Helorius finally chose to surrender, but Muren, as the main general, agreed to several conditions on behalf of Qin Dong, and he put forward several conditions: first, the Huns must not abuse him and his soldiers, and second, if the Western Empire paid to redeem them, Qin Dong must not deliberately make things difficult, and must let them go back after receiving the ransom.

Correspondingly, the Huns also issued a warning, the captives must have the consciousness of the captives, if the captives gather to make trouble, they must be severely punished, honest captives will not be punished, but for those who deliberately make trouble, try to escape, once found, they will be killed on the spot, at the same time, Muren also requires the captives to abide by the regulations after arriving at the place of detention, to participate in labor, must use their own labor to earn food to support themselves, the Huns have no obligation to take out food to feed them! After an afternoon of negotiations, the two commanders finally reached an agreement, and at the surrender ceremony, Helorius and his generals and legions knelt down on one knee and presented their swords.

The battle of Razlog came to an end, ending with Qin Dong occupying Razlog and annexing a territory of hundreds of miles, Hall and Mondi, the two leaders of the Germanic people, were burned to death under the city of Razlog, Hall and Odoaser all fell into the hands of Qin Dong, and the Germans in their hands also became the people on the ground of Qin Dong, and the Western Empire's attempt to prevent Qin from going southeast was also frustrated, and the Fourteenth Army plus the wing of Homsis had no return, Only a handful of the Roman army, with a total strength of about 13,000 men, escaped with death, and more than 6,000 people, including Herolius, were captured. Everyone else died in battle.

After handing over the thousands of captives of Helorius to the team sent by Qin Dong to receive the captives, Muren followed Qin Dong's orders and led the Second Route Army all the way down to the southeast. Within a few days, it swept across a large area southeast of the Lira that belonged to the Germanic tribe of Mundi. At this point, the lands of the Germanic tribes sandwiched between the Xiongnu Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Western Roman Empire were all occupied by Qin Dong, and his sphere of influence directly bordered the Eastern and Western Empires.

In the Balkans, in many parts of Greece, Macedonia and Thrace, there were also large Germanic peoples, among whom there were many ethnic groups, and these barbarians lived in the lands of the Eastern and Western Empires, and they did not have their own political power and towns. Instead, they were subordinate to the rule of the Eastern and Western Empires, and lived alongside the Romans, Greeks, Macedonians, and Slavs.

Qin Dong knew that he could not continue to invade the south at this stage, and grabbing the territory of the three Germanic tribes and occupying them was the maximum tolerance limit for the two empires of Eastern and Western Rome. One further south would be tantamount to war against the two Roman Empires, with whom he had a secret pact and who had to settle for Leo I. And at this stage he did not have enough strength to challenge the Western Roman Empire alone. Not to mention that Aetius is still alive, that is, Aetius is no longer alive, and with his current military and economic strength, he is far from being able to compete with the Western Empire.

The capture of Razlog was equivalent to opening the door to the south, laying the foundation for a large-scale southward invasion in the future, as long as the area around Razlog was well managed, the road traffic was repaired, and it was convenient for business and travel, which was very beneficial to the economy and trade of his territory.

The battle. Qin Dong's army directly killed more than 600 people and wounded 1,000 people. In order to fight this battle, this time he transferred most of his troops, and only a small part of the garrison troops left in the original territory were recruited, although 10,000 new soldiers were recruited, but more than 10,000 people were still training, and they did not form an army, so there was no combat effectiveness at all. Fortunately, there are no enemies around his forces, but it will be difficult to say after a while, the battle of the Xiongnu royal court is becoming more and more dangerous, and the situation is getting worse and worse, which is also the reason why Qin Dong has to end this war as much as possible, and then transfer his troops back.

In this battle, Qin Dong's goal was achieved, not only did he achieve the expected goal, but also exceeded expectations, the Lila Mountains and the surrounding areas were within his control, he could mine the minerals in these areas, and at the same time, he also allowed the army to fight a big battle, achieved the purpose of large-scale actual combat, and trained the army, in addition, Qin Dong captured a large number of weapons and equipment in this war, as well as a lot of gold jewelry and other large property, and confiscated the private property of the Germanic chiefs, A large number of cattle, sheep and livestock were captured, and the war was indeed able to make a fortune.

The Western Roman Empire did not have any special expression for the destruction of the Fourteenth Legion, nor did it send a large army to attack Qindong, because the current center of gravity of the Western Roman Empire was not on the Balkan side, and the Huns were busy with internal strife and did not pose any threat to it, but the greatest threat to it was some countries established by the barbarians in the west, such as the Visigothic Kingdom, the Vandal, the Frankish Kingdom, the Anglo-Saracen Kingdom, etc., which were small states established by the barbarians, often clashed with the provinces of Gaul, in order to suppress these barbarians, The Western Empire had to transfer most of its troops to the western front defense, and the troops in the Balkans on the eastern front were greatly reduced, and the Macedonian province in the west of the Western Roman Empire was mountainous and the terrain was complex, and this kind of area was extremely unfavorable to the cavalry operations of the Xiongnu Empire, which was conducive to the defense of the infantry of the Western Roman Empire, so there was no need to deploy a large number of troops in this area. Qin Dong did not continue to encroach on the territory belonging to the Western Empire after obtaining the territory controlled by the three Germanic peoples, so the Western Empire could only swallow his anger and swallow this evil breath, in fact, it could not do anything if it did not swallow it.

It should be noted here that although the small states established by the barbarians, such as the Visigothic kingdom, the Vandal kingdom, the Frankish kingdom, the Anglo-Saracen kingdom, and so on, existed in the form of a single state, they still respected the Western Roman Empire as their suzerainty, even if they fought with the Western Empire repeatedly, their supreme leader was the king, not the emperor, and only the two Roman Empires in the east and west had the title of emperor.

In this battle, the Xiongnu army under the command of Qin Dong changed the previous policy of the Huns going south to plunder, burn, kill and loot, and did not commit any crimes against the local people, but only attacked the local government and army, including the local local army, otherwise Muren would not have captured so many prisoners.

This situation changed the impression of the local Germans and Romans on the Huns, it turned out that the Huns were not so brutal, for the lowest peasants, hunters and slaves, it didn't matter who was in power, as long as they could let them have enough to eat, they were willing to live under whose rule, after Qin Dong occupied the three Germanic regions south of the Rila Mountains, the local Germanic people only regained peace after the initial panic, and lived peacefully under Qin Dong's rule, In order to win the hearts and minds of the people in this newly occupied land, Qin Dong also ordered a tax exemption for one year, from now until the end of next year, all the local people do not have to pay a copper plate tax, after this decree was issued, immediately made the vast majority of the local people sincerely submit, and sincerely support Qin Dong's rule.

Tax-free? In the perception of the locals, no one has ever exempted them from taxes, even the leaders of the Germanic people still have to collect taxes from them every year, even if they encounter natural and man-made disasters, it is impossible to exempt them from taxes, at most they pay less, and Qin Dong gave them tax exemptions, which can be said to be the first time in the world.

On the one hand, Qin Dong gave tax exemption to the local Germans, and on the other hand, he issued a large reward for the capture of Odoaser and his important people, which made Odoaser unable to hide in the territory of the Germans, so he could only flee with dozens of loyal deployments, and finally could only become a mercenary, he set up a mercenary force, served as its leader, and collected some scattered Goths, the number of this mercenary force is about 100 people, active in Rome and Ravenna.

Since the end of the war, Qin Dong returned to Pazar with the main force of six or seven thousand prisoners, leaving Muren to guard the land he had just occupied.

For these six or seven thousand captives, Qin Dong ordered people to screen out all the officers among them and detain them separately, and then disperse the soldiers and escort them to various places, so that these soldiers who did not know each other worked together, some were sent to mine, some were sent to farm, some were sent to work in workshops, and some were sent to graze.

Qin Dong expected that the Western Roman Empire would never pay to ransom these captives, maybe the families of those generals and officers would use money to ransom people, but the Western Empire was only afraid that it would not take money to ransom those ordinary soldiers, so he decided to wait for a year or so, and then select some strong people from among them to enrich the army, mix them with soldiers from other Xiongnu and other nationalities, and after some training, it will be a powerful army again.

After dealing with the matter of prisoners of war, Qin Dong paid attention to the situation in the territory during this time, because the war did not take place in the territory, and there was no dispatch of people to engage in war-related things, the people's power was not affected, so the economic situation in the territory was not affected, but because of the large demand of the military, the economy in the territory was stimulated.

During this period of war, the military purchased a large amount of wool, sheepskins, cowhides and meat from Muren, purchased grain from farmers, purchased various materials in bulk from the market, and purchased a large number of woolen sweaters, leather jackets, shoes and hats from various workshops, which greatly stimulated the economy in the market. (To be continued......)