Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 69



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Episode 69. The Second Shuzor Invasion

Seiwamuyu was completely crushed by the Shuzoru Alliance led by Liwaduwan.

The decisive reason is unclear. Differences in technological capabilities? Differences in national power? Race? Leader?

Well, the Shujor Alliance understood that they had won, but they did not understand exactly how it had been achieved. They had won through sporadic engagements on too broad a front.

The only one who sees through all the situations is Liwaduwan, who has full control over the entire situation.

However, Liwaduwan simply treated this matter as something that was bound to happen, and as a result, we do not know the exact process through which Seiwamuyu’s destruction occurred.

Wait, did you say destruction? Actually, it wasn’t destroyed. That’s because Seiwamuyu was located on both the south and north sides of the Shuzo River at the time.

In other words, looking at the entire continent, the territories to the south, southeast, and east were all Seiwamuyu’s, and the Shuzor Alliance simply occupied the areas where the Iyakans lived in the south and southeast.

In other words, east······. If you look at Datang with the holy land in the center, it is southeast. If you look at Seiwamuyu, it is north.

So to speak, the ‘Northern Dynasty’ dynasty remained.

“What can we do about this? Our country has been destroyed like this······. Has the protection of the Dragon God left our country?”

The governor of Seiwamuyu, who ruled this eastern region abandoned by Datang, was suddenly put in charge of the entire Iyakan.

He was, so to speak, a member of the royal family of Seiwamuyu. Only such a person would be given such an important position.

“The country is being trampled by those monkey-like savages! Ah! What a pity! Now I am the only royal family left!”

However, he naturally ascends to the throne as the new king of Iyakan. And he seeks a new path in place of the Southern Dynasty, which was destroyed after boasting that it could never go together with the Shujor Alliance.

Originally, this region was a place where the Seiwamuyu traded with other races.

Compared to the south, which was a terrible jungle, its symbolism was less, but it was better in terms of its wealth and commercial advantages, whether in defense, trade, or other aspects······.

The first king of the Northern Dynasty, who was the governor, was a realistic man. He proposed a new paradigm to change the dogmatic Iyakan society.

It is unclear, either at the time or now, whether he truly believed this or was simply writing it as propaganda.

But what is certain is that the teaching itself has certainly been passed on.

“The fact that the Southern Dynasty, which followed the saints and the dragon gods so closely, was destroyed means that they did not properly follow the dragon gods’ teachings.”

“You didn’t follow it properly?”

“Yes. So the blessing will be bestowed upon those Iyakas who follow the more ‘correct’ teachings.”

At that time, Seiwamuyu’s teaching that one cannot associate with the corrupt races was revised.

Suddenly, trade with Datang begins. Trade with Daesurim, which must be made friendly in order to expand further north, progresses greatly.

The worldview changes because the doctrine has changed. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Now, not only the Iyakan, but other races have great gods. The moon god of Datang. The war god of Shujor.

The world is full of gods, Iyakans become dragon spirits when they practice, dragons gain intelligence when they practice, and those whose spirit and body are perfect can further be reborn as true dragons in the afterlife.

And the Iyakans open the Age of Exploration. Well, even at the prehistoric level, ocean voyages weren’t all that difficult.

They go all the way east and discover a new place.

“It’s an incredibly large island······. All the creatures living here are things I’ve never seen before.”

“Let’s make this place our new holy place! The giant dragon over there is the one we should be worshipping!”

If we were to compare it to Earth, would we have discovered something like Madagascar? Only further northeast, and twice as large as Earth. Up there, you can go to the territory of the Vaccans, and if you go east from there…

“Iyakans live here too!”

“?”

Unlike the Seiwamuyu, these people were developing a primitive society. The Seiwamuyu Northern Dynasty considered meeting them to be a revelation from the Dragon God, and taught these primitive people and civilized them.

The Iyakans are ultimately the closest nation to the Datang and Shuzor alliance, yet they maintain an independent history. Instead, they spread out across the world.

They built a maritime empire, and enjoyed a wider territory, greater wealth, larger population, and more developed culture than Datang.

The problem was······. This was a direct confrontation with the Tocha people, who stretched from east to west, and the Baekkan people, who were building a maritime empire from north to south and east.

There are a lot of prehistoric sites from this era that still remain today. This gives us a rough idea of ​​how fiercely the Iyakans fought against the Baekans and Tochas.

Furthermore, since they have completely taken over the east and the coast, Datang’s isolation has become even greater. Most tribes cannot even reach the isthmus, let alone the great forest, and retreat.

“Do you know? The Iyakans say that if you go all the way west and go south, there is a tree that reaches the sky and a forest that extends to the ends of the earth. If you go south from there, there is paradise.”

“Hey. That’s a Bark myth.”

“No. The Barks say there really is a ‘field of cows’. Further down from there is a palace made of jewels and the dwelling place of the immortal sages who live forever······.”

“Instead of fantasizing about such things, why don’t you just plow properly?”

The myth of Datang······or so it seems, history will take a long time to be passed down to the Erin, Baekkan, and Tocha tribes who still live far away.

However, there are certainly people in the world who actually live out that myth. The war between Datang and the Shuzoru Alliance began just two years after the fall of the First Seiwamuyu Dynasty.

But before that, let’s see how the Shujor Alliance ruled the South.

A world won on horseback cannot be ruled on horseback. This is what Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty, heard from a man named Lu Jia.

Liwaduwan was the god of war. He was also a great diplomat. So what were the qualities of a ruler?

“If the Iyakans surrender, we promise to treat them equally.”

“equality?”

“Yes. I will not interfere with your culture or religion. I will collect a little more in taxes, but only for the first and second generations. From the third generation onwards, I will treat everyone in the Shujor Alliance equally.”

“Then you won’t kick me out of my hometown?”

“okay.”

“Without burning the saints.”

“okay.”

“Are you going to let me hold a ritual?”

“Patchar, and the human sacrifices you have been doing yourself.”

“······Then can we elect our new king again?”

“No, that won’t do. Pull out Wajin. Rulmo and Nono are doing it too.”

It wasn’t that there was no resistance. The backlash was even stronger within the Shujor Alliance. They said that all the Iyakans should be rounded up and killed.

But Liwaduwan was stubborn. He maintained a conciliatory policy toward the Iyakans. If there was opposition, he suppressed it and abolished discrimination on his own.

“What I hate the most is discrimination! I’m sick of being beaten up, and now you want me to do the same to them? These Iyakas are the ones who have proven their courage. We should respect them, why are we killing them all!”

It was the command of the gods. In the end, Iyakan joins the Shuzor Alliance. They suggest that it would be okay to join the ‘Second Dynasty’ Seiwamuyu, and if so, they will let him go if he can work and pay the compensation.

Seiwamuyu was surprised to find that the Iyakan still lived in the south, so they paid compensation and incorporated them into their territory. As a result, relations between the Seiwamuyu 2nd Dynasty and the Shuzor Alliance improved considerably.

It would be a lie if I said I had no ill feelings towards him, but I never considered him to be an opponent that had to be defeated.

And the Shujor Alliance tries to trade through Seiwamuyu. Until then, they had been paying tribute to Datang. Now, they have eaten up the entire south and have overflowing production capacity, so they can afford to pay tribute and trade to the east.

The weight class gradually increases. In two years, the Iyakans were also assimilated. In the war, if they participated and achieved meritorious deeds, they heard that their children would be immediately liberated, so the Iyakans also became subordinate to the military.

The only downside is that Liwaduwan maintained a top-down, military-style system?

So to speak, it was a competent iron monarch, a dictator-style rule.

A system of government that relies entirely on individual ability and charisma.

What once was a torrent of tens of thousands of battle reports from the military now amounts to tens of thousands of administrative tasks.

And he manages to do more with less work than anyone else, distributing it properly.

This is not something a human being would do. He is constantly increasing the national power of the Shujor Alliance.

In just two years. In just two years, the Shuzor Alliance system has become perfect. If we look at it for another ten years or so, this situation could surpass Datang.

Liwaduwan gives an unexpected order.

“Attack Datang. If we become too strong, they will be wary. Now that we have become moderately strong and they are letting their guard down, this is the best opportunity to attack.”

There is no objection. The initial force gathered by the Shujor Alliance was only 20,000 men.

The 20,000 people hit the southern part of Datang.

If we look at it objectively, it is not that Datang did not prepare for a second invasion by the Shujor Alliance.

If he hadn’t prepared, he would have been a fool. Daton would have been a monkey who didn’t know how to make fire or stone tools.

First, a fortress was built in the village and swamp that existed in the south. At that time, siege weapons were extremely difficult to operate, so it was possible to deal with them simply by building a large castle using spirit magic.

And they always trained their military only in the south, they kept their most elite troops only in the south, and they always kept their sports training grounds and stadiums and things like that in the south.

The vast Dator. If there was any trouble, the ostrich phalanx would run and head to the next village in a day or two, and the moment it reached the next village, it would spread out to dozens of villages. Then, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and armies would gather from the nearby areas to block the Shujor Alliance.

That’s why Liwaduwan’s strategy was simple.

First, hit a nearby village. Hit it lightly. Don’t kill anyone, but take whatever you can find there because taxes are high, and shoot two bullets.

“A minor rebellion has broken out! Request reinforcements!”

And the ostrich wave spreads. And when the army moves in that direction, they launch a full-scale invasion of the place where the army was missing.

“Huh, huh?! This side is also rebelling! You have to come quickly!”

And then he gently pulls out the soldiers from the place where he had lightly struck them, allowing them to leave.

The troops there head to the opposite direction.

There were already troops from the Shujor Alliance stationed along the route, so they killed all the Ostrich factions to prevent them from joining, and more than half of the troops passing by were killed.

When you finally come to protect the place that was hit hard after going through all that hardship, they have already all left. And now, the place where there was a slight rebellion is being hit even harder.

This starts from five places. I was able to find out because I had already spied on Datang’s military formation.

In Datang, five corps were arbitrarily divided and in disarray, resulting in the massacre of 200,000 men by a mere 20,000 soldiers.

It was only natural that all the spirits were taken away and more than 9 swamps and 12 forests in the south were reclaimed.

It took only three months to get here. In just three months, the southern part of Datang was completely devastated, but this was only the first stage of the great invasion.