Edica sent people to investigate for a while, and even the small village of Belko, where the incident occurred, was almost three feet into the ground, and did not find any useful clues.

There was an undercurrent surging here, and the north began to be in turmoil. In May, the shocking news came from Qin Dong's intelligence station in the royal court that Dadan Yu Erak and his younger brother Ernak were engaged in several fierce battles in the area north of the Tatra Mountains (the border between Slovakia and Poland).

At first, it was Elnak's men who provoked Erak's men on the border, and Elak's army ignored the orders and endured them, but then Hernak's men and horses were able to advance an inch and penetrate deep into Elak's hinterland.

Erak couldn't bear it anymore and personally led his troops to attack Hernak, but he didn't want Deng Zhixik in the northeast to suddenly send troops to attack Elak's flank, making Erak return with a big defeat for the first time.

In early April, Erak regained his strength, and he ordered two 10,000 cavalry troops to be stationed in the northeast to prevent Deng Zhixik from sending troops to attack his flank again, and he himself again led 50,000 troops north to attack Ernak, claiming to be 200,000 troops, which was a quelling of the rebellion in the words of the royal court.

Although Hernak has been arguing with his eldest brother Erak, but his territory is north of the Carpathian Mountains, the climate is extremely cold, sparsely populated, and the materials are poor, so the number of troops is also very small, the regular Hun cavalry is only 20,000, when he learned that his brother Erak went north to attack him again, he reluctantly gathered 10,000 miscellaneous cavalry, a total of 30,000, known as 150,000 troops, and went south to meet the enemy.

The two sides fought a great battle on the plains north of the Tatra Mountains, which lasted more than a month. The two sides went from a small battle at the beginning to a gradual deployment of troops, before the decisive battle. There were more than a dozen battles on both sides, almost every day.

Elnak felt a little irresistible, and immediately sent people to the territory of Deng Zhixik in the east to ask for help, Deng Zhixik learned the news, and personally led 30,000 troops to help, but on the way west, he was stopped by 20,000 elite iron cavalry sent by Erak in advance. You can't move forward an inch.

Elnak couldn't wait for Deng Zhicik's reinforcements, and Erak was already close to the front at this time, so Hernak could only keep retreating to the west. Retreating to the west bank of the Rhine, Hernack, who did not want to retreat, immediately assembled his troops to fight a decisive battle with Erak.

The two sides fought three games in a row, and each time Hernak was defeated, and all 30,000 iron horsemen were buried. The number of war dead was as high as 10,000. More than half surrendered, while others fled or were wounded and captured.

Hernack, who escaped with his life under the desperate protection of the guards, was already frightened and panicked, and immediately led a part of his people to cross the Rhine River and continue to flee westward. Under the threat of death, he had to send someone to the Western Roman Empire for help.

Aetius, the military commander of the Western Roman Empire, considered that Hernack and his people might be of some use in the future. Therefore, Emperor Valentinian III was asked to give Hernac and his people a piece of England in the British Isles.

With the help of the Western Roman Navy, Hernac and his people were exiled across the ocean to the British Isles. The Anglo-Saxons, who had been forced into exile to the British Isles by the Huns, had already taken root in the British Isles, and when they saw Elnack's Huns arriving in the British Isles, they immediately became hostile to them, and the two sides confronted each other for a long time, and then clashed frequently, in which Elnack's people gradually mixed with the natives and the Anglo-Saxons, and gradually lost the characteristics of the Huns.

Erak did not have a navy and could not cross the English Channel to attack the British Isles, so he could only point the spearhead at Deng Zhixik in the east, Deng Zhixik saw that it was not good, and immediately led his troops to withdraw from the border and returned to the depths of his territory, the coastal area on the north shore of the Black Sea, and Erak saw that Deng Zhixik had withdrawn his army, and his army was exhausted, so he led his army back to the royal court.

At this point, because the army was completely annihilated, Elnak only brought a small number of clansmen with him in a panic retreat, and after being exiled to the British Isles, he did not have the strength to set off a storm again, and there was one less protagonist in the civil strife of the Xiongnu Empire.

Elnak's withdrawal, so that Deng Zhixik had to strengthen the connection with Enek, from the current military strength, whether it is Deng Zhixik or Enek, a single side can not compete with Erak, so both of them know that their situation is not good, support each other, this situation makes Erak can only sigh for the time being, and the situation gradually calms down.

In fact, Erak also had to stop, the situation in the south was a little abnormal, the Western Roman Emperor Valentine III saw the internal strife of the Xiongnu, Da Danyu and a few brothers were inextricably fought, so he moved to recover some of the leaders in the north, he issued an edict to the military commander Aetius, ordering him to plan to recover some land north of the Alps and west of the Danube, Aetius did not want to have too stiff relations with the emperor, because in recent times there have always been a few senators in the Senate who impeached him for monopoly, Not taking the emperor seriously, in order not to leave a mouthful, Aetius could only grit his teeth and temporarily give up dealing with the affairs of some barbarians in Gaul, and instead began to prepare for the reconquest of the lost territory with all his might.

The spies of the Hun Empire scattered in the Roman Empire soon got some information about the troop movements of the Western Roman Empire, and after the reports of these situations reached Elak's hands, Elac knew that he could not do anything to his younger brothers Deng Zhixik and Enek now, and the Western Roman Empire in the south was ready to fight, and if he made a move on the two younger brothers at this time, he would not have enough troops to stop the northern invasion of the Western Roman Empire.

In fact, at this time, the Western Roman Empire was already a silver-like wax head gun, and the foreign power was strong, and it needed money to buy logistics materials, it needed money to prepare the weapons and equipment of the army, it took money to buy war horses, it took money to recruit barbarian soldiers, and it also needed money to open the army, and everything needed money, and the treasury of the Western Roman Empire was already empty, which made Aetius worry about his gray hair.

Did the Roman Empire really have money? In fact, there is money, but the money is not in the treasury, but in the hands of the nobles, in the hands of the royal family, in the hands of the church, in the hands of commoners and slaves, there is not much money, any dynasty, whether it is the East or the West, when the dynasty is going to perish, it will be the case, the land annexation is strict, most of the country's money is gathered in the hands of a few people, and the people at the lowest level live a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs.

Aetius is trying to prepare for the military expenses of the army, but this is not a short period of time to raise than the huge military spending, plus Aetius did not want to provoke the Huns at this time, the Huns themselves are in civil strife, if the Western Roman Empire sends troops to attack at this time, maybe it will make the Huns stop internal strife, and the guns will be unified to the outside world, and there will be internal problems among the Huns who are finally looking forward to it. Therefore, Aetius can also procrastinate, maybe the emperor will forget about it after a long time.

Aetius was able to delay this military dispatch, but the dispatch did not completely stop, and some troop movements were still in progress, so Erak could only concentrate most of his forces on the Danube line north of Switzerland.

However, Deng Zhixik in the northeast and Enek in the east were actively accumulating strength at this time, and Deng Zhixik gathered the Slavs of the South Russian steppe, and he forced them to submit, if they did not submit, they would be destroyed, and some Xiongnu tribes on the northern shore of the Black Sea and the steppe of South Russia were also forced to submit to Deng Zhixik's obscenity.

He also extended his tentacles into northern Russia and Finland, Sweden and Norway, where the natives were quick to surrender and thus greatly increased his strength.

In August, Deng Zhisik's strong army was about to lead his troops to attack Erak and drive him out of the Xiongnu court, but at this time, suddenly the border army of the Sassanid Empire of the Persian Empire in the southeast made a big move in Georgia and Armenia (between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea) in the south of the Caucasus, which made Deng Zhisik have to stop sending troops to attack Erak, and instead led a large army to the east coast of the Black Sea to the south to garrison troops on the Georgian border.

In fact, the Xiongnu Empire had attacked the Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire as early as the time of Lugadan Yu (Attila's uncle), and in the time of Attila, it attacked Georgia and Armenia of the Sassanid Dynasty several times, and the two sides can be said to have a deep enmity like the sea.

The Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire has a large number of cavalry, and there are a lot of infantry, and Deng Zhixik's hands are basically cavalry, this time Deng Zhixik led 50,000 troops, and the Sassanid Dynasty also has tens of thousands of people, the two sides confronted each other under the mountains north of Georgia, in this area, the terrain is rugged, not suitable for cavalry combat at all, both sides have a large number of cavalry, so both sides can not let go of their hands and feet, and they can only withdraw after a few battles.

In September, when Deng Zhicik led his troops back to the north shore of the Black Sea, Elak's army was still stationed in the southwest to guard against the army of the Western Roman Empire. (To be continued......)