Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

When Mukru rushed to the neighborhood, he saw this scene, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom: Oops, the Taigeya really rebelled!

The Mandinian guide Carrizenos who was next to him was also dumbfounded: "This...this...the Tagians have betrayed the Arcadian Alliance?!...General Mukru, I can swear to Zeus, We Mandinia don't know this!"

Mukru's face was gloomy, and he had no mind to know Callisenos's excuse. He immediately turned his horse's head, pinched the horse's belly, and galloped toward the military command center. He wanted to quickly inform the commander of this terrible change.

Kalithenos glanced angrily in the direction of Taga City, and followed Mukru.

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As a squad leader, when his fifty soldiers were all excitedly pursuing the enemy, he had to do his best to control the entire squad and not let the soldiers run away.

This is the requirement of the "Dionian Military Law". As one of the most effective regiments in the Dionian army, the First Corps is not only because of the strong combat skills of soldiers, but also because of their strong execution of military laws. , But today, it is more difficult to control the formation of the unit in the pursuit. This is because even if the enemies in front are wearing armor and holding shield guns, the speed of escape is not slow, except for the soldiers when they first rout Taking advantage of some advantage, soon after the distance between the two sides was widened, the soldiers could not catch up with the defeated soldiers again. This made the arrogant First Corps soldiers very unconvinced: in the annual Dionian army competition, The First Army has never fallen into the top three in the armed race, and now it can't even run through a group of mercenaries!

The soldiers tried their best to catch up, naturally they couldn't listen to the orders of the team officers. Max's voice was almost hoarse, and he could only watch as the whole team was about to run away completely.At this moment, he heard a bugle from behind.

He instinctively looked back, and in the dust and fog, he saw the colorful flags flying high and beginning to wave quickly from front to back.

He didn't think too much, and immediately shouted: "Stop advancing, this is the order of the legion! Stop advancing!..."

The soldiers beside him also yelled with him, passing one by one. It didn't take long for the soldiers in front of Max to stop pursuing them. Although all of them were panting, they were unwilling to look at the rout enemy ahead.

"Assemble! Assemble!!..." Max hissed loudly.

In fact, there is no need for him to work so hard, the surrounding soldiers also automatically move closer to him, some are not even soldiers in his unit, but the white cap on the top of Max's helmet gives them a choice, which is an instinct after countless training.

Just as the soldiers of the First Corps were approaching the squad leader and the company leader, the broken soldiers in front of them also stopped escaping one after another, then roared, turned back and killed again.

"Damn! They are a fraud!..." Max, who was at the forefront of the legion, was shocked when he saw the scene in front of him. Once again, despite the sting of his throat, he yelled, "Assemble!!" In the air, keep waving.

Dolios, a former member of the Spartan King’s Guard and the former military commander of Messenia, because of the attack by the Dionian army, he abandoned Messenia without a fight, and was almost ruled by the Council of Elders and the inspectors. It expelled from the mother state.Although he was eventually allowed to commit crimes and meritorious service, his life was not easy during his time in Sparta. The Spartans who had lost the land of Messenia saw him glaringly, even loudly. Insulting, and he can only swallow his anger. He has always been regarded as a glory by his parents, wife and children. He has never been subjected to such insults. He didn't know how he got here in those days, but all his patience was for today.

As an ordinary warrior, he is almost 50 years old today. He is fighting on the first line. He has been defensive in the previous battles and tried to save his energy. However, the fast running after that made him wearing heavy armor and heavy armor somewhat. Out of breath, after all, time is not forgiving, and the Dionian soldiers are still chasing closely. This is the first time he has met in the battle he has experienced in the past. He finally decided to give up running, stopped, and wanted to take advantage of it. He still had a bit of physical strength to kill one by one, but he saw that the chasing soldiers stopped one after another.

This is another situation that Dolios has never seen in previous battles. When they adopted this tactic before, the enemy ran more and more scattered in the pursuit, and in the end it was completely scattered, and many people even threw away their helmets. Shield, so once they counterattack, they can easily defeat the enemy.

And what he sees through the eyes of the Corinthian helmet is: All the Dionian soldiers are in good condition, their armors are in good order, and they are still actively retracting in an attempt to regroup...

Dolios was anxious, he must not allow the soldiers' hard work to be in vain, so he lightly slammed the surrounding soldiers with the copper shield, shouting: "Attack!!" Then he held the shield gun and accelerated back.

Never let the enemy regroup!...With this belief, he jumped up, swung the lancet in his hand, and stab the Dionia soldier closest to him.

The soldier quickly lifted the long shield up, "Dang!" with a crisp sound, and the spear head stuck on the hitting corner of the long shield.

Following the inertia of the forward thrust, Dolios slammed forward with a copper shield. The two shields collided with a "bang!" tremor, and the Dionian soldier was knocked back by the strong force.

Dolios prodded the spear again, and the spear was pressed against the upper edge of the opponent's long shield, piercing the enemy's exposed throat like lightning.

The soldier quickly tilted his head and stabbed his helmet off his helmet, drawing a terrible blood mark on his face, causing him to scream in pain.

Dolios did not swing the stabbing spear again. He used a side top of the buckler to lift the wounded Dionian soldier and continued to rush forward. He believed that his comrades would completely solve the enemy.

Just a few steps after running, a force of strength slammed into the back, followed by severe pain, and the strength that had originally accumulated under the sharp pain was quickly lost.He staggered a few steps and looked back in amazement, but saw the wounded Dionia looking at him resolutely. The hand that was holding the lancet was empty, and was immediately overwhelmed by the swarming Spartans.

Dolios slowly fell to the ground, and he was still very unwilling to die: failing to kill a Dionian soldier in order to wash his charge.

When the Spartan fighters who fell behind in the fraudulent escape turn into the offensive, the fighters in front will also turn into the offensive immediately. The time required for the entire army to turn from rout to offensive is very short, and there is no need to use a bugle to command This is the tacit understanding cultivated by them through long-term training since childhood.

The soldiers in the forefront of the First Army of Dionia have dispersed. Facing the surging Spartans, they could not return to the team in time. But even if they knew that they were outnumbered, they did not turn around and flee, but were brave. He blocked the enemy in place and bought some time for his comrades in the back. This is the result of long-term training by the soldiers of the Dionian Army in accordance with military laws.

Max’s team is less than 50 people, but the situation is crisis, he can no longer wait, and immediately ordered loudly: "Tortoise shell formation!"

The entire squadron quickly formed a column of 5 horizontally facing the attacking Spartans. The soldiers on the outermost periphery raised their long shields to their chests to form a shield wall. The soldiers inside buckled the long shields. On the head, everyone threw away the stabbing guns and drew out the short swords, because in the narrow space enclosed by the long shield, the stabbing guns can no longer be used.

Almost all the team officials gave the same order, because the phalanx formed hastily separated far away, and the tortoise shell formation is undoubtedly the strongest defense when facing siege without the support of friendly forces.

As soon as Max’s provisional unit was formed, the Spartans rushed to the front. Although the formation of the Dionians was weird to them, they did not stop attacking: shield tops, gun jabs.

The two most commonly used attack methods obviously have no effect on Dionian’s strange formation. Some Spartan fighters simply hit with their bodies. As a result, the short swords of Dionian soldiers sprang out of the shield like a viper. , Stab it.

The Spartan warriors who rushed to the forefront had no way to get the tortoiseshell formation for a while, and the soldiers from behind forced them to stop and continue to rush forward.

Before long, the entire Max squadron was surrounded by Spartans. The Dionian soldiers in the narrow and crowded space could not see the situation clearly, but they could hear the loud roar of the enemy. One by one, they tensely resisted the impact from the long shield, and at the same time carefully avoided the spear that was late from the gap, and the short swords in their hands were constantly piercing out to stab those who were too close to the shield array. enemy……

These small Dionian phalanxes at the forefront are like small boats in turbulent waves, shaking left and right, and may capsize at any time. For the Dionian soldiers in the tortoise shell array every minute and every second, It all seemed so long.

For the team officers in each array center, the only thing they can do is to encourage the soldiers with a hoarse voice: "Brothers, hold on! Our reinforcements will come soon!... "

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Ever since the Spartan Army’s right wing began to bluff, Agsilius has been in a state of tension. He sent guards to the front from time to time to carefully investigate the battle situation in the middle. When he learned that the mercenaries on the right end of the middle began to retreat, and When there was some confusion, he was so angry that he even had to rush over in person to boost morale and was dissuaded by the guards.

Before long, when he learned that the Spartans had stopped retreating and began to counterattack, and had disrupted the news of the Dionian array, he looked excited again, tightened his right fist, and waved vigorously: " Well done!"