Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 38: The Battle of Dahetan (3)
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For a time, there was chaos in the camp, and Gnainath and the others were unable to gather enough fighters to repel the riot caused by the Vigs for revenge...
"Captain, look!" Outside the Lucania camp, the mercenary cavalry who was watching the movement exclaimed excitedly.
Leides was originally annoyed because he didn't stop all of the soldiers who reported to Lucania. He didn't expect the enemy's camp to catch fire. Then he saw the people inside started fighting each other. He couldn't believe him. s eyes.
"Captain, it's infighting! The enemy is infighting!!" The cavalry next to him continued to shout excitedly.
Leders suppressed the excitement in his heart, observed for a while, and after confirming that there was no doubt, he said: "Quick! Go back and tell Chief Daves that the enemy camp has serious infighting, and there is no ability to send reinforcements for the time being!"
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Daves didn't know that there was an infighting in Camp Lucania, and he was worried about the stalemate in front of him.
Although the Lucania fighters are poorly equipped, lack physical strength, and slip underfoot (the river beach becomes muddy due to frequent trampling), they are still like the tide in the sea, wave after wave hitting the Greek army. In the defense line, their bloodliness was also aroused by the screams of their compatriots: even if they were stabbed by a stabbing gun, they would hold on to the stabbing gun; if knocked down by a buckler, they would desperately hook up before sliding down the slope. The feet of the Greek soldiers...
The line of defense to the north of the Greek army is crumbling.
"Report, Chief Dracos is down!"
"What?!" Daves was startled. Behind the heavy infantry line, he already felt the commotion of the mercenaries ahead, and the commotion was spreading.
"Let Achita draw three hundred people to support the north!" Daves said anxiously.
"Leader, you have given this order before, Tarantum has no soldiers to send, and they are also very difficult!" Assistus reminded.
"Well." Daves rubbed his face with his hands, and for the first time he independently directed such a big battle, he was a little nervous about the future fate of him and the soldiers. He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then decisively ordered: "Order the slave team and the light shield to fight!"
Next, he looked back at Martius: "It's time for us to play!"
"Ho!" Martius slapped the buckler with his saber excitedly, and the guards also put down their stabbing guns, drew out their sabers, and yelled loudly. Experienced them know that long weapons are no longer useful in such an extremely crowded battlefield.
Davos rushed up first, and Martius's guards followed suit and quickly guarded him around. Asistes raised his flag, behind Daves.
The flying flag made the mercenaries who were beginning to disperse hesitate, and the Lukanians who were ramming indiscriminately found their targets, gradually rushing towards Daves and the others, so that the pressure on other lines of defense was slightly relieved. But the impact that Daves faced suddenly increased...
At this time, the bronze horn continued to sound.
Although the light shield soldiers are sore in their hands and feet because of their frequent javelin throws, they did not hesitate to raise their leather shields and long-handled counter-blade knives under the leadership of Epithenis and Zpitre. Plug the gap in the mercenary line of defense.
The slaves have long been impatient, because Daves promised them that as long as they win the battle, they will be free. So when the order came, they shouted: "For freedom!!!"
With ample physical strength and high fighting spirit, they had no combat skills and drove some of the enemies who had broken through the line of defense to the **** again, and at the same time some mercenaries were squeezed down by them...
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The same chanting "for freedom" was the team led by Merses. Under the leadership of the mercenary veteran, these thousand slaves not only rushed to Felicius, but also bypassed the canines and scuffles. The front of the two teams together, like a hammer, hit the enemy's side and rear with full force.
Akpiru, who was worrying about the battle in the rear, and the other two leaders, five heads, were at the brunt. The few guards around him could not stop the onslaught of the energetic slaves.
"Why?! Why hasn't Cincinnag arrived yet?!" Akpiru shouted angrily.
"Big Chief, leave quickly, you won't be able to leave anymore!" the subordinate anxiously persuaded.
Withdraw? Throwing nearly 10,000 soldiers here? ! How could Akpiru want to persist, but he heard a sad cry from not far away: "Big boss! Big boss!..."
It turned out that Udler, the chief of Niutum, fell to the ground with several spears in his body.
Akpiru finally stopped hesitating. Under the desperate **** of his subordinates, Akpiru and Laos Chief Tula fled west with dozens of people in panic, and the remaining five hundred Lucanias The soldiers were all made dumplings.
At this time, the Ryders cavalry just rushed back to the combat site, shouting loudly: "Infighting in the enemy camp, reinforcements will not come for the time being!"
The good news is that the morale of the mercenaries has been greatly boosted, and the soldiers who can understand Greek among the Lucanians are shocked (the Lucanians, as neighbors of the Greek city-state, are hostile, but There are also trade contacts, many people who can speak Greek), and the leader fled, morale plummeted...
The mercenary soldiers and slave soldiers fought back and forth. Five hundred Lucanians were either killed or fleeing. Then the team in the same place did not rest, and Felicius ordered the slaves and mercenaries led by Mersish to quickly reinforce the western line of defense.
At this time, the situation on the western line of defense was worse than that of the northern line. The forces led by Capus were limited and stretched, and the thin line of defense was broken by a surging flow of people in many places.
Capus, Antonios, and Alexis join the soldiers with shield guns and fight in battle (according to the military law formulated by Daves: No special circumstances, company captains are not allowed to fight with the enemy in person to prevent loss of command ).
At this moment of crisis, Felicius led his team to arrive, and the joining of nearly two thousand people finally stabilized the line of defense...
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The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the impact of the Lucanian tribal coalition forces on the defense line began to weaken...
The entire river beach area is full of soldiers who were stabbed, robbed, arrows, flying rocks, and even trampled by their own tribe. The moaning, wailing, and crying sounds are endless, and their voices are getting louder and louder. There are fewer and fewer tribal warriors still fighting...
Seeing that more and more fighters see no hope of breaking through the siege, they turn to the Tino River and escape to the hot spring swamp. The result is either being washed away by the river, or their feet are stuck in the mud of the swamp and cannot move...
At this time, Daves will have the opportunity to resolutely issue an offensive order.
The bronze trumpet sounded loudly and quickly, and the extremely exhausted Greek soldiers were stimulated by the imminent victory, and under the leadership of Daves, Archita, Felicius and other generals from the east, west, On the northern three sides, like a tiger pounced on, it launched its final attack on the almost incapable enemy down the slope. The soldiers of Lukania could not resist, and retreated...Finally, except for a small number of soldiers surrendered, the rest were not killed. Death, even if forced into the Tino River and the hot spring marshes, killed by a long-range attack from bows and arrows and javelins...
The first large-scale battle independently commanded by Daves in his long military career: the Battle of the Great Beach (also known as the Battle of Hot Springs Swamp), against Luca with approximately 7,500 mixed forces (including slaves) More than 9,000 people from the Nya tribe’s coalition forces ended up with more than 1,000 casualties in the Greek army (half of which were slaves). In addition to more than 400 people from the Lukaria tribe’s surrender, the entire army was wiped out. Daves won a big victory.
The whole big river beach is like a mountain, and blood flows into a river...
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The efforts of Cincinnag, Gnainat and others were ultimately in vain, and the defeat of Picosis was irreversible. They finally took more than two hundred people and fled out of the camp in embarrassment, watching the fire continue. A few miles of camp burned to ashes...
And the enemy of life and death-the Vigs, led by Sedorum, entered the mountain road to the west and embarked on their way home.