Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

At the beginning, both sides were in peace, and each enjoyed the coolness and comfort brought by the river.

But in the upper part of the Lower Pletara River, the river here is narrower, and the widest is just over ten meters. It is the soldiers of Agrigento (their camp is nearby) that draw water on the east bank. It’s the Carthage soldiers (because the upper end of the Pletara River is close to the mountains, the Sikels often harassed the Carthage camp from the north, and the Numibian troops originally stationed in the north Once there was a chaos caused by the attack, and finally Monte Adno had to relocate his most assured troops of the Holy Order here).

The full name of the Holy Regiment is "Carthage's Holy Corps", which is called "Barr's Hammer" by the people of Carthage. Most of its soldiers are elites selected from the oldest celebrities in the Carthage city-state. Whether they are equipped, Or the training they received was outstanding. These noble and expensive arrogants wiped their sturdy bodies with clean white cloth, and let their Numbian slaves go further to draw pure. The river water came to drink, while watching the Greek soldiers on the other side of the river soaked in the water, while others lay directly on the river to drink water. They suddenly showed contempt and laughed at each other with the companions: the Greeks on the other side do not talk about hygiene, They are all poor ghosts!...

What they did not know was that the Greek soldiers across the river were citizens from Agrigento.

Agrigento was once the second largest Greek power on Sicily after Syracuse. Their history is even older than Syracuse.The reason why Syracuse was able to grow and develop a few decades ago came from Agrigento’s support and immigration. Even Dillon, who made a great contribution to the prosperity of Syracuse, was also an Agrigento. He With the help of Agrigento, he took the throne of Lord Syracuse.

However, nearly 20 years ago, the Sicilian expedition in Athens weakened the Greek city-state on the island. The Carthaginians took the opportunity to make Magonid's family patriarch Hannibal as commander and launched an attack on eastern Sicily. Hannibal was bloodbathed He had revenge for his ancestors, but Hemekrates, the father-in-law of Dionysius and general of Syracuse, led the Sicilian Greek city-state coalition and repulsed the Carthage army.But it didn't take long for him to be instigated by the Syracuse Democrats and kill him on the grounds that he wanted dictatorship.

It didn't take long for the Carthaginians to attack again.This time, he was commanded by the newly appointed Patriarch of the Margonid family and Hannibal’s cousin Similko. This was his first time as the commander of the army of Carthage. First, he targeted the attack on Sicily. Agrigento, the great Greek city-state.

Agrigento faced an attack by the army of Similco. Although the number of soldiers was far less than the other side, they were not afraid, because the Agrigento people always respected Sparta, and their citizens’ military training also required Citizens are much stricter than ordinary Greek city-state citizens, and a Spartan army is also employed in the city.

The siege of Carthage lasted for more than eight months, during which Agrigento had also won several small victories, but the Carthage had too much advantage, and Similco bought and threatened with money, leading to Grigento's reinforcements and mercenaries have given up rescue or rebellion, including Siracusa and Sparta.

Agrigento finally despaired, the vast majority of the people fled to Jera in the dark, the Carthaginians invaded the city, killed all those who remained in the city, looted the entire city, and burned After the temple, he even decided to completely destroy it and rebuild a city of Carthaginians, but the subsequent failure of the war made Himirko unsuccessful.

When Dionysius led the army to attack the west of Sicily, these Agrigento exiles were finally able to return to their hometowns. After 20 years, the children of the past generations had grown into the pillars of the city-state. It disappeared, but became more and more intense. Although they could not understand the Carthaginian language spoken on the other side, they could not understand that the other party was humiliating themselves from their wanton laughter and scornful eyes, so their anger was burning in their hearts.

When an Agrigento soldier picked up the pebbles in the river and threw it hard at the soldiers of the Carthage Regiment on the other side, the surrounding Agrigento people also followed suit.

The attacked Carthaginians immediately responded with stones.

Although the stone does not cause fatal injuries, it still hurts when it is hit on the body, and most people only wear linings or are naked. The severe pain is more inspiring the anger of these young soldiers. So some people simply did not throw stones, rushed directly across the river, clenched their fists, and slammed each other... The conflict between the two sides quickly changed from throwing stones to physical fighting, and the scope of the conflict was also rapidly expanding. Soldiers from both sides were also affected by it and joined the battle one after another.

At this time, clever Numbian slaves ran back to the camp, asking for help from other soldiers of the sacred regiment, and even brought the weapons and equipment left by the owner in the tent to the river.

The addition of heavily armed soldiers of the Carthage Regiment will cause the growing conflict to move to a new stage.

The few Agrigento soldiers who watched by the river and did not join the battle group saw the arrival of fully armed enemies. Although the anger was burning in their chests, they were not defenseless. They would not be stupid enough to resist the fully armed Carthage. , So they shouted loudly, let the comrades retreat, but the scene was too chaotic, no one listened for a while.

However, the conflict was provoked by Agrigento soldiers, and it was not so easy to end the conflict.

The arrogant soldiers of the Carthage Regiment refused to let go, and the weapon was in hand, but the enemy was not far away like a lamb to be slaughtered. This is simply fat meat, how can they not eat it!They waved their shield spears and stepped into the Pletara River.

The comrades who had been fighting before made the initiative to make room for them, and they squeezed to the front, thrusting their spears at the Agrigento soldiers who wanted to escape...

At this time, in the upper part of the lower reaches of the Pletara River, in order to fight, there were nearly a thousand soldiers from both sides. The Agrigento soldiers in the front saw the situation was bad and wanted to escape. The people behind But without knowing what happened, without promptly letting go, the spear of the Carthage soldier easily penetrated the almost naked Agrigento soldier's body.

When the screams continued to sound, the blood stained the Pletara River, and the panic overwhelmed the anger in the heart, the Agrigento soldiers began to flee back in panic, some of them fell and fell in a push. , Either stabbed to death, or died of drowning.

At this time, Millefio had just been in the Chinese military account and reported to Monte Adno about what he learned about "why the Carthage fleet failed to escort." On the way back to his camp, He learned what was happening on the Pletara River from the mouth of the deputy officer.

He immediately rushed to the Pletara River, and saw that the heavily armed soldiers of the Holy Order had rushed to the opposite bank, killing the scattered Greeks along the river bank.

The young and passionate Millefio did not sound the horn of retreat, and ordered the soldiers who violated the military order to provoke the battle and immediately returned to the West Bank. Instead, they sent a herald to inform the remaining soldiers and cavalry in the camp. Immediately rushed to the Pletara River, and at the same time ordered the naked soldiers on the banks of the river to immediately wear armor, pick up weapons, and line up.

After all this was deployed, Millefio said to the herald soldiers around him: "You go to the Chinese army camp and inform Master Monte Adno, saying that the Greeks provoked the soldiers of my holy regiment and the result happened. Battle, now the entire army and cavalry of the sacred corps have fully engaged the Greeks!"

The messenger turned to go and was stopped by him again, emphasizing: "Slow down, don't rush too fast!"

The commander immediately understood, and then slowly moved towards the camp.

The reason why the young and magnificent Millefio lied about military intelligence was because he was dissatisfied with Monte Adorno’s conservative cowardice. At such an age, he became the leader of Carthage’s elite sacred corps. He didn’t want to let anyone else Thinking that this was the credit of his father-in-law Hanno, he needed to prove his ability with brilliant military achievements, and now he thinks it is a good fighter.

The soldiers of the Holy Order crossing the river chased down the scattered Agrigento soldiers along the river bank.

The Agrigento, who had previously found the situation in bad condition, ran back to the camp and called for reinforcements.Soon, the heavily armed Agrigento soldiers arrived, as did some other city-state soldiers.

The killing of the soldiers of the Carthage Legion was stopped. Even as more Greek soldiers arrived, the Carthaginians fighting on the east bank quickly turned from offensive to defensive because of the small number of people, and began to gradually Back off.

Although the soldiers of the Carthage Legion were proud because of their origin, they were indeed well-trained. Not long after Millefio issued the order, they had already listed about one lido and seven in the West Bank. Eight-column square matrix.

They wore open helmets similar to Dionysian heavy infantry, without face shields, but with cheek guards, crowned with a bunch of long red or white caps and a thick linen chest Armor, originally they could be covered with fine chain armor outside, but these soldiers would rather put a layer of leather armor with gorgeous colors and beautiful patterns on the outside of the linen breastplate, rather than wearing black heavy chain armor to destroy the beauty .The polished gold shiny bronze diameter armor is set on the calf, the feet wear good leather sandals, the right hand holds a sharp spear more than two meters long, and the left hand carries a large copper shield with a diameter of more than one meter, each round The shields are all painted with exquisite lace and patterns, and soldiers often use this to boast or compare beauty.In addition, these soldiers have enough family property to provide rich nutrients to burn the body, all of them are tall and strong, and the listed phalanx is powerful and colorful.

On the right wing of the infantry phalanx is a thousand cavalry cavalry. Its real name is called the Carthage noble cavalry, which is also composed of the children of the famous Carthaginian clan. These cavalry are also wearing the best armor and holding three Mido's super long lance, high-quality short sword on the waist, crotch mount is selected from Iberia's toughest warhorse.

"Attack!" Millefio couldn't wait to give the order.