Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 125: Sorrow after the war

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The failure came so quickly that Pi Anlun still didn't want to believe it, because he realized that victory was so close to him: "Attack! Keep attacking! The enemy will soon be defeated!!..." He stiffly said Shouted, trying to prevent the surrounding soldiers from fleeing, but was almost overthrown.

"The big boss, go! If you don't leave, you won't be able to go!!" The guards forcibly pulled him back.

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"Your Excellency Commander, we have won this battle!" Tolmeide came to report with joy: "The enemy has fled across the board!"

This result was expected by Daves. He looked calm and said: "This battle is not over yet. It is not enough to repel the enemy. It depends on the final result!"

Usually, in a head-on battle, the loss of the losing soldier rarely exceeds 10%. After the rout, if the pursuit is done properly, the casualty rate of the losing party will often increase greatly. This is because the rout of the defeated soldier has no fighting spirit. Has no intention to resist.

So Daves kept the offensive bugle sounded all the time.

The Dionian soldiers simply threw away the heavy copper shields and helmets, held guns in both hands, and continued to chase forward regardless of their exhausted bodies, and cooperated with the reinforcements rushing from the front to encircle the enemy.

Busignian fighters, light infantry and freedmen led by Epithenis and Spite, and Izam’s mountain reconnaissance brigade pulled a "big net" on the right flank of the Bruti army to the rear of the center. . Although this "net" is not very strong and the mesh is too large, it is enough to deter Brute people who just want to escape for their lives.

Amid the screams of the Dionians everywhere, some of the defeated soldiers simply threw away their weapons and sat on the ground.

The Ryders Cavalry Brigade pursued the fleeing enemy in an extremely evacuated and wide two-way horizontal formation. The cavalry with sufficient horsepower is like a thick fence sweeping the remaining branches and leaves back and forth...

It was close to dusk that the Dionian cavalry stopped pursuing them. When they returned tiredly from the Cosenza Plateau, which was full of soldiers, they were bloodied on their horses. It was terrifying. Later, good soldiers. They were given the nickname "Blood Cavalry", which eventually became their official name.

At this time, the battle was all over, and Dionia caused nearly 5,000 casualties in the Bruti Alliance at the cost of 1,500 casualties, and captured more than 5,000 people, and won a big victory.

Leders came to see Davers happily, but was told: Your Commander has gone to the crematorium.

Walking on the battlefield full of corpses, Davers' joy of winning has long disappeared without a trace.

The soldiers placed their dead teammates neatly on the grass, and they couldn't see their heads at first glance. While they carefully put two opals on the eyes of the deceased, they prayed to Hades for the deceased with tears in their tears.

Looking at the pale faces that seemed familiar, Davers' steps were a bit heavy. Finally, he stopped. A dozen soldiers were crying around a corpse on the road in front of him. He happened to know the first one, Ketips, the company captain of the Second Army.

He moved in his heart and asked in a low voice: "Who is the dead?"

"My lord commander!" The team officer and the soldiers hurriedly saluted when they saw him.

In the gap that was let out, he saw the face of the deceased, it was a face that couldn't be more familiar. Alsinis, a enthusiastic and cheerful young man from Amendolara, the hero of the Second Crotone War, and the standard bearer of the triumph. In the final attack in this battle, Alsinius rushed to the forefront as the squad leader. As a result, he was stabbed in the chest by a spear thrown by a bold enemy who was not eager to escape...

Listening to Ctips’s painful words, Daves took two Opals from the soldier and placed them on Alsinis’ closed eyelids... A year ago, this brave young man returned I once dared to swim with him, but now his body is as cold as a rock. At this moment, how much Daves hopes that Hades really exists in this world, and then relying on Dionia's respect for Hades, he will definitely be able to give these soldiers who died in Dionia a preferential treatment in hell...

Coming out of the group of soldiers, Daves walked forward for a while, then stopped, looking sadly at several crematoriums burning in the distance...

For a long time, he said to Tolmeide who had been following behind him silently: "Do you think... This time Dionia launched a war against Bruti... Is it right or wrong?"

"Uh..." Tolmead didn't know how to answer for a moment.

However, Daves’ expression quickly became determined, and he replied with a firm tone of voice: “Of course that’s right! In this era, either we will destroy others, or others will destroy us, except to grow stronger. There is no other way!"

For Davers's words, Tolmeide deeply agrees: In the Eastern Mediterranean, he has seen the Persian oppression of the weak and small races, and he has also seen the Spartans' overbearing in Ionia and Asia Minor; After coming to the Western Mediterranean, I also heard about the power of Carthage and the tyranny of Syracuse. But what he didn't expect was that what Daves was worried about at the moment was Rome, a Latin city-state in central Italy that he had never heard of.

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"My lord commander, the brothers of the First Army, and the soldiers of the reserve team... They are rushing to take a break. They are too tired! They fell asleep almost as soon as they fell to the ground, even the breastplate was too late to take off "Kapus said with some heartache.

"This battle...Whether it is the First Army, Second Army, or other teams, they have put their best efforts, and the battle has been quite hard!" Daves exclaimed, but he still reminded the card. Puth: "However, it is autumn. I heard that the night in the mountains is much colder than Turei. After the violent battle, the brothers fell asleep on the ground with sweating all over. Be careful to catch cold! Now our doctors The camp is already overcrowded, and I don’t want any unnecessary increases in injuries!"

Anton Rios next to Daves, this time he was once again serving as a military officer in the army. Obviously he is already familiar with this position. At this time, he made a suggestion: "I think you can make the heavy camp. The auxiliary soldiers took out the blankets carried by the soldiers of the First Corps and covered themselves."

Daves nodded in agreement, and looked at Dracos again. The commander of the Second Legion lowered his head slightly, his hands on his back, and his left leg trembling slightly.

Daves looked at him carefully and asked: "Can our camp be built at night?"

"The brothers of the Second Army are escorting the prisoners to speed up the construction. At the same time, there are the mountain brigade, the Visignian warrior, the Trifias Lord, and the Gorkis Lord (General of Castellon). Allied forces under the leadership are also building camps under the guidance of engineers...Before night comes, they will definitely be built!"

Triphias and Gorkis also nodded after Dracos mentioned their names.

Daves thanked them both, and then asked: "How are those Bruti prisoners behaving?"

"We severely punished more than a dozen captives who dared to resist, and there were Visignians next to them as role models, and their performance was fairly obedient."

Daves nodded, he walked a few steps back and forth, and said in a deep voice, "Don't abuse them! If you find that there are Bruti people who can't keep working, you must allow them to stop and rest... Oh, the specific situation you Do it yourself."

"Yes."

"What's the matter with the injury on your right hand?" Dracos patronized and wondered how to complete the task that Davers gave him, but he didn't notice that Davers had already walked behind him.

He hurriedly retracted his hand, took two steps back, shook his head and said: "No...nothing, I was stabbed by the soldier...injured by the stabbing gun..."

He shook his head, and a blood trough under his chin happened to meet Daves’s eyes. Daves, who was respected by Helps as a teacher, knew: This wound was near the vital carotid artery. It can be imagined at that time The thrill of the scene and the luck of Dracos.

At this moment, Davers's face sank: "You rushed to the front again, didn't you! How many times have I told you that you are a commander of more than 7000 people, not an ordinary soldier. If you die in the battle, how much impact will it have on the entire battle, do you know! Dionian military law is just a trifle for you, isn’t it? If you don’t follow it, you won’t follow it!..."

Daves scolded, Dracos drooped his head, not daring to say a word.

In the eyes of outsiders, a young man berates a strong man in his 30s like a father training a child. This scene is a bit funny. But the high-ranking generals of Dionia and the important figures of the allies all around them were also serious, holding their breath as much as possible to see Davers's power.

"Temporarily hand over the command of the Second Army to Adrianx. You immediately go to Stacey Cordas (the head of the medical camp of the expedition and one of Helps' right-hand men) and bandage the wound. After that, go to the military judge to accept the punishment!"

As soon as Daves finished speaking, Dracos answered yes repeatedly, turning and running away like an amnesty.

"Your Commander, in fact...The soldiers were very tired when they attacked at the end. Dracos also wanted to use this method to encourage the soldiers..." Antonio explained to Drax in four low voices.

"Alsinis, you all should know. After the second victory against Crotone, he was the flag bearer in the triumphant style. He is now a squad leader of the Second Army, a very promising one. Young team officer!" Daves sighed: "I just paid him the money for crossing the river to Coron... What the legion commander does, the lower-level team officers learn how to do it, I don’t want to see the second legion team again. There are always vacancies in the official position. This Dracos, who is desperate in battle, has to beat and beat!"

After Daves said this, Capps and Antonios can't say anything more.