Chapter 140: One Move
Leo died, his upper body was almost cut in half, but his body was still standing upright on horseback after his death, the war horse carried him back, Ramon did not pursue, of course he knew that Leo was absolutely dead, there was no need to attack again, in fact, he had already known that Leo was injured, originally he planned to persuade Leo to admit defeat and give up, but Leo knew that he was seriously injured and had to continue, he knew that his persuasion was useless, so he simply continued to fight in order to complete Leo.
Watching the horse carry Leo back, Ramon sat on the horse's back and bowed his head to Leo's corpse, and then pulled the reins and rode back to his main formation.
When Ramon got off his horse, he was lifted up and thrown high by a dozen mercenaries, and when he fell, he was abandoned again, and after repeating this many times, he was dissuaded by Herram, and Ramon was able to escape from the clutches of everyone.
"Hahaha, well done, Lamond! I knew you were going to win, and you didn't let me down! Herram laughed and patted Ramon on the shoulder, not sparing his praise.
Ramon couldn't be happier, Leo was too impressed with him, this guy who was seriously injured and still didn't give up fighting was a real warrior, a real warrior, a warrior was a person who fought at the last moment of his life,
Compared with the elated scene on the mercenary group's side, the situation on Qin Dong's side was a bit worse, the joy originally brought by the first victory was completely gone, and the morale instantly dropped back to a lower level than before the start of the fight, and the soldiers' feelings were also a little low.
Leo, who was camelized back by his war horse, was no longer breathing. Qin Dong ordered his body to be tied to the war horse to prevent him from falling off the horse, and only after this incident was over did he find a place to cremate as a knight. Qin Dong thought that even if a knight died, he should die on a war horse, and if he went out on a war horse, he should also ride a war horse back, regardless of life or death.
Now the mercenary group has won the second game and pulled back a game, and the two sides are now tied, and who is the final winner will depend on who wins the third game. This will determine the ownership of that shipment.
After a burst of excitement, the mercenary group quieted down, after all, the final outcome is still unknown, and it is a little too early to be too happy. In the third game, Herram decided to play in person, and this last game is related to the final outcome of the game, and there can be no mistakes.
With a great sword at his waist, Heram rode his war horse to the middle. Stopping at the place where he was fighting just now, he drew his big sword and pointed to the opposite side and shouted, "I am Herram, the leader of the Sun Mercenary Regiment. I'm going to play this last one, I'm going to challenge your leader, it's a decisive battle between leaders, I don't want to bully the small, don't send a small minion to send me away, if you don't have the guts, go back and forth! ”
Helam had heard from Ptistes that the shipment was originally a caravan, and he thought that the leader of a caravan should not be very powerful, right? If you are very powerful, how can you become the leader of the caravan? Therefore, he directly challenged Qin Dong. Who says he's not smart? Actually, he was very shrewd.
"Bring me my weapons!" Qin Dong said without looking back.
Immediately, two cavalrymen rode over with Qin Dong's three-pointed and two-edged sword, and this three-pointed and two-edged knife made of stainless steel weighed more than eighty catties. Approaching ninety pounds, ordinary people can't hold one hand at all, and even if they can move, they can't move freely, so they are wrapped in a piece of animal skin on the way to the march and let a horse carry it.
Qin Dong was worried that he was embarrassed to bully the other party's little minion, how did he know that this time Herram was on the field in person, and the other party asked him to play by name, which was exactly what he couldn't ask for, since it was a decisive battle between the leaders, he was no longer polite, and took the three-pointed two-edged knife from the shoulders of the two knights around him, grabbed a knife in his hand, and rode towards Herram.
Although the horse under Qin Dong is not a very good horse, it is not bad, it is about the same as an ordinary thousand miles horse, he is tall and strong, not only is the short-distance sprint speed very fast, but even the long-distance run is not a problem, it can be regarded as a good horse, but it is much worse than the precious BMW or the king of horses.
Qin Dong rode his horse step by step towards Herram, stopped forty meters in front and shouted: "Since Captain Herram is so appreciative, if I don't fight in person, I will be disrespectful to Captain Herram, my name is Qin Dong, and I am the commander of the Thrace region of the Great Hun Empire, if Captain Heram is lucky enough to go to hell, please don't forget to say hello to Lord Satan for me, and at the same time, I also hope that no matter who wins or loses today, we will not mention our identity to anyone, after all, if the identity between you and me is officially known by the Eastern Roman Empire, The consequences are unimaginable! ”
"Wow-" After Qin Dong's words fell, all the mercenaries on the mercenary group's side were in an uproar, the identity of Qin Dong and the others was really unexpected by them, they originally thought it was a caravan escort, but they didn't expect it to be pretended by the Huns, this contrast is really unacceptable.
In fact, these mercenaries do not have any national and national concepts, their loyalty to the Eastern Roman Empire is really limited, if you go back fifty years, they may still have a sense of belonging to the Roman Empire, but since the Roman Empire split into the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, and the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire became a Maximian without any royal blood, their loyalty plummeted, until finally became dispensable.
These people do not have any hatred for the Huns, but the reputation of the Huns is too strong, and anyone who knows that these people in front of them are the Huns will not be indifferent, they are worried that these people will kill on a large scale, they are not unable to accept the result of surrendering the Huns, after all, in this era in Europe, the Greeks and Italians have long been accustomed to surrendering the Huns. During Attila's invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, the pitiful chastity of the arrogant Italians and Romans had long been taken away by the Huns, and as long as the Huns were in the city, the Romans would put up white flags and open the gates of the city to welcome, and the city was replaced with the banner of the Huns, because they knew that the price of defending the city was more heavy than surrendering, and as long as the Huns had obtained enough money and women had just left the city gate, they immediately closed the city gate. Replace the flag of the city with the flag of the Roman Empire again.
The reputation of the Huns is too ferocious, even the mercenary leader like Herram, who has seen a lot of the world, couldn't help but tremble after listening to Qin Dong's words, ten years ago, the Huns took more than 70 cities in just a few days. Finally, under the leadership of Attila and Breda, the troops came to the city of Constantinople, at that time he was still a small soldier of the Eastern Roman Empire, he saw the great power of the Hun cavalry at the head of the city, tens of thousands of cavalry surrounded the west of Constantinople to death, and the endless cavalry galloped under the city, the overwhelming roar of horses' hooves, and the huge murderous aura emitted by the sword soldiers made him scared at that time.
Now he actually met the commander of the Huns in person. This is not a small official position, and a thousand Hun cavalry is enough to scare a Roman legion into turning around and leaving.
There were already quite a few mercenaries who were moving their bodies slowly, and they were backwards. They had already begun to retreat, and as long as the shape was not right, they would flee, and there were nearly two hundred Hun cavalry here. It was definitely not something that these mercenaries, who were less than five hundred people, could fight against. They know who they are.
Ptistes didn't expect that the identity of the other party turned out to be the Hun thousand, and it was the closest to the Eastern Roman Empire Xiongnu thousand, this person's identity is simply life-threatening, since Maxim was put on the throne of the emperor by the ministers and the sister of the dead emperor, he has done a few things that are a little meritorious, two of which are the most talked about, the first point, unilaterally cancel the tribute to the Hun Empire. In the past, the Eastern Roman Empire paid 6,000 pounds of gold to the Xiongnu Empire every year, but after Maximian became emperor, he no longer paid tribute to the Xiongnu Empire. The second event was the convening of the Synod of Bishops of the Eastern Roman Empire two years ago, which established the Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and unified the thinking of the Church, with this view as the mainstream, and anyone who contradicted this view was pagan.
Based on the above measures after Maxim became emperor, the relationship between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Xiongnu Empire was very bad, in Putistes's view, if this Xiongnu commander named Qin Dong died in the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, it was very likely to trigger a war between the Xiongnu Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, he knew that the empire did not want to fight now, and if he did not want to fight, he had to make peace, how to make peace? The commander of the Huns died in the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, so he always has to give people an explanation, right? The empire will definitely use him and his Rhodopian mercenary group to appease the anger of the Huns, so this person can't die, at least not here. He couldn't help but be a little anxious, if Qin Dong killed Heram, it's better to say, Heram is dead, he can have one less competitor, if Heram unfortunately kills Qin Dong, this trouble will be big, as long as Qin Dong's cavalry runs back, the consequences will be fatal, and the resulting series of reactions make him shudder to think about it, but he has no choice now, both of them have already played, and the situation is no longer under his control.
It is false that Herram is not afraid or worried, this qiē is based on the fact that he was extremely afraid of the Huns in the past, but now he is difficult to ride a tiger, so if he doesn't fight, he will admit defeat directly? Are you kidding? If he admits defeat like this, he won't have to mix up in the future, and just go back to the countryside to buy a few fields to farm. But when he fought with Qin Dong, he was really a little afraid and a little timid, this kind of ambivalence was too uncomfortable.
Qin Dong was riding on horseback, because the distance from Hera was about forty meters, he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but everything that should have been said had already been said, but the other party didn't reply, which made Qin Dong very angry, and he said loudly: "Herram, don't you agree to my request?" Regardless of whether you win or lose, both parties must ensure that they do not reveal each other's identities! ”
Qin Dong's voice again brought Herram back to his senses, and he realized that now was not the time to be distracted, and he immediately agreed: "Okay, according to Qin Dong's request of the commander, neither of us is allowed to leak the news of the other party, otherwise we will inevitably be punished by God!" After speaking, he turned around and shouted, "Have you all heard my words clearly?" No one is allowed to leak their news! ”
"Got it!"
"We all heard you!" The mercenaries sparsely agreed.
Everything that should be explained has been explained, now is the time of battle, Qin Dong looked at Heram intently, and shouted with his legs between the horse's belly: "Drive-"
The war horse instantly accelerated and rushed towards Herram, Herram had no choice at this time, he could only choose to fight, otherwise he could only wait to be killed, he also rode his horse and rushed towards Qin Dong with a big sword.
The distance between the two sides was only forty meters, and it only took two seconds to ride a horse in the opposite direction, and in less than three seconds, Qin Dong suddenly stood on the stirrup and stood up, holding a three-pointed two-edged knife in both hands and slashing towards Herram.
Heram swung his sword to block and wanted to block Qin Dong's three-pointed two-edged knife, but he didn't want to not only not block the three-pointed two-edged knife split by Qin Dong, but was knocked out of his big sword by a huge force, Qin Dong stood on the stirrup and slashed with too much force, Herram grabbed the reins with his left hand, and only held the sword with his right hand, where could he withstand Qin Dong's full force to slash? It was already luck that he was not cut in half on the spot, but his luck had been exhausted, the two horses staggered, Qin Dong's backhand was swept over, only to see the knife flash, Herram's head rose to the sky, and the war horse ran more than ten meters with the headless corpse before landing on the ground and rolling a few times and stopped.
There was silence at the scene, no one made a sound, no one screamed, everyone opened their mouths wide, Heram died too quickly, he died without even taking a move from Qin Dong, this result was unacceptable to all the mercenaries, so there was this collective silence situation.
Even if the mercenaries can't believe it, but the facts are the facts, Herram's head is on the ground, this is a fact that no one can change, the third mercenary group lost on this side, Qin Dong's side won, according to the agreement, the people of the two mercenary groups must leave the goods, carriages, mules and horses before leaving, of course, they can also regret it, but no one will be so stupid.
Ptistes rode up to Rammond and said: "Ramund, Heram is dead, you are the deputy head of the Sun Mercenary Regiment, and now the Sun Mercenary Regiment is in charge of you, if you don't want to be blocked here all the time, please leave what you should leave as agreed with me and leave, and leave here as soon as possible!" I'm going first! ”
After finishing speaking, Puptistes ordered his men to leave the goods and wagons and mules and horses, and walked forward with only the booty and half of the tax silver, and as he went, Qin Dong shouted: "My lord, we have left something behind, please let us pass!" ”
Qin Dong waved his hand, and the cavalry behind him collectively turned their horses' heads and ran backwards, until they ran through the fork in the road, they stopped and turned to face this side again, Qin Dong also rode his horse and ran over and stood in front of the team.
Ramon saw that Putistes and the team had begun to turn until they did not leave any more goods, and when Pustitus walked over with his people, the Huns would definitely attack him, so he had to order the mercenaries to also leave the cargo carriage, and when it came to the fork in the road, it was very smooth, and Qin Dong did not attack them, which made Ramon and his mercenaries breathe a sigh of relief, and they took Herram's body with them. (To be continued......)