"Chapter 20: The Battle of Rael"
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- Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian)
In the border area between the Eastern Alliance and the Lucian tribe, there was a tribe of Lear, which was smaller than the original tribe of Tasya, with a total population of less than 15,000 people, and a total of less than 4,000 young and strong people.
The strength of this Lear tribe is not to mention facing the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance, even a small medium tribe with good strength can eliminate the Lear tribe, but the Lear tribe can survive on the border of the Luxi tribe, and naturally has its means of survival.
In fact, the Lear tribe is not so much an independent tribe as a puppet used by the Luxi tribe to consolidate the border, and there are at least a dozen small and medium-sized tribes like the Lear tribe scattered in the border areas of the Luxi tribe.
The reason why they were able to survive under the forces of the Luxi tribe was that their presence could not threaten the security of the Luxi tribe, and on the other hand, because the Luxi tribe needed them to strengthen the border under the premise that they could not expand outward.
Even so, the small and medium-sized tribes that can truly survive in the border areas of the western Luxi tribe must have an extraordinary relationship with the western Luxi tribe; otherwise, how can the tyrannical Luxi tribe feel safe to keep the untrusted tribes in their border areas?
The leader of the Lear tribe was only a middle-aged man with the strength of a high-level swordsman, his father was the previous leader of the Lear tribe, and his mother was the daughter of a general of the Luxi tribe, and based on this relationship, the Lear tribe was in a much better position than the other tribes.
Being able to get the blessing of the Luxi tribe is tantamount to getting an invincible talisman for a small tribe like the Leer tribe, and even so, the leader of the Lear tribe did not show off his might, but lived in peace.
Whenever a neighboring tribe suffers from a natural disaster or is hungry, the Lear tribe, which has priority access to the Luxi tribe's support, will always generously help these tribes who are struggling to survive, and the Lear tribe is also loyal to the Luxi tribe.
No matter what kind of arrangements and instructions the Luxi tribe had, the Lear tribe always carried out it without complaint under the leadership of their leader, and over time, the Lear tribe became the backbone of all the small and medium-sized tribes attached to the Luxi tribe.
The powerful Luxi tribe also had to admit that the presence of the Lear tribe had greatly consolidated the security of the border areas of the Luxi tribe, and in order to reward the leader of the Lear tribe, his father even personally received him.
From the Luxi tribe under the rule of Viriacius's father to the Luxi tribe under the rule of Viriacius, the Lear tribe played a very important role, and Viriacius also gave the Lear tribe a reward after he succeeded to the position of tribal leader.
However, such a stable situation has been destroyed by the Eastern Alliance, and the Eastern Alliance, which is bent on outward expansion, has no ambitions for the powerful Luxi tribe for the time being, but the subordinate tribes led by the Leer tribe will not be able to escape the butcher's knife of the Eastern Alliance.
The first tribe of the Luxi tribe to be attacked by the Eastern Alliance, a small tribe that was weaker than the Leer tribe, was conquered by the Eastern Alliance at little cost and incorporated the tribe's camp into the Eastern Alliance.
This indirect provocation by the Eastern Alliance immediately angered the long-reigning Luxi tribe, and the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance formed a conflicting military standoff in each other's border areas until the Eastern Alliance launched an attack on the Lear tribes.
The well-known Leer tribe was only a small and medium-sized tribe that was not even a medium tribe, and the 4,000 warriors they had raised with all their might were annihilated without even the strength to struggle under the attack of the 50,000 allied troops of the Eastern Alliance.
With the destruction of the Lehr tribe, the anger of the Luxi tribe finally burned to the extreme, and in a fit of rage, Viriacius made up his mind to gather a heavy army and fight to the death against the Eastern Alliance, which was constantly attacking the border area of the Luxi tribe!
During the time of gathering the army, the anger of Viriasius gradually subsided, and after the 150,000 elite divisions were assembled, Viriacius, who had regained his senses, decisively chose the old land of the Lehr tribe as the location of the decisive battle.
When the 150,000-strong army led by Viriacius himself arrived at the camp of the Lear tribe, the Eastern Alliance, which had received the information in advance, also gathered 400,000 troops in the camp of Lear, and thus a head-to-head decisive battle between the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance broke out.
Although the Eastern Alliance, which has been in a state of expansion all year round, has absolute quantitative and qualitative superiority, their armies also have disadvantages that cannot be concealed, that is, the armies of the eighteen tribes are all fighting separately, and it is difficult to truly unite together.
On the contrary, the 200,000 elite divisions under the command of Viriacius, who were all the elites that the Luxi tribe could assemble in a short period of time, and who were mobilized with the mentality of revenge for the Lear tribe, were far superior in unity to the armies of the Eastern Alliance.
After more than ten days of confronting each other in the camp of Leer, the decisive battle between them began on a sunny and cloudless day, and the strategizing Veriacius divided his army of 200,000 into four armies.
Among them, the main army in the middle is composed of 80,000 elite soldiers, and the left and right flanks are composed of 40,000 elite soldiers each.
Compared with the three-way army and the hidden cavalry units of the Luxi tribe, the deployment of the Eastern Alliance's army is much more complicated; the elite divisions of the Dart, Aiden, and Walkley tribes form the left, center, and right armies of the Eastern Alliance.
In addition to the 50,000 elites of these three tribes, each army also had 50,000 regular troops from other tribes to cooperate, and the three armies of the Eastern Alliance alone exceeded the total strength of the Luxi tribe by nearly 100,000.
However, the three-way army of the Eastern Alliance was not as tightly packed together as the three-way army of the Luxi tribe, and the armies of the Eastern Alliance, which was composed of armies of several tribes, always maintained a clear independence from each other on the tribal basis.
Even the last 100,000 reserve soldiers of the Eastern Alliance were deployed in the rear of the three-way army in tribal units, and the only 100,000 or so soldiers were divided into seven camps that did not interfere with each other, and there was no unified commander among them.
Seeing the 400,000-strong army of the Eastern Alliance, Veriasius was more sure of victory in his heart, and after the tense arrangement was over, Viriacius handed over all the three armies in front to his generals.
The 400,000 troops of the Eastern Alliance were much slower than the 200,000 troops of the Luxi tribe, and before they could make any good arrangements, Viriacius, who had seized the opportunity, gave the order for the whole army to attack.