Chapter 8: Chapter 4 The War of the Kingdom of Hephainattot and the Nomads
The army of the Hephainattot Kingdom crossed the Glaciconsa River and advanced north to attack the nomadic tribes by surprise and they pushed the nomads back to the west easily. The border of the Hephainattot Kingdom covered the entire eastern and northeastern part of the continent and reached part of the Silver Mountains. After capturing the eastern and northeastern parts, the army of King Hiphenat II continued to move to attack the west in order to destroy all the nomads.
As for the nomads, after the death of Steyr hunter, the nomadic tribes turned to fighting each other, causing the nomadic tribes to weaken even more. However, Steyr's nephew, Skenu hunter, called on all the nomadic tribes to join hands to repel the invaders. All the nomadic tribes responded to Theo, and their army grew to thirty thousand troops, marching east to regain the lost lands.
As for the forces of both sides, on the Nomad side, there were about thirty thousand soldiers, all of whom were cavalry, equipped with rather outdated weapons such as leather armor, bows, and swords made of bronze.
As for the army of Hiphenat II, they had about fifty thousand troops, including ten thousand chariots, twenty-five thousand infantry and fifteen thousand archers. They were equipped with weapons considered to be the most modern at that time. Victory was leaning towards the side of Hiphenat II's army.
Then the two armies met each other at a plain called Nekiugi, on the side of King Hiphenat II's army, he placed the infantry in the center and the two wings were protected by chariots, behind the infantry were archers, King Hiphenat II stood on a chariot to command the army.
As for the nomads, when Skenu saw his opponent's battle formation, he immediately ordered all his troops to gather in one place with the intention of attacking the center of Hephainattot's army formation to capture King Hiphenat II.
After a while, Skenu ordered the whole army to attack. Skenu's army immediately rushed forward and used their bows to shoot at the enemy infantry. Seeing that, King Hiphenat II immediately ordered his infantry to raise their shields to block the arrows, then ordered the archers in the back to shoot at the enemy army to suppress them, and ordered the chariots from both wings to attack the enemy army. At the same time, he pushed the infantry to attack.
With the attack from three directions, Skenu's army was quickly broken and Skenu had to order his army to retreat. When he saw the enemy army running away, King Hiphenat II immediately ordered his army to pursue them. Because Skenu's army was equipped with quite simple items, they retreated quickly and only the chariots could chase after them.
After running for a while, skenu saw that there were only chariots chasing him behind, so he ordered his army to turn back and attack. The Hephainattot army was surprised and did not have time to react, so the chariot force was quickly defeated and had to retreat. As for the infantry, because they had to run behind, their formation was no longer as solid as at first, but spread out, and they also felt tired from having to wear a rather heavy armor and chase after skenu's army.
When the infantry arrived and saw the chariots fleeing, the morale of the Hephainattot army hit rock bottom and when they saw Skenu's army attacking, they immediately fled in chaos, so Skenu's army just freely killed and pursued those who fled, King Hiphenat II had to flee in disgrace, after a while Skenu ordered his army to stop the pursuit.
In the end, the winners were the nomadic tribes, and for the Hephainattot Army, this was a heavy blow to the Hephainattot Army's morale as they suffered losses of up to thirty thousand men and almost all of their chariots were destroyed, causing morale in the army to hit rock bottom. As for the nomads, although they were the winners, they also lost half of their army, which was fifteen thousand.
This was considered the bloodiest battle at that time, with so many corpses lying around that it covered a large plain, blood turned the green grass into deadly bloody grass, and this battle was named after the place where it took place, the Battle of Nekiugi.
After that battle, he sent a letter of Peace to King Hiphenat II because he did not want his people to suffer these pains anymore and he also wanted both peoples to live together on this land in Peace, not in meaningless wars.
But most of the other nomads did not want peace with the Hephainattots because of what they had done in the past, so that night the nomads who did not want peace rose up and killed skenu, his brother Snakuion and his supporters were lucky to escape and ran to the camp of King Hiphenat II to surrender.
The next evening, Snakuion led the Hephainattot army to the nomad camp. When the nomads were off guard, the Hephainattot army entered the camp and massacred all the nomads inside. That evening, fires broke out, and screams rang out in agony. Finally, after so many years, they were able to take revenge on those who had caused them pain in the past,This massacre was later referred to as the Bennatgi massacre.