Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 139: Spartan Landing Battle (1)

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Xenophon walked over, and the Spartans who saw him greeted him: "Xenophon, you are here again!"

"Don't worry, old man, we are here to guard, the Dionians can't get on the shore at all, you old people over 60 can rest at home with peace of mind."

"I said Xenophon, the reason you come here every day is not because you are afraid that we will not be able to keep the coast, but because we are afraid that we have captured a lot of Dionian prisoners, but don’t give it to you."

"Hahaha..."

When I heard the soldiers joking, Xenophon was not upset, and said with a smile: "Do I need you to send me a prisoner? I will catch it myself."

"No, you have no chance." A Spartan warrior joked: "The Council of Elders stipulates that elderly people over 60 can only stay at home. As a final preparation, I think you should return. Hear our good news in the city!"

The soldiers laughed again.

Xenophon likes this atmosphere. He felt the soldiers' confidence in defeating powerful enemies, so he patted his chest and said loudly, "Although I am in my 60s, I am no worse than you young people! If you don't believe me, Come out and compete with me!" As he said, he lifted his clothes and put on a wrestling posture.

The soldiers booed for a while, you pushed me, I pushed you, but no one wanted to stand up and compete with him, they all felt ashamed to compete with the old man.

At this moment, a high-pitched trumpet sounded suddenly in the camp.

"There is an enemy!!" The soldiers reminded each other loudly, each quickly rushed back to their tent, and soon they put on their armors, picked up the shield and spear, and formed a group of 10 in front of the tent. , And then under the leadership of the team officer, ran out of the camp and ran to the beach.

In just a quarter of an hour, Xenophon's surroundings became empty, and he couldn't help but sigh: If only the Spartan army defending the coast were all such fighters!

Unfortunately, there are only more than 300 well-trained, young and strong Spartans like this. Although there are more than 500 50-60 year-old Spartans who are not weak in fighting ability, they are The Beriasi and Black Laoshi who were assigned to the camp served as team officers.

So when Xenophon continued to move forward, he saw the old warriors yelling, while the Piriasi soldiers and the Black Rollers were chaotically running around.

He frowned, speeded up his steps, walked through the camp, stood on a higher place, and looked forward: under the sun, the sea is still sparkling at high tide, except for the flying seabirds, it looks very The calm, there seems to be nothing unusual.

But Xenophon did not take it lightly. The Spartans built several 5-meter-high outposts by the sea, and the sentry on the roof would naturally find out the enemy earlier than him.

Sure enough, after only a while, some small black spots appeared in the farthest part of the field of vision. It didn't take long for the black spots to become sails, then into warships, and then quickly The ground was covered with the sea in front, and it came straight towards the bay where I was...

In the process, teams of Spartan soldiers ran to the beach one after another, and under the command of the team officers, they lined up in an arc-shaped array along the flat coast.

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Dionia’s warships stopped moving less than a mile from the coast, lined up, then lowered their sails, dropped their anchors, and tried their best to stay still... …

Such a scene is not much different from yesterday. Could it be another feint by the Dionia fleet? ... Xenophon was thinking in confusion, and then saw many sailless boats sailing out between these tall Dionian three-layer paddle warships, with many soldiers on board, taking advantage of the highest tide. At that time, driven by the tide, with the small draft of the boat, it can be able to pass the underwater ship-stopping pile and continue to drive towards the coast...

The Dionians are really going to log in this time! Xenophon was surprised.

The Spartan commander by the sea apparently sensed the enemy's intentions, and the bugle sounded again.

Hundreds of Piriasi crew members flocked to more than a dozen small and medium warships moored on the beach and pushed them into the sea.

Sparta suffered a disastrous defeat in the naval battle with Athens last year, and more than 20 warships were parked in the Gulf of Laconia. As a result, after the arrival of the Dionian fleet, in order to prevent it from being completely destroyed. Push it all ashore.

In order to prevent the Dionian warship from docking, when the Spartans set up a large number of ship-blocking stakes, they specially left a blank space in the sea area more than 100 meters near the shore to ensure that their warships can also participate. defense. In the last landing operation to block Dionia, the Spartans' warships did play a significant role, this time it was a repeat of the old trick.

These Spartan warships were pushed off the coast, under the hard rowing of the sailors, ready to meet the Dionian boats heading to the coast.

However, the Dionian boat running at the forefront stopped moving about 200 meters away from the coast. The infantrymen of the fleet, carrying leather shields and helmets, and daggers jumped off the ship. The sea here is more than two meters deep, but the soldiers don't need to waste physical effort to tread the water all the time. Instead, the dense boat-blocking stakes are used for their assistance. They only need to be gently supported and they can stay in place to rest.

The crew of Piriasi were surprised to find that after the Dionian soldiers jumped out of the sea, they stayed still, while the small boats began to return. If they want to attack the Dionian soldiers floating on the sea, they must pass through the dense ship-blocking stakes, which is undoubtedly more difficult.

Just when they hesitated, they suddenly saw dozens of small black spots flying on the Dionian warship in the distance.

"It's the ballista of the Dionians! Hurry up!" a crew member exclaimed.

"Don’t worry too much. The distance is too far, they won’t be able to hit us at all." A crew member comforted. The last time the Dionians landed in battle, they used ballistas, but they almost never attacked Spartans. The warship caused any damage, so most of the crew were not too worried.

Who knows that dozens of stone bullets roared and fell on the top of the two Spartan warships at the front. While smashing a water column, eight or nine stone bullets accurately hit the hull of the ship. .

In the tremor of "Boom! Boom!", some stone bullets hit the mast, some smashed through the deck, the sawdust flew across, and the crew's exclamation and screams were intertwined.

Just when the two ships were in a panic, dozens of stone bullets roared and flew, more accurately fell around the two almost stationary warships, and soon saw the masts. It broke and the hull began to capsize.

Secrian learned the lessons from the previous time, and after the brainstorming of the squadron officers, he specially selected today, when the wind and waves are relatively calm, as the day of attack, and borrowed 40 ballistas from the land army. Instead of being scattered on the 40 warships, the five crow warships closest to the center of the coast were crossed and moved closer to each other, and they were connected to each other by a crow suspension bridge to form a whole. The 40 ballistas were concentrated on these ships. On the ship’s deck, unified command, the use of the smallest type of stone bullets (which can increase the range), and focus on attacking one target instead of fighting separately like the last time, which greatly improves the hit rate.

The first two rounds of launching hit the enemy ship, which gave the soldiers of the Dionian Ballista team a lot of confidence. Under the command of the team officer, they followed the scattered Spartan ships one by one. The concentrated bombardment.

The commander who defended the territory of Sparta was Udamidas, the brother of Phoebe Das, an outstanding general. At this moment, he was standing on the shore, paying close attention to the enemy situation on the sea. He did not expect The Dionian soldiers will go to the sea so far from the coast and stay in the waters of the boat-blocking stakes, meeting with the soldiers on the boats coming from behind, whether it is a warship or an archer on a shore tower. It is temporarily impossible to attack them.

He didn’t even expect that the stone bullets fired by the ballista on the Dionian battleship today would be so precise. Less than half an hour after the Spartan battleship left the beach, there were already seven or eight warships that weren’t. To be sunk is to be destroyed so that it cannot be used.

He had to give an order to let the few remaining warships run aground on the beach.

Who knows that he immediately saw Dionia's ballista shoot out stone bullets again. The target was no longer the warship, but the Spartan warriors on the shore.

He yelled anxiously: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!..."

After all, they experienced the last defensive landing. The soldiers were calm. They looked at the direction of the stone bullet and quickly dispersed and evaded.

The powerful stone bullets fell one after another, and the sand splashed everywhere, but did not cause any casualties.

But when Dionia’s ballista turned to attack other troops on the coast, there was an immediate riot, resulting in casualties.

Under such circumstances, Udamidas had to give an order: "All troops retreat beyond the range of the ballista!"

In this way, there is a distance of about 100 meters between the front of the Spartan army and the beach.

Udamidas made up his mind: Once he found that the enemy was about to go ashore, he led the army to rush up quickly, and started fighting with the disorganized enemy. The two sides were close together, and the ballista would naturally not be able to function.

Just when he felt a little headache for the new landing tactics of the Dionian army, he received two bad news one after another: The Laganda Passage Fortress was attacked by thousands of Dio from the west. A fierce attack by the Niah soldiers. At the same time, many Dionian soldiers appeared on the seaside trail on the western headland of the Gulf of Laconia, trying to take down the fortress south of Port Ision.

Because Agsilius led the main force northward and Messenia had been relatively calm, there were no more than a hundred soldiers remaining in these two important defensive strongholds, and most of the soldiers were Piriasi.