Chapter 1695: Rise (5)
In the dark night, the cool night breeze brought gusts of coolness, soothing the bloody hearts of the warriors, and the fierce battle in the evening cost nearly three hundred spearmen their lives, and this heavy price made it difficult for Zhao Hu to sleep. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zhao Hu sat up and casually picked up a thick wooden branch from the side and threw it into the bonfire in front of him, looking at the sparks flying in front of him, Zhao Hu felt that he had to consider the price of this dispatch.
"What do you think this is, my lord?"
Hearing Munda's voice sounding not far away, Zhao Hu saw the tall figure of Munda, the leader of the hunters, walking from the east side of the camp, holding a yellowed sheepskin in his hand with excitement on his face, and wearing a Kazakh armor full of foreign colors, which attracted the nearby soldiers to stare with envy.
As the chief hero of this battle, Munda insisted on asking his lord for a piece of Kazakh armor as a glory passed down from generation to generation in his family, in order to show his descendants what a brave warrior their ancestor was.
"What are you doing, wear this at night and hang out without fear of being shot by the sentry as an enemy, when your descendants know that their brave ancestors died at the hands of their own people, your good wishes will be lost."
Zhao Hu looked at the Kazakh armor on Munda angrily, and felt awkward in his heart, this battle made Zhao Hu's falcon troops lose nearly three hundred spearmen, although in the end they caught a command knife suspected of being the leader of the Kazakh team, but thinking about the compensation of nearly three hundred soldiers gave Zhao Hu a headache, and now Munda is still wearing this armor to stimulate himself, how not to make Zhao Hu angry.
"Hehe, this is what we found when we searched the body of the Kazakh commander just now, I'm afraid it's something important, and I immediately sent it to the adults before I had time to change clothes."
Seeing his lord's slightly angry face, Munda scratched his head with his hand in embarrassment, and embarrassedly handed the yellowed sheepskin in his hand to Zhao Hu, who was resting by the campfire.
"What is this?"
Zhao Hu took the parchment scroll from Munda in confusion, and slowly spread it out under the bonfire with his hand curiously, through the bright yellow light of the bonfire, it can be seen that this is a very worn parchment scroll, which is outlined with light blue, red, and gray and black lines and patterns, like a map of mountains and rivers.
The sheep's leather rolls have been yellow-spotted due to too long or dampness, and they have a sour musty smell, and even a smell of sheep food peculiar to the Kazakhs.
"Judging from the geographical markers on this, this is a map of the county of Satdo that we are about to visit, which these Kazakhs should have stolen from some nobleman when they plundered the county, and this thing is very useful to Kazakhs who are not familiar with the terrain, but it is of little use to us."
Zhao Hu's originally happy face showed a slight disappointment after carefully identifying the map on the parchment scroll, Zhao Hu thought that Munda had found something great, but he didn't expect it to be just a relatively old map of Satto, and immediately lost interest, and prepared to roll up the spread parchment map with his hand, but was stopped by Munda next to him with his hand.
"My lord, you see that these two places, in the northern mountains of the Satydo map, and the Sodalai Hills where we are now have special markings, although we don't know what this means, but it should be very important to be able to keep it close to the commander of the Kazakhs!"
Meng Da still did not give up, and hurriedly stretched out his finger to point at the two small black triangles in the north and south corners of the map, and with Meng Da's fingers, Zhao Hu did see two fine black crosses hidden in the dim lines of the map, if it wasn't for Meng Da to point it out, under the dark bonfire, it was really not easy to see.
"Yes, you did a good job, if I'm not mistaken, this is a treasure map of the Kazakhs!"
Seeing the black fork of Mengda's fingers, Zhao Hu, who was disappointed just now, became interested, and looked at the black fork's eyes with light, as if he suddenly found that this yellowed parchment roll had bloomed into beautiful flowers, and his mouth also praised Mengda repeatedly, and the praise of Mengda was inexplicable.
"Treasure map? No, we have carefully searched the corpses of those Kazakhs, they are as poor as rats, and they have almost nothing on their bodies except for a small amount of dried meat for the march, let alone anything valuable, it seems that the adults are poor and crazy, and they can rely on everything for money! ā
Moona looked at Zhao Hu with an excited face full of incredulity, and his heart was full of contempt for his lord's judgment, Monda knew that in his poor head, there were only two things worth paying attention to, one was money, and the other was money.
"You don't believe me?" Zhao Hu looked at Munda with disdain, knowing what his subordinate was thinking, his face turned red, his voice immediately rose a few points, and his fingers swiped around on the map, "From the north to the south, this Kazakh cavalry almost traversed the entire Roman Empire, and five or six county lords were sacked.
But we didn't find the looted goods in these Kazakhs, could it be that these valuable goods could not fly, now it seems that these goods should have been buried by the Kazakhs in these two areas, and when the war is over, they can send caravans to transport these looted things out of the country without knowing it! ā
Meda listened to Zhao Hu's analysis, and the disdain on his face gradually receded, replaced by a constant nod with Zhao Hu's analysis: "Your Excellency, please rest assured, this location is in the Sodalai Hill, not very far from here, I will immediately lead a thousand soldiers to dig out all the buried things." ā
In the end, Monda could no longer hold back his excitement and stood up from the ground, took the yellowed parchment roll from Zhao Hu's hand, turned around and disappeared into the dark shadows of the camp.
Zhao Hu's assertion was confirmed in the early morning, Munda who led the soldiers to the treasure hiding site to dig brought back more than a dozen items wrapped in white cloth in the morning fog, the heavy rut marks have shown that the weight of the things on the cart is extraordinary, Zhao Hu walked over, patted the white cloth wrapped in the flat carriage with his hand, and heard the crisp sound of metal hitting each other.
"I'm not wrong, how are things?"
Hearing Zhao Hu's question, Meng Da scratched his head with a sneer, and made a fierce look at the things covered by the white cloth on the flat carriage with his eyes, and said in a low voice: "My lord, they are definitely good things, but I didn't expect that all the treasures that these Kazakhs worked so hard to collect fell into our hands!" ā
Zhao Hu looked at Munda with a sneering face, walked to the side of the flat carriage and uncovered a corner at random, the golden light was transmitted through, and the gold items inlaid with various gems were exposed from under the white cloth, gold bottles, gold wrists, piles of gold utensils, it seems that the Kazakhs have a soft spot for gold, Zhao Hu even saw a marquis-level round gem crown inlaid with a big ruby like a thumb in the middle.
"Obediently, I'm afraid that there are at least millions of gold Lukes, and those bigwigs in the north have also fallen into blood mold, and it is estimated that even the gold teeth inlaid in their mouths have been knocked out a lot by the Kazakhs."
A golden light on the carriage stimulated Zhao Hu's heart to beat violently, especially the crown inlaid with huge gems made Zhao Hu's heart pound, this crown should be an important member of the northern family, but unfortunately these exquisite works of art are just ordinary gold ornaments in the eyes of the Kazakhs, and they will melt into pieces of gold coins after they are transported back to Kazakhstan.
"My lord, in addition to the Sodale hills, there is also a mark on the map near the Iron Tower Fortress in the middle, we should rush there as quickly as possible, otherwise when the Kazakhs find out that the treasure map of their army has fallen into the hands of our Roman Empire, they will definitely take out the treasure in advance."
Moona looked at Zhao Hu's eyes that were dazzled by gold, and almost flew out of a few flashing little stars from it, saliva was about to flow out of his open mouth, and he looked shocked, and kindly reminded.
"Yes, you're so right"
Zhao Hu heard Munda's reminder, retracted his greedy gaze from the pile of gold on the carriage, turned to Munda and praised: "This matter cannot be delayed, it must be done immediately, we must immediately gather the whole army, go north to the iron tower, and be sure to rush to the treasure hiding place before the Kazakhs react!" ā
Seeing Zhao Hu's fat face glowing with excitement, Monda had to interrupt his sovereign's beautiful fantasy and said, "However, from the Sodale Hills across the entire Satydor County, even horseback riding takes at least a day. If this group of Kazakhs had been in daily contact with their large army, the Kazakhs, who had not received the news today, would have noticed that the location of their treasure had been revealed, and would have sent someone to transfer it all soon, and it would have been almost impossible for us to cross the whole of Satedo in such a short time, and there was a high probability of meeting the Kazakhs there. ā
Hearing the question raised by Munda, Zhao Hu's face was embarrassed, he lowered his head and pondered for a while, then waved his hand and said, "This is not a problem, in my eyes, there is nothing impossible, blow the assembly horn, I have an order to announce!" ā
In Munda 's puzzled eyes, Zhao Hu had already turned around and issued an order to the trumpeter behind him.
"Whew!"
The trombone sound of the assembly was dull and long, echoing in the deep forest where the morning mist was still floating in the Sodalai hills, and the originally quiet camp suddenly became noisy, and no one would have thought of an urgent assembly so early, and many people ran out of the camp tents in shorts.