The next morning, the Western Qin army arrived at the Sakarya River.
There were a large number of corpses of Eastern Roman soldiers floating on the river.
The cold winter has arrived, and the river flows slowly.
A large number of banners, corpses of Eastern Roman soldiers and horses are almost blocking the entire river.
Even after a night, the river is still red.
For ordinary people, this scene is even more terrifying than hell, but for people like Zhao Ziliang who have experienced mountains of corpses and seas of blood countless times, there is no scene in this world that can scare him.
Zhao Ziliang stopped by the river and reined in his horse, turned around and looked at the corpse on the pavement and asked: "Where did Bardanis escape to?"
Duan Wei, the captain of the scout camp, immediately stepped forward, leaned forward and clasped his fists, saying: "Return to your majesty, according to the report from our scouts, last night Baldanis panicked and led the remaining soldiers to defeat.
More than 3,000 people waded through the water on foot and trampled on the corpses of his soldiers.
He crossed the Sakarya River and headed to the city of Sakarya, thirty miles northwest."
"According to intelligence, there were originally 3,000 defenders in Sakarya City, about the strength of a regiment.
In addition to the 3,000 defeated soldiers brought by Baldanis, there are now more than 6,000 defenders."
Zhao Ziliang listened to Duan Wei's report and said: "We want to march into Constantinople and leave the city of Sakarya alone.
After we pass, maybe Bardanis will come behind us at some point.
Or cut off our supply lines.
To march into Constantinople, we must annihilate and eradicate all military forces that threaten our backside along the way.
We sent people to collect ships along the river bank and ordered the pontoon camp to quickly build pontoon bridges to allow the army to pass.
Go straight to the city of Sakarya" "Follow the decree" A large number of cavalry were sent out, and the boats on the bank of the river, which was dozens of miles long from north to south, were quickly collected.
With the efforts of the Zhouqiao Battalion, it only took half a day to build a simple pontoon bridge.
The five-meter-wide pontoon bridge was enough for four people.
The horses passed through at the same time, and the whole army had finished crossing the river before the deadline in the afternoon.
After all, at this time, the vanguard had arrived at the city of Sakarya, which was thirty miles away.
Baldanis was so frightened by yesterday's tragic defeat that he huddled in the city and did not dare to come out.
A thousand Western Qin light cavalry were galloping under the city.
The hooves are galloping, showing off their power, causing dust to fly, and the smoke to reach the sky.
In the evening, Zhao Ziliang led his army to the river ten miles east of the city and set up camp.
After dinner, Zhao Ziliang was reviewing the memorial.
After the briefing, Wen Zhengcheng, the commander of the Fourth Army, walked into the Chinese army tent, clasped his fists, bowed and saluted Zhao Ziliang, and said: "Your Majesty, after yesterday's battle, we captured six to seven thousand Eastern Romans.
"Soldiers, plus those who surrendered along the way and in surrounding cities in recent days, there are almost 25,600 prisoners.
We need to use at least 20,000 infantry to guard it.
As a result, we will not have enough infantry to carry out siege operations."
Zhao Ziliang put down his ink pen, looked up at Wen Zhengcheng and said: "In this case, let's deal with all these prisoners.
We can not only get rid of this burden, but also save our food and free up more troops to attack the city.
This matter You will be responsible for solving this matter within two days.
Is there any problem?"
Wen Zhengcheng secretly screamed that something was wrong.
He reported the matter to Zhao Ziliang out of a responsible attitude towards the safety of the army, and also hoped for a good solution.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Ziliang's first reaction was to kill them all, and also ordered them to be killed.
He came to execute it, but Zhao Ziliang's golden words had already spoken, It was difficult to take it back, so he could only abide by it.
It seemed that he had definitely earned the reputation of massacring prisoners.
However, many ministers had experienced taking the blame for the king.
This was also a sign of the king's trust.
Otherwise, how could the king have done it?
Would you leave such a thing to someone you don't trust?
That night, more than 20,000 Eastern Roman prisoners were quietly disposed of.
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No one knew how these people were disposed of, and no one knew where they were buried.
It was as if more than 20,000 Eastern Roman prisoners disappeared out of thin air.
Gone.
When the red sun jumped out of the eastern sky and a ray of dawn first appeared, the soldiers of the Western Qin Army walked out of the tents neatly and silently, and the camp began to become noisy.
In the Chinese army's tent, Zhao Ziliang came out and shouted: "Here comes someone!"
Liu Dan, who was on duty, came over and bowed his hands and said, "What are your orders, Your Majesty?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "Send someone to shout outside the city and ask Baldanis to open the city and surrender within an hour, otherwise the city of Sakarya will be destroyed."
"Yes, Your Majesty" The city of Sakarya is actually a castle, and Western cities in this era are basically in the castle model.
There are basically no square cities like those in China.
The castle does not occupy a large area due to its architectural form.
Only a few large cities cover a larger area, and residents are allowed to live in the castle.
Most castles only have local government agencies, and only government personnel are allowed to live there.
Residents living outside the castle are only allowed when there is a war.
Enter the castle to escape the war.
There are mountains everywhere around the city of Sakarya.
It is not easy for the craftsmen of the siege camp to cut down the trees to make siege equipment.
An hour later, the soldiers of the Western Qin Army had already lined up and assembled after breakfast.
Under the command of their respective leading generals, they marched towards Sakarya City.
A dozen trebuchets, a dozen manholes and several trebuchets had been built overnight.
The ten siege ladders were pushed unhurriedly by the soldiers of the siege camp and followed behind the large group of people.
When Zhao Ziliang rode his horse to the city, there were already a sea of flags and a forest of swords and guns under the Sakarya city.
All the siege equipment was in place, waiting for the order to be issued before launching an attack.
Zhao Ziliang stopped and asked: "How is the situation?
Has Bardanis agreed to surrender?"
Liu Shan said: "Your Majesty, not yet" Zhao Ziliang turned his head and glanced at the several-foot-high marshal platform made of wood next to him, turned around and walked towards the marshal platform and said: "No wait, I will pass on Gu's decree and start to attack the city.
Let's attack the city first and fire stone bombs and kerosene bombs for them."
Let’s show off our power first.”
"Follow the decree"
Just yesterday, a large number of strong laborers around were captured to mine stones and polish them into stone bullets.
Since last night, a steady stream of stone bullets have been manufactured and sent to the camp.
Zhao Ziliang is not worried that there is not enough stone bullets to support stone throwing.
Machine delivery problem.
In the previous wars, in any battle, as long as it was commanded by Zhao Ziliang, his consistent style was to carry out long-range strikes with stone bullets for several hours to destroy the enemy's confidence in defending the city and weaken the enemy's resistance.
Speaking of will, this approach is very effective.
Think about the fear when the overwhelming stone bombs and fire bombs dragging thick smoke fly from the distant sky and hit the top of the head.
Very few people can remain calm. .
Huge, round stone bullets hit the houses in the city wall, causing a huge shock and causing a large amount of gravel to fly.
The Eastern Roman garrison soldiers on the city wall were all horrified.
After the oil bomb was smashed, a large amount of kerosene splashed around, igniting fires.
People in the castle suddenly turned on their backs, and the screams and wailings never stopped.
More and more catapults, stone bombs and kerosene bombs were transported from the rear.
As new trebuchets were added, more and more stone bombs and kerosene bombs were launched into the castle.
Throughout the morning, the West Qin Army's stone bombs and kerosene bombs did not stop.
The outer wall of the castle was riddled with holes, and the inside of the city was hit by countless kerosene bombs and burned into the sky.
Thick smoke billowed, and countless people were killed, injured, and burned to death.
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Zhao Ziliang fell asleep while sitting on the handsome platform, holding on to the armrests.
He didn't know how long he had slept.
Just as he was sleeping soundly, Dugujun woke him up: "Your Majesty, wake up, wake up, it's lunch time."
Zhao Ziliang woke up and blinked his sleepy eyes, "Ah, it's time for lunch so soon."
"Yes, do you think you should continue firing stone bombs and kerosene bombs, or give the order to temporarily withdraw the troops?"
Zhao Ziliang looked towards the city wall and said, "Hey, this castle is already in tatters.
Let me continue to smash it.
Order the cooks to bring all the food over and let the soldiers eat on the spot.
The trebuchets cannot stop and let the stone bullets and The soldiers with kerosene bombs took turns to eat.
If the Eastern Romans in the city do not surrender, they will definitely destroy the castle today."
"yes" When the soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty finished their lunch, Zhao Ziliang saw that the city wall had been smashed to pieces and was almost crumbling.
He was about to order the soldiers in the siege camp to work harder, when a small white flag was erected on the broken city wall. .
Someone from the commander's platform immediately shouted: "Your Majesty, the white flag has been raised in the city."
"Humph, I guess they are wise."
Zhao Ziliang snorted twice and waved: "Stop the attack, send someone over to shout, and ask Bardanis to order everyone in the city to line up in several columns and walk out of the city gate and drop their weapons.
Bardanis Ness will personally offer his weapons to Gu."
"Follow your orders" An hour later, the city gate opened, with Bardanis walking at the front.
The Eastern Roman soldiers in the city lined up in several columns and slowly walked out of the city gate.
The soldiers threw their weapons aside one after another.
After a while, the city The weapons next to the door were piled into a hill.
Baldanis walked up to Zhao Ziliang with a depressed look, took off the sword from his waist, knelt down on one knee, held up the sword with both hands and said: "Bardanis led all the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender to His Majesty the Great Holy King of Western Qin.
Please accept our sincerity." " "Very good."
Zhao Ziliang said, reaching out and taking the sword from Baldanis's hand and handing it to Li Muchen beside him.
Then Baldanis said, "Your Excellency, General, will be treated fairly.
If your subordinates can obey the rules honestly, A prisoner should abide by the rules, and they will not suffer any injustice.
Now please go to the camp according to our requirements, and someone will accommodate you."
Baldanis said quickly: "Your Majesty is a great king with a broad mind.
Your kindness makes me and my soldiers burst into tears of gratitude":