Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 513

[Chapter 180 The Battle of Crotone (6)]

After the light infantry retreated, the Dionian phalanx soldiers on the right flank and in the middle quickly threw two rounds of javelin. In

the name of “Dis”, he rushed to the enemy…

At this point, the two armies of Dionia and Syracuse were fully engaged.

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The news of the battle between the two armies was sent back to the Acropolis by the spies of Crotone, which aroused the attention of all the people in the city. After all, the outcome of this battle is not only related to that The life and death of thousands of Crotone citizens who went to fight is more related to the survival of all people in Crotone. Therefore, many people want to go to the battlefield to watch the battle with anxiety, including many members of the council. .

After deliberation, several hundred civilian soldiers remained in the acropolis to protect the women, children, and elderly people who were inconvenient in the city, while tens of thousands of people from Crotone were in Lysias, Sispro Led by members of the general’s executive committee, Tis and other members of the general’s executive committee descended the hill in fright and came to the ruins of Crotone’s inner city, which was already a piece of rubble.

Before they even walked to the northern city wall, they were saddened by the deafening sound that enveloped them. Many people listened, their faces turned pale, their legs were fighting, and they needed the help of others to move forward.

Due to the burning of the fire and the wanton destruction of the Syracuse people, sections of the collapsed northern city wall are like the teeth of an old man, with gaps everywhere, only the section connecting the city gate is still standing relatively intact…

Lycias They stepped on the stone steps with heavy hearts, went up to the top of the city, supported the battlements, and looked out anxiously: in the distance, densely packed soldiers were fighting together, filling the vast wilderness of Croton Plain, and the huge terror they emitted The sound is as if the earth is roaring, stirring the dust and sand, and even the sky and the earth have changed color…

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In the southern sea of Crotone City, more than 80 people led by Midorades A raven warship was confronting the nearly forty remaining warships of Syracuse led by Leputines.

The headache for Midorades was that once his fleet approached the Syracuse warship, the Syracuse fleet quickly retreated, and the special structure of the raven warship prevented them from catching up with Syrah in speed. Kuza’s ordinary warship; but once the Midorads fleet approached the coast, the Syracuse fleet came over again…

Just when Midorads hesitated, Syracuse stayed behind the camp’s troops Hundreds of soldiers were sent, armed with the thousands of Sicilian freemen who were usually responsible for transporting baggage, and rushed to the seaside, so that Midorades’ attempt to send sailors to land to disturb the rear of the Syracuse army was unsuccessful.

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Since Trina was captured by Syracuse,

a thousand Syracuse soldiers, more than a thousand Hibernian soldiers, and a thousand more were stationed in the city. A total of more than 3,000 Coulonia soldiers.

Far away from the front lines, the defenders of Trina lived a leisurely life until the order of Dionysius came twice from the Crotone camp in the past two days: let them strengthen their defenses and keep an eye on the north. The news of Napetia!

The defending generals immediately cheered up and strengthened their reconnaissance to the north.

Surprising news came from the scout this afternoon: a fleet of ships docked on the beach of the Plain of Euphemia, and about five or six thousand Dionysian soldiers landed. After the landing, the Dionysian troops were heading for Terry Nacheng March!

Immediately afterwards, another news came: more than a thousand Dionian soldiers have come out from the city of Knapetia and have entered the plains of Euphemia!

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A piece of news made Trina’s Syracuse general uneasy. Although he was eager to make a contribution, the enemy attacking six or seven thousand people was obviously not something he could defeat with this little force in his hand. He immediately ordered: After closing the city gate and pulling up the drawbridge, the soldiers of each unit went up to the city wall for defense according to the deployment of the previous drill. At the same time, they immediately prepared sufficient arrows, javelins, stones, asphalt…

In addition, he also sent two messengers to rush to Xili. Tribunal and Crotone camp.

Hiros led the troops to the city of Trina. After carefully observing the city defense of the Syracuses, he did not immediately launch a siege, and in fact time did not allow it.

He ordered the army to start building a camp in the northwest direction, a mile away from the city, and wait for reinforcements from Knapetia to come and meet.

At the same time, in order to prevent the main force of Syracuse in the east from attacking, he sent out the few cavalry squads and mountain reconnaissance squads in the army to scout the Syracuse of Syracuse and Crotone. Camp trend.

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“Attack! Attack!!…” Matonis, who was standing behind the phalanx, wished he could go into battle in person and fight happily, but unfortunately he was already the commander of the legion and was accepted by ” The Dionysian Military Law was limited to ordering drummers to beat without stopping, urging the soldiers to step up their attacks.

Although the Seventh Legion was newly built and most of its soldiers were new recruits, Heraclea’s victory gave them victory and honor, and also gave them more confidence, and they launched a fierce attack on the enemy without fear.

Cregenis was a freeman who had just arrived in Turii four years ago, but he was fortunate to be one of the 5,000 freemen’s light infantry at the battle of the Trionto River to defeat Crotone’s partial division. He made a contribution and finally participated in the Triumph, which gave him a goal to strive for.

Earlier this year, he has become a full citizen.

In recent years, Dionia’s army has been expanding, but when the instructors of the Ministry of Military Affairs are selecting new recruits, he is always eliminated because of his thin physique and is not suitable for melee infantry. The instructor suggested that he become a light infantry.

But he always dreamed of becoming a heavy infantry soldier, so he was always a reserve soldier of the legion, but he was not discouraged because of his tenacity. He insisted on exercising and honing his fighting skills, and finally waited until the outbreak of the war and the establishment of the new legion.

Originally based on his identity and qualifications (regular citizen, three-year legion reserve), Legion Commander Matonis was going to make him a company captain, but he refused because he felt that he had never been a team officer and was suddenly promoted As a middle and senior team officer, he had no experience, and at the same time he couldn’t fight on the front line, and couldn’t show the results of his hard training, and finally he became a squad leader of the 7th Corps.

Now, he is in the forefront of the battle, with the long shield in his left hand tightly protecting his body, and the stab in the right hand hanging above his head, almost staying still, but once the enemy reveals a flaw, it stabs out like lightning, and every stab Both ruthless and accurate, they brought a great threat to the enemy, and he stabbed several people in a short period of time.

He seldom kept shouting and issuing orders like some team officers, but his leadership inspired the soldiers under him and their morale even more… He was

always unconvinced by Matonis and always wanted to compete with him. The Olivers certainly won’t let the Seventh Legion stand out.

Under his strict orders, the Sixth Legion also attacked more than half…

More than half of the two Dionysian new legions were fighting against Sicilian city-state soldiers, such as Catane, Leotine, Gera, and Kaman. Lina… These city-states are said to be allies of Syracuse, but they are actually vassals. The rulers of their city-states are all tyrants directly appointed and supported by Dionysius, so attacking Great Greece is not the will of these soldiers. It’s just that they won successively for a period of time, and captured a lot of loot, so their morale was not bad, and because of the incentive of “winners can go home”, their fighting spirit was second only to the soldiers of Syracuse.

But Syracuse’s left flank also included soldiers from Syracuse’s allies in Greater Greece, the Locris, the Medmers, the Hibernians, and the Coronians.

Especially the Coronians, who were forced to surrender to Syracuse due to the situation, reluctantly.

Dionysius, of course, also knew very well, so he left a thousand Collenians in Trina and a thousand in Celestia to replace his own troops, and two thousand Collenians, He scattered them in the front ranks of the left wing, forcing them to fight in order to survive, but their fighting spirit can be imagined.

Originally, Dionysius saw that Dionysian’s right wing was basically a soldier wearing a Corinthian helmet, holding a round shield and a stab.

Unexpectedly, these two new legions, which are not afraid of tigers, have a total of 14,000 soldiers to attack bravely, so that although there are 20,000 people, the left wing of Syracuse, whose composition is complex and whose fighting spirit is not strong, is forced to slowly retreat

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The left wing of Syracuse is retreating, and the middle is also retreating.

The soldiers of Dionia’s Fourth and Fifth Legions experienced the fiasco of Sirius and witnessed the tragic deaths of their commanders and comrades. They are fighting the enemy today with the purpose of washing away shame and revenge, so they are not just Brave, but a little crazy, each with a hideous expression, desperately trying to get close to the enemy and fight in close quarters.

The Brutite soldiers who fought alongside him were also infected by it, showing the fierceness of the mountain people.

Some time ago, the turmoil in the Bruti region greatly affected other Dionysian people’s perception of the Bruti people. Today, they need to use their performance to show their loyalty to the Alliance.

The front ranks of the Syracuse middle lane are the Campania mercenaries. After the last battle, these experienced mercenaries learned about the strength of the Dionysian heavy infantry in close combat, so they tried their best to fight with Dionia. Soldiers pulled some distance and used stab guns to block the approach of the enemy.

At the same time, they knew that the reckless onslaught of heavy infantry was very exhausting, and they waited patiently for the moment when the Dionysians were exhausted, and then counterattacked.

As a result, the Campania mercenaries and another 10,000 Syracuse civic soldiers were forced and deliberately retreated.