Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

"Understood!" Mukruk responded.

Ionicus was puzzled when he heard this: How did the warship attack the army on land?

After a while, he saw dozens of three-tier paddle warships standing side by side, heading straight towards the coast with the Spartan army, and the warships stopped at a distance of less than one mile from the Spartan army. Because the bottom had been reached, the crew on the deck immediately threw the iron anchor into the sea to fix the boat, and then an instrument was lifted from the cabin to the deck, the ballista.

Some of the gunners are responsible for fixing the ballista mount, some are responsible for mapping the target parameters, some are responsible for installing the spring group, and some are responsible for carrying the stone bullets... More than this ballista team performs their duties, cooperates with the tacit, other The same is true on the battleship.

At the end of the Western Mediterranean War, when the Dionysian army besieged Carthage, the naval warship entered the lagoon and placed ballistas on the deck to assist the army in siege. The ballista was used on the ship. A project for naval military training.

Dolios saw the Dionysian warships approaching the beach, thinking they would soon land, and commanding the army immediately, facing the direction of the dozens of warships in a loose horizontal array, the frontmost It was a black robber with a javelin. He was about to attack the Dionyan soldiers when he was about to go ashore.

However, these warships stopped moving as they approached the beach, and for a while they did not see any movement. Dolios was surprised, and suddenly saw small black spots flying out of the warships...

When he saw that the little black dots were big round stones, they had fallen down from the air, some of them fell in the sea water in the front, lifted up the water column, and some fell to the beach behind The sand was splashing on the ground. Although no one was killed or wounded, the popularity of the people led to a commotion in the team, especially the black robbers.

Ballista!A word popped from Dolios's mind. Although the use of this weapon has never been seen in the war on the Greek mainland so far, the Spartans who have been concerned about the Western Mediterranean This is not ignorant.Agsilaus once made recommendations in the Council of Elders, hoping to make such a siege powerful weapon, the Council of Elders also agreed to his proposal, but a profession other than soldiers, keen on military training but The city-state that abandons scientific literature and art and entertainment does not have the technical ability to make it.

The Spartans also wanted to secretly invite the Syracuse people to give pointers, but unfortunately, after the Battle of Southern Italy, Dionia captured the entire team of engineers in Syracuse and completely took them as their own. Siracusa also lost the technology itself, and in the end this thing was gone.

Dolios had never expected that he would witness the rumored ballista on such a special occasion, and he did not know how to deal with it for a while.

At this moment, another round of stone bombs was ejected. Only a dozen stone bombs hit the target on the shore. After all, the battleship fluctuated with the waves, and the ballista was not easy to aim.But the effect produced by this hit stone bomb was very obvious. It smashed the head of a black robber into the flower, terrified, and suddenly scared the surrounding black robbers to turn and run away.

Dolios hurriedly ordered the Spartan warriors to kill the first black soldiers who fled, which scared the other slaves and kept the array.

Not long afterwards, the sound of a bugle sounded on the surface of the sea. The hundreds of troop carriers originally stationed behind the warships began to move forward against the tide, and the landing of the Dionysian army began.

Max’s troop-carrying ship happened to be moving in the direction of the enemy formation on the shore. He himself had landed on the coast of Africa, and he had landed on the coast of Gaul in the mountains. He was no stranger to landing, but this was the first time he landed. Facing the interception of the enemy, he did not follow the previous two methods, let the soldiers assist the sailors to row the boat, so that the ship could reach the coast faster, but let them wear armor and weapons as soon as possible, and sit quietly on the boat To save energy.

The troop carrier was bumping forward in the tide water, and the speed was not fast. This is actually a good fighter for the Spartan army on the shore, but unfortunately the Dionysian army came suddenly, and Sparta did not produce bows and arrows. It was too late to call the allies, so it was impossible to fire arrows at the troop carrier.

The troop carrier finally ran aground near the beach, not more than a hundred meters from the Spartan army on the shore. Just as Max urged the soldiers to get off the boat, the Spartan soldiers on the shore also ordered the black robber with a javelin to the shore. Of the enemy launched an attack.

The black robbers trembled wading forward, paying more attention to the stone bullets roaring in the sky.

Max led the soldiers to jump into the waist-deep water, and went to the shore without anxiety. He greeted the soldiers to gather, while observing the positions of the other teams on the left and right ships.

"Go forward!" Under his orders, 50 soldiers marched into the water in a small square.Then he saw the black-robber javelin rushing from the shore: "Lift the shield!"

As soon as he spoke, the soldiers had raised their long shields obliquely, blocking them in front.

The black soldiers lacking military training faced the approaching Dionysian soldiers. The hurried javelin throws neither accuracy nor strength, and did not pose any danger to the Dionysian soldiers at all.

On the contrary, after a certain distance in the wading, the soldiers of the Dionysian Army also threw the javelins in their hands, which immediately caused many black raiders to fall into the water and scared other black raiders to rush back. .

After the direct threat in front was eliminated, the advancement of the unit soldiers led by Max slowed down. They and the surrounding units moved closer together and gradually joined together.

On the shore, Dolios originally thought that the Dionysian soldier of this ship would speed up and rush to the shore after jumping into the sea, and his power must be dispersed. This is conducive to his concentration of troops and each of them broke, but did not expect to wear The Onia soldiers are so stable and sophisticated, they gradually formed an array during the slow wading forward, and the array is still thickening and extending...

Dolios turned his head to look to the sides again, and countless Dionysian soldiers had landed on the beach in the distance, and began to wrap towards them...

Dolios felt nervous, but he only hesitated a moment and decided resolutely: "Quick, retreat! Retreat!!!"

Although some Spartan warriors were unwilling, they were known to be disciplined in Greece, and ordered to reach them. All the warriors soon began to retreat, and the black soldiers were all scattered.

Max and the soldiers were originally looking forward to a fierce battle with the Spartan army on the beach. Unexpectedly, the enemy in front ran away before they even took over!Is this really the Spartan warrior that dominates Greece?!

In order to prevent fraud, although the soldiers accelerated their pace, they still maintained the integrity of the formation, but under the command of the team officer, they began to shout in unison: "Mesenia, you are free!!!" ..."

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Leotichides stepped on the land of Mesenia indifferently, but his mood was a little complicated: he was no stranger to this land. When he was young, he had received military training here, and he had also been in the ceremony of adulthood. Together with his friends, Shang and his friends killed the black rascals like wild beasts, and had been stationed in Pilos for a while...

He originally thought that these memories had been forgotten, but when he stepped on the beach, these memories kept coming up.

Leotichides took the steps of dozens of guards step by step, stepping on the soft sand, walking forward slowly, but Ticias and Ionicus, who had been with him, had long gone. They anxiously appease and surrender the black rascals.

An officer with a purple crown on his head ran up to the head, and hurried to Leotichides in a military salute.

"Adoris, what's the result?" Even in the face of King Davis's adopted son, Leotichides still looked as indifferent as other officers.

Adorius replied with some frustration: "They all say that the Spartans are the most brave warriors in Greece. I think they are deceiving! They are as timid as rabbits, they ran without fighting, and they ran fast , Before they were surrounded by us, they rushed into the mountains to the east... if the cavalry could attack!"

"Ledes tells me that their horses have been bumping on the boat for several days, and they are in a bad state. They have to rest for a few days before they can go into battle, otherwise there will be problems." Leotichides said lightly: "Look Come this time, you get nothing?"

"When we chased down to the Spartan Barracks, there was a Spartan officer and a few soldiers guarding the door -" Asheris said here, he added a solemn face: "They asked to be with us 'S soldiers went it alone and wounded several of us, and finally we killed those Spartan soldiers and captured the officer."

Leotichides did not pay much attention to such trivial matters, but asked: "How are the conditions of the Spartan barracks?"

Adores immediately understood what he meant, and replied: "It is complete, without any damage, but the area is not too large, barely able to accommodate a legion."

Leotichides looked at the sky, and then around: there were naked black robes who obediently followed the Dionysian soldiers everywhere...

He bowed his head and pondered for a while, then echoed: "Mukelu, you should immediately tell Secrian to say that the landing battle has ended, let him lead all the warships to the beach and build the camp, I will send the 4th and 6th legions Soldiers fully assist."