Roman Army of Aetius at Chalons

[Diocle]

I mean - do all these archers die with Atilla? beacause we encounter 'Hun cavalry' much longer afterwards, and somehow their invincibility is gone with Atilla. The elderly Belisarius manages to scare them off - with a scrap force of militia no less. :!:

But under Belisarius, at the Battle of Ad Decimum Gibamundus and his 2,000 Vandals were routed by 600 mounted Huns due to their reputation as fierce warriors. (Proc. 3.18.18-20)

I think we should not forget that in the VI century the word Huns covers a wide range of peoples, for the Roman-Byzantines all the peoples coming form the lands once blonging to Attila, had to be called Huns, meanwhile the Avars were already a real threat ...

I have some perplexity about the possibility of calling Huns the people of the trans-Danubian lands after the fall of the Hunnic Empire; in the end, meanwhile our dear Procopius continues to use the old word 'Huns', the Avars and the Bulgars were already a real threat for the Germanic peoples living in Pannonia: Langobards and Gepids well knew the new names of the Eastern threat ...