Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Davis obviously did not have the patience to wait for the other party to end, and immediately ordered: "Offense!"

Dozens of commanders uniformly arranged behind a huge array successively sounded the bugles in their hands.

"Woo!!!!!!" The majestic trumpet sounded in the sky.

"Revenge for the commander of the Drakos Army and the dead brethren!" The soldiers of the 4th and 5th Legions in the middle of the huge Phalanx first shouted, and soon received the response of other troops. The cry of revenge replaced Hades. When the voice of the same enemy sounded together, the morale of the Dionysian soldiers had risen to the top.

"Cunning Daveus! Damn Daves!" Dionysius scolded angrily, and the dominant Siracusa army was repeatedly controlled by the Dionysians. , He was suffocating on the land.The soldiers in Syracuse have not completed their prayers, the enemy has begun to attack. Due to the tactical arrangements, he cannot wait for the soldiers to complete their prayers before proceeding, so this will inevitably affect the morale of the soldiers, he can only comfort himself : The young man will only be clever, and it is up to the strength to really decide to win or lose!

"Offense!" he yelled with a terrible look and resentment.

On the afternoon of the last day of 394 BC, on the Croton Plains, a major battle to determine the ownership of the Greek city-state over the Western Mediterranean began.

The Dionysian side has more than 5,000 people in the First Army, more than 7,000 people in the Second Army, more than 12,000 people in the Fourth and Fifth Army, 14,000 people in the Sixth and Seventh Army, 6,000 people in the Lance Corps, and Hero 5,000 Bruty fighters recruited by Nimus, 5,000 Croton and Trina reinforcements, plus about 1,500 cavalry corps, 1,000 mountain reconnaissance brigades, and 300 guards, Dai The total strength of Niah is more than 58,000.

Davos placed the 7th Army led by Matonis on the far right, near the Tachnadi River, and then arranged to the left. They were the 6th Army of Olivers and the Bruty fighters of Hironimus. , The Fourth Corps of Epitanes, the Fifth Corps of Philius, the Second Corps of Amintas, the First Corps of Antonios, Crotone-Trina Reinforcement, the Ledes’ The Cavalry Corps is located on the far left. Captain led the spear brigade behind the Kurt reinforcements, arranged in columns and perpendicular to the phalanx.The left wing of the Kurt reinforcements, the first and second legions formed a 15-column row according to the special instructions of Davos, and the rest of the formations were 8-10 columns thick.

The cavalry regiments are the most special. They try to spread to the left and back in a loose formation. They try to occupy a large area. While covering the enemy’s investigation of their long-haired brigade, they also aim to achieve another purpose before the battle.

The Syracuse army had 80,000 infantry, 2,000 Namibian cavalry, 800 Celtic cavalry, 1,000 Sicilian cavalry, and a thousand lost in the first battle of the Ramato River. Later, Kolenia surrendered and provided 4,000 soldiers. In addition, some troops from the Lockley Confederacy joined, and the army strength of Syracuse exceeded 90,000.

However, the newly conquered city-states of Silitine and Trina needed to arrange garrisons, especially the number of garrisons needed for Silitine as the logistics supply base of the army, in order to prevent the attack from Dionysia from Bruty. And the naval raid from the sea.There are also camps that need to be stationed in the face of Asprostum to prevent enemies from attacking the rear of the army during the battle.In this way, a total of nearly 13,000 people were divided.

After conquering the city of Crotone, the Syracuse army later counted about 7,000 soldiers killed and seriously injured.The Dionysian navy battled in the sea of ​​Crotone. Because Leptinius listened to Dionysius’s suggestion, he sent 9,000 elite soldiers to fight on the battleship, which resulted in a fiasco and lost about 7,000 soldiers. Therefore, the Siracusa infantry who finally participated in the battle, with a total strength of 62,000, plus 3,500 cavalry (loss in the battle of the Ramato River and the looting of Dionysian land), a total of 65,500 There are 7,500 more troops than Dionia.The cavalry is more than double that of the Dionysian cavalry.

Therefore, after initially understanding the arrangement of Dionysia’s formation, Fibidas negotiated with Dionysius: the weaker Sicilian other city-state coalition, plus the Lockley League army, about 18,000 people from France Sipasas was placed on the left wing; Dionysius personally led the town center by the 10,000 mercenaries of Campania and 9,000 of the Siracusa civics; the right wing followed Dionysius for many years 15,000 elite soldiers in the battle (mainly mercenaries, after Dionysius granted Syracuse citizenship and land, the most loyal to Dionysius), Syracuse 10,000 soldiers by Phoebe Darth led; the rightmost wing was 3,500 cavalrymen. In the last battle, the hired cavalry did not act according to the plan, so before this battle, not only Dionysius warned the two alien leaders, And let the grumpy and fierce Astaglas serve as the temporary commander of the cavalry from three different forces to facilitate the implementation of the plan.

The attacking trumpet sounded, and Dionysia’s left, center, and right troops advanced steadily forward at the same time, and the light infantry of the 7th brigade of each legion quickly came through the intermittent small square array Before the battle, rush towards the enemy battle with a loose front.The reason why they moved so fast was to force the enemies that were cruising in front of them to retreat. They could no longer observe the subsequent movement of the Dionysian army.The mercenary cavalry also withdrew to the far right of the Siracusa lineup as they wished, taking a break to prepare for the next attack

The light infantry of Syracuse was already placed in front of the array, and showed no signs of weakness.

When the main forces of heavy infantry on both sides are still 500 meters away, more than 10,000 light infantry on both sides have started to fight.For a time, on the horizontal line about eight or nine miles from west to east, arrows were like rain, javelins were like hail, and they intermittently collided in mid-air, and then stabbed the soldiers' bodies and took their lives...

Compared with the left, center and right of the Dionysian Front, they are moving at almost the same speed. The situation in Syracuse is different. Its main left and center fronts are slower. The right road is striding forward.

Fibidas is the foremost leader on the right wing. This 25-row thick right wing composed of 25,000 soldiers of Syracuse, greets the enemy in front with two steps faster than the soldiers in the middle. Start to break away from the middle.

The cavalry on the far right is faster.As soon as the trumpet sounded, more than 3,500 cavalrymen accelerated forward with a wide front of about one mile, and the four-footed horse quickly increased its speed.

800 Celtic cavalry are at the forefront. This group of fierce races from the foot of the Alps and living in the Po River Plains. Their cavalry tactics are different from the swift and erratic Numbian cavalry. They disdain to rely on enemies, harassment, and throwing. Javelins are used to kill enemies, and they are better at face-to-face charge fighting, especially when driving chariots to attack the enemy's tight military formation. They are only because they are employed in Syracuse and have a long way to travel.But even without a chariot, the Celtic cavalry’s impact is still terrible. Most of their cavalry are armed with large swords instead of spears, which makes it easier to cut the opponent’s neck in the cavalry battle, so Astagrass Ranked at the forefront, using its powerful lethality to disrupt the enemy's cavalry formation.

The following more than 1,800 Numbian cavalry, and then hit the enemy cavalry, the last Sicilian cavalry led by Astagras, just to clean up the mess, and then restrain these mercenary cavalry, do not pursue, attack the enemy's left rear .Thousands of horses galloping, once again raising the sky of dust and fog, as if hundreds of war drums are ringing at the same time, the earth is shaking

The more than 1500 cavalry of Dionysia are also advancing, but they are not as fast as the enemy. Especially, the cavalry horses in the tail are dragging branches on the horse's tail, which is more likely to stir up the dust on the ground.

At more than two hundred meters from the enemy ride, the head of the cavalry regiment Ledes looked back at the dust that had begun to diffuse behind him, and shouted nervously to the several cavalrymen next to him: "Retreat!"

Even if several bugles sounded at the same time, in the battlefield where the horseshoes thundered, there was no guarantee that the same formation of loose, frontal formations with a length of nearly one mile could be heard by the Dionysian cavalry, but fortunately, many During the second training, the cavalry kept a close eye on the movement of nearby teammates.

Just as the Dionysian cavalry drove all the horses back, the Siracusa cavalry had approached within 100 meters. The roaring horseshoes behind struck Ledes’ nervous heart. He urged the horse to move forward while staring at the front. When he saw the wall of people, a heart suddenly hung up: "Turn!" He shouted and drove the horse to the left.

There was no need for him to yell, all the Dionysian cavalry who could see this scene quickly separated to the sides according to the training they had received before.

The cavalry in the rear always keeps an eye on the movement in the front, and as soon as they see the comrades change direction, they immediately follow the change.

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When Dionia’s offensive bugle sounded, the spear brigade did not immediately advance with the other troops, but quickly stretched the column and immediately moved to the position of the original cavalry, forming a length of about one mile and thick A square array of ten columns was adorned behind the whole army alone.

Although Capps, who is behind the phalanx, is already a battle-hard general, he is also very nervous at this moment: although the tactics to deal with the enemy ride this time are similar to the battle of the Trionto River, the scale of the war is large. Many times, the enemy’s cavalry is also more powerful, but the quality of the soldiers they lead is not as good as the original batch of soldiers from the Persian Expeditionary Force. Can they resist the thousands of enemy riders coming from the frontal charge?!