Basiliscus succeeded in convincing the Praetorian Guard generals and officers to surrender with three thousand Praetorian Guard soldiers and pledge allegiance to the Huns, which made Barhan very happy, and he named the army "Constantinople First Legion" on the spot, and appointed Basiliscus as the commander of the First Legion of Constantinople, and the other wing commanders here continued to hold their original positions, and the generals and officers who were not here were sorry, they were stripped of their positions and other officers were re-promoted to take over, The officers who remained in their positions and were promoted were delighted that their property was returned untouched, and that they were rewarded with many surprises, with the soldiers receiving a reward of five thousand dinars each, and the Huns receiving such an army of three thousand men, to great delight.

In order to effectively control this army and prevent some people in this puppet army from secretly colluding to do things unfavorable to the Xiongnu Empire, under the construction of Cao Charlie, Barhan sent a battalion commander to serve as the deputy commander of this puppet army and the captain of the legion law enforcement supervision team, and the Hun cavalry commanding a battalion was stationed in this puppet army.

After taking care of the Praetorian Guard, Barhan led his troops to the city guard barracks without stopping, and when he arrived at the city guard barracks, the regimental commanders sent men to report that the remnants of the city guards scattered throughout the city had been captured and were now being escorted to the barracks.

When Balhan heard the news, he immediately sent someone to call out to the city guard barracks, so that the city guard commander Applel would come out to answer.

"Listen, Commander of the City Guard, Apple, now you are surrounded. There is no way to go to the sky, there is no door to enter the ground, and stubborn resistance to the end can only be a dead end. Now the whole city is under our control, and if you continue to resist, the whole city will pay the price for your persistence! Your generals and officers, as well as the families of many soldiers, have been brought by us, and if you still want them to live, please lay down your arms and come out and surrender, if you don't want them to live, die for you. Then you should resist to the end, and give you half an hour to think about it, and if you don't send someone out to discuss surrender with us after half an hour. Then your loved ones will die in front of you with their own eyes! ”

Unlike the Praetorian Guards, the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guards were pampered by the Emperor, and they were greedy for money and afraid of death, and on the one hand, they had to threaten with force to deal with the Praetorian Guards. On the one hand, it is necessary to use money and official positions to buy. Therefore, Basiliscus was able to rebel and surrender all 3,000 Janissaries in such a short period of time.

However, you can't use the same tricks to deal with the Janissaries as you can deal with the City Guards, especially the generals and officers of the City Guards.

The generals and legions of the city guards are basically promoted from the bottom, and there are relatively few nobles, and the city guards are often responsible for some security work such as city defense and patrolling along the streets, and these errands are basically drudgery, and the generals and officers from the nobility are basically unwilling to serve in the city guards. Even if they come to serve, they come to mix their qualifications, and they often don't stay in the city guard for a long time.

After the shouting. Barhan had the soldiers push out the families of the generals of the Apur and the city guards, and they were pushed to the front, they were afraid, they were afraid, and inside the barracks were their fathers, sons, or husbands, and they began to shout the names of their fathers, sons, and husbands, and they asked the men to save them.

The family members cried and cried for help, so that the generals and officers in the barracks could not stand it, such a threat was really not something that people like them could bear, maybe only those with black hearts could watch their relatives die in front of them without changing their faces.

"Alparius, my son!" Standing on the wall fortress and looking at his son tied up in the crowd below, Apple, the commander of the city guard, couldn't help but call out his son's name and shed tears.

Alparius is his only son and only relative, and if something happens to Alparius, then he is the only one left in this world, and Apple's heart is broken. On the one hand, he thinks that he is a real soldier, even if he is now surrounded by the Huns, but the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command are not without the strength of a battle, if he surrenders like this, it is simply the greatest insult to himself and everyone in this army, people can endure the insults of others, but they must not insult themselves, otherwise it is a denial of their own personality. On the other hand, he can't watch his son being killed by the Huns because he didn't surrender, his son is all his hopes, if all his hopes are dashed, then what is there to be nostalgic about in this world? Even if he lets himself die, he must not let his son have an accident, and Applee is in this contradiction at this time.

When the families of the generals and officers were pushed to the front, the soldiers in the barracks were not in chaos, but the generals and officers who heard the shouts of their relatives were in chaos first, but at this time it was not the worst, the worst thing was that a large number of city guards were escorted outside the barracks, and these captured city guard soldiers were all soldiers who were arranged to patrol and garrison various city gates in the city, and when the Huns rushed in, they were killed and scattered all over the city, However, they did not hide for long before they were captured by the Huns, even if they hid in the houses.

The appearance of these captured city guards made the soldiers in the barracks chaotic, and now not only the generals and legions are in chaos, but the soldiers at the barracks gate can no longer maintain their composure.

Time passed in the minds of April and the generals when the fierce struggle passed, the cries of the family members were even louder, some family members were worried that the Huns would kill them brutally, so some people were paralyzed on the ground because of excessive fright, but the Huns did not care about such people, but there were people in the barracks who couldn't stay, and just at this time there was a shout from the Huns outside: "General April and the generals of the city guard, there are only ten minutes left, I hope you will make a decision quickly, If you don't give a clear answer after 10 minutes, then someone is going to die! ”

Now there are no more people in the barracks who can't help it. One of the captains of the city guards beside Apple, knelt down on one knee and saluted loudly, "General, Alparlius is your only son and your only relative. You can't lose him, the Huns are brutal, they are certainly not scaring us, if we hesitate any longer, Alparius will be in danger, please ask the general to open the barracks gate and surrender for the sake of Alparius and the lives of more than 10,000 soldiers here! ”

Seeing this, several other wing commanders and some centurions also knelt down on one knee and said, "Please give the general the order to surrender!" ”

Apple's saw this. I only felt dizzy and my eyes were black, but I finally stabilized my mind and kept myself from falling. When he came to his senses, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, to be honest, he didn't know how to deal with the situation just now, but now these generals and officers helped him make a decision. Strictly speaking, it is forced to the palace. These generals and officers said that it was for his son Alparius, but in fact it was for their own relatives, of course, they couldn't say that, after all, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers here, even for the sake of the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers here, he couldn't help but consider surrendering, and just when he was still hesitating, another wing commander spoke.

"General. I understand your feelings, I am also a soldier. We are all soldiers, we all have a sense of honor in our hearts, for this honor, we can give up our lives and a qiē, but now the situation is different, we can't just think about ourselves, just to stick to the glory in our hearts and sacrifice our relatives, captured soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent soldiers here! ”

"Yes, we can't be too selfish, we can't just think about ourselves and fulfill our own glory, we should also think about others, these people are innocent, I, as their general, should do my best to protect them!" Applel muttered to himself after listening to the captain's words.

Time was running out of time, and the generals and officers present all looked at Apple, expecting him to give an order, and Applel came back to his senses to see that the generals and officers under his command were all looking at him, and asked, "Are you all one idea?" ”

I don't know who said: "General, things have come to this point, please forgive the last general, it seems that we have no choice!" ”

After hearing this, Apur only felt a tingling in his heart, he took a deep breath, turned to face the outside of the wall fort and shouted to the Hun cavalry: "I am the commander of the city guard army, Apple, please come out and speak to the highest-ranking Hun general here!" ”

Barhan, who was outside the barracks, heard that his legs were clamped between the horse's belly, and the war horse took a few steps forward and stopped, and Barhan said in a loud voice: "I am the Hun general and the commander of the Marine Cavalry Division Balhan who conquered Constantinople this time. ”

"I only make two demands, first, the general will let us surrender and pledge our allegiance to the Hun Empire, we must first release our relatives and the soldiers captured here, and we can no longer innocently kill the citizens of Constantinople!" ”

Outside the barracks, Barhan laughed loudly: "The general has been trapped here for a long time, and he should not know the situation in the city, we have not killed any civilians and slaves in the city, nor have we raped the civilians and slaves. Adultery and plunder, the general's first condition, I can completely agree, as long as the general agrees to surrender to us and swears allegiance to the Great Hun Empire, this general can immediately order them to be released! ”

"Thank you!" Applel then stated the second condition: "Second, the general and anyone else in the Hun Empire must not break up our army, and the monthly salary of each soldier must not be lower than before!" ”

Balhan was a little embarrassed this time, he didn't agree immediately, the salary is easy to say, now the salary of the soldiers of the Hun Empire is higher than that of the soldiers of the Roman Empire, this is not to break up this army, this is probably not Balhan can call the shots.

"General, let's talk about it first!" Charlie Cao, who was next to him, leaned over and whispered.

Balhan thought about it, and he was right, let's talk about it after passing the current hurdle first, as for what will happen in the future, who can say for sure? He immediately shouted loudly: "Okay, General Ben agreed, as the chief general of this battle, General Ben has the right to deal with this matter!" However, General Ben also has one condition, which is that he hopes that General Applell will agree."

Apple: "General, please speak!" ”

"In order to ensure that this army is loyal to the Xiongnu Empire after receiving the salary it deserves, this general must send a battalion of troops into this army as a war supervision and law enforcement team, and the battalion commander of the war supervision and law enforcement team must also serve as the deputy commander of this army!"

Unexpectedly, Balhan would put forward such a condition, and Apple, after thinking about it, agreed, so the two sides reached an agreement, and Apple, with all the soldiers of the city guard, swore allegiance to the Xiongnu Empire, and this time became a legion of the Xiongnu Empire. (To be continued......)