Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Great!" Lizaru punched Midolades in the chest and said sincerely: "Thank you for your trust, Midolades!"

"It's all for Dionia!" Midolades responded positively.

"You don't worry, I won't let the fleet infantry suffer great losses!" Lizzaru also promised, and then said to the adjutant: "Go and call Ullaza!"

He was prepared to let Ulaza command the entire Third Army to attack the south bank of Rome, and he would lead the two infantry brigades and two thousand third fleet infantry left in the camp to go out to meet the Roman reinforcements. After all, he was the commander of the army. It is easier for the fleet infantry to accept his command.

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Viaduct, a town built by the Etruscans, is located on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Tiber River, northeast of the Roman city, about forty miles apart, and is one of the twelve alliance cities of Etruria.Since the city was founded in Rome, it has been the enemy of the Romans. In order to compete for control of land on both sides of the middle reaches of the Tiber River, the two sides have fought many wars in the past 100 years.

From the initial passive beating, to the mutual defeat, to the upper hand, the Romans have experienced ups and downs. Finally, more than 20 years ago, through ten years of siege, Camillus led the army to break through the city of Vie, based on hatred. And the interests, the Romans killed all the rebellious lovers, arrested women and children as slaves, completely occupied the land of love, and used it as a colonial town in Rome.

Shortly afterwards, due to the fierce conflict between the nobles and civilians in the Roman city, most of the civilians left the city in anger and settled in Vie.Then there was the Celtic invasion, and the Roman city was occupied. After Camulus assembled the Romans and Latins to drive the Celts away, the Roman nobles and civilians once again bridged the contradiction, rebuilt the Roman city, and many settled in Victoria. Roman civilians also returned.

In order to prevent Viagra from becoming a refuge after the conflict between Roman civilians and nobles, and thereby weakening the strength of the Roman city itself, the Senate passed a bill to divide the fertile land near the Tiber River in the south of the city into the public land of the Roman city. , Thus making this Etruscan city with a population similar to Rome and even higher prosperity than Rome into a medium colonial city in Rome.

Because the residents in the city of Vie are all Roman citizens, they will only respond to Rome’s first call (that is, follow Camillus to attack the Helnicians) and hear that the city of Rome has been attacked again. More than 500 people were squeezed out to rescue.

In addition to the troops sent by Victoria to rescue Rome, there is also Caisra (caisra), which also belongs to one of the twelve alliance city states of Etruria, it is located on a hill about 14 miles from the sea, distance The north bank of the Tiber estuary is nearly sixty miles, because of its iron ore and its production of high-quality pottery jars, it has a high reputation in northern and central Italy, and it has always made the city prosperous and wealthy.

And this city-state is very good at getting along with other forces. While most Etruscan city-states have a tight relationship with Rome, it maintains a good relationship with Rome, and the Celtics invaded their own cities. The situation was also breached. The Casellera also sheltered many Roman people who fled because of the fall of the Roman city in various mountain villages in the territory. Therefore, when Rome's strength recovered and began to attack the Etruscan territory north They thanked the people of Keslera for their kindness, and instead of invading their territory, they invited Keslera to join the Roman League.

At the same time, the relationship between the Keslera and the Greeks is also very good. It is one of the few non-Greek cities that owns the holy library in Delphi (Delphi generally does not allow non-Greek city-states to own the holy library). It's amazing.

This time, Keslera also sent more than 500 soldiers in order to rescue Rome, the leader.

There are also two reinforcements from the Etruscan alliance city states, they are volch and tarchna. These are also two close to the coast, but the city is built on the mountain, the pole The city-states with Etruscan characteristics are rich in mineral resources, and they also have large ports and prosperous maritime trade.

Especially Walch, as a sea trade center on the west coast of the Italian peninsula as early as a hundred years ago, its pottery, bronzes and wines are even exported to the Eastern Mediterranean. Not only was it a maritime power, but it also controlled on land There are many Etruscan tribes and small towns in the surrounding area.

Tarvina, like Victoria, is a feud with Rome.As early as a hundred years ago, it supported the overthrow of the Roman King Tajiven against Rome.However, these two powerful city-states have declined in the past few decades because of the Celtic's continuous southern invasion and the harassment of the Romans. The Celtic's massive invasion more than ten years ago caused these two cities to suffer. When it comes to the devastation, the city falls and the people are looted...

They hadn't slowed down from the war, and the Romans who drove off the Celts and received the strong support of Carthage once again invaded their territory.After defeat in successive battles, the people of these two cities had to choose to submit.

Rome divided some of the land in the two cities’ territories and established two colonial cities-sutrium and cosa as Roman fortresses to control southern Etruria, and at any time Monitoring the movements of the two cities, so this time the Roman sent messengers for help, the two cities also sent reinforcements.

Of course, Sutrium and Xhosa were also accompanied by reinforcements, adding up to more than 2,000 people. In addition to the soldiers sent by other Etruli tribes and towns surrendered to Rome, there were more than 4,000 people.

Reinforcements in towns such as Viagra, Casellera, and Walch have gathered together, and there are scattered soldiers behind, but they are rewarded by spies. "The Dionysians are in a hurry to attack the city of Rome." The situation has not allowed them to wait here slowly, especially the Roman citizens of Victoria who have been clamoring to rush to rescue, so the generals from the Roman colonial city and the Etruscan city state soon reached agreement, respectively Leading their respective civic soldiers, dragging towards the Roman vertebral bridge.

When they were two or three miles away from the Dionysian camp, they were rewarded by spies again: about 4,000 Dionysian soldiers were marching fast and must pass them!

Several generals listened, and were astonished as Paulus responded: Didn’t the Dionysians attack the city with all their strength?!How can there be enough soldiers to fight with us in the field?!

But time is running out and they can no longer think about it. They hurriedly set up.

These more than 4,000 Roman reinforcements came from multiple Etruscan city-states, tribes, and Roman colonial cities. It takes a lot of effort to determine the affiliation of each force and arrange the position of the array, so the entire army The formation had not yet begun, and the Dionysian army appeared in their vision.

The army led by Lizaru had two thousand fleet infantry and a light armor brigade, so the action was relatively rapid, and only one heavy infantry brigade was slightly behind.

After rushing to the battlefield, Lizaru found that the Roman reinforcements did not anticipate that the Dionysian army would attack, as he had expected in advance, so he did not prepare in advance, and the entire army was hedgehog. Such a great fighter, he again How could he let it go, before waiting for the heavy infantry brigade to arrive, he issued an attack order: the fleet infantry attacked the enemy's left side, the light armor brigade attacked the enemy's right side, leaving the frontal gap to the heavy infantry brigade that arrived later .

Although neither of these units is a heavy infantry, according to the return of the reconnaissance ride: the number of heavy infantry in the Roman reinforcements is far less than half (the elite civil soldiers were previously recruited to attack the Helnikians).Therefore, Lizaru firmly believed that the two well-trained troops could suppress the enemy by means of offensive and persist until the heavy infantry brigade arrived.

The attacking trumpet sounded, and the two units that were originally arranged as combat columns. During the process of slowing down, the entire long column was quickly thrown over into a row, and then no need to change position , Began to accelerate forward.

Fleet infantry and light armor are actually the same in terms of weapons and equipment. They are all leather helmets, leather armor, leather shields, and daggers. The biggest difference is the size and javelin of the leather shield: the light armor is due to land operations, so the leather shield is relatively Large, at the same time as the heavy infantry, carrying two javelins; because the infantry of the fleet has to fight at sea, in order to better maintain balance, the skin shield is small, and it does not carry the javelin.

But this time, because the heavy infantry of the Third Army had to climb the embankment to attack through the crow warship, it was inconvenient to throw the javelin, and they were all left in the camp. Lizallu asked the fleet infantry to carry the javelin before the troops were called out to meet the enemy. Although they do not use javelins in battles at sea, they are often trained in usual training, because javelin throwing is one of the four killing skills that Dionyan infantry must master (the other three are freehand Fighting, Sword Fighting with Shield, Spearing with Shield).

The rapid approach of the Dionysian army forced the Roman reinforcements to no longer be able to expand smoothly. Of course they could not shrink into a group and were passively beaten. Then the attacking trumpet was forced to sound, and the generals of the various reinforcements led the army of their city-state in a hurry Drove towards the Dionysian army that was forcing him.

The distance between the two parties that was originally a few hundred meters was quickly narrowed in a cry of killing.

"Javelin! Javelin! Javelin!..." In the shouts of the team officers, the two troops of Dionysia's Fleet Infantry and Light Armor quickly stopped, quickly throwing two rounds of javelin The momentum of the charge was interrupted, making the enemy's formation more chaotic, and then they shouted the name of Hades and killed the past...