Three of the nine cottages were in the east to contain the hurricane thieves, but in fact, the leaders of the three cottages did nothing, and in the other six cottages, Holm and the leaders of three of the cottages were killed by Faisal in the battle, and Mars, the leader of the black horse bandits, was captured by Faisal, and only Ruth was wounded and fled back to his lair with a dozen people.

Ruth, who fled back to his lair, looked miserable, so far, there are only more than 40 people under him, and all the others were lost in the previous battle, and the cottage with only more than 40 people will be completely reduced to a second-rate cottage, maybe Faisal will not stop like this, if Faisal leads troops to attack the mountain, it will definitely be difficult to hold with his current strength, Ruth knows this very well, he is now facing two paths, one is to completely bow down to the hurricane thieves, Twenty took advantage of the hurricane to repair the fortifications on the mountain, relying on the danger of the mountain, but he knew that he would not be able to hold on for long anyway with the few men and horses in his hands, and sooner or later he would have to surrender and surrender, otherwise it would be a dead end, or leave here and go somewhere else.

Ruth spent the afternoon in panic like this, and in the evening, there was a sudden commotion and screams from the bottom of the mountain, and he immediately came out of the cave to find a large number of people and horses coming down the mountain, and saw a small minions running over and reporting out of breath: "Chief, it's not good, the hurricane thieves have killed them, they are shouting at the bottom of the mountain, let you go down to meet, if you don't go down for a quarter of an hour, they will attack the mountain!" ”

Beads of sweat instantly appeared on Ruth's forehead, he didn't expect the Hurricane Bandits to kill him so quickly, so the five cottages along the way from the caravan camp to here were all breached by the Hurricane Bandits. He thought about it carefully and thought that it was not surprising that half of the centaurs of the Nine Cottage Coalition were killed by hurricane thieves in front of the caravan camp. The remaining half is estimated to have been captured, and now the momentum of the hurricane thieves is in full swing, and the remnants of the five cottages along the way are naturally unable to resist the attack of the hurricane thieves without a leader, and it is very common for the villagers to surrender or be exterminated, he just didn't expect the speed of the hurricane thieves to be so fast!

Ruth didn't expect things to come to this point, and when he began to think about the idea of fighting those two caravans, he was still full of ambition to kill them together with the Hurricane Thieves and Faisal, and break the long-standing situation of three mountains and thirty-six villages. But in the end, it turned out that their nine joint cottages were almost completely wiped out, and if all the six cottages in the west were destroyed, the three cottages in the east would definitely not be spared. Miscalculated, completely miscalculated!

Ruth took a deep breath and led the way down the mountain, he knew that escaping was not the way to go, and the people were right down the mountain. If a quarter of an hour does not appear under the mountain. Faisal will order people to attack the mountain, how long can this cottage of only forty people be defended? This is because he doesn't know that the Hurricane Pirates are not the final winners.

When he arrived at the outpost at the bottom of the mountain, Ruth saw Faisal at the front of the men and horses on the opposite side, and he shouted, "Is the leader of Faisal here to destroy me?" If so, even if you send someone to attack my cottage, if not, I don't know what you have to do with so many people! ”

Soon Faisal's voice came from the opposite side: "Now all my brothers Faisal and the Hurricane Thieves have submitted to Lord Qin Dong, the commander of the Thracian Province of the Xiongnu Empire, and Lord Qin Dong has appointed me as the governor of the three mountains and thirty-six villages. The governor of Sanshan and Thirty-six Villages has the right to crusade against the forces under his rule that do not listen to the dispatch. I wonder what the heart of the leader of Ruth is? Are you willing to submit to the Great Hun Empire and obey the orders and dispatches of the Pontus? ”

Faisal's words shocked Ruth's heart, didn't the Hun Empire always ignore the affairs of the three mountains and thirty-six villages? Why did you put your hand in this time? Even the Hurricane Thieves and Faisal were surrendered, what happened here?

Ruth suppressed the shock in his heart, and he asked in a loud voice, "This is all your Faisal's words, why should I believe you?" If Lord Qin Dong can appear here in person, I will open the mountain gate and come out and surrender, otherwise you will make it up! ”

After these words were spoken, there was no sound from there for a while, but there was a reply soon, "Okay, now please ask Lord Qin Dong to speak to you personally!" ”

After the words fell, Faisal rode his horse to the side, and the horse bandits behind him automatically moved out of a wide road, only to see a military horse out of the passage, led by a young man, the young man said in a loud voice: "Qin Dong, the commander of the Great Hun Empire, is here, the people on the other side listen, give you a quarter of an hour to consider, and after a quarter of an hour, if you don't open the mountain gate, you will obey me, and then don't blame Ben Qianfu for sending troops to attack the mountain, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!" ”

After Qin Dong finished speaking, he waved his hand, and saw a knight next to him stretching his bow and shooting arrows, everyone only heard a "buzz" sound, and saw the horse bandit flagpole behind Ruth fell from being broken into two, Ruth and the horse bandits around him turned back and turned pale with fright, this distance is not close, and the flagpole is not broken lightly, I didn't expect it to be broken by someone with an arrow.

Ruth calmed down the panic in his heart, turned his head and asked the little minion next to him, "What does it mean that the chicken dog doesn't stay?" Why haven't you heard this word? ”

The little minion touched his head and said: "Chief, the villain thinks that from the literal meaning, it should be that the chicken and the dog have been killed, if this is the meaning, then this should be a metaphor, think about it, the chicken and the dog have been killed, can the people on the mountain still be spared?" ”

After hearing this explanation, Ruth's body trembled, his face turned even paler, and after taking a deep breath, he immediately ordered: "Open the mountain gate, everyone go down the mountain and surrender!" ”

"Yes, Chief!"

The Hurricane Thieves and the first six of the nine cottages have all surrendered, and now only the three cottages in the east have not had time to clean up, but Qin Dong is not in a hurry, anyway, he and his caravan will have to pass by there sooner or later, and he can order Faisal to attack or coerce with the horse bandits.

After Ruth led the horse bandits on the mountain to surrender, Qin Dong rectified the horse bandits, in order to prevent the Faisal family from becoming dominant and causing a big situation in the future, after Mars surrendered, Qin Dong ordered someone to release him, and released all the horse bandits who had surrendered to Faisal, and put them under the banner of Ruth and Mars respectively. He appointed two centurions as centurions, each with more than 200 of his own men and bandits entrenched to the east of the Hurricane Thieves, in order to restrain Faisal and the Hurricane Bandits. Although Qin Dong appointed Faisal as the governor of Sanshan and Thirty-six Villages, the official position of governor was not within the official system of the Xiongnu Empire, and he could remove this appointment at any time if Faisal had any misdeeds.

After the matter was over, Qin Dong and the others rested in place for a night, and the next morning, Qin Dong ordered Ruth and Mars to leave the necessary personnel to guard outside the old lair. He and the caravan marched east with the main men, armed and armed, passing Faisal's territory along the way, always by his side.

While passing by Faisal's old nest, Mount Catani. Faisal asked Qin Dong if he would go up the mountain to rest for a day, Qin Dong refused, and the brigade went directly to the territory of a horse bandit east of the hurricane thieves and camped under the other party's mountain. And sent people up the mountain to shout.

Two days in a row. The three horse bandits in the east have surrendered one after another, after they were surrounded by a single one, they were weak, and they couldn't compete with Qin Dong with his men and so many horse bandits, so they had no choice but to surrender, when they heard that the person in charge this time was actually the commander of the Huns, they were all happy, if they resisted, it would definitely be a dead end. Fortunately, he was wise enough to save his life.

This evening. Qin Dong rested in the lair of the last group of horse bandits, and called the leaders of the horse bandits such as Faisal, Ruth, and Mars over here to discuss the matter.

When Qin Dong came from the rest place, Faisal and the others had already arrived, and they didn't know Qin Dong's temper yet, so they didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so they didn't dare to touch the food on the table before Qin Dong came, and Faisal and several others had old grudges, and they didn't say a word just now.

After Qin Dong arrived, they all stood up and saluted: "My lord! ”

Qin Dong sat down and pressed his hand: "Sit down, let's talk while eating, this wine is what I brought from Pazar, it is not the red wine you imagined, but beer, but this beer is different from ordinary beer, it is very delicious, you can taste it!" ”

After Qin Dong took the lead in drinking first, Faisal and the others picked up the cup and drank it, and after drinking it, they all felt that the wine was good, but Qin Dong didn't speak, so they didn't dare to say a word.

After taking a few sips, Qin Dong grabbed a leg of mutton and nibbled on it and said, "I guess you all want to know what the arrangements are for you, I'll tell you now!"

First of all, since you have become my subordinates, then you must get rid of some bad habits of being horse bandits, and your men and horses must be reorganized, and the old, weak, sick and disabled must be removed, leaving only the real strong, between the ages of eighteen and forty, and those younger than eighteen and over forty years old must be eliminated, and I will send officials to arrange things for these people, and the men and horses after the reorganization will be your subordinates in the future, and I will provide all the future salaries of your officers and their soldiers. Every month, the chief logistics officer sends someone to deliver the grain and grass to you, and you only need to receive it, and I can guarantee that the military salary will definitely allow you officers and soldiers to support your family.

Second, you continue to pretend to be horse bandits entrenched here, and send people to guard the checkpoints every day, and you can no longer kill people and oversell goods to the passing merchants, and only collect tolls and let them pass, but the money collected must be handed over, and I will send someone to supervise it, if someone hides money, and if you catch one, you will not be spared, and I will supply your food, grass and military salaries, and the toll collected will naturally belong to me, and I will use the money to do other things!

Thirdly, after the reorganization of Tongguò, you will no longer be horse bandits, you will no longer be a rabble, and I will send people to train you! After the training is completed, you are my soldiers, you are a real soldier, and the people sent will tell you how to be a soldier!

Fourth, although this area has been actually controlled by you for many years, it is nominally the land of the Xiongnu Empire, without my order, you can't go east or south to plunder the Eastern Roman Empire casually, so as not to cause disputes between the two countries, I, Qin Dong, am not afraid of the Eastern Roman Empire, but now is not the time to provoke the Eastern Roman Empire, if you want to fight, use your strength in training, and one day there will be enough battles for you! That's all I have to say, whatever requirements you want, or any questions you have, you can put them forward, I can solve them for you now, and if you can't solve them, I'll talk about them later! ”

After Qin Dong's words were finished, these former horse bandit leaders looked at each other, and Faisal got up and said, "The lord is very thoughtful, the villain has no other requirements, but there is a question, if the Eastern Roman Empire provokes us first, how should we deal with it?" ”

Qin Dong took a sip of beer and said with a smile: "If they dare to send troops into the territory of my Great Hun Empire, of course you have to teach them a hard lesson, regardless of whether they are killed or injured!" ”

"Understood, sir!" Faisal returned to his seat and sat down.

Qin Dong looked at the other bandit leaders and asked, "Do you guys still have questions?" ”

Several people looked at each other and said, "No, my lord!" ”

Qin Dong nodded: "Very good, tomorrow I will go to Dirmit with the caravan, I hope this news will be kept absolutely confidential, and I hope you can give up your previous suspicions, everyone will be colleagues in the future, and we must take care of each other, after all, we are both prosperous and lossy!" ”

Several people said in unison: "Yes, my lord!" Although these people agreed well on the surface, everyone actually knew what they thought in their hearts, and Qin Dong only said this on purpose, just to remind them of the previous unpleasantness, so that they could distrust each other and be wary of each other, this is his trick of scheming.

Qin Dong is not worried that these people will betray him lightly, but if you want to make these people loyal and absolutely obedient, you need to use power and strategy, these people are all people with criminal records in the Eastern Roman Empire, it is very difficult to go back, they can only choose to take refuge in him, as long as the training officers and organization officers sent from Pazar arrive in two days, things will basically settle down, once the reorganization is carried out, the training and ideological education work are carried out at the same time, it is difficult to say whether those horse bandits will really listen to the words of these people, After all, the power of such a weapon of mass destruction as ideological education is too great.

After talking about this, the things that should be said were basically finished, and after everyone was full of wine and food, Qin Dong didn't keep them anymore, just left Faisal.

Qin Dong asked, "Faisal, who did you learn your sword technique from?" As far as I know, the sword technique you used was not something that this Europa man could have created! ”

"I didn't expect adults to see it!" Faisal put down his glass and saluted, "Yes, my lord, I learned from a Taoist priest from the east, and now he and his little apprentice are in the villain's cottage!" And he had repeatedly warned me not to leave my territory, otherwise there would be disaster, but unfortunately I was dazzled by wealth, and that's why what happened later."

"Oh?" After hearing this, Qin Dong touched his chin: "This is a bit interesting, can you invite him over?" ”

Faisal thought for a moment and said, "That old man has a very strange temper, and the villain can only try his best!" (To be continued......)