Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 142

[Chapter 41 Raid (1)]

Originally, Timalas saw that there was too much baggage, and suggested that some of the spoils should be shipped and shipped back to Crotone in advance.

It was rejected by Melantheus. His reason was: Castellon and Crimisa joined our Crotone League for the first time, and we needed to show them the results of capturing Turii and fighting with Croto. Serious consequences for doing it right!

In fact, there is another reason in his heart that he does not declare: he is afraid that the materials shipped back by the ship will be privately divided up by the gang of people in the city hall, so the wealth he will share will be much less.

As for why the pontoon was not burned?

Davos’s worries were completely unnecessary. Melantheus didn’t take Amendolara in his eyes at all. He believed that with the destruction of the city of Turii, there would be nothing left in the northern part of Great Greece. Threatening the power of Crotone, the pontoon was kept for the convenience of the Crotones to move to Subari soon.

Crotone’s march was more than ten miles long, and most of them were loaded carts, so the march was extremely slow.

At dusk, the front team had just arrived in Castellon City.

The Castronians really felt fear, and the chief general Amycles led the city-state’s top officials with smiles on their faces, opened the city to welcome the victorious Melantheus, and held a grand victory banquet for him, and at the same time entertained Crow. Tony’s generals.

At the same time, they euphemistically said to Melantheus: Castellon city is too small to accommodate such a huge army, and so many baggage are stored in the city, if there is any loss, it will be bad to have a conflict.

They also stated that the city of Castellon had prepared a lot of wine and food for the soldiers of Crotone to wish them a happy victory and to make up for Castellon’s apology for not being able to let them into the city.

Melantheus was not a person who could think about the soldiers. Seeing that the Castrons thought so thoughtfully, he readily agreed and led a dozen senior officers including Timalas into the city with Amicris.

On the way into the city, Melantheus heard the report of the spies: the people of Amendolara rushed to the plains of Sybari to rescue the Turians.

Immediately laughed: “Amendolara is doing this in vain, we will be back soon, the plains of Subari can only belong to Crotone!”

After the soldiers in Crotone heard that there was wine to drink and meat to eat, they immediately accelerated their marching speed.

It was getting late, so they started camping. They just set up the tent, and then they couldn’t wait to start drinking and eating meat, celebrating the victory, and making noise until late at night. The tired body couldn’t resist the invasion of the sleeping god, and then fell asleep…

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Ancitanos did not write in his book: On this day, the citizens of Amendolara, contrary to their usual training habits, tentatively set up tents, simply constructed the camp, and then all began to sleep.

In fact, the people who rescued the Turians outside in the afternoon were mainly women, teenagers, and old people from Amendolara…

For this battle, Amendolara almost dispatched the whole city.

That night, Davos did not let the people of Turui enter the newly built camp to stay, and the exhausted people of Turui fell asleep in the sky.

At this time, the Amendolara civic soldiers in the camp were being woken up by the officers one by one. They began to silently eat the freshly baked bread and the hot sheep soup in their sleepy eyes. , and a dash of lamb and cheese.

Although they had eaten dinner a few hours ago, these foods would have stored them more protein and calories for the long marches and fights that followed.

Next, they began to put on the breastplates and greaves from the cart, and inspected the lances, knives, and round shields.

At this time, a few torches were erected in an open space in the center of the camp. Davos and the captains, company captains and sub-captains were carefully observing the information based on Izam and the others with the weak light of the fire. A Crotone camp terrain model simply kneaded from dirt.

“Melantheus was a little cautious. He let his troops cross the Trionto River and camped south of Castellon City, thinking they would be safe with Castellon City in the way, but This just makes his soldiers even more unprepared.

Davos tapped the model of the Trionto River that separated the city of Castellón from the Crotone camp with a stick: “But Izam led the men repeatedly on different stretches of the river. After trying, he said that there is a section of the river that can be walked on, because the location is in the middle of the river, far from the Crotone camp, and will not be discovered.

And he also sent someone to report, ‘The Crotones have been drinking and revelling in the camp all night’, believing that when we attack tomorrow, they will sleep like dead pigs.

Davos’ words made everyone laugh knowingly.

“They didn’t dig trenches, set up fences and deer villages. I’m afraid there won’t even be sentries by tomorrow morning. Do they think this is a walk in their own courtyard? It’s so easy!” It didn’t feel funny, but was provoked, and they were secretly ruthless, and these arrogant Crotones must not be spared.

“The only trouble is that their tents are very scattered and spaced apart. The southern part protrudes out a lot, because the materials they grabbed are concentrated here.” Davers used a wooden stick to A large circle was drawn above the camp model, and he said cautiously: “Our citizen soldiers plus the Lucania battalion led by Bagule only have about 5,000 people (Artenes sent people to the Eastern Mediterranean to recruit some smugglers one after another). There are about 500 freemen from Reis, Rhodes and Crete, making the 7th battalion more complete), in order to fully surround the camp in Crotone, our attack formation can only have a single column of soldiers. ”

“Legion Commander, don’t worry, one column is enough! It’s more troublesome to deal with people, isn’t it easy to deal with a group of sleeping pigs!” Amyntas’ words made everyone cover their mouths and laugh.

Davos smiled slightly and said to Capps next to him: “The south of the camp will be handed over to your first brigade, and you will attack first. Since the area to the south is large, and there are many trucks and supplies blocking the advance, how to solve these problems? The problem, you and your subordinates discuss a solution. I only have one request, whether the first brigade can become the first in the entire army depends on whether you can keep up with the attack speed of the other brigade, or even faster than them! ”

The usually prudent Capps was also excited at the moment: “Don’t worry, the commander, the first brigade will never live up to your expectations!”

Davos nodded and turned to Drax again: “The second brigade goes to the east of the camp. After the first brigade launches an attack, you can start attacking. The east of the camp is close to Castellon City and panicked by the attack. The enemy’s first thought is to escape into the city, so you should use the most violent attack to make them put away this idea!”

Drax glanced at Capps and said, “Legion Commander, our second brigade will use our actions to prove that we are no worse than the first brigade!”

“Okay, you must have this kind of confidence!” Davos praised, then turned to Hieronymus: “The third brigade is attacking from the west, although most of you are recruits, I believe the third brigade will perform well. .”

Hieronymus clenched his fists and said, “Don’t worry!”

“Epithenes.”

“exist.”

“You and Tspit are attacking from the north with the Light Shields of the Seventh Battalion.”

“Legion Commander, isn’t the number of our attackers less?” Epithenes immediately asked.

“Don’t worry. Is Bagule here?” Davers asked.

“Here I am!” Bagul said from behind the crowd.

“Come to the front.” Davos beckoned him to come closer, and then said in a deep voice, “The Lucania brigade you lead joins the attack on the north, and Epithenes is the commander.”

Bagule glanced hesitantly at Epithenis, who gave him a friendly smile. He lowered his head and said, “Okay.”

“Light shield soldiers are good at melee combat, and the impact of your Lucaria warriors is also very powerful, and the enemy may not consider escaping to the north at first, because there is Trionto River blocking I’m not worried about your attacks, I’m just worried about your lack of cooperation and too much rushing forward, which will lead to gaps, so after you come down, you should communicate well and solve the problem of how to improve cooperation and control the rhythm of the attack.”

“There is a more important point!” Davos said with a serious tone: “Bagule, I have told you before, and I would like to emphasize it again, before the battle, whether it is marching or lurking You must keep quiet and not disturb the enemy! You must warn your clansmen well and keep their mouths shut. If anyone does not obey the order and affects this action, the serious ones will be executed according to the “Amendolara Military Law”! ”

“I see.” Bagul was secretly shocked, and decided to go back and immediately discuss with Asistes: how to prevent the people from making mistakes.

“Legion Commander, aren’t our archers and slingers participating in this operation?” Seeing that there was no place for him in the deployment of the attacking battalion, Alpins couldn’t help asking anxiously.

“Of course you are indispensable.” Davos laughed: “Alpens, you lead the archers and slingers to ambush by the road leading to Castellon City in the east of the camp. Once someone comes out of the city to rescue, give them the maximum killing!”

“Yes!”

“According to Izam’s information, Castellon’s soldiers who followed Crotone did not return to the city because they wanted to celebrate their victory in the camp. There should not be many soldiers in the city who could fight, and their combat effectiveness should not be strong. Oh…and those generals of Crotone who are having fun in the city, it is estimated that their legs will be weak by tomorrow morning, where can they use weapons…” After Davos finished speaking, everyone laughed ambiguous.

“After you go down, place your subordinate companies on the attack line, but please remember – there must be no gaps in the attack lines between detachments, between companies, and between brigade and brigade!”