0690 The Wisdom of the Ancient People
516, summer, afternoon, Atlas Mountains.
The captive young man came from Dorsion, one of the eight districts of Moorish Rome, called Drew, and he demanded ransom for their party and all their belongings, and offered twenty Roman pounds of gold, or two thousand gold coins.
It's a lot of money, but Yamazaki is speechless, the devil knows what the gold content of ten Roman pounds of gold is in it, so it's better to give a thousand gold coins directly.
As a result of the negotiations, the other party had no cash, only minerals, slaves, livestock, and as for precious stones, they were left over from the previous Eastern Roman period, and in short, the quantity of individual species was not enough.
At a discount, 10,000 Roman pounds of wheat is a gold coin, 30,000 Roman pounds of barley is a gold coin, and iron ore is 1,000 Roman pounds a gold coin but is not sold.
50 sheep are a gold coin, 20 horses are a gold coin, 15 cattle are a gold coin, and ten horses are a gold coin, but they are not sold.
One gold coin for ten labor slaves over the age of sixteen, male or female, one gold coin for unused female slaves, hardware for unused beautiful female slaves, and slave warriors and other special skill slaves range from five gold coins to ten gold coins but are not sold.
For example, the beauties around him are four generations of a family, born at the age of 13, his great-grandmother is 48 years old, his grandmother is 35 years old, his grandchildren are 22 years old, and his great-grandchildren are 9 years old.
Yamazaki was interested in livestock, but he couldn't get 100,000 sheep, and all he could get out was gold nuggets.
No way, labor slaves, livestock, food, make up.
As a result, Yamazaki was hit, because the other party found out that Yamazaki did not trust the gold content of the gold nuggets, so he taught Yamazaki that he could use buoyancy to calculate the gold nuggets, and if it was really missing, he could make up for it with gold coins.
Mei Daiko laughed and fell, as a college student at the end of the twentieth century, she was actually educated by people in the early sixth century. ......
Before the evening, the other party's falcon flew away with the news, and what was written, Yamazaki didn't understand it, and didn't know it.
Yamazaki saw through Nika the Golden Eagle that the falcon had flown into the city of Dorseo.
The city of Dorseo was built in the previous Eastern Roman era, with strong walls on the mountain and lake, and nearly 200,000 people lived inside and outside the city, and there may be 300,000 people in the entire Dorseo area.
When the Vandal-Alans swept across the southern shores of the Mediterranean, a considerable number fled inland, and while the Eastern Romans were still around, the city was mostly populated by civilians.
After the disappearance of Eastern Rome, because more and more commoners could not pay taxes, the proportion of slaves also increased, and now they account for the vast majority.
The golden eagle Nika hovered high in the air for a while, and did not notice any action until it was dark. ......
Yamanaka.
After the opposing people disarmed and took off their armor, Yamazaki let them move freely, and their horses were all controlled, and it was impossible to escape.
The other party invited Yamazaki and Midako to dinner, but Yamazaki refused, and now it is hostile, and safety comes first.
And looking at each other from a distance, while eating, while enjoying singing and dancing, while playing with women, Yamazaki was a little uneasy, this guy was too relaxed and casual, and he didn't want to be captured at all.
Yamazaki found an owl and asked it to take a look, only to find that the other party had actually dispatched a large group of people, which seemed to be a standard army.
Yamazaki suddenly realized that the other party chose to avoid the falcons in the sky at night, and the other party should have planned to arrest them and snatch their weapons after saving them, probably exchanging them for the craftsmen who made them.
After estimating, the other party dispatched 3,000 people, and more than 300 people couldn't beat 49 people, so they used 3,000 people, and 49 people were tired to death.
Well, then try to see who is better than 4,000 bison against 3,000 troops in the field. ......
After dawn, the skirmish unfolded in the mountains, with men and horses on one side who had been driving all night, and bison on the other hand, who had arrived first.
It looks like humans are passing through the bison's territory.
When the buffalo charged, it was too late for them to dodge, and the buffalo stabbed through the flanks of the entire group, leaving a trail of dead and wounded before leaving.
It all looked like an accident, because their presence provoked the bison, and the bison ran away, and they just got in the way of the bison. ......
On the other side, Yamazaki pretended to have received the news of the falcon, and set off as a team, escorting young Drew, with all the horses of the other party, and immediately the other party's equipment.
He didn't care about people, he just let them wait where they were when they left, otherwise they would be caught and they would be removed from the trade and killed or used as slaves. ......
Twenty kilometers away, there was a battlefield.
There was a change of horses, and Yamazaki and the others were not sympathetic to the horsepower, and they sprinted with all their might, and arrived in less than ten minutes.
Before the people arrived, the smell of blood arrived, and some fierce beasts appeared in the mountains, lions, bears, wolves, etc., and vultures appeared in the sky.
Yamazaki and the others were coming, and the other party already knew about it through the falcon, but they only knew that a group of people were coming.
The other party, with about five hundred people, urgently organized a defensive line and tried to resist.
"We are the family of Gelong in the Shaka, and your men pursued us in the mountains, but we captured us. ”
"We agreed to a ransom deal with you, but you came with a large army. ”
"Now, then, don't blame us for taking advantage of the danger. ”
"Right now, you have two paths, surrender on your knees, or be killed. ”
Flo's shouts were answered, and a strong man walked out, seeing that the equipment was that of a centurion.
"I'm Centurion Ali Walkham, I don't know what you're talking about, but as you can see, something unfortunate happened to us, and we just want to go home now. ”
"That can't be," cried Flo, "you will be our spoils, but we will give you redemption." ”
"Then there's not much to say. Ali Walkam tapped his shield to boost morale, "Come on." ”
Flo led the slave convoy and rushed forward, approaching a stone's throw from the horse.
It's not that the war horse is expensive, but it's afraid that if the rider falls, there will be attrition.
There are already forty-nine of them, and one less would add pressure to the others.
The opponent's firing distance of more than 200 meters, it took the slave escort more than 20 seconds to pass through.
In hand-to-hand combat, the slave guards do not have an advantage, and the number of opponents is still too much.
However, the other side is tired and wounded, morale is low, weapons and equipment are not good, and there is no organization.
So, the target is Centurion Ali Walkham, this temporary commander.
Flo grabbed Ali Walkerm's sword with his hand, and in Ali Walkham's astonishment, he slashed his shield with a sword and placed the sword around his neck.
"Stop!"
Seeing that Ali Walkham's sword didn't even cut through the metal mesh gloves, the morale of the other party completely collapsed.
Weapons and equipment are not of the same level, and there is no way to fight this battle.
Some people in the distance fled and wanted to leave on horseback.
With an eagle's cry, all the horses that could move ran away, and it seemed that they were scared away, but in fact, Midaiko used her mental will to infect and control them.
Ali Walkham vented: "We want to treat it with dignity." ”
"Of course. Flo said.
"Then, I surrender. Ali Walkam bitterly let go of his sword and let go of his shield.
As Ali Walkam surrendered, others dropped their weapons as well. ......
Led by Ali Walkham, Yamazaki found the body of their leader, Drew's father, who had been trampled by the bison.
Flo searched through the flesh and found a small copper cylinder containing Drew's letters.
According to Ali Walkham's translation, it says that Drew's more than 300 people were captured by forty-nine people, but he found mass-produced high-quality weapons, and asked his father to bring a hundred times the men and horses to meet them, and when the ransom transaction was completed, he immediately started to obtain production technology and craftsmen.
Yamazaki asked, "What do you want to say?"
Drew said: "Losing is losing, please give me a decent way to die, preferably by yourself, and don't let me die at the hands of slaves and defeated generals." ”
Yamazaki said, "Okay, I promise your request. Then, in Drew's incredulous gaze, a sword slashed off his head.
"You want to calculate me, thinking that I am too small to do anything, and leave you dead, but you are wrong, I have killed countless people. ”
Flo and the other slaves didn't understand, but Ali Walkham and the others believed it, because Yamazaki killed Drew, and there really didn't show any negative emotions.
And Mei Daiko knows that Yamazaki is talking about the previous life, who blew up the underworld with a nuclear bomb and woke up Erebos, so to speak, and finally killed the creatures of the entire earth. ......