"Kill—"

"Kill—"

After Tolon's order was delivered, all the soldiers in ambush on the cliff shouted together, pushing the stones piled up in front of them down the cliff, and a large number of large and small stones fell from the sky and rolled down the cliff wall, making a loud rumbling sound, not only large and small stones, but also countless small stone particles scattered and splashed in all directions.

"Ahh

"Ahh

The 3rd and 4th Wing, which was passing through Guò under the canyon, a total of 14,500 people, was suddenly in a big mess, stones fell, many people were smashed into meat cakes, and countless small stones were smashed on the top of the soldiers' heads, and many soldiers' heads were smashed out of a small hole on the spot, the pain was incomparable, the soldiers screamed one by one, the wounded fell to the ground, the soldiers who were not injured were crowded everywhere, the canyon path that was not very spacious was even more crowded, and there were huge boulders falling from the cliffs in front of them. The soldiers tried to run to the front but were blocked, and they couldn't get over at all for a while, so they could only be blocked in place and stoned.

The rocks were constantly being pushed down the cliffs, and the Roman soldiers were constantly being stoned and wounded in the canyon, and the Roman soldiers marched at night, almost each of them carried a torch, and these torches lit up the bottom of the canyon so that Toron and the soldiers on the cliff could see clearly.

After all the stones were pushed down, the 14,500 men of the 3rd and 4th Wings at the bottom of the canyon had almost lost more than half of their casualties, and Tolong saw that the second part of the Roman army in the rear was rapidly approaching this side, and knew that they had received the news that they were being attacked in front, so he immediately came to support, so Toron immediately ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows at the remaining Roman soldiers at the bottom of the canyon.

The Hun soldiers took out their bows and arrows and fired a downward volley. The arrows rained down, and the Romans who survived the canyon were once again devastated, and the rain of stones had completely destroyed their morale. Now that the rain of arrows fell again, they all forgot to use their shields to protect themselves from arrows, until someone shouted out, and the soldiers who were not dead remembered to put their shields on top of their heads, but at this time there were less than three or four hundred people still alive.

On the cliff, Toron saw that the surviving Roman soldiers were blocking the arrows with their shields, and the Roman soldiers behind him were about to run over to support, so he knew that the task of waiting for the others here was completed. In just a few minutes, more than 1,000 Roman soldiers were killed, which is a good result, and this trip is not in vain. He immediately ordered: "Withdraw, rush to Lower Orsay at full speed!" ”

After Tolong and the others evacuated, calm gradually returned to the cliff, but there were bursts of screams of ghosts and wolves in the canyon below. The Roman soldiers, who were wounded but not dead, screamed incessantly. Pray that their companions will give them a good time, the survival rate of missing arms and legs is very low these years, only a few lucky people are not infected, rather than let these wounded soldiers who have no hope of surviving continue to howl, it is better to give them a good time, the second part of the Roman soldiers who arrived were ordered to help the wounded soldiers relieve their pain, and some dead bodies were added to the canyon again.

Helorius rode over with a blushing face and under the protection of the guards, looking at the corpses all over the ground and the many large stones on the road. He asked the two wing-commanders of the 3rd and 4th Wings: "What about the casualties?" ”。

The captain of the third wing had a dead face, "General." Of the 1,458 men in our two wings, only 231 are still intact, and another 264 were slightly wounded, and those who were seriously injured and could not be treated were ....... by us, and all the others were killed."

An army has suffered casualties to this point, basically it is completely disabled, in many cases, this kind of casualty can be directly revoked, but now is not the time to consider these problems, Helorius listened to the report of the captain of the third wing, his eyes darkened, his body shook, and he almost fell off his horse, fortunately, he has been in the army all year round, this kind of blow has not been experienced, and under the service of the guards, it took a while to ease up.

When he was better, Herolius asked, "How far is it from the next Olympiad?" ”

"General, there's still two hours to go!"

Helorius thought for a moment and said, "Pass my order, speed up the march, and cross this long canyon to the Lower Orsay!" ”

"Yes, General!"

This section of the road from Lazlog to Lower Orsay is a canyon all the way, located in the middle of the Rila Mountains, the canyon road is rugged, and you can march normally when the weather is good, but it is very difficult to walk when it rains, fortunately, the weather is good in these days, both sides of the canyon are basically high mountains, but there are not many cliffs on both sides, only the two sides of this small section of the Wild Wolf Canyon are cliffs, suitable for ambushes, and the subsequent sections are basically uneven highlands, lush slopes with trees and thorns, not suitable for ambushes, due to too much thorn vegetation, People can't get in, let alone ambush, even if people go in and ambush, they can't even shoot arrows, and when they rush to kill, they are blocked by vegetation, how can they rush and kill?

The location suitable for ambush is generally not visible outside, but the situation outside can be clearly seen in the ambush place, and it is easy to kill from the ambush place, the terrain of the ambush place is higher than the surrounding terrain, and the advantage of occupying the geographical advantage is the most critical point of the ambush point. There was basically no suitable place to ambush from Wolf Canyon to Lower Orsay, so Helorius had to order his army to speed up the march.

Qin Dong took prisoners along the way with three hundred escort cavalry, and captured more than 700 intact Roman soldiers, and other Roman soldiers were killed from time to time when he led the team to charge, that is, they were seriously wounded, and more than 300 people were slightly injured, and a total of 1,100 people were captured.

With a long line of captives, on the way back, he soon encountered the light infantry commanded by Faisal, who was following him, and Qin Dong handed over these captives to Faisal to take back, and he himself returned to Razlog with his cavalry.

Throughout the night, Qin Dong and his officers and staff were busy collecting prisoners and counting the spoils of war, and it was basically over at three o'clock in the morning, when all the prisoners were taken into the city of Razlog and imprisoned, and the booty was also brought back in horse-drawn carts and ox-carts.

Wang Liu, the official in charge of logistics, took the account book and reported to Qin Dong and the officers' staff: "My lord, colleagues, tonight our side killed and burned more than 4,000 people, half of them were people from the three Germanic tribes, the other half were mostly the first wing of the 14th Legion, all of them were burned to death, and the other half were people from the second wing, these were killed when the adults led the team to follow and kill, and 3,300 prisoners were also captured, of which 2,000 were the siege camp of the 14th legion, and almost all of them were surrendered, In addition to the captured and beheaded Roman soldiers, we also captured a large number of weapons, armor, shields and other military supplies. ”

The officers and staff present were all overjoyed, and at the same time they got up and saluted Qin Dong, shouting loudly: "Your Excellency is wise!" ”

"Hahaha, good, good" Qin Dong also got up and said with a smile: "However, this is not just my own credit, it is the result of all of us working together, this battle is very good, everyone has contributed, Wang Liu, pass on my order, give one gold pound to each officer and civilian officer above the rank of centurion, and the reward for other soldiers and junior officers, and then reward another one after Zhang finishes fighting!" ”

"Yes!"

The officers and staff members were naturally very happy when they saw that there was money, and they all said in unison: "Thank you, Lord for the reward!" ”

Qin Dong asked everyone to sit down and asked, "Liu San, is there any news from the Wild Wolf Valley?" ”

Liu San stood up and said: "My lord, Tolong sent a message that they had an ambush in the Wild Wolf Valley, and after Helorius learned that the Lord led the troops to chase and kill, he divided the army into several parts, each part was separated by a mile, Tolong could only attack the first part, and then went to join Muren, as for the effect of the attack, it is not clear, and I don't know how many casualties the other party had, but he estimated that it should have caused at least thousands of casualties."

Qin Dong nodded, he pondered and said: "In this way, excluding the wounded and other non-combat attrition, the army of Helorius now has a maximum of about 4,000 soldiers who can fight, and the two cavalry of Muren and Toron together have almost 2,000 cavalry, and it is more than enough to deal with about 4,000 lost dogs in the middle of the night with 2,000 elite cavalry, even if these more than 4,000 people are highly trained elite infantry, it is absolutely impossible to stop my elite iron cavalry under successive heavy defeats, Whether Helorius could escape back to Macedonia is still unknown, and this battle, the Western Roman Empire lost! From now on, the eastern gate of the Western Roman Empire will be completely opened to me! ”

"Congratulations, sir!"

Qin Dong suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "Why didn't I hear you report on Odoase, Hall, and Mondy?" Are they among the captives? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know the whereabouts of these people, whether they were captured or burned to death, or whether they had fled. Only Liu San stood up and said: "My lord, according to the insider, at that time, the first wing of the 14th Army pretended to come to attack the city, including Hall and Mondy and their men, originally Odoaser was also sent to pretend to attack the city, but Odoase's number was too small, he took the opportunity to escape with one hundred and fifty people, as for Hall and Mondy, they should have been burned to bones now!"

Qin Dong touched his chin, "This Odoase's life is really hard, every time he escapes, forget it, don't worry about him for now, just send someone to pay attention to his movements, in addition, after the war in Osei is over, order Muren to immediately command the army to capture Mundi's territory, this old guy has a lot of territory, sue him, if you can't kill, don't kill, if you want to conquer a nation, it is not possible to rely on killing alone, declare to those locals, we are conquerors, as long as they agree to be our subjects, And pay the required taxes and military service on time, they can continue to live in the same place without incident, and if they think of resisting, they will be regarded as rebellion, and there will be no mercy for the rebels! ”

"Yes, my lord, I'll go and deliver your orders right away!" (To be continued......)