Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 57: Dionia’s counterattack

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As the Romans gave the order to retreat, the trumpets of Wolsey's reinforcements were also sounded.

The people of Setia in the city heard the sound of the horn, and their confidence suddenly increased.

Because the Roman army used squadrons as tactical units, the organization of the army was not too disorganized during the siege, but the Roman soldiers were mostly heavy infantry, not prepared with javelins, arrows, stones...not to mention the city walls. There are still many gaps, and they stand on the head of the city to defend, and they can't play a big blocking role. So the Romans hurriedly organized a team and rushed to the gap in the city wall. Before the defensive formation was arranged, Wolsey reinforcements poured in from the gap in the west wall...

The lack of physical strength and disorganized Roman army could not stop it for long, and the formation was disrupted by vigorous Volsi soldiers. They took advantage of the situation and swarmed everywhere in the city and carried out fierce attacks on the retreating Roman soldiers.

The Romans flew out of the city of Setia in a violent collapse.

Wolsey's reinforcements chased from the tail until the Roman soldiers fled into the barracks.

Fortunately, Camilos saw the opportunity early and commanded the troops in the south to retreat in an orderly manner, and then when the troops in the north broke out, they sent troops to intercept the pursuers, otherwise the Wolsi might rush in. Camp.

On this day's battle, the Roman army failed to siege the city, with more than 4,000 casualties. The defenders of Setia also suffered heavy casualties, and nearly 10,000 residents of Setia were killed and injured.

The First Army of Dionia took on the task of containing the guards of the Roman camp this time, and suffered almost no casualties. However, the Wolsey seniors in the city of Bole Vernham opposed Amintas and Prin. Thors expressed his gratitude, because they defeated the powerful Romans again in accordance with the strategy proposed by the Dionians. While celebrating the victory in the battle, they were also confident in the next battle plan proposed by Amintas.

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The failure of the siege war casts a shadow over the entire Roman camp, but Quintus’ determination to capture Setia has not wavered, and he still insists on launching another attack on Setia the next day. .

Camillos did not object to this, because he was very clear: Although the Wolsey won again, the difference in strength between the two sides has not been greatly changed, and Setia has gone through today’s fierce battle. , It is already suffering heavy losses and lingering, even if thousands of reinforcements are added, in the case of losing the advantage of city defense, facing the siege of tens of thousands of Roman troops, it is just a piece of fat in the mouth, and it can also take the opportunity to reduce the fertility. The number of reinforcements in Ersi. Therefore, this strategy is correct to keep on attacking and not to give the enemy a chance to breathe.

While supporting the Quintus siege plan, Camilos also reminded the three military and political officers: to strengthen the surveillance of the surrounding area, expand the scope of the investigation, and prevent the reappearance of "the enemy’s reinforcements have already arrived. Discover the dangerous situation.

Everyone agrees with this suggestion. But for another suggestion made by Camilos, "I hope that military and political officers will go down to the squadrons to encourage soldiers and boost morale." Frius and Licinius both agreed. Only Quintu Si did not comment.

The next morning, the trumpets of the assembly in the Roman camp blew, and the well-dressed Roman soldiers came out of the military tents. On their faces, they did not see the frustration of yesterday's defeat, but showed the excitement of going to war. The attitude of Roman citizens towards fighting is evident.

Just as the soldiers lined up, the military and political officers who were about to leave in the big tent received a piece of bad news at this time.

"Astura was attacked?!" When Frius heard the news, his eyes widened in surprise. He interrupted the messenger a little angrily: "What are our scouts doing? ??! The Wolsey once again bypassed us and went to raid the rear! We didn’t even know!—"

"Frius Army Officer." The messenger reminded loudly: "It's not a Wolsi, it may be a Dionian! The enemies are all wearing black armor, there are about five or six thousand people. A huge fleet of ships landed on the beach near Astura."

"When I was ordered to report, they had already launched an attack on the city of Astura! Four military and political officers, please send reinforcements quickly! There is only one squadron in Astura, and it is impossible to resist it. So many enemy attacks!" the messenger asked anxiously.

Camillos, Quintus, Licinius, and Frius looked at each other with extremely solemn expressions.

Sea offensive, landing operations...This kind of tactics, these Roman generals may have only heard of it, but they have never seen it personally. Although Rome has the port of Ostia, its warships are rare and have never been used for battle. Rome’s self-established city has always been an inland city-state, always fighting on land, and never against his enemies. Landing operations have been carried out, and no enemy has ever carried out landing operations against it. After all, the enemy in the past, like Rome, did not have a navy at all. Even Camilos had no such concept in his mind.

So, they led the army to push all the way and drove the Wolsey people to the south of the Latham area. The occupied Wolsey town in the rear was surrounded by the Latin Allies, and the officers did not leave too many. The soldiers defended because they believed that the rear was basically safe.

It wasn't until this time that they realized that the enemy that Rome had just provoked was not only a powerful army, but also a powerful navy! The coastline of the Latham area is under the control of the Dionian fleet.

The messenger's request immediately changed the expressions of Camilos and Licinius, and they shouted in unison: "Antium! We must rescue Antium!"

Astura has only one squadron to defend, and it is a small city. It is impossible to withstand the attack of thousands of Dionian soldiers, and even if Astura is lost, it will not affect the Roman army. Too big. But Antiium, which is less than ten miles north of Astura and was also the seaside town of Volcy, was very important to the Roman army because this important town in the northwest of Wall had a large port. After the Roman army captured him, they used it as a transit point for the transportation of military rations. The grain and grass raised by Rome were transported through the Tiber River to the port of Ostia at the mouth of the river, and then transported by boat to Antium, and then transported by land to the Roman camp. This saved a lot of time and labor. , Provide convenience for food transportation.

Because of the importance of Antiium, Camillos left four Roman squadrons and a heavy transport team here. But he did not expect that the enemy would raid from the sea, so this amount of force is too small compared to the incoming enemy. If the Dionians are allowed to capture Antiium, it will cause the food supply of the Roman camp to suffer. difficulty.

There was a moment of silence in the big tent, and Quintus finally said in a dry voice: "We should temporarily stop the siege and send troops to rescue Antiium!" Quintus finally made this decision, feeling quite. It was uncomfortable, because the siege war that was going to be won was about to start, but it was suddenly interrupted.

But then Camillos' words surprised everyone: "I think we should stop the attack on the Volsi and withdraw the army to Rome!"

The three military and political officers looked at him in astonishment, and Camilos said solemnly: "The Dionian fleet is strong. They can carry Dionian land forces on the coastline of Latium. Landing on the flat beach. Today’s attack is Antiium. Tomorrow, we may attack our Latin alliance, Bangadi. The day after tomorrow, it may be our important port Ostia. Even the Dionians are not satisfied with only attacking the sea. The town, instead of rushing inland, attacking our Latin allies and colonial cities, destroying our villages and fields! The Dionian army is quite powerful, but our main force is here, the Roman city and surrounding areas are empty!"

"But... But, Dionia is suffering from a drought, they can't send more troops!" Frius said silently.

"A Dionian army was at war with us yesterday afternoon. Today a Dionian army appeared on the coastline dozens of miles away from our rear. They can't be the same army! Then With the second Dionian army, there may be a third Dionian army! And we..." Camillos stared at the three and said in a deep voice: "Dare to take the safety of the Roman territory and the people. Come take this risk?!"

The three of them felt tight and fell silent for a while.

Four military and political officers, Quintus is from a great nobleman, Camelus and Frius are from a small nobleman, Licinius is from a commoner. They have different living habits and political ideas, but One thing is the same: they both love Rome and don't want to put this homeland that has already had a disaster in danger again!

Therefore, they quickly put aside their respective interests and reached an agreement: Quintus and Frius led 12,000 people to immediately rescue Antiium; and Camillos and Lisini Uss led nearly 30,000 soldiers to clean up the camp, escorted the heavy and wounded soldiers, and safely retreated back to Rome.

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After Lizaru received a letter from Daves, he began to take care of the Wolsey area not far from the Campania area.

Soon, he received another letter from Amintas asking for his assistance.

The news of "Frequent cargo ships carrying grain between Antiium and Port Ostia" has long been seen by Campania merchants active on the west coast of Italy, and this news will naturally spread soon. It came to Lizaru's ears.

At his request, a piece of information about the general distribution of the enemy and our forces in the Wolsey area from the intelligence department was sent to him.