Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 84: The Battle of Anleen Hills (3)

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"Archer, get ready!" Seeing that the Greeks entered the range, Pullo immediately ordered that the height difference of tens of meters not only extended the range of the archers, but also enhanced the lethality of the arrows, and at the same time made the opponent's The range of the archers is shortened, and the long-range firepower of the Maple Allied Forces is greatly superior. This is the advantage of being condescending.

But when the Puchetti was pulling the bow and the arrow, countless black spots roared from the bottom of the mountain and hit the poorly equipped Puchetti, making the archers scream in pain.

The Greeks have slingers! Tremoni's heart shuddered.

It is a pity for Daves at the moment that the two legions and two light infantry brigades-Epithenes and Zpitre also have more than 400 slingers, which are not enough to suppress the five-mile enemy. , It can only disrupt the rhythm of its shooting.

The arrows were still falling like raindrops. The soldiers put their bucklers on their heads and proceeded slowly, one step at a time. The terrain restricted them from being able to use the assassin of heavy infantry-charge, and could only endure the arrow pecking. Hit the copper skin of the buckler, making a "clang clang" noise.

When they started to climb the mountain, a javelin hit the buckler violently and started to injure some soldiers.

The wounded soldier fell to the ground, huddled together, protected his body with a round shield, and waited for the rescue by the medical team.

In the middle of the whole line are the heavy infantry of Igratia. They are stationed at the focus of the Dionian attack-the lowest place.

"Quick! Quick!..." Amintas kept urging the soldiers. He didn't want to lose to the junior of the mercenary-Matonis, so he contradicted the provisions of the Dionian military law. The first soldiers ran to the forefront of the brigade, which made the tired soldiers who had gone through a long march screamed like chicken blood, and followed closely behind.

When rushing to a distance of more than 20 meters from the enemy, the whole brigade suddenly stopped advancing.

"Defense!" Timothy ordered loudly. He thought the enemy was about to charge.

The soldiers stretched out their stabbing guns from behind the round shields, forming a terrifying spear formation. Even though the gentle **** here is only a few meters high, this height is enough to cost the Greeks a heavy price!

However, what the Mesapis waited for was not the charge of the Greeks, but nearly a thousand javelins that sprang up. In the horrified gaze of the Messapi, they pierced forcefully with whirring noises. There was a scream in the phalanx.

Timograss had no idea that Dionia's heavy infantry could throw a javelin. Not surprised, he shouted angrily: "Raise a shield! Raise a shield to defend!..."

After Amintas quickly took out the second javelin, he roared: "Follow me!" After finishing speaking, he held the shield in his left hand and the gun in his right, and the first one rushed towards the enemy.

The soldiers followed closely behind.

Timograss was surprised to find: When the general Greek heavy infantry is charging, the formation will disperse, but the enemy on the opposite side can still maintain a rough formation, like a thick iron wall quickly pressing down. Come, let him have a feeling of suffocation.

"Defense! Defend!" He was a little panicked, his voice hoarse.

However, the javelin blow made the soldiers have not recovered from the panic, and Amintas’s brigade arrived in an instant, stepped onto a gentle **** a few meters high, took a few big steps, and used the momentum to open and grasp the circle. The left arm of the shield moved forward, "Bang!..." After the continuous metal crash, the Mesapi soldiers who were unable to defend together due to the chaotic formation were forced to retreat unconsciously to relieve the impact.

This retreat caused the crowded Mesapi soldiers to trip over their comrades who were stabbed to the ground by a javelin. Behind them were comrades who were screaming in panic, and in front were the stabbing guns stabbed like a poisonous snake. They messed up their hands and feet for a while and continued to retreat, allowing most of the soldiers of Amintas's brigade to stand on the slope.

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As the captain of the 7th Battalion of the Second Army, Spitt has a characteristic. He must pray before the war.

Not only did he do it himself, he also asked his subordinates to do it together. He used to pray to Ares, the **** of war. After following Daves, his goal was changed to Hades, the patron saint of Dionia. After singing the Hades carols sincerely, he stood up and said : "The slingers continue to attack the enemy here. The archers follow the heavy infantry. Once in range, they will shoot arrows at the enemy on the hillside. The light shield soldiers follow me!"

Satirus, the captain of the light shield squadron, hurriedly persuaded: "Captain, you should take the command, brothers, let me lead the attack."

Zspit’s eyes glared: "Now is a good opportunity to prove our light shield soldiers, how can I hide behind!" In recent months, the military has seen such a view that the Dionian Army’s mid-range and long-range attacks have For archers and slingers, heavy infantry throws javelins in short-range fire attacks, and the role of light shield soldiers has become dispensable. It is better to cancel this unit and replace it with light armored soldiers similar to the mountain reconnaissance team.

Epithenis and Zpitt, who were born in light shield soldiers, certainly strongly opposed this view, and have always expressed their views to Daves: Light shield soldiers can never be replaced, it is irreplaceable!

Now is the time to prove the value of the light shield soldiers.

Nearly 500 light shield soldiers, led by Epithenis and Zpitt, were in pairs or groups of three, scattered through the "fish-scale formation" gaps of heavy infantry.

Leotizides’s team is at the forefront of the front line, and he himself is in the middle of the first row of the team’s phalanx. On that day, he beat up his comrades and was locked up for a long time. He was going to be beaten by a military stick. The military judge deferred the punishment until after the war and allowed him to commit crimes and meritorious service.

At this time, Leotizides has already started climbing. Although he did not wear a helmet, he was carrying a weight of more than 40 kilograms of equipment. He was climbing upwards, and he had to carry weapons in his hands. It was not necessary to stabilize his body. An easy thing. Fortunately, at this time, it was early autumn, warm and dry, and grass was overgrown on the hillside. It had not rained for more than ten days. The soil was soft and soft. It was a small pit when I stepped on it hard. Leotizides and his teammates step by step. , Slowly upwards.

The Mesapis attacked them more fiercely. The 30-meter-high javelin threw directly, hitting the buckler with strong force, most of them can penetrate the copper skin, and the remaining power hits the row. Ortizides was also forced to lean back, and he quickly plunged the end of the stabbing gun into the soil to stabilize his body.

In the periphery of his field of vision, he saw that some soldiers had been unstable due to the impact, slipped and fell, and brought down the comrades behind him. Fortunately, Dionia's peculiar offensive formation is like sawtooth, not continuous or dense, so it does not affect the orderly advancement of the entire front.

Since Leotizides entered the boot camp, he became interested in Dionia’s unique formation. He found that this formation was more complicated than the traditional Greek phalanx, but it worked very well. It is effective and suitable for various terrains. After analyzing it privately, he thought it was more ingenious than the Spartan left-handed tactics that he had trained since he was a child. Later, after he learned that it was the Archon Daves alone who invented this unique formation, he had the urge to ask Daves to share some of his views and opinions on this formation. Unfortunately, this was just an illusion. Because Daves is the supreme power of Dionian, his current status is not the crown prince of Sparta, but only a freedman of Dionian, so he can only watch Dave from a distance in the boot camp. Speaking on the platform of the training ground.

At this time, the Puchetti's javelin came again.

Leotizides dispelled distracting thoughts, leaned down, stabilized his heels, and opened his eyes wide. He saw the direction of the javelin flying, tilted the buckler slightly, and the tip of the javelin was drawn on the buckler. Sparks struck, but most of the impulse was removed, reducing the impact on him.

Leotizides just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the comrade on the right scream "Oh," and he was about to fall backward while shaking. He quickly released the stabbing gun, protruding his right hand like lightning, and grabbed the man's arm.

The man was Heterbarus, he hesitated a little, and immediately shouted sincerely: "Thank you, Proseus!"

Leotizides nodded vigorously at him. Despite the contradictions between them, the battlefield is the melting pot of men's friendship.

At this moment, he looked up and saw someone running to the front of the array.

It's a light shield soldier! Leottizides blinked, he understood this unit. During the Peloponnesian War, Sparta hired Thracian light shields many times as an aid to heavy infantry. However, in the combat sequence of the Dionian Army, the light shield is regarded as an important force, and its status is not lower than that of the heavy infantry.

I saw these light shield soldiers holding a leather shield in their left hand and a long-handled hunting knife in their right hand. Wearing thin cloth robes, they quickly approached the enemies on the hill in the form of skirmishers. The Puchetti's javelin also Most were swiftly avoided by them.

Why can they be so fast and agile? Because they are holding a long-handled counter-bladed knife (actually a scythe), this kind of weird weapon with an approximately semicircular blade plunges into the soil and can easily provide them with a strong support for climbing.

Zspit quickly approached the enemy, and five or six spears pierced him at the same time.

Spit is very calm. He squatted down abruptly. The softer leather armor made him almost stick to the ground along the slope. The leather shield shielded the top of his head and blocked the piercing spear.

The Puchetti on the top of the mountain found it difficult for them to stab an enemy that was almost on the ground and at such a low angle, because the terrain slopes down too much, and it is easy to stand unsteady and roll down the mountain when exerting force. To go, so they had to move forward.

Said it was too late, and Spite's legs pushed back hard, and the whole person slammed into it, and quickly stretched out an inverted blade to hook one of the Puchetti warrior's feet, and pulled it down.