Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Not only him, the fourth and fifth captains and other company captains also quickly made a decision: let the soldiers rush up quickly, entangle the enemy, and prevent them from escaping!

But the exhausted Dionysian soldiers chased staggeringly, only to make them farther apart from the Roman soldiers.

As for the two young Roman soldiers on the flanks, because the previous attack was too fierce, the array of the two sides has been staggered, and the stickers are too tight, it is difficult to withdraw at a time.In particular, nearly half of the more than 2,000 young Roman soldiers who came to the rear of the right-wing side of the Dionysian Array before attacking have already killed their red eyes, and they only pay attention to the attack, and they are stunned by the external trumpets and shouts. Unheard.

At this time, more than 2,000 Walseys of Antium and Setia quickly killed, and the third brigade of the First Army and the light armored soldiers attacked these young Roman soldiers back and forth, and even most of them were in groups. Surround.

But for a time, these Roman soldiers did not panic, the squadrons behind turned around to resist the attack of the Walseys, and the front soldiers attacked more desperately, even the array of the third brigade and the light armoured soldiers almost collapsed. Knowing the news of the arrival of reinforcements has strengthened the confidence they are trying to stick to.

At the same time, Amintas urgently transferred to the second group of soldiers next to the third group to strengthen the defense line.

When the other reinforcements of Walsey arrived on the battlefield, they saw that the entire Roman army was already retreating, so they immediately began to pursue.

The heavy infantry of Dionysia were exhausted, and it was unsustainable after only a short run. Only light infantry and cavalry were still chasing.

The 7th Brigade, which was all light infantry, had the best physical strength in the 1st Legion. They ran desperately and wanted to go around and intercept the six Roman youth squadrons that had originally attacked the left flank.

Unexpectedly, these Roman squadrons did not know about the arrival of Walsey's reinforcements when they were on the left, so they just responded to the military retreat instead of retreating, and the morale was good.And it is somewhat similar to the way of the withdrawal of the Dionysian army. They retired as a whole instead of running apart like a squadron, and they could immediately organize a counterattack.

After suffering some losses, the Seventh Brigade no longer dared to stand in front, but ran with them, attacking with javelins and bows, and achieved some results.

The Dionysian cavalry chased it more directly, drove the horse directly from the rear, smashed the enemy’s squadron, and then stabbed the enemies one by one, but this method was more harmful to the tired horses. Great, cavalrymen used it only a few times at the beginning of the chase, and then only attacked some scattered enemies.

The battlefield was only four or five miles from the camp in Rome. Camillus, with most of his squadrons of veterans and veterans, and light infantry, retreated to the north gate of the camp without any hindrance.

Frius had received the news, and had already opened the camp door long ago, ready to meet Camillus.

Camulus did not enter the camp immediately, but reminded Frius to guard the camp to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to attack the camp, and let the light infantry quickly stand on the wooden wall, climb the sentry tower, and attack any enemy who dares to approach the camp. At the same time, he led the more than 3,000 strong and elderly soldiers, and arranged an array 100 meters away from the camp, launching a violent attack on the Walseys who ran after.

Because the Walseys only focused on chasing the defeated soldiers, the formation had long been scattered and the organization was lost, and they were soon defeated by Camulus’s troops.

Camillus defeated several Walsi pursuit teams in a row, and after ensuring the safety of the Roman collapse, he did not implement anti-recovery, but led the troops to retreat steadily and stood at 50 meters from the north gate of the camp. Under the protection of the arrows and javelins of the light infantry behind him, the passage of the defeated soldiers was kept.

By the time the Walseys had to gather all the fighters who were chasing them and form a large army to approach the Roman camp, Camillus had already led the troops into the camp.

Looking at the Roman soldiers scattered on the wooden wall, the Walseys finally dismissed the idea of ​​attacking the Roman camp.

Until this time, this arduous battle finally ended.

Although the battle was won, Amintas looked at the wounded soldiers on the ground, but he was not happy. The rough casualty statistics have come out: the number of casualties of the first legion reached more than 2,400, which is already 14 of the total number of legions, especially The third brigade and the light infantry brigade suffered more than half of the damage. Although some of the wounded soldiers were only skin wounds, they would recover after a short period of dressing, treatment and recuperation, but this has already hurt the first legion.

The next Leds was also sighing: the First Cavalry Corps blocked the retreat of the Roman food-raising force at the beginning, and finally blocked the reinforcement of the Roman heavy infantry and cavalry. Therefore, it paid a great price. The final casualty number was more than 700. It is already close to half of the number of legions, especially the loss of horses is very serious. I am afraid that the horses will need some time to recover before they can enter the battlefield again.

"This battle is a big loss!" Lades wailed aside, the voice was loud enough to be heard by Amintas. Although he tried his best to assist Amintas in the battle, it did not prevent him from fighting after the war. He vented his resentment.

Amintas did not refute, in fact, he now has no intention to refute.While calling the herald soldiers to inform the medical battalion to rush to treat the wounded soldiers, he also asked the soldiers with good physical strength to help the wounded soldiers bandage the wounds and carry out initial treatment (in the usual military training, the soldiers all accepted Through this training).

At this time, the soldiers of the First Legion were too tired to even take off their helmets and breastplates, so they lay on the ground and screamed and slept. They didn’t respond even when they were stepped on by their feet. They were mistaken for many times by the guards. The corpses are so tired.

Amintas walked among the soldiers, his steps were cautious, lest they wake them up, but he was in a heavy mood: he has been the head of the First Army for nine years, and all the soldiers and officers in the army are very Familiar, now looking at these soldiers and team officers who usually get along with each other and kill the enemy side by side under the command of him in the war, they fell into the pool of blood one by one, how could he not be distressed!

At the same time, he also blamed himself: Although King Daveus told him to pay attention to the Roman army several times before he left, he still underestimated the Romans, otherwise he would not let the legionnaires after a long march. They also attacked more enemies than they did.He treated the Romans as the Mesapi, Pucciti, and Downey who had fought against them in the past.But it turned out that King Daveus's worries were correct. This soldier's organization and tactics are similar to Dionys's army. It is indeed more effective than Dionys' previous enemies!...If the First Legion had more physical strength and a larger number of people, it would never be so passive!Rome...Rome...

Amintas thought as he walked. Heite Barrus stood ahead swaying. His right arm was tied up with a bandage. There was also a long blood stain on his forehead. He could only barely perform a military salute with his left hand: " Army...Lion Commander..."

"Let's lie down, Hyterbarus!" said Amintas busy, facing the captain of the third brigade, he rarely showed a smile of gentle concern.

"Leader of the Legion, brothers of the third brigade..." Hait Barrus looked sad, and had burst into tears before he finished.

Amintas’s smile was stiff on his face, and he could only say in a deep voice: "Thanks to your third and eighth stubborn teams blocking the enemy’s attack, we won this victory! The medical camp will do its best Save the soldiers under your command! You also need to be well treated and healed as soon as possible, and the First Army will not miss you!"

After speaking, Amintas left in a hurry.

At this time, the lieutenant Aristonos leaned in and whispered, "The head of the army, Stiflos suffered some minor injuries, no harm." The children of the old Dionysian elders were compared with each other familiar.

"He was injured so lightly!" Amintas stunned Aristonos with a sigh.

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In the large camp of Rome, Camillus briefed Frius on the battle.

After listening, Frius couldn't help but take a breath: "Camilus, you mean... Dionysia's army marched from Selche to the south of our camp, without stopping in the middle. Our requisitioning forces launched an attack, and then... also resisted the continuous attack of our 9,000 multiple infantry, and finally waited for the arrival of Walsey reinforcements?!..."

"Yes!" Camillus sighed and said solemnly: "The key is that we have more and more people than them, more than 9,000 heavy infantry plus 2000 light infantry and 700 cavalry, the troops I lead There are nearly 12,000 people, and the Dionys...After many returns from the reconnaissance ride, they have about 10,000 people, but the heavy infantry may only be six or seven thousand people, but this is a physical strength that is worse than ours and the number of people. Our little army, our Roman soldiers fought for more than two hours, and they were never able to defeat each other!"

In recent years, the Roman army has prevailed in the Latium and Etruscan regions, and Frius, who has been accustomed to victory, has been difficult to accept the fact that the Roman army is not as good as the Dionysian army.Of course, he knew Camillus, and he didn’t think that the highly respected veteran would distort the facts in order to wash his offense of defeat, so he couldn’t help but ask again: “The fighting power of the Dionysian army is really so strong. ?!"

"The cavalry of Dionysia will not be mentioned first, you already know the previous situation. We do not pay much attention to this in light infantry. They are all provided by the Allies, so they are loosely disciplined and lack training and cooperation. But Dionysia’s light infantry had slingers who could invest in long-distance lead shots, archers and javelins. They worked together in a tacit and well-trained manner, so before I led the army to arrive, they had only one Thousands of light infantry can suppress our 2,000 light infantry and 700 cavalry..."