Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Chapter 414: Battle of Poseidonia (2)

Because Samone attacked the most from the north, Alexis concentrated the ballista and most of the light infantry on this side.

When Tolek temporarily led the team to retreat, the 7,000 Cavutini soldiers in the south, under the leadership of Quinduk, had begun to climb the earth wall.

The first and second brigades were responsible for the defense on this side. Even though Lizaru, who loves to fight, looked at the crowd of people under the earth wall and in the trenches, his scalp was numb.

"Don't panic, look at the stabbing again! There are more enemies, but they can't get up!..." Litoru walked back and forth behind the soldiers with shield spears, and encouraged them loudly while observing the enemy's situation.

"Be careful, Captain!" the guard behind him exclaimed suddenly.

In the corner of Lizzaru's eyes, he saw a shadow ignoring the soldier's jab, jumped from the top of the long ladder, and rushed straight at him.

Suddenly, he didn't have time to throw out the bayonet. Instead, he quickly threw away the shield spear. After pulling out the short sword from his waist, he was thrown to the ground.

He was crushed by the enemy, the limbs of both sides were twisted. At a small distance, he struggled forward the short sword in his hand, and even hit a hard object and could not penetrate the chest.

At this time, Dark Shadow's powerful hands had been pressed firmly on his eyes, and he only felt pain in his eyes.At this moment of life and death, Lizzaru did not panic. His right wrist turned over, and his dagger pressed hard against the hard object.

Black Shadow grunted and fell backwards, dagger piercing his jaw.

Lizzaru pushed him hard and immediately stood up.

The rushed soldier pierced the struggling enemy with a bayonet.

Lizaru shook his head a little dizzy, and rubbed his painful eyes again, squinting: the man was wearing a silver-white armor and silver-white shinplate on his leg.

According to Lizaru, there are about four types of Samone warriors: light infantry armed with spears and spears, without any protection; infantry holding only spears, long shields, javelins, wearing helmets, and no armor; holding long Shields, spears, medium-sized infantry wearing helmets and only golden breastplates; there are heavy infantry wearing colorful feather crested helmets, wearing silver armor and made of shin armor, but this heavy infantry was merged among the Samones Not many, and its status in the tribe is not low.

Lizzaru looked at the dead on the ground carefully, stooped down, drew his short sword, and waved hard, throwing away the blood stains on the sword. At this time, when he recalled the scene just now, he was also somewhat afraid: if he was still wearing the previous Weapons and equipment also use the curved swords of the past (that is a curved sword, which is more suitable for hacking). I am afraid that it will be difficult to swing and hit the enemy's neck under the melee situation of melee combat. Instead, his eyes will be blinded by the enemy's hands.

Lizzaru simply took the sword in his right hand and the shield in his left and stood looking forward.

At this time, most of the soldiers standing behind the wall no longer poked downward, because the enemy continued to climb the wall, making them more erected a long shield, pushing outward to block the spearhead, Simultaneously knock the enemy into the trench.Once the enemy is unstable, the bayonet and dagger will pierce through the shield.

There are second-line soldiers behind the soldiers fighting with all their strength. They are ready to add up at any time, and at the same time they want to siege those enemies who burst in...

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The Samone people have been looting on the land of Campania in recent years. They rarely attack strong cities. In fact, they have little experience in siege, so Tolick, who has never led so many warriors, is desperate to destroy this in one fell swoop. The camp that was already surrounded by groups, did not expect that this small camp gave his army a heel. The fire wall alone had cost hundreds of warriors to Pentney, so he was unwilling to backlog in his heart. And anger.After retreating to reorganize the attack camp and wait for the fire to weaken, he sounded the offensive horn again.

The Samonei soldiers charged with vengeful anger, while the light infantry followed behind naked. They all took off their short linings, wrapped in a large handful of dirt, carrying a javelin in one hand and a song in one hand. Earth bag, ready to rescue the burning tribe at any time.

When the Samones in the north of the attack camp were continuously struck by stone bullets, arrows and javelins, they jumped into the trench again, set up a long ladder, stepped on the corpses of the clan and continued to climb up, the defensive Daioni The Asian soldiers never threw oil tanks again.

Under the protection of the guards, Torek, who was anxiously urging the tribe to attack, almost tripped over the earthen bag placed by the light infantry in front of the trench. He flashed his eyes and shouted: "Throw the earthen bag! Go on!"

The light infantry who was throwing a javelin into the camp, led by the chief, braved the arrow rain and quickly threw the earth bags into the trenches... soon a few channels were filled in the trenches.Seeing this scene, the Samonais were even more excited and continued to add earth bags to make it as high as the wall head.

Dionysian soldiers are also stabbing the earth bag with a lance, trying to destroy the enemy's attempts.

The soldiers of Samone rushed from the "slopes" built by earth bags, trying to seize the wall.

The shields of the two sides met, and the guns speared each other, launching a fierce close fight.

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"The commander of the army, General Lattignes (General Elia) asks for your help!" The adjutant rushed to the north of the camp and reported to Alexis, who was closely watching the situation.

"I can't hold it so fast!" Alexis frowned, and he let Elia and half of the heavy infantry squad defend about 2,000 people south of the camp. Samo from the city of Poseidonia Chennai should not be too much, their defense should not be too tight.

"The Elias don't understand the tactics of the Samonei, and were hit by a javelin, and they seem to be... scared by the momentum of the Samonei!" the adjutant explained.

"Allied troops are really..." Alexis said half of the words, and then swallowed the words "unreliable" back to his stomach: at this time, the words that undermine unity cannot be said.

"The Light Armored Brigade pumped 400 people to assist the southern camp!" The Dionysian Military Act emphasized in the principle of combat that the commander of the troops should keep the reserve team as much as possible in case of conditions.Therefore, Alexis made preparations for the light armor brigade, and it was time to use them.

As soon as his voice fell, he heard the loud noise and scream of "Wla La" in front of him: "The wall is falling!!!"

Alexis was shocked and saw: the section of the wall where the northern wall was in contact with the slope formed by the enemy's earthen bags, because of the intense fighting and trampling of the soldiers on both sides, it collapsed and overwhelmed with a heavy burden Dust...

When the dust cleared, the earth wall revealed a gap of about four people wide. The Samonais were rushing in through the gap, and the soldiers were desperately blocking...

The battle is finally at its most critical moment!

"Edette, draw a company to reinforce the south, and the other light armor companies immediately pressed me back to the enemy!" Alexis pointed to the place in front of the fierce battle, and gave a serious command to the leaping light armor captain.

"Brothers, it's finally our turn!" Edette shouted excitedly to the light armoured soldiers.

"Roar!!!" The vigorous light armoured soldiers roared in unison, the roar dispelled Alexis's nervousness a little.

He solemnly said to the adjutant: "You took 200 light armoured soldiers and quickly went to the south! I don't have a reserve team here anymore, so you must hold the south wall anyway! Lattignes will not command, then It's up to you to command!"

"Understood, Commander of the Legion!" The adjutant solemnly finished the military salute and turned away.

At this moment, Alexis was anxiously looking forward to the arrival of Davos' reinforcements as soon as possible...

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In fact, on a hill one mile away from the east of the Dionysian Third Army camp, a group of Davis, Tolmed, and the escort are overlooking the battlefield: nearly 30,000 soldiers of the Samonei from east, west, The south and north are besieging the center, and the little camp is like a broken boat at any time in danger of being swallowed by huge waves...

Tolmed couldn't help sighing: "The Third Army played very tenaciously and could hold on for such a long time!"

"Yeah, it's not easy!" Daveus nodded approvingly, and then he increased his tone and asked: "But they are not fighting alone! Have all the troops arrived at their predetermined positions?"

"Yes, Lord Supreme Commander!" Herald Tormead finished the military salute and reported excitedly: "The First Army has reached the northeast of the camp, about one and a half miles from the camp; the Second Army has reached the southeast of the camp, A mile away from the camp; Ledes’ cavalry has blocked the road to the north mountains; the reconnaissance team of Izam and the army of Laos are rushing to the city of Poseidonia, ready to cut off the enemy and flee back to the city 'S attempt!..."

In fact, standing on this hill, you can also see the movements of the various troops.They did not sound the copper trumpet, nor yelled, but quietly but quickly and horizontally elongated the array to encircle the enemies outside the camp, while advancing in the direction of the camp...

"Since everything is arranged properly, let's wait for the good news of victory." Daveus said with a relaxed face, and then sat leisurely on the mountain, ready to watch the battle.

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In order to avoid becoming a cumbersome clan or worrying about being a victim of a turbulent attack, the Samoines who were injured during the attack will do their utmost to retreat to the rear.And these lucky soldiers who retreated to the rear found that they were not lucky, because suddenly there were countless soldiers in black helmets and black armor, approaching them quickly, like an endless black tide screaming at them.