"Chapter 36: From Prosperity to Decline"
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- Plutarch (Greek writer of the Roman Empire)
The Essini tribe on the east bank of the Cangluo River has been one of the overlord tribes in the eastern region of the Barbarian Land since ancient times, and its great strength has even been heard of by the Celestial Dragon Empire far north of the Barbarian Land, which shows its strong strength.
If it weren't for the turbulent Cangluo River, which confined the Essini tribe to its current area, tribes like the Tasya tribe scattered on the west bank of the Cangluo River would have been annexed one by one by the ambitious Essini tribes.
Even with the natural barrier of the Cangluo River, the ambition of the Essini tribe to expand westward could not be truly stopped, and after the entire east and south banks of the Cangluo River were conquered by the Essini tribe, the only connected tribe of the Essini tribe was the Witt tribe.
This Witt tribe is a stronger tribe than the Aceni tribe, and the Aceni tribe will not take the initiative to provoke such a powerful enemy, so after decades of preparation, the Aceni tribe finally decided to attack the west bank of the Cangluo River!
At that time, the leader of the Essini tribe was none other than the Swordmaster, Plasus, who was an ambitious and powerful tribal leader, and he had been committed to the outward expansion of the Essini tribe since he succeeded as the leader of the Essini tribe when he was young.
Through his efforts, the Aceni tribe finally completed the conquest of all the tribes on the east and south banks of the Cangluo River, and before the Aceni tribe officially attacked the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, he had become the king of the Essini tribe with unparalleled personal prestige!
As the seventeenth leader of the Aceni tribe, Plasus was not a great chieftain, but his victories overshadowed his militarism, but he became the first king of the Aceni tribe, and that alone made his name one of the most important terms in the history of the Aceni tribe!
Unfortunately, Plasus was not satisfied with the status of king of the Essini tribe, he also wanted to make the Aceni tribe the only overlord tribe in the eastern region of the wild land in his lifetime, which was his lifelong dream!
Regardless of the strength of the Luxi tribe, one of the three overlord tribes in the eastern region of the Savage Land, even the Werther tribe, which is adjacent to the Aceni tribe, is not comparable to the Aceni tribe, and this situation makes the ambitious Plasus very unwilling.
Unable to make up his mind to challenge the authority of the Werther tribes, Plasus began his plan to expand his armaments.
In order to cross the wide Cangluo River, Plasus led a million people of the Essini tribe to move their camp to the east bank of the Cangluo River, where they built boats to train the river crossing army.
It took twenty-two years for the Aceni tribe to build a fleet of hundreds of ships, and Plasus's command trained an elite army of more than 100,000 people for landing operations.
In the past twenty years, Plasus has more than once launched tentative attacks on the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, and the barbarian tribes, who are naturally free by nature, will not be easily deterred by the prestige of the Aceni tribe, and they have defeated the tentative attacks of the Aceni tribe again and again, and have completely annihilated the armies sent by the Essini tribe to the west bank several times.
In fact, those tribes who desperately resisted the army of the Aceni tribe were not really for any so-called freedom, but the cruel and tyrannical nature of Plasus made them choose to resist desperately.
Even though the Cangluo River separated the Essini tribe from the other barbarian tribes, it was inevitable that there would be contact between the various tribes, and the tyrant name of Plasus was known throughout the eastern part of the Savage Lands.
It is said that in every tribe conquered by Plasus, all adult men will be relegated to slaves of the Acenian tribe magnates, all young and beautiful women will be possessed by Plasus, and even those underage children will be trained as cannon fodder on the battlefield from an early age.
Whether this rumor is true or not, the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River are unwilling to let their tribe become the target of the conquest of Plasus, and they can only resist with all their might when the Esini tribe attacks them.
It was not until Plasus had gathered enough army to crush the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River that he finally launched an all-out attack on the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, and among the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, a warrior named Bazel was born.
At this time, the old Plasus was not at all the original swordmaster king, he was just a tyrannical king who maintained a strong reputation, but in fact was hollowed out by wine.
Plasus, who personally sat on the east bank of the Cangluo River, did not personally lead the army to attack the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, but ordered his generals to lead the first batch of 30,000 troops across the Cangluo River, officially starting the war to conquer the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River.
Bazel, who was born out of nowhere, led 7,000 warriors of all tribes under his command to the west bank of the Cangluo River, and fought to the death with the 30,000 troops of the Aceni tribe who had landed; how could the army of the Aceni tribe, which was still seasick and vomiting, be the opponent of the army of Bazel? In a bloody battle for a whole day and night, the 30,000 vanguard army of the Aceni tribe was completely annihilated on the west bank of the Cangluo River!
After the great victory, the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River gathered more troops under the command of Bazel, and the war between the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River and the Aceni tribe had just begun, and the brutal Plasus could not tolerate the defeat of his Aceni tribe army, and soon the second group of Aceni tribes set out from the east bank again.
In the next five years, there were countless life-and-death confrontations between the Aceni tribe and the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, but under the courageous resistance of Bazel, the land on the west bank of the Cangluo River has not been conquered by the Aceni tribe.
After his warriors were constantly consumed, Plasus still insisted on his plan to expand westward, and continued to send warriors to the Aceni tribe under his rule to fight on the west bank of the Cangluo River.
After five years, the overwhelmed Esini tribe finally collapsed, and the warriors who remained loyal to King Plasus remained on the east bank of the Cangluo River, while the powerful generals who were unwilling to fight any longer left in groups.
The once powerful Essini tribe fell apart like this, and King Plasus, who had already been hollowed out by wine, realized his own decay when everyone betrayed his relatives, but unfortunately it was too late!