The palace was almost emptied of valuable things, except for those that could not be moved, as long as there were items that could be moved, even Leo I's bed was lifted.

When Charlie Cao saw this scene, he really felt ashamed, but he didn't say anything, and there was no way to stop it. The booty system formulated by Qin Dong is very perfect, and it has a very great effect on the combat effectiveness and morale of the army, and it is unimaginable to prevent the soldiers from removing their spoils.

Charlie Cao was out of sight, and walked out of the palace with a horse, and as soon as he walked to the door, he saw several soldiers at the gate of Charke stopping a person, and several people were arguing and arguing.

"Get out of the way, you guys get out of the way quickly, I have an urgent matter with General Balhan, if it is delayed, you can't afford to bear it!" The man who was stopped said angrily.

Charlie Cao walked over and asked, "Who are you?" How do you know that Balhan is a leading general? ”

Several soldiers at the door saw that it was Charlie Cao coming, and immediately inserted the saber into the scabbard and saluted him: "I have seen the national teacher!" ”

When the man who was stopped saw that the soldiers were saluting Charlie Cao, and heard them call him the national teacher, he immediately asked, "Are you the right national teacher of Charlie Cao?" ”

Charlie Cao looked at the man, waved the dust in his hand and said, "Poor Dao, who are you?" ”

The man saluted Charlie Cao and said, "The national teacher can call me a mole, the plenipotentiary head of the Black Net Organization in Constantinople, and the three people Liu San next to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent are my direct superiors!" ”

Charlie Cao raised his eyebrows: "How can Poor Dao believe you?" What credentials do you have? ”

"This is my identity plate!" The mole tossed a metal sign, then took off his shirt to show his shirt. Then lift the left arm up, and there is a tattooed wolf head pattern on the inside skin of the arm.

Charlie Cao actually didn't know that Liu San, who was beside Qin Dong, was still in charge of such a secret organization until this person appeared in front of him. And took out something to prove his identity, only to know that the reason why Qin Dong was able to know the news of Europa in all aspects so quickly was because Liu San had such a detailed organization in his hands, but it was normal to think about it, which authority did not have a detailed organization? Otherwise, how can they grasp the movements of hostile forces?

After glancing at the tattoo pattern, Charlie Cao checked the metal sign again and handed it to the mole, believing that the identity of the person in front of him must be real. Wave your hand to the soldiers, signal them to step aside, and then say to the mole, "Come with me!" With that, he turned and walked towards the palace. The mole followed.

The two walked to Daphne's Palace, where Balhan was directing the soldiers to move their belongings, ignoring the corpses on the ground, and inadvertently turned his head just in time to see Charlie Cao coming in with a man wrapped in black robes. He looked at Charlie Cao with puzzled eyes.

Charlie Cao introduced: "General. This is the person of Liu Sanren stationed in Constantinople! ”

The mole then said, "The one who gives directions to the general's men is my men!" ”

Balhan suddenly realized, "It turned out to be you, did you come to see General Ben for something?" ”

The mole looked around with his eyes hidden under the hood of his black robe, but he didn't speak, which was obvious that there were too many people here to speak.

Balhan was a big old man who didn't understand what the mole meant. But Charlie Cao understood, he waved loudly and said, "You all go out." Remove all the corpses, and no one is allowed to come in."

When the soldiers heard this, they put down their things and carried all the corpses out of the room in pairs, until only Charlie Cao and the other three were left in the huge palace, and the mole did not speak.

"The Regent's will-".

Charlie Cao and Barhan were shocked at the same time, but they quickly reacted, and the two knelt down on one knee to receive the order, and listened to the mole read: "If Balhan and Charlie Cao have led their troops to conquer Constantinople, they will collect the remnants of the Eastern Empire in the city from now on, order them to surrender, select two or three people as generals, and give some benefits, so that these two or three people will command the troops respectively, if the field corps of the Eastern Empire outside the city has not discovered the movement in the city at this time, you can open the city gate and go out of the city to attack, Leave part of the troops and a surrender army to defend Constantinople, to prevent the Eastern Empire army from counterattacking from the sea, the other armies and most of the troops to advance all the way to the west, attack the enemy when encountered, attack the city when encountered, until it converges with the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army! ”

Balhan's Marine Cavalry Division is a super-large army, under the command of Qin Dong, the general field division has only 12,000 people, and this army is fully equipped with 22,000 cavalry, a total of five combat regiments and a baggage regiment, and this baggage regiment also has the ability to siege the city, if it follows the naval fleet, it has the ability to fight amphibious operations on land and sea.

"The last general (lower official) commands!"

After reading it, the mole put away the white silk cloth strip in his hand and said: "Two, this is the instruction I just received from Saidica, if you have any doubts, you can ask Saidica in the future, please get up!" ”

Barhan and Charlie Cao got up at this time, or Charlie Cao understood the world, and hurriedly asked the mole to sit, but the mole politely resigned, he said: "General, national teacher, I still have something to deal with, so I won't delay here, if you two have something to use me, you can send someone to leave a triangular mark on the memorial column in Constantinople Square, and I will come to meet the two!" ”

"Good!"

After the mole left, Balhan and Cao Charlie looked at each other, and Balhan said: "National teacher, there are still a few hours before dawn, if the city gate is not opened after dawn, I am afraid that it will not be long before the two field legions of the Eastern Empire outside the city will get the news of an accident in the city, and then we will not be able to achieve the goal of surprise if we want to go out of the city to attack them!" ”

Charlie Cao nodded and said: "That's right, according to the information we got, the Eastern Empire army outside the city is the twenty-four and twenty-nine main field legions, although they only have more than 12,000 people together, but their combat effectiveness is also not to be underestimated, in order to avoid too many casualties in our army, I think it is still necessary to gather troops out of the city to defeat them before dawn when they do not realize that there is a situation in the city, but before dawn must solve all the armaments of the Eastern Empire in the city, Now the two barracks of the city guard and the janissary army have been surrounded by the soldiers of our second and third regiments, and the order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent just now is that we will gather the remnants of the Eastern Empire in the city, and gather them together to select two or three people as generals to lead these remnants, His Royal Highness the Regent is really wise, we can go to these two barracks immediately, find out their leading generals, and then coerce and induce them to lead the army to surrender, And we left some troops to help us stay in Constantinople to defend this place, and the other troops followed our main force out of the city to attack the 24th and 29th Army Corps of the Eastern Empire, and accompanied us all the way to the west, and finally joined up with the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army! ”

Although Barhan was a reckless man, he still had a bit of a brain, and thought that what Charlie Cao said was true, and immediately agreed: "What the Taoist chief said is reasonable, but which regiment does the Taoist chief think should be left to guard Constantinople to prevent the Eastern Empire from counterattacking from the sea?" ”

Cao Cha idealized and wanted to build yì: "Poor Dao thinks that the first regiment is the most suitable, the first regiment has the largest number of people, combat effectiveness and combat experience is also the richest, and the commander of the first regiment, Bray, is a rare general, brave and strategic, is the best candidate to stay in Constantinople!" ”

Balhan obeyed Charlie Cao's advice, and asked the heralds to send orders to the regiments, and within two hours all the remnants of the Eastern Empire troops scattered throughout the city were solved, and if they surrendered, they were brought back to hit and imprisoned, and if they did not surrender, they were killed on the spot and settled, and two hours later they assembled in Constantinople Square, and the commander of the first regiment, Bray, led all the soldiers of the first regiment to stay in Constantinople to take over the overall defense and take care of the prisoners.

The order given to the naval fleet was to continue to block the channel of the strait, to go back by the way and occupy the already burned naval port of Boiraz, to replenish the docks with fresh water and food, food, dishes, etc., and to send warships to patrol the channels in the strait day and night, and to attack any ships they found immediately.

All the loot and booty that the soldiers had looted were gathered and shipped back to Saidika for distribution after the battle was over, and now was not the time to divide the spoils.

By now, Qin Dong's strategic intentions have been very obvious, either not to fight, or to fight a little harder, so that the Eastern Empire will always remember that the Huns are not so easy to mess with, and his strategic intention is to occupy Constantinople and swallow all the Thracian regions west of Constantinople.

Now there are 22,000 cavalry divisions of marines in Constantinople, and if they can force down the 9,000 besieged city guards and 3,000 Janissaries in the city, then even if the combat effectiveness of these surrendered troops is not very good, the number of troops that Barhan can use will reach 35,000, and such a huge army can be worth the six legions of the Eastern Empire, and it can simply go sideways in the Thracian region.

Constantinople has an extremely important strategic position, its fall made the Thrace region in a situation of being attacked by the Hun Empire from the east and west, and the five field corps of the Eastern Empire on the front line of the Thrace region have fallen into the situation of being attacked on the back, and the rout has become inevitable.

It is conceivable that once the Thracian region of the Eastern Empire falls, the Greek provinces on the Balkan Peninsula will be isolated for the Eastern Empire, and it will be a matter of time before they are occupied by the Xiongnu Empire. If even the Greek provinces were occupied by the Xiongnu Empire, with the Xiongnu Empire on the northern shore of the Mediterranean, and the Vandal Kingdom on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, then the connection between the eastern and western empires on land would be completely severed, and perhaps only the sea route through Guò would allow the two empires to barely maintain a trace of contact. (To be continued......)