It is about ten days from the Xiongnu court to Saidika, if there is no family to accompany them, Qin Dong and others can arrive in just a few days on the road and gallop on horseback, but almost every one of the more than 100 cavalry under his command has family members, and there are a large number of daily necessities, even if the living utensils are all board carts and dragged by horses, the speed of the road is not fast, if it is not for horses and other livestock, Qin Dong really wants to take the waterway, this is the Huns in this period There are no people who can build ships.

The entire cavalry contingent and their families totaled more than 300 to nearly 400 people, including about 160 elderly people and children, more than 100 women, more than 100 carts, plus horses, cattle and sheep, and the speed of the journey was very slow, and it took only two days to walk more than 100 miles.

The places that need to be passed along the way from the Xiongnu court to Saidika are the territory of the Xiongnu Empire, and even if you go southeast along the Danube River, you can reach Saidika, but the distance is much longer.

The first four days were very smooth, nothing happened along the way, and in two more days it will be out of the Hungarian plain and into today's Serbia, this area is scattered with some surrendered Alans and Ostrogoths, and it is difficult to guarantee safety, but there should be no problem before that, so Qin Dong is also very relieved.

But on the fifth day, the situation was a little wrong, this was not out of the scope of the Huns' direct control, and from time to time there were groups of rangers hanging far behind Qin Dong and others, this situation was discovered by Su He, the ten-captain of the broken guard squad arranged by Qin Dong, and sued him.

After hearing Su He's report, Qin Dong thought for a while and ordered: "You take people to stay behind and are about ten miles away from the entire team, you can only be vigilant and can't attack, if they provoke and ignore it, you must not be led away by them, if you find a large group of cavalry, immediately send someone to report!" ”

In fact, the distance of ten miles is instantaneous compared to the cavalry, if a large group of cavalry appears, Su He and others are likely to have no time to report, the enemy will appear, but there is no way, the alert team is too far away to take care of the team, if the attack can not be responded to in time, the team can really fight only a hundred cavalry, although the family members can also ride horses and bend bows and shoot arrows, but after all, it is very unprofessional, the old people are old, some can't even pull the bow, the children are still young, and the women don't count on it, The only thing Qin Dong could rely on was a hundred cavalry, so the maximum alert range could only be arranged within ten miles of the surrounding area.

"Yes, sir!" After Su He agreed, he saluted and beckoned to the two cavalrymen beside him: "Follow me!" ”

After Su He left with the two cavalrymen, Qin Dong found the captain of his own army, Batu, and ordered: "Batu, immediately send someone to inform Muren in front and the vigilant cavalry team on the left and right flanks, and let Muren lead people out thirty miles to investigate, and if you find a special situation, send someone back to report immediately!" The vigilant cavalry on the left and right flanks were also informed that if any further snooping rangers were found to be ignored, their task was to be on alert, and if those men attacked, they would be killed, but not too far from their own ranks."

"Yes, sir!" After Batu agreed, he immediately assigned three cavalrymen of his own army to the front of the team to inform Muren and the vigilant cavalry on the left and right flanks.

Qin Dong now has one hundred and six cavalry in his hands, divided into eleven in total, ten people in the personal army team, responsible for protecting Qin Dong's safety and transmitting orders, six people in the front enemy reconnaissance team, ten people in the guard team after the break, ten people on the left and right wings, and the remaining sixty cavalry all stay in the team to protect their families and livestock.

The Huns knew that they should send people to patrol around when they were marching, Qin Dong was born in the army in his previous life, of course, he knew the importance of reconnaissance and vigilance of the surrounding terrain during the march, in this era, the means of communication were extremely backward, the traffic basically relied on walking, and the communication basically relied on roaring, so to get information in time must be arranged in place, otherwise it would be miserable to be caught off guard.

Qin Dong knew that someone would definitely attack him on the way to Saidika, and the thirty or so assassins who had not succeeded in assassinating him that night last time would definitely not give up so lightly, they had already been startled by the snake in the royal court, so they would definitely make a move on his way to Saidika.

He didn't know who was going to deal with him like this, but this person's power must be extraordinary, he was a small centurion, and he had no conflict of interest with those big people at all, who wanted to kill him? This is a question he has been unable to figure out for the past few days.

He once thought that this was probably a revenge method by Enek, the king of the Right Sage, because he had swept Enek's face that night, but the chief of the guard, Uji, told him that if Enek really wanted to retaliate, it would be absolutely impossible to send assassins to assassinate him, and the Huns had always disdained to play such indiscriminate tricks, and with Enek's character and temper, he would not do so, and if he did, he would send troops to intercept and kill, not assassins.

This made Qin Dong completely confused, he thought about it carefully, he was just a slave, who would spend so much effort to kill himself? It's not scary to have an enemy, it's scary to not know who the enemy is and when the enemy will suddenly rush out.

Qin Dong saw that it was getting late, so he took out the map and looked at it, he needed to find a place where he could set up camp, it was really not a wise move to camp on this endless grassland, he had to find a place on higher ground, preferably with natural protection.

To his disappointment, the sheepskin map was so crudely drawn that he could not see that those places could be encamped, so he had to find Batu and instruct: "Batu, send men to the front and the left and right flanks to see if there are any rivers or mountains around here, for it is getting dark, and we must find a safe place to camp!" ”

Who knew Batu said: "My lord, you want to ask about the terrain here?" I know that I have been here a few times before, and there is a tributary of the Danube twenty miles to the east, and about forty miles ahead the terrain has changed, and there are many hills and mountains! ”

Qin Dong didn't expect Batu to be so clear about the terrain in this area, and he was immediately relieved, calculating that it was impossible to go forty miles further in time, and it was dark when he arrived there, and now he could only go to the Danube tributary in the east and camp by the river, so that at least he didn't worry about being attacked on his back, he immediately said to Batu: "Immediately inform the cavalry on the left flank to find a flat river bank and prepare to camp, and let them go nearby to cut down some wood to prepare for camping!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Batu agreed and immediately sent someone.

The whole team turned to the east of the Danube tributary under the order of Qin Dong, and an hour later the whole team arrived at the river, the vigilant cavalry on the left flank had already found a camp, and built fortifications under the command of Qin Dong, Qin Dong and these Huns are different, his soul comes from later generations, and is also deeply influenced by modern military thought, if you want to attack, you must be prepared for defense, and the military thinking in the east is mainly defense, only the nomads have no defense, they only attack, which has advantages and disadvantages, The advantage is that if the war goes well, there is no need to make defensive preparations, thus wasting a lot of time and manpower and material resources, and the disadvantage is that once the war is unfavorable, the army will collapse the fastest, because without defense, there will be no time for the army to buffer and rest, and it is likely to collapse from now on.

Qin Dong is now with the Huns, and he doesn't want to waste time building fortifications, which also makes him tied, but he really doesn't have the capital to do it now, there are too many family members, and there are a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, these are the capital of his start, he can't afford to lose, if there is no family and these cattle, sheep and horses, he won't even be able to build a camp, let alone build fortifications, just take a sheepskin blanket and sleep under the stars for one night, and then arrange a few cavalry patrols to be on guard, even if someone raids, They are relaxed and can react in time.