After breakfast after dawn, Charlie Cao received the news sent by Balhan and Hans respectively, and the 24th and 29th legions of the Eastern Empire outside the city were completely annihilated, because these two legions did not know what was happening in the city of Constantinople, and there was no defense when Balhan and Hans respectively led their armies to raid in the past, and the two armies were successful in one blow, and the main force responsible for the raid was Apple's "Second Army of Constantinople" and Basiliscus's "First Army of Constantinople", The two regiments of the Marine Cavalry Division led by Balhan and Hanzi had almost no casualties, while the men and horses of Apur and Basiliscus suffered some casualties, but the casualties were not very large, and the total loss was more than 500 men.

The 24th Army of the Eastern Empire was completely annihilated, of which one-third of the soldiers were killed, more than a thousand were wounded, and the rest were all captured, and the main general committed suicide. More than 600 men of the 29th Regiment fled west after the battle, protecting the Legion Commander, and a small number of the remaining were killed, most of whom chose to abandon their weapons and surrender.

After the battle, Balhan and Hans each sent one of them to stay behind and the other large troops returned to the city with the prisoners, but Charlie Cao sent men to camp outside the city and guard the prisoners strictly, to see if we could recruit them for our use, so as not to make the citizens of Constantinople even more uneasy and fearful when the army entered the city.

Constantinople was only really settled after the two legions deployed outside the city by the Eastern Empire, and the control of Constantinople by the Marine Cavalry Division was also truly safe, and the provinces of the Eastern Empire still did not know that Constantinople had fallen into the hands of the Huns. However, the villages and towns near the west side of Constantinople soon learned the truth after daybreak, as several hundred men of the Twenty-ninth Legion had fled, and they brought the news. And some villages and towns on the east side of the Bosphorus also quickly learned that something had happened to Constantinople and was attacked by the Huns, but the people here did not know that Constantinople had fallen for the time being.

After daybreak, in the Thracian region west of the strait, a large number of people from the Eastern Empire packed up their belongings and fled westward with great speed, preparing to flee to Edirne, the capital of Thrace, if it was not safe there. Then go south, Constantinople has fallen, don't you run and wait for death?

The people of the Eastern Empire in the area east of the strait were worried about the Huns coming ashore. Many also began to pack their bags and flee to Ankara, a large city and the economic, political, and cultural center of the peninsula. It is also the heart of the Asia Minor peninsula. Much safer, it is populous, there are a large number of churches in the city, as well as Roman baths, hippodromes, Julian columns, Augustus temples, castles.

Charlie Cao summoned the envoys of the Xiongnu Empire in Constantinople, and the two of them wrote down the battle process and the current situation of the capture of Constantinople, and then passed it on from the embassy to the Saidika side, which was a bit slow, and there were many troops on the border. The transportation is inconvenient, so you can only use other channels to deliver the message. It took a while, and Qin Dong had already received a true report from the intelligence system when he received the news from the embassy.

Cedika, Regent's Palace.

Qin Dong sat behind the desk and reviewed the official documents, Liu San hurriedly walked into the main hall and saluted: "King, there is urgent information from Constantinople, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Balhan and Cao Charlie have led the army to conquer Constantinople, and all the cities have been charged, Leo I, Venina, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Antemius, and more than a dozen other important ministers of the Eastern Empire fled from the secret passage of the palace to the arena under the escort of more than a hundred Janissaries, and from the arena there is a sewer leading to the sea of Marmara, It was from here that they escaped, and until now, their whereabouts are unknown, but according to the speculation of their subordinates, they are likely to go to Ankara, and after receiving orders from the intelligence station before dawn, they quickly mobilized a large army, and then rebelled against the Janissaries and the city guard with great speed, and appointed Basiliscus and Apple, respectively, as generals, and these two surrendered armies acted as the main force, and went out of the city to raid the 24th and 29th regiments outside the city, and Balhan and Hans led two regiments respectively to protect the left and right flanksAfter dawn, Charlie Cao gathered all the nobles and wealthy merchants in the city, and extorted them in the name of raising military expenses, and finally raised 2.4 million gold coins, and he also forcibly incorporated their private armed forces in the name of insufficient troops and the private armed forces of the nobles and wealthy merchants in the name of a great threat to the security of the city, and a total of 11,000 troops, and the general situation is like this! ”

After hearing this, Qin Dong stood up from behind the case, what happened in Constantinople was basically in his expectations, the Huns never had a navy, and he Qin Dong had only formed a naval fleet since he began to form a naval fleet, but it was only a little more than a year, and the Eastern Empire Constantinople could not have imagined that he would send a fleet to raid from the sea, if Balhan and Charlie Cao still couldn't conquer Constantinople, then it was really better to buy a piece of tofu and die in it.

It's a pity that Leo I ran away, if Leo I can be caught, then it will really be a good show, and how the Eastern Empire will deal with the emperor's capture is really worth looking forward to.

Qin Dong thought for a moment and then said: "It has taken too long for the embassy to convey the order of this king, the soldiers are very fast, immediately send an order to Barhan and Charlie Cao, and order Hans, the deputy commander of the Marine Cavalry Division, to lead the first regiment to defend Constantinople, and the naval fleet should not be transferred back, let them block the entrance to the strait, and the fleet of the Eastern Empire in the Mediterranean cannot enter the Black Sea through the Guò Strait, and transfer a small number of puppet troops to help maintain law and order in Constantinople, Urge Balhan and Charlie Cao to personally lead the main force of the Marine Cavalry Division and the First and Second Legions of Constantinople to immediately send troops to the west! ”

"Yes, King!" Liu San bowed in agreement and retreated.

After Liu San left, Qin Dong walked around the main hall, he thought, now that Constantinople has been conquered, the Thracian Provincial Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Empire will definitely get this news soon and fall into chaos, but the Governor of the Thracian Provincial Governor's Mansion is Leo I's confidant, and he will definitely order the news to be blocked, so as not to cause turmoil in the army's heart when the news reaches the front line, but the senior generals of the five legions deployed by the Eastern Empire on the border to resist the Eastern Expeditionary Army he sent are not all Leo I's people, They had their own secret channels of communication with Constantinople, and some of them would get the news soon, and it wouldn't be long before they got it.

Once the front-line legions get the news of the fall of Constantinople, the generals who understand the military will soon realize that they are already in a situation of being caught between two sides, and what they have to do is not to block the Eastern Expeditionary Army, but to choose to protect themselves, and the generals of the Eastern Empire, who know how to save time and sizing the situation, will withdraw their troops to the Greek provinces with their troops, and use the complex terrain there to build layers of fortifications, and the stupid generals may resist desperately, and of course, some people may be kept in the dark, no matter how the shape will develop, The five legions deployed by the Eastern Empire will be in turmoil and have no intention of fighting, and this is his opportunity for Qin Dong.

After thinking for a long time, Qin Dong shouted to the small door of the side hall: "Someone! ”

Walking briskly from the small door of the side hall, a clerk saluted Qin Dong and said, "What does the king command?" ”

"Immediately send an eight-hundred-mile Pegasus to send an urgent message, ordering Ma Li, the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, to launch an attack on the Eastern Empire on the same day as soon as he received the order, and form an east-west flank with the Marine Cavalry Division that has occupied Constantinople, annihilate the five legions deployed on the border of the Eastern Empire as quickly as possible, and seize the Thracian region!"

The clerk saluted again: "Yes, Lord! ”

The border town, Sveron, the camp of the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Xiongnu Empire.

A large number of people and horses gathered here, the original lush weeds here are gone, people and horses continue to trample on the weeds, coupled with the exposure to the scorching summer sun, the originally green grassland has become a loess flat, the cavalry galloped away, and a drum of dust was brought up behind them, covering the sky and the sun.

There was a great deal of noise in the barracks, but it was a circle of soldiers who were wrestling with two strong men shirtless and with their shiny shirts, and the fight attracted a large number of shouts from the onlookers.

"Newspaper—"

"Newspaper—"

"Report - Saidika 800 miles urgently, get out of the way."

A fast horse rushed into the gate of the camp like the wind, the knight on horseback shouted three times in a row, prompting the people in front of the road to get out of the way, the knight rode his horse and ran in front of the big tent of the Chinese army and held the reins, one of the guards in front of the door immediately stepped forward to pull the reins of the horse, and the knight on the back of the horse sweated profusely and turned over and dismounted and ran into the big tent of the Chinese army.

"General Qiyu, there is an urgent message from Saidika!" The messenger panted and collapsed to the ground.

Ma Li stood up with the hilt of his sword in his hand, walked over quickly, and took out a yellow wooden cylinder from the messenger's chest pouch, which had a layer of brushed tung oil, which was smooth when dried, anti-corrosive and waterproof, and the cylinder was hollow, and could hold paper drawings and documents in it. Then he ordered the two guards at the door to carry the messenger down to rest, and to bring good food and water.

After the messenger was memorized, Ma Li immediately opened the cylinder and took out the parchment command book inside, and after carefully reading the order, he muttered in a low voice: "It's finally here!" ”

After rolling up the parchment again, Ma Li shouted outside the door: "Someone, order the generals of all divisions and regiments to rush to the big tent of the Chinese army within an hour!" ”

"Yes, General!"

The next day, the Battle of the Eastern Crusade officially broke out. (To be continued......)