Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"I promise my soldiers can kill it in the shortest time!" Recalling the purpose of coming over specially, Matonis said with courage again.

Dave's face sank: "Nonsense! You think it's a rugby game, what do you want?! Hurry back and command your brigade. If it affects the entire army's attack, the military can't spare you!"

After seeing Matonis leaving in a daunting manner, Daphes turned to Tormid and said: "Go tell Amintas, Matonis asked to replace his team, the reason is that the third team can do better, let He figured it out."

Tormed immediately understood Davos's intentions and drove away.

It was quite complicated for Yomakas to see that the commander-in-chief of Davers and the soldiers were commanded by the armies.

"Master Yomakas, let's go up to the hill." Daveus led the guard to the hill behind him.

"Uh?" Yomakas asked in amazement: "Master Davis, are we not involved in the offensive?"

"If I'm involved in an offensive, who will direct the battle?" Daveus laughed.

"Do you still need to command after the battle starts?" Yumakas, who also fought many times when he was young, couldn't understand that a consul was not a leader, but "hidden" behind the troops, which can be seen behind Davis The soldiers all have a natural expression, obviously they don't think their governor is a coward.

Yomakas had to follow behind with a doubt.

"Master Commander, I... what is the battle mission of my brigade?" Izam caught up and asked Daveus directly, and now his men had completed the pathfinding mission and were returning from everywhere.

"Your brigade..." Daveus turned to look at the mountain reconnaissance brigade that was not far away. He almost forgot this important force. He thought about it and said, "Temporarily as a reserve team, let them hide first. Rest in the pass when we came."

"Ah... the reserve team?!" Izam was dissatisfied when he heard it.

"Relax, mountain warfare is your specialty, and you will be indispensable when the battle begins." Daveus comforted him.

Ezam chuckled.

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"How? I'll say you will fail! After following Davos for so long, you still don't know him. Once you fight, it's like changing a person. Normally, if you have a good relationship with him, you will be strictly required. You obey the order, otherwise... hum..." Olivers said half-jokingly and half-comfortably when he saw the downcast Matonis coming back.

Matonis ignored him and went straight to the flag of his brigade.

"Captain, the companies have lined up!" The adjutant stepped forward to report.

"Call the captains, I have something to say!" Matonis said with a sullen face.

Soon, five company captains arrived.

"You all listen, I only have one request. All the soldiers must attack with all their strength. Our third brigade wants to be the first to break through the enemy's front!" Matonis looked directly at them and said firmly: "Which company and which unit?" , Which squad, which soldier is not performing well, not only do I have to scold him! And don’t want to see my good face in the future!"

"Understood!!!" The company captains replied loudly. They did not feel the pressure, but instead looked up one by one.

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"Brothers, listen, take off your helmet!" The captain ordered.

Although the soldiers obeyed the order and took off the heavy Corinthian helmet, some recruits felt strange: "The battle is about to start. Why would you take off the helmet instead? Isn't it easy to get injured?"

Veterans who have gone through the Persian expedition and carried out many mountain battles will tell them: "We have to climb up and attack with our heads up. The helmet is too heavy to fall easily, and the eyes of the helmet are small. The helmet slides backwards, it is easy to block our sight, not conducive to fighting..."

"But without the protection of the helmet, we are easily injured!" The recruits were still worried.

"Isn't there a round shield." The veteran put a posture, put the round shield on top of his head, his body leaned forward, and the angle was very large: "See if there is! There are round shields and slopes to protect your body from injury. "Speaking of this, he sighed: "Unfortunately our new helmet cannot be worn this time, otherwise we can wear it, and there is no problem climbing mountains and fighting!"

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"King, look at the right wing of the enemy!" General Puchetti's finger down the mountain: behind a team of "squares" like a Greek array, the army continued to move to the far right of the right wing...

"They have significantly more right-wingers than left-wingers! There are not so many troops on our side. To form an array as long as they have to, the thickness of the formation must be thinned, so that the defense strength will be weakened, but If this is not done, their soldiers will be detoured from the outside of our left wing and attack our flanks..."

Tremoni frowned, watching the changes under the mountain. He understood the intention of the enemy. Looking at the enemy, he had only formed a series of "small squares", which had not been connected together to form a large square. So he thought there were still Enough time to adjust.

Pucciti’s army is on the top of the hill, and Daves cannot see the approximate number of the Maple Allied forces.In fact, Tremoni’s army is less than 12,000, and with more than 3,000 Mesapi soldiers headed by Igratia, the total number is only 15,000.The Dionysian reinforcements consisted of 14,000 men in the two armies of Dionia alone, plus a thousand men in a mountain reconnaissance squad, and 3,000 men in Heraklia and Metapontoum. There are more than 3,000 people in the Maple Coalition.

Tremeni has fewer enemies and more enemies. The biggest advantage is the hills. He must not lose his superiority.So, he took the opportunity to make a decisive decision: "Pullo, you quickly bring 1500 people to strengthen the left wing!"

Just as the Pucciti panicked and began to mobilize their troops in preparation for the left wing, the trumpet of Yamashita suddenly sounded.

Tremoni was very surprised: the Greeks had attacked in a hurry before they had a lineup?

In his puzzled eyes, the "small squares" formed by the Dionysians have begun to move forward slowly, and then turned their heads to look at their army, although the Puchti people do not have a tightly arranged square matrix like Greece. , But also has a neat and orderly formation, but at this moment because of the deployment of troops, the soldiers were completely chaotic.

"Pullo, stop dispatching troops!" he ordered quickly.

"Yes! But what about the left?"

Tremoni thought for a while and said, "Go tell Timothy immediately and ask him to bring the cavalry who is idle behind him to help our left!"

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Trifias also did not expect that the Dionysians would start attacking so quickly, and his army was still on the way to the right.

"Adult, what shall we do?" the men asked anxiously.

"Hurry up to our place before we talk." Trifias said composurely.

Fortunately, as the Dionysian army moved forward, the mountain pass became less narrow, making it easier for them to march.

Daveus heard the bugle and couldn't help but praise: "The first legion moves quickly!"

Then, the bugle sounded on the right.

He nodded: "The Second Army is not slow!"

"Master Commander!" Tormed came from the bottom of the mountain and said breathlessly: "Herculia and Metapuntum's forces have not arrived at the predetermined position and cannot attack."

"Don't worry, they are attacking later, but better." Daveus said unhurriedly, as if everything was under control.

Tolmed is also a wise man. Once reminded by Daphes, he immediately understood that the soldiers of Heraklia and Metapontum were weak in combat. If they attacked at the same time, they faced the fierce Meip coalition and they were on the back. The disadvantages are likely to fail and become a drag on the whole army.And their late arrival will make the enemies on the opposite side at a loss and are likely to participate in the battle with the Second Army, making the late Trifias and their 3,000 people an extra soldier on the battlefield!

Yumakas could not be as relaxed as Daphes. After the trumpet sounded, his heartbeat began to accelerate. His eyes moved with the movement of the army under the mountain. The battle of nearly 40,000 people is about to start. The victory or defeat of this battle Will determine the fate of the Tarantum army...

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The Tarantum army, whose fate was to be determined, was not far from the battlefield, on the narrow winding valley pass, their six-mile marching column was ambushed by the Dao Mesapi, and fell into chaos and panic. China has completely lost its organization and command and can only fight on its own.

At the moment, Diomelas had no time to regret that he did not obey Daveus. He shouted loudly to cheer up the soldiers around and fight bravely in order to survive.But in the boiling battlefield, his voice is like a stone thrown into the rapids, and it has no effect.

The Mesapi people gradually compressed them tightly on the pass from the two sides, making it difficult for them to swing their spears.

Diomelas' ears were filled with the screams of the soldiers, and he gradually felt hopeless...

At this moment, above the battlefield, there was no small or large disturbance, regardless of the enemy.

"The sound of the bugle! It's the sound of the bugle! Our reinforcements are coming!!" The cheers of the soldiers broke into Diomeras's numb ears, let him cheer him up, and listen carefully.

The hustle and bustle of the sky still can't stop the sharp trumpet sound. It breaks through the heavy resistance and vaguely reverberates between the killing valleys...

The image of Davos immediately appeared in Dionylas's mind, but at this moment he did not have disgust, but instead shouted happily: "Citizens, hold on! The Dionysians are coming!..."

Needless to say, the soldiers have seen the hope of life, and morale naturally rises.The Mesapi people are stepping up their offense...