Chapter 536: Standing by and Watching
Chief Mutus spotted William's army when they arrived at the pasture where they roost, after all, the Gameman herdsmen were scattered across the pasture, and they were natural scouts.
An army of more than 30,000 people is not something that can be easily concealed, and in this era, 30,000 people is definitely an irresistible force.
Even most of the nobles below the viscount level could not reach this number for the inhabitants of the entire territory.
This is also an extremely frightening number for the Chekers, who are no more than 10,000 men even the strongest in the East.
Even the three Chekel tribes could not muster such a number of troops, not to mention that the quality of their troops was far from being comparable to that of the Denlenburg army.
However, William was also afraid of causing trouble to the Donchekers, and although he was not afraid of their strength, he did not want them to join the war.
After all, William is now a newly expanded army, and even the armor has not yet been assembled, and he hopes to achieve the maximum benefit at the minimum cost.
Although the territory of the Eastern Chekers is larger than the other two, its strength is far superior to theirs, and even if William conquers the three Chekers, the extra territory and population will not be able to digest for a while.
Therefore, it is most appropriate to attack only the central and western Chekels, but it is not easy to keep the Eastern Chekers out of the situation.
Although the three of them have long been divided, when they encounter this kind of thing that is enough to exterminate the race, it is estimated that they will definitely abandon their previous suspicions and unite together.
So William was also thinking about this matter before he set out on the expedition, but the Kriza side didn't need to think about it anymore, and William had already asked the kingdom located around the Kriza people's territory to help prevent pressure.
Just before, there had been a great deal of discussion in the royal court of the Kriza people, and there was a fierce quarrel over whether or not to support the dependent tribe of the Chekr.
There are only two kinds of things about this matter, one is angry about this matter, and says that it is necessary to send troops to rescue the Chekels and thwart the hated Lordes.
Most of them were tribal leaders in the hinterland of the Kriza people's territory, and although powerful, they were firmly under the control of the Kriza Khan.
They valued the dignity of the Kriza people, and the Cekir had to hand over a large part of their annual iron to the Kriza in exchange for their asylum.
Most of the iron materials that were handed over usually went to the tribes near the royal court, so they were very dissatisfied with William's invasion of the Chekels by profit and dignity.
On the other hand, they said that they should not send troops at this time, because it was almost winter, and it was a very difficult season for horses and livestock, so they had to hurry up and store hay to feed the livestock.
Because they were tribal leaders from the fringes of their territory, iron usually didn't fall into their hands, and Kriza Khan didn't have as much control over them as the hinterland leaders.
And William also took a bribe to them, sending troops to protect the Chekels, not only to lose their own strength, but also to get much benefit.
And if they don't send troops to help, not only will they not lose their own interests, but they will also get a lot of wealth, so of course, they are against sending troops.
And Kriza Khan is also very difficult, subjectively speaking, he hopes to send troops to help the Chekers, he does not look at this matter entirely from the perspective of interests, and there are more political factors.
For William had written a letter to the Kriza Khan through his neighbors long before he had sent his troops, promising that after the conquest of the Chekers, there would be no shortage of iron and fine horses every year.
With such a guarantee, he actually doesn't have to worry about his own interests, and he is not worried about whether William will cheat and cheat in this matter.
After all, their combat effectiveness is obvious to all, even if they are not as powerful as the Astra Kingdom and the Rhodesan Empire, but the terrifying mobility of their all-cavalry also makes the surrounding neighbors dare not provoke at will.
He wanted to aid the Chekers, mainly because they were not only vassals, but also their allies, and without them, the Krizas would be basically alone on the mainland.
When they had just crossed the sea to the mainland, they had destroyed several countries one after another, and such a move left them without any friends on the road.
Even their neighbors are respectful of them, for fear of annoying these bandits who do not recognize their relatives and letting them wreak havoc in their own borders.
Coupled with the fact that their skin color was purely similar to that of the Celestial Empire, and even the Cher people looked like the Lordes than them, they had to carefully find allies living within the Holy Cult World.
Their vassals, the Chekers, played the role of this person, and even in order to weaken the strength of the Chekers and make it easier to control, they forcibly split the monolithic Chers into three tribes.
All along, if the Kriza people have anything, the three Cheker people will give their full support.
However, among the two factions now, it is still the Lord and the faction that have the advantage, and in the final analysis, it is because there are too few tribes that can benefit from the Chek guests.
Therefore, most of them did not support sending troops to help, and Kriza Khan, on his part, was also pressured by neighboring countries and churches not to interfere in this matter.
And while they were still arguing, William was already leading his troops on the verge of reaching the chieftain of the West Çekers.
Not only the Kriza, but also the three Cheker tribes were engaged in fierce quarrels.
The Eastern Chekers were afraid of William's strength and did not dare to send troops to the rescue, while the Western Cheker and Middle Chekers were arguing whether the whole clan would flee to the Eastern Cheker and Kriza, or whether they would be ruined in their homeland.
The two sides were arguing on the subject, and Willian's strength was almost irresistible for them, even with the addition of Doncekel.
But in the end, it was the diehards in the tribe who won, and they chose to hold on to their territory, even if it was to exterminate the clan, which would cause great damage to William.
Doncheker, on the other hand, is still in the middle of the debate, they are really afraid of William's strong strength, for fear of offending William because of this.
They knew very well that if they didn't help the other two tribes, they would be out of luck when William had his hands free.
Of course, there are also some short-sighted people who think that William's goal is not that they don't need to send troops, as long as they don't provoke William, there will be no priority.
The pressure and reassurance given to them by William obviously worked, and they would rather drink to quench their thirst than be exterminated by William soon.
Therefore, there is no way for the sensible main war faction to go against the will of the majority, not even the great chieftains of the Eastern Chekers.