In order to be able to detect the traces of the Hun cavalry in time, Helorius also asked the soldiers to set up torches at a distance of 100 meters from the outermost part of their own defensive formation, and their own side tried to reduce the number of torches, only scattered all the torches around, and illuminated the surroundings, which could not only not expose their own reality but also find the traces of the other party in time.

When all the arrangements were made, several of the main officers and staff rushed to the middle of the defensive formation, and when Helorius saw that everyone was coming, he said: "There are still a few hours before dawn, and it is impossible for the soldiers to be in this defensive state all the time, so it is too laborious, and it is said that except for the outermost three rows, everyone else can sit down and rest, but they cannot lie down and sleep, and after two hours, they will change shifts with the outer three rows, and the soldiers will take turns to rest and save their strength!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

After the herald had left, Helorius asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, our situation is very critical and we may be wiped out at any time, is there any good way to help us get out of danger and successfully return to Macedonia?" ”

The officers and staff did not say anything when they heard this, because they really could not think of any other way that would allow them to successfully escape from the pursuit of the Huns.

After a while, when Helorius saw that no one spoke, he knew that none of them had come up with a good solution, and he asked, "Logistics officer, how long will we have our food?" ”

The logistics officer replied: "General, when I set out, I had already ordered someone to bring all the food with me, and although so many things happened that night and many people died, the food was not lost. That's enough for 10,000 people to eat for a day, and now we only have 2,000 people, which means that we only need to save a little food. That's enough for 2,000 people to eat for five days! ”

Herolius slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Good, good, good, it's great to be able to support it for five days!" If we make it back alive, I will reward you heavily! ”

The logistics officer looked terrified: "Lord Xie! ”

Helorius then spoke his thoughts: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is now enough food for all of us here for five days. We have 2,000 men here, and about 1,800 of them can really be used for battle, which is equivalent to three wings in the past. As long as we are arranged in a heavy infantry iron barrel defensive formation, it will not be easy for the Huns to break through our defenses with light cavalry without heavy cavalry, and I believe that we will be able to support it here for five days. But we can't always stay here and be a tortoise shell. There will always be a time when the food will run out, so we must send people to risk passing through the blockade of the Hun cavalry back to Macedonia to bring in the rescue of the troops, otherwise all of us will not be killed by the Huns, but will also starve to death because of the lack of food! ”

Everyone couldn't help nodding, they all knew the situation in front of them, the time was critical, someone had to risk death to pass through the blockade of the Hun cavalry and report back to Macedonia as quickly as possible, if it was alone. The maximum speed can be back to Macedonia in a day and a half, so just in time. There is still a good chance that the rescue soldiers will succeed in saving the people here.

At this time, one of the staff members suddenly said a word, as if pouring a basin of ice water on others, "Your Excellency General, you only think about the problem of food, but you seem to ignore the problem of water, there are no rivers, no streams and ponds here, you know that people can sustain their lives for seven days without eating and drinking water, but if they don't drink water, they are afraid that they will die of thirst if they can't support it for even three days!" ”

"Three days, three days!" Helorius listened to the words of this staff, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he was indeed negligent, because a series of failures and blows had made his thoughts appear loopholes, and now he was brought up, which made him break out in a cold sweat, it is true, if there is water to drink, if you starve, you can carry it for a few more days, but without water to drink, you can only carry it for three days at most, maybe some people will die of thirst if they can't carry it for three days.

"What to do? How to solve it, is there any good solution sir? Please sir save us all! "Helorius doesn't care about his identity now, as long as he can escape, let him do anything.

The staff member hurriedly helped Herolius up: "The general is serious, in fact, this problem is easy to solve, I have observed the topography of this area, the weeds here grow very well, which shows that this place is not only very fertile, but also the groundwater is very rich, as long as we dig a well, maybe as long as we dig a big pit, water can come out of the ground, and the water that comes out should be able to meet our needs for a short time!" ”

Herolius was overjoyed: "Okay, well, please ask Mr. to preside over this matter!" I am so grateful! ”

"Yes, General!"

After solving the problem of food and water, the next step is to return to the question of who to send to carry the rescue troops, the person who is sent must be wise and brave, and loyal, if this person's will is not firm, after escaping from the blockade of the Huns, he will flee for his life instead of moving the rescuers, and the two thousand people who remain here will not all have to be here? Next, each person recommended the candidate, and finally it was decided by Helorius.

A few miles away from the defensive formation arranged by the Roman army, Muren and Toron converged again, this time in order not to add a burden to themselves, Muren and Toron both had the same idea, neither of them wanted to be taken prisoners, their own troops were small, and if they were captured, they must also divide some troops to guard, which was contrary to the mission of their trip, so they did not have a prisoner when they joined with men and horses.

Muren asked, "What is the situation?" ”

"By now, they should have less than half of them left, that is, about two thousand or so, my three cavalry have lost a total of one hundred and six horses, and two hundred and thirteen horsemen have been wounded, nothing serious, now they have arranged the turtle shell army formation, as if they plan to defend for a long time, there are still some soldiers on the periphery who are making traps, but give me the order to shoot the archers back!"

Mu Ren thought for a while and said, "Since they are in a tortoise shell formation, we can't gnaw hard bones, they can't march in this formation, right?" Hmph, it's a pity that I don't have heavy cavalry in my hands, otherwise as long as I give me three hundred horsemen, I dare to charge directly into battle, as long as I break up their formation, and then let the archers shoot freely behind, they will collapse! ”

Toron smiled: "Your Excellency has only trained a total of three hundred heavy cavalry, all of them are under Afard, you want heavy cavalry?" I'm afraid that this wish will be difficult to achieve, if you want to go heavy cavalry, it is equivalent to robbing Alfald of his job, so that he has no work, and it is strange that he does not fight with you."

"Forget it, let's not talk about things that don't have a score!" Mu Ren pondered for a while and said: "Let's let the sons and daughters withdraw to rest, they are all busy in the middle of the night, those who came with me have not rested for a few days, and if they stay up, I am afraid that their bodies will not be able to hold on, I am afraid that the other side can only spend the night here, and arrange some rangers around to keep an eye on them, and not let them slip away under our noses, what do you think?" ”

Tolong nodded and said: "Agreed, you have been busy directing the siege these days, and you haven't rested well, but I have eaten well and slept well, and I will arrange patrols and marking people, you can rest first!" ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you, if there is a situation, remember to wake me up in time!" Mu Ren didn't grind anymore, he got off the horse and spread a sheepskin mattress on the ground, and the person went to it, then turned over and wrapped the mattress tightly and fell asleep.

At about dawn, two Hun cavalry patrolled two miles southeast of the Fourteenth Army Corps' defense, and a black shadow was advancing rapidly in the grass, and when the two Hun cavalry patrolled near him, he lay down on the way of the two Hun cavalry.

"Babur, what do you think that's that?" A Hun cavalryman on the left spotted the black shadow on the ground in front of him and immediately pointed to the black shadow and said.

The Hun cavalry called Babur looked over, "It looks like a person, let's go, let's go and have a look!" ”

The two horses rode forward, and when the horses came to a stop in front of the black shadow, the two people on the war horse saw that it was indeed a person, and immediately became vigilant, Babur took out his bow and arrows, and pointed his bow and arrow at the black shadow on the ground, and then signaled to his companion, who poked the man lying on the ground with the spear in his hand.

The man on the ground suddenly turned over and grabbed the spear that was stretched out and pulled it hard, and the knight on the horse was pulled off his horse and fell on the body of the man on the ground, and the man immediately held the knight's body to block the front, and on the other side, Babur just shot an arrow, but he didn't want the other party to use his companion's body to block the arrow, and the companion was shot by him on the spot.

The man on the ground quickly threw away the knight who was hit by the arrow, and flew up at great speed to pounce on Babur on horseback, Babur was about to draw his knife and kill at this time, but it was too late, the man did not give him a chance to draw the saber, he had already thrown him off the horse, and Babur, who had fallen off the horse, had already fallen to pieces, and had no time to resist, and his body was again weighed by the man, and he immediately lost his breath and passed out.

The man got up from Babur, took Babur's clothes and hat and put them on himself, immediately turned on his horse, took another horse with him, and soon disappeared into the night.

Soon after dawn, Babur woke up from his coma, he remembered what had happened before the coma, and with a trembling voice, he quickly got up from the ground and looked around, only to see the corpse of his companion not far away, and the sword under his feet and the spear beside the corpse of his companion, but the two horses were missing, and his coat was missing, and he immediately ran back to report the situation to Tolon.

After learning the news, Toron thought that this matter was a little unusual, the people who attacked the two Hun cavalry under him were not ordinary Roman soldiers, they must be warriors with strict training, you must know that the cavalry under his command are the elite of the elite, and ordinary people are not Babur's opponents at all, why did this person attack Babur and his companions? Is it just to grab two horses? (To be continued......)