Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 41: Surprise (1)

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Originally, Timaras saw too much trouble and suggested: Ship some of the trophies and transport them back to Crotone in advance.

It was rejected by Melanius. His reason was: Castellon and Crimea joined our Crotone Alliance for the first time. The serious consequences of Crotone being right!

In fact, there is another reason in his heart not to declare: he is afraid that the materials shipped back by the ship will be privately divided by the people in the city hall, and then the wealth he divided up will be much less.

As for why did not burn the pontoon? Daves’ worries were completely unnecessary. Melancios did not take Amendorara in his eyes at all. He believed that with the destruction of Turíy, there would be nothing to do in the northern part of Great Greece. Threatening Crotone's power, and in order to facilitate the migration of Crotone people to Xubari soon, the pontoon bridge was retained.

The marching columns in Crotone are more than ten miles long, and most of them are fully loaded trucks, so the march is extremely slow. At dusk, the former team had just arrived in Castellon.

The Castellon people were indeed terrified. The chief general Amiklis led the city-state's high-levels with smiles, opened the city to welcome Melanius who returned from victory, and held a grand victory banquet for him. At the same time Entertain the generals of Crotone. At the same time, they euphemistically said to Melancios: Castellon is small, unable to accommodate such a huge army, and so many of the items are placed in the city. If there is any loss, it will be bad if there is a conflict.

They also said: Castellon has prepared a large amount of wine and food for the soldiers in Crotone to wish them joy and make up for Castellon's apology for not being able to let them into the city.

Melansius was not someone who could think of soldiers. Seeing that the Castellons were so thoughtful, he gladly agreed and led Timaras and other dozens of senior team officers with Amiklis. Into the city.

On the way into the city, Melanius heard the spy's return: The people of Amendorara rushed to the Subari Plain to rescue the Tury. Immediately laughed and said: "Amendorara did this in vain. We will be back soon. The Subari Plain can only belong to Crotone!"

When the soldiers in Crotone heard that there was wine and meat to eat, they immediately accelerated their march. It was late before they started camping. They just set up a tent, and then they couldn't wait to start drinking and eating meat, celebrating the victory, and clamoring until late at night, their tired bodies couldn't resist the invasion of the Sleeping God, and they fell asleep deeply...

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Ansitanos did not write in his book: On this day, the citizens of Amendorara, contrary to their usual training habits, roughly set up tents, simply constructed the camp, and all began to sleep. In fact, it was mainly women, teenagers, and old people from Amendorara who were outside to rescue the Tureys in the afternoon...

For this battle, Amendorara almost dispatched the whole city.

This night, Daves did not let the Turian people enter the newly built camp, and the exhausted Turiya people fell asleep in the ground. At this time, the Amendorara citizen soldiers in the camp were being awakened one by one by the team officer. In their sleepy eyes, they began to silently eat the prepared freshly baked bread and drank the hot lamb soup. , And a little lamb and cheese. Although they had eaten dinner a few hours ago, these foods will store more protein and calories for them, which will be consumed by the following long-distance march and fighting. Then, they began to put on the breastplates and gaiters taken out from the panniers, and inspected the stabbing gun, the knife and the round shield.

At this time, several torches were erected in a clearing in the center of the camp. Daves and the captains, company captains, and squad captains were carefully observing according to Izam's The information, a topographic model of Crotone camp simply fabricated from clay.

"Melansius was a little cautious. He let his troops cross the Trionto River and camped on the south side of Castellon. They thought that Castellon would be blocking them. It’s safe, but it just makes his soldiers more negligent.” Daves used a stick to tap the model of the Trionto River that separates Castellon City from Crotone’s camp: “But Izam led people to try different sections of the river repeatedly. He said that there is a section of the river that can be walked completely, because the location is in the middle reaches, far from the Crotone camp, and will not be found. He also sent someone to report back,'The Crotone people have been drinking and reveling in the camp all night.' I believe that when we attack tomorrow, they will still sleep like dead pigs." Daves' words made everyone understand. laugh.

"They didn't dig trenches, set up fences, or deer villages. I'm afraid they won't even have sentries by tomorrow morning. Do they think it's a walk in their own courtyard? It's so easy!" The team officers listened to Davers' introduction. The situation, not only didn't feel funny, but was irritated, one after another secretly became ruthless, and these arrogant Crotones must not be let go.

"The only trouble is that their tents are set up very scattered, with relatively large intervals. The southern part protrudes a large part because the materials they grabbed are concentrated here." Davers used The wooden stick drew a large circle above the camp model, and said cautiously: “Our civic soldiers and the Lucania Brigade led by Bagul have only about 5,000 people (Artenis sent people to the Eastern Mediterranean to recruit one after another. Some 500 freedmen from Thrace, Rhodes and Crete came to complete the Seventh Battalion. In order to fully encircle the camp in Crotone, our attack formation can only have Soldiers in a single row."

"Leader, don't worry, one column is enough! It's more troublesome to deal with people, isn't it easy to deal with a group of sleeping pigs!" Amintas's words caused everyone to cover their mouths and laugh.

Davos smiled slightly and said to Capus who was beside him: "The south of the camp is handed over to your first brigade. You will attack first. Because the south area is large, there are many trucks and supplies blocking the advance. How to solve these problems, you and your subordinates discuss a solution. I only have one request. Whether the first group can become the number one in the army depends on whether you can keep up with the attack speed of other groups, even faster than them. Hurry up!"

Kapus, who is usually steady, is also excited at this moment: "The commander can rest assured that the first brigade will never disappoint your expectations!"

Daves nodded and turned to Drax: "The second group went to the east of the camp. After the first group launched an attack, you could start attacking. The east of the camp was close to Castellon City, The first thing the enemy who is attacking and panicking thinks is to escape into the city, so you have to use the most violent attack to let them dispel this idea!"

Dracks glanced at Capps and said: "Legislative Commander, our second squadron will use actions to prove that we are no worse than the first squad!"

"Okay, you have to have this kind of confidence!" Daves praised, then turned to Hironimos: "The third team attacked from the west. Although most of you are recruits, I believe that the third team will have Excellent performance."

Hieronimus clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry!"

"Epiteans."

"In."

"You and Spite led the light shields of the 7th Battalion to attack from the north."

"Legion commander, is our attacking number less?" Epithenis immediately asked.

"Don't worry. Is Baggul here?" Daves asked.

"I'm here!" Bagul said from behind the crowd.

"Come to the front." Daves beckoned him to approach, and then said in a deep voice: "You led the Lucania Brigade to join the attack on the north, and the commander is Epithenis."

Bagul glanced at Epithenis with a hesitant look. Epithenis gave him a friendly smile. He bowed his head and said, "Okay."

"The light shield soldiers are good at melee combat, and the impact of your Lucaria fighters is also very powerful, and the enemy may not consider fleeing to the north at first, because the Trionto River is blocking it. I don’t I’m worried about your attacks. I’m only worried about your lack of cooperation and rushing too violently, which will lead to gaps. So after you come down, you must communicate with yourself to solve the problem of how to improve cooperation and control the rhythm of the attack."

"There is one more important point!" Daves said with a heavy tone and a serious look: "Bagul, I have told you before, and I want to emphasize again that before the battle, whether it is marching You must keep quiet if you are lurking, and you must not alarm the enemy! You must warn your people carefully and take care of their mouths. If anyone does not obey the order, it will affect this action. According to the "Amendorara Military Law", the serious ones Will be put to death!"

"I see." Baggul was secretly frightened. After deciding to go back, he immediately discussed with Asistes: how to prevent the people from making mistakes.

"Legal commander, don't we archers and slingers take part in this operation?" Alpens, seeing that he no longer had his place in the deployment of the offensive camp, couldn't help but asked urgently.

"Of course you are indispensable." Daves smiled: "Alpunes, you lead archers and slingers to ambush along the road to Castellon on the east side of the camp. Once someone comes out of the city to rescue, Give them the greatest damage!"

"Yes!"

"According to Izzam’s intelligence, Castellon’s soldiers who fought with Crotone did not return to the city because they wanted to celebrate the victory at the camp. There should not be many soldiers who can fight in the city, and the fighting strength should be good. Not strong. Oh...there are those Crotone generals who are having fun in the city. It is estimated that their legs will be weak tomorrow morning, no matter where they can use their weapons..." Daves finished, everyone laughed ambiguously. .

"After you go down, you will deploy your subordinate company to the attack line position, but please remember-there must be no gaps in the attack line between the team and the team, between the company and the company, and between the team and the team!"