Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 33: Crotone’s request for help

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Although the Rockree fleet has fewer warships, it still launched an offensive without hesitation. The ships of both sides swiftly sailed towards each other and crossed each other, but the Rockree ships did not stop fighting, and It was to continue to speed up, which was beyond the expectations of the Crotone people, so they were able to easily break away from contact with Crotone's fleet at the slight price of one or two warships.

Does the Rockies want to escape? ! Askamas was quite surprised to see the performance of the Lorry fleet.

However, the actions of the Lorry Fleet were once again unexpected to him. After a distance from the Crotone's fleet, the Lorry Fleet turned the bow again and assumed an offensive posture.

Askamas didn't think about it for a moment: Why did the Rockies make this extra effort?

His fleet followed suit.

The two fleets quickly approached again, but this time the Rockree fleet did not flee.

The warships on both sides interlaced their teeth, circling and colliding with each other.

Sea battles are different from land battles. On land battles are very particular about the array formation. Once the formation is broken, it often means failure. Once the sea battle begins, the formation will disintegrate. It is often a separate battle between the warship and the warship. In a duel, winning is based on the pros and cons of the warship and the skillful handling of the captain and sailors.

Crottone and Lockley's grievances for decades, they know each other very well. The strength of the fleet, the composition of the crew, and even the characteristics of the generals, Ascamas is very clear. He firmly believes that with his fleet six more three-layer paddle warships, a total of more than the ten warships of the Rocky Fleet's superiority. The victory of this naval battle is only a matter of time.

During the battle, Ascamas’s ship retreated quickly and thrillingly avoided the collision of the enemy ship against the middle of the ship. After the danger was reduced, the enemy ship was placed sideways on his ship. The first-the front of the bronze bump. This was a great opportunity, how could he let it go, and immediately let the sailor beat back quickly, and the ship quickly changed from retreating to forward.

But the enemy ship also spun quickly, turning the bow of the ship to Asmakas's seat.

Although the enemy ship reacted quickly, the experienced Ascamas did not give up. The ship approached the enemy ship quickly, and they were about to get close to each other and cross and pass. Askamas shouted: "Receive the slurry. !"

The captain who listened to the order in the silo immediately conveyed to the sailors that the well-trained people immediately withdrew the wood pulp, and the enemy ship had just fallen past the bow and had not had time to harvest the pulp. The three-story building was more than 20 meters long. With the great inertia of the forward thrust, the paddle-mounted ship smashed most of the wooden oars of the enemy ship close to it, causing the enemy ship to fall into a predicament that it could not lack slurry and could not move forward.

Just as the sailors cheered and Ascamas was about to turn the bow and sink it completely, a fleet of more than 20 three-layered warships suddenly appeared behind the Crotone fleet. And immediately launched an attack on the Croto Civil Warship.

The Crotone fleet is in danger of being attacked by the north and the south.

Finally, the Crotone fleet was defeated, 15 ships were sunk, 8 ships were captured, and 10 ships were severely damaged. Askamas led a few warships out of the enemy's siege.

On the way to Crotone, Ascamas had been thinking painfully in frustration: Where did the extra warships from Lokrina come from?

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The victory of the naval battle inspired the Lokri army that besieged Corenia. Early in the morning of the next day, when Crotone's reinforcements arrived near the city of Corenia, Lokri’s army immediately launched a battle despite the fatigue of attacking Corenia during this period of time.

The Crotone army did not evade the challenge.

So the two sides fought a fierce battle on the outskirts of the northern city of Corenia.

As far as military strength is concerned, Lokri is a bit more, but due to the splitting of some troops to besiege Corenia, there is not much difference in the numbers of the two sides. However, the Lockley army is dominated by heavy infantry and light armoured soldiers, while Crotone has a clear advantage in light infantry composed of carefully selected 5,000 freedmen.

General Lockrie was worried about the impact of Crotone's heavy infantry, so he thickened the column. However, the Crotones learned a lot from the painful lessons of the battle with the Dionian army because of their conditions. Just after the formation, they immediately sent light infantry forward to attack. The number is too small and will soon be defeated.

Then, Crotone light infantry began to throw javelins at Lockley's army, and Lockley infantry suffered a lot of casualties.

In this situation, the Rockree immediately sounded the offensive horn.

Faced with the overwhelmingly heavy infantry charge, Crotone light infantry did not have the tight organization and discipline of the Dionian light infantry, nor did it have experienced veterans to stabilize the army, let alone Epithenis. Excellent light infantry generals such as, Zpiter, Alpens, etc., command ingeniously and flexibly, and there is no stimulation of citizenship, land and other material rewards, and the heavy infantry formation in Crotone has no extra space for them to retreat. They could only flee the battlefield from both sides in a panic. As a result, many light infantrymen did not have time to escape and were killed under the charge of Lorry's heavy infantry. Finally escaped. With the efforts of the generals, the light infantry tried to regroup. They were immediately attacked by the Rockley cavalry and were dispersed again.

However, the harassment of light infantry also consumes and disperses the energy of Lockley's infantry, and now only infantry-to-infantry battles remain on the battlefield. One party has just escaped from the sea of ​​bitterness in Dionia, and his body has not yet fully recovered; one party has continuously attacked Corenia without getting enough rest. One side has fewer soldiers, but has the belief in washing away the shame and defending the territory; one side has many soldiers, but it has been hit by light infantry before, and its morale is slightly low.

The two sides fought for nearly two hours, and Lockley finally broke down and retreated from the battlefield.

In this battle, Crotone’s and Lori’s casualties were similar, there were more than 2,000 people, but Crotone’s casualties were more of the freed.

Although Lorry was defeated, the casualties were not serious, and it withdrew from the siege of Corenia.

Crotone’s reinforcements were able to successfully enter the city of Corenia and were warmly welcomed by the people in the city, but the situation was not favorable for Crotone.

Lokery’s army retreated to the south of Corenia and set up camp, still eyeing Corenia.

The Lokri fleet was cruising on the sea, blocking Crotone’s sea lanes. The pain Dionia suffered before, Crotone also tasted at this moment.

At this time, the inner city of Crotone was exhausted, and Lockey still had enough power. Two days later, more than one thousand Lockey soldiers landed on the coast between Crotone and Siriting, burning and looting all the way. , Invaded the inner territory of Crotone northward.

After experiencing the shock of the defeat in the naval battle, the people of Crotone were panicked again when they heard the news of the Lokri invasion. The council accused Lysias of going his own way, leaving the city empty and unable to send troops to repel the enemy's invasion.

Lysias did not refute the council’s criticism of him. He was also shocked by the fleet’s fiasco. At this time, he could only propose the council to mobilize the city and send envoys to Dionia and Asp. Rustum City asks for help.

In this case, Crotone actually has no other way to think of. It's just that the war with Dionia has just ended, and the entire Crotone city has not yet criticized Dionia. Disappeared, but at this moment they have to beg for help. Both the parliamentarians and the people are a bit insufferable.

Asprostum is not far from Crotone, and Sisprotis hurried to the south gate of Asprotis in less than two hours.

Although Dionia has achieved peace with Crotone, the defense of Asprostum has not been relaxed, but has become more severe. There is a team of sentinels patrolling back and forth in the city, and there are guards stationed in front of the city gate. Although there are only a few pedestrians entering and leaving the city gate, they still carry out their tasks seriously, which allows Thesis Protis to accept the guards patiently. Check.

When the captain of the city guard appeared in front of him again, he brought an order from Chief Executive Silos: he was allowed to enter.

As soon as he entered the city, he was startled by the sight in front of him: this not-wide main street was dusty, some people used T-shaped picks to dig ditches on both sides of the street, some were using hammers and The awl beats the stones stacked on the side of the road, and then spread the cut stones on the dirt road. Some people demolished some buildings obstructing the smooth flow of the road and rebuilt the brick walls...

Earth transporters, stone transporters, garbage transporters... Countless strong men are busy, turning this place into a big construction site. Everyone is working in full swing. Almost no one stops the work. Look more He glanced.

"What is this doing?" Sisprotis asked curiously.

The captain of the city guard replied: "Because we will move here in the future, we are building our own home. The roads in this city are too narrow, and the roads are not level, garbage and sewage are everywhere..."

The captain talked about a lot of the city’s ills. Sisprotis thought it was funny. He often came to Asprostum and felt that it was no different from Tarantum. When the Dionians said those questions, they immediately asked: "Are you not Greeks?"

"We are Lukaria, but we are Dionian citizens!" the captain of the city guard exclaimed.

"Your Greek is good." Sisprotis praised, and then the conversation changed: "I heard that your Lucania area is all mountainous, the land is barren, and you often don't have enough food. I didn’t expect to care so much about the living environment."

"Since our tribe joined Dionia, we have not been hungry anymore!" The captain blushed as if he had been humiliated, and shouted, "The place where we lived before is indeed not as good as the houses here. , But compared to Turey I have seen, it is far from here!"