Chapter 427: Surrender
In less than half an hour, more than 30,000 people of the Franks, Saxons, and Sarmatians of the Sali tribe completely collapsed under the impact of the 8,000 cavalry of the Hu Empire, and there were countless casualties on the battlefield, and these 30,000 people suffered the impact of the 8,000 cavalry of the Hu Empire, and less than half of them were scattered on the banks of the Rhône, a large part of these people threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg, and the other part of about 6,000 people rushed towards the city of Vieira, which is not far from the north. But they did not know that the city of Vieira had already fallen into the hands of Hans.
The battle went on to this point, for the remaining Franks, Saxons, and Sarmatians, it was to flee for their lives, to flee as far as they could, preferably into the city of Vieira before the cavalry of the Hu Empire caught up, and for the cavalry division led by Hans, it was to hunt down and receive prisoners.
If the person who is caught up is clever and immediately throws his weapon and kneels to surrender, he can still pick up a life, while the person who is caught up and does not surrender in time can only be shot or killed.
The situation was decided, and Hans, who was panting, saw that the enemy had collapsed, and immediately ordered the heavy cavalry regiment to be left to receive the prisoners, and the archers and crossbow cavalry pursued the enemy in small groups, and if the enemy surrendered, he would take them down.
A one-sided chase was staged, which was flat by the Rhône, with little place to hide, and after the Germanic infantry had run desperately for some distance, those who fell behind were quickly overtaken, and sharp arrows came from behind, and the sharp arrows shot through their bodies, and their bodies fell to the ground and became corpses.
Large swaths of grass were stained red with blood. Everywhere lay corpses on the road and on the sides of Vieira, the Franks or Saxons or Sarmatians who had been killed in the process of fleeing.
As Qin Dong had predicted, Cheldrick and the Saxon chieftain, Queen Sarmatia, could not sit still immediately after receiving that their territory was being attacked by the Hu Empire. They hurriedly pulled out their camp and set off to rush back to their land, taking Lyon was the closest way, but they didn't expect that the news of their advance in the direction of Lyon was known to Qin Dong, so they set up an ambush.
This time the coalition forces of the Western Roman Empire can be said to be an anticlimactic behavior, they are already full of contradictions between each other, and without the command and coordination of a highly prestigious commander like Aetius, Li Ximir could not hold back at all. This led to the withdrawal of the Visigothic king Theodoric II and the king of Alan, Sanjiban, after the Qindong army pretended to withdraw, and the coalition army was dispersed. If this were not the case, the Franks, Saxons, and Sarmatians would not have been ambushed on the way to Lyon, all of which stemmed from Agul's ploy, pretending to withdraw their troops and causing a chain reaction on the side of the Western Roman Empire.
In other words, why did the Visigothic king Theodoric II immediately lead his army back after hearing about the withdrawal of the army of the Hu Empire? Thus led to the dissolution of the coalition forces? There's a reason for that. At the time of the Battle of Chalon. He was not very old, so he did not participate in the battle of Chalons with his father Theodoric I and his brother Torismund, but stayed in Toulouse, who knew that in Chalons his father Theodoric I was killed on the spot, and the command of the army was taken over by his elder brother, Torismund, the prince of the Visigothic kingdom at the time. So at that time, Aetius used a discordant tactic against Torrismond, saying that if Torrismond did not lead his army back to China. Theodoric II will be pushed to the throne of the king by the ministers in the country, Torrismond was worried that the king's throne would be snatched away by his younger brother Theodoric II, so he no longer pursued Attila, but led the army back to Toulouse, due to the discord, Torrismond wanted to kill his brother several times, lest he rob his own king's throne, but none of them succeeded, and then Torrismond died of illness, his son was still young, and it was irresponsible for the kingdom to be a king in this troubled time, So the ministers put their grown brother Theodoric II on the throne of the king, and Theodoric II was in such a hurry to lead the army back to Toulouse this time because he was afraid that he was not in Toulouse, and his nephew would peep into his king's throne, so he impatiently led the army back to Toulouse.
After losing a large number of men, the Frankish leader Hildrik, the queen of Sarmatia, and the leader of the Saxons fled all the way to Vieira with the remnants of the defeated army of about 6,000 people.
"Open the door, open the city gate, I am Hildrik, the leader of the Frankish Sali tribe, we are allies with your Burgundian Kingdom, the army of the Hu Empire is chasing us behind our backs, quickly open the city gate and let us in!" Cyldrik rode his war horse and looked up in the direction of the gate of the royal city, shouting loudly.
"Hahaha......." I saw a presumptuous laughter coming from the city gate building, and suddenly erected a wolf flag on the city tower, and then I saw countless soldiers wearing the armor of the Hu people empire appeared on the city wall.
A general in dark armor walked to the battlements of the city wall and looked at Hildryk, the Saxon chieftain, and the Queen of Salmatya below, and said loudly, "Hildryk, General Ben has been waiting for you here for a long time!" ”
"Ah—it's the Hu people, it's the Hu army, they have taken this city!" The defeated troops under the city found that the army of the Hu Empire was on the city wall, and they were so frightened that they retreated again and again on the spot, and even the war horses couldn't help but keep retreating and neighing.
The three leaders finally managed to control the situation of the rout, but the remaining more than 6,000 people were still in disarray, some of them were already paralyzed on the ground in fright, and some were so frightened that they peed their pants.
Cheldrick said with a gloomy face: "Okay, very good, I didn't expect that for the sake of our people, Qin Dong would use so many soldiers and horses to create such a big formation, it seems that you are planning to leave us here completely today?" ”
"You're right!" The general of the Hu Ren Empire in the city tower said loudly: "Acquaintance, I advise you to lose your weapons quickly, dismount and surrender to save your lives, here there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the earth!" ”
Cheldrick said angrily, "Do you think this is possible? ”
"Then there's nothing to say!" The general on the city wall shouted: "Everyone listen to the order, shoot-"
"Whoosh ......"
The city walls are all crossbow cavalry, there are a thousand people left here, these people each have a repeater, the repeater can fire ten arrows in a row at a time, the Franks, Saxons and Sarmatians under the city gate were originally very close to the city wall, a thousand crossbow cavalry on the city wall fired with a crossbow, which is equivalent to a submachine gun in each person's hand, and the people in front of the city wall were instantly bad, Hilldrik was the leader, he was the most eye-catching, so he greeted him with the most arrows, and he was shot into a hedgehog almost instantly.
The Dalmatian queen and the Saxon chief were both dead, and when the general on the city wall had just given the order, they knew that something was going to be bad, and immediately rolled off their horses and hid under the belly of the horse, but their horses were not spared, and some were shot like Hedgehog like Hildrik.
After a turn of arrows, a large number of dead and wounded people had been killed and wounded under the walls, and about a thousand people were shot at the hedgehog, along with some people's horses.
As soon as the rain of arrows stopped, the Saxon chieftain and the queen of Sarmatia, who were hiding under the carcass of the horses, lifted the carcass of the horses, got up and turned and galloped in the opposite direction, and after getting out of the range of the crossbow arrows, they grabbed the horses of the other soldiers and fled with the men and horses in panic.
As soon as the remnants of the Franks, Saxons, and Sarmatians, led by the two chiefs, fled from the city, the cavalry of the Hu Empire caught up behind.
"Report - Commander, the enemy has bypassed the city of Vieira and fled to the northeast!"
The commander of the archers put his hands on the pergola and looked in the northeast direction, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, they can't escape, order all the departments to bypass their flanks and drive them all together to surround them, it is too time-consuming to chase them one by one, and it is the fastest solution to surround them and end them in one pot!" ”
"Yes!"
The two-legged infantry outran the four-legged cavalry anyway, and the archers quickly bypassed the flanks to block the way of the remnants of the rout, and began to form an encirclement.
There are enemies in all directions, no matter what direction they run, there are cavalry of the Hu Empire surrounding, Queen Sarmatia saw that she and others were constantly being driven back, and the space for movement was getting smaller and smaller, she knew that she had lost the opportunity to escape, the cavalry encirclement of the Hu Empire had been formed, and the opponent was a bow and arrow with long-range lethality, and they would be shot if they couldn't get close to the other party.
"Things have come to this point, if you want to live, the only way is to surrender, and I have decided to surrender!" Queen Sarmatia said.
The Saxon leader also had a gloomy face, his face was pale, and he nodded: "There is no way, I can only surrender, if I don't surrender, I will definitely die, if we surrender, the Hu Empire may need us and will not kill us, as the leader, we at least have a better chance of survival, surrender!" ”
The envoy was sent out, and the envoy with the banner of surrender asked to meet the general of the Hu Imperial army, and Hans rushed over to meet the envoy as soon as he got the news.
As an envoy to the Franks, Sarmatians, and Saxons, after meeting Hans, he put forward his own conditions: not to kill or torture the captives, but to ensure the food supply of the captives, and that the chiefs, queens, and generals should be treated as they deserved.
Hans assured that as long as the captives did not resist and did not want to escape, they would be safe and would be treated as they deserved. Then the Sarmatian queen, the Saxon chieftain, and several of the leading generals of the Franksali tribe came together to surrender to Hans with weapons in both hands, and a simple surrender ceremony was held. (To be continued......)