Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

After thinking over and over again, Camillus finally made up his mind: first repel the enemy, then retreat!

Now that the decision had been made, Camillus acted immediately, and he sent a herald to convey his command: to ask the Roman army to face the incoming enemy forces, and immediately arrange them in a three-line formation.There are ten Roman squadrons composed of young soldiers, forming the front line of 1200 people; in the center line array behind them, a Roman squadron composed of six strong soldiers, a total of 660 people; and the last column is composed of The six veteran squadrons are also composed of 660 people. The middle road alone is equipped with more than 2500 infantry.On the left and right wings, he also arrayed in the same way.

The Romans have been fighting wars with new tactics for the past ten years. They are already very familiar with this. In addition, they have already arranged the formation of the enemy based on the squadrons before, so they only need to put each squadron The formed small square arrays intersect, close together, and splice together, and it did not take long to form a huge three-wire array that stretches for one mile.

Camillus brought a total of 9,000 troops, all heavy infantry, a total of 75 squadrons, plus three trapped squadrons, a total of 78 squadrons, of which there were 40 young soldier squadrons, 25 strong soldiers Squadron and 13 veteran squadrons.In the array, there were not enough veteran squadrons, so he replaced them with strong squadrons.When the array was completed, a total of 7,600 Roman heavy infantry were invested.

At this time, he still has 12 squadrons, most of which are composed of young soldiers. He arranges it in the fourth column behind him. As a reserve team, he protects the wounded soldiers while also guarding against Diao who is cruising in the rear. Niah cavalry and light infantry.

He placed the remaining more than 500 Roman cavalry on both sides of the rear of the array, and scattered more than 1,500 light infantry between the fourth column reserve team, mainly to guard against the other's cavalry and light infantry.

While the Romans were in formation, the advancement of the Dionysian First Army was slowing down. At 200 meters from the enemy, the entire army stopped advancing and quickly adjusted according to the opponent's array.

Amintas placed the first, second, and third brigades in the forefront, and placed the fourth, fifth, and sixth brigades in the rear. The length of the entire formation was almost the same as that of the Romans.

The two sides completed the array almost simultaneously.

At a distance of 200 meters, soldiers on both sides stared and looked at each other curiously.

The average Dionysian soldier is black, wearing a bowl-shaped helmet with cheek guards, a crown on the helmet, some without a cap, and some with more or less black caps, (this is based on the Legion The soldier's service life depends on the length of service, the denser the cap is, this is the veteran, most of whom are squad captains), wearing a black single-layer linen breastplate, covered with a layer of chain mail (this is the establishment of the kingdom After that, the changes gradually implemented, compared with the original multi-layer glued linen breastplate, the weight is almost the same, but the hardness of the defense is increased, and it is easy to remove when marching), the black leather shin armor is under the leg, and the foot is wearing leather Sandals, holding a half-man high convex long shield on the left, a two-meter long bayonet in the right hand, a sharp dagger on the waist, and two javelins in the back.

The Roman soldiers also wore cheek-covered helmets, with two colored feathers on both sides of the helmet top, and a squadron leader with a horsehair-style red cap in the middle.The soldier was wearing a red short-sleeved lining, a jacket with chain mail, only the squadron leader was wearing a bronze breastplate, a bronze shin sleeve on his calf, leather sandals on his feet, a half-man high convex long shield on his left, and two on his right hand Rice spear, short sword on waist.

In the Roman formation, except for the left, center, and right wings, the red flags were held high, and there were no other flags.In the Dionysian formations, the team flags, company flags, and brigade flags are distributed in an orderly manner around the square phalanx. The flag of the god on top of the flag shines, Like the stars in the night sky, it is really beautiful.

After the formation of the two sides was completed, the entire battlefield was half black and half red. The soldiers on both sides stood like mighty statues, the spears in their hands were arranged into a dense forest, and the erected shield was a towering long wall...

Both sides remained silent, but the thick murderous air that filled the battlefield was dispersing the diffuse dust...

Amintas, who has always attacked the courageously, did not immediately order the attack.On the one hand, he wanted to let the soldiers who rushed all the way to take a breather and restore their strength; on the other hand, he also wanted to delay the time and wait for the Walseys to come. After all, compared with the other party, The number of heavy infantry in the First Army was a few thousand fewer, and the opponent quickly arranged a formation similar to Dionia. He felt that this opponent was very different from the previous enemy, so the action was more cautious.

But he could wait, but Camillus couldn't. He could roughly guess the reason why the Dionysian army chased here but stopped moving.Therefore, after waiting for the formation and stability of the Roman soldiers, he immediately issued the order: "All offensive!"

"Woo!..." The bugle blew.

The Roman soldiers carried shields and spears and moved forward slowly. The four fronts basically maintained a relatively neat array and pressed towards the Dionysian army.

Camillus rode on the rear of the center of the array, and from time to time looked back at the Dionysian cavalry cruising behind the flanks of the Roman formation.

At this time, Ledes had ridden to Amintas by horseback.

"Tough work, old friend!" Amintas nodded his thanks.

"In order to stop the Romans, my army paid more than 300 casualties!" Ledes said solemnly.

Amintas was silent for a while, and asked, "Can your cavalry fight again?"

Lades shook his head: "The horses are running back and forth, they are very tired, and the cavalrymen's javelins have been used up. Now they need to restore horsepower. When the Romans retreat, they can only be used again. But... Facing this enemy is not easy!"

"Relax, the Romans want to use the tactics learned from us to defeat the teacher, that can only be a joke!" Amintas said confidently while paying attention to the situation ahead.If Daphes heard this, he might feel a little ashamed.

Ledes glanced at the only reserve team consisting of light armour brigade behind him, a little uneasy in his heart, but he didn't speak again.

The captain of the company at the forefront, Stiflos (the adopted son of Amintas), clearly saw the Roman soldiers ahead marching to a distance of 50 meters, and then stopped.He narrowed his eyes slightly and shouted, "Brothers, the javelin is ready!"

"The javelin is ready! ..." The cries of the officers of the Dionysian Squadron squadrons came one after another.

The soldiers have held a javelin in their hands.

"Mars!!!!!!" The roaring roar of the Roman army, the young Roman soldiers in their twenties who were just strong and strong, were still energetic even after just running around, they took a big step , Charge forward.

Steve Flos looked closely. The Romans did not tilt the long shield upwards. Obviously they did not understand the characteristics of Dionia’s heavy infantry fighting, and there was a sneer on his face.

As the pace progressed, the speed of the Roman soldiers' charge was rapidly accelerating, generating a strong momentum of unprecedented progress.

The soldiers of the First Army of Dionysia stood like a mountain, unmoved.

Until the Romans had rushed to a distance of nearly 30 meters, "Javelin! ..." In the shouts of the team officers, Diona's front and rear arrays simultaneously shot the javelin in their hands, and it seemed that the battlefield had picked up Hurricane, the forward momentum of the Roman youth soldiers who charged forward came to a halt, and the dense heavy javelin jumped over a distance of more than 20 meters, and fell into the thick roman youth soldier formation of ten columns, easily penetrating their Chain mail, knock them down to the ground.The heavy javelin that hit the wooden shield was deeply embedded in the shield surface, and the spear head was bent and dragged to the ground.

At this time, most of the young Roman soldiers with inexperience in combat did not continue to charge forward, but subconsciously dragged the teammates struggling on the ground or wanted to pull out the javelins on the long shield, which was cast for the Dionysian soldiers. The second round of javelins provided sufficient preparation time, so when the second round of javelins were thrown, more Roman soldiers fell.

Camillus, who has always remained calm and wise during the battle, screamed in distress when he saw the scene of the battle.He had never imagined that Dionia's heavy infantry could even throw a javelin, and the unprotected Roman young soldiers suffered a lot.Of course, what he wouldn’t think of was that “the heavy infantry bidding gun before the battle” was originally a characteristic tactic of the Roman legion. However, this tactic was established in the history of previous life because of the war between Rome and the Samone The Samonais who were good at using javelins gave the Romans a lot of hardships. They began to learn from their opponents and improved their tactics, so that the Roman heavy infantry with almost a single armament had a medium-range strike capability.

When the Romans were suddenly attacked and temporarily in chaos, all the flags of the Dionysian formations pointed forward, and the soldiers shouted the name "Hades" and rushed to the enemy fiercely.

"Fight! Fight!..." The uninjured Roman squadron leader and squad leader shouted while taking the lead to rush to the forefront to fill the gap in the fragmented front, and the young soldiers in the back row rushed to the front without hesitation , They want to avenge the wounded comrades.

But the Roman front array has not been refilled yet, and the charge of the Dionysian soldiers has arrived.

The left, center, and right front forces of the two sides collided successively. Although the thickness of the first line troops on both sides was ten columns, compared with the first, second, and third brigades of the fully equipped Dionysian First Army, The Roman youth soldiers, who had just been hit by javelins and had broken formations, were clearly unable to confront them.