Late December and early January.

After a month and a half of pre-war preparations, the troops participating in the battle were all in order, and under the order of Luo Jia, the general of the northern front of the Qin army, more than 20,000 Qin infantry launched the battle for the Balkan Peninsula with the goal of capturing Constantinople.

Cao Xin and Ji Xin, as the vanguard of the first to cross the sea, landed ashore one after another, and their task was to complete the siege of the city within 15 days, during this time, to complete a battle to break the city, and the Qin army was faced not only with a tall and solid city wall, but also with 5,000 Thracian warriors who had just driven out the Greek defenders.

Macedonia is home to a number of ethnic groups.

Among them, Macedonians, Greeks, and Thracians are the main ones.

Of the three peoples, the Macedonians reigned supreme and ruled and enslaved the other two peoples, while the Greeks and Thracians, though far outnumbered the Macedonians, were resigned to being enslaved by the Macedonians because of their deep-seated distrust of each other.

In the eyes of the Greeks, who were proud of their advanced civilization, the Thracians, who had no written language, no mythological heritage, and were only used for many generations, were barbarians, and could not be compared with the great and righteous Greeks.

"What about the barbarians, as long as they are not as shameless as the Greeks." Similarly, the Thracians did not have a good opinion of the Greeks.

The most famous is that during the Perobnesian War, the Persians invaded the Greek peninsula, and the great Greeks were weak and no match for the powerful Persians, so they could only ask the Thracians for help.

The Thracians, who lacked support, had a miserable end. They starved for the sake of their allies, but found themselves abandoned, and under the attack of the Persians, the Thracian army of 20,000 was defeated, and even their king became a prisoner of the Persians.

Afterwards, the enraged Thracians questioned the Greek allies about the reason, and the reply was that the Greeks, who considered themselves the sons of civilization, thought that in such bad weather, the Thracians could not come to their aid as promised. Therefore, they stayed in the city with peace of mind and did not go to the agreed meeting place.

This deception made the Thracians furious.

For the Greeks, who are romantic by nature, they feel that the Thracians have overreacted, but it is just a misunderstanding, and they really can't hold a grudge for a few lifetimes.

With this layer of origin.

One can imagine what the relations between Greece and Thrace were like.

The city of Constantinople.

After the Thracians declared an alliance with Rome, control of the city had fallen into the hands of rebels, mainly Thracians. The few Macedonian troops in the city, composed of Greeks, reluctantly laid down their arms and became prisoners of the Thracian barbarians.

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King Philip V of Macedon hesitated. The fortress of Constantinople fell into the hands of the pro-Roman Thracians, which made the Qin army's sea crossing Jihua have to be temporarily modified, but fortunately, Ji Xin, who had crossed the sea earlier, had already sent his cronies to contact him in one part of the strait. Otherwise, Cao Xinjun's soldiers were unfamiliar with the place, and it was unlikely that they would crash headlong into the siege of the Thracians.

"Philip V of his grandmother. If you can't even handle your own subordinates, you should be cheated by the Romans. During the march, Cao Xin gritted his teeth and cursed secretly.

The winter in the Balkan Peninsula is unusually cold, the weather here is cold and humid, if the city cannot be successfully captured before dawn, the Qin army sleeping in the open may lose its combat effectiveness in the cold.

Sneak attack.

It was the best way for the Qin army to gain a foothold on the other side of the strait.

The Qin army's move to cross the sea.

Although it was right under the noses of the Thracians, fortunately, the Thracians, who were immersed in the joy of the victory in the capture of the Greek city-states, were contemptuous of the Qin people on the other side of the strait, and a year and a half earlier, the defeat of the Huns at their hands had made the Thracian generals doubt the ability of the yellow race, and they thought that the Qin army was nothing more than the same goods as the Huns.

Therefore, when Cao Xin led the Qin army to sneak under the city of Constantine, the Thracians guarding the city were still in the dark, unaware that danger was coming.

Bastion.

Stone wall.

There is also the condescending terrain.

In history, the Eastern Roman Empire was attacked by the Turks for more than 40 years, Zuihou or because of the traitors in the city, which led to the fall of the city, and in order to take the city, the Turks have lost more than 100,000 soldiers.

Thick wooden gates.

Tightly closed, in the shadows, several special operations soldiers belonging to the Tianlei Force held projectiles packed with thin iron sheets in their arms, and quickly approached the root of the city gate.

Cotton wires run outward along the foot of the city wall.

This kind of cluster grenade-like thing mainly relies on the ignition point of the fuse to push the gunpowder to explode inside the thin iron barrel, and then blasts the nearby city gate open with a strong external thrust.

Thermal weapons are used in siege warfare.

This was the Qin army's first attempt since the invention of black powder, and in the early shiyan, the Tianlei army relied on this secret weapon to blow up a rammed earth wall nearly half a meter thick.

The city gate of Constantinople was made of thick wood, and with the tenacity of wood, it was absolutely impossible to resist the power of gunpowder explosion, and the main problem encountered by the Qin army in the process of blasting was to make the fuse burn smoothly to the point without being discovered by the enemy in the city and extinguished, and this is why Cao Xin decided to take advantage of the dark night to launch a surprise attack.

Rumble!

Boom!

After the first thunder exploded, the mountains shook with one after another.

The wooden gate of Constantinople was instantly blown open a big hole, and more than a dozen Thracian guards hiding in the city gate hole to avoid the wind were affected by the aftermath of the explosives, and they suddenly fell horizontally and vertically.

Flesh and blood blur.

The mourning Thracian soldier gasped for breath, his mouth foaming with blood, and one of the Thracian squad leaders tilted his head and leaned on the stone steps, his neck twisted at ninety degrees, and beside his body, an irregular fragment of wood was stained with blood.

Outside the city.

Cao Xin jumped up and shouted: "Attack!" ”

Hearing this shout, the soldiers of the Qin army, who had been lying on the cold frozen ground for a long time, jumped up one by one like beasts, for these infantry who can only be used as the second line of troops, today is their day to raise their eyebrows, cavalry brothers, you see, our infantry also has the opportunity to participate in the big battle.

And for this day, the infantry shed blood and sweat during training, braved the wind and snow, and endured the beating of the waves, now is the time for them to prove themselves, in front of the barbarian Thracians known as brave, whether the Qin infantry can reproduce the tenacity and bravery of the old unification war, must be proved by facts.

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In the city of Constantine.

Thracian barracks.

Spartacus, the young pikeman who guarded the gates of the camp, woke up from his sleep in a daze, and after shaking his head vigorously, his head still a little dizzy.

"What's that sound?"

Violent big bangs.

The eardrums rattled, and the sharp sound of a landslide made Spartacus tremble in horror and tremble.

Fourteen years old.

It is when the youth is young, from a boy to a man, from a teenager to adulthood, that the experience at this stage has the greatest impact on people.

Perhaps it was a matter of race, the Thracians were conscripted for military service three years earlier than the Qin, and they mainly adopted the method of selecting a middle-aged male from a family, and if there were many brothers in the family, a boy like Spartacus should not have come to the battlefield. However, just looking at Spartacus's appearance, he is tall and big, and has a bit of heroism, no different from an adult.

It's very helpless.

Spartacus had no male in his family except for his mother and two sisters, and his father, Spartacus Spartacus, had been killed in the Battle of Macedonia and Seleucid three years earlier, and the little relief he had received was exhausted after a few months, and Spartacus, who could not afford to pay for military service, had to use his meager body to support the crumbling family.

"Sparta, what are you doing in a daze? Hurry up to the front of the camp to gather, and the Qin people have come in. In a daze, an old pawn of the same team pulled Spartacus hard and ran forward.

Around them, panting soldiers were disheveled, some with their weapons reversed, and others shirtless, shouting like savages.

"Brothers, the Qin people have broken the city, go and block the east gate."

"There is also thunder at the north gate, divide a team of people to go over, don't let the Qin people kill from behind."

Under the chaotic scene, the leaders of the Thracian team looked defeated one by one, and in just one night, the Qin people broke the city, which was really shocking.

Spartacus under the leadership of the veteran, ran towards the north gate, at this time, he didn't know what he was going to do next, just walked with a wave of inertia, after half an hour, Spartacus only felt a weight in his body, looked down, and had been pulling his Thracian veteran to cover his chest, staring at a pair of dead eyes and fell to the ground.

Near the North Gate.

The Qin general Ji Xin led the crossbowmen and a group of foot soldiers to break through the defensive line near the city wall, and the Thracians scattered their forces at various battlements, but they did not expect that the Qin army would use special high-tech weapons to blast open the impregnable city gate. (To be continued......)