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"Is this intentional?!"

The Doge of Venice and others looked uncomfortable. The last thing they wanted was to sit with Bernard.

Yue Fei smiled and drank and chatted with a group of generals, completely ignoring Bernard and others.

The other tables were chatting animatedly, but Bernard's table was silent and awkward.

Yue Fei did it on purpose. He knew what Bernard was thinking, but he also didn't know what he was going to do.

"Since you want to do it, I'll let you do it!"

Yue Fei looked at the embarrassed group of people and smiled, thinking that he also wanted to see what these people would do.

"It would be nice if they dared to do something. Maybe these boring days would become interesting."

Hua Rong said with a smile.

But Hua Rong was disappointed. No one at that table spoke, not even the Doge of Venice and others said a word.

After the banquet, Bernard didn't want to stay any longer, so he said goodbye and left.

Bernard originally wanted to test whether these Venetians still had the Holy See in their hearts, but now he saw that these people were determined to follow Qi.

The news that the Holy See was going to duel with the State of Qi spread quickly, and the duel between the two countries became the hottest topic.

Bernard was very satisfied with all this. The momentum had been successful. The State of Qi was now in a difficult situation and it was impossible to regret.

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Xin Qiji and his army quickly arrived near the Po River.

The Qi army was still chasing closely behind.

"General, they won't turn their fake play into reality, right? Are we going to use a self-torture trick?"

A soldier looked at Xin Qiji and asked, the Qi army behind them were chasing very closely and kept shouting and killing.

"What kind of torture? Are you going to get stabbed a few times?"

Xin Qiji looked at the soldier and asked.

"No, no, no, no, who wants to get stabbed for no reason!"

The soldier quickly shook his head.

"If you don't want to be stabbed, who would? We are descendants of Attila, the Scourge of God. How can we be hurt?"

Xin Qiji looked at the soldiers and said.

Originally, Xin Qiji wanted to disguise himself as a descendant of the Turks, but the Turks had always had some exchanges with the West, and it would be easy for them to be exposed.

In addition to the descendants of Turks, the Cuman Khanate also had some descendants of Huns. These people were extremely fierce, eccentric, and rarely communicated with outsiders. So they could disguise themselves as Huns and have no problem identifying themselves.

Another reason is that the Huns were called the Scourge of God in the West and once swept across the entire West.

"Cross the river!"

Xin Qiji immediately led his men to cross the river.

When the Qi army arrived at the river, they could only point at the "enemy" across the river and curse.

"These guys did it on purpose!"

Xin Qiji looked unhappy, as he knew all the people chasing him. These guys' cursing seemed to be a form of personal revenge.

"General, it's because you offend too many people every day!"

The soldiers laughed.

"Scold me? Didn't I scold you?"

Xin Qiji glared at the soldiers.

"Let's go!"

Xin Qiji didn't care about these. No matter whether those people were seeking revenge for personal gain, or were pretending to be something real, he had no way to do anything about it.

Xin Qiji led his army towards Verona.

"What, there are northern barbarian cavalry coming?"

When Pope Eugene III heard the news, he looked confused. It seemed that he did not send anyone to invite the northern barbarians.

"Not only that, they came from the plains! The Qi army chased them all the way but couldn't catch up!"

The priest spoke.

"Coming from under the nose of Qi State?"

Eugene III's eyes widened. How dare someone come under Qi's nose? Qi couldn't do anything about them. How daring must they be? "Your Holiness, those people are here! What should we do?"

The archbishops looked at Eugene III and asked.

"Contact them first and see what they are here for!"

Eugene III ordered.

"Bela III, your Kingdom of Hungary is more familiar with the northern barbarians. You should go there."

Eugene III looked at King Bela III of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Kingdom of Hungary bordered the Cuman Khanate and had been fighting with the barbarians there for hundreds of years.

"Yes!"

Bella III stood up and saluted.

Bella III brought his troops to the outskirts of Verona.

"Who are these? Turks!"

Some kings around Bella III spoke up.

"No... not the Turks, that flag is... the Huns!"

Bella III said with a stutter as he looked at the young temperament.

"The Huns! Attila's Scourge of God!"

The faces of all the kings and nobles changed drastically. The three words "Huns" aroused the fear in their hearts.

"The Huns!"

Eugene III was also a little surprised.

Westerners have a natural fear of the East, and this fear comes from the Huns. More than 800 years ago, the Roman Empire split into two countries, East and West, and the West fell into chaos.

At this time, the powerful Han Dynasty in the east defeated the Xiongnu on the grassland and forced them to move westward.

These defeated Huns retreated all the way to the west, where they quickly defeated the local Alans, Slavs and Ostrogoths and established a new country.

Afterwards, the Huns continued to march westward, defeating the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, forcing the two empires to surrender and offer tributes.

Under the leadership of Attila, the Hunnic Empire established a vast country, stretching from the Caspian Sea in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west; from the Danube River in the south to the Baltic Sea in the north.

The Huns became a nightmare to Westerners for a long time.

"Your Holiness, what should we do?"

Everyone was a little panicked. The ones coming were the Huns. What should they do?

"Why panic? They only have so many people. What's there to be afraid of?"

Eugene III said that those people were only a thousand cavalrymen, and they would not be scary even if the real Attila, the Scourge of God, came.

Xin Qiji slowed down his army and stopped outside the city of Verona.

Bella III advanced with a large army.

"I wonder who you are?"

Bella III looked at the person who came and asked.

"Gilgur! Gulgur!"

Xin Qiji looked at Bella III and roared proudly.

Bela III was stunned. He could not understand these languages, but he thought it was normal as the Cuman Khanate did not have a real unified language.

"Who are you?"

Bela III switched to speaking Turkish, and the nomadic people of the Cuman Khanate knew some Turkish.

"We are here to support you! You said you would give us a piece of land!"

Xin Qiji answered in very poor Turkic.

Bela III took great effort to understand what was said. He also concluded that these people were from a remote Hun tribe, otherwise they would not have spoken Turkic so haltingly.

"Everyone please come this way!"

Bella III immediately invited Xin Qiji and others to go to a military camp outside the city to rest.

After the resettlement, Bella III reported the situation to Eugene III.

"The Huns are coming to support us?"

Eugene III frowned. The Huns had different beliefs from theirs. Could his papal decree mobilize the Huns? (End of this chapter)