Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

Although these two locations are dangerous, the two fortresses were built during the great Messenian riot decades ago. For decades, the Messenians were basically relatively tame and no major riots occurred ( During the Peloponnesian War, Messenia Black Laos escaped mainly under the support of the Athenians), so the two fortresses fell into disrepair for a long time and were seriously damaged.

It was not until recently that the Dionian army invaded Messenia that Sparta urgently repaired it, but the time was rushed, and I always felt that the repairs were not complete enough. Now it is attacked by more than 10 times the number of defenders. , Had to worry him, so even though the Dionians were about to land on a large scale, he still drew out 200 soldiers from each and rushed for reinforcements.

At this moment, the infantry of the Dionian Fleet staying near the coast began to move toward the shore.

According to the Dionian military law, Sephiroth, as the commander of the infantry of the fleet, should usually sit in the rear. However, the landing operations are special. Due to the difficulties of sea conditions, transportation, and consolidation of soldiers after landing, the Serb Fedoraus sent all the infantry of the fleet to the coast at one time. It is useless to sit behind him. It is not as good as taking the lead. On the contrary, it can boost morale and win an extra chance for the army in a difficult situation. So Sephiroth, like other infantrymen in the fleet, wore leather armor and a leather shield and helmet on his back, swimming towards the shore in a breaststroke position.

Although all Greek fishermen are good swimmers, and most of the infantry in the fleet comes from them, this standard breaststroke posture is taught by Daves, mainly for the purpose of being as silent and effortless as possible during armed swimming.

At this moment, the infantry of the fleet did not move very hard, just like wood floating on the sea, following the tide and approaching the coast.

And in the eyes of the Spartans on the shore: a black tide line traversing the Gulf of Laconia rushed towards them quickly.

When the water was relatively shallow, the soldiers of the Dionia fleet stood up.

After all, Sephiroth was old. He was a little panting when he stood up, and his body was a little cold, but he still put on the leather helmet like other soldiers, took off the leather shield, drew out the short sword, and made a loud noise. Shouted: "The whole team!"

The rushing tide prevented his voice from spreading far, but all the infantry in the fleet had already understood the entire landing operation plan. At this time, they were all consciously reorganizing their formations. When staying in the sea, the soldiers were in the combat formation. The gathering is now being reorganized a bit, and a dense formation nearly three miles long and five columns thick has appeared in front of the Spartan army.

Udamidas was surprised by the rapid formation of the Dionians, which made his attempt to use the irregular formation of the Dionians to land ashore to launch an attack failed. He immediately realized Dionia. This time, people came prepared, wanting to take advantage of the absence of Spartan's main force, and do their best to invade Sparta's territory.

I will never let your conspiracy succeed!... Udamidas waved his spear forward and shouted angrily: "Offensive!"

Driven by Udamidas, the Spartan army began to run forward. When they set foot on the soft beach again, dozens of stone bullets roared again, and some Black Rolls soldiers appeared in a commotion. The Spartan team officials yelled at them sharply, and they had to continue running forward in a panic until the stone bullet fell behind them, and they were temporarily relieved.

Sephiroth led the soldiers forward steadily. They could not run due to the seawater flowing over the hips. Fortunately, they were not hindered by the tide. When the seawater gradually receded from the hips to the feet When the legs of the fleet infantry were just restored to freedom, the enemy had already rushed in front of them.

The infantry of the fleet had neither javelin shooting nor long shield defense. They could only raise leather shields and short swords and go up hard.

An army composed of nearly 300 Spartan fighters, more than 500 Spartan veterans, 2,000 Billiassi soldiers, more than 4,000 Black Rollers, and 9,000 Dionia fleet infantry (The First Fleet of Dionia has nearly 280 raven warships, and each raven warship has 40 fleet infantry personnel. The first fleet has more than 10,000 fleet infantrymen, although thousands of people were paid in the last landing operation. Sekerian did not hesitate to send all the infantry of the fleet) and finally fought together on the coast.

Xenophon climbed to the guard tower behind the beach and looked nervously at the battle ahead. He knew that this battle would determine the life and death of Sparta. He wanted to take the bow and arrow of the archer next to Dionysian himself. Asian shooting.

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After the fighting lasted for a while, the situation changed more obviously: the right wing with Spartan fighters and veterans as arrows, with the ability of Spartan fighters and the power of heavy infantry, took the upper hand and was able to kill. The left wing of the infantry of the Onia Fleet kept retreating and had retreated into the sea;

The middle road dominated by Piriasi soldiers also temporarily occupies a slight advantage. After all, the Piriasi soldiers who often fight with the Spartans have more experience in combat. At the same time, although they wear simple pointed copper helmets and leather Armed with a copper shield and a spear, the defense force is still stronger than that of the fleet infantry. Coupled with the aid of tower archers, the fleet infantry who is not strong in defense have suffered a lot;

Only on the left flank, the basically unprotected Black Roles only armed with a spear fought against the fleet infantry wearing leather armor, leather armor, and leather shield daggers. They were gradually at a disadvantage, even if there were Spartans mixed in it. The veterans struggled to maintain the front line and the rear tower archers shooting, and the left wing was still moving backward... This made the original east-west front gradually turned into a northeast-southwest direction.

While Xenophon was sweating for the Spartan army, Sekelian, who was standing on the flagship and listening to the watchman on the mast reporting the battle, was even more anxious: "What about the fleet infantry who came ashore yesterday?! Why haven't they appeared yet? ?!"

"Maybe... Maybe something is in trouble..." the flagship captain replied carefully.

"Damn! There is a problem at the critical moment!" Sekelian scolded angrily, and then said helplessly: "Then... immediately send the reserve team!"

"Yes!"

In yesterday’s military meeting, inspired by the fleet infantry commander Sephiroth, other squadron commanders also made a lot of opinions. One of them was: considering that the fleet infantry and heavy infantry are not dominant in frontal combat. , Can you let the two battalions of the Seventh Army stationed in Messenia send some heavy infantry to participate in the landing battle?

After consultation and improvement, it was changed to: Invite the Dionian troops stationed in Messenia to counterattack Sparta from the east, and at the same time invite them to send three hundred heavy infantry to participate in the landing operation.

Originally used them as a reserve team, Sekerian still hoped that the fleet infantry could win the battle alone, but now that the battle situation is at a disadvantage, he has to send a reserve team for fear of defeat.

I saw a raft of 5 meters square made urgently by the crew of the First Fleet. There was a water maneuvering with wood pulp. Three or four Seventh Army soldiers in black helmets and black armor stood in the middle. Gap.Since rafts have a shallower draft than small boats, with the surging of tides, they smoothly passed through the sea area of ​​the boat-blocking stakes and rowed towards the left flank of the fleet infantry...

"Crap, Dionian reinforcements!" Xenophon saw this situation on the outpost, very anxious: Sparta has no more soldiers to block the enemy's reinforcements. What should I do?!

Xenophon was so anxious that he saw a group of black laborers carrying supplies in the camp. He hurried down from the outpost and hurriedly rushed to the camp, trying to organize these black laborers to reinforce the front. Spartan army.

The dozen or so Spartan veterans who were responsible for keeping watch over Black Rolls in the camp learned that the situation was urgent and immediately agreed to Xenophon's suggestion, but the problem ensues: even if the hundreds of Black Rolls were organized, they did not Weapons, how to fight?

The Spartans took care of the Black Rolls very strictly. Even the Black Rolls who were going to fight were issued weapons just before the battle. After the army went to fight, there were so many Black Rolls in the camp, of course. It is impossible to leave more weapons.

Urgently searched in the camp, only to find a dozen broken spears, Xenophon had to ask the black lords to extract the wooden poles that supported the tent. It was a promise and a threat to force the black lords. Reluctantly followed him to the right flank of the Spartan army.

Previously, the onslaught of the Spartans caused some casualties on the left flank of the infantry of the fleet. For the honor and the survival of the infantry of the entire fleet, they could only relieve the pressure from the enemy by retreating, and the further back, the deeper the sea. The attack of the Bada fighters weakened.The reason is simple. The surging tide and the soft seabed have a greater impact on the Spartan warriors who wear heavy armor and are more clumsy. They have to allocate part of their energy to maintain their balance, and the fleet infantry has to do this. Get used to it.

Under such circumstances, the left wing of the fleet's infantry gradually recovered some of its decline.

Then the 7th Legion soldiers arrived one after another and immediately attacked the flank of the Spartans.

Under the attack, the Spartans fought bravely without backing down. They knew that there was home behind them, so they would never retreat.

Xenophon led the Black Rollers across the beach and rushed to the right to reinforce the right wing. On the battlefield enveloped by the sound of tides, fighting, and screams, he was anxious and couldn't hear the guard tower not far from him. The upper archer exclaimed: "There are enemy reinforcements again! To the east! To the east!!..."