influence in Nurshira region

They were one of the few chieftains that the Yan people always courted because while the emperor is powerful, that is only along the capital

The power of the emperor doesn’t extend to the countryside.

It is even more prevalent in Nurshira.

Even though the massacre of the Hu had been done, the effect of that was the Hu could never trust Yan government ever again and instead of going to cities they go to mountains and hills, in secluded valleys and caves and it unite Hu people.

Before them, each of them a tribe of their own, a clan of their own.

Now, even if they have different tribes, and different clans, they considered themselves brothers of a different mother

Why?

Because they shared the same suffering.

They called all of them Hu?

Then they would all be Hu people.

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