Chapter 232: Undeclared War

Preparing for the establishment of the new patrol bureau and the official office of the sanitation bureau, Qin Dong decided to wait for Peteus to come back and be presided over by him, the mayor of Pazar City, first in Pazar to try it out in Pazar to see how the effect is, if the effect is good, he decided to fully implement it within the scope of his control, so that the demand for officials will increase, but this is difficult for Qin Dong, he is again worried about the problem of disabled soldiers and older officers changing careers, if the patrol bureau and the environmental sanitation bureau are fully established in the territory, You can solve a large part of it, and as for the rest, you can figure it out.

In addition, Qin Dong intends to reform the official system after the end of this war against Marcus and Mordo, taking advantage of the relatively stable situation within the Xiongnu Empire during this period, after all, the official system of the Xiongnu Empire is no longer suitable for the development of his territory, and now Dadan Yu Erak and his brothers have just fallen out, and they have not yet fought, if the two sides fight, then it is unlikely that Qin Dong will spare time to reform the official system.

According to the normal historical development, in more than half a year, Dadan Yu Erak will go to war with his brothers, and Erak will be killed in the second half of the year when he is ambushed by the rebellious barbarian army in this part of the river while pursuing Deng Zhixik. However, Qin Dong knew that due to his arrival, many things had deviated from the original historical track, such as the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I became emperor four years early, and Odoaser also began his life in exile in advance. I don't know if the rest of the story will continue to develop according to the original historical track, so there is a lot of uncertainty now. What he can control is to strive to strengthen his own power and control more territory to protect himself.

Qin Dong really didn't know what would happen next, and he decided to take advantage of the short period of peace to reform the official system immediately after the end of this war. Let his regime take on a new look, even if Da Shan Yu knows what he has done, he doesn't dare to do anything to him in this matter.

In addition to reforming the official system, Qin Dong also prepared to reform the military system, as we all know, reform has always been a matter of offending people, and if it is not done well, it may cause riots to break out in various places. There is also the possibility of rebellion and even the collapse of the regime, so reform must be cautious. Qin Dong decided to take advantage of the period when Shantouism had not yet appeared within his own forces, and to start reforming at the infancy of this nascent regime, so as to determine the general framework of the future political system, as long as the general framework was determined. All the things that add to the building blocks will be easy to do. If you wait until your own power reaches a certain level. If various interest groups are naturally formed within themselves before reforming, the resistance to reform will undoubtedly be much greater, so the matter of reforming the official system and the military system has been put on the agenda by Qin Dong.

Leaving aside this for now, the immediate priority now is to defeat Marcus and Mordo as quickly as possible and at the cost of the least casualties, and seize both of their territories.

Two days later, the 2,500 men of the army that had attacked Marcus had been assembled, of which only 600 cavalry were assembled, and the rest were all infantry. Heavy infantry, light infantry, and mountain infantry, all of them, including infantry, marched at full speed as fast as possible toward the area controlled by Marcus. Because this road was Qin Dong's own territory, it was necessary to be on guard against ambushes at all times, so Su He led this army to march at full speed, and arrived at Bobodor, which was southwest of Pana and at the junction of Marcus's territory, which even Modo did not know.

Originally, according to the discussion of Modo, Lored and Qin Dong, it was decided to wait for Lorid to return from Qin Dong's territory before starting to do it, but now Qin Dong did it in advance, and did not inform Modo and Lored, Qin Dong did it on purpose, in order to grab time, it is basically impossible to keep this kind of thing secret, large-scale military movements can't hide from the omnipresent spies, Marcus and Mordo are not Modo's people, it is impossible for them not to send people to lurk around Modo to listen to the news, So in order to catch Marcus and Mordo off guard, Qin Dong decided not to inform Modo before Modo made a move, and to strike first.

After arriving on the outskirts of Bobodor, Suhe immediately ordered the infantry to rest, sent cavalry to guard the surroundings, and sent elite soldiers from the mountain infantry to Bobodol to reconnoiter the situation.

It is not surprising that some of the major towns on Marcus's territory were built on the mountainside, as most of the towns in Thrace were built in this way, mainly for defense, but because of the topography, the situation in Marcus's territory was particularly prominent, and these towns were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the cavalry could not use them to their strengths.

It didn't take long for the soldiers who had been sent to reconnoiter to come back and bring news of Bobodor City, according to the reconnaissance, the defense of Bobodor City was lax, and there were only a few soldiers at the city gate at night, and these soldiers were still sleeping, and what was even more ridiculous was that the city gate was not closed.

In the Balkan Peninsula, there is basically only one gate for the towns and castles built by the mountains, and the only way to enter and exit is this one gate, and there are no other exits in the city, if the town or castle is breached by the enemy, the people in the city basically have nowhere to run, but generally the towns and castles built by the mountains have a strong defensive ability, and it is difficult to break through such towns and castles.

Bobodor was only a small town with a population of only a few thousand, and Marcus didn't have much of a force here at all, less than a hundred cavalry, and although there were only a hundred cavalry, he still had enough deterrent power to the townspeople.

After learning the news, Su He consulted with Duoyin, Ma Li, Faisal and others, and decided to send a group of mountain infantry up the mountain to kill the few sleeping soldiers at the city gate, and then send infantry with spears and shields to attack the city, according to the principle stipulated by Qin Dong, first capture the prisoners, and if the enemy refuses to surrender, it is not too late to kill them.

The task of sneaking up on the city gate was led by Faisal, who was the commander of the mountain infantry and had a lot of experience in mountain warfare, and he personally led the team to carry it out for the sake of insurance.

Faisal led a team of fifty mountain infantry to slowly follow the slope road to the gate on the hillside in the dark night, and when he could see the light of the dim oil lamps at the gate in the distance, Faisal ordered a dozen archers to come forward with him, while the infantry armed with small round shields and swords followed only behind.

After all, this is to raid the city gate, the main thing is to make no noise, if you are not found close to the city gate, the archers in front can shoot the soldiers at the city gate from a long distance to prevent them from making a sound.

The soldiers guarding the gate of the city were not completely unalert, Faisal and his more than fifty men, all wearing leather armor and armed with weapons, made a lot of noise in this quiet night, and when they approached less than fifty meters from the city gate, they alarmed a soldier at the city gate, who stood up with his misty eyes and the hilt of his sword and looked ahead of the road.

Seeing this, Faisal knew that he was going to be discovered, and immediately drew his bow and shot it, and shot the soldier to death with an arrow, the sound of the soldier falling to the ground immediately alarmed the other seven people, they all jumped up and drew their scimitars to guard, and they knew that something was wrong after the corpse of the shot soldier entered their sight, but he couldn't let them sound the alarm, Faisal immediately made a decision, and asked the archers at the front of the team to shoot arrows at the seven soldiers, and in a few breaths, all seven soldiers guarding the city gate were killed by arrows.

"Up!" Faisal pointed at the city gate with a big sword, and the soldiers with shields and swords behind him immediately rushed to the city gate at full speed, and controlled the city gate in just a few seconds.

Seeing the signal from the middle of the mountain, Suhe and the others immediately ordered the infantry to rush up the hill at full speed with spears and shields, and sent cavalry to surround Bobodor and completely block the surrounding roads to prevent anyone from sneaking out of the secret passage where there might be zĂ i to report to Marcus in Chusten.

Judging from the defensive situation here, Marcus is definitely an idiot in politics, Erak and his brother have fallen out, it is impossible for him not to get sporadic news from the Xiongnu royal court, but he doesn't know how to strengthen the defense when he knows that there is a problem within the royal court, and he looks like he's okay at all, no wonder the defense here is so lax, and it is normal to be easily raided by Su He's troops.

A large force of infantry rushed to the gate of the city, and under the command of the commanders of the ten and centurions of all ranks, they lined up in a neat formation, stepping on a neat pace, holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and marched towards the city.

The news of the army entering the city is certainly not small, more than a hundred cavalry in the city who are sleeping were quickly awakened, when they appeared in a panic on war horses and saw the neat infantry phalanx, the cold and shining spear tips made them realize that it was over, the town was not suitable for cavalry to run fast and fight, those cavalry could only shoot arrows at the approaching infantry from a distance, and the officers who saw this situation immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, raise their shields to defend, and the waves of arrows fired on the shields made a clanging sound, Only one or two unlucky ghosts were shot in the foot and let out a scream.

As the infantry pressed, those cavalry could only retreat, until they were all surrounded by the square at the entrance of the town center, and Su Hecai appeared with Ma Li and Duoyin in the future.

"I am Su He, the newly promoted Elder Qin Dong Wanfu in the east, Captain Marcus attempted to rebel, Da Dan Yu ordered Elder Qin Dong Wanfu to exterminate it, this matter has nothing to do with you, as long as you lay down your arms and surrender, we will definitely not embarrass you, if you resist to the end, it will be a dead end! I hope you guys think about whether it's worth burying with Marcus! ”

Any kind of war needs to find an excuse to use as a fig leaf, and the premise of victory is that you must occupy the name of righteousness, otherwise even if you may win in the early stage, you will be defeated in the end. Under Su He's words, all the surrounded cavalry chose to surrender, and now the contradictions within the Xiongnu have just been revealed, and the soldiers below know very little about the affairs of the upper echelons, so the prestige of the royal court and Da Shan Yu is still very high, and no one is willing to be the first to bear the charge of participating in the rebellion. (To be continued......)