The Hu Empire's Western Route Army, which had conquered Bona two days earlier, was now moving south, preparing to attack the city of Maza, which was blocking the road to Lyon.

The army has been walking for two days without rest, at this time it is close to evening, the sky is getting late, Qin Dong wanted to let the army stop and rest, at this time from the front rushed over a horse to explore the sentry, the sentry stopped not far away and reported: "Your Majesty, twenty miles ahead is the town of Shalon, the Burgundian residents of the town have all fled after hearing that our army has approached, and the town is empty at this time!" ”

"Oh? The town of Chalon? Qin Dong stopped and turned his head and asked, "Agul, is this town of Shalong the place where Attila Dadanyu fought a decisive battle with the coalition forces nine years ago?" ”

Agul sat on the back of his horse and bent down and saluted: "This is it, Your Majesty!" ”

Qin Dong said with a smile: "Hehe, I didn't expect that I would be lucky enough to come to the place of the decisive battle between the Xiongnu Empire and the coalition army in this life, spread my will, and speed up the march, we rushed to Shalong Town before dinner to camp and rest for a day!" ”

"Yes!"

The army accelerated its march and arrived outside the town of Shalong half an hour later, Qin Dong ordered to camp outside the town of Shalon, and sent several reconnaissance cavalry into the town to search carefully.

The next day, the army rested for a day in Shalong Town, and in the morning, Qin Dong and the generals and ministers of the army rode horses outside the town to look for the relics of the great battle that took place here.

To the right of the town of Chalons is the Saône, and there is a high ground not far north of the town, around which the Huns and the Romans have fought an unprecedented battle, after nine years. In this high ground, you can still see a lot of white bones, as well as some rusty weapons and armor remains.

After ascending the heights, Qin Dong observed the surrounding environment and asked, "Agul, the great battle back then." Were you there? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I followed my teacher to participate in that great war, and my teacher at that time was the shaman of Attila Da Dan Yu, and after the end of the war, Attila Da Dan Yu led the army, and later killed my teacher in a fit of anger to vent his anger, and my teacher was divining for Da Dan Yu before the war. In fact, he was right in divination, and later facts proved him right, but Attila couldn't bear such a heavy loss. I can only transfer my anger to my teacher".

After hearing this, Qin Dong smiled, patted Agul's shoulder and said, "Agul, don't worry, I won't let you divination, even if the war doesn't go well, I won't be angry with anyone!" ”

"Your Majesty!"

Over the next two days. Qin Dong's army continued southward. But the situation he saw along the way surprised Qin Dong, every town was empty, there was no one to see in the ordinary town, and even if there were people in some towns, they were all old people who couldn't walk, not only did they not have an army to defend, but even the residents were gone.

There was weirdness everywhere, and Qin Dong kept wondering in his heart, what is the situation? Without figuring out what kind of medicine is sold in the other party's gourd. After careful consideration, Qin Dong decided to let the infantry division and the 12,000 men under the command of Princess Nicola cross the Saône and go south along the river. And he himself led the cavalry division down the west bank of the Saône down the river, in the event of any trouble, the two armies could support each other, he was worried that so many troops gathered together, if they were ambushed, it would be difficult for the army to deal with it in time, so he divided the army into two parts and marched on both sides of the Saône.

In fact, Qin Dong's worries are a little redundant, the Burgundians do not have any conspiracy, King Gundobad just thinks that there is no need to disperse troops to defend in various cities so that Qin Dong's army can be broken individually, it is better to concentrate all the troops and transfer them to the city of Lyon to defend with all their might, waiting for the coalition to come to support.

It is not unreasonable for Gondorbad to deploy like this, at least until now, no town has been able to support five days under the attack of the Qindong army, the city of Lyon has a natural advantage in defense, the Saône and the Rhône meet here, and the two rivers pass through the city, half of the area of the royal palace city of Gondorbad is sandwiched between two rivers, once the outer walls cannot be defended, the defenders can retreat to the river bank, and the two rivers become a natural barrier for the defenders.

After arriving at Mazha City, the situation encountered by the Qindong army is still the same, the gate of Mazha City is wide open, all the people run without a trace, many years ago the Xiongnu army killed everywhere after breaking through the city The scene of the people in Mazha City is still fresh in their memory, so they are worried that the army of the Hu Empire will also slaughter the city after breaking through the city, so they dragged their families to flee south early.

Just as Qin Dong was about to order the army to leave Mazar City and go south to attack Lyon, the intelligence officer received information from Rome, Qin Dongzai carefully read the parchment note several times, and muttered: "These Romans really look up to me."

One of the ministers asked, "Your Majesty, I don't know what happened?" ”

Qin Dong saw that a minister asked, raised the parchment note in his hand and said: "This is the news that has just come from Rome, the Western Roman Empire has learned that our army is attacking Burgundy, and is worried that we will continue to attack them south after defeating Burgundy, so they are contacting the surrounding countries and preparing to organize a coalition army to fight against our army again like nine years ago!" ”

After all, the battle nine years ago was indeed lost by the Hun army, which shows that once the countries are united, their strength is not at all what the Huns can contend with, and someone immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, if the Western Roman Empire unites with the surrounding countries to jointly send troops against us, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to take advantage, and the ministers are worried that we will repeat the mistakes of nine years ago, according to the minister's opinion, it is better to give up continuing to attack the Burgundians, and turn to attack the Franks, Or go straight back to the court! ”

Qin Dong was very angry when he heard this, and he changed his face on the spot and said angrily: "Bastard, you are cowardly before fighting, you are disturbing the heart of our army, someone is coming, and I will be dragged out and beheaded!" ”

With Qin Dong's order, two armor soldiers immediately came in outside and were about to drag out the person who had just built a yì and cut off his head, Aguer immediately came out to stop it, waved his hand to make the two armor soldiers not rush to make a move, and then saluted Qin Dong and said: "Your Majesty is angry, Lord Nisimus is also worried about state affairs, it is an unintentional word, and there is no intention to disturb the morale of the army, it is really unlucky to kill the minister before the war starts, please take back your life!" ”

Qin Dong also just wanted to establish his authority and let the generals give up the idea of evacuating, not necessarily killing people to relieve his anger, after Agul pleaded, he waved his hand to let the two armor soldiers retreat, and then said: "There are no more people who retreat without a fight and will not be forgiven!" ”

The generals and the ministers of the army did not dare to say anything more about withdrawing the troops, and then Agul stood up again and said: "Your Majesty, if the news we have just received is true, then the situation we encountered along the way is normal, the Burgundians must have transferred all the troops of all the northern cities to Lyon, ready to wait for the arrival of the allied army with Lyon's insistence on resisting our attack, and then fight a final decisive battle with us as we did nine years ago!" ”

Qin Dong thought for a while and nodded, "Yes, I think they must be planning to do so, hmph, do they still want to defeat us like they did nine years ago?" Today's Hu Imperial army is not the Hun coalition army nine years ago, today's Roman coalition army is not the Roman coalition army nine years ago, I am not Attila, Lihymir is not Aetius, everyone, I have two combat strategies here, first, our army is not in a hurry to march, wait slowly, wait for the coalition army to assemble in Lyon, we will fight a decisive battle with the coalition army in Lyon, second, quickly move south, break through Lyon before the coalition army completes the assembly, destroy the Burgundians first, and then wait for the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the coalition army, Which strategy do you think we should adopt? ”

After listening to Qin Dong's words, the generals and ministers of the army immediately discussed the feasibility of these two plans, Qin Dong saw that everyone was just discussing and no one stood up to clearly support a certain plan, so he asked Agul: "What do you think?" ”

Agul actually hadn't thought about it yet, and now that Qin Dong asked, he couldn't help but stand up, "Your Majesty, waiting for the coalition forces to assemble and then fight with them, this seems to be too arrogant and too negative, no matter when, we should take the initiative in our own hands, when to fight, where to fight, we should have the final say, we can't be led by the Romans, we don't have many troops, and it is deep into the enemy's territory, once something goes wrong, our army will be very dangerous!" ”

Qin Dong agreed with Agul's statement in his heart, but he didn't want to show it on his face, but just asked, "Where is the Eastern Route Army of Duoyin now?" ”

"In Sesell!"

Qin Dong immediately walked to the table, looked at the map and quickly found the location of Secelle, the distance from Maza to Lyon is about the same as from Sessel to Lyon, the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army have infantry divisions, that is, according to the normal marching speed and attack speed, it should be possible to reach the city of Lyon at the same time, but Qin Dong decided not to withdraw the army to fight against the coalition army, and to take the initiative in his own hands, so time is very precious for Qin Dong, he decided to capture Lyon City as quickly as possible, and ordered: " Order: First, give an order to Nicola and Duoyin, ordering them to rush south to Lyon as quickly as possible, and I will lead the cavalry division to the south first, and see you under the city of Lyon! Second, order the intelligence system to keep a close eye on the movements of the armies of Rome and the surrounding countries, and I need to know at all times whether the countries are responding to the call of the Western Empire to unite against us, and thirdly, Agul, you immediately organize your men and send them to the Cati, the Friths, the Kaukis, the Cherusians, the Svibites, the Samnons, the Lombards, the Angles, the Saxons, the Hermenduris, the Macomani, the Boi, the Quadi, the Bastanae, the Jutes, The Kauken and other Germanic tribes will meet their tribal leaders and convey to them my will that they should personally lead the army, at least six thousand men each, and assemble in a month at Chalon, and those who do not come or are late will be enemies of our Hu Empire, and I will swear to destroy them."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Since the Romans are looking for the coalition army, Qin Dong is not to be outdone, and also began to look for the coalition army, and the tribes they are looking for are Germanic people, they all live in the western part of the Hu Empire, and have to obey Qin Dong's orders. (To be continued......)