After defeating Diordemir's 30,000 horses, Qin Dong did not let the army stop, but only left a part of the infantry to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield, and decided to personally lead the main force of the army into Illyria to attack the cities occupied by the Ostrogoths. After knowing that Qin Dong was going to attack the Ostrogoths in Illyria, McLean, the former commander of the 21st Army of the Western Roman Empire, rushed to Qin Dong's Chinese army tent to meet and asked to lead the army to attack the Ostrogoths with him. I immediately agreed.

The next day, the army set off to the south, except for the remaining men and horses, the army of the expedition together with McLean's surrender army had a total of 100,000 horses, this time Qin Dong left the infantry behind the army, led the main cavalry to advance quickly, taking advantage of the new defeat of Diordemir's army and the chaos of the Ostrogoths to be taken by surprise.

After the death of Diordemir and the defeat of the army, the more than 4,000 remnants of the cavalry who fled fled back to Illyria, and the news soon spread back to Saraibosna, the capital of Illyria, which was later Sarajevo, and the Ostrogoths were in chaos at the top, and even the Ostrogoths at the bottom quickly learned the news, and the death of Diordemir made the Ostrogoths from the bottom to the top panic.

In order to stabilize the crumbling rule, the Ostrogothic tribal leaders had to immediately put Diodmir's six-year-old son, Theodoric, the famous Ostrogothic king, on the throne of tribal chief. He also later became regent of the Visigothic kingdom, and under his rule, Italy was completely free from the Byzantine Empire.

After having a new clan leader. On the one hand, they sent people to the west to ask for help from the leader of the Gepids, Artarik, and on the other hand, they sent people to the east to ask for help from the Eastern Roman Empire, hoping that the Eastern Roman Empire would send a large army to resist the advance of the Great Qin Empire, and if the Eastern Roman Empire did not send reinforcements, they also hoped that the Eastern Roman Empire could open the border and let their people enter eastern Bosnia to take shelter.

Because the distance is too long. There was no news yet from the Eastern Roman Empire, but there was news from the Gepides in the west, but it was bad news. Aldarric, the leader of Gerpid, was a cunning fellow, and he knew very well that his tribe had just established itself in Dalmatia, and if most of his forces were to help the Ostrogoths now, the Dalmatians and Romans, the original inhabitants of the area, would surely rebel. If Dalmatia is lost now. Will the Gerpides be like lost dogs, going to squeeze with the Ostrogoths in the narrow Illyria? Not to mention that the Ostrogoths are unwilling, he himself does not want to be crowded with others. Will it go east into the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire? Can the Eastern Roman Empire agree? If you don't agree, will you go to war with the Eastern Romans? Don't be funny, there are enough enemies, and if there is another war with the Eastern Roman Empire, the Gepides will have enemies on three sides, and the sea in the south. I'm afraid that the end of the Gepid people will be the annihilation of the entire clan!

Moreover, the leader of the Ostrogoths, Diodemir, had died in battle, and now the Ostrogoths had no one to preside over the situation. Although the leader of the new tribe, Theodoric, is very smart, he is too young to control the scene after all, and those high-ranking tribes quarrel all day long, can they find a good way to resist the army of the Great Qin Empire? Aldaric considered a number of factors and finally rejected the emissaries sent by the Ostrogoths for help.

The news of the Gepid's refusal to send reinforcements made the high-level elders of the Ostrogothic tribe almost vomit blood one by one, and they scolded Aldaric for being an ungrateful old bastard, saying that if the Ostrogoths had not sent a large army to respond, the Gepid would have been surrounded and annihilated by the army of the Great Qin Empire a long time ago, and now how can they occupy Dalmatia?

When the Gepides in the west refused to send troops to rescue, and the Eastern Roman Empire in the east did not respond for the time being, the Ostrogoths could only organize their own forces to defend against the attack of the Great Qin Empire.

Although the high-ranking elders of the Ostrogoths tribe and the generals of the main army got the news in time, they were still beaten by the army of the Great Qin Empire, and half of the area of Illyria was occupied by the army of the Great Qin Empire without much effort, and the army lost 15,000 people, and now the regular army of the Ostrogoths has less than 20,000 people left, of which less than 6,000 cavalry, the defeat of Diodmir made the elite main force of the Ostrogoths lose everything, and those who remained in Illyria were old, weak, sick and disabled.

20,000 old, weak, sick and disabled want to resist the 100,000 tiger and wolf army of the Great Qin Empire? None of the high-ranking Ostrogoths of the Ostrogothic tribe had this confidence, and regardless of combat effectiveness, only in terms of the number of troops, the Ostrogoths were now at an absolute disadvantage, and the 100,000 troops of the Great Qin Empire were only one-tenth of the total number of their own army.

In order to minimize the gap in strength, the top of the Ostrogothic tribe had to gather all the boys over ten years old in the tribe, and after simple training, let them go to the battlefield with weapons to fight against the Qin army, a total of 30,000 troops, plus the original 20,000 old and weak, the total strength reached 50,000, but the combat effectiveness of these 50,000 people is only afraid that it is not as good as the Qin army of 10,000!

In the battle, even Qin Dong, who was like a stone, saw those Ostrogothic children rushing over with weapons and couldn't bear to cut them down, but the war was not merciful, since he went to the battlefield with weapons, whether it was a man or a woman, whether it was a strong man or a child, he was an enemy.

In just two months, the Qin army advanced to the city of Sarajevo, killed more than 20,000 people, captured more than 50,000 old and weak women and children, and the Ostrogoths were left with less than 20,000 people still defending Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia.

After hitting the city of Sarajevo, Qin Dong felt that the army was a little tired. Therefore, he ordered the army to retreat thirty miles to rest, but still sent scouts to monitor the Ostrogoths in the east day and night.

There was no shortage of weapons, bows, and arrows in the Great Qin Empire's conquest of the world, because the army always carried a large number of craftsmen and collected materials to make weapons, bows, and arrows along the way. Even if the grain and grass may sometimes be a little insufficient, but it can also be collected on the spot to solve, so as long as the mental and physical problems of the soldiers are solved, they can fight for a long time, according to the current situation of the Great Qin Empire, the Qin army can still maintain combat effectiveness for three or five years of foreign conquest, as long as the soldiers are replenished in time.

The Qin army at hand terrified the Ostrogoths of Sarajevo, and the defenders of the city were less than 20,000 men. This is almost all the existing strength of the Ostrogoths, and it is almost impossible to recruit soldiers from the tribe first, because children over the age of ten were recruited in the last conscription. The rest of the people are some old and weak and women.

At this time, there was an offer from the top tribe to recruit the local indigenous Bosnians and Illyrians to resist the powerful Qin army, a move that was opposed by several high-ranking tribesmen, who feared that if the weapons were distributed to the Bosnians and Illyrians, those would rebel. What awaits the Ostrogoths will be doomed.

However, most of the tribal elders agreed with this mention. On the one hand, it is because it is impossible to think now, relying on the remaining 20,000 people of their own tribe will not be able to stop the Qin army, if Sarajevo is breached, the Ostrogoths will also be doomed, on the other hand, they think that the Romans have ruled Illyria and Bosnia for hundreds of years, and the original inhabitants here have long been accustomed to being ruled by foreigners, even if they are given weapons, they will not resist. If they had the courage to resist, they would have rebelled against the rule of the Roman Empire. Don't have to wait until now.

The opinion of the majority prevailed, and the minority was ignored, so the Ostrogoths began to recruit the local indigenous people to participate in the defense, and many local Illyrians and Bosnians were drafted, and the Ostrogoths distributed weapons and armor to them, so that they could resist the possible attack of Qin Dong at any time together with the Ostrogothic soldiers.

Qin Dong soon got the news, and instead of seeing it as a trouble, he thought it was an opportunity to completely destroy the Ostrogoths, so he asked his Muge to send a small group to infiltrate the city and spread rumors among the Illyrians and Bosnians, who already possessed weapons and armor, and made the Illyrians and Bosnians hate the Ostrogoths to the core.

Are the Illyrians and Bosnians, like most of the Ostrogothic hierarchy, accustomed to being ruled by foreigners? Wrong, very wrong, although they have been ruled by the Romans for hundreds of years, they have always wanted to resist, because the Romans have been oppressing and oppressing them incessantly for hundreds of years, and the nobles among them are worse than pigs and dogs. But the Romans were very guarded against them, and the Roman Empire was too strong for them to fight against, and they had resisted many times, but each time they were suppressed.

Now that the strong men of the Ilyrian and Bosnian people had weapons and armor in their hands and were being instigated, the anger they had hidden in their hearts against the Ostrogoths was aroused, and at the shouting of someone, these Illyrians and Bosnians, who had just taken up their weapons, rebelled, fought with the Ostrogothic soldiers, and stormed the administrative centers of the Ostrogoths, and even the houses where the tribal leaders lived were attacked by Illyria.

Chaos is chaotic, Sarajevo is completely chaotic, at this time, the fine workers who have already mixed into the city have taken advantage of the chaos in the city to open the city gate, and the Qin army, which has been waiting outside the city for a long time, rushed into the city.

The city of Sarajevo was broken, the Ostrogoths perished, and the Illyrians and Bosnians, who had risen up in revolt, slaughtered the Ostrogoths, men, women, and children. Newly elected as the leader of the tribe, the six-year-old Theodoric fled eastward in the chaos under the desperate protection of his subordinates, accompanied by only a few hundred soldiers, and finally entered the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire to take refuge.

After the Qin army entered Sarajevo, the chaos in the city was quelled, and in the following half a month took over all the territory occupied by the Ostrogoths, the Qin army treated the local Illyrians and Bosnians with kindness, recognizing that they had equal rights and obligations with the people of other peoples of the Great Qin Empire, so far, the Great Qin Empire conquered Illinia and the western part of Bosnia, cutting off the land connection between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.

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