Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The catapult soldiers put the lead shot in the leather pocket in the center of the catapult cable and began to rotate the right arm, only listening to the wind of "Woo", the catapult cable turned faster and faster.

The Romans also saw new enemies hundreds of meters away through the misty dust. Although they were a little nervous, they had no choice but to advance.

At this moment, hundreds of lead shots fell like hail from the high altitude, and were accurately spilled into the dense formation of the Romans.

In addition to the slight injury to the heavy infantry in the center, the almost unprotected light infantry were smashed and their blood was broken. The Roman cavalry on both sides were also affected. The horses hit by lead shot called and jumped. The unexpected cavalry was thrown under the horse, and it nearly collided with Rome's array.

For the first time, the Romans were attacked by troopers, and they were beaten a little ignorantly without guard.

The Dionysian cavalry was ready, and while the Romans were in a state of chaos, they immediately drove the horse towards the enemy, throwing out the few short javelins left, and another screaming sound, the fallen soldier But it was far from a minor injury like scratching the scalp.

When the Roman Light Infantry picked up bows, arrows and javelins and was about to attack the Dionysian cavalry who were moving away, another piece of lead shot.

The continuous strikes caused the Roman light infantry to be miserable. These soldiers, mainly from the Latin League, were in chaos and morale was low.

The Roman heavy infantry in the center of the team remained calm and shouted in unison: "Go ahead! Kill them!!!"

The first to take action was the Roman cavalry, who gathered hundreds of riders in a hurry and sprinted forward in desperation.The horses were flying with four hooves, knocking against the solid ground rumbling, as if the earth was shaking.

Satiros remained calm and raised his right hand again: "The second company is ready!"

The bows and arrows of the two wings of the goose array led the arrows, and the Dionysian cavalry followed the Roman cavalry in desperation.

When Roma was less than 100 meters away from the seventh brigade, 350 Dionysian archers all flew arrows.

The almost flat arrows hit the center from both wings, forming a cross fire. Although the fast-moving Roman cavalry held the shield high, it was difficult to defend. The people called Ma Si, which fell to the ground and hindered the march of the cavalry behind.

At this moment, the second round of arrows hit again, which caused more damage to the Roman cavalry.

A small number of Roman cavalry who rushed ahead and escaped the bow and arrow saw the Dionia slingman approached, but were attacked by the javelin of the third company that rushed out of the team, leaving few survivors.

The Diorian cavalry also took the opportunity to attack the Roman cavalry who had fallen into chaos halfway through the bow and arrow attack.

This combined with the skillful blows made the Roman cavalry coming from the charge almost lost.

At this time, the Roman heavy infantry was still guarding the light infantry. It was difficult to see the tragic images in front of them, and all the hearts were sad, but at this time they heard the sound of the bugle that they were not familiar with.

The enemy's reinforcements are here again!The morale of the Romans fell to the bottom.

At this moment, "Woo! Woo!!! Woo!!!!!!" A louder and more loud bugle came from afar.

"Our reinforcements are here! Our reinforcements are here!!..." The Romans finally got excited when they heard the familiar trumpet sound.

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"Report the commander of the army, the Roman army in the camp is dispatched! There are about eight or nine thousand people!" The scout came hurriedly to report to Amintas.

"So fast?!" The rapid reaction of the Romans surprised Amintas. He originally wanted to continue the siege of the 7th, 8th, and cavalry without destroying this part of the enemy in order to lure the Romans to the camp. The purpose of this is to allow the six heavy infantry brigades that have just arrived to rest for a while and restore some physical strength. I did not expect that the Roman army will come so fast. The large army of eight or nine thousand people is obviously not Dionysian. Infantry, light armor and cavalry can block.

Amintas looked at the sweaty Dionysian soldiers in front of them. Although they were tired, few people sat down, but put down their arms, gathered together in twos and threes, and slowly walked and chatted because they knew what to do next There will be fighting. If you lie down, your muscles will become sore, which will make them lazy and not want to exercise.

Amintas immediately called six captains of heavy infantry, and said seriously: "Our plan to lure the enemy has succeeded, the enemy's large army has been out of the camp, I hope you can overcome fatigue, seize them, and defeat them !"

"Leader of the Legion! The Romans come out, don't want to run back!" The captain of the first captain, Curtisus, was recognized by other captains.

"Then get ready to go!" Amintas ordered immediately.

While the captains were gathering their soldiers, Amintas ordered the heralding soldiers: "Go and tell Setia, the Walsi in the city of Peleforham, the main force of the Romans has been out, Ask them to join the fight."

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Camillus, after guessing the intention of the Dionysians, without hesitation, immediately summoned nine thousand heavy infantry, leaving only more than 3,000 defensive camps.

Originally, Frius asked the soldiers to go and let the old Camillus guard the camp.

But he was rejected by Camillus. He sent troops only to rescue the soldiers who were blocked. He did not intend to fight the Dionysians to the death. But if the young and vigorous Frius led the army, it was very likely. Will lead to such a result.

Camillus led more than 70 Roman heavy infantry squadrons towards the west detected by the scout, because he knew that Dionysia’s army would also come in this direction, and he must pick up the trapped as soon as possible. Soldiers, and then quickly returned to the camp.

Camillus didn’t know much about the Dionysian army. In his impression, the surrounding forces and even the Campania Greeks were fighting in the form of a bloated phalanx, except for the Roman army he took the lead in. Because the squadron is the main fighting force, both the formation and the combat have become more flexible, so he believes that even if the Dionysian forces arrive, they need to rearrange the formation, and he will have enough time to organize the retreat.

By the time Camillus arrived at the battlefield, the 7th and 8th Brigade of Dionysia and the cavalry had taken the initiative to retreat. The sight in front of him surprised him: the ground was full of dead bodies, dead horses, and moans The nearly 3,000 people (cavalry and light infantry) who were originally ordered to rescue the injured soldiers lost nearly a third, and the soldiers who lived were in poor clothes and looked depressed, and some of them had swollen noses and bloody heads... …

Through the brief narrative of the trapped team officer Camus, Camillus learned the whole battle, and couldn’t help being surprised by the lethality of Dionysian light infantry and cavalry, and the close cooperation between them.

This is a well-trained army!Camillus set the label for the Dionysians in his heart, so he urged the soldiers to bring wounded soldiers and retreat immediately.

"What about our citizens who died in battle?" The light infantry generals from the allies asked to take the body back.

Camillus, who has always loved soldiers, said at the moment: "Stay here for the time being and deal with it later. Now we must seize the time and return immediately!"

The Allied generals are dissatisfied with this decision and would like to say more.

At this time, the reconnaissance hurriedly came: "Camilus military and political officials, about six or seven thousand black soldiers attacked from the south!"

Camillus's heart tightened, and he leaped out of the ranks (according to Roman military tradition, the Roman generals must walk only like the soldiers to show that there is no difference between the two and share the same pains, but Camulus He is too old and has limited physical strength, so the Roman Senate has specially approved him to ride a horse), and he looks south to see the dust in the distance...

Judging from his experience, the enemy is already one mile away.

He immediately returned to the team and issued the order: "Arrange in line with the array before the enemy and start to retreat!"

The array he said before the enemy was a large array of 120-person Roman squadrons arranged in a scaly shape. Due to the large interval between the squadrons, the movement was flexible and the retreat was relatively quick. When unable to retreat, he can switch to an offensive formation at any time.Due to some uneasiness in his mind, Camillus took this safe approach.

However, how could the Dionysian light infantry around the periphery let the Romans easily complete the retreat, the slingers threw the slings again, throwing lead shots at the Romans, and the archers even boldly approached the outside of the Roman army , Pose for shooting...

Camillus had to tune the Roman light infantry to this side as a defense.

However, the Dionysian cavalry formed teams and drove around the periphery of the Roman army. From time to time, they penetrated inwards to a distance of less than 20 meters from the Roman soldiers, and set out to attack.

Although the heralds sent by Camillus repeatedly told the Roman soldiers to ignore the harassment by the Dionysians, the overall speed of the Roman soldiers was obviously disturbed.

At this time, Dionysia’s army was moving fast, and it was close to the position of less than 300 meters according to the Roman army. The Roman soldiers could already see a high, gleaming golden banner in the gray dust. Hearing the rhythm of snare drums, and the rows of seemingly overwhelming black soldiers pressed them at a more regular pace...

While the soldiers were attracted and deterred by the momentum of the Dionysian army, Camillus was even more surprised. He found that the formation of the Dionysian army was strikingly similar to the tactical formation of the Roman army after restructuring. Similarly, this made him suddenly realize that the Dionysian may not need to spend a lot of time to arrange the formation, he may directly attack himself. If he forcibly retreats here, he may be chased by the opponent, which may lead to the team Chaos caused a disastrous defeat.