Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Although the light armor is a "light armor", after all, it has a "armor", and it still has a leather shield and a spear in his hand. How can he catch up with a single enemy.But once they stopped, the enemy's long-range attack began.

What is more worrying is that the enemies in the middle of the road are gradually divided into three parts while the light armor advances: one part pulls the light armor in the formation, and the other two parts go around the light armor.

As the light armor advances, the flanks are attacked by the enemy.Gu Qian couldn't care about the left and right, and Gu left and right could not protect the front.Crotone's light armoured soldiers rashly recklessly like a wild boar, not only did not hurt the enemy's hair, but his casualties increased little by little...

"The cavalry?! Why the cavalry hasn't come! What are Alithosis doing!!" Watching the soldiers fall one by one, Filderforth's mood became irritable and he could not help but swear, he was the first time I realized how uncomfortable it is to fight with pure infantry against enemies who are all light infantry.You can't fight, you can't catch up, but you can become a living target for the enemy.

"Retreat to the left! Retreat to the left!!!" he yelled, and the guards also followed. If the excited soldiers couldn't hear what he was chanting during the previous pursuit, everyone is now united The regiment, cautiously evading arrows and stones, had begun to feel a little fearful and exhausted. The command of Philip Vlados was exactly what they wanted, and the light armoured soldiers hurriedly retreated.

Who would have known that Dionia’s light infantry was as hot as a maggot.

The original meaning of Filadelfoss was to retreat to the left and meet the heavy infantry of the left wing, so that with their presence, they could protect the flanks of the light armor and reduce the casualties before the cavalry returned.At this moment, Philadefoss also firmly believed that the Crotone Cavalry would win.

However, he was in the formation, but he did not know that he thought that the heavy wing infantry on the left rear of him had actually been deflected by the light infantry on the right wing of the enemy. They deliberately retreated a little bit to the northwest, making the action slow. The heavy infantry unknowingly changed from facing the north to advancing to the northwest. As a result, the distance between Crotone's center and the left wing increased.

The light armoured soldiers quickly retreated for a while, not only did they not meet the left wing, but because they could not achieve better protection during the retreat, resulting in a rapid increase in casualties.Now they are forced to turn around again, protect themselves with a leather shield, slowly back away, avoiding the intensively shot arrows, watching the increasing number of injured comrades on the ground in front of the ground being mended by the enemy, The morale of the light armourmen was shaking.

At this time, they heard the dense horseshoe behind them, because they had to avoid the arrows and could not look back, but they all breathed out: "Cavalry! Our cavalry is finally here!!"

Philadefus wondered: How did Alisothis' cavalry run behind?!Didn’t you tell him that after defeating the enemy’s left wing, let him lead the cavalry to attack the enemy on the opposite side!There is no such ability!!When angry, someone shouted: "Javelin! Be careful of javelin! They are enemies!!!"

With this exclamation, hundreds of javelins roared from behind.

Filadelfoss was behind the array, wearing a colorful general helmet, which of course became the focus of the attack, immediately with three javelins in his body.When Philadefoss fell, he did not understand until his death: Why did the Crotone Cavalry, which had a superior strength, fail?

The cavalry with high hopes turned out to be the enemy!This became the last straw that crushed the light armored soldiers. They lost their fighting spirit and fled around. The light infantry and cavalry of Dionysia chased the situation. The light armored soldiers could not run past these lightly equipped light infantry, let alone the cavalry. Speed, after being caught up, most soldiers chose to surrender.

After solving Crotone's right-wing cavalry and light armor in the middle, the Dionysians concentrated on dealing with the most difficult heavy infantry.

When more than 3,000 Crotone heavy infantry were surrounded by more than 7,000 Dionysian light infantry and cavalry, these heavy infantry understood that their midfield and left wing were probably fierce, especially Ledes’ cavalry held high The head of Filadelfoss, around the heavy infantry lineup, shouted that they should surrender, and the impact of these Crotones was imaginable.

The commander-in-chief of the heavy infantry was Crotone Firos, and the deputy was Siridin’s general Paul Salues. The two had a dispute in such a bad situation.

Philos believes that the damage caused by the light infantry is not too great. As long as they can continue to reach and reach the main crossing, assist the large forces to defeat the Dionysian army. The final victory still belongs to Crotone.

Pausaljus believes that the morale of the soldiers is already low when they are fully surrounded and attacked, and that the destination to be reached is at least six or seven miles, and it is almost impossible for the soldiers to insist on reaching the west. Wading across the river.

No one can persuade anyone, and finally part ways.With a total of 1,700 soldiers from Siriting and some Trina soldiers, Pausaljus began to retreat, preparing to return to the south bank of the Triminto River; Philos led 1400 Crotone heavy infantry and began to accelerate westward.

Crotone's sudden division of troops caused confusion to several generals in Dionia.

Lades and Zpitt believed that heavy infantry should be surrounded by the heavy infantry marching west, and the retreating enemy should be driven away with a small amount of force.

Epitanis objected. He believed that since the enemy retreated, it shows that the fighting spirit is not strong. As long as we continue to pursue and attack, they will surrender, and then resurround the remaining heavy infantry to wipe out the enemy. The next plan is implemented. It will be easier.His opinion was supported by Zantiparis.

The situation is urgent and there is no time to argue.Dionysia’s strength was also divided into two, and Epitanis and Zantiparis led the headquarters to pursue the retreating heavy infantry.

The Silitians and the Trina are indeed not strong enough. They are not Crotonenes and do not have much conflict of interest with Dionia.Although the citizens of Silitin had suffered a lot of casualties during the raid on Dionysia half a year ago, the main reason for participating in the war was the covenant, and by the way to gain some interest, revenge for the dead citizens was second only.But when the war situation is bad and threatens their lives, of course they will not fight hard.Division, they are welcome, they think that the Dionysian light infantry will focus on the Crotonians going west, but did not expect that the Dionysians still pursue them, and the number is large .Panicked, they just arrived at the footsteps of the Triwento River, remembering that they had paid a great price when crossing the river before. Now that there are more enemies and the attack will be more violent, their hearts will be cold.

The Trina surrendered first, and then Paul Saleuus surrendered the Silitians.

Crotone heavy infantry said to accelerate, but in fact not much faster than before.Although the heavy infantry has good protection, it does not mean that they are not afraid of long-range strikes by bows, javelins, and stones. The impact of stones on the helmet will make them dizzy. Be careful when bowing their thighs, toes, and hands. The linen breastplate does not completely block the javelin's close blow.Of course, the one-meter-diameter, copper-clad big round shield they hold is completely resistant to the frontal attack, but the enemy is not only on the front, but there are enemies everywhere on the side and the back. How to prevent it?

It's only six miles from the Crotone's army. It usually arrives within an hour of the normal march. Now half an hour later, it's only been less than a mile... There are people being hit by arrows and guns. They are like a Behemoths, bitten and bloodshed by the flexible wolves, are getting weaker and more tired, and there is no hope in the front, but the arrows and javelins of the enemy are always so abundant (Daveus let The Castrons gave away all the arrows and javelins that had been accumulated in the equipment store for many years, and transported them to the rear of the battlefield with pack animals. Therefore, when Epithenis and Zantiparis led the army to return, they would seize the Siriting, When Trina's flag was thrown in front of Crotone's heavy infantry and surrendered, the Crotonene, who was surrounded by the long-range defense against the long-term defense, maintained such a long time that the crumbling morale was finally broken.When they surrendered, there were fewer than a thousand soldiers intact.

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Al Sinis, who was a recruit half a year ago, is now a squad leader of the First Army. He has nine soldiers under his control, six of whom are reserved citizens and recruits.

The rapid expansion of the Dionysian army in the past six months can be imagined, of course, it also brings a lot of problems, especially in this tragic battle, the quality of the heavy infantry of the two sides gradually shows up with the passage of time.Heavy infantry is not just a heavy heavy infantry who wears armor, can hit with a shield, and can pierce with a spear. The most important point of heavy infantry in battle is trust and tacit understanding.On the closely aligned front, a heavy infantry holding a shield in his left and a gun in his right. A heavy copper shield made him lean to the left with his body, and the shield shielded his left chest and left. The right chest of the side comrade, and his right chest is protected by the right comrade with a shield, so that the shield surface is in a line to defend against the enemy's poke, he needs to move the round shield back and forth, this action consumes physical strength, and It is easy to disturb the array. He only needs to focus on two actions, the right hand keeps poking and pushing forward, so trusting his teammates and trusting him will protect you is the key to the successful operation of the heavy infantry phalanx.

Citizens of a city-state have at least a few thousand people and a maximum of tens of thousands of people. They are either neighbors or relatives. They have played together since childhood. They received heavy infantry training from elders when they were young, participated in sports, studied together, and worked together in adulthood. Attending a party together... Although there are not many collective military trainings open to the city-state each year, trust stems from their childhood training. As long as they stand on the battlefield, they will naturally stand together and twist into a rope.