After all, he has to personally take care of all the affairs of the Hun Empire, so he is quite busy. There is no shortage of talented people among the Huns in terms of military capabilities, but in terms of political talent to govern the country, it almost depends on Avia and a few others. But this is normal, since they are nomads.
In the midst of his busy schedule, Avia also asked Attila to implement policies targeting the various ethnic groups in the vast territory, whether they were bankrupt people fleeing from the Western Roman Empire, people trying to gain benefits from the Eastern Roman Empire, or people from further away, all of them were like the Huns -
Those who return are our people. Anyone who plunders local property will be killed without mercy. Anyone who takes the people's horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, and pigs without permission will be punished.
In addition, the armament system is improved...
But although they are just a few simple items, they all cost money. The finances of the Huns are not as perfect as those of the Romans. Moreover, both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires have imposed strict restrictions on the trade between the Hun merchants. Moreover, in the general direction, the two Roman Empires are still united against the outside world. Although Avia believes that the Huns led by him can defeat the Eastern Roman Empire, it is hard to say if the two will unite. Therefore, he cannot make various demands to increase his own strength in the name of "seeking peace."
So they could only wait for North Africa, the food lifeline of the Western Roman Empire, to be occupied, and for the Sassanid Empire and the Hephthalite Empire in West Asia to break out into war before this event.
Just like the Roman Empire was caught in the crisis of the Germanic and Hun peoples, the Sassanid Empire in West Asia had to deal with another kind of people, the Hephthalites, descendants of the Yuezhi people of the Han Dynasty, who were known as the "White Huns" by the Eastern Roman Empire.
Since the 1920s of the 4th century, the Hephthalites have been crossing the Amu Darya River to invade the Sassanid Empire.
As long as the two sides started fighting, the Hun Empire could take the opportunity to concentrate all its efforts to cross the Caucasus Mountains that blocked the way, and attack the Sassanid Empire from both sides, directly take the capital Ctesiphon, and force it to sign a treaty.
As for whether the Eastern Roman Empire would assist, it probably would not. After all, the mainstream religion of the Sassanid Empire was Zoroastrianism, and it pursued a harsh religious policy. Moreover, since the Avesta had been completed, religious heresy and apostasy would be severely punished, and Christians would be persecuted. This was also the Christian policy pursued by the dynasty to counter the Roman Empire.
Long before the division of Rome, the two empires had already had many frictions with the Armenian region over this issue.
Moreover, the magic popular in the Sassanid Empire was not the two major schools of magic, the East and the West, but the third school, which came from the spells in the Middle East.
Generally speaking, the Sassanid nobles held great power in the governance of the dynasty, including the governance of border areas. Most of their positions were hereditary, and many positions were monopolized by a single family for generations.
Border ministers with higher qualifications can have their own silver thrones, and ministers in strategic areas such as the Caucasus can even have golden thrones. When at war, these ministers are battlefield commanders, and lower-level officers can also lead the army in battle.
Avia also found time to observe the Caucasus Mountains in the north where the Sassanid Empire defended itself, and found that there were quite a few sorcerers among them. The sorcerers were a group of people who were good at transformation, so if the werewolf tribe brought by Sinfitli were mixed in with them, there would not be much conflict.
Sinfitli brought about tens of thousands of werewolves from the Scandinavian islands. Excluding the old, weak, sick, and those who were unwilling to fight, there were only about three thousand who could fight. They could be said to be an elite force, and they were all fantasy species.
Add to that Ji Jun's 300 Royal Guards, the three-headed dragon, the golden wolf, Attila and the Hun army, and they would be enough to fight the Sassanid Empire in an upright manner as long as they crossed the Caucasus Mountains. Moreover, Avia also had Typhon...
However, Typhon probably doesn't want to show his body. At most, he lets Avia wear her transformed armor to fight.
Speaking of which, ever since Typhon was introduced to Attila by Avia that day, the red-haired girl has become a lot weaker, but on the contrary, her conversations with Avia have become more and more verbose.
As for Attila, he would find time every day to fight with Avia, then wait quietly in the tent until night before going back.
In short, everything is passing slowly with time.
Until six months later, that day when countless creatures on the steppes of Eastern Europe were illuminated by the bright sunlight as usual.
The earth was bathed in the warm sunshine, as if it was shining. At the same time, the spies of the Hun Empire in the Sassanid Empire sent news.
Just as Avia had expected, the Hephthalite Empire crossed the Amu Darya River and invaded the Sassanid Empire, but there was one thing he had not expected.
That is, the king of the Sassanid dynasty was dead.
According to reliable sources, the king tried to repel the Hephthalites, but was ambushed by the Hephthalites in the Amu Darya River while leading his troops and was killed on the spot. The victorious Hephthalites directly extended the war from the Amu Darya River to the heartland of the Sassanid Empire.
The king's death in battle and the lack of offspring caused chaos and instability in the Sassanid Empire. Although the nobles of the Sassanid Empire hastily supported the king's brother to ascend the throne in the face of foreign enemies, it was obvious that if the invading Hephthalites could not be defeated, the dynasty would probably fall apart.
If the final result is peace talks, the new king supported by the nobles will be deposed sooner or later, and may even be blinded.
It doesn't matter either way, because the ministers currently controlling the Caucasus are obviously not loyal people to the dynasty.
Perhaps thinking that the Huns outside the Caucasus Mountains did not know this information, the minister wanted to return to the center of the dynasty to get a piece of the pie. In short, most of the troops and sorcerers originally stationed in the Caucasus Mountains were transferred away. However, before leaving, the minister also specially sent an envoy to the Hun Empire to discuss a peace treaty for opening up trade, presumably in order to delay time and take the opportunity to sign a treaty.
However, before the envoy reached the Huns in Eastern Europe,
Then he saw that above the vast grassland, the sun seemed to be trembling in the smoke and dust, and the earth was groaning under the war horses.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, it seemed as if only the hooves of war horses were hammering at the world before our eyes, making a clanging sound.
Although the sun had not yet set, the messenger felt that it was getting darker and darker in front of him and he could hardly see the road.
Then, he seemed to see a scene where countless crows would circle over the entire Sassanid Empire.
Without hesitation or faltering, kill everything.
137: The White Wave Sweeping West Asia
Falsas, which is currently controlled by the Sassanid Empire, was once an ancient Greek colonial city and a transportation hub connecting the Anatolian Peninsula and the Caucasus Mountains.
In addition, due to its proximity to the Black Sea and the river of the same name passing through it, it has become the only way between the sea and the inland mountains.
Originally, this place was controlled by the Roman Empire, but the Sassanid Empire took advantage of the Roman division to capture it and used it as a defense base in the Caucasus region.
As a military stronghold for resisting the southward advance of the Huns from the north, its south is Armenia, which has extremely harsh geographical and climatic conditions and is of great strategic significance.
To the west it reaches central Anatolia, to the east is the Caspian Sea, and to the south is the rich Sassanid Mesopotamia region. It can be said that Armenia is a crossroads, a crossroads leading directly to the heartland of both sides... It can even be said that as long as one side takes Armenia, it will pose a huge threat to the other side.
As night falls, the stars dot the endless night sky above Falsas. Everything is silent, with only the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves and the gurgling of the stream in the distance, making people feel the tranquility and depth.
At the city wall, the sorcerer in charge of defense was patrolling.
Since most of the military forces had been taken away, the garrison was now relatively empty and more patrols were required. They naturally believed that the nobles who ruled them were a group of people who were good at management, calculation, and strategy, so they would not question the orders given.
So, the people of Falsas remained the same. After all, no one thought that the barbaric Huns dared to attack here. After all, once they discovered that the Sassanid Empire relied on the Caucasus Mountains, they would basically be in a downward situation.
"...Why do I feel like there are more people?"
The sorcerer muttered to himself, then pursed his lips, feeling that something was wrong. Why were there so many more patrolling werewolves all of a sudden?
"Hey, werewolf over there, who are you working for?"
"Well, I'm not a werewolf."
"What do you mean? Stop joking around, undo your spell and return to your human form."
"I am--"
The sharp claws that attacked from the front were powerful enough to cut through the sorcerer who was protected by magic, and went straight through his chest and pulled his heart out of his body.
"Werewolf."
However, the sorcerer's colleagues had no sense of crisis at all, because they were all killed instantly by the attacking werewolves.
"How lax! They took the city gate so easily. First team, go light the fire and report to the adults."
At the same time, as the fire started at night, the Caucasus Mountains north of Farsas.
In a corner of the mountain range, on the rolling hills, the Huns swallowed nervously, waiting for orders from their leader.
After all, this is a natural barrier that they have never been able to overcome.
“…Is it finally here?”
The white-haired girl looked into the distance, and the distant sky was filled with dense flames.
"That's right. After we take down Falsas, you will lead the wolves, Gorinich, and Sinfitli to attack Armenia in the south, while I will lead the dead apostles to the southeast and continue to attack the Sassanid Empire."
The sharp blue light of the crescent moon illuminated Avia's profile.
Attila looked at him, frowned, and said:
"But the pressure on your side is much greater than on mine."
It should be noted that the Sassanid Empire's strongest army, the Holy Fallen Cavalry, was able to inflict heavy losses on the Roman army using the tortoise shell formation. Moreover, the Sassanid Empire was still in its heyday and showed no signs of weakening. If the king had not died unexpectedly, it might have lasted for several hundred years.
"After all, I am better than you."
".....That's true."
The girl turned her head and stared at the other side, her narrowed red eyes revealing a hint of coldness.
“So, it’s time to move on.”
The next moment, countless white shadows, darker than the night, colder and more ferocious, suddenly appeared on the other side of the Falsas horizon.
Then, the edge of the endless horizon that stretched across the horizon was all dyed white.
Just like the moment when a tsunami hit the shore, the waves collapsed, and countless white shadows crossed the Caucasus Mountains and turned into a wave that swept everything. The dark blue mountains reflecting the night sky turned into a gray ocean in the blink of an eye.
The sound produced by countless people coming together, like a prairie fire, forms overlapping, continuous waves. No matter how far the waves advance, subsequent waves always continue to emerge from the other side of the mountain, just like the real ocean, which is immeasurable.
Looking around, all I saw was white shadows.
The army of barbarians, without the passionate war cries of their horses, just spread silently and ominously from one end to this side.
That is - death.
Also - the alarm of the fall of the Caucasus defense line.
The Hun army continuously crossed the natural barriers that had blocked them for a long time, without any worry of being ambushed or blocked as in the past, and broke into the unprotected Falsas, into the Sassanid Empire, which thought it could enjoy eternal peace and tranquility but had forgotten to defend its national borders.
Naturally, the Huns ruthlessly destroyed Falsas, which had blocked their progress for many years.
The crying sound that reached his ears made Attila narrow his eyes slightly.
No matter how they wailed or screamed, she felt neither fear nor any thoughts of pity.
To her, all enemies should be eliminated.
He held his breath unconsciously, his blood-red eyes exuding a cold aura.
After swinging the Sword of the God of War naturally, the facility in front of his sight was penetrated by magic power and directly destroyed.
After an unknown amount of time, someone noticed that it was already daybreak and that they could see their weapon-holding hands with the naked eye.
The sunlight is red.
In the light of the morning glow, taking advantage of the gap in destruction, the Hun soldiers subconsciously looked up at the sky.
The sky was dyed bright red. The sky, which should have been free from the darkness, was locked in red as if it was burning.
That situation is not hell, but it is worse than hell.
In the hell of red and black, some people felt that they had seen a white nightmare.
It was a white nightmare that flashed by like a vivid vision, speeding through the past of the planet.
In 425 AD, the Caucasus Mountains of the Sassanid Empire were crossed by the Hun Empire, and the important defensive city of Falsas was destroyed, leaving no one alive, causing it to disappear from the map forever. The entire Sassanid Empire was shocked, but no matter how much they blamed the nobles who deserted their posts, it was of no avail.
From then on, the door to West Asia without the Caucasus Mountains was wide open, and the sweeping Huns and Fantasy armies split into two groups and headed towards Armenia and the heartland of the Sassanid Empire.
138: The sound of the evening bell
Northern Sassanid Empire.
Under the attack of half of the Hun army led by Avia, the dynasty, which had just experienced the defeat of its king and a period of all-round political, social and religious turmoil, resisted, but naturally retreated due to the depletion of supplies and low morale.
The controlled area in the north continued to shrink, one village after another was occupied, and the city was captured. No matter whether it was the key node of the traffic arteries, the economic and cultural center of the region, or the religious and cultural center, the land was flooded with blood.
The Huns who crossed the natural barrier of the Caucasus destroyed the empire at lightning speed, and together with the Hephthalites in the east, they tore apart the former overlord of West Asia.
“So many people died.”
The black-haired girl spoke softly in a voice as cold and ruthless as the moon.
"Fu."
Following Avia, Arteluci walked straight through the collapsed city gates and the shattered city. The sound of falling rubble echoed between the empty buildings and streets.
As a Dead Apostle princess, she was used to this kind of fishy smell. From under the rubble - red blood overflowed in a sticky manner, forming a puddle.
There will be no deaths without war, so how many people have the Hun army killed so far?
Countless of them, they just walked over the dead humans, trampling on their blood and corpses and continued forward.
The winner of a war stands on the dead bodies of the losers.
The prosperity of a clan is built on sacrificing certain things.
The foul, sticky blood contains a strong negative energy, which is the voice of the dead filled with hatred, envy and resentment.
Death is often imminent, and no matter who we are, we may never know when death will be simple, easy, and natural.
It’s just a matter of whose turn it is. If you kill someone, you must be prepared to be killed.
Only death is fair, brutal, and sudden to everyone.
However, this made Ji Jun feel somewhat relieved, because there was no need to think during the process of fighting and killing, so the entanglement, regret, mourning, and lamentation that had been there since the incident with Van Feim were all frozen and forgotten at the bottom of his consciousness.
A corner of my frozen heart felt calmly that this was very relaxing.
When fighting, you don't have to think about anything else and you can forget everything.
