Gochebe Wars

Also known as the **Büyük Kanama** **(Great Bleeding)** by the Göçebe or the **Holy Cultivation** by the Rischnoy, all other polities living on the Continent refer to these conflicts as the Gochebe wars.

### Background

Before 327 BT, the Göçebe occupied every region of the Continent, living in harmony with the environment. However as foreign peoples began settleling on their ancestral land conflicts soon emerged. In the beginning the violence largely took the form of small skirmishes and raids, mainly for looting and to produce fear in the interlopers. However as time went on, response to these Göçebe raids would increase in severity. In -264 BT, a Rischnoy Archbishop was slain in his own synod. An outragous wound to the pious Rischnoy and an opportunity for the burgeoning Berglanders, a formal declaration of war was penned with the goal of pacifing the savage natives.

### Conflicts

* 260 BT. A contingent of 15,000 Rischnoy spearmen alongside 9,000 Berglander mercenaries stormed a Göçebe settlement of an estimated 35,000 people. It is said the allies suffered few casualties while few uprepared natives are believed to have survived.
* 259 BT. A flurry of raids on Rischnoy settlements burn much of their food production to ash, hampering their ability to fight.
* 259 BT. The Seige of Darmfort. For the next six months the Berglander city of Darmfort will be encircled by a beseiging force estimated in the hundreds of thousands. The Beglanders manage to eventually break the seige by hiring a large force of Skärgåd mercenaries to destroy Göçebe settlements in the rear, drawing their forces away.
* 259 BT. Berglanders leave an unguarded camp filled with copious amounts of alcohol and sweets for the Göçebe to discover, ambushing and slaughtering the drunken warriors at the break of dawn.
* 258 BT. A contingent of 10,000 Richnoy heavy infantry backed by 1000 heavy cavalry encircle and obliterate what is said to be some 25,000 Göçebe warriors sleeping overnight in a valley.
* 255 BT. The Battle of the Yolgagrad. Göçebe raiders ambush a Rischnoy fort along the border. All 18,000 Rischnoy are slain.
* 255 BT. A force of 22,000 Berglander mercenaries burn a settlent along the Kyzyz river to the ground, slaying an estimated 90,000 Göçebe non-combatants in the process.
* 254 BT. The Bobrinsky Massacre. A Göçebe attack killing some 1,200 Rischnoy in their beds.
* 253 BT. The Rischnoy manage to capture nice Göçebe elders in a raid. Promising a prisoner exchange, when the Göçebe arrived to trade 2,500 were killed in an ambush.
* 250 BT. A concentrated series of raids on the Rischnoy border kills an estimated 10,000 garrisoned troops for only 2,000 Göçebe dead.
* 249 BT. A reinvigorated Göçebe offensive on both Rischnoy and Berglanders manages to send the two powers into a twelve years retreat, killing thousands.
* 236 BT. A shaky peace agreement is signed in which the Rischnoy and Berglanders promise not to encroach any further into Göçebe territory, over the next thirty years it is continually broken.
* 208 BT. After decades of brinksmanship from the allies a Göçebe force of about 30 horse archers strikes a canoe caravan on the Voldov river. The allies use this as the casus belli for an offensive of 40,000 Rischnoy and 25,000 Berglanders to strike deep into Göçebe territory, killing anything that moved and burning anything that didn't. At least 100,000 Göçebe are said to have been killed in the following months.
* 208 BT. A Göçebe counterattack on Berglander supply lines leaves 20,000 mercenaries without provisions. They quickly disband.
* 208 BT. A rumored 75,000 Göçebe perish in a suprise attack from the Dominion, joining the allies and capitalizing on the Göçebe's split attention.
* 208 BT. A raid on Fort Voldov kills 5,000 Rischnoy.
* 207 BT. A naval force sets off from Orshensk, killing a coastal encampment positioned for an ambush. 15,000 Göçebe die while the Rischnoy suffer a mere 4,000 casusalties.
* 205 BT. An ambush of 20,000 Göçebe is repusled by a daring Dominion commander, managing to form his lines with unprecendented speed. The charging Göçebe are cut to pieces while only a fraction of the Dominion force is caught out of formation.
* 204 BT. Bergland Mercenaries catch a Göçebe settlement in the process of limbering their yurts. In the confusion and with their animals loaded down 12,000 Göçebe are killed.
* 203 BT. Rischnoy heavy infantry numbering 16,000 successfuly repulse a Göçebe attack, slaying an estimated 30,000.
* 203 BT. The Skärgåd catch an encampment of 3,500 Göçebe warriors hiding from the Dominion on their borders. They capture and ransom them to the Dominion. The warriors are excecuted in Dominion arenas.
* 202 BT. A combined allied offensive encircles an army numbering 80,000. They are killed with minimal losses as at this battle the Dominion pioneered the pracise of releasing burning pigs into Göçebe formations, spooking their usually unflappable horses.
* 198 BT. The Göçebe ambush a column of 20,000 allied infantry on route to a fort. They are all killed by the mobile horse archers.
* 197 BT. In the last stand of Fort Sommer, 300 Bergland mercenaries attempt to hold out against a beseiging force of several thousand Göçebe. They are all killed.
* 192 BT. In the Battle of the Twin Lakes, 4,500 Rischnoy perish fighting 15,000 Göçebe, losing the city of Yolgagrad to the enemy. Yolgagrad is largely burned.
* 192 BT. In an allied offensive of 20,000 men, Yolgagrad is retaken with minimal causalties. 12,000 Göçebe die holding the important river crossing.
* 191 BT. A force of 2,500 Berglanders are killed in a surprise raid.
* 191 BT. A fort containing 9,000 Rischnoy defenders is encircled and burned killing all inside.
* 190 BT. A plague buffets all participating armies, delaying further action. The Göçebe fair better than most against the disease.
* 174 BT. After an a Göçebe peace offering was denied and their messanger killed, a Göçebe force of 26,000 men descended upon the Rischnoy, however neither side was able to take the innitiative in the fighting.
* 173 BT. Capture and slaughter of 8,000 Göçebe warriors in a surprise attack on the Voldov river.
* 172 BT. Positioned atop a hill 2,000 Rischnoy infantry manage to hold out against 15,000 Göçebe horse archers until reinforcments can arrive.
* 170 BT. The Battle of Kyzyz. An ambushed force of 24,000 Rischnoy and 12,000 Berglanders are ambushed by 90,000 Göçebe warriors. The encircled allies fight back to back in a heroic last stand. Eventually the allies overcame the resolve of the assaulting Göçebe and they cut them down as they ran. In the future, soldiers who fought at this battle could be identified simply with the phrase "We held". The land around Kyzyz is formally annexed by both Rischnoy and Bergland.
* 169 BT. A revolt of roughly 10,000 Göçebe breaks out inside freshly conquered Rischnoy territory but it is quickly put down. Rischnoy declares the Göçebe pacified.
* 165 BT. The Göçebe peacefully cede territory past Greater Ephissa Lake to the Dominion after an attempt to retake the area fails. This remained the Göçebe-Dominion border up until the War of the Coalition.
* 165 BT. An ambush along Lake Kyzyz catches a Rischnoy force of 15,000 offguard and is slain with minimal casualties to the Göçebe.
* 164 BT. The Raid of Darmfort. The Göçebe manage to successfully raid Darmfort in a seige lasting an afternoon. Much is taken from the city and its residential district is severely burned.
* 163 BT. A contingent of 30,000 Berglander mercenaries as well as 10,000 freshly hired Skärgåd roam Göçebe territory, managing to kill some 50,000 non-combatants and the 20,000 warriors protecting them.
* 162 BT. A series of raids on Rischnoy synods kills some 5,000 civilians.
* 160 BT. The Massacre of Eg-Baatar. A small contingent of Göçebe warriors manages to lead 25,000 Berglanders and 9,000 Skärgåd to their death in an ambush.
* 159 BT. A camp of 1,500 wounded Göçebe are slain by a column of Rischnoy.
* 158 BT. A raid on Rischnoy supply lines separates 20,000 infantry from any support. The determined infantry hold their ground for three months before being relieved, resorting to eating grass and boiling their boots for sustenance.
* 157 BT. A raid on Voldov is repulsed killing 2,300 Göçebe warriors.
* 155 BT. Lugorod is burned to the ground by raiding 7,000 Göçebe. This raid is noted for its lack of bloodshed, seemingly the marauders took little more than food from Lugorod larders.
* 154 BT. A raiding force is caught outside Yolgagrad due to a Göçebe informant. All 35,000 would-be ambushers are slain in the open fields outside Yolgagrad.
* 153 BT. The Battle of the Red River. After a devastating attack on a secreted Göçebe stronghold kills 100,000 Göçebe non-combatants, a desparate force throws itself onto Rischnoy and Berglander spears in an attempt to relieve their women and children. 40,000 Göçebe warriors die in a three day slaughter.
* 153 BT. The Kingdom of Rischnoy, and the Kingdom of Bergland sign a treaty with the battered remnants of the Göçebe. The latter party are relagated to little more than the Göçebe peninsula, losing access the the Kyzyz river.
* 95 AT. The Raid of 95. A highly co-ordinated attack on Rischnoy and Bergland, recapturing their territory along the Kyzyz river. The Göçebe victory was so swift and one sided, and their ensuing peace treaty so generous to the allies that the new arangement has held to the present day.

### Casualties

Rischnoy

* Slain: 153,800 (31,000 non-combatants)
* Disease: 40,000

Bergland

* Slain: 93,300 (22,000 non-combatants)
* Disease: 20,000

DSPR

* Slain: 17,000
* Disease: 80,000

Skärgåd

* Slain: 15,000
* Disease: 1,000

Total allied deaths: 420,100 (53,000 non-combatants)

Göçebe

* Slain: 758,800 (296,000 non-combatants)
* Disease: 10,000