Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1191

[Chapter 140 Spartan Landing Battle (2)]

Although these two locations are dangerous, the two fortresses were originally built during the Mesenian riot several decades ago. The Mesenians were basically tame, and there were no major riots in the past few decades ( During the Peloponnesian War, the Messenian Heroes fled mainly with the help of the Athenians), so these two fortresses have been in disrepair and badly damaged.

It was not until the recent invasion of Mesenia by the Dionysian army that Sparta urgently repaired it, but in a hurry, it always felt that the repair was not complete. Now it has been attacked by an enemy with more than ten times the number of defenders , had to worry him, so despite the imminent mass landing of the Dionians, he drew out 200 soldiers each and rushed for reinforcements.

At this moment, the infantry of the Dionia Fleet, who had stayed near the coast, began to advance towards the shore.

According to the Dionysian military law, under normal circumstances, Sepedorus, the commander of the infantry of the fleet, should sit in the rear, but the landing operations are special. Phaedorus sent all the infantry of the fleet to the coast at one time. It is useless to sit in the rear. It is better to lead the soldiers. Instead, it can boost morale and win an opportunity for the army in a difficult situation. Therefore, Sepedorus, like the rest of the fleet’s infantry, clad in leather armor and a leather shield, and swam toward the shore in a breaststroke posture.

Although all the Greek fishermen are good swimmers, and most of the fleet infantry are from them, this standard breaststroke posture is still taught by Davos, mainly to try to be silent and labor-saving when swimming with arms.

At this moment, the infantrymen of the fleet did not row very hard, like a piece of wood floating on the sea, approaching the coast along the tide.

And in the eyes of the Spartans on the shore: a black tide line across the Laconian Gulf was rushing towards them quickly.

When the water was relatively shallow, the soldiers of the Dionian Fleet stood up one after another.

Sepedorus was old after all, he was panting when he stood up, and his body was a little cold, but he still put on his leather helmet, took off his leather shield, drew his dagger, and tried his best to speak loudly like the other soldiers. He

shouted: “The whole team!” The

rushing tide made his voice not reach very far, but all the infantry of the fleet had already understood the entire landing operation plan. At that time, the soldiers gathered in accordance with the combat formation. Now, after a little rectification, a dense formation with a length of nearly three miles and a thickness of 5 columns appeared in front of the Spartan army.

Udamidas was surprised by the speed with which the Dionians formed, which made his attempt to take advantage of the uneven formation of the Dionians when they came ashore to launch an attack in vain, and he was immediately aware of Dionia This time, people came prepared, wanting to take advantage of the absence of the main force of Sparta and do their best to invade the territory of Sparta.

I will never let your conspiracy succeed!

…Udamidas swung the spear forward with force and shouted angrily: “Attack!”

Under the leadership of Udamidas, the Spartan army began to run forward, and when they stepped on the soft At the beach, dozens of stone bullets roared again, and some Helots soldiers made a commotion, but under the stern scolding of the Spartan officers, they had to continue running forward in panic until the stone bullets fell behind them. , they were temporarily relieved.

Sepedorus led the soldiers forward steadily. Because the sea water overflowed their crotch, they could not run. Fortunately, the tide was pushing them, so they were not hindered too much. When the sea water gradually retreated from the waist and crotch to the feet , When the legs of the infantry of the fleet regained their freedom, the enemy had already rushed in front of them.

The infantry of the fleet had neither javelin shooting nor long shield defense, they could only raise leather shields and short swords and go up hard.

An army of nearly 300 Spartans, more than 500 Spartan veterans, 2,000 Biliasi soldiers, more than 4,000 Helots, and an army of 9,000 Dionian Fleet infantry (The Dionysian First Fleet has nearly 280 crow warships, each crow warship has 40 fleet infantry, the First Fleet has a total fleet of more than 10,000 infantry soldiers, although the last landing operation cost thousands of people The casualties, Cykrian did not hesitate to send all the infantry of the fleet) and finally fought together on the coast.

Xenophon climbed to the tower behind the beach and nervously overlooked the battle ahead. He knew that this battle would decide the life and death of Sparta, so he wished he could seize the bow and arrow of the archer next to him and personally tell Dionysus. Asian shooting.

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After the battle continued for a period of time, the situation had undergone a more obvious change: the right wing with Spartans and veterans as arrows, with The ability of the Spartans and the power of the heavy infantry had the upper hand, and the left flank of the infantry of the Dionysian Fleet kept retreating, and had already retreated into the sea

; A slight advantage. After all, the Piriasi soldiers who often follow the Spartans to fight have rich combat experience. At the same time, although they wear simple pointed copper helmets and leather armor, they hold copper shields and spears, and their defense is still stronger. Due to the fleet infantry, coupled with the assistance of the tower archers, the fleet infantry with weak defense suffered a lot;

only on the left flank, the basically unprotected Helots only held a spear with them. Fleet infantry in leather helmets and armor and armed with leather shields and short swords were gradually at a disadvantage. Even with the mixed Spartan veterans trying to maintain the firing of the front and rear tower archers, the left flank was still constantly on the move. Moving back… This made the front line that was originally going east-west gradually became northeast-southwest.

While Xenophon was sweating for the Spartan army, Cycrian, who was standing on the flagship and listening to the watchman on the mast reporting the battle situation, was even more anxious: “What about the fleet infantry that went ashore yesterday?! Why hasn’t it appeared yet? ?!”

“Maybe… maybe there is some trouble…” The flagship captain replied cautiously.

“Damn it! Something went wrong at a critical moment!” Sekelian scolded angrily, and then said helplessly: “Then… send the reserve team up immediately!”

“Yes!”

At yesterday’s military meeting, in the fleet Inspired by the infantry commander Sephardurus, other squadron commanders also raised a lot of opinions, one of which was: considering that the fleet infantry and heavy infantry do not have the advantage in frontal combat, can they be stationed at Meseni? The two brigades of Ya’s Seventh Army sent some heavy infantry to participate in the landing battle?

Later, after discussion and improvement, it was changed to: Invite the Dionysian troops stationed in Messenia to counterattack against Sparta from the east, and at the same time invite them to send 300 heavy infantry to participate in the landing operation.

Originally using them as a reserve team, Cykrian still hoped that the infantry of the fleet could win the battle alone, but now seeing the situation at a disadvantage, and worried about failure, he had to send a reserve team.

I saw that on the 5-meter-square rafts urgently made by the crew of the First Fleet, there was a water man who was holding wood pulp to control it, and three or four soldiers of the Seventh Legion in black helmets and black armor stood in the middle, passing through the warships. void.

Since the raft has a shallower draft than the boat, it passed the sea of the boat blocking stakes smoothly by the surging tide, and rowed towards the left flank of the infantry of the fleet…

“Oops, reinforcements from the Dionians!” Xenophon Seeing this situation on the outpost, I was very anxious: Sparta has no extra soldiers to block the attack of the enemy reinforcements, what should I do?

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Xenophon turned around in a hurry, and suddenly saw a group of Heros who were carrying supplies in the camp. They hurried down the sentry building and rushed to the camp, wanting to organize these Heros and go to reinforce the front. of the Spartan army.

The dozen or so Spartan veterans who were in charge of guarding the Helots in the camp learned that the situation was urgent and immediately agreed with Xenophon’s suggestion, but problems arose: even if the hundreds of Helots were organized, they did not Weapons, how to fight?

The Spartans took great care of the Helots. Even those Helots who were going to fight were not given weapons until they went into battle. After the army went to battle, there were still so many Helots in the camp, of course. It is impossible to leave more weapons.

After rummaging through the camp, he found more than a dozen broken spears. Xenophon had to ask the Heroths to extract the wooden poles supporting the tent. It was a promise and a threat before forcing the Heroths. Reluctantly followed him to the right flank of the Spartan army.

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, the onslaught of the Spartans caused some casualties to the left flank of the infantry of the fleet. For the sake of honor and the survival of the infantry of the entire fleet, they could only ease the pressure from the enemy by constantly retreating, and the more they went The deeper the retreat into the water, the more weakened the Spartan attack.

The reason is very simple. The surging tide and the soft seabed have a greater impact on the Spartans who are wearing heavy armor and heavy armor and are more clumsy. They have to devote some of their energy to maintain their balance, while the fleet infantry has a great impact on this. is accustomed to.

Under such circumstances, the left flank of the fleet infantry gradually recovered some of its decline.

Then the soldiers of the 7th Legion arrived one after another, and immediately attacked the flanks of the Spartans.

The Spartans under the flank fought bravely without flinching. They knew that their home was behind them, so they must not retreat.

Xenophon led the Heros across the beach and rushed to reinforce the right wing. In the battlefield shrouded by the sound of tides, fighting, and screams, he was so anxious that he could not hear the sentry tower not far from him. The archer exclaimed: “There are enemy reinforcements again! In the east! In the east!!…”

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