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Cough cough... Back to the main topic.
A complete force typically has organized infantry and cavalry; combined, these elements leave no weaknesses.
As it happens.
The Zhou Country to the north fits these criteria perfectly.
Zhou Country's close proximity to the grasslands not only provides numerous ranches within the nation but also allows access to a vast number of horses from the plains, ensuring no shortage of warhorses.
In fact, Zhou Country maintains a standing cavalry force of over one hundred thousand, all well-trained elite riders. When it comes to horseback archery, they are not inferior to the nomadic herders of the plains.
Moreover, besides archery, these cavalrymen are even better at close combat charges, possessing frontal combat strength far superior to that of ordinary herders.
With such elite cavalry and a vast number of elite soldiers, how could the occasionally starving nomadic riders of the Snowy Wilderness possibly be a match?
