Chapter XXIII: The Massacre

The Huns didn't go crazy, did they? Bury Attila at the bottom of the river, and at the bottom of a dry river? Qin Dong was not too clear about the main course and tributaries of the Danube during this period, and he did not know if the river had dried up due to the diversion, but was it safe to bury Attila's body here? Qin Dong is very puzzled by this, you must know that the bottom of the river is mostly river sand, which is easy to excavate, but on the other hand, because of the sand, it is easy to collapse, which will cause great trouble for tomb robbers to dig caves and rob tombs, and if they don't do well, they will be buried alive inside.

Unable to figure out the key to it, Qin Dong simply didn't want to, he continued to observe, the 30,000 people on the riverbed were digging a huge pit on the other side, it seemed that this pit had been dug up, because the earthwork had been transported to the shore, the big pit was several meters deep, and the people under the pit were preparing to climb up the riverbed.

However, at this moment, the sound of bullhorns sounded on the riverbank, hearing this sound, Qin Dong was stunned, this is the password to advance, there are about 50,000 Hun iron horsemen on both sides of the riverbank, these 50,000 iron horsemen heard the command of the horns of the advance, and all rode their horses towards the riverbed, row by row, and the momentum was extremely grand.

The sound of the armor, leather armor and weapons rubbing against the cavalry as they advanced was particularly harsh, and the air was filled with a solemn aura, clouds covered the sky, and the neighing of the horses continued.

The cavalry on both sides of the river approached the riverbed, which finally attracted the attention of the prisoners of war on the riverbed, and soon someone realized something, and the prisoners began to panic, and panic infected all the prisoners of war in a very short time like a plague.

The prisoners of war already knew the intentions of the Huns, the Huns were going to be slaughtered, the huge pit among them was the grave they dug for themselves, all the tools they had dug just now had been collected before this, otherwise they could still use those tools to resist, but now each of them was bare-handed, and there was nothing they could do about the iron horsemen who were gradually approaching the Huns.

The curses, screams, roars, and cries that came out of fear of death were intertwined throughout the riverbed, and it was extremely miserable, and Qin Dong's face turned pale and trembled all over.

Shocking, too shocking, this is a real burial alive, 30,000 people buried alive, although it is too far from the famous Qin general Bai Qi buried 400,000 Zhao troops alive in Chinese history, but 30,000 prisoners of war here is not a small number.

As the Hun cavalry got closer and closer, the space of the prisoners of war became smaller and smaller, and the Hun cavalry at the front had advanced to the edge of the prisoners of war with spears in hand, and the prisoners of war had to retreat in order not to be stabbed, and the prisoners of war in the back had to retreat because the people in front were retreating, so that the last prisoners of war fell into the pit and could not get up because of the squeezing in front.

The screams came and went, and the prisoners of war who were squeezed down the pit desperately tried to climb up, and the people behind also wanted to climb up, but the people in front were pulled down by the people behind before they could climb up, and some prisoners of war were smashed down by the prisoners of war who were originally on top as soon as they climbed up.

The scene was like an ant moving, with people getting up and falling off, and someone just climbing onto the riverbed, but being squeezed down by the retreating prisoners of war.

The encirclement of the Hun iron cavalry is getting older and smaller, and the space for the prisoners of war to move is getting smaller and smaller.

Obviously, there were many smart people among the prisoners of war, and there was no lack of courageous people, and they began to resist, and a Roman general in delicate iron armor shouted: "Warriors, the Huns are going to bury us alive, we can't just wait for death, and when we are all driven down the pit, we will definitely die, so we have to resist, we can't retreat anymore, we must fight with the Huns, we may die if we fight, but there is also hope of life, if we don't fight, we will die, everyone follows me and rushes over and kills the Hun cavalry, Snatch their swords and horses, warriors, let's live rather than die, rush me! ”

"Rush"

"Kill!"

"Kill, kill these Hun barbarians!"

The prisoners of war were aroused by the words of the Roman general, and all the hope of survival was awakened, and everyone followed the Roman general with their bare hands and rushed towards the Hun iron cavalry.

The Huns did not expect that at this time, these prisoners of war could still resist, and immediately someone found out that the Roman general was the leader who led the prisoners of war to resist, and immediately there were Hun cavalry who shot arrows at the Roman general, and the arrows did not hit the Roman general, but shot at the prisoners around him, which aroused the anger and resistance of the prisoners of war even more.

But the next action of the Huns made the Roman general and the prisoners of war not expect, only to hear the sound of the horn and remembered again, Qin Dong has been in the Hun army for several years, so he can naturally hear what the horn sounds.

After the horn sounded, Qin Dong saw the Hun cavalry begin to act according to the order conveyed by the horn, and these Hun cavalry began to turn their horses and gallop wildly, not retreating, but circling around these prisoners of war at high speed, pulling their bows and shooting arrows while circling in circles.

Hunting! This is the hunting tactics of the Huns, the Huns use the high-speed mobility of the war horse to surround the enemy, and then circle around the enemy, if the enemy wants to break through, they always use the high-speed performance of the war horse to surround the enemy inside, do not let them rush out, and in the process they also keep shooting with bows and arrows, the enemy is always surrounded inside and attacked on all sides.

When using hunting tactics, the Hun cavalry can always shoot arrows, always face the enemy, do not need to turn the horse's head to delay time, the enemy surrounded in the middle is dense, any shot can shoot to the enemy, the encircled enemy is too large, heavy casualties, and the Huns because they are circling around, the attack surface is much smaller, only a quarter, even if the enemy has a bow and arrow, the casualties caused are only a quarter.

What's more, now the prisoners of war have no weapons at all, not to mention bows and arrows, they can't even cause damage to the Huns without swords, once the hunting tactics are launched, the prisoners of war were immediately wiped out, the overwhelming arrows fell on the heads of the prisoners of war without stopping, the prisoners of war fell in pieces, the people in front of them were shot before they rushed to the side of the Hun cavalry, rushed to the front only to find that the Hun cavalry had run away before the prisoners of war reacted, and the arrows behind were shot again.

The prisoners of war fell one after another like dominoes, starting from the outermost part until they finally approached the edge of the pit, and all the bodies that had been shot fell to the ground to form a huge circle, and in the middle of this circle there was a huge square pit, and the whole scene looked like a copper coin with an outer circle and an inner square.