"Princess Anna, this will be in charge of putting you on the throne, and it seems that accompanying the envoy has nothing to do with us, right?"

Even Wu Yuanqing, the fat man, was packed and stuffed into the boat, watching the ferry sail towards the other shore of the Golden Horn, Hou Jie still muttered dissatisfiedly, Hang Erlang leaned on the mast and thought about it endlessly, but Anna covered her mouth and smiled with a weak heart. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

"General Hou Zhonglang, anyway, the king of Min united us with Byzantium, isn't it just to fight Arabia together? Doing Caesar a small favor is also one of the tasks, hehe. ”

Ignoring Anna's flattering eyes, while yawning, Hou Jie continued to complain dissatisfiedly: "How much has changed, the general is now the Zhonghu Army, not the Zhonglang General!! ”

"Yes, yes, Hou Zhonglang will say it very well!"

Hou Jie was completely speechless, looking at Anna's smiling face with him, he understood that this novice who was a novice to Tang Chinese regarded his name as Hou Zhonglang, who made Westerners have such long names, it is not surprising that his name is longer.

Hou Jie was completely silent, and the Byzantine mission mixed with the Fujian expeditionary team could also be regarded as smoothly on the road, crossing the Golden Horn under the eyes of hundreds of veterans, and embarking on the journey north.

In the end, it is an old empire, and under such a tight force, the senators still took out five hundred Gothic heavy cavalry escorts for Anna to go north, and went ashore from the Galatian Fort, where she had been locked up for several years, and when she passed by the towering castle, even Anna couldn't help but smile bitterly with emotion.

Although the territory of the Roman Empire is vast, but wrapped in the Mediterranean Sea in it, the biggest feature is that the terrain is long and narrow, the east-west span is huge, but the depth of the north and south is insufficient, as the main defense of Constantinople Thrace, in fact, it is only one-third of the Guanzhongda, starting from the Golden Horn Fast Horse, but after a day and a half, it has arrived in the middle of Thrace.

It's really a dividing line, and along the way there are large villages with small marble and white houses in the Greek style, and the inhabitants are also dressed in Egyptian cotton robes and long skirts, and then further north, the village style is noticeably rougher.

Beginning in 376 AD, the Huns who continued to move south defeated a large number of nomads in the steppes of Western Asia and Northern Europe, Ostrogothic, Frankish, Burgundian, Lombard, Vandal, etc. The Byzantines placed them north of Thrace to defend themselves against other barbarian raids.

Ironically, for the Romans, the Slavs, who fought madly with big axes and drank and bragged, were already barbarians, who settled down for farming, but more barbarian nomads invaded them.

Further north, even more desolation is revealed, and it is common to see breached towns and villages, where the corpses of the Slavs are directly discarded everywhere, typical nomadic methods, plundering all food and property, pulling the original owner back as a slave, and finally burning and destroying everything.

It's just that he looked at these traces of war suspiciously, surprisingly, Hou Jie always had a sense of familiarity.

"Captain Li, I always feel that something seems wrong, looking at these traces, do you find anything?"

Riding to the side, glancing at Princess Anna, who was still anxiously asking the guide, Hou Jie simply pulled Li Que and whispered.

Li Que, who was in a hurry, was really aroused by Hou Jie's words, and drove his horse into the village that had been slaughtered by the roadside, and actually pulled out an arrow left by the invader in the corner, but unfortunately after watching it for a long time, this lieutenant of the Min Wangfu came back but gave Hou Jie a helpless shrug: "Isn't it just the invasion of the nomadic barbarians?" Nothing special? ”

Looking at the arrows with jagged teeth, Hou Jie felt more familiar, and couldn't help but roll his eyes at Li Que, if there was nothing boring, this ghost-like Princess Anna could pull herself and others with a dead face?

With this doubt, Hou Jie played with the blood-stained arrow all the way, while constantly thinking.

At dusk the next day, the Byzantine mission finally met the Bulgarians, the destination, and the encounter was still so awkward.

It happened that the younger brother of the Bulgarian Khan Vladimir Simeon led his troops to loot the Byzantine villages, and more than 100 cavalry from the nearby military district also came to participate in the resistance, and a squad of officers even came to ask for assistance, but unfortunately, under Anna's embarrassing and helpless refusal, this cavalry squad had to be full of grief and anger, and committed suicide into the Bulgarian cavalry, killing dozens of people and being pierced into a hedgehog under the rain of sharp arrows.

"Don't, help!"

"Spare me, don't kill me!"

"Hahahaha!"

All kinds of screams and begs for mercy and the wanton laughter of nomads resounded in the village, and thousands of Bolgars rushed into the village with wild laughter, burning, plundering, raping and plundering, and burning houses directly into the fire.

Looking at the bestiality of these people, Li Qiqi's eyes were red, and he pulled out the Tang knife with his hand, but Hou Jie suddenly grabbed her hand and stuffed the knife back.

"Why are you stopping me?" Angry, turning around, Li Que grabbed the reins of the horse and asked angrily, the chest firmly wrapped by the cuirass rose and fell angrily, but unfortunately Hou Jie didn't see it at all, still observing the Bulgarian nomadic cavalry with doubts, and replied casually: "Their emperor is not in a hurry, what are you anxious about?" ”

Looking back at the embarrassed Princess Anna, Li Que flicked the reins of the horse in annoyance and walked towards the back of the team, simply out of sight and out of mind, and scolded casually when he left, listening to her rare swearing, Hou Jie seemed to catch something coldly.

Li Que is not speaking Tang language, but Turkic language!

The beastly plundering lasted for half an hour, and the Bulgarians, who were basically satisfied, sent a messenger over, a man with all kinds of pigtails on his head, wearing a leather robe and armor, and a big wolf's head was tattooed on his bare chest, and he squinted his eyes provocatively with a scimitar and shouted to the heavy cavalry of the Visigothic Guard, who had always stood still: "My tutun asks you, who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

After a commotion, the Visigothic Guard neatly cracked a gap, allowing Anna to calmly ride to the front, looked at the village that was still burning, and sighed helplessly, Anna said softly and warmly: "I am Anna, the co-emperor of the Roman Empire in the south, and I want to discuss state affairs with your Khan in the north, please go back and spread the word!" ”

"You're waiting here!"

Although the Byzantium was beaten very badly, it was still difficult to hide the inferiority of the other party's civilization and its humble culture.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, the cavalry ran back out of breath again, but this time he did not have the arrogance and domineering of the last time, and bent down slightly respectfully and said, "My tutun sent an invitation to the Byzantine emperor." ”

"Good."

Nodding, Anna retracted into the protection of the guards, and the Visigothic guards dressed in heavy armor were divided into two columns, erecting a small Byzantine triangular battle flag more than three meters to guard both sides, and carrying Anna towards the village.

In the middle of the team, Hou Jie was still struggling to grasp the little bit of inspiration just now, the title of Tutun just now, the Bulgarian herald cavalry spoke in his native language, and the familiar voice was about to come out, Hou Jie just couldn't remember, he scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry.

After entering the village, embarrassment once again befell Anna, thirty or so sturdy villagers were lined up, looking at the Byzantine battle flag and armor, all of them looked at them with anticipation, and on the other end, a strong man with a larger wolf's head tattooed on his upper back was holding a dagger, looking at them as fiercely as if he were a slaughtered lamb.

Poof~ The dagger slashed across the neck of the person on the far right of the queue, and blood spurted out at once, and the man fell to the ground softly with anticipation. The obvious white and tender head jumped, but Anna did not move, and also seemed to turn a deaf ear to the arrival of the Visigothic knight who was like a tin can, and the wolf-backed fierce man carried the dagger and went to the next person.

After the thirty people had their throats slitted with that anticipation and despair, the wolf-backed fierce man turned around contentedly, and saw Anna's white and beautiful face, a touch of surprise and greed immediately flashed over his fleshy face.