The capture of Kolo, the governor of Thrace, led the follow-up army of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to the city of Edirne, and the city of Edirne surrendered, and the surrendered army had two legions, with a total strength of 18,000 men, including 3,000 heavy cavalry.

A day later, Qin Dong arrived with the follow-up legions of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and was warmly welcomed by the citizens of Edirne, but it is unclear how many of the welcoming crowd were genuine. In those years, there were few officials and civilians who believed in living and dying with the city, just as a girl's trouser belt was always loose, and as long as a conqueror came, if there was not enough resistance to resist, almost the whole city surrendered, and this has happened many times.

Due to the surrender of Edirne, the situation of the four legions deployed by the Eastern Empire in the two places of Petro Mountain and Lesovo was very dangerous, because the geographical location of Edirne was in the rear of these two towns, Qin Dong could immediately send troops to cut off the retreat of these four legions.

The news of the surrender of Edirne could not be concealed for long, and the two corps in the small town of Mount Pietro were the first to learn of the news, and they panicked, and quickly retreated to the territory of the Greek province a few dozen miles away, led by the two corps commanders, and retreated to the south without stopping, attempting to retreat through the Greek territory to the southern coast of the Thracian province.

The two legions in Lesovo were not so lucky, they got the news of the fall of Edirne a little later, and they were in the north, and the fall of Edirne was equivalent to completely cutting off their chance to retreat, in fact, these two legions could still retreat to the northeast. All the way to the shores of the Black Sea, but since the port of Poiraz had already been destroyed by the Hun naval fleet, all the warships were burned. Therefore, there were no Eastern Roman Empire naval warships on the Black Sea to meet them, and they had two options, first, surrender, and second, to forcibly break through to the south and break through the blockade of the Huns. Either cross the Maricha River to the territory of the Greek province, or pass through the cracks in the cities already occupied by the Xiongnu army to the south of the province of Thrace. However, the second option is to die for a lifetime, and the vast majority of the Eastern Empire's army is infantry. Although attention has been paid to the construction of cavalry, the number of cavalry is still very small, and they are all heavy cavalry, and long-distance marches are simply not possible. And the infantry marched too slowly. The cavalry units of the Xiongnu army could easily catch up and intercept along the way, and it is still unknown whether these two legions could escape to the south.

Unlike the previous Xiongnu army, most of the Xiongnu army established in eastern Qin was still cavalry troops, and a small part was infantry troops, but the number of infantry was slowly increasing, and the types of cavalry troops were also subdivided, not only the former Xiongnu light cavalry, but now there are also heavy cavalry and archers. In the infantry, there are also subdivisions, there are light infantry, heavy infantry, mountain infantry, and archery infantry. A single arm can sometimes play the maximum combat strength of this arm, but the use of a single arm is too single, and it is not used in many cases, for example, pikemen have a great advantage against cavalry, but pikemen against infantry with shields will not work, and will be completely restrained, and for example, archers and cavalry archers have an advantage against general light infantry, pikemen, and cavalry, but they are completely restrained against infantry with shields. Therefore, in order for an army to be able to cope with a war under any circumstances, it is necessary to develop only a single branch of the armed forces, and it is necessary to cooperate with multiple arms.

In the past, Attila's army could not exert its combat effectiveness in the Thrace region, for two reasons, the first is that his army is basically cavalry, and second, the cavalry cannot be used at all on such complex terrain as the Thrace region, but now Qin Dong's army does not have this situation at all, there are a large number of infantry in his army, and the combat effectiveness of the infantry is not worse than the infantry combat effectiveness of the Eastern Roman Empire, Qin Dong can use a small number of light cavalry cavalry to drag the two legions, and then let the infantry catch up to complete the encirclement, In fact, Qin Dong did the same, and after arriving in Edirne, he quickly sent two armies to pursue the four legions, and at the same time sent another army to continue eastward to join up with the Marine Cavalry Division.

After the Xiongnu army accepted the surrender of the two legions in the city of Edir, it did not treat the citizens in the city well, Qin Dong knew very well that blind killing could not stabilize the rule, it could only increase hatred, and it was only those landlords and bullies, ruffians and hooligans who exploited the people that wanted to be killed, killing these people could eliminate the hostility of the people, and only by letting the people here eat food could they win their support.

After accepting the surrender of two legions and a cadre of officials in the city, Qin Dong led a large army into the city to take over the power, and issued a notice to the people, so that the citizens in the city could live a normal life, and the merchants and shops were open for business normally. In order to win the hearts of the people, Qin Dong ordered the opening of the granary of the provincial government treasury to store grain, and both civilian and slave families could receive thirty pounds of wheat flour each, while rich and merchant families could not receive grain.

In order to further calm the hearts of the people and win the support of the people here, Qin Dong ordered the establishment of a special court to retry the backlog of cases in the last five years, and allowed the citizens to file complaints in the special court, but where the defendants are landlords and bullies, ruffians and officials with a very bad reputation, the special court will conduct a public trial during the trial, the Roman Empire already has a court to hear cases, Qin Dong this time to come up with a special court is not unusual, but it is the first time in history to conduct a public trial.

Now the ruffians and hooligans in the inner city of Edir, the landlords and bullies who bully the market have fallen into blood mold, especially those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are prey to the common people, have been duly punished, as for those officials who have no serious deeds, Qin Dong summoned them and burned the paper of complaints against them in front of them, the intention is obvious, on the one hand, he said that he will no longer pursue the previous things, and he wants them to rest assured, after all, he still needs these officials to help him govern the city and the surrounding towns, which is also a helpless thing, There were very few officials in the Xiongnu Empire, and even fewer literate officials, and now that they have occupied so much territory, where did Qin Dong send so many officials to deal with government affairs? Only with these surrendered officials of the former Eastern Roman Empire Thracian Province, on the other hand, it also hinted that these officials could not do this in the future, if they were to fish the people and take bribes as before, he would settle the new accounts and old accounts together, and these officials with some minor problems were relieved and hurriedly knelt down to Qin Dong to express their allegiance.

After Qin Dong quickly and strictly killed a group of landlord bullies, ruffians and officials with serious crimes, Qin Dong not only shocked those officials of the former Eastern Empire who surrendered, but also gained the hearts of the locals, especially when Qin Dong ordered Thrace Province to abolish the slavery system like other counties of the Xiongnu Empire, and distributed the fields of those heinous landlords and corrupt officials to the slaves, he immediately gained the hearts of the slaves in the entire Thracian Province and won their loyal support.

This trick is too powerful, originally the Thrace region is a multi-ethnic region, each ethnic group has its own customs and beliefs, so ethnic conflicts often occur, coupled with the rampant expropriation of the officials of the Eastern Empire, riots and uprisings often occur here, and now the various ethnic groups living in Thrace Province are grateful to him because Qin Dong gave them land, abolished their slave status, let them have a place to live and farm, so that they can have personal freedom and their own property, they all hope that Qin Dong can rule here forever, Become the eternal king here.

After spending a few days dealing with the most important matters in the inner city of Edir, he ordered Ma Li to continue to sit here, and he took the 17th Infantry Division to Constantinople, and just after a day of leaving, he received a battle report from the rear, one of the two Eastern Roman legions originally stationed in the small town of Mount Petro was dragged and surrounded by a team of light cavalry sent by him, and finally this Eastern Empire legion chose to surrender, and the other Eastern Empire legion ran faster, After retreating to the territory of the Greek provinces, they collected a large number of fishing boats on the south bank of the Maricha River, and then the whole army ran down the river in these fishing boats.

The two legions of the Eastern Empire in Lesovo were run away, and they finally chose to surrender, and it would not work if they did not surrender, the vast majority of them were infantry, while the Huns were cavalry, and they could not outrun four legs on two legs.

Qin Dong sat on horseback and read the battle report and then issued an order to Ma Li, asking him to reorganize these surrendered Eastern Empire troops, screen out the old, weak, sick and disabled, leave the young and strong, and then reorganize them into an army, which is divided into three legions, the names of the legions are the first, second, and third corps of Thrace, and the generals of each legion, from the wing commander to the lowest deputy ten-commander, are all selected by the competition, in addition to the position of the corps commander and deputy corps commander, among which the centurion and the selection of the corps and generals above the centurion level, Not only to compete in martial arts, but also to conduct the assessment of command and combat ability, after the assessment of the guò can be qualified to compete with other players, the commander and deputy commander of the corps are appointed by Qin Dong, and the generals and officers below these two positions are produced by the competition of martial arts and command ability.

After Qin Dong's order was issued, Ma Li naturally had Ma Li do it, and he continued eastward with the 17th Division, and joined up with the Marine Cavalry Division in the city of Lülai, which was in the center of the Thracian province, and was greeted by Balhan and Cao Charles, and then went to Constantine together, and before they reached Constantinople, Qin Dong's army occupied all the territory of the Thracian province and the northernmost part of the Greek province. (To be continued......)