"The order was given, leaving the naval crew and oarsmen on the boat to guard and protect the warship, the first battalion of the first regiment of the Marine Cavalry Division quickly entered the city to take over the city gate, and everyone else led their war horses to assemble on the seashore in accordance with the order, the first regiment went deep into the eastern wall, the second regiment went south to the wall of the Marama Sea, the third regiment went north to the end of the sea wall on the right side of the Golden Horn, and the fourth regiment marched in the direction of the palace as fast as possible, arresting all the people in the palace, and killing them if they encountered resistance. The 5th Regiment maintained order on the streets, captured people with suspicious appearances, and killed all those who took advantage of the fire to rob. The regiments and battalions gave priority to the arming of the army in the city, and no one entering the city was allowed to destroy or burn religious buildings and facilities, and no one was allowed to kill unarmed religious people and believers! Do not harm unarmed civilians, slaves and children" Balhan gave the order after more than 100 men of the vanguard rushed into the gates of the Sea Wall with weapons in hand.

Qin Dong's dream has always been to be a true conqueror, a true conqueror should not set up too many enemies, destroying, burning religious buildings and facilities, and killing religious people for no reason will undoubtedly make enemies with religious people and believers, this hatred may last for thousands of years or more, and historians will also go down in history this kind of brutal behavior, so that the mob will be left in the stench for thousands of years.

The brutal killing of civilians will make the common people fear and hate, which is not conducive to the rule of the conquerors after they have conquered the territory, and the conquest of a land and its people cannot be achieved by brutality and force, but by widespread benevolence, so that the people of this land have food, clothing, and social order. If the government is clear, the people will naturally live and work in peace and contentment.

After the order was given, the first battalion of the 1st regiment quickly lined up in a neat formation and quickly rushed to the city gate. The beach was only forty meters away from the sea wall gate, and it was rushed in a few seconds, and the defense of the city gate was taken over, and then the regiments and battalions led their horses and disembarked, and then rode their horses on the beach, and the first assembled army rushed into the city under the leadership of the officer, and within half an hour. More than 10,000 cavalry troops marched into Constantinople one after another.

The Marine Cavalry Division rushed into the city, and the regiments and battalions set off for their mission locations, and the intelligence system in Constantinople had already received the relevant orders. Men were sent to guide the army, pointing out the location of strategic points and military installations, and assisting the army in attacking Constantinople.

Constantinople, which had already fallen asleep, was lively in a very short time, and this excitement was not really lively. Almost every street resounded with shouts of killing and screaming. The Hun army, which rushed into the city, was met by the soldiers of the city defense army patrolling. Without saying a word, the Hun army rode up and slashed and slashed, where did these patrolling city defense troops have any combat effectiveness? It's okay to scare the common people, if they really let them fight, these people will be weak one by one, not to mention that the elite Hun iron cavalry is still encountered now, the patrol team collapsed on the spot, ran away with a little cleverness, and was killed on the spot if he was a little sluggish.

Thanks to the assistance of spies. In the shortest possible time, the Xiongnu army attacked the barracks of several city defense armies and Praetorian Guards in the city, and immediately surrounded the barracks of these city defense armies and Praetorian Guards. Even the palace was besieged by the Fourth Regiment, and Leo I and Empress Venina and the other eunuchs in the palace were terrified and urgently ordered the palace guards to guard the palace gates.

The Huns attacked various military points and barracks in the city, captured various official offices in Constantinople, but did not commit any offense against the people, and the citizens had the audacity to quietly open the door and saw that the streets were full of Hun soldiers, and they were so frightened that they closed the door to death, and they hid under the bed and did not dare to come out, but they never saw the Huns break into their homes.

Flames and smoke soon erupted from the forts and barracks, a tactic often used by armies to induce chaos, weaken the resistance of the opposing side, and break the will to resist in the hearts of the opposing side.

The 1st Regiment had been rapidly advancing westward along the Avenue of Enacia under the guidance of the spies who had come to meet them, and the streets were deserted late at night, and the officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment galloped down the streets on their horses, and when they encountered the patrols, they rushed up and slashed them, some of them were slashed to the ground, and some of them were slain, and some of them were scattered.

"Who? Stop, don't go any further! When the first regiment arrived near the Golden Gate at the end of the Ernachia Avenue, the centurion of the city defense army guarding the Golden Gate immediately drew his weapons and shouted loudly, and the soldiers on both sides of the gate quickly stood behind the centurion with spears in their hands and lined up in a neat formation to defend themselves against the enemy, and the statue of Emperor Constantine I was erected next to him.

"Whoosh....... A wave of arrows came and answered the question of the centurion guarding the golden city gate, and the centurion fell to the ground as if he had been shot through the throat, and the soldiers at the city gate behind him were also shot into hedgehogs, killed and wounded, and none of them were still intact.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard all around, the horses were poorly dressed, and the knights on horseback silently and faithfully carried out their orders, rushing over and slashing down the city defense soldiers who were not dead on the ground.

A captain on a war horse and carrying a saber ran over to hold the reins, and looked at the golden gates, which shone golden in the light of torches, and the construction of the golden gates was very elaborate, made of large marble squares without the use of cement, with three arches, and a large number of carvings, including the bronze two-wheeled chariot carving on the top, which was pulled by an elephant, modeled after the triumphal gates of Rome. He said, "Is this the Golden Gate?" When you return, you will have someone tow it onto the warship and bring it back as a gift to His Royal Highness the Regent! ”

The spy who was riding a war horse to lead the way next to him whispered: "General, this is the Golden City Gate, which was built by the order of Emperor Theodosius I seventy years ago, but this city gate is not all gold, it is full of stones, but it is plated with a layer of gold, which is the origin of the name of the Golden City Gate." It's not impossible to tow it on the warship, but it's too heavy, it requires a lot of labor, and it takes a long time to do it, and General Balhan gave the order to evacuate within three days, so the general may not be able to move this golden city gate within the specified time."

"Hi. It turned out to be just gilded, and I thought it was all made of gold, which made the captain of this brigade happy! The captain sighed. After thinking about it, he felt unwilling, and immediately pointed to one of the squadron leaders and ordered: "Who is that, you will bring some people tomorrow to scrape off the layer of gold plated on this and take it away, this captain is useful!" ”

"Yes, Captain!"

As a result, the originally world-famous golden city gate was scraped clean by a group of strong Hun soldiers with a layer of gold plated on it, leaving only a bare stone city gate.

After capturing the Golden City Gate. The 1st Regiment quickly sent troops to control the walls of Constantine, which was built by order of Constantine the Great, which was built by order of Constantine the Great. At a certain distance, he ordered the construction of a wall 2.8 kilometers west of the walls of Severus, which greatly expanded the city. The walls of Severus have long been abandoned, and even in this era it is difficult to see the remains of the walls.

The construction of the walls of Constantine began in 324. It was completed during the reign of Constantius II. The approximate path of the city walls. From the Pratian Gate of the Sea Wall of the Golden Horn to the Propantis City Wall of St. Arminines. This wall existed during the Byzantine Empire, and later the defensive role of this wall was replaced by the wall of Theodosius, and there were basically no troops stationed on the wall and tower, so the first regiment only sent a small number of troops to deploy on this wall, and the most important was the wall of Theodosius.

The construction of the new walls began in 408 AD under the reign of Emperor Theodosius II, about 1,500 meters west of the walls of Constantine, extending from the Sea of Marmara to Brechney on the Golden Horn. The total length is 5630 meters. Although the construction of the walls began, Theodosius II was only seven years old. The city walls are still named the Walls of Theodosius. It took five years to complete the wall, which stretches about 5.5 kilometers from south to north, with a marble tower on the Sea of Marmara stretching towards Brechny and ending at the Royal Palace of Porphyrogeneticis. Later it was connected to the walls of Brecchne. In 447, when a powerful earthquake destroyed most of the city walls, Constantinople was threatened by Attila, and Theodosius II ordered the prefect of the city, Flapius? Taurus? Seleucid? Cyrus directed the emergency restoration, and Cyrus hired the assistance of the city's trustees to complete the restoration within sixty days. At the same time, an outer wall was added to the outer walls of Theodosius, and a wide ditch was dug in front of the outer wall as a moat.

The walls of Theodosius were built into a double wall, adjacent to the ditch. The interior walls are made up of a sturdy structure, 5 meters thick and 12 meters high, with an exterior of carefully cut limestone blocks, and a core of stucco pressed from lime and broken bricks. Approximately seven to eleven brick strips, each about 40 centimeters thick, traverse the structure, which are not only used for decoration, but also to enhance the cohesion of the structure by binding the rock face and core, and to enhance the resistance of the wall to earthquakes. Theodosius had a total of 96 towers, mainly square, octagonal and hexagonal, 18-20 meters high, and the spacing of the towers was 55 meters. There are also battlements at the top of each tower. The tower is divided into two floors, the ground floor leads to the city and is used as storage, and the upper floor can be accessed through the city wall walkway, with windows for viewing and projection, and the city wall can be climbed by a ramp staircase.

The distance between the outer and inner walls is 15-20 meters, and the gap between the two walls is called the outer castle platform. The outer wall is 2 meters thick at the bottom, with some vaulted rooms at the connecting platform to the outer city, and above it is the battlement walkway, and the outer wall is about 8.5 meters high. From inside the castle, the outer wall can be reached through the main gate or through the back room of the lower floor of the inner wall. The outer wall also has 96 towers, square or crescent-shaped, just in the middle of the spacing between the inner wall towers, and plays the role of auxiliary inner wall towers. The room that connects to the outer terrace has a window and a back door below that leads to the outer terrace. The distance between the moat and the outer wall is about 15 meters, forming the inner castle platform, which has a road that runs along the city wall. The moat was 20 meters wide and 10 meters deep, and on the inner side of the river there was a wall 1.5 meters high with a firing port, which was the first line of defense of Constantinople.

It's only 1.5 kilometers away, it only takes two minutes to get there on horseback, although there is a lot of movement in the city, but Theodosius City Wall is in the outermost part of the west of Constantinople, the city defense army stationed here does not know what is going on in the city, when they find that a large number of cavalry rushed over at the end of the street to panic, it is too late to organize troops to resist, the cavalry came in an instant, a burst of killing, some soldiers who barely got together were killed, some of the Hun cavalry even rode war horses directly rushed to the city head and slashed back and forth on the city wall, the city defense army has not experienced war for many years, where can it block the attack？ Before the Hun cavalry could rush over, the cavalry of the first regiment easily captured the walls of Theodosius, and began to encircle the scattered city defenders, and at the same time sent troops through the walls of Guò to the palace of Porphyrogenetis to help the fourth regiment attack the palace. (To be continued......)