Chapter 54: The Kujits

Prince Frederick received a special message: Kugit soldiers had appeared on the battlefield. ()

Fidrei began to be a little unconvinced by this news, because not long ago, the Kugit envoy had just come to him with tears and apologized, although it was common to be deceived when dealing with the Kujits, but this time unless the Kugit were not afraid to provoke a second war, they would definitely not dare to help the Wikiians.

The composition of the Kugit army has always been complicated, and some tribes have joined the Kugit army either for money or because they were coerced, and once defeated, these people will scatter and even join the enemy army because of the money. Some of the Swadia scouts were surrendered Kugits, and the loyalty shown by these people after being pardoned often caused the Swadias to wonder why they had betrayed King Kugit if this loyalty was true; If it's not true, then these people's deception is too real.

In fact, this is a very special point of the steppe tribes, their loyalty is often limited to their own tribe. Once their own clan is destroyed, or their own relatives are killed, and someone pays the right price, they can easily attack their allies. If there is still hesitation and resistance to fighting with the tribes who are also steppe people, then the Kujit do not have any psychological burden to be a Swadia mercenary to attack the Wikiians.

But now that there are Kugits in Vikia's army, this nature has become a bit strange, and what Prince Fiderick wants to know most is what the origin of these Kugits is.

In fact, if the Swadias had taken a closer look, they would have found that many of these Kujit were old acquaintances. But now the Swadians were not the soldiers of a steppe powerhouse--- who had been reduced to a tribe with nowhere to go. They are providing their already scarce soldiers in exchange for their country's acceptance.

King Kugit used the hand of war to purge some of the tribes that opposed him, some of the powerful tribes were divided into pieces, and then appointed to the cowardly chief, and some small tribes formed an alliance against King Kujit, but King Kugit cleared these small alliances like a fire burning dry bushes.

In the past, these processes would have had to provoke the anger of the entire steppe, but in wartime, they are very simple to operate. King Kugit only needs to send the soldiers of these tribes to attack the strong enemies, and then watch them break like waves on the reef. If these tribes refused the summons of the Khan of Kugit, the Khan would recruit them one after another and spread the word about their disobedience in the steppe; At the same time, the Khan was very sympathetic to the tribes who were close to him, and the fine armor and the beautiful women he plundered were always given to these tribes first. And the manpower of these tribes, the Khan King also used very economically, and there were many tribes that often did not renew a single army for many years.

Under this policy, many tribes abandoned following their former masters and went to the royal tent of King Kugit. The patriarchs of these small tribes would send their sons to the Khan as hostages, although nominally to send them to be educated--- the Khan found excellent teachers for these people, who were responsible for educating them to become adults.

It was difficult for the chiefs of these small tribes to make such a decision, as they would soon receive a wooden box from their former master, containing the heads of their other hostage sons.

The turmoil of the war overshadowed the turmoil of the annexation of these tribes, and King Kugit fought passively against Swadia, ceding the land to the hard-boiled tribes of the country, and when the tribes had exhausted their manpower and plundered enough goods and people to return, they found that their tribes had been overrun. At this time, these tribes were exhausted, and the sturdy soldiers were either killed or scarred, and in the face of the coercion of King Kugit, many tribes chose to submit--- different from the previous temporary surrender to the alliance leader, but the complete surrender to the master.

King Kugit looks like he lost a war, squandering more than a decade of reforms. But he got a united grassland, a grassland baptized by war, a grassland where there was no longer a group of old men pointing fingers.

King Kugit felt that he was still young and had a lot to offer.

He clearly remembered the helplessness of his father when he was constrained everywhere, and in order to lead the steppe people to glory, King Kugit knew that it was the only way to unify the entire steppe militarily and politically. On his return to the steppe, King Kugit looked back at the fertile East Swadia Plain, which was much more prosperous than the steppe--- and even after the catastrophe, this land was still a dreamy land of wealth for the Kujit people.

King Kugit knew that the development of the grassland should be vigorously governed, and it was definitely not possible to succeed in a few years or ten years, and the rebound of the tribes with their own intentions, and the difficulties that would arise during the reform period, King Kugit had already discussed with his staff, and the difficulties were so great that even the long-standing King Kugit was frightened.

But for a man, for a khan, there is nothing more enticing than leading his tribe on a path to glory.

Maybe they won't come back for the rest of their lives, but when the steppe people walk out of the grassland again, they must shake the whole world

At that time, King Kugit had just signed a series of treaties recognizing the victory of Swadia, and nominally became the usual method of the eastern vassals of Swadia --- the steppe people, temporarily submitting to the strong, and once he was strong, he would actively challenge the order of the whole world.

Soon after King Kugit returned to the steppe, many of the steppe tribes were expelled, most of these tribes were the most powerful tribes in the past--- many years ago, the patriarchs of these tribes would often not buy the young Khan's account at military meetings, and they would not even consider the Khan's people in the distribution of pastures and the order of migration--- now, when they started a war with all their hearts and returned with a full load, the Khan's soldiers easily expelled them.

These tribes, unwilling to follow the 'Boys on the Throne', were driven out by King Kugit, some of whom crossed the mountains and returned to the grasslands from which they had set out hundreds of years ago, while others migrated north from the border into the northern forests and snowfields to join the Vikians.

Some of the wandering steppe people were constantly scattered on the way to migration, and some of the teams only had dozens or hundreds of people left. They were constantly joined by vagabonds, witches, orphans, and jugglers on the road, and over time these people became a strange people, a wandering people forever. They are free and free, there is no homeland. After a long time, the main body of these people is no longer the steppe people, and there are people from various nationalities among them, although their musical instruments can still show the preference of the steppe people in those years. But after that, they had lost their sabers, picked up the dombra, sang songs from all over the world, and wandered all over the world.

That's all for later.

When these tribes left the steppe, many of them became mercenaries of the aforementioned kind, fighting for any master who could afford to pay. Their excellent fighting qualities made them soldiers as famous as the Barryers, and for a long time the best product that these landless steppe people could offer was soldiers--- loyal soldiers, for they were homeless, unlike the Barryers, who had a rich homeland to worry about, and who had almost nothing but the knife in their hands and the horses in their crotch.

After several unfavorable battles, the Marshal of Vecchia decided that fighting the Swadians in the field was not a good option. In the midst of the battle with the Svadias, they withdrew their troops, and at the same time, they conscripted a section of Kugit near Zhivadin. Not long after these Kugits moved out of the steppe, Vicchia demanded that they fulfill their obligations.

The Kugit had no choice but to send their own people to the city of Zhivadin to be sent by the Vicchians.

For these Kugit soldiers, the Vycians have no emotion and are not worried about their escape--- Swadia will not accept the scum of the second surrender. In the process of mobilizing the defenses, the Wikians gave the most dangerous perimeter defense and patrol tasks to the Kujits. The Wikibians also did this in order to confuse the Swadians for a while, so that the southern soldiers would fear that a group of Kugits would suddenly rush out of their flanks.

This is also the early in the morning, Prince Frederick saw the captured Kujits, it is very emotional that the soldiers who captured these Kugits are also Kujits, if it were not for some of them were tied with ropes and could not move, it was really not a very simple matter to distinguish these soldiers in khaki rags.

These Kugits are now divided into two masters, but just a few years ago they were brothers who fought side by side. Maybe there are people in the opposite camp who they know well, but for the sake of their own survival, they even have to behave more brutally than the aliens, even if their loved ones are in front of them. Only in this way will they be able to gain the trust of their new masters.

After the Swadiya discovered the troops of the steppe people, they quickly informed the Kujits. King Qujit's messenger quickly brought a reply, and King Khan told Prince Fiderew: "These soldiers are traitors from the steppe, and now that they have joined the aliens to fight against the Empire, I have absolutely no reason to shield them." May your blade always be sharp--- your forever friend on the steppe. ”

At this time, under the Eagle Mountains to the north of Zhivadin, a large group of freshly expelled steppe people were frowning at the Wikirian conscription letter.

Among these people are many people who used to be in Kugit in the past, and they come from various powerful tribes. Some of them adjudicated disputes between the pastures, while others went directly into the bureaucracy set up by King Kugit in the cities--- and after the conquest of the settled peoples, the Kujits inherited to a large extent the ruling institutions of these peoples and directly absorbed their original officials.

But these people are not doing much better now.

A middle-aged leader sat decadently by a campfire, as if all happiness had disappeared from his face.

"Sir", a young man from Kugit walked in, this young man was fairly well-dressed, wearing riding boots and Wikibian leather clothing.

"Spencer," the middle-aged man replied, not very old, but he looked very old. "Is the young master leaving?"

"Yes, the young master is going to take me with him. The Vicchian side urged hard, and the young master said that we can't go out anymore, otherwise there will be no men in the clan. This time the young master went as the future patriarch, and the Wikibians should have nothing to say. ”

"Hmm", the middle-aged man groaned for a moment, looking at the fire and looking at the fire, "Spencer", the middle-aged man sighed.

"Yes, sir."

"Do you remember the time when Uhru and Elune got engaged?"

"I still remember '''Sir'', it's been many years."

"Well, it's been many years" ''How do you think you lived at that time?''

"Sir?" The young man didn't know how he should speak, and he was worried that if he said the wrong thing, he would make the old man unhappy.

"Oh", "It's okay", "You go down", "The middle-aged man suddenly lost interest.

"Yes, sir".

Spencer walked out, how could he forget the days when he accompanied the young master to study abroad in Swadia: the flowers on the mountain, the bustling city with people coming and going, the countless banquets and the beautiful fragrant girl'''

"It was like heaven back then," Spencer shook his head and walked away.