Tolong sent someone to wake Muren up and inform him of the matter, and the two discussed it for a while, and Muren asked, "You said yesterday that they only had less than a day's grain and grass at that time?" Grain and grass for 10,000 people? ”

"Of course, this is a message sent by an adult to me, this news should not be false, as far as I know, we had spies within the coalition at that time, and the news should be true!"

Mu Ren nodded: "In this way, the explanation for this matter is there, the other party pretended to be dead and attacked Babur and his companions, robbed him of his coat and hat, and two horses, just to disguise our people to avoid the patrol's interrogation and break out, the purpose of breaking out is naturally to move the rescue soldiers, if their food is not lost, they can eat for the remaining people now for five days, five days is enough time to send troops from Macedonia to rescue them!" In the middle, it must be based on the premise that we have not broken their formation, otherwise it will be in vain to save more soldiers! ”

Toron said, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"First, send someone to hunt down the man who went to move the rescue soldiers, and second, you must defeat them as much as possible, I don't have time to spend here with them! We divided the men and horses into several parts and took turns to harass them, not letting them rest, and as soon as they slackened, they immediately attacked with all their strength and broke their defenses in one fell swoop! ”

"Well, I think it's possible, so let's do it!" Tolong pondered Muren's plan for a moment and agreed to this approach.

Next, under the command of Muren and Tolon, the Hun cavalry harassed the remnants of the 14th Army of 2,000 men in batches and periods, and sometimes large groups of cavalry galloped around the perimeter of the Roman army. The Roman soldiers were terrified, and sometimes they took advantage of the defenselessness of the Roman army to shoot arrows into the military formation, resulting in many Roman soldiers being shot before they had time to raise their shields. After a day of harassment, by the evening, the Roman soldiers were already exhausted, and the Hun cavalry was full of energy and body because they were acting in batches and times, and Helorius and his generals could not tell which of the Huns was really fighting and which was fake. All the generals and soldiers can only be put on full defense, but in this way, not only the soldiers can't stand it after a long time. The generals were tired as well.

At night, every hour or two, the Huns blew their horns. The Romans did not deal with the Huns once or twice. I had long known the meaning of their horns, and knew that it was the horn of attack, and Herolius waited for a long time after organizing the defense with all his might, but the Huns just didn't come to attack, so it took an hour or two to determine that the Huns were joking, so they let the generals and soldiers rest, but the soldiers and generals had just laid down, and the Huns' attack horns sounded outside. Helorius had to order his soldiers to rise up and defend themselves with a dark eye, and so on several times. Many of the Roman soldiers couldn't stand it, and at dawn, even Helorius was tossed like this for a day and a whole night, and his spirit was broken, what else to talk about fighting?

Finally, it was dawn again, if the Huns attacked during the day, the Roman army here could be found in time, so as not to be caught off guard, after the Huns died down again, I saw a Hun cavalry holding an envoy banner to run towards the Roman army.

This is not only the etiquette of war, but also the rule of war since ancient times, which is not only common in the east, but also in the west, but all reasonable generals will not kill the enemy envoys.

The Roman soldiers who were defending on the periphery of the army were on guard when they saw the Hun cavalry coming, but the centurions shouted loudly to the soldiers not to act rashly and see what the other side had for purpose.

The Hun cavalry stopped a few dozen meters in front of the Roman army formation and shouted in Latin: "On the other side, please show up to your legion commander, General Helorius, and our Lord Muren has something to say!" ”

"Go and report to the general!" A centurion ordered the soldiers around him, in this case, a small centurion obviously can't call the shots, he can only report the situation, as for what to do above, it is not up to him to decide.

Soon, Helorius, who had not rested for a day and a night and his eyes were red, appeared on horseback, looked at the Hun cavalry and asked in a loud voice: "I am Herorius, what does Muren have to say for you to bring here!" ”

I saw that the Hun cavalry did not speak at first, raised his hand, threw out a sackcloth package, the package flew through the outer defense circle of the Roman army formation, fell on the ground in the army formation, and rolled out of the ground for a long distance before stopping rolling.

The contents of the parcel were far away, the cloth of the parcel was wet, and a centurion presented it to Helorius, and a guard next to him opened the package, only to reveal a bloody human head, the head of the man who had been sent out to call for help.

"Ahh

The surrounding generals were all shocked, they were not afraid of the dead, but the head of the person they sent out to ask for help in the early hours of yesterday morning suddenly appeared in front of them, which surprised them, and at the same time completely shattered their original hope, and their hearts began to fear.

The appearance of this head here shows that Muren has seen through their plan to send people back to Macedonia to move the rescue troops, and then they want to send people back to move the rescue troops, but they are afraid that it will be even more difficult.

Helorius's face was a little pale, but he tried his best to stabilize his feelings, so that the generals and soldiers around him could not see the despair in his heart, and after waving his hand to put the head away, he shouted to the Hun cavalry on the opposite side: "What do you Muren have to say to me?" ”

"Lord Muren said, General, you and your army have fallen into a desperate situation, even if your grain and grass can support a few days, but in the field, your last 2,000 people are impossible to withstand the attack of my 2,000 Hun iron cavalry, Lord Muren hopes that you will lead your army to surrender, you will enjoy the due treatment of prisoners, if the Western Empire wants to redeem you, you still have a chance to return to China, your lord hopes to get your reply in two hours."

The Hun cavalry who passed the word left, leaving the silent silence of Helorius and others, now the situation is very obvious, if there is no rescue, they will not be able to escape no matter what, the other side has two thousand cavalry, and they only have less than two thousand infantry, when they form a heavy infantry defensive formation, the Huns may have some scruples, after all, a forced attack will cause heavy casualties to themselves, but if the Huns do not attack forcibly, but keep delaying time, their military spirit will be lost, When the time comes, the whole army will collapse on its own. On the other hand, it is impossible for them to maintain a heavy infantry defensive formation all the time, as long as they relax a little and there is a gap in the formation, the Huns will seize the opportunity to break it in one fell swoop, and then the whole army will be annihilated.

When everyone returned to the tent in the middle of the formation, Herolius looked at the generals and staff present and asked, "How is it?" You all know the situation, it can be said that we are now in a desperate situation, the Huns have seen through our intention to send people back for help, and sending people there will only be sending people to kill them, there is no need to add another life. What do you think? ”

No one spoke up, probably no one thought of a good way, and this was a staff member who spoke: "General, based on the current form, we only have two ways to choose. First, choose to surrender, so as to protect all the remaining people here, and you, as the supreme commander here, can be regarded as fulfilling the responsibility of a general. Second, drag on and hold on to the last moment, maybe the situation will change or not, our grain and grass can still support for several days, but this is very risky, the Huns have been harassing us, not letting us rest, as long as we have the slightest slack, the Huns may take the opportunity to raid, and then the whole army will be wiped out! It's up to the general to decide how to choose! ”

A wing commander said coldly: "I thought I could choose the third way and fight them to the death until the last man was exhausted!" ”

The staff sneered: "My lord, I admire your courage in facing life and death, but I'm afraid the Huns won't give you this opportunity!" ”

"Why? Why? ”

"Just because we are all infantry, and they are all cavalry! Even if you want to fight with them, can they fight with those of us who are already dying? They're not stupid, do you really think they're barbarians, they're stupid in their brains? In fact, they are much smarter than us, otherwise how could we have ended up here? They have horses, we don't, as long as they keep harassing us, we don't have to attack, we will have to run in a few days, and then they will attack them, and we will still be wiped out, understand, my lord! ”

The generals were noisy here, some advocated delaying, some advocated surrender, after all, not everyone had the courage to die, time passed slowly, and soon two hours passed, and there was no clear conclusion in the big tent, whether to surrender or delay time, at this time a soldier outside the tent reported that someone from the Huns came to inquire about the results, and said that the main general of the other party asked to see Helorius, and Herolius had to go out to meet with Muren.

"General Helorius, you have been in the army for decades and have a wealth of combat experience, I believe you have some understanding of the environment you and your army are in now, do you think you still need to continue fighting? Surrender, General, for the sake of the lives of your remaining 2,000 soldiers, I hope you will surrender! You have done your best, you have fulfilled the responsibility of a general, if it were someone else, I am afraid that you would have left these people to flee for your life, I am afraid that the whole army would have been wiped out a long time ago, but you did not leave the army to flee for your life, under your command, in the face of so many fierce attacks from us, your army only lost its strength, and did not rout, this is simply a miracle, you are a great general, I salute you! ”

These words made Herolius feel a little better, after all, not every general is qualified to be praised by enemy generals, Muren's words simply went to his heart, and at this moment he even felt that only Muren was the one who knew him best in this world.

After thinking for a long time, Herolius asked, "General Muren, it's okay for me to surrender, but I have some conditions, can you make full decisions?" ”

"Yes, my general authorized me to be fully responsible for the affairs of the Second Route Army, of course, including surrender, negotiations, etc.!" (To be continued......)