Qin Dong never thought of a proper way to completely recover all the goods, although this batch of goods was only used as a prop for him and his subordinates to cover their identities, but the value of this batch of goods is very high, and it is by no means something that can be ruthlessly discarded casually, this batch of goods is the hard work of thousands of residents in the entire camp for several months, if it is ignored, wouldn't it make so many people in the camp work in vain for months? So this batch of goods can't be lost, he is a little anxious, but there is no way, this kind of thing is useless to be in a hurry.

Qin Dong had been making up for sleep all morning, and everyone was a little tired after following the Sun Mercenary Group for a night last night, but Qin Dong still arranged for personnel to take turns to guard and investigate, on the one hand, to reconnoiter the movements of the two mercenary groups to see if they had any other moves, and on the other hand, to keep an eye on the direction where Pedro and his army were coming.

At noon, Qin Dong, who was asleep, was woken up by his subordinates, and a scout reported: "My lord, an army of the Eastern Roman Empire has been found thirty miles away, if there is no other army passing here, it should be Pedro and the five hundred men led by him!" ”

After hearing this report, Qin Dong immediately turned over and got up, he raised his head and squinted at the sun in the sky, it should be around eleven o'clock in the morning, it was already noon, Qin Dong did not order the troops to prepare immediately, but ordered his guards to start eating the dry food they brought, and they were full of food and drink before they could fight.

Judging by the speed at which Pedro's army marched, it would take at least an hour to reach the ambush location of the two mercenary groups, and it was not known whether Pedro would order the army to stop for lunch. Therefore, Qin Dong is not in a hurry, there is still plenty of time, and letting his guards prepare too early will make them lose their morale. If he is going to do it all at once, instead of declining and exhausting it three times.

It didn't take long for the scouts who were monitoring the two mercenary groups to report: "My lord, those two mercenary groups have begun to prepare, apparently they already know that Pedro's army is not far from the place where they are ambushed!" ”

Qin Dong nodded and ordered: "Keep exploring!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Tong guò this thing. Qin Dong knew that the intelligence ability of the two mercenary groups was still good, and they might have arranged personnel to monitor dozens of miles ahead, otherwise they would not have been able to get the news that the army led by Pedro was not far from here so quickly.

Both the Sun Mercenary Regiment and the Rhodobi Mercenary Regiment are preparing intensively. As soon as Pedro's men and horses enter the ambush circle, they will attack, and Qin Dong's side will eat lunch as if it is fine, and continue to sleep after eating. Pedro's army, thirty miles away, had long since been exhausted by the scorching sun. The speed of the march is comparable to that of a snail.

Things were as Qin Dong expected, because it was noon, and the sun was scorching, the sergeants didn't want to leave for a long time, so Pedro had to order the army to camp on the spot to rest and eat lunch, and the location was ten miles in front of the ambush circle arranged by the two mercenary groups, which made Herram, the leader of the Sun Mercenary Group, and Putistes, the leader of the Rhodope Mercenary Group, who got the news, jump to their feet in a hurry.

The two mercenary groups had already laid an ambush, and this was a critical moment. Pedro's army is not leaving, it is like a man and a woman doing enough foreplay. Everything that should be taken off is taken off, but the man stops at the entrance of the cave and does not go in, isn't this a person who is in a hurry to die?

What worries the leaders of the two mercenary groups even more is that they have not brought dry food, and they don't know when Pedro's army will leave camp, if Pedro's army does not leave today, then the two mercenary captains of Herram and Putistes and their mercenaries will be hungry here for a day, and they will continue to feed the mosquitoes all night tonight, unless they don't loot the tax silver and goods, so that all the work they have done in the past two days will be in vain.

Qin Dong ignored it at all, except for arranging for the scouts to keep an eye on Pedro's army and the two mercenary groups, he didn't do anything, and after eating the dry food he carried, he continued to sleep with his head in his arms, and some soldiers also complained that they had slept too much in the past few days, and they had the rhythm of sleeping their heads.

It was so hot at noon that even in the wild, there were various insects chirping because it was too hot, such as the sound of various birds in the nearby woods.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the heat in the air dropped a little, and Qin Dong was woken up by the guards, "My lord, Pedro and his army have set camp!" ”

After hearing this, Qin Dong dropped a sentence: "Call me again in half an hour" and then continued to sleep.

Pedro and his army were finally marching slowly, although slowly, but at least they had moved, and now it was summer, and it was getting dark, and it was about four hours from now on, and they could march until about seven o'clock in the evening, and only the devil knew how far they could walk in this weather.

At this time, Pedro was riding on his horse and wiping his sweat while holding a leather bag of beer and drinking, beer is indeed a good thing, this drink tastes very good, and it is not easy to get drunk, but if you even pour a bag of beer, you will get dizzy.

The soldiers kept complaining, complaining that Pedro shouldn't let them march in such hot weather, it was too bad, and Pedro was also complaining, he complained about why there was a summer and a winter in the year, and it was really a crime to march in the field during these two seasons, but there was no way, it was his job to escort the tax silver, and by the way, he took some private goods to Constantinople to sell them to make a little money to spend, but this time the goods were not a small amount of money, although it was the first time he drank this beer, But he dared to conclude that a glass of beer sold for a dinar would be rushed by a large number of people, especially in this hot weather. Of course, it is not easy to buy leather in this weather, but those merchants will hoard such beautiful leather and sell it again in winter, and they can make a lot of money.

"General, two miles ahead is Snow Cliff!" A cavalryman next to him reminded Pedro.

Pedro doesn't look like a general at all, but rather like a businessman, he has a sharp mouth when talking about business, and his eyes are often shrewd, and when he sees large sums of money, his eyes are straight. The corners of his mouth would be drooling, and in the dead of night, he liked to sit alone in the pile of gold coins and revel alone. At this time, he had already drunk and looked drunk, the cockscomb iron helmet on his head was a little crooked, and there were some beer stains on the chain mail on his chest.

Hearing the reminder of the knight next to him, Pedro burped and waved his hand indifferently: "We have to walk this road twice a quarter, and we have long been too ripe to be more ripe, there has never been a problem, don't worry." We have lost too much time today, and we order everyone to keep going, and we must get to Haversa before dark! ”

Hafsa is a small city. However, it was a necessary stop on the road from Edine to Constantinople, although this area was the territory of the Empire, and it was already deep into the interior of the Empire, but the surrounding area was not very peaceful. The mountains, hills, and forests were also home to many ethnic tribes that were not under the control of the Eastern Roman Empire. There are indigenous tribes, there are also Germanic tribes driven by the Huns, these tribes are not good, they often come out to plunder caravans and residential villages living in the plains, the Eastern Roman Empire is not not to want to level the barbarian tribes in this area, but to pacify these tribes requires a huge amount of military spending, need to mobilize a lot of troops, from another aspect. The Eastern Roman Empire was also unable to sweep away the barbarian tribes known as Thrace, leaving them to live here. And because of the complex terrain here, it can well resist the attack of the Huns. If these barbarian tribes are wiped out, the Eastern Roman Empire will not only need to spend huge military spending, but also send troops to garrison here, and it will cost huge military spending, which is really not cost-effective, and those officials and masters of the Eastern Roman Empire will calculate this account very clearly. Although there was some chaos in the Thrace region, it was much better than being directly threatened by the Huns.

"Yes, General!" When the knight agreed, he gave the order to move on.

Pedro is not worried at all about the idea that someone in the empire dares to fight his army, the troops he brought this time are more than five hundred, although those barbarian tribes are fierce, but the number of people in each tribe is not very large, and they can't muster enough troops to deal with his army, if they want to eat his army, they need at least a thousand elites, if it is not the regular army of the empire, where can there be so many barbarian tribes in the empire?

Pedro continued to sit on horseback and roam, drinking two sips of beer and humming a few unknown tunes, although the weather was hot, but in his opinion, this life was indeed very cool, he didn't have to stay in Dirmit all day and worry about the Huns coming, and he didn't have to worry about his political enemies plotting against him in front of the officials, as long as he could escort the tax money to Constantinople to complete the handover, his task would be completed.

When Pedro's army was less than a mile away from the ambush circle, Herram, the leader of the Sun Mercenary Regiment, and Putistes, the leader of the Rhodope Mercenary Regiment, who had already fallen asleep, were hurriedly woken up by their mercenaries.

Realizing that Pedro and the two mercenary group leaders of his army were already close at hand, they almost fell apart, and after some arrangement, finally woke up all the mercenaries under his command and prepared to start, a third of Pedro and his army had already stepped into the ambush site.

Ambushed on the top of the cliff on the left is a small group of Rhodopi mercenary group, these people are led by Putistes himself, their main task is to push the prepared stones on the top of the cliff wall down the cliff wall to attack Pedro's army, and most of the rest of the rest are all ambushed in the woods on the right with Herram's men and horses, under the unified command of Herram.

Ptistes lay on the top of the cliff and nervously watched the next team of sergeants escorting the carriage past on the cliff, and the other mercenaries were also nervous, after all, this is not against the men and horses of other forces, but against the army of the empire, it is impossible to say that they are not worried or nervous, but the amount of this batch of tax silver is too large, so big that greed overcomes reason, and there are also a large number of valuable goods, this temptation. The confusion is unbearable.

"Chief, they have all entered the ambush circle, are they going to do it now?" One of his mercenaries climbed up to Putistes and whispered.

When Ptistes heard this, he took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "Let everyone prepare, listen to my command!" ”

"Yes, Chief!" The order was quickly delivered.

Ptistes got up, crouched down, picked up a rock, and yelled, "Everybody smash me!" ”

The mercenaries who received the order immediately shouted and pushed the stone in front of them down, some of them held the small stone and threw it down, and the cliff suddenly remembered the thunderous sound, and Pedro and his soldiers, who were marching on the road below the cliff, involuntarily turned their heads to look up when they heard this sound.

"Oh my God! Run! The sergeant who reacted first was so frightened that he immediately dropped his shield and spear and ran into the woods to the right.

After all, it is only a few people who react quickly, and the speed of free fall is too fast, and it only takes two or three seconds for the overwhelming stones to fall on the top of Pedro's army, and many sergeants are smashed into a blur of flesh and blood before they even have time to react, and they don't know how to die.

The whole team was in chaos, because of the suddenness of the incident, many soldiers did not know what to do, and when they were in a panic, they would involuntarily do things that they could not control, and these soldiers were scurrying around after being suddenly attacked, and they did not know which direction to run in at all.

After several minutes, Pedro was already scared into a cold sweat, and he was already drunk and half sobered up, and he immediately shouted: "Run into the woods!" ”

He took the lead and ran into the woods, and the other sergeants also fled to the woods like crazy, lest they run slowly and be smashed to pieces by the big stones falling overhead, at this time his men have been smashed to death and injured many people, the road under the cliff is in a mess, and some of the goods and silver coins on the carts are also smashed and scattered all over the ground, especially the gold and silver coins scattered on the ground and emitting a glittering golden light, but at this time no one cares about these currencies that they usually desperately want to earn.

"Whoosh...... Just as Pedro and his soldiers fled into the woods, they suddenly shot scattered arrows from the woods, and then some of the soldiers who ran in front of them fell to the ground with screams after being hit by arrows.

"Kill, kill Pedro, rob the tax silver!" There was a loud roar from the woods, and then a large number of masked men rushed out of the woods, armed with various weapons, and slaughtered Pedro and his army as they fled.

Pedro and his army were once again hit head-on, they were already frightened, they just wanted to rush into the woods as soon as possible to avoid the stones falling from the sky, who knew that there were still a large number of masked bandits in ambush in the woods, and this sudden rush out of the woods with a large number of masked robbers with various weapons made Pedro and his soldiers frightened, they did not dare to resist at all, and were rushed out with men and horses by Herram and slashed and killed. (To be continued......)