Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Puceti's messenger sent for help had already arrived at the battlefield of ambush Tarantum, but he could not see the consuls of the Mesapi city-states headed by Pahimalus because everyone was devoted to Tarantum In the siege of the army...

The heavy infantry of Greece has a strong defense, and it is stronger in close combat. The heavy infantry who is only defensive and not attacking is simply a hard turtle shell. It takes time and energy to break it.

The initial ambush of the Mesapi people truncated the serpentine march of Tarantum into more than a dozen sections. When surrounding each section of the enemy, the number of Mesapi soldiers was insufficient.But as the fighting progressed, the increase in casualties of the Tarantum people made each encirclement shrink and shrink.

If it weren’t for hearing the sound of Dionysia’s bugle, the Tarantum might have given up fighting, and now they only support the belief that they continue to stick to it.However, as the small encircling circles were gradually eliminated, the shackles around the necks of the remaining soldiers began to tighten and tighten...

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Heitbarus has heard that Prosius has performed extremely well in the boot camp, but he did not expect that on the real battlefield, Prosius would not be soft at killing people, and it is not like an initial battle (it was not originally ), his round shield defense, striking and spear piercing articulation is very skilled and ingenious, the spear will not swing arbitrarily, but as long as the shot, it can cause the enemy to scream, it is really cruel and accurate.Prosius's fierceness made the fierce Puchti people fear, and they subconsciously avoided his surprise.

Under the leadership of Prosius, the teammates are all in contention, and the Pucciti's defense is in jeopardy...

Seeing this scene below, Matonis, who was in the middle of the brigade, couldn’t help but be excited and asked aloud, “Who is the warrior who rushed to the front?!”

Team leader Parmanius quickly answered in the small square ahead: "Prosius!"

"It's Prosius!!" The teammates also answered scramblingly.

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"Master Commander, Matonis' third brigade broke through the enemy's defense!"

"Amintas' fourth team also broke through!"

"The light infantry brigades of Epitanes and Cipit defeated the enemy's flanks!"

"Itzam's mountain reconnaissance brigades joined forces with Heraklia and Metapontum, and they also defeated the enemy's flanks!"

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Good news came one after another. When Tolmed reported it to Daphes, Yomakas beside him couldn't help but shouted excitedly: "Great! We finally won!"

Daphes also smiled relaxedly: "Order, then sound the offensive horn and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"...Withdraw--retreat..." Tremoni looked sullen, but still calm. After all, he was not without failure. The last war with the Downey lost a lot of land. He It also survived.

In fact, he did not need to order at all, the whole army had collapsed, and the Pucciti fighters rushed to escape...

When Tremeni left, he did not forget to glance at the top of the mountain opposite, as if to remember the dazzling flag in his heart.

"King, do you want to tell the Mesapi people?" Purlo reminded him.

Tremoni was in a low mood and didn’t want to say anything at all. But looking at the ruined soldiers in the mountains and the mountains, why didn’t the Mesapi people know how to be a smooth man? He sighed: "Send someone to tell them, Dionia The people attacked fiercely, we... didn’t stop, whether to retreat or continue fighting, let them decide for themselves..."

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The soldiers next to him fell one after another, and Diomelas was also injured a lot. He felt that he might be returning to Hades this time, but the Mesapi who surrounded them suddenly commotion.

He heard the enemy yelling, but unfortunately he couldn’t understand Mesapi’s language, but some of the soldiers had shouted excitedly with a tired voice: “The Mesapi said that the Puchti were defeated! Dai The Onia won! We are saved!!!"

Hearing these words, the soldiers in despair immediately cheered up and shouted at each other the news of victory, and finally turned into the same voice: "Stick! Hold on! The Dionysian reinforcements will soon arrive!!!!!!"

After a difficult time of one minute and one second, the Mesapi attack gradually weakened, and finally withdrew.

Facing the retreat of the Mesapi people, Diomelas was unwilling to pursue him. In fact, he could not command any soldier at this moment. All the Tarantum soldiers, like him, resisted for more than two hours in a row, with physical strength and energy. Consume to the limit.

He slumped on the ground and didn't want to stand up at all. The joy of the rest of his life was the sight of the dead soldiers and the wounded soldiers who were moaning on the ground. Everyone was not happy...

In this campaign, the Mesapi casualties were 1,200, and the main casualties came from the reinforcements of the cavalry, which was almost completely wiped out, as well as the casualties of the heavy infantry of Igratia.

The Puceti casualties were less than 600. The reason for their low casualties was that during infantry battles, the frontal battles often resulted in fewer casualties, and the main losses were after the fleeing.Like the second battle of Dionia and Crotone, chased by light infantry and cavalry, most of the heavy infantry of Crotone were carried away. Such a good opportunity did not appear in this mountain battle. Because the Puchti people are familiar with the mountains and the equipment is poor, it is these characteristics that make it impossible for them to catch Dionysian light and heavy infantry when they flee, and Dionysian cavalry did not play in the battle. Even if it appears on the battlefield, there is no way to defeat Pucciti in the mountains.

On the other side of the war, Tarantum suffered more than 4,000 casualties, close to 13 of its military strength, and the majority of the war dead; Dionysia had 600 casualties, but the majority were wounded, most of them fell from the hillside. Injuries; more than 800 casualties in Heraklia and Metapontum.Therefore, although it was ultimately the retreat of the Mep coalition forces, in fact, the losses of the Greek coalition forces were more severe.It was just that Mesapi and Pucciti lost a lot of cavalry, and also let Dionia get nearly 400 high-quality horses.

When Daphes saw Diomelas, he did not pose as a savior, and still faced him with the usual attitude. At the same time, he also enthusiastically directed the medical team to rescue Tarantum’s wounded soldiers, so that Diomela Spey was ashamed.

The Maple Allied forces withdrew from the Ellen Hills and entered the Tarantum territory, and soon retreated north.

The Greek coalition forces were unable to catch up due to exhaustion and too many wounded soldiers. They settled in several nearby villages and took temporary breaks. At the same time, they sent people to the city of Tarantum to report the situation and escort the wounded soldiers back to the camp.

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On this day, the Dionysian Senate received a person.

His name was Mitrobats. He came to Dionysia for help, but he did not come from any of Dionysia’s allied city-states, but from the Silu tribe in Bruti.

It turned out that during the process of unification, the Bruti Tribal Alliance in Cosenza began to accelerate the collection and merger of large and small tribes in the territory. Under the general trend and the force of force, most tribes chose to obey, but Xilu A small number of tribes headed by the tribe refused to integrate.

According to Mitrobatus: they are Greeks, and most of them were forced to flee into the mountains after the destruction of Sybaris. They have the pride of the Greeks. How could they be included by the barbarians, really Been to a savage life.

The emissaries of the city of Bruty Kosenza sent the Xilu tribe several times, and after persuasion failed, there was no movement, and the people of the Xilu tribe thought that the matter had passed.However, a few months later, after Cosenza completed the jurisdiction and effective management of most of the tribes in Bruti, he sent an agent to Silun again.

This time the messenger made a direct and tough request: the Xilu tribe immediately surrendered and fully accepted the governance of the tribal alliance, otherwise they would send a large army to eliminate it!

The Xilu tribe panicked, and hurriedly sent Mitrobatus to Trina for help.

Trina confessed that she was unable to intervene in the matter, but fortunately, he had already let Diplos and Dionys's governor Daveus pass, so he turned Mitrobats to Dionys for help.

On this day, the rotating chairperson of the Senate was Cornelius. He looked at this messenger who claimed to be a Greek, but looked completely different from the messenger of the Greeks.

Mitrobatus saw the doubts of the elders and defended: "I inherited the appearance from the mother of Bruti. It is because my appearance is not like the Greeks. The chief of the Silu chose me because it is the only way. Will not cause suspicion from the people around Bruti."

Cornelius made a whisper in his heart: Davos had mentioned Bruty's question before his expedition, but had not conducted in-depth discussions, but was interrupted by Tarantum's request for help.

At this moment, Polyx stood up and said, "What can we Dionia do now? Protest to the Brutus to prevent them from annexing this small tribe?! I am afraid that the adults here will not believe that With one sentence of ours, we can make the Bruti people stop the actions they have prepared for a long time. What should we do once the Bruti people reject us?! If we give up here, we will only lose Dionia as Dai The prestige of Firth's most powerful alliance! But if we want to take further action, then in addition to war, I can never think of other measures that can be adopted.

However, there have been enough wars for Dionyan citizens this year!Now our consul also leads our civic soldiers to fight the mighty Mesapi and Puchti in Tarantum!"Polyxis finger Mitrobatus, a sorrowful look, said in a deep tone: "And you look at this messenger from Silu, he said that they are against the Bruti because they are Greeks People, but who knows if it is true!Are we willing to fight our fierce Bruti for a race that is not like our Greeks at all, and send our citizens to the strange and bloody battlefield again?!"