Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Who said I don't want to send troops?!" Trifias quickly changed his mouth and got up to hold him: "Isn't the messenger saying it? Waiting for the news of the victory of the naval battle. Look..."

Trifias patiently analyzed to Matonis: "Once the naval battle is won, it is definitely impossible to send a letter from the land. During the day, the cavalry of Tarantum is cruising in the south, and your messenger cannot come over at all... that is Say, we can only send troops when we see Dionysia’s fleet coming from the sea.” At that time, the overall situation had been decided, and Trifias did nothing.

Who knows, Matonis shook his head and said: "Your suggestion won't work, it's too slow! Tarantum's fleet has blocked the port of Heraclea, and they will definitely get the news first. Wait until our fleet comes and act, The Tarantum outside the city ran away early! So—"

Matonis stared at Triphias and said in a deep voice: "We want to closely monitor the enemy camps outside the city. Once the Tarantum want to retreat, we will attack immediately!"

"what?!"

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Persuading Trifias, Matonis, who returned to the square, immediately ordered the adjutant to recruit the captains of the 7th Legion to the big account (the 7th Legion's camp was built on the square in Heraklia).

After a while, all seven captains arrived.

Without waiting for them to sit down, Mattonis said directly: "The time is tight, I will make a long story short, and His Majesty Davis led the First and Second Legions back to Turriy--"

"Ah, Lord Davis is back!"

"Great, Amendolara has been saved!"

"It's not just Amendolara who is saved, the Tarantum are about to die! Lord Davis will lead us to defeat them!"

...

Several captains shouted and danced with excitement.

"Shut up for me!" Matonis roared and frightened them all. "You are all veterans. You should know the provisions of the Dionysian Military Law. What will happen to the subordinates when they talk to the superiors. Punishment?!"

Matonis stared at them fiercely, and several captains subconsciously touched their buttocks: "I will take note of the blame first, and then you will see your performance. His Majesty Daveus sent the order, today he The general came from the sea and landed on the coast between Heraklia and Metapontum, and asked us to do our utmost to drag the enemies outside the city so that the main troops arrived in time to work together to annihilate Tarantu Mu! Do you understand?!"

"Understood!" Several captains no longer dared to shout, but the excitement was overwhelming.

Matonis stepped back and forth in front of them and stomped hard: "I know these two days because I strictly ordered the soldiers not to get out of the city to drive the enemies in Amendolara, many soldiers in the legion were scolding me in private , Saying,'I am a timid rabbit, a lazy lamb, not worthy of being a regiment commander!', some people even scolded my parents!..."

The roar of Matonis made the captains froze: "I know that some soldiers in the legion are from Amendolara, but this should not be the reason for their insulting the chief, "The soldiers are responsible for obeying orders." This is in the military law Basically, I have written down these soldiers who scolded me privately. You go back and tell them that if they acted bravely without me and attacked me fast, then what are they eligible to scold me? !"

Matonis rounded his eyes, panting, like an angry bull: "Then after the war, I will let them punish them in the square, and let the whole army go up and scold their family! Do you understand? ?!"

"Ming... I see."

"Go back and prepare!"

"Yes!"

After the captains left, the adjutant said cautiously: "Master Legion, will you do this--"

"What's going on?" Matonis glared and snorted: "It's such a new army that is not equipped and disciplined. If they aren't so excited, how can they have good performance!"

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In the afternoon, a fast boat approached the Agrig River.

"What did you say?! The Navy of Syracuse was defeated. How could this be possible?!" the two Tarantum consuls exclaimed incredulously.

"Is there a fleet of other city-states that joined the battle and helped the Dionysians?!" Yomakas asked busyly.

"No, from the beginning to the end, the Dionyan fleet is fighting independently. They placed a wooden bridge on the warship, which can hook the Syracuse bombing warship, and then send a large number of soldiers to the deck... "The Captain of the Clippers recalled the scenes he had seen before. It is still like a dream. The mode of operation of the Dionysian fleet completely subverted the traditional naval battles he had suffered since childhood.

Diomelas was in a daze for a while, and thought of a key question: "Did the Dionysia fleet suffer heavy losses?"

The captain shook his head and said, "It seems that their fleet has not lost much."

"Are Hades really blessing these savage Dionysians?!" Diomeras was surprised and frustrated, and he looked at Eumacas in a trance.

You Macas is watching him too.

Both eyes are full of fear, because they both know that once the naval superiority of Syracuse is broken, the Dionysian fleet controls the Gulf of Taranto, and the strength of the Tarantum fleet cannot be alone. Against this, the coastline of Tarantum will be threatened by the Dionyan fleet, so their army away from the city of Tarantum may be in danger.

The two shouted almost in unison: "We must retreat immediately!"

In order not to attract the attention of the Heraklians, they quietly recruited the team officers and gave them the order to retreat.

Tarantum soldiers began to pack up and pack their bags.

The biggest headache for the two consuls was the mountain of grain in the camp.In order to ensure the convenience of food supply, the Tarantum brought the food in a cargo ship and piled it up in the camp for the use of a large army of 20,000 people for more than ten days. Now they suddenly have to retreat, which becomes a problem.

Tarantum does not have a department dedicated to logistics and transportation. Since considering that this time it is an offshore operation, Tarantum did not consider hiring labor to transport from land, and materials were transported by sea. It was too time-consuming to inform the port of Tarantum that it would be too time-consuming to call a cargo ship for transportation.But with so much food and materials, they dare not easily burn or discard them, because the arbitrary waste of city-state materials is bound to be impeached by the Senate.

So, Diomelas came up with an idea: let some soldiers carry materials from the land to Metapontum, and at the same time recruit the Tarantum fleet that was cruising on the sea near Heraclea to load the food. In the cabin on the ship, transport back to Tarantum.

"What if the enemies in the city come out to attack us?" Yomakas worried.

"The timid Heraclea and Dionysian soldiers have been shrinking in the city these days. I don’t think they suddenly have the courage to dare to take the initiative to attack the city. When they know the news of the victory of the Dionysian fleet, we It’s already back to Metapontum.” In fact, according to the Greeks’ traditional combat experience, Diomeras did not even think that the Dionysian army could start immediately after ending a fierce naval battle. Rescue to Heraclea.

However, the performance of the Dionysian Army in the battle with the Mep United Army gave Diomeras too deep impression. He must be careful. After all, this Tarantum army has assembled all the Tarantums. Mu young and middle-aged citizens cannot tolerate any loss.So although Diomilas did not think that the retreat of the Tarantum army was dangerous, he still arranged 4,000 soldiers as defenders.

To be unobtrusive, the Tarantum army did not even dismantle the tent.

But even so, the retreat of the Tarantum army is still procrastinating and slow. It is impossible for the Tarantum people with little training to make a special training program for the "army retreat" like Dionysia, Training takes place every seven or eight days, so it can be done quickly, quickly, with a clear division of labor and orderly.

The Tarantum thought they could conceal Heraklia, but they did not expect that the 7th Legion of Dionysian had expected them to retreat and had been closely monitoring the city. Some signs were soon discovered by them, such as : Cavalry soldiers patrolling in front of the camp no longer appear, there is a lot of noise from the camp, warships frequently enter the Agri River... and so on.

"Head of the Matonis!" Trifias asked excitedly at the moment: "It seems that the enemy is really retreating, don't... do your fleet really defeat the Syracuses?!"

"I have already said that His Majesty Dapheus has always said that he can do it!" Matonis glanced at him, and returned coldly.

"You're right!" Trifias didn't care about Matonis' attitude, and continued to ask excitedly: "Should we attack now?"

Matonis held the battlement with both hands and said calmly, "Don't worry, wait a second."

"Wait still?"

"Yeah, when the Tarantum soldiers are all ready to leave, when they have begun to cross the river..." Matonis' eyes flashed like a wolf ready to feed.

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Diomelas watched the soldiers passing the pontoon, and a voice in his heart kept urging: hurry up!Hurry up!...

Seeing a team of soldiers reach the other side through these pontoons, and other soldiers followed up quickly, Diomelas relaxed slightly.

But at this moment, a shocking shout broke out outside the camp, his heart suddenly fell: Oops, it must be the enemy army in the city of Heraclea!