A rumor began to circulate in the Rus' steppes, spreading at a rapid speed as refugees fled from the destruction of their homes due to the war.

"This war is all the fault of those centaurs. ”

"It's all those centaurs, who betrayed His Highness Attila and betrayed the Empire, otherwise how could we be defeated by them so easily. ”

"That's right, if it weren't for those damn guys, my father and uncle would never have died. ”

Similar rhetoric circulated among the tribes, the most affected of which were the tribes loyal to Attila because they had taken in a large number of refugees from other tribes who had been attacked, and this hatred began to spread among them.

The refugees influence the people around them as much as possible, filled with hatred, and do so for two purposes, one is to eliminate the Baltic Empire forces that destroyed their tribe and killed their loved ones as soon as possible, and the other is to take revenge on the centaur tribe.

They began to attribute the reason why they were attacked to these centaurs, completely ignoring the fact that these centaurs also suffered heavy losses in the attack of the Baltic Empire.

This is the root of mortal inferiority, anger, and the hatred of these centaurs is transferred to them just because they look the same as their enemies and belong to the same race.

This thought soon affected the situation in the Rus' steppe, and when the centaur tribe was attacked, the other tribes chose to stand idly by, and even if there were occasionally tribes willing to lend a hand, most of the soldiers below would choose not to help.

In addition, after the Centaur tribe was defeated, the refugees who had fled and lost their homes could not join the other tribes, and in the end they were left with only two choices: to die on the steppe in such a bitter cold, with no food, no houses, no clothes, and no campfires, or to surrender like the enemies from the Baltic Empire.

In the face of the betrayal and rejection of their companions, and in the face of such unwarranted disgust and hatred, most of the centaurs made the latter decision, and civilization and education made loyalty extremely cheap in this land.

The surrender of the centaurs caused an uproar in Atila's territory, and even if only a very small number of centaurs chose to surrender, it still made all races unable to give them trust.

It's not just about rejecting the refugees, it's not the same thing anymore, they're going to choose to kill the centaurs.

Centaurs have been marked by these people as traitors at any time, and it is very normal to kill them and kill future enemies before they become enemies and attack themselves.

Go to the Baltic Empire, go to the Baltic Empire

It is not surprising that the attacked centaurs, with a lot of resentment, have changed the object of their resentment from the Baltic Empire to their former comrades, and people hate traitors more than they resent their enemies.

Subsequently, the centaurs surrendered to the Baltic Empire's army, which was at first a sporadic group of refugees, then small tribes in family units, and finally large tribes that began to surrender to the Baltic Empire.

In just a few weeks, there were less than ten centaur tribes in the Russ steppes who were still loyal to the Attila Empire, and these centaur tribes were still full of people who wanted to turn their backs on the Attila Empire.

The reason why they did not turn their backs was only because their relatives were still on a westward expedition in Scandinavia, and they were afraid that their relatives would be killed because of their betrayal.

However, even if there was no real betrayal, their behavior was not much different from the betrayal, and they began to send people to contact the people in Scandinavia, let them know what happened in the Rus' steppe, what happened in their hometown, and let them know that even if this expedition to the west was victorious, it would be difficult to have a place for the centaurs in the Attila Empire.

After learning of the movements of the centaur tribe, the Baltic Empire gladly supported them, providing food, maps, clothing, and arranging for people to escort them on the road to ensure that these envoys could reach Scandinavia and convey this information to the centaur troops.

Of course, the Baltic Empire is happy with the behavior of these centaurs, which was originally their strategic goal, to dismember the entire Attila Empire step by step, and let them collapse and split from within.

And for those centaur squads belonging to the Baltic Empire who fought in the steppes of Rus', such news rejoiced, which meant that their actions were rewarded, and those ignorant and ignorant compatriots who had sunk in the Attila Empire were awakened by their swords and guns and flames to join the great Baltic Empire, which could give them happiness.

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"Ignorance and ignorance, seemingly behemoths, will collapse because of subtleties. ”

Holding the teacup and walking to the balcony, Alice looked up at the sky obscured by dark clouds, the moon with a slight glimmer reflecting an outline, and sighed faintly.

This is just one of Alice's clones, because of the special nature of the lich, she can control several bodies at the same time, the original body in the main plane has gone to the Celtic Isles with Skaha, and is now fighting with the warriors of Connat and the warriors of the Red Branch Knights against the giants of the deep.

When she talked to Sigourney before, she saw some clues, but the other party couldn't be 100% sure, and a series of actions of the Baltic Empire after that dispelled her doubts.

They held that only a soul figure like Alice sat in the empire, and they decided to participate in this war that the Scandinavians called the defensive war, and the Atila Empire called the western conquest.

"Centaurs are the first race to choose betrayal, but they won't be the last dominoes to be toppled down, Attila, let me see what you can do to stop it. ”

"It was a good move to accept refugees from Karelia in the first place, the technology and culture of the Baltic Empire were much higher than that of the Attila Empire, and the people who lived here did not need to go to the steppe to fight against powerful beasts in the cold winter for a little food, nor did they need to worry about a sudden heavy snowfall that would overwhelm the tribe overnight. ”

"Abundant food, a stable environment, warm houses, and the fact that all races can communicate with each other on an equal footing are temptations that are hard to resist for those who live on the steppe and live a primitive and savage life. ”

"Moreover, primitive and barbaric, corresponding to stupidity and ignorance, when the bottom began to spread the beauty of the Baltic Empire, those stupid guys wanted to do it, they must use violent means to stop the spread of rumors, and they would never think of developing their tribe into a bigger and stronger tribe. ”

"Because of the primitive and barbaric, they regard everything the whole tribe has, the livestock, the land, the pastures, the tents, the clothes, the population as their own private wealth, and in order to ensure their rule, they do not care what kind of life the people below them live, and they do not care what kind of demands they have, what kind of thinking they have. ”

"So, as the saying goes, my friend's friend is not my friend, and my men are not my men, and Attila and the knights control the empire by the tribal chieftains in the middle ranks, and when the tribal chieftains abandon their loyalty, their orders cannot even be conveyed to any soldier. ”

"The atmosphere of terror created by Attila is indeed an alternative faith, but because of the lack of time, this belief has not been able to penetrate into the hearts of every soldier and every herdsman, who are more accustomed to obeying the orders of their tribal chiefs, as their ancestors have been before. ”

The herdsmen at the bottom, stupid because of ignorance, stupid because of primitiveness, have been accustomed for many years so that they will not resist, and their undernourished bodies cannot give them the strength to resist, and they repeat numbly every day, so that there is no hope, and they do not know what a life of hope is.

Those in the middle class, the soldiers with weapons in their hands, will not resist, they have become accustomed to cruelty and greed to plunder the things of the lower herdsmen, to obey the orders of the tribal chiefs, to protect the wealth in their hands, to plunder the wealth of other tribes.

And the tribal chieftains and shamans at the top, they hold and monopolize all kinds of knowledge, they have a wealth of emotions, they know how to fear the powerful Attila, they know which one to choose between death and wealth, and their eyes are always on those who are of the same status as them or those who are stronger than them, as for the lowest herdsmen.

When humans walk, they don't care about the ants under their feet.

"And this is the opportunity to dismantle the Attila Empire, imagine what it would be like to think when those herders who originally lived only in their own world, repeated the monotonous life every day, and were oppressed by all the classes above, one day learned that people of the same status as themselves lived a completely different life in another empire. ”

The same herdsmen, the same people at the bottom eat nutritious food, and they can see meat for a long time, but they eat only a little better than animal husbandry, which can be called fodder.

The same herdsmen, others wear brand new clothes, even in the coldest part of winter, they are not afraid, but they wear things that I don't know how many people have worn and patched, dirty and thin, not warm at all.

The same is a herdsman, other people's children can get the right to education, can be literate, can be trained by warriors, and those who are qualified can be trained as spellcasters, and their own children, at the moment of birth, have been destined for the future, herdsmen's children are still herdsmen, and they cannot change their fate throughout their lives.

So, when a person who has never eaten meat smells the aroma of meat and hears how delicious the meat is, what is his reaction?

And if this curiosity is aroused and then forcibly stopped, then instead of being eliminated, it will be strengthened day by day under the cover.

Alice's operation in the Rus' steppes this time, her first phase of the plan has been successfully completed, those tribes loyal to Attila who have been struck, those centaurs have been squeezed out, have already shaken Attila's rule in the Rus' steppes, the betrayal is only the beginning, and over time, it is more likely that there will be a rebellion that will sweep the entire Rus' steppes.

It is not surprising at all that when the Attila Empire was still in its heyday, with four knights to suppress everything, in the Rus' steppe, in Karelia, in Finland, all kinds of rebellions never ended.

The largest of them was the rebellion of the giants and centaurs that changed the Second Western Crusade, and it was this rebellion that allowed the Scandinavian coalition led by Beowulf to invade Karelia, and the war was killed, and the Finnish region south of Karelia was destroyed by the war, and after so many years, it has not recovered.

The second phase of the plan, which had also been partially implemented, had spread through the war, through the mouths of the bards, and the news of the Baltic Empire had spread throughout the Rus' steppes, so that even illiterate herders could understand what was contained in the news.

When one tribe after another is defeated, the herders will not have much resistance to surrendering to the Baltic Empire and becoming a part of the Baltic Empire.

Of course, at this time, it is okay to slightly trigger a conflict between the herders and the tribe leaders below, exacerbating the contradictions between them and allowing them to perish in civil strife.

However, if you do this, there will be a situation where a large number of people will be consumed in civil strife and disposed of in large numbers in the form of unilateral massacres.

There is no way to do this, the upper echelons of the tribe are all people who have power, they are either warriors with great strength, or spellcasters who can cast magic, and their power can easily be achieved in this world.

Therefore, Alice will not do such a thing, will not choose such a way, those ignorant herdsmen at the bottom, in her plan, will become part of the Baltic Empire, become believers in her.

The useless garbage in the eyes of others, in Alice's eyes, is a treasure worth cherishing, a little insignificant, in the face of a terrible amount, but also enough to change the whole situation.

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