"It's a hell on earth."

Looking at the tragic situation in the city of Kocaeli, the Ottoman envoy Saudin couldn't help but sigh.

"Saudin, get ready to go, we can't waste time here, the Chinese may set off from Sinop at any time." The deputy envoy on the side urged Saudin.

Saudin nodded, his heart looking a little heavy, and said, "Let's go, as long as we can end this war sooner, fewer people will be spared the ravages of war."

With that, the group rode away from Kocaeli, and their eastward head stood out among the crowd of people fleeing westward, and the refugees looked numbly at the knights whistling past them, and one of the old men shook his head and said, "It looks like someone is going to die again."

"Grandpa, why do you say that?" His young grandson was led by him and asked suspiciously.

"Because in the East, there are not only terrible Chinese, but also those murderous horse bandits." The old man said meaningfully.

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"Run! Damn the horse bandits are coming!"

On the road west of Sinop, refugees who were trying to flee with their families were attacked by a group of horse bandits, mostly composed of Turkish troops who had been routed in the war, and some thugs from the tribe, who were brandishing scimitars and smiling wildly from the hillside to the refugees on the road.

"Run! Get out of here and escape to the nearby woods!"

A middle-aged father shouted at his wife and children, watching in horror at the horse bandits who were wantonly killing refugees, pushing his relatives away, and then wielding a pitiful dagger for self-defense, and looking at the butchers viciously.

Perhaps his gaze was too hostile, and soon caught the attention of a Turkic cavalryman, whose gaze fell on the dagger in the man's hand, a sinister smile of disdain flashed across his face, and he slapped his horse and charged towards him.

Seeing this, the man glanced at his wife and daughter, who were stumbling towards the forest, and gritted his teeth, and strode in the opposite direction, trying to lead the cavalry farther away, but how could two legs outrun four legs, and he had only run a dozen paces before he heard the sound of heavy horses' hooves behind him.

The sound of this made his heart explode, and he tried desperately to escape, but the Turkic cavalry chased after him like a cat and a mouse, watching the man's struggle playfully.

After chasing some distance, he also got tired of playing, and increased the speed of his horse, and the scimitar in his hand was raised high, at this moment, the flow of time around him became extremely slow, and the man watched in despair as the scimitar slowly fell.

Between the lightning and flint, the scimitar slashed down, only to hear a pop of sharp weapons into the flesh, a headless corpse continued to run forward a few steps according to inertia, and then fell to the ground hard, and a dead head flew high, with the splattering blood flew out of several meters, rolling down the muddy ground.

The Turkic cavalry looked at the headless corpse lying on the ground and still twitching, laughed, turned over and dismounted, tied the head around the horse's neck, and then turned the horse's head to join the bloody slaughter again.

A few hours later.

When Saudin and his party came here, they looked at the corpses all over the ground and the ground stained red with blood, everyone's expression was very ugly, Saudin's deputy Galaruddin turned over and dismounted without saying a word, and briefly investigated the crime scene here.

He then returned to Saudin and said, "Saudin, judging from the traces on the road, the attackers were all cavalrymen, and the stab wounds on the dead seem to have been caused by the scimitars commonly used by our army."

"What do you mean?" Saudin asked, narrowing his eyes, staring at him.

"I'm afraid we did it ourselves." Galaruddin met the other party's ferocious gaze and said stubbornly, "No matter how bad it is, it is very likely that it was done by the chaotic army after being defeated by the Xia army."

This statement made Saudin a little unacceptable, the terrible Xia people did not slaughter civilians so casually, while the people who came out of their army wantonly slaughtered their own civilians.

However, he also knew that Galaruddin would not deceive himself, and he did

Having said that, it means that nine times out of ten, this massacre was committed by the rebels.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his chest, and slowly exhaled the turbid air, and then said in a deep voice, "Continue to set off, and travel overnight, we must arrive in Sinop before dawn tomorrow."

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The Ottoman envoys traveled all night and finally arrived before dawn outside Sinop, a city built on a small jutting peninsula on the southern shore of the Black Sea, which was covered in darkness except for the light of the torches on the city walls, illuminating the patrolling figures around it.

Outside the city, you can still see the besieged camp that has not been completely dismantled, and the barricads filled with arrows, even after a few days of fighting, can still smell blood in the air.

The messenger sighed in his heart as he looked at the darkness-shrouded city that had once belonged to them, he knew that the Xia army would not open the gates of the city at night, so he led his men into the besieged camp that had not yet been demolished, and prepared to rest in the camp for a night.

However, when they entered the besieged camp, they were shocked to find that there were many homeless refugees in the camp, who were gathered in groups and threes, huddled in makeshift tents, and fell asleep, occasionally saying a few words of unknown meaning, and some of them were shouting like thunder.

"Saudin, this ......"

Saudin made a silent gesture to him and said softly, "Let's find a random place to sleep, and leave one person to keep watch."

The guards answered, and they all found a place far away from the others and lay down.

This time, it was the next morning.

At dawn, the gates of Sinop were slowly opened, and the messengers did not bother to wash their personal hygiene, and rode towards the gates, but they were stopped by the soldiers without surprise, and in the face of the soldiers' black muzzles, Saudin unhurriedly showed his identification, and said, "On the orders of the Grand Vizier, come and negotiate peace with your army."

The soldier listened and stared warily at the Ottomans, but he still told the city to inform him, and after a stick of incense, someone hurried to let the messenger into the city.

After entering the city, Saudin expected that he would see the scene of the people's misery, but he did not expect that the civilians in Sinop were not affected by the fighting, and in just a few days, they were able to go to the streets again to buy the daily necessities and food they needed, although the civilians were still full of fear of the alien soldiers patrolling the streets, but they seemed to be at peace with each other.

Crossing the streets, Saudin and the others came to the governor's palace in the city, where they met Daniel Zhang, the supreme commander of the Sinopxia army.

Daniel Zhang was not wearing armor, he sat in a chair with a big slash, staring gloomily at the Ottoman envoys who had been brought in, and beside him were also armed officers, and after Saudin entered, everyone's eyes fell on him.

Then, Daniel Zhang was the first to speak, and said in his majestic voice: "This official is the Duke of Daxia Suguo, and Anxi is the commander of Daniel Zhang, why did he come before?"

After listening to Daniel Zhang's words, he hurriedly said in Chinese with a tone: "My name is Sauddin, and I hope to have a truce with your country on the orders of the Grand Vizier.

This war was an unnecessary war, and Bactria and the Ottomans did not have a substantial conflict of interest, and the reason why Bactria joined this war was because of the persuasion of vile and shameless Christians in the west.

General Zhang, it seems to me that there is no need for this war to continue, there are already too many dead on both sides, and there is no need for countless brave young men in both countries to die for the benefit of Christians."

Daniel Zhang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "Who said that there is no need for this war to continue? Our army has taken Sinop, and further west is a flat river, and there is no obstacle that will allow me to stop my march on Konstantiny, and as long as our army is under the city of Konstantiny, will we not be able to gain anything?"

Saudin's face remained unchanged, and he still said: "General Zhang, in fact, Great Xia is thousands of miles away from here, and the daily consumption of materials is astronomical, in order to make a truce between you and me, the Great Vizier is willing to give up Iraq and Ku

Erdstan, the Caucasus, Egypt and the lands north of the Danube, and compensate Bactria fifteen million akche as war reparations, to be paid off in ten-year instalments."

Hiss –

Rao is a well-informed Daniel Zhang, after listening to the other party's conditions, he couldn't help but gasp, the other party's conditions are too rich, so rich that he can't find a reason to refuse.

However, Daniel Zhang also quickly realized that the other party would give such generous conditions, most of which proved that they were about to be forced to the end of the mountain, and his tens of thousands of troops were only a few days away from the opposite bank of Konstantinier, and Fu Xinghua's army in the north could continue to move south at any time.

Their capital is facing a two-sided situation, and it is no wonder that they are in such a hurry.

Daniel Zhang, who realized this, had more eyes, and he also knew that he could not decide whether to fight or make peace with his own right to speak, so he pretended to ponder and said: "This matter is very important, and this official has no right to decide privately, and this official will report to the great general, and whether it is war or peace is all up to the great general to decide."

After speaking, Daniel Zhang ordered someone to bring the envoy down, and he himself repaired a book, and ordered someone to cross the Black Sea by boat and send it to Fu Xinghua's camp in the north of the Danube to report all this.

While sending the letter, Daniel Zhang was not idle in Sinop, he ordered the army to reorganize the ordnance, and three days later it was again drawn and marched towards Konstantiniye.

Xia Jun's movements did not escape the ears and eyes of Saudin who stayed in the city, he learned that Xia Jun was about to leave, he quickly rushed out of his residence and chased to Daniel Zhang, at this time Daniel Zhang was covered all over his body, surrounded by pro-soldiers and was about to leave the city, Saudin stopped directly in front of him and asked:

"General Zhang, the two countries negotiated peace, what are you doing here?"

"We have not yet agreed to enter into the peace process." Daniel Zhang looked at Sauddin coldly and replied, then he waved his hand and ordered someone to drive Sauddin away, and he rode his horse to follow the army that was going away like a long snake.

Saudin angrily tried to break free from the soldier who was pulling him, shouting loudly until one of the soldiers was so angry with him that he slammed the butt of a rifle into his face, causing his curse to whimper in pain.

Then the soldiers threw him to the ground like a dead dog, and one of them spat at him in disgust, scolding, "Damn barbarian, if this were on the battlefield, Lao Tzu would kill you with a knife."

After saying that, the group turned and left.

The army left Sinop and headed westward, and the refugees scattered in terror and watched the terrible army with fear, fearing that they would rush at them like bandits and kill them all.

But what they didn't expect was that Xia Jun actually ignored them directly, passing past them, showing no interest in them, and several of the officers even stopped at their horses and shouted to them in Turkish, "Get out of here, don't stay around here!"

After speaking, the officer rode his horse to follow, and after the Xia cavalry who walked in the front to explore the road left, the soldiers with rifles on their shoulders followed with neat steps, their faces were expressionless, and they also ignored the civilians hiding nearby, Daniel Zhang rode his horse and walked on the side of the team, his eyes fell on the figures of refugees shaking on the hillside not far away, and said: "The number of refugees who have come here this way is beyond my imagination."

"They were afraid of our army so they left their homeland and wanted to flee to the Ottoman division, but they didn't expect that countless people died at the hands of their own people on the way." One lieutenant said a little speechlessly.

Daniel Zhang didn't know what to say for a while, he shook his head speechlessly, retracted his gaze, and said, "No matter those refugees, go full speed, only if they directly threaten the Ottoman Jingshi, they will really know how to fear my great summer might."

The Xia army marched westward, and the news was soon sent across the Bosphorus to Konstantiniye, and the Grand Vizier was even more shocked, knowing that there was no army east of the Bosphorus that could stop Daniel Zhang and the evil army under his command.

In order to prevent the Xia army from crossing the strait directly and landing on the European side, he immediately ordered the collection of all ships on the eastern coast and forbade all to cross the sea from Anatolia to the Thracian region.

This was also to prevent the spies of the Xia army from blending in with the refugees in advance and coming to Thrace, the capital of Gyeonggi in the empire.

After the order of the Grand Vizier was issued, the ships in the Bosphorus were forcibly requisitioned by the Imperial Army, whether it was a merchant ship or a fishing boat, they were all taken away by the Imperial Navy in the name of requisition, and only heavily armed Arabian warships could be seen on the sea.

This order of the empire also completely cut off the only hope of the refugees on the other side of the river to escape, and they gathered in Kocaeli, desperately watching the ships being requisitioned, and could only wash their faces with tears all day long, crying while waiting for the arrival of the alien army.