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, shamelessly colluded with a group of "tribal barbarians who had just come down from the mountains to the plains to establish a country" and stabbed the imperial army in the back.

This is a hatred that cannot but be called a "great shame and humiliation" no matter where it occurs.

Although the Alan people are not kind in that they bully the small and the weak, it does not prevent them from having such thoughts.

Traitors will only be despised and hated everywhere.

As long as Artasis IX wanted to establish his authority as Shafasha, the king of kings, he could not remain indifferent to the "great rebellion" that took place in the northern border.

Iskhanfa would certainly have to gather a large army and form a legion to march north to quell the rebellion. At the same time, he would most likely take advantage of the situation and target the Romans who were connected with the internal traitors - if the rebellion went smoothly and they could win.

Even if it is just to find an external barrier for Sersoloma, the nest base of his own tribe, Ai'er must help the five rebellious provinces fight against the center.

In the five rebellious provinces now, from top to bottom, from the upper, middle and lower levels, from the top nobles, governors, and tribunes; the middle military and political officials, local leaders, to the lowest-level officers and gentry, they are basically all Romans. He cannot just ignore them.

This sudden rebellion had already formed a perception within the enemy empire that "a deeply hidden and powerful anti-King of Kings group was taking action." What he had to do was actually very simple:

Just help the five provinces win the subsequent rebellion war.

The defeat in foreign wars and the failure in suppressing the rebellion would inevitably deal a heavy blow to the authority of Iskhanfa. At the same time, Rome instigated the ambitious people among the Alans to rebel, adding fuel to the flames and accelerating the birth of the "chaos in the world". However, facing those places where chaos would have more serious consequences for the empire, even if the King of Kings was obsessed with the affairs of the north, he was powerless to fight the northern provinces.

In this way, the five rebellious provinces will officially form a situation of separatist autonomy and can participate in the internal struggle of Alan as a semi-independent force. At the same time, Ai'er's bloodline can also expand and reproduce rapidly within this empire until the day when all the members under the skin are completely replaced by his own offspring.

So there are two main points to solve:

One is to win the war to quell the rebellion, and the other is to ensure that Iskhanfa does not fight to the death with the north in the future.

As for the former, it is still easy to deal with now that we have a "disguise".

Before, Serso Rome was a land poor in magic and had been in a state of fragmentation for a long time. It was an impoverished and weak region. A mage sitting in charge of a country was a topic of conversation in the outside world, similar to the Chinese netizens mocking village wars and tiny countries. Suddenly, a huge and powerful mage group appeared that could defeat the Alan Advisory Group and help the Roman army to defeat the strong with the weak. Any fool knew that there was a problem.

Ai'er took the initiative to play the "Five Provinces Rebellion" card in order to pave the way for his descendants to demonstrate their strength in the war.

It is naturally impossible for a group of barbarians to have the capital to hire so many wizards; but if there are traitors within the empire who are supporting them and deliberately harming this northern expedition army led by a prince and dispatched by the emperor, who can be regarded as supporters of imperial power, then this can be explained.

And since this so-called "conspiracy force" has already possessed such a powerful force, it can silently instigate the five northern provinces to change their flags overnight, and it is willing to risk the psychological burden of being branded as "treason" in order to fight against the central government and stab the prince in the back.

So it is normal for them to deploy stronger forces in this rebellion.

Even Al could directly instruct his descendants to fabricate the story that "the so-called Roman Republic is actually a country secretly supported and controlled by the rebels", and let the five northern provinces openly "annex" Rome and incorporate Rome into the system of the Alan Empire. In this way, when the Roman legions appeared on the southern battlefield, they would not have to worry about being accused of inviting barbarians in and colluding with foreign countries to send intervention troops.

There's no need to even use the name of mercenaries. Alan's own people are directly rebelling, and they are justified in doing so. What's wrong with that?

With the support of Rome's fanatical mortal legions and the "barbarian warriors" disguised as his descendants and the "mage troops secretly recruited and hired by the conspiracy forces", it is not a problem to defeat Iskhanfa's rebellion army.

Even if the King of Kings was more forgiving of his enemies, he could not have predicted that the conspiracy group he saw as "deeply rooted and deeply hidden" was actually an invading force controlled by an alien species from outside the world, powerful enough to destroy the Zoroastrian Empire and sweep across the entire world of Il.

Even if he increased the size of the Northern Expedition Army tenfold, sending two thousand, three thousand, or four thousand mages and more elite mortal troops north, he would definitely not be a match for the Four-Armed Romans, whose number of descendants has now exceeded one million.

Have a cold

I can't hold on any longer, I'll take a day off, and I'll update normally tomorrow if I feel better.

I feel uncomfortable. I remember the time I let go last December. It was the same. I felt uncomfortable from head to toe.

124: The Kipchak (Returns)

In the far north of the black grassland.

Cold and desolate are the daily life in this vast territory.

The steppe called "Kipchak" is a frozen land that is no different from "wasteland" in the eyes of the civilized world. It is famous only for the barbaric warriors it produces.

This was once a fertile land, and the climate was not as cold as it is today. Many glorious kingdoms were born here, extending from the Storm Sea in the south to the Vast Ocean in the east. The western border was exactly at the eastern and southern borders of the present-day Kronos Empire and the Usriv Tsardom.

But now here

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There are only a large number of Kushken and Ugol tribes scattered here, as well as orcs whose number is almost the same as that of humans.

Nomadism and tribes are the mainstream in this vast land, and continuous low-intensity conflicts and occasional large-scale melees are the mainstream here.

This was also the recruiting ground for the Tsar of Uslev to select mercenaries and form the fierce Cossa riders.

According to the needs of the country, the Tsar's conscription officers would come here every once in a while to send conscription orders to the tribes that nominally paid tribute to Tsar Usriv - in fact, they were employment contracts, and began to recruit high-quality soldiers from the grassland. Those soldiers who left here with Tsar Usriv would leave a relatively generous departure fee to their families, and then enter the colorful world of civilized people.

For many, leaving meant a farewell forever, but many more eventually returned. Some were left penniless, while others returned home with bags of spoils, becoming prominent figures in the tribe and enjoying a peaceful retirement.

In general, although there is not much external pressure, because they are too poor and there is no sustained stable environment to support good development, the people living in this vast land are still very keen to sell their military power in exchange for a good life.

Even if they were the most unsuccessful "failed Coza" who never won any spoils in their life, at least they had enjoyed the living standards of the civilized world, and the experience they had accumulated in the outside world was enough to make them able to choose whether to return to the grasslands or become a "civilized person" outside...

Some choices.

......

A large army is marching towards the north.

The purple-red four-armed phoenix flag fluttered in the riders' team, stretching for dozens of miles.

The traveling blanket, the cavalry, the caravan, the big tent...

It looks like a large nomadic tribe is moving north with their families?

Those carriages and horses loaded with treasures greatly slowed down the average speed of the team. On the grassland, no one would lead such a team to fight. Even if the soldiers looted a large amount of spoils after victory, they would not march in such a swagger on the open ground.

This huge team from the south was called "Dragon Eagle Khanate" to the outside world, and was simply called "Purple Tent Nomads" by people who knew them. It was a branch established by Ai'er's descendants on the black grassland. It was a huge force that emerged in the east of the Kipchak and was little known to the local people here.

As mentioned before, the grasslands and nomadic forces of the Tartarus continent are mainly distributed in the northeastern region, adjacent to the Prosperous Realm in the west and the Vast Ocean in the east. The middle section is the Altai grassland from the north of Serso to the northeast of the Alan Empire.

Overall, the east and west are strong but the middle is weak—it has no sense of existence.

The Ugurs and Kushgans in the west are, on one hand, local aborigines with a long history, and on the other hand, latecomers who migrated here to avoid disaster when the East Continent Empire was on the westward expedition. Because they are close to the edge of the prosperous realm, they can barely "bathe" in the light of civilization. The same is true for the Altai steppe in the east. They are close to the sea and can conduct maritime trade and have the convenience of communication. Although there is still a big gap between them and the appearance of a proper country, at least the average level has improved. Only the black steppe in the north of Serso has only two or three small and big groups because of the civilization in the south and the fact that the former Serso countries were not very developed and could not "feed back" the nomads. In the past few hundred years, the strongest force that has emerged is the Centaur King's Tent, which has not attracted much attention.

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The descendants of Ai'er launched an eastward expedition under the banner of the Dragon Eagle Khanate. When their forces entered the Altai grassland, the local forces initially disdained them and even humiliated or drove away the envoys they sent to "exchange what they had and communicate friendly (internal infiltration)."

It is because they are used to fighting with people from the south. Hundreds of years ago, they were beaten by the east, but never by the west. The Altai nomads do not think that this newcomer from the "west" is a powerful guy.

As a result, they were chased all the way to the vast ocean in the east by the Purple Tent warriors of the Dragon Eagle Khanate. Many of their remnants fled south for refuge, indirectly exacerbating the resource conflicts and nomadic forces facing the southern Altai steppe, that is, the northeastern border of the Alan Empire. As a result, the nomadic pressure facing the northeastern border of the Alan Empire has increased in recent years. Many nomadic bandits and horse thieves have formed groups and headed south to plunder. The princes of Bactria also became uneasy, and the Zoroastrian Empire was temporarily under pressure from the east, west, and north...

The nominal leader of this team from the south is a general named Abbas, who is the first... er.

I forgot which one it was.

Anyway, Abbas was not a conceived son, but a nomadic leader who was once a powerful figure on the grassland. He was defeated and captured by the descendants of Ai'er and sent to Constantinople. He was given the supreme honor and was transformed into an offspring with the blood of Ai'er himself.

With his good fighting skills and diplomatic abilities towards nomads, he continuously grew his status in the process of conquering the grasslands and was highly valued by the "Dragon Eagle Khan".

After Caesar returned to the south, the vast empire, if only the territory was calculated, was no less than the Purple Tent Khanate of the Zoroastrian Alan Empire. On the surface, power was shared by eight "Whip Princes" who each guarded a region. Each of them had two or three standing troops of ten thousand people. Coupled with their usual ability to fight well, they were enough to deter all those who coveted this sudden

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The enemy of the rising giant nation.

Of course, these systems and titles are established on a reasonable basis of "for outsiders to see", and in fact do not affect its essence at all.

No matter whether it is an aristocratic republic or a militaristic slavery, as long as Al is willing, at 1:50 Rome is a republic, at 1:51 he is the king of kings, at 52 Rome abides by the Roman Code, and at 53 Rome declares all laws invalid and enters anarchism where everyone can do whatever they want.

He announced that Rome would follow holy marriage and that all his daughters would be his heirs. The others said "Oh" and began to diligently arrange weddings for their father and sisters.

Abbas was such a "whip-wielding prince". The purpose of his visit was to recruit people for Rome in the "wilderness" of the eastern Cumans.

Throwing money.

Pull people.

Bring those high-quality cannon fodders that Mrs. Usli can never recruit enough to the south, open up a new track for them, and see how the colorful world of the Alan people differs from that of the West.

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The Kipchak steppe is geographically divided into two parts, east and west. The further east you go, the more "barbaric" it becomes. Therefore, the eastern Kipchak is also called the "Wild Man Tribe". It is very poor and almost still in a primitive society. There is no trace of the influence of the prosperous world under the shining white pagoda. Many of the tribesmen are even still stuck in the Stone Age.

The cold, wild monsters, and conflicts between tribes for survival resources have turned this place into a primitive killing field. It is so barren that even Mrs. Usli's recruiting officers rarely visit here.

As bureaucrats of the great empire, conscription officers were like angels in the Cumans. Tribal leaders and chiefs would treat them with generous gifts in the hope that their tribes would receive the most favorable treatment possible in the contracts.

They would not be stingy with their gifts, no matter if they were pure girls or mature and charming grassland beauties, because as long as the tribe existed, they would eventually have more women, whether they grew up themselves or robbed them from outside, but the Cossa Contract signed with the Tsarist Empire was related to the future of the tribe.

So being a conscription officer was a lucrative job, but the wilderness of the Eastern Kipchak was too "desolate" in the eyes of civilized people. If in the Western Kipchak one went to "visit" those tribes, big and small, and "sneak into tents" with barbarian women, it was just a joke among civilized people. In fact, in the Western Kipchak, those Ugur and Kushkan tribes were on average very poor, but not so poor that in the traditional concept of civilized people, nomads had nothing but livestock and tents.

At least the beauties of Ugor are famous throughout the continent. Even the Alan Empire, which has less exchanges with the Kipchak Steppe, regards Ugor female slaves as high-quality goods.

If the external situation faced by the tribe is relatively stable, with safe settlements and fixed output, then although the overall situation cannot be said to be rich, it will not be so poor that it cannot afford to eat. Although the undeveloped and technologically backward Kipchak steppe may not be as productive as the civilized world in the west, because the Il world is generally abundant in agricultural output and wild resources, filling the stomach is not a difficult task for most areas, even on the grasslands.

They were willing to exchange blood for money more because they were poor, and going out as mercenaries to serve the Usli people or other civilized forces was an effective way to obtain advanced technology and external wealth for their tribe.

After all, there is never a shortage of population on the grassland.

But wealth and equipment are different.

In the western Kipchaks, conscripts were treated well among the tribes, but in the more desolate and primitive east, there was even more disorder and poverty.

Even if the "wild" tribes in the east were willing to receive the nobles of Uslif with the highest etiquette, they could not offer anything decent.

Compared with their close relatives in the west, they were so poor that all they had left were: livestock, tents and women.

Therefore, the Usli people did not like to go east, even though those "wild" Cossas in the east were often better soldiers in combat than their western relatives, more brave, more brutal and greedy.

Most of them were losers who were driven to the east after a long conflict. They were already poor and it was even more difficult for them to obtain the output of civilization than the Western tribes. Therefore, they fell behind in isolation, became weak in backwardness, and eventually degenerated into a completely barbaric force. They only waited for an excellent opportunity, a wise leader to emerge, and assemble the troops to march west, so as to regain a piece of land in their homeland in the west and re-establish connection with "civilization" before they could slowly accumulate and revive.

Abbas's caravan heading north traveled a long distance through a very long uninhabited wasteland. They met local people only a few times along the way. Because it was too isolated, the barbarians here even forgot a lot of the common language. The common language that could be used everywhere became obscure and difficult to understand when spoken by them, like a dialect.

The Purple Tent Romans took a lot of effort to communicate with them. They gave them some small gifts and then said that a great Khan had risen in the south (only in this way could the nomads understand better) and were willing to recruit all warriors to surrender to him, even women, children and the elderly. The Great Khan had gone south to conquer a large area of ​​civilized territory. Anyone who was willing to go would be provided with food, accommodation and pasture.

Then it depends on whether these people continue to follow or go back. It doesn’t matter. Abbas just wants them to spread the news as much as possible in the vast Kipchak steppe. The "Eastern Khan is recruiting soldiers" is an unprecedented experience for the tribes living in the Kipchak steppe.

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There have been cases in history where people from the east marched westward to the Kipchak steppe in large numbers, but those were all warlords who rose in Altai and led their troops westward to plunder the Kipchak. They came as invaders and were already very far away.

Relying only on the mouths and legs of his own people, it would be too slow for Abbas to complete the task of recruiting soldiers in the Cumans and filling the population of Tsarist Rome.

So from the very beginning, the convoy heading north adopted the tactic of "throwing money".

His huge convoy, whose speed was greatly affected by the heavy load of supplies, was loaded with all kinds of goods produced in the civilized world of the east and south. If it were used for trade, he could make at least five times the profit by running from Alan to Uslif.

If measured solely by value, these goods, if sold in Kievan Rus, the large city built by the Usliyans in western Cumans, could generate enough money to arm a large army.

But this time the Romans' main purpose was not to do business and make money, but to sell and give away the goods at a discount.

After Abbas led his troops into the Eastern Kipchak region, thanks to the generosity of the people along the way, anyone willing to leave a tribal mark to indicate their origins could at least bring back "gifts" that could fill several horsebacks for free. These included production tools such as iron pots, hammers, sickles, axes, and saws, as well as salt, tea, silk, alchemical potions, swords, spears, halberds, bows, crossbows, shields, axes, and more.

Then, at a preferential price, they would exchange the goods from the south for furs, minerals, slaves and any other resources that the Cumans were willing to exchange.

Abbas's troops marched westward, and the huge convoy was moving on the "desolate" but actually not really "desolate" grassland, like a bright fire in the dark night, constantly attracting attention from the outside world.

Many tribesmen, even out of pure curiosity, would communicate with a team that seemed unlikely to come for looting, and then be stunned by the "surprise".

Even if these people who called themselves "Purple Tent Rome" had other intentions, at least the gifts they gave out were actually received.

Abbas's convoy will express its welcome to all the tribesmen for trade and tell them:

The Great Khan Rises...

Conquer the South...

Recruiting warriors, with any family, and sharing gold and land...

these messages.

Encourage the wild tribes in the eastern part of the Cumans to move east and south. If they cannot understand, then directly propose to sign a "Cosa Contract" with the local tribes to serve the "Great Khan". This is easy to understand, as their ancestors have been doing this for generations.

So many Cumans pressed their fingerprints with joy, and under the witness of the tribal chiefs and representatives of local prestigious leaders, they received the money for departure, which was also the settlement fee.

After a while, when they have settled down in their homes, they will gather together and be led eastward by people sent by the Purple Tent Rome to enter the territory of the "Great Khan" to serve him.

As for being “cheated”?

Although the tribesmen are poor, they are not fools. Who would have the reason to spend so much money to cheat these impoverished savages?

The supplies carried by Abbas's convoy, if converted into commissions, would be enough to attract nearly ten thousand-man regiments to the western Kipchak. After all, the deposit given for the departure was only a part of it, and there would be additional salaries and income from legal looting in the future.

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Such ostentatious and crazy wealth has attracted the covetousness of local indigenous people. More than a dozen tribes have formed an alliance and planned to attack this caravan that has rashly entered the civilized desert. Even if they cannot defeat it, as long as they can grab some spoils, it will be a huge profit.