Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 413

[Chapter 80 The Battle of Poseidonia (1)]

At this moment, Torek was looking at the Dionysian Camp in the distance.

In fact, Samonay’s reinforcements had arrived last night, and they were going to attack at night, but they found that the Dionysians had built a camp and were heavily guarded.

Torek is also a battle-hardened leader. He knows that in the dark, especially without moonlight, the attack of tens of thousands of people can easily get out of control and cause unnecessary losses, so he restrained the impulse and postponed the attack. By the second day.

As a result, the Samone reinforcements spent the night in the mountains.

It was early November, and the weather in the mountains was getting colder. Even if the soldiers were sleeping in leather robes, it was still a little cold.

Torrek rubbed his frozen hands. He really didn’t expect the Dionians to build a seemingly large-scale camp so quickly.

But he thought about it again: it’s better this way, and the Dionysians may not be able to escape!

He looked at the leader of Cautini’s army and said in a consultative tone: “Leader Quinduk, my people are attacking from the north and east, and yours are attacking from the west. What do you think?

” I have no opinion.” Quindok nodded in agreement, and then asked: “What about the south of the enemy camp? Don’t let them run away.”

“South.” Torek pointed to the city of Poseidonia in the distance. , said confidently: “They can’t run!”

Quinduck understood, he said excitedly: “It seems that the Dionysians have become the prey that fell into the pit, just for the soldiers to vent. Get rid of the anger that you didn’t sleep well last night!” Quinn Duke said, rubbing his cold body with his hands.

Torek looked back at the densely packed warriors who were gearing up to fight, and gave an order: “Blow the trumpet!”

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The long and majestic sound of the horn passed through the early morning mist and spread to two Poseidonia, both inside and outside, let Pisini and Mobuque, who were standing on the top of the city, looking forward to hearing it, immediately cheered up: “Did you hear it! It’s our trumpet, we The reinforcements have arrived!”

The Samonite warriors on the city wall shouted excitedly.

“Warriors, ready to go out of the city to meet up at any time and destroy those hateful Dionians!” Piscini shouted in high spirits, sweeping away the depression of yesterday.

“Roar! Roar!!…” The soldiers roared in unison.

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Alexis watched the enemy slowly approaching outside the camp from the outpost, and said calmly: “The enemy is ready to attack, let the teams get ready. !”

“I’ll go right now.

” The adjutant turned and went downstairs.

“Let’s see you first.” Alexis said with anticipation to Steponian, the ballista observer who was also on the outpost. Since the observer was from Dionysian Academy, Ah Lexis spoke in a rather polite manner.

“Lord Legionnaire, don’t worry!” Steponian replied confidently, but his heart was beating drums.

Because of the morning fog, he couldn’t see the marks he made outside the camp yesterday, so he could only rely on visual inspection.

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The troops attacking the north of the camp led by Tolek

did not carry Syracuse’s ballista or large siege equipment when they rushed to the rescue due to the rush of time. , just made dozens of long ladders temporarily before taking a break last night.

But Tony thinks: this is enough!

Because of the report of the spies, there was no other defense facilities except for the trenches at Dionysian Camp.

Therefore, the huge reinforcements only needed to break through the low earth wall of the camp in one breath, and the Dionians could only sit there and wait to die.

When the team to attack the battalion gradually approached the close camp about 250 meters away, Torek swung his spear forward vigorously: “Attack!”

More than a dozen trumpeters sounded the horns in their hands at the same time, “Woo! Woo!! Woo!!!…” resounded across the battlefield.

Some Samonaite warriors carried long ladders, some held long shields, some only held javelins and spears and began to speed up…

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“Elevation 40, full strings, small strums!” Steponian shouted from the outpost.

“Prepare the ballista!” The ballista captain gave the order: “Elevation angle 40, full strings, small bullets!”

Under the quick operation of the soldiers, the ballista made a “creaky” sound.

“Hu! Hu! Hu!…” The stone bullets were ejected with a strong wind sound.

The ballista captain looked at the stone bullets flying towards the enemy. He was excited but also had some regrets in his heart: Yesterday, the ballista bombed Poseidonia for a long time, which damaged several ballistas, otherwise the enemy would have been killed. will be more.

Torek saw the dark shadow passing over his head, and secretly shouted: Not good!

But he was far less astonished than the previous Locri general Diopantos. After all, in the hearts of Samone, the Greeks had superb skills. Syracuse could make ballistas, and of course Dionia could.

The ballista didn’t frighten Torrek, but aroused his ferocity. He waved his short sword again and shouted: “Fast forward! Kill all the Greeks!” The

surrounding warriors roared, and the roar quickly spread throughout the country. The screams caused by the falling stone bullets were completely covered up, and the Samoneites had high fighting spirit, and they started to speed up towards the Dionysian camp with big strides.

“One hundred meters!” A shout came from the outpost.

“Prepare the archers!” shouted Ibiru, captain of the light infantry battalion.

The archers had long been waiting behind the earthen wall, fanning out, drawing their bows and drawing arrows.

Hundreds of arrows rained down on the black attacking battle formations of the Samonites, and what they set off was no longer the few screams caused by the stone bullets.

The weak protection of the Samonais brought a lot of victory to the Dionysian light infantry, but the screams one after another could not weaken the pace of the Samonites’ advance.

After only two rounds of the bow and arrow, the Samone people had already rushed within 50 meters.

The soldiers of Dionia’s Third Army could clearly hear the rumbling footsteps of the enemy advancing, and the ground tremors slightly caused by the forceful steps of countless feet, and even their shouts enveloped the entire camp.

Although the soldiers were a little nervous, they were not panicking.

Because they are the third legion of Dionia, they have made many military exploits for Dionia: they participated in the Second Crotone War, and they captured the city of Aspurustum alone; The city of Lumentum; quelled the rebellion of Lucania with a legion, annihilated the power of Cincinnagar, and harvested the city of Picosis… The dazzling stars on the flag of the 3rd Legion symbolized their honor!

And today’s battle will definitely add honor to the third army map!

The company captain, Hytinaot, was a Greek slave in Niutum. After Dionysus captured Niutum, he was freed and chose to settle in Niutum and eventually joined Dai. The Third Army of Onia, through his own efforts, became a mid-level officer commanding 200 people.

The hatred of the past has dissipated, and now he fights side by side with the Lucanian soldiers who once hated and are now brothers for their homeland, the Dionysian League.

“Javelin!” he shouted.

The soldiers who were standing on the dirt wall and were ready to throw their javelins vigorously threw their javelins, while the Samonais who rushed to the camp’s trenches also threw their javelins.

For a time, countless javelins staggered in the air.

As the two sides who have fought each other, they already know each other’s tactics, and they have erected long shields for protection.

Compared with the dense and poorly equipped Samonai warriors outside the camp, the Dionysian soldiers were at a high place and protected by a long earthen wall. The casualties were not large, but the javelin was stuck on the long shield from time to time, which was very easy to use. Inconvenient, but there is simply no time to cut it at the moment.

Although the Samonites suffered more casualties, the javelin rain continued. With its suppression, the Samonite warriors rushed to the front of the ditch and jumped directly into the ditch. Some set up long ladders, and some people set up The human wall began to struggle upwards.

The Dionian soldiers threw javelins at the trenches, so close that it was almost a hit, but even so, it could not stop the swarms of the Samonais attacking.

“Pour the oil! Quickly pour the oil!” Citinaot shouted anxiously, bending over to pick up the tung oil tank that had been prepared and placed behind the wall, when he heard a scream of “ah”, and a man behind him The soldier was pierced through his left shoulder with a javelin and fell to the ground in pain.

Citinaot leaned down alertly, poked his head slightly behind the earth wall, peeked out, and happened to see a Samonaid harpooneer holding a javelin outside the trench less than five meters away from him. Shot down by a sharpshooter on the outpost of the camp.

Citinaot quickly stood up and smashed the oil tank down, hitting the head of a Samonaite warrior in the trench. The oil tank burst open and the oil was overflowing.

Many soldiers on the earth wall did the same thing as Citinaot: torches were thrown into the trench, a wall of fire rose in an instant in the trench, and countless firemen screamed in the trench with their teeth and claws, until Silent……

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Commander, the enemy to the north has retreated temporarily. According to preliminary statistics, we have 240 casualties.” The adjutant came to report.

“So many brothers have been lost before the fight began.” Although there were more Samonites lying on the ground groaning outside the camp and burning charred in the trenches, Alexis still frowned at Samonite. The lethality of the human javelin is also somewhat apprehensive.

He pointed to the south of the camp and said, “Look, the enemy in Poseidonia has also come out, and this battle has just begun.”

“It’s a pity that we brought too few oil tanks! Otherwise, if we use several directions together. , the loss of the Samone people is much greater!” The adjutant said regretfully.

“This can’t be blamed on the baggage battalion. They have to load food, carry materials for camping, weapons and equipment, and bring so many oil tanks. It’s not easy. Who told us that the action of our legion is so urgent? , and the enemy’s reinforcements came so fast!” Alexis comforted him and said, “Don’t worry, we will fight them slowly, anyway, they won’t be able to escape in the end.”