Chapter 268: Da Danyu's Death

The news of the annihilation of Dadan Yu Arak's army finally came, this news came from Liu San's intelligence department, the speed was at least ten days and half a month, Qin Dong immediately ordered Liu San to block the news after learning the news, and it is not appropriate to announce this news for the time being, but this news can only be blocked for ten days and half a month, and he can't cover it if he wants to. Therefore, Qin Dong must completely take over the military power of the Skir army during this time.

Dadan Yu Arak was in pursuit of Deng Zhixik and Enek after returning to the Xiongnu royal court when he was ambushed by the Ostrogothic king Dior Demir and the king of Gepid Aldaric in the inland river this place led an ambush raid and the whole army was wiped out, it turned out that a few days ago Diodmir and Ardaric suddenly rebelled at the pass of the Carpathian Mountains, disarmed 2,000 Hun soldiers guarding the mountain pass, and then led the main force of a total of 25,000 horsemen to follow the back of the Elak army.

During this time, Erak fought several battles with Deng Zhixik and Enek, because Deng Zhixik and Enek were in a hurry to retreat, so they had no fighting spirit, so each time Erak won, until Deng Zhixik and Enek were driven back to the Black Sea coast.

Erak led 30,000 iron horsemen through the inland river, here is a bush jungle on the left, a swamp on the right, Diodmir and Aldarric, who have been following the Elak's army, saw that Erak led the army back and ambushed in the bush on the left with their respective armies, when Erak's army passed here, Diordemir and Aldaric immediately led the army out of the bush, and Erak was defenseless at all. He chased and killed Deng Zhicik and Enek all the way this time, how would he know that Dior Demir and Aldaric would always follow his army and ambush and raid here?

After being ambushed and raided. Erak's army was immediately in chaos, and the road back in front had been blocked by a dense and neat phalanx of two thousand heavy infantry sent by Diordemir, and Erak's cavalry could not run at all on such a short distance and on the rugged road, and Erak personally led the team to break through in vain.

On the left is Diodmir and Ardaric personally led the army to kill, and on the right is a swamp, and the front is also blocked. When Erak wanted to evacuate with the army, the 2,000 Ostrogothic cavalry who had been fighting with the army immediately rebelled, blocking the retreat of Erak's army.

The Elak army was attacked on three sides. At first, many Hun cavalry did not dare to break through from the swamp on horseback, but when they saw that there were enemies in the three directions of the front and back, many Hun cavalry had to choose to run to the swamp in order to flee for their lives.

I saw the Hun cavalry running towards the swamp one after another. But they soon found in despair that the hundreds of horsemen who were at the front on horseback were all trapped in the swamp. The swamp had already been frozen, but because a large number of cavalry rushed over, the frozen layer on the swamp could not bear such a large weight and cracked, so that the hundreds of cavalry who ran in front of them all fell into the mud pond of the swamp, and soon these hundreds of Hun cavalry were swallowed by the swamp with men and horses, and they didn't even bubble up.

Although the Hun cavalry in the back saw that many of their companions in front were trapped in the swamp, they couldn't care so much, and the barbarian soldiers in the back and on the left and right had already killed them. If they don't run, they will be hacked to death, so they rush towards the swamp without hesitation. They expected to be able to trample through the swamp for miles on the corpses of their companions.

But they are doomed to be disappointed, this swamp is too large, even if tens of thousands of people are trapped here, it will not fill this swamp, Diodemir has sent people to survey this swamp in advance, he used to be the Ostrogothic prince, his father Avamir is the Ostrogothic king, is the left general of the Hun Empire, in charge of the Alans and Persians in the Scythia region and the Black Sea coast, so he is very familiar with this area, he knows where to ambush the best, Therefore, he chose this place as an ambush location on the way back to the royal court with Erak's army.

After Diodemir and Aldaric led the army to kill, the military spirit of the Hun army was in chaos, because the road itself was not wide, the right side was a swamp, the enemy was killed from the left, they could only flee forward and backward, but after the front and rear were blocked, they could only rush to the swamp full of danger of death, Da Dan Yu Erak could not control the scene at this time, it was really the terrain of this place was too dangerous, there was no place for the Hun army to gain a foothold, And the Ostrogoths and Gepides did not give them this opportunity either.

The combat effectiveness of the cavalry plummeted after losing mobility, and the Ostrogoths and Gepid had a large number of infantry this time, and they rushed to the Hun cavalry huddled together, either throwing the Hun cavalry on the war horse off the horse or dragging it off the horse, and then hacking it to death, or squatting down to cut the horse's legs, and then the war horse and the Hun warriors fell to the ground together, trampled to death by countless feet,

"Bastard, who dares to raid my Hun army?" Erak rode on his horse and shouted incessantly, trying to control the army, but the soldiers who were already in a state of confusion could not hear what he was shouting, and Erak became furious.

A captain next to him desperately protected Erak, and after hearing Erak's question, he said: "Da Danyu, it is the Ostrogoths and the Gepid who have rebelled, you see, isn't that Diordemir and Aldarik?" And our retreat was blocked, which was done by the two thousand Ostrogoths after the break! ”

When Elac heard this, he was furious: "Damn Dior Demir and Aldarric, when Ben Danyu escapes and returns to the royal court, he must crush them to ashes, otherwise he will not be able to relieve my hatred!" ”

Some of the generals next to him were pessimistic at this time, whether they could return to the royal court this time or really didn't know, if the Ostrogoths and Gepid were not fully prepared, would they do it casually?

At this time, Diodmir brandished his broad general and slashed the Hun soldiers, while shouting: "Ostrogoths and Ghpid warriors, more than a hundred years ago, we originally lived in the deep forests and mountains west of the Don River. Living a carefree, beautiful and prosperous life, we were driven from our homeland by the ferocious and barbaric Huns, and our ancestors endured humiliation and surrendered to the Huns. They endured humiliation and stealing their lives, made cattle and horses for the Huns, our wives and daughters were taken away by the Huns for fun, our wealth was forcibly taken away by the Huns, and the Huns killed us as easily as killing a dog, for more than a hundred years, we had enough. We don't want to be enslaved anymore, warriors, today is our revenge. It's time to wash away the shame, kill me! ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" Countless Ostrogoths and Gepid soldiers brandished their weapons and shouted loudly at the Hun cavalry, and after listening to Diodmir's battlefield speech at this time, they burst out with infinite strength.

Diodemir was a man of great commanding talent. He is also very strategic and politically sensitive. He was much stronger than his father, Avamir, and when he found out that the brothers of Dadan Yu Elak had begun to clash over the throne of Shan Yu, and finally turned into a war against each other, he knew that the time had come for the Ostrogoths to overthrow the Huns, but the Ostrogoths alone were not enough, so he contacted the king of Gelpid, Ardarik, and persuaded him to rebel together, and they succeeded in history, and within a short time drove the Huns east of the Carpathians. Then they began to divide their territory, and the Ostrogoths occupied the area east of the Hungarian plain. Later, in order to maintain peace with the Eastern Roman Empire and facilitate his own recuperation, Diodmir sent his son Theodoric, who was only a few years old, to Constantinople as a hostage.

In fact, until the death of Diodemir, he did not establish the Ostrogothic kingdom, but was actually the nominal leader of the Ostrogoths, and after his death, the later Ostrogothic mercenary leader Odoaser established a state ruled by the Ostrogoths by abolishing Romulo, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, but Odoaser did the opposite, and soon many people began to oppose him, and his people lived in water and fire, At that time, Theodoric, the son of Diodmir, took over his father's place as the head of the clan, Theodoric with the support of the Eastern Roman Empire led his clan army over the Alps and entered Italy, captured and killed Odoaser and sat on the throne of the king, the Ostrogothic kingdom was nominally controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire, but in fact it did its own, and the Eastern Roman Empire also sent a large army to conquer for this, but they were all defeated by Theodoric, When Diodoric became King of Italy, he immediately honored his dead father, Diordemir, as the first king of the Amariid dynasty, and he himself became the second.

The Hun cavalry barely resisted, but their resistance was in vain, they were surrounded on three sides, and they were constantly approached by the Ostrogoths and Gepid towards the swamp, and the Hun cavalry close to the swamp kept being squeezed into the cracked ice cave and fell, because the pressure was too great, the ice could not bear the weight of tens of thousands of people, a large area of ice collapsed, and thousands of people fell into the muddy pool of the swamp and could not get up again, and were gradually swallowed by the cold silt.

A captain of 10,000 people was squeezed backwards, and said with a sad face: "Da Danyu, we are finished, the Hun Empire is finished, these clansmen are all finished, today I am afraid we will all be buried in this wide swamp!" ”

Erak was already dead at this time, he never thought that the Ostrogoths and Gerpid would suddenly rebel, he knew that he would not be able to escape death today, but he could not let all these tens of thousands of soldiers die with him, the original army of 30,000 so far, there are less than 20,000 people left, he must make a choice.

After negotiations, Diordemir and Ardaric agreed that as long as Erak committed suicide, he promised to spare the remaining less than 20,000 Huns from dying, and these Huns must disarm and surrender to become their prisoners, after all, to kill all the Hun cavalry, they themselves must bear a lot of casualties, if they can capture so many Hun cavalry, it would be the best, Erak drew his sword in front of the remaining less than 20,000 Hun cavalry and killed himself, The Hun cavalry, who had lost Shan Yu, all hung their heads, dropped their weapons, jumped off their horses and surrendered. (To be continued......)