"Great King, the three thousand light cavalry sent by the last general have found the people and horses of Deng Zhixike who are going north three hundred miles away, but this road is a bait, most of them are people, only the one thousand cavalry escorted by Deng Zhixike, according to the news sent back by the messenger, the last three thousand people have been all solved by the one thousand cavalry escorted, after a big battle, more than four hundred people were eliminated, and more than six hundred people were captured, and they are now ready to move these people back!"

Afald reported on the situation of sending troops to pursue in the north, and after hearing this, Qin Dong took a map and looked at it, and the place more than 300 miles away from Oman should be near Kiev in later Ukraine, because in that area, where three rivers meet, Kiev is in that area.

After hearing this, Qin Dong's heart moved, and he waved his hand and said: "You don't have to let them move the people back, order them to let the people camp on the banks of the Rus River, and then build a city and name it 'Kiev'!" ”

The Rus River is the Dnieper, and in this era the Dnieper was not called this name, but the Rus River, and this name was given by the Eastern Slavs.

"Uh, yes, King!" Alfald was a little puzzled, why Qin Dong chose such a name.

Historically, Kiev began to build its city during this period, and it is not clear who built it here, but Ukrainian culture originated here. Kiev is located on both banks of the middle reaches of the Dnieper River and near the confluence of its largest tributaries, the Pripyat and Desna rivers.

"My lord, there are many tribes of Eastern Slavs living near here, and I am afraid that building a city here rashly will cause disputes."

Qin Dong snorted coldly: "So what? The Slavs were originally vassals of my Great Huns. Do I still need their consent to build a city there for the Huns? ”

The Slavs are the largest group of ethnic and linguistic groups located on the European continent. Its range is mainly in the eastern and southeastern parts of central Europe, and a few settlements span the Siberian region of northern Asia and reach as far as the Pacific region of the Far East. The language belongs to the Indo-European Slavic language family.

The Slavs are customarily divided into three main groups, namely the Eastern Slavs, the Western Slavs, and the South Slavs. The Eastern Slavs, also known as the Antes, were an eastern branch of the Slavs, the oldest and largest tribal group in Europe. The Russian nation is now the largest branch of the Eastern Slavs, and the word "Russia" originates from the name of an East Slavic tribe "Rus" or "Rus". The Eastern Slavs were born on the territory of Ukraine along the famous Dnieper. The Dnieper River is not only the cradle of the Eastern Slavs, but also the lifeblood of their survival and reproduction. One of the tributaries of the Dnieper, called the Rus, was inhabited by a tribe of the Eastern Slavs, the Russians. It is rumored that the name of the Russians is derived from this river.

West Slavs. Also known as the Veneds, a branch of the Slavs, they operate mainly in the Eastern European Plain. Mainly Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbians, etc. Unlike the Eastern and South Slavs, the West Slavs were Catholic and Protestant.

The Yugoslavs, also called Slavins, are mainly Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, and Bulgarians from the Balkans.

"What the king said is true," said Alfard, "except that the tribal leaders of the Eastern Slavs had a high dominion over their tribes. The people of the tribe basically only listen to the people of their tribal leaders. And those leaders are very stubborn, and they are not easy to deal with! ”

Qin Dong thought for a while and then made a move: "You convey the order to the past, let the general who leads the team use his brains when getting along with the local tribal leaders, if the tribal leaders can be bought, buy them, if they can't be bought, support the people in their tribe who oppose the leaders to fight with the tribal leaders, let them fight themselves, only in this way can we control them well!" ”

Alfald immediately understood Qin Dong's intentions. He nodded and said, "The last general understands, and the king will let him go." The last general is going to give the order! ”

It didn't take long for Tuolong to come, and he also came to report to Qin Dong the situation of the three thousand people he sent to pursue the east, "King, the three thousand people I sent caught up with a team of men and horses in Zaporosh in the lower reaches of the Rus River, according to the reconnaissance, it was the main force of Deng Zhixik, they now have a total of more than 50,000 people, he was defeated after the decisive battle with us and brought back more than 10,000 people, there should be more than 10,000 people who originally stayed in Oman, about 20,000, and this time they moved east and took all the 30,000 young men and women who originally lived in Oman away, These young men and women can basically ride horses and shoot arrows, and their strength is extraordinary, although their individual combat ability is not as good as ours, but they have an absolute advantage in numbers. ”

Qin Dong's brows furrowed again when he heard this, he thought that he could directly kill Deng Zhixike if he caught up with him, but he didn't expect that this guy would take away 30,000 young men and women of the Hun clan, which was really a big trouble. All of these people can be herdsmen and herdsmen, and they can also go on horses and shoot arrows to fight, just like Tolong said, if you really want to fight, you don't know who loses and who wins, even if you can win, you must lose a lot, is this account worth it? However, Deng Zhixike coerced more than 30,000 young and middle-aged men and women, and the number of women in them is quite large, and they are all young and middle-aged, and their fertility is very strong, as long as it takes another 20 years, it will inevitably grow to hundreds of thousands, and this issue cannot be ignored.

Qin Dong pondered for a while and asked, "Are those three thousand light horsemen still hanging behind Deng Zhixike's army now?" ”

"Yes, my lord! ”

Qin Dong got up and walked a few laps in the tent, and after standing still, he said: "Take the main force of your Third Army and set off immediately to the east, hanging behind the army of Deng Zhixike, until they are driven to the area east of the Attila River, they are definitely not allowed to stop in the area west of the Attila River!" ”

The Attila River is actually the Volga River, and the Turkic peoples living along the Volga River call the Volga River the Attila River, and it is said that the name of the Hun king Attila is derived from the name of this river.

"Yes, my lord, the last general will go and prepare!" Toron said yes and walked out of the tent.

The area east of the lower Volga is basically inhabited by the Huns, and there are several tribes of the Huns living along the coast and east of the Black Sea, the two largest tribes of the Huns in Kutligar and Utgar, but after passing the lower reaches of the Volga, the territory of the Avars is to the east.

The Avars are also a people with their own story, and they also created a large empire, calling themselves the "Maarulars", who lived in the North Caucasus, East Caucasus, and the Caspian coast during the period when the Huns ruled central, eastern, and northern Europe.

Historically, after the end of the Huns' rule in Europe, the Avars began to move westward, they intervened in the tribal wars of the Germanic peoples, and drove all the Germanic people to the south, while the Germans had to cross the Alps, after which the Avars settled in the Pannonian plain, and after the end of the Huns' rule, they replaced the Huns in the central, eastern and northern parts of Europe for three centuries.

In the second half of the 6th century, the Avars established an empire centered on the Hungarian plain, reaching its peak at the end of the 6th century. Participated in the anti-Byzantine war at the beginning of the 7th century and almost captured Constantinople in 626. In the second half of the 7th century, there was internal strife, and about 9,000 opposition members were driven out of the empire. Then there was an uprising, which made the empire even more declining. It was conquered by Charlemagne in 805.

Judging from the records in the Western history books, the Avars living on the shores of the Caspian Sea at this time were not the real Awa people, the real Awa people were the old enemies of northern China at this time, and these tribal peoples were only the vassals of the real Avar - Rouran, they were driven west by Rouran after rebelling against Rouran, and they only borrowed the name of their former master.

Byzantine historian Theophilaktes? Seymour Kata believed that there were two kinds of Avars, the true Avars being the Rourans: they were people who had been Mongol masters throughout the 5th century until they were defeated and replaced by the Turks in 552. The False Avars are the Avars of medieval European history who have appropriated the frightening name of Avar. These false Avars are said to have consisted of two united tribes, the Uar or var (hence the name Avar) and the Kunni or Huni (a name that alludes to their Xiongnu origins).

In the following days, Qin Dongdu stayed in Oman and waited for news, and news came one after another on the eastern front, and Tolong led the Third Army to the east at a very fast speed, and after three days, he caught up with the three thousand light cavalry who were monitoring Deng Zhixike.

Deng Zhixike, who arrived in the lower reaches of the Don River, sent people to the two Xiongnu tribes living here, Kutliger and Utgar, to ask them to send men and horses to help them resist the pursuit of the Qin Eastern army, but when the leaders of the two Xiongnu tribes, Kutliger and Utgar, learned that the royal court army behind them was pursuing Deng Zhixike's army, they immediately sternly refused, as the local tribal leaders, although they did not have much contact with the royal court, they also knew the power of the royal court's army.

After the death of Attila in history, the Xiongnu Empire was torn apart, and no one raised the banner of the royal court again, so when Deng Zhixike fled here with his troops, the two Xiongnu tribes of Kutliger and Utgar were all regarded as his master, but it was a pity that Deng Zhixike was only shallow in learning, and failed to rebuild the Xiongnu Empire, and finally ended up defeated and died, and his head was hung on the head of Constantinople to show the public.

Now the two Xiongnu tribes of Kutligar and Utgar not only did not accept Deng Zhixik, but gathered a large army to set up a position to deal with Deng Zhixik's army, after all, for the two tribes of Kutliger and Utgar, who thought they were very pure-blooded Huns, Deng Zhixik belonged to a rebellion, how could they help the traitors deal with the king's division?

After the hostility of the two Xiongnu tribes, Kutliger and Utgar, Deng Zhixik had no choice but to immediately lead his troops to continue their eastward movement, and they had to cross the Don River to the east, all the way to the Volga. (To be continued......)