Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 180: The Battle of Crotone (6)
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After the light infantry retreated, the Dionian phalanx soldiers on the right and the center quickly threw two rounds of javelins. When the army formation on the opposite side of Syracuse was a bit chaotic, they held long shields, stabbing guns, and Calling "Hades", rushed to the enemy...
So far, the two armies of Dionia and Syracuse are fully engaged.
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The news of the battle between the two armies was passed back to the Acropolis by Crotone’s spies, which attracted the attention of all the people in the city. After all, the victory of this battle is not only related to the thousands of Crotone who went to fight. The life and death of the citizen soldiers is more related to the survival of all the people in Crotone. Therefore, many people want to go to the battlefield to watch the battle with anxiety, including many members of the council.
After deliberation, the remaining hundreds of civilian soldiers in the Acropolis continued to stay behind to protect the women, children, and elderly people who were inconvenient in the city, while tens of thousands of Crotone citizens were in Lycias and West. Under the leadership of members of the General Executive Committee such as Splotis, he went down the hill with a horror and came to the ruins of the inner city of Crotone, which was already a piece of rubble.
Before they walked to the north wall, they were sentimentally, and the deafening sound enveloped them all over the world. Many people listened to them, their faces were pale, their legs fought, and they needed the support of others to move forward.
Due to the burning of the fire and the wanton destruction of the Syracuse people, sections of the northern city wall that collapsed are like old people’s teeth, with gaps everywhere, and only the section connecting the city gates is standing relatively intact...
Lysias and the others stepped on the stone steps with a heavy heart, went to the top of the city, supported the battlements, and looked out anxiously: In the distance, densely packed soldiers were fighting together, filling the vast expanse of the Croton Plain. In the wilderness, the huge terrifying sound they made seemed as if the earth was roaring, stirring the dust and sand, and even the sky and the earth changed color...
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In the southern sea of the inner city of Crotone, more than 80 raven warships led by Midolades are confronting nearly forty remnant warships of Syracuse led by Leptinius.
The headache for Midolades is that once his fleet approaches the Syracuse warship, the Syracuse fleet retreats quickly, and the special structure of the raven warship prevents them from being able to catch up at speed. The ordinary warships on board Syracuse; but once the Midolades fleet approaches the coast, the Syracuse fleet is forced to come again...
Just when Midolades hesitated, the troops staying in the camp in Syracuse sent hundreds of soldiers. They took the thousands of Sicilian freedmen who were usually responsible for transporting luggage and rushed to the beach with weapons. Midolades' attempt to send sailors to land to disrupt the rear of Siracusa's army failed.
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Since Trina was captured by Syracuse, a thousand Syracuse soldiers, more than a thousand Hibernian soldiers, and a thousand Corenian soldiers have been stationed in the city, a total of 3000 Multiple people. Being far away from the front line, Trina’s garrison had a very leisurely life, until Dionysius’ orders came from Crotone’s camp twice in the past two days: let them strengthen their defenses, and pay close attention to the northern Krishna. The movement of Napetia City!
The garrison general immediately rallied and strengthened the reconnaissance of the north.
A shocking news came from the scouts this afternoon: A fleet of ships was docked on the beaches of the Ophimia Plain, and about five or six thousand Dionian soldiers landed. After landing, the Dionian troops were March to Trina City!
Following news came: more than a thousand Dionian soldiers came out of Knapetia, and they have entered the Ophimia Plain!
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A piece of news made Trina’s Siracusa general restless. Although he was eager to do meritorious service, the incoming enemy of six or seven thousand men was obviously not something he could defeat with this little force. He immediately ordered : Close the city gates and pull up the suspension bridge. The soldiers of each unit will go up to the city wall to defend according to the deployment of the previous exercise. At the same time, they will immediately prepare enough arrows, javelins, stones, tar...
In addition, he also sent two messengers to urgently rush to Siriting and Crotone camp to report.
Silos led the troops to the city of Trina. After carefully observing the defense of the Syracuse, he did not immediately launch the siege. In fact, time does not allow.
He ordered: The army began to build a camp in the northwest one mile away from the city, waiting for Knapetia's reinforcements to come and meet.
At the same time, in order to prevent the main force of Syracuse in the east from attacking, he sent out the cavalry squad and the mountain reconnaissance squad, which are not many in the army, to investigate Siritin and Syra in Crotone. The movement of Kuzha camp.
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"Offensive! Offensive!!..." Standing behind the phalanx, Matonis wished he could go into battle in person and fight happily. Unfortunately, he is already the commander of the army and is limited by the "Dionian Military Law". The drummer can only be ordered to beat continuously, urging the soldiers to step up the onslaught.
Although the Seventh Army is newly built, most of the soldiers are recruits, but Heraclea’s victory gave them victory and honor, and it also gave them more confidence. They launched a fierce attack on the enemy without fear. .
Cregennes was a freedman who had just arrived in Turri four years ago, but he was lucky enough to be one of the five thousand freedmen light infantry in the Battle of Trionto, in order to defeat Crotone His partial teacher made a contribution, and finally participated in the triumphal ceremony, which gave him a goal to struggle.
At the beginning of this year, he has become an official citizen. In recent years, the Dionian army has been expanding, but the instructors of the Military Affairs Department in various places are always eliminated when selecting new recruits in the army. The reason is that his physique is weak and he is not suitable for melee infantry. The instructors suggested that he become a light infantry. But he has always dreamed of becoming a heavy infantry, so he has always been a legion reserve, but he is resilient, but he is not discouraged. He has been exercising and honing his combat skills until the war breaks out and the new legion is established.
Originally based on his status and qualifications (official citizen, three-year corps reserve), Legion Commander Matonis prepared to let him be the company captain, but he refused because he felt that he had never been a team officer. Suddenly he was promoted to a mid-to-senior team officer. He had no experience, and at the same time he couldn't fight on the front line. He couldn't show the results of his hard training. In the end, he became a squad leader of the 7th Army.
Now, he is fighting at the forefront. The long shield in his left hand protects his body firmly, and the lancet in his right hand hangs above his head, almost staying still, but once the enemy reveals a flaw, it pierces like lightning, every time His stabbing was ruthless and accurate, which brought a great threat to the enemy, and he stabbed several people in a short period of time.
He seldom yells and gives orders to some team officers, but his pioneers have greatly encouraged the soldiers under him, and their morale has been boosted...
Olivers, who has always been dissatisfied with Matonis and always has to compete with him, certainly won't let the 7th Legion be superior. Under his strict orders, the Sixth Army also made a fierce attack...
More than half of the battles against these two new Dionian regiments were Sicilian city-state soldiers, such as Katane, Leottini, Gela, Kamenlina... These city-states said they were Syracuse. Zha’s allies are actually vassals. The rulers of his city-states are all tyrants directly appointed and supported by Dionysius. Therefore, it was not the willingness of these soldiers to attack Great Greece. It was just that they won successively during this period of time and captured them again. Lots of trophies, so morale is not bad, and because of the incentive of "victory to go home", their fighting spirit is second only to Syracuse soldiers.
But Syracuse’s left-wing team also includes the soldiers of Syracuse in the Great Greek Allies, Lokri, Medema, Hibernian, and Correnian. Especially the Corenians, they were reluctant to surrender to Syracuse due to the situation. Of course Dionysius knew very well, so he kept a thousand Corenians in Trina and a thousand in Sirinian to replace his own troops, as well as two thousand Corenian soldiers. He scattered them in the forefront of the left wing, forcing them to fight in order to survive, but their fighting spirit can be imagined.
Originally, Dionysius saw that Dionian’s right wing was basically soldiers wearing Corinthian helmets, holding bucklers and spears. He thought that they were not the main force of Dionian, so he dared to make such an arrangement. .
Who knows that these two new legions, which are born with calves and are not afraid of tigers, have a total of 14,000 soldiers attacking bravely, so that although there are 20,000 people, the left wing of Siracusa is forced to slowly retreat. ...
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Syracuse is retreating from the left wing and retreating from the center.
The soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Army of Dionia experienced the defeat of Siritin and witnessed the tragic death of the commander and comrades in arms. Today, they fought the enemy with the purpose of washing away their shame and revenge. Therefore, It's not just brave, but a little crazy, all with grim expressions, desperately trying to get close to the enemy and fight in close quarters.
The Bruti soldiers who fought side by side were also infected by it and displayed the ferocity of the mountain people. The turmoil in the Bruti area some time ago has greatly affected the perception of other Dionian people towards the Bruti. Today they need to use their performance to show their loyalty to the Alliance.
At the forefront of Syracuse’s Middle Road are the Campania mercenaries. These mercenaries with rich combat experience learned about the close combat effectiveness of the Dionian heavy infantry after the last battle, so they tried their best to fight with Dai The Onia soldiers stretched a distance and used a lancet to stop the enemy from approaching. At the same time, they know that the heavy infantry's desperate onslaught is very physical. They waited patiently for the moment when Dionia's manpower was exhausted, and then counterattacked. This result has caused the Campania mercenaries and another 10,000 Syracuse civic soldiers to retreat both forcedly and deliberately.