Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Oh, these brothers are amazing! It is a hero who can kill Persia and come back!"

"Look at those rock throwers, they are all my fellows, Rhode Islanders!"

"And the Thracians, see how accurate the javelins they throw! I really want to take off this heavy armor, pick up the javelin, and join them!"

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Draco heard the admiration and envy of the soldiers around him, and he squeezed the belt behind the shield: "Come on, indigenous people, come and taste our strength!" At this moment, he was fighting with vigour.

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The confident confident leader of the city of Pecosis, Cincinnati, had absolutely no idea that his troops had suffered a sap before the formal engagement.What made him even more depressed was that the original Lucanian traditional weapons were javelins, spears and daggers, and javelins were also their strengths. However, in order to better fight against the Greeks, most of them were replaced with heavy equipment, only A few javelinmen were in the back formation, and the enemy's bows and flying stones had been extended to the back formation. The javelinmen evaded the attack, and only a few people were able to fight back. However, the enemy was invisible, and the number of enemies was small and scattered. The result was naturally Very few.Fortunately, the enemy's light infantry are few, and the two ends of the right-wing square formation are less affected.Therefore, Cincinnati desperately urged both ends to squeeze towards the center, trying to surround or dispel these nasty and terrible enemies...

While the Lukarians on the middle and left wing saw the tragic encounter of the right wing, they were afraid that they would suffer the same situation. Both the soldiers and the leaders subconsciously accelerated the pace of progress, hoping to contact the Greek army as soon as possible.

Tens of thousands of soldiers took a big step forward and sprinted forward, and the earth was trembling.

Aceta, Ferris, Draco... and so on, every general and leader started shouting: "Shield defense!"

At the forefront of the phalanx, the soldiers stepped forward slightly on their left feet, pedaled on the ground with their right feet, and the round shield guarded the front left.The soldiers in the back row are stacked one by one, against the back of the soldiers in front, and the spears are protruding forward, and the shields are connected...The entire phalanx is like a huge metal monster with long spikes.

Hundred-meter charge and a slightly higher terrain (although the plain of Xubari is flat, the terrain extending westward is gradually rising), the Lucanian soldiers hit the Greek infantry straight with strong power phalanx.

With a loud bang, on the end of April 399 BC, the battle between Turiri and the Lucanian tribal coalition officially began...

This is a life-and-death battle for both sides, but it is so inconspicuous in the eyes of the powerful powers in the Mediterranean: Carthage and Syracuse will not notice, because the two sides are accumulating power to compete for Sicilian dominance Power, a new round of confrontation is about to start; Rome will not notice because they are busy siege and attack on the Etruscan Grand Bonwe of the upper Tiber; Sparta and Persia will not notice because the two sides Are all preparing for the upcoming war in Asia Minor; Athens will not notice, because their energy is focused on how to restore the national power of the long-term war as quickly as possible, and at the same time they must force the Spartan overbearing behavior. Forbearance; Macedonia will not notice that at this time its kingdom is torn apart, the king is frequently replaced, and the Macedonians with internal and external troubles may be looking forward to the powerful monarch to save them from the depths of fire... Hundreds of kingdoms, cities and races in the Mediterranean or Busy to survive, or busy with aggression, without mind or ability to understand the battle between two unknown forces in the southern part of the Italian peninsula.However, this war (later called the Battle of Turui) opened a new chapter in the most magnificent and glorious history of the magnificent ancient history of the Mediterranean.

The Lukalia are a mountain tribe. They are enthusiastic and impulsive. During the rapid sprint, their fighting intentions continue to rise. So when they see the spear shields in front of them, some soldiers do not think of the shields emphasized by the previous leaders. The impact, which had been flooded with brains of high fighting spirit, jumped in directly, especially Grummentum. The long-term battle produced a large number of warriors who made a living, so people who took this "reckless" action Not a few, although it is more likely to be stabbed, but it has disrupted the defense formation of the Greek army.

In particular, the Turrii civilian soldiers and Drakos mercenaries in the middle road, because they have not been trained together before, the cooperation is not very tacit, the connection between the horizontal rows of the natural array is not very close, and Drakos is against the mountain people. This type of racial shock has never been seen, and it lacks the means to cope.Therefore, the middle of the Greek army was in a hard fight from the beginning...

The Greek right-wing Tarantum civic soldiers at the forefront of the phalanx are obviously much more experienced in dealing with the impact of the Lukanian fighters, and Niutum and Laos fighters are far less fierce than Grummentum. , Did not cause too much impact on the right wing of the Greek army.The shields of the two sides collided with each other, and the guns speared and began to push and fight... Two hundred cavalrymen also rushed forward and from time to time hit the side of Lukalia’s left wing. As long as the Lucanian soldiers stepped forward to block, they Immediately backed away, the Greek cavalry was still a flower in the greenhouse. They were far from the superb riding of the Numidians, nor the sturdy gaul and German cavalry, they could only start the role of harassment.But even so, it left Lucania's left wing guarded and dared not fully commit to the offense.So even if they have more people than the right wing of the Greek army and the phalanx is thicker, the two sides are still in a state of stalemate...

When the left and center roads of the Lucanian Allied Forces had started fighting, the right wing was still slowly advancing. The mercenary light infantry retreated side by side, successfully delaying the advancing speed of the enemy, and the two armies were close to each other. Fifty meters, the light infantry partly withdrew from the front and the outside of the square, and partly passed through the gap left by the square, and retreated to the rear.

At this time, the formation of the right wing of the Allied forces of Lucania had become a meniscus, with two ends protruding and the middle road sunken.The Cincinnati in the line has lost control of the army and is unable to reorganize the formation. The only thing he can do is order the trumpeter to sound the horn of the charge. The distance of only 50 meters will be the final sprint of the soldiers. The bonus, just when the horn sounded, there was also a rhythmical brass trumpet across from the other side, which made Cincinnatiton vigilant and nervously guessing what action the opposite enemy would take next. In the front row, with many injuries on his body, Gnenet clearly saw the heavy Greek infantry on the opposite side with his right arm raised and his body leaned back, but his legs were strung forward for two steps. This action is already a bird of startling bow. Glennard swiftly shrank his whole body under the shield.

Thousands of javelins jumped a distance of tens of meters in an instant, and fell into the Lukalia formation just about to charge. What was set off was no longer the blossoming waves like before, but the wave of death, and hundreds of people were killed and injured in an instant. Almost everybody blocked the forward speed of Lucaria's team...

At that moment, the horrible sound of the brass trumpet sounded again in a hurry, and the Greek mercenaries immediately shouted, "Hades!!!" With a shield gun, he charged forward.

The mercenary charge was not the same as the whole army. The rightmost end did not advance because of the connection with the middle road, while the soldiers in the middle and left end completely ignored the thinness of their array and the large number of enemies, and rushed towards the enemy with high fighting intentions. The army is like a long dragon shaking its tail extremely vigorously.

The Lucanians had not eased their breath from the javelin strike, the formation was chaotic.At this moment, the mercenary charge came one after another. The soldiers were extremely skillful in using the kinetic energy transformed by the sprint speed, fittingly hitting with the shield and turning on the opponent's defense. Then the right-handed spear speared like a viper. Stabbing the enemy's enemy's throat or face quickly and accurately, the Lucanian front row fell down in a row...

Such a terrible attack efficiency and a forceful momentum scared the Lukalia people in the back row, and they braggingly bravely began to shrink at the moment... the mercenaries pursued step by step, the Lucanias stepped forward Retreat... The collapse of the right end of the right wing of the Lucania coalition is in sight.

Note: Vergae, the northernmost town of the Bruges, borders Laos.