Chapter 407: A Wild Princess
After a long journey of more than ten days, Qin Dong led his army to the capital of the Alemanni Kingdom, Jurigo (later Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland), and the king of the Alemanni people, Gibquette, led his officials out of the city to meet Qin Dong's imperial chariot and the army of the western expedition.
Jurigo is located in the northern part of the Alps, at the northwest end of Lake Jurego, at the mouth of the Limmat River and Lake Zurich. The river divides the place in two.
From the middle of the 1st century AD, the Romans ruled the area and established fortresses and checkpoints in the Lindenhof hills, and in the early 5th century AD, the Alemanni invaded the area, where they did not face any resistance or attack, and from then on the Alemanni settled here, became the owners of the land, and used it as a base to start the invasion of the Roman Empire into Italy again and again across the Alps.
The Alemanni were very fearful and worried by the imperial power of Qin Dong and the brilliant power of his army, and although they had paid tribute to the Hu Empire, they were still worried that Qin Dong would lead an army to suddenly attack their towns and tribes.
In the eyes of the Alemanni people, the army brought by Qin Dong was mighty and majestic, especially the cavalry, and the large amount of equipment of the ironclad heavy cavalry made them guess that this army was extremely strong in combat, much stronger than the combat effectiveness of the light cavalry under Attila back then, and they were defeated by Attila and Sambus successively, and they had to bow down to their subordinates, and this time they did not dare to resist.
The Alemanni were clever enough to cross the Alps to invade the Western Roman Empire to the south, but they did not dare to make enemies of the Hu Empire, which was even more barbaric than them. They knew that the Roman Empire had no cavalry or that the cavalry was not very good, that they could not fight and could run back, and that the infantry of the Romans could not catch up with them, who had lived in the Black Forest and the bush for a long time. However, they could not outrun the army of the Hu Empire, which had a large number of light cavalry, and did not dare to confront those cavalry with heavy armor on men and horses, which in their eyes was purely an act of seeking death.
The Alemanni officials and populace crept in terror on either side of the road, and at the end of the road were King Gibkat and his women and children.
After Qin Dong rode a horse to Gibkate and stopped a few meters in front of him, an extremely depressed momentum rushed straight to Gibkate on the opposite side, and Gibkite trembled. Then he said loudly in a trembling voice: "I cannot express your greatness and wisdom in words, your Majesty the Emperor, your subject King Gibkett of the Alemanni people, and all the officials and subjects of the city of Jurigo are here to welcome the arrival of the great majesty. Your presence has made the whole of Jurigo shine brightly, your light bathes the land and its people, and the light of the sun and moon eclipses before you.......".
After a few steps, Kate praised Qin Dong with a big pimp long compliment, Qin Dong raised his hand indifferently and said, "Gibkit." Heaven bestows upon my brother. You are the well-deserved king of the Alemanni people, I have always wanted to have the opportunity to meet you, but I didn't expect this opportunity to finally come, please get up! ”
"Thank you, Your Great Emperor, your humble subject Gibkate is terrified!"
Later, under Gibkit's introduction, his women and a large group of children stepped forward to salute Qin Dong, but it was the turn of the last princess, Nicola, who had an accident.
After Nicola came out of the siblings, she did not salute Qin Dong on horseback, but stared at Qin Dong with a pair of big black eyes without blinking. Even Qin Dong, the emperor who had already been in a high position, was very uncomfortable with her for a long time, and her father Gibkit, her mother and a group of brothers and sisters saw that she had been staring at the emperor. But she didn't salute, she was so anxious that she kept telling her to hurry up and salute and retreat, so as not to alarm the emperor's holy drive.
After being looked at by this scantily dressed barbarian girl for so long, Qin Dong was also interested in this little girl with unscrupulous eyes, and saw that this barbarian princess was wearing a animal skin. There are many places on the body that make men salivate tender skin exposed outside, it seems that those exposed skin is not only tender and smooth, but also strong and powerful, which is not possessed by rich women living in big towns, her body is full of wildness, her facial features are exquisite, her eyes are big and black, a pair of eyebrows with full heroism, a small nose is green and erect, red lips and teeth are white, the more you look at it, the more you love to see, the more you look at it, the more you look at it, the more you look at it, the more you look at it.
Although she was dressed in animal skins, she was very well cut to include the places that should stand out from her, and the places that should be recessed were close to the skin, and her figure looked exceptionally well-proportioned and toned against the backdrop of the animal skins. Snow white fox fur was sewn on the collar, shoulders, cuffs, and hems of the animal skin garment, making her look more beautiful and full of wild and sexy charm.
"Bold barbarian woman, don't you kneel when you see His Majesty the Emperor?" Just as Qin Dong was admiring the princess of the Alemanni in front of him, there was a loud shout from the side of the guards.
Qin Dong was afraid that Qi Muge would scare Princess Nicola, so he hurriedly raised his hand to stop Qi Muge, looked at Nicola and asked, "Beautiful girl, why do you keep staring at me?" Don't you know that this is very rude? Are you not afraid of bringing disaster upon your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters, and your subjects? ”
Nicola's big black eyes flickered, and she replied, "Are you Qin Dong, the emperor of the Hu Empire?" It doesn't look good, Princess Ben thinks you're a bad old man with a very long white beard! ”
"Poof-" One of her siblings couldn't help but laugh out loud when they heard her words.
King Gibkate had already been half killed by the bold behavior of Nicola's daughter, and now he heard some of his children laugh out loud, and he was even more frightened, at this time he had already regretted it to death, and he knew that he should not bring these sons and daughters who would cause trouble to meet the emperor, if the emperor was not happy, it would be miserable to start a rage, he felt that he could not let these dishonest sons and daughters stay here anymore, and immediately said angrily: "Come on, these uncompetitive fellows are all brought down to this king!" ”
Qin Dong smiled and stopped the Alemanni soldiers before they could step forward, "Eh, King Gibkate, my brother, why be angry? I think Princess Nicola is very nice, she is the only person so far who dares to talk freely in front of me without bowing to me, and you must be glad that you have given birth to such a good daughter! ”
Gibkite understood Qin Dong's meaning in the opposite way, he thought that Qin Dong was talking the opposite, and he was even more frightened, so he hurriedly knelt down and said: "It's all this king who spoiled this woman, and asked the emperor not to worry about her for the sake of her youth!" ”
"Did I say I was going to deal with her? Step aside, I'll have to talk to Nicola!" Qin Dong waved his hand unhappily and drove Gibkite aside.
"Nicola, why does the Emperor have to have a long, long white beard?"
Nicola pouted her cute little mouth and said, "How do I know, that's what I've always thought anyway!" ”
"It turned out to be your own imagination!" Qin Dong nodded with a smile, and said again, "You haven't answered my previous question?" ”
Nicola kicked the pebble at her feet and said: "It's because this princess is very curious about you that she stares at you, if it's someone else, this princess doesn't look at it, besides, in the eyes of this princess, an emperor who rules a huge empire should have an incomparably broad mind, how can he care about a little girl like me?" Emperor Xià, do you say? ”
"What a great princess!" Qin Dong smiled: "Even if I feel very unhappy, I can't do anything to you, okay, I won't embarrass you this time, Gibkit!" ”
"Your Majesty, Emperor Xià, what do you command?" Gibkite hurriedly stepped forward.
Qin Dong knocked the horsewhip in the palm of his hand and said, "Are you going to let me stay here all the time?" ”
Gibkate reacted and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, please invite His Majesty the Emperor to enter the city to rest, the minister has already cleaned his palace as the palace of His Majesty the Emperor."
Subsequently, accompanied by Gibkket's cautious escort, Qin Dong's royal chauffeur entered the city of Jurigo under the protection of the Praetorian Guards and stayed in Gibket's palace, while the Western Expeditionary Army stayed in Chengwai and camped.
Westerners always seem to like, get used to, and be good at making houses with stones, and Jibkate's palace is made of stone, and the scale is not small, although it is not as good as Qin Dong's palace in Saidika, but it is not much less, especially the palace as the main building, which not only covers a large area, but also does it very high.
This palace is a huge castle built on a mountainside, the water in the moat is flowing slowly at the foot of the mountain, the drawbridge of the city gate has already been lowered, if you don't pay close attention to it, you definitely don't know that it is a drawbridge across the moat, and I think there is such a bridge in itself, only the two thick iron chains on both sides of the bridge can prove its original function, it can not only be used as a bridge in peacetime, but also when the enemy invades or needs to close the city gate at night, it will be pulled up, so as not to let the enemy cross the moat, It was also used as a city gate.
On the mountainside, the pointed part of the top of the palace towers into the sky, and the square pillar part of the building has large and small archery holes all around, but the shape and edging of these archery holes are very well designed, and do not affect the beauty of the whole palace in the slightest.
Around the main palace building are gardens and various large and small buildings, which are located in a very orderly manner, they have different functions, the sparrows are small but have all kinds of organs, and here you can see not only the stream of water, but also the horses grazing on the lawn. (To be continued......)