Chapter 22: The Tomb

After the court meeting in the morning, Qin Dong returned to his camp outside the royal court to arrange for him to leave the royal court and go to Saidika tomorrow, and also sent someone to contact Su He and other ten knights, so that they could arrive at the meeting place on time tomorrow morning and go to Saidika together.

After dealing with it, it was already afternoon, and after lunch, Qin Dong took thirty cavalry to the royal court, and he was going to attend Attila's funeral and see Attila off.

The funeral was very simple, everyone circled around Attila's body, and the rest was the matter of the shaman, after the ceremony, Attila's body was carried to the cemetery by dozens of selected slaves, and these slaves carrying the body were escorted by the selected slave soldiers along the way, and the chief confidential secretary Onigseus personally led the team.

After the funeral party walked away, Qin Dong discovered a strange thing, why were the people who carried the bodies all slaves? Why are the slave soldiers also in charge of escorting along the way? This is not normal! In any case, the royal court should also send the Huns with them, but none of the people who carried the corpses and escorted them were Huns, but slaves.

There must be a problem here, yes, there must be a problem, think about how famous Attila is, who can match his prestige? The Huns were not so cold as to refuse to send a man to his funeral after his death, right?

Qin Dong suddenly remembered that the chief confidential secretary Onigseus had said that the location of Attila's tomb was only known to him, and even after more than 1,500 years to the twenty-first century, the location of Attila's acupuncture points is still a mystery for the ages, Attila and the ancient Chinese Qin Shi Huang and Cao Cao, their prestige in the hearts of their subordinates is too high, so that after their death, their subordinates are worried that tomb robbers will patronize their cemetery and destroy the remains, so they try their best to prevent the location of the tomb from leaking out. Bury them in a place where the world will never know, so that no one will disturb their rest.

In an instant, Qin Dong understood everything, he understood why the people who carried the corpses and escorted them were all slaves, because it was impossible for these people to come back after they went, they were all martyred, but they didn't know it yet!

Qin Dong remembered that he was still a slave the day before yesterday, if his slave status had not been removed, then it was very likely that there would be himself among the people who sent him to the funeral, and at that time, he was likely to be brutally killed by the Hun cavalry like those slaves who knew nothing, and the corpse would also be pushed into the tomb for Attila to be buried.

Thinking of this, Qin Dong suddenly shuddered, and scolded these ancient people in his heart for being really **, such a vicious means can be used, no, I have to go and see, I have to see with my own eyes how the mass grave is made!

Thinking of it, Qin Dong immediately ordered his cavalry to go back to the camp outside the city on their own, and he rode a horse and followed the funeral team out of the royal court and hung far behind, and it didn't take long for him to find that he couldn't keep tracking, because there were many patrol cavalry teams around the funeral team, and he was not the only one who followed the funeral team, and there were many people who followed the funeral, but these people were all found and surrounded by the patrol cavalry team without exception, and none of them left alive.

Qin Dong was secretly glad that he was far away, otherwise he would definitely be discovered and killed by the patrol cavalry team like the other people who were following him.

Can't continue to follow, if you continue to follow sooner or later, you will be discovered, Qin Dong studied the direction of the funeral team, and he found that the funeral team was heading to the west, and fifty miles west of the royal court is the main channel of the Danube, after crossing the Danube, there are several mountains, could it be that Attila's cemetery is there?

Thinking of this, Qin Dong immediately rode his horse and made a detour to the direction of the Danube, avoiding several groups of patrol cavalry in a row, and Qin Dong finally rushed to the bank of the Danube River before the funeral party.

However, what caught Qin Dong off guard was that the banks of the Danube River were full of Hun cavalry guards and patrols, and there was a commotion from the direction of the riverside, the formation was not small, there should be a lot of people, very many!

What's going on? What happened by the river, why was there such a loud commotion, and there were so many Hun cavalry guards around? This incident aroused Qin Dong's great curiosity, what are the Huns doing here?

There were too many cavalry patrolling, Qin Dong didn't dare to approach at all on horseback, and he didn't dare to show up, he believed that as long as he was discovered, those Hun cavalry patrols would definitely rush up to surround him without hesitation, he hid on the edge of a forest to observe and think for a long time before deciding to venture to the riverside to see what was going on.

He tied his horse to the woods, took off his leather armor, and then weaved some grass and draped it over his body to make a camouflage, and crawled slowly from the edge of the woods towards the river.

There are two miles from the edge of the woods to the riverside, and there are Hun cavalry teams patrolling constantly on the way, Qin Dong has almost been trampled by the cavalry horses of the patrol team several times, and he has stopped for a while in the middle, and it took more than an hour to climb to the edge of the river.

When the Danube appeared in front of Qin Dong's eyes, he was completely shocked, not because of how fast the Danube flows and how dangerous the terrain is, but because now the Danube has dried up, yes, the Danube has dried up!

No way, it's absolutely impossible! Qin Dong shouted in his heart, he rubbed his eyes desperately, he didn't believe that the Danube would dry up at all, was God joking? The river, which runs almost half of Europe, has dried up?

When he looked more closely, he finally confirmed that the Danube had indeed dried up, and there was no doubt that the Danube bed was wet, and that near the shore was sandy, and the deeper it was, almost all was thin mud.

He turned his head to look at the source of the commotion, which was about a mile to the left, and there was a dense crowd of people gathered on the dry riverbed, and the number of people was definitely not less than 30,000, these people occupied almost the entire riverbed for a few hundred meters, and the riverbank was full of Hun cavalry, these cavalrymen were armed with bows and arrows aimed at those people on the riverbed.

The 30,000 people on the riverbed are basically holding tools, including shovels, hoes, and flat baskets and carts, Qin Dong believes that he is not mistaken, these 30,000 people are all captives, or slaves, in short, they are not Huns, and there are people wearing leather armor and armor among those people, they should be prisoners of war from the Roman Empire or the Frankish and Visigothic kingdoms.

On the far left side of the 30,000 people there is a dug square hole, this hole leads diagonally down from the bottom of the riverbed to the ground, dark and unfathomable, from the hole to the banks on both sides of the river there are some gravel and earth, and there are a large number of stones and earthworks on the riverbank, seeing these Qin Dong immediately understands, this is the location of Attila's tomb.