Coalition battalion.

There was a gloomy cloud in the big tent of the Chinese army in Helorius, in addition to Helorius and his co-captains and staff, as well as Hall, Mondy and Valdoru.

Kneeling in the middle of the tent was Hu Di, the wing leader of the cavalry wing, after Simi was attacked by the Hun cavalry, all the grain and grass were burned, and all the horses ran away, Hu Di stayed up in a trance until dawn, he robbed a dozen mules and horses from the house of a rich man in the town, and quickly rushed back to the coalition camp with a dozen soldiers to report the news, leaving the surviving soldiers to clean up the mess in Simi. The mules and horses were not fast enough, and he ran with a dozen soldiers for most of the day before rushing back to the camp, and it was already about four o'clock in the afternoon.

After hearing Woody's report, Helorius only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he almost fainted, and the grain and grass hoarding point of the army was destroyed, which was equivalent to leaving more than 10,000 people under his command without food, and the horses of the cavalry wing were also gone, and the remaining cavalry became infantry, and the entire legion had no cavalry, only dozens of horses in his escort, and other officers also had horses, and there were no horses other than that.

He summoned the officers and staff members at the level of wing commander and called all the people Mondy, Hall, Valdoru and others over, and the current scene appeared.

Helorius's face was very bad, he hadn't rested for several days, but now that the situation was in crisis, he couldn't sleep at all, and now that something like this happened, where could he still sit still?

"You all know what we're doing, right? The grain and grass storage warehouse was burned by the rangers sent by the Huns, and my cavalry wing became an infantry wing. Half of the people died at the time of the Huns' raid, and a few dead people are nothing, the point is that our food can only last for one day. If we halve the food for each meal of the soldiers, it will last for two days, and it is four days away from the border of our Macedonian province, and if we withdraw now, borrowing some food from local farmers along the way, we should be able to return to Macedonia safely, if we don't withdraw. How can we solve the food problem? There were not many Hun soldiers in the Razlog fortress opposite, less than two thousand, and they certainly did not have much food. But they will be able to get supplies, and even if we can break through Laslog, we will not have enough food to support more than 10,000 of us a day, and the closest thing we can get is the city of Carmen. But the city of Carmen is just a small town. There are not many people under the command of the leader of Odoas, even if we can borrow food from him, I am afraid that it will not be enough for a few people to eat, except for the city of Carmen, the leader of Mundy, your city of Xenos is the closest to us, do you think you should immediately send someone back to collect some food to support us? ”

When Mondy heard that Helorius wanted to borrow food from him, where would he do it? Immediately, he said, "Your Excellency, General." It's not that I don't want to lend you food, my tribe is only fifteen thousand. There are only 2,000 soldiers, and relying on 15,000 people to feed 2,000 soldiers is already the limit, where do I have extra food? Now is the life and death of the coalition army, if I have food, I don't need your orders, General, I will take it out and feed the coalition soldiers first, let's get through it together, the key is that I don't have extra food! ”

Mundy's words are also a real problem, indeed, out of 15,000 people, there are 2,000 soldiers, and how much burden do the other 13,000 have? Only six people to support a soldier? That's too low, isn't it? It is estimated that the people of Mondy must be all miserable. If it is an agrarian nation, basically thirty people support a soldier, this ratio is the most appropriate, will not harm agricultural production and economic environment, at least ten people to support a soldier, and nomads are generally everyone is a soldier, as long as they can ride a horse and shoot arrows, even a warrior, the Germanic people are now basically out of the category of nomads, but they do not belong to the farming people, belong to the nature of semi-cultivation and semi-safari, six people to support a soldier, basically is the maximum, This ratio of ordinary people to soldiers will basically not allow them to progress in society and not develop economically.

After Mundy's words came out, the wrinkles on Helorius's forehead deepened, and the others had nothing to do, but this matter could not be delayed, and the food was only enough for the army to eat for two days at most, and if it was delayed until the army ran out of food, I was afraid that disaster would come.

Helorius thought for a while and said: "This way, the leader of Mundi, the leader of Hall, and Valdoru, this is the closest to the three of you, you three families first find a way to get some food to come over to help the emergency, I will immediately send someone back to Macedonia to urge the grain to be transported over there as quickly as possible, the difficulty is only temporary, if you still want to keep your homeland, you must fully support us and find us grain and grass, otherwise when my army is scattered because of lack of food, your land will not be saved, the Huns will fight, what will you resist?" What do you think? ”

Mundy, Hall, and Valdoru glanced at each other, with Mundy representing the other two, "Alright, General, all I can say is that we will do our best, and we can only raise as much food as we can, I can't guarantee at all!" ”

Helorius nodded: "Then I'll express my gratitude first, I hope you had better bring a batch of grain over before tonight, because by tomorrow, many things will be difficult to say, and it will be too late to think of other ways at that time!" ”

"Okay, okay!"

When the meeting had been dispersed, they went back to their tents, and not long afterwards a centurion hurried to Helorius, who, seeing the centurion guarding the camp gate, asked, "Aren't you guarding the camp gate, and have you come to see me for something?" ”

The centurion wiped a handful of beads of sweat: "General, one of the three Germanic chiefs here, named Odoase, appeared outside the camp gate with dozens of men, they wanted to come in and ask to see the general, seeing that they looked very wolf, and many of them were wounded, did the general want to see him?" ”

Herolius was a little surprised: "Odoace? Didn't he return to Carmen because he was seriously injured in the failed raid on Silver Songzhai? He's not there to recuperate, why is he here? ”

"This subordinate is not clear, he only said that there is an urgent matter to ask to see the general, and this matter is related to the life and death of the army!"

Helorius thought for a moment and waved his hand: "You go and bring one of him to meet me, and the others stay outside!" ”

"Yes, General!"

But he said that after Valdoru returned to his tent, it didn't take long for him to hear someone calling him outside, and when he came out, he saw that it was Odoase's entourage, and he was immediately surprised: "Why are you here?" Aren't you in Carmen with your cousin? ”

When the man saw Valdoru, he immediately cried, "The city of Carmen is lost, the leader fled with us, and we are only fifty men left, woo woo woo ......."

"What? Lost the city of Carmen? My cousin fled here? Why didn't he come to me? ”

"The chief has been taken to see the Roman general, I think he should come to you soon, Valdoru, you better hurry up and prepare, it's not safe here, we have to leave here immediately and go to the south, the city of Carmen was breached by the Huns, they attacked Hall's territory all the way up the west hill from Lila, and finally hit the city of Carmen, poor Hall, now he doesn't even know that he has no home, and he is kept in the dark like a fool."

Valdoru's face changed drastically, "How can this be?" What is my cousin doing to see Helorius? ”

The man said: "Of course, I went to report the situation to the Roman general, you don't know that the city of Carmen has been captured, and the Huns will soon come from the southwest, and then they and the Huns in the city of Razlog will flank the allied forces before and after, and the allied forces will inevitably suffer heavy casualties!" ”

Valdoru nodded, "What did Helorius think when he saw my cousin and learned about the situation?" ”

"He has already decided to retreat tonight, and the leader is worried that you won't have time to prepare, so let me come over first and tell you to prepare early, so as not to be too late when you retreat!"

Valdoru hurriedly said: "Okay, I know, you go and tell my cousin that I am packing my things, and I will soon take everyone to the Chinese army tent to meet him!" ”

"Okay, hurry up!"

When Odoasé's retinue had gone, Valdoru quickly tore off a small strip of cloth from his underwear, wrote some words with a reed pen, and after writing it, rolled the strip into a roll, and took out a small cage from the sheepskin garment on the wall of the tent, in which a pigeon was cooing, and he took out the pigeon from the small cage, and stuffed the strip of cloth into a small tube on the pigeon's feet, and then covered the tube, and then stuffed the pigeon into the small cage, and carried the small cage into his bosom, and then went out of the tent, and rode to the edge of the camp. Seeing that there was no one around, he opened the small cage, and the pigeon inside came out and flew into the sky, and disappeared before the blink of an eye.

Normally, Valdoru used pigeons to carry messages at night, so that he did not have to risk coming out, but it was daytime, and it was not safe to release pigeons outside the tent during the day, and if someone shot it would be over, so he had to go to the edge of the camp to release pigeons to reduce the risk of pigeons being shot.

Razlog, Qin Dong stood on the city wall to inspect the city fortifications and the mental state of the soldiers, although the main force of the coalition army arrived, but there has been no attack, two days ago he relied on a fight to make the Romans unbearable, morale was extremely low, the Romans had to withdraw back to the camp, and the soldiers under his command were one by one with high morale, and they had long wanted to fight with the main force of Rome.

At this time, Liu San ran over panting: "My lord, there is news coming, and there are several news in a row."

Qin Dong stood still: "Oh, what good news makes you so happy?" (To be continued......)