Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 178: The Battle of Crotone (4)

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However, Dionia's spear phalanx is approaching, and the Celtics at the forefront are directly threatened by a terrible spear wall. They were already very angry because they were hit by the Numibians before. In order to escape for their lives, some of their irritable fighters simply wielded their big swords and attacked the Numibians who were blocking them. This aroused the anger and resistance of the Numibians, and delayed the escape of the entire cavalry group.

The leaders and team officers of the two tribes of Axirita and Gaba yelled loudly, even sounded the horn of retreat, but to this already dusty, noisy, chaotic battlefield within a radius of a few miles , Their efforts can only be in vain...

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When the huge figures of the Celtic cavalry with horses and men ran into Tapirus and the others, Tapirus couldn't help but tighten his whole body, closed his eyes, and subconsciously clamped the spear, ready to bear the huge The impact of power.

Only heard the miserable screams of the horses, and a strong force was transmitted to the barrel of the gun, making it almost impossible for him to hold it tightly. The soldiers in the first few rows also ran into him at the same time, pushing him back violently.

"Stay steady, brothers! Stabilize!..." The soldiers behind him pressed hard against his body, giving him strength, and loudly cheering for them.

The 15 ranks of long spear formations plus the light armor on the back, nearly 20 ranks thick gave Tapirus and the others enough strength to support them, allowing them to stabilize their figure.

Tapilus opened his eyes and saw that the horse's back hoof hit the ground, the front hoof was raised, and eight or nine spears struck his neck and chest at the same time, and held it in the air, but it was not dead. , Wailing incessantly. The enemy on the horse has been pierced by two spears through the left and right chests, lying on the ground, already dead. Horse blood and human blood flow down the barrel of the gun...

The soldiers pulled out their spears laboriously.

Tapirus was surprised to find: Although the enemy's horses were coming on fiercely, there were no major casualties among the soldiers, and the formation remained relatively intact, with only a few soldiers' spears broken. After the cavalry collision this time, the enemy did not dare to continue the attack. Instead, they stopped the horse urgently and wanted to escape in a panic. There was a mess in front of them...

Tapirus and the other soldiers relaxed their hearts, and the enemy's weakness also fueled their courage.

"Brothers, keep going!" Tapirus shouted, and the soldiers responded with a roar.

They stepped over the enemy's corpse, bypassed the dying horse, and moved on.

Kapus behind the phalanx was surprised to see that the entire phalanx successfully blocked the advance of the enemy's large number of cavalry, and the enemy who was in chaos also made him realize that there is no opportunity to lose, and that loss will never come, so he is decisive. Order: "Charge!"

Yes, the soldiers of the Spear Brigade will not only move forward steadily, they can charge like heavy infantry without any armor. This tactic is the focus of training these days.

The rapid continuous sounding of the bugle made the soldiers refreshed.

"Attention! It's going to charge!!..." Tapirus hissed loudly.

The soldiers of the company no longer stuck so tightly, but opened some distances apart. There are still small steps under their feet, but the step frequency is gradually accelerating...

The speed of the phalanx's advancement accelerated, and the enemy riders were stabbed off one by one, screaming one after another.

At the same time, the entire phalanx became no longer continuous, and there were a lot of gaps. The light armoured soldiers rushed into the array along the gaps, matched the length of the spearmen, and slaughtered them. The immovable enemy.

When the Enemy’s Dionian cavalry turned before, a few cavalrymen accidentally hit the spear phalanx due to tension. Some cavalry at the end of the line were wounded and killed by the Celtic cavalry who followed... After sustaining some casualties, they withdrew smoothly from both sides. At the same time that the spear phalanx blew the charge, the Dionian cavalry immediately returned from both sides after quick rectification, and they bravely blocked the passages on both sides.

"Vengeance for Soboks!!" Leides yelled and gave the order to attack.

The infantry has the unyielding hero Dracos, and the cavalry also has the dead hero Soboks. At this time, the Dionian cavalry were holding on to wash away the humiliation of the mercenary cavalry that had been defeated by Syracuse before, and desperately fighting with the enemy regardless of life and death.

On the battlefield where the horses cannot run, the difference in riding skills cannot be seen, nor is it useful. This makes the Dionian cavalry fight with the Celtics and Numibians on both sides. , It also made it even more difficult for the enemy to escape from the battlefield on both sides, resulting in the compression of the central battlefield's regional space and the inability to evacuate from the rear for a while, thus creating conditions for a large number of spearmen and light armoured soldiers to annihilate the enemy.

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"Your Majesty, the Spear Brigade blocked the enemy cavalry's impact and is now fighting back!" Hearing Tolmeid's excited report, Davers's uneasy heart settled down, but his expression remained solemn: "Now Look at the 1st, 2nd Army and Miron's!"

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Phoebe Das, who is in the army formation, does not know the battle situation of his cavalry. He is now focusing on leading Siracusa’s right wing to stride forward. At the same time, he is walking and paying attention to the entire right wing array line, just as he said. As expected, the entire array gradually tilted to the left.

The infantry tactics the Spartans are best at are "left-hand tactics." During the battle, the Spartans took advantage of the characteristics of heavy infantry holding a shield in the left hand, leaning to the right, and moving the array gradually to the left, and designed the soldiers at the far right to accelerate. After reaching the enemy line, the right wing would naturally turn left as a whole. In order to directly attack the side of the enemy's left wing, the enemy who lacks training is the first to be defeated when the flanks are violently attacked. Most of the time, the battle is over before the other two are in direct contact.

At such an important meeting, Phoebe Das, who was also nervous, chose the tactic he was most familiar with. Although the Syracuse army cannot perform a uniform left-hand strike in battle like the Spartans who have undergone rigorous training together since childhood, the Syracuse army also has advantages that the Spartan army does not have. There are a large number of infantry and cavalry, and they have more soldiers than Dionians, and their cavalry is more than Dionians. After getting a rough understanding of Dionia's formation, Phoebedas was delighted to discover that he could completely concentrate his troops on the right flank, take the lead in defeating the enemy's left flank, and lay the foundation for the victory of the entire battle!

Since the left end of the right wing is connected to the middle road when starting to march (the cavalry connected to the right end has rushed to the front), according to the previous habit, the instinctive speed of progress is slower than that of soldiers without friendly troops outside of the right side. , Coupled with the characteristics of heavy infantry leaning to the right when marching, the right wing of Siracusa, which has a line of more than two miles, moved forward for a while, and the entire array was obviously tilted.

For this, Phoebidas was happy and happy to see it happen. He calculated: When contacting Dionia's left flank, the tilted array should be able to cut to the enemy's flank. By that time, the cavalry should have solved Dionian's cavalry, and then turned to attack the rear of their left wing. Dionian's left wing was attacked on three sides. Even if the heavy infantry was strong, it might not be able to resist it!

Phoebedas can detect the anomaly of the array. The team officers with rich combat experience in the Dionian First and Second Corps on the opposite side can also detect it. The two commanders who have been receiving reports immediately immediately I realized that something was wrong, and the two armies were only less than 400 meters apart.

Antonius immediately sent a messenger to Amintas, Milon, and Cipros at both ends to convey his advice: stop advancing immediately and regroup to deal with the enemy in front of him.

Soon the consent of the commander of the Second Army, Amintas, was obtained.

Antonius could not wait for the response of Milon and Cipros, who were still hesitating, and decisively sounded the bugle "Stop Forward", and then the Second Army issued the same order.

The First and Second Legions deserve to be the oldest, most veterans, and the strongest in combat effectiveness of the Dionian legions. The strongest combat effectiveness also means the strongest ability to execute orders.

The bugle blew, the flag waved, and the team officers and soldiers stopped advancing in spite of their doubts.

The two Dionian legions stopped advancing, leaving Crotone on the far left-Trina reinforcements at a loss. Milon and Cipros, who were still hesitating, had to immediately order: Stop advancing!

Their city-state citizen soldiers do not have the systematic military training and complicated military orders and establishments like Dionia, and there is no "stop forward" bugle at all. They can only send many messengers in front of the line. , The command was communicated loudly behind the array, so the entire array seemed a bit chaotic. Fortunately, they are connected to the First Army, and the First Army does not move, which will naturally affect the neighboring Kurt reinforcements and stop advancing in a hurry.

At this time, the first and second legions had begun to steer the entire array without a hassle, and the Kurt coalition forces could only follow suit, which was somewhat difficult. Because the Dionian Army marched with a company as a dense grid of small squares, it has strong flexibility, coupled with capable team officers and rigorously trained soldiers, so it will queue up smoothly. Throw it over and let the front of the formation face the enemy again. The Kurt coalition’s array is a whole dense array, about half a mile long and 15 columns thick. The soldiers are heavily armored and heavily armored. The thick and airtight Corinthian helmet is a bit difficult for receiving voice commands. It is not easy to make an in-situ steering in normal training, not to mention that this is on the battlefield that is killing the sky. Facing the rapidly approaching enemy army, the Kurt reinforcements want to complete such a more complicated tactical maneuver. It's even more difficult.