Mountain men are strong and powerful and hardy
But they lack the tactical advantage and the kind of tactics of the Steppe that allow the Steppe people to walk all over them.
The Steppe is besieged on all sides and withstand all kinds of attack against them and they of course learn something from all of this
Even though the Steppe is not united now they all have experienced the danger of being subjugated and they have evolved, and learn from their enemies
The northern Steppe learns from Roma. The western Steppe learns from the Western Zhou methods, the southern Steppe learns from the Yan dynasty and the eastern Steppe learns and imitates from those around them
The mountain tribes attacks the eastern tribes of the Steppe or they come down the mountain and robbed the people of Yindu
Going to the mountain is not an easy task and even Aeryon did not yet have such elite intelligence agency that reach that far.
