Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Chapter One

The next morning, the reinforcements of Silitine and Trina arrived, and Crotone received information from Turiri: about 4,000 reinforcements from Amendolara arrived in Turiri, on the plains of Subari. Dionysian citizens entered the square one after another. It was reported that there were about 8,000 people, and then they entered the military camp in the north of Turi. No further action was seen. Dionys seems to be waiting for Niutum and Laos Reinforcement.

This news prompted Milon to decide to take immediate action. Under his active push, the council passed a resolution to attack Turui, with the chief general Milon as the army commander, and another Philip Radford who had the ability of the army. General Sri Lanka served as a deputy officer and led about 27,000 soldiers, including 20,000 heavy infantry and 6,500 light infantry. Of these 6,500 light infantry, 4,000 were wearing leather armour and holding The light armor of the leather shield spear does not have the ability to project, and there are also 800 cavalry.In addition to the regular army, there are also a large number of slaves and free civilian transport, which makes the actual force of the entire army up to 40,000.

To this end, Crotone organized a large fleet at the port, and it took almost three hours to load the materials and get the soldiers on board.It wasn't until noon that the troop convoy sailed north under the guard of the Crotone fleet.When passing by Crimea, another 500 soldiers joined, making the number of combat troops as high as 27,500.

Because the whole process was cumbersome and protracted when boarding at the port of Crotone, Milon feared that the situation would be worse when landing on the beach.He and Filadelfoss were quite concerned about what the former Terratus intelligence said that "the coast of Dionysian is covered by cavalry," and for the sake of stability, they dared not land on the coast north of Castellon, and After crossing the swamp, the ship was immediately docked and stopped at the beach where the Ma Song mercenaries landed a few days ago.

Milon first dismounted the cavalry, extended the alert range to a radius of two miles, and confirmed that there was no enemy, before he began a large-scale landing.Countless soldiers carried weapons and equipment, and some took the horses, jumped off the cargo ship, stepped into the sea, and reached the shore.Because there is no pier, slaves and free people have to carry food, tents and other materials to transfer them to the shore...

At a glance the whole beach was full of black crushed heads, messy, people shouted Ma Si, the team officers broke their heads in a hurry; and the piles and piles of disorderly arrangement affected the whole team of soldiers, Phila Defus beat and yelled at the slaves... It took a long time to straighten up the entire landing force and straighten out the affairs.After this toss, people were sleepy and the sky was dusk.

After determining the campsite nearby, Milon issued an order and strictly required that the teams build a solid campsite and lay out posts without any negligence!

The defeat of Melancius is a lesson to be learned. This time Crotone has an absolute advantage. He has an opportunity, and he only needs to move forward steadily. Victory is just around the corner.

Tomorrow will first capture Castron to make it a forward base for Crotone’s army and fleet... Milon conceived the next military action plan in his mind, and gradually fell asleep.

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In the large tent of the Turri’s Barracks, Davis, Military Officer Felix, Captain of the First Army, Captain of the Second Army, Drax, and Captain of the Cavalry Lydes are conducting enemy situation analysis.

On the wooden table in the center is a two-meter-square smooth wooden board with a detailed map of Great Greece drawn on it. Felix holding a wooden stick and pointing at the map on the wooden board, he said, "You have just received the front According to the information received, Crotone sent about 30,000 soldiers, who were already here-landing on the coast south of Castellon, and it is estimated that they will be able to attack Castellon tomorrow!"

"Thirty thousand people?!" Cavalry captain Ledes breathed a sigh of relief: "In order to deal with us, Crotone might have sent all the citizens of the city-state!"

"Thirty thousand people are nothing!" Drax yelled unconvincedly: "If the Third Army figure can arrive in time, plus those recruited freemen, we have more than 30,000 troops! And even if there is no 30,000 people, Crotone is not our opponent!"

"But Crotone's soldiers are all civic soldiers!" Capps looked at Davers with a slight worry: "Adult, we really rushed to Castellon without waiting for the arrival of the Third Army?! "

Daveus said calmly: "There is no time, Crotone is determined this time to destroy Dionia, so he has been prepared early and marching so fast! If we wait, it means Abandoning Castron not only undermines the reputation that Dionia built up, but also allows the enemy to enter the Subari Plain, and also violates our previous promise! On the plains, fighting with the Crotonian civic soldiers, we Not sure of winning, but relying on the defense of the city wall, it takes too long, which is not good for our new league!" Daveus took the wooden stick from Philius and pointed to the curve of the Trionto river marked on the map. , Shen Sheng said: "So we must make full use of this river!"

Regarding Davis’s plan, several of you here were very clear. Philius opened his mouth and finally raised questions: "Master Davis, Crotonians will lead the army across the Trionto River in a hurry. ?! I heard that their coach Milon is an experienced general."

Daveus smiled and said seriously: "No plan can be guaranteed to be fully realized, but Milon was confused by the fake news I released. Seeing him so eager to gather the army, I wanted to take advantage of the soldiers before we finished the assembly. It is very possible to win. Of course, if he is not fooled, we can also withdraw Turriy and fight a long defensive battle with Crotonians!"

"He will be fooled!" Drax stated the expectations of the generals present. They also did not want Crotonians to set foot on Dionysia's land.

"How many cavalry do they have?" Ledes asked an important question.

"There are about eight hundred people." Felix replied.

Ryders clenched his fists. No matter the number or experience, his cavalry won't have the upper hand. It was just a matter of whether the wonderful tactics of Lord Davos would work.

"Brothers!" Daveus looked at the generals who were born and died together, eager to try at this moment, knowing that there was no need to mobilize, their fighting spirit must be high, so he said calmly: "It is not too early, you will return immediately Go to their respective teams and follow the previous plan! Hades will bless us and everything will go smoothly tomorrow!"

"Yes!"

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This night, Crotone Camp was safe and sound.

Early the next morning, the sky was clear and rainless, Milon woke up, and felt self-conscious, and the information of Turiri was also sent in time: The reinforcements in Laos and Nyutum had not arrived yet. Three thousand people in Lie rushed to Castellon.

This secret letter should have been sent last night. At the same time, the Croto internal warship cruising on the coast of Turi was not found in Turi-there are traces of large-scale military operations on Castellon Avenue... Milon pondered: The Dionysians should have known the arrival of Crotone’s army, but they are still in the process of war mobilization. They only sent three thousand reinforcements, but these three thousand people wanted to guard Caster. Long?!According to his knowledge, even if Castron’s soldiers are not more than 4,000, and the small town of Castellon is less than four meters high, it can’t stop Crotone’s army from passing Trion. Tou River and capture of Castellon, even Milon also hopes that Castellon will send all the troops to stop himself from crossing the river, so that he can give them the greatest damage in the wild, and can easily capture Castron City.The weather and hostility are beneficial to Crotone. This is Apollo's blessing!Crotone must seize the time when the Dionysian Union has not completed the war mobilization, the army has not yet assembled and arrived, and quickly passed the Trionto River, as soon as possible to win Castron, and then with Dioni Ya's army decisive battle!

Miron immediately worked out a plan to cross the river after consulting with Philippe Fox.

Under Milon’s repeated urging, the army quickly assembled, of which 22,000 soldiers were led by Milon and headed northwest; the other 4,500 soldiers and 500 cavalry were led by Filadelfoss to Travel north.

The Trionto River has two places for walking: one is located in the middle reaches, not only is the water shallow, the river beach is flat, but also the reach of the river is two miles long. Davers was originally a Mei who crossed the river from here. Lancius; the other is located downstream, west of the city of Castellon, with a short reach and deep water.

The Crotone plan for crossing the river was: Fifty thousand people led by Filadelfoss contained and attracted the enemies, but they did not cross the river immediately, but Milon's army crossed the wide reach of the middle reaches.

The army of Crotone led by Milon was in an eight-way column, discharging a long dragon, four or five miles long.

Walking in the middle of the team's ears, Milon's ears were full of noisy footsteps, armor collision... He felt very pleasant, and the huge force gave him enough confidence. He even had leisure time to think: Cass The cities of Tron and Crimea are built on the north bank of the river. This is because they were the sons of Sybaris, pro-Sybaris, and prepared for Crotone.After this war, they must be forced to move the city to the south bank!As for Turri... if everything goes well, he doesn’t mind destroying it for the fourth time!

"Report to the general that the reconnaissance horse crossing the river was besieged by enemy cavalry, four died, and two fled back."

"Anything found?"

"They saw thousands of enemies marching along the north shore."

Thousands of people?Is it trailing us?Milon thought for a while and said, "Has Philadefus reached its destination?"