Balhan got the task of going to the west to fight happily out of the big tent of the Chinese army to prepare, Qin Dong didn't let the others go in the big tent, they didn't leave, obviously Qin Dong still had something to say, sure enough, Qin Dong asked Agul again: "Have all our coalition forces arrived?" ”

Agul replied, "Your Majesty, all of them have arrived in the town of Chalon, and the tribes of the Kati, Riplians, Friths, Kaukis, Cherushi, and Svibi have sent 10,000 troops, which is more than the number of troops prescribed by His Majesty, and the tribes of Semnon, Lombard, Hermenduri, Macomani, Boi, Quadi, Bastanai, Jutes, and Kaukin, etc., have sent 6,000 troops, a total of about 114,000 men, while the Anglos, because they are across the sea from the island of Britain, Thinking that we could not do anything to them, they rejected us, and the Saxons in the west joined the Western Roman Empire! ”

Of the Germanic tribes that Agul speaks, the Khati and Riplian belong to the two branches of the Franks, and there are three branches of the Franks, and in addition to these two, there is the Sally tribe of Hildrik. In this choice camp, the Kati and Riplians chose the Hu Empire, in the eyes of their leader, this time the Hu Empire is menacing, if they don't stand on the side of the Hu Empire, Qin Dong will definitely destroy them, and they can directly send troops to attack in the west, and they will not wait until the decisive battle with the coalition forces to make a move.

Most of the other Germanic tribes lived on the lands of the Hu Empire, which allowed them to be autonomous for political purposes, but they still had to pay taxes. The Hu Empire stationed troops in their places of residence, and they had no army of their own, only some militias that resembled policing. This time, because of Qin Dong's order, these tribes organized the young and middle-aged warriors of the tribe to come to battle with bows and arrows, swords and guns.

The Saxons and Anglos did not send troops to come was already expected by Qin Dong, and he did not take this matter to heart, and calculated: "Counting the 12,000 people of Princess Nicola, in addition to the 5,000 people taken by Balhan, we now have more than 60,000 people here, 30,000 captives and slaves. This force can only be counted as 10,000 in terms of combat effectiveness, but these 30,000 people are very unstable. Therefore, they cannot be counted as the main combat force, and if you count the Germanic tribes in Chalon, we have about 180,000 horses, and the Western Roman Empire is on the side of the coalition. I made a preliminary estimate. Probably no more than us! ”

Agul nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, this time the Western Roman Empire is the commander of the coalition army, Richmir can not be compared with Aetius, whether in terms of prestige or in terms of commanding ability, Richmir can not be compared with Aetius at all, whether he can control the coalition army when commanding the battle is still unknown, and our side is completely different." In terms of the command system, our side has formed a highly unified command system with His Majesty as the core. None of the leaders of the tribes dared to disobey His Majesty's military orders, and Li Ximir could not do this, for example, the kings of Theodoric II and Cyldric would not necessarily buy his account, and Aegidius of Gaul was a man of Majorian, and it is really difficult to say whether this person would completely obey Li Ximir's dispatch, so we have the advantage in this battle in terms of time, place, and people! ”

Qin Dong smiled and asked: "It is beneficial to us in terms of time and people, I agree with this, now the contradictions between the Western Roman Empire and the surrounding countries are very deep, and we choose to attack the Burgundians at this time, but the timing of the choice is beneficial to us, the coalition forces to eliminate the contradictions between each other is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and within the Western Roman Empire, the grievances between Majorian and Richmir are well known to the world, and Majorian can watch Richmir lead the coalition to win the battle?" Therefore, not to mention in terms of people, as for the geographical advantage you mentioned is also on our side, I can't figure it out, we are now fighting on the enemy's land, how can we take advantage of the geographical advantage? The local Burgundians won't support us at all, and we are in this strange place, unfamiliar with the place, no matter what, we can't say that the location is on our side, right? ”

Agul saluted and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that on the contrary, we are fighting on the territory of the enemy country, which is true, but Your Majesty, you have forgotten, we are the attacker, and the situation is in our favor, now we have the advantage, in the case of taking the lead, we can choose whether to fight or withdraw, if we choose to fight, we can choose the place and time of the decisive battle, the Western Roman Empire coalition can only be led by our nose, if we choose to withdraw, we can choose to retreat at any time, Moreover, in terms of military mobility, the coalition forces are far inferior to us, these are our advantages, and the coalition forces can only be passively beaten because the military orders are not unified and they are on the defensive! ”

"Good, good!" Qin Dong laughed and clapped his palms and praised Agul's analysis loudly, "We have won this battle, okay, have you all eaten well?" If everything is eaten, then order the army to continue its retreat until Chalons join up with our allies! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" All the generals and ministers of the army responded in unison.

On the city wall of Lyon, there are dried black blood stains everywhere, and the outer wall of the city wall has been smashed by the trebuchets of the Qindong army these days.

The distance between the corners of the wall and the moat was covered with corpses, both of the Burgundian soldiers who guarded the walls, and the corpses of Burgundian captives and slaves who besieged the city, and not a single person in the army of Qin Dong died in the siege.

Throughout the morning, Gundobard wore heavy armor, a bronze helmet, and a great sword in his hand. According to the habits of these days, the besieging Qindong army would attack during the day and rest at night, and Gundobad did not dare to open the city gate in the middle of the night to send the troops in the city out of the city to steal the camp.

But today it was strange, seeing that at noon, the sun was at its top, and the dense Burgundian soldiers standing with swords and guns on the city wall were a little drowsy under the warm sunlight, and there was not the slightest movement in the barracks of the Qindong army outside the city, which made Gundobad even more uneasy.

The prince Sigismundya who followed him was also a suit of armor, in terms of equipment, the equipment of the Burgundians was indeed a bit shoddy compared to the equipment of the soldiers of the Roman Empire and the Hu Empire, but when fighting, it was very good for these Burgundian officers to have a suit of armor, at least they were stronger than those ordinary soldiers who were just wearing leather armor or linen clothes.

Sigismund looked at the Qindong camp in the distance, looked up at the sky again, frowned and said: "Father, the Hu people are a little abnormal today, the sun is drying their butts, but there is no movement in the Hu camp, it's not normal, this is definitely not normal!" ”

Gundobad also frowned when he heard this: "It's a little abnormal, and I don't know what this damn Qin Dong wants to do?" I've been scared all morning! ”

He had to be afraid, the army of Qin Dong drove the captives and slaves to attack fearlessly for more than a month, each attack was like a sea of mountains and seas of momentum, many times the defense on the city wall was broken through, if it was not for him personally led the palace guards to participate in the battle, I am afraid that the city of Lyon would have been breached a long time ago, the soldiers saw the king personally go into battle, morale was greatly boosted, and one by one they did not want to fight with those captives and slaves driven by the army of Qin Dong.

For more than a month, the city was attacked twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and the troops were collected after dark, every day, without a single day of delay, even if it rained, it was as usual, but this morning there was suddenly no siege, which made King Gundorbard and many Burgundian generals quite uncomfortable, and even a little overwhelmed.

A general next to him suddenly said: "Your Majesty, is it that the army of Qin Dong has retreated, otherwise why is there no movement at all in the camp opposite, nearly 100,000 horses, no matter how you cover it, it is impossible to make a little sound, right?" ”

Gundobad thought for a while, hesitated for a moment before saying: "It's not clear whether it is retreating, you have to send someone to see the truth, come here, open the city gate and send a team of cavalry to the opposite camp to see the situation, check the situation and report quickly!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" One of the generals said yes and went to make arrangements.

After only half an hour, the cavalry who had gone to reconnoiter returned, and reported to Gundorbad: "Your Majesty, the camp of the Hu people opposite is empty, there is no one inside, nothing is left!" ”

If it is normal, in the case of retreating in a very hasty situation, there will be some things left in the empty camp that cannot be taken away for a while, but Qin Dong's army is different, his army does not rely much on logistics, and when fighting, he drives cattle and sheep to fight, and eats and drinks on cattle and sheep, if it is not enough, he will collect some from the local area, so there is basically nothing that cannot be taken away when retreating.

"What? Empty camp? "Gundobad was stunned by the news, what's going on? Qin Dong's army attacked like crazy for more than a month, but now it suddenly withdrew, what happened?

Sigismund remembered the matter of the coalition army, and immediately said: "Father, isn't it that the Western Roman Empire has already organized a coalition army to come, and Qin Dong got the news and did not dare to fight against the coalition army, so he withdrew his army and returned north?" ”

Gundobad nodded and said: "Don't rule out this possibility, quickly, immediately send someone to reconnoitre, see if Qin Dong has really withdrawn or fake, and send someone to the south to see if there is any news of the coalition army!" ”

"Yes!"

Two days later, Gundobad finally confirmed that the Qindong army had retreated, because the reconnaissance cavalry had chased behind the Qindong army, and now the Qindong army had withdrawn to Zama City, and it was still going north, and the news from the south that the coalition army had been assembled. Gundorbad breathed a sigh of relief and opened the city gate to let the people go out of the city freely, while the people who had already been arranged by Qin Dong disguised themselves as the Burgundian people in the city of Lyon and mixed into the city of Lyon very lightly. (To be continued......)