Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 74: Yamouchi Gaul invaded and attacked

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It was not until Dionian’s Frontier Corps stationed on the Etruscan border and began to contain the frequent attacks of the Senonians, that they realized that this new force that appeared in northern Italy was not what they thought. That's weak, but they think it's mainly because these attacks are organized by the tribes themselves, and their main energy is looting, and they didn't specifically organize manpower to deal with the attacks of the Dionians.

However, the "Dionians are assisting the Etruscans to defend the border" has attracted the attention of the Senonians, and they are worried that the Daionians and Etruscans will strengthen After the union, it will cause trouble for their invasion of the south, so they originally wanted to wait a few years to fully recover their strength before going south, but now the sudden change in the situation forces them to take action in advance. Just in case, the Senonis persuaded the Knomani to go south with them.

Since the scale of the invasion this time exceeded the previous one, the Gaul leaders were full of confidence. After more than a year of fighting, they knew that the Dionian barracks were tightly defended, but there were not many people. They bypassed them during the raid.

At the beginning, the offensive went smoothly. They successively occupied Florentia and Aretitum, but then they encountered disasters. The main invasion forces of the Senones and Knomani were successively destroyed. The reinforcements of the Dionians were defeated, and under their continuous pursuit, the defeated Gaul remnants could not organize effective resistance at all.

However, the Frontier Corps, which was huddled in the barracks before, took the initiative to attack in a timely manner. In the terrible situation of interception in the front and chasing troops in the back, the demoralized Gaul remnants were either defeated, killed or captured, or rushed. He fled into Fronorentia and Aretium, and was then surrounded by the Dionian army. Only a part of the fighters got into the mountains and escaped.

It didn’t take long for the Gauls in the territory south of the Po River to learn of the news that the Gaul army had suffered a terrible defeat. They were very panicked. They were not worried that their territory would be attacked by the enemy. After all, since the Gauls settled here for a hundred years, they have always invaded others, and no other race has dared to invade their territory. They are their relatives who are worried about life and death in Etruscan territory, so Senonis and After the Knomani elders gathered and discussed, they decided to ask Salvis for help, begging him to send an army to Etruscan territory to rescue the besieged and captured Gaul people.

Just as the three tribes’ leaders were discussing, early this morning, the Vineti slave living in the city of Amirium was driving a fishing boat out to go fishing, but suddenly saw the sea in the distance. Countless huge warships, although they had occasionally seen one or two similar warships passing by the sea near the city of Amini Um before, knowing that they were warships of the Kingdom of Dionian to the south, but this time they came. There were so many warships that covered the entire sea, which really scared them at a loss.

The ships of the First Fleet of Dionia, full of Legionnaires, approached the coast near the city of La Aminium.

Since the last war, apart from the Kingdom of Dionian itself, there has been no maritime power in the Western Mediterranean. Therefore, under the instructions of King Davos, the Ministry of Military Affairs reorganized the Dionian Navy. The original 4 fleets were changed to 3 fleets: the first fleet is mainly stationed in Brindisi, and the other naval base is in the port of Tarantum. It is responsible for defending the waters of the east and south coasts of Italy and monitoring the eastern Mediterranean at the same time. , Its fleet commander Sekelian;

The 2nd Fleet, with its main station in Lilibo and another naval base in Catania, shoulders the heavy responsibility of defending the Sicilian waters and monitoring the African waters, and its fleet commander is Midolades;

The 3rd Fleet is mainly stationed in Alenia and its other base is in Trina. It guards the important task of defending the seas of Italy’s west coast, Corsica, and Sardinia, and guarding the remaining Western Mediterranean waters. The commander of the fleet is Stefacas.

Among them, the 1st Fleet has the strongest strength, with a total of 550 warships; the 2nd Fleet is slightly smaller, with a total of 500 warships; and the 3rd Fleet has the weakest strength, with 150 warships. This is mainly based on the tasks they undertake and the strength of the enemies they may face.

The reason why the number of warships of the Dionian Navy has increased a lot is mainly because in the early period of the Western Mediterranean War, both Dionian and Carthage, who were severely damaged by the navy, were stepping up the construction of warships with the intention of obtaining sea Advantages, as a result, I did not expect that the war would end soon. Many warships were still under construction, and they all belonged to Dionia in the end.

However, after Carthage returned to the Kingdom of Dionia, some Phoenician city-states also joined the League of Dionians one after another, resulting in the Kingdom of Dionian no longer having enemies in Africa, and the reduction of the Second Fleet It is already under consideration by Daves and the Military Department.

At this moment, one after another Dionian warship swiftly passed by the trembling Winetti fishing boat, and leaned directly on the flat sandy beach in front. It was later called "the highest mountain among the Gaul people." A terrible day" just started...

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On the day before landing in Gaul territory, Dionia's envoys successively sent Liguria and Vinetti.

The Vinetti are more interested in attacking Gaul territory, but the fierceness of the Gaul clearly left them with terrifying memories. They finally said: As long as the Dionian army does not invade Vinetti’s territory, They will not interfere with the operations of the Dionian army and will also provide them with some material assistance.

However, the Ligurians argued over the proposal of the Dionian messenger and failed to reach a consensus: some leaders opposed Dionian’s attack on Gaul because it would undermine the existing stability in northern Italy; Some said that as long as the Dionian army did not enter the Ligurian territory, they would not interfere in the military operations of Dionian; only a few leaders expressed their willingness to cooperate with the Dionian army to attack the Gauls and occupy some fertile areas. Land...

Regardless of the responses of these two races, the Dionian army set off in Brindisi as planned. After two days and two nights of sailing, they landed on the coast near Alimium and immediately captured a bit. The defenseless city of Arimium, followed by the army quickly marched westward.

The defenses in Senones were empty, and the terrain was extremely flat. The Dionian army was like a broken bamboo. They captured Bologna and Palma. Then the army turned north and approached Cremona (cremona, (Now Cremona). At this time, Zenonius hurriedly gathered all the young and middle-aged people and about 10,000 people defended on the north bank of the Po River, trying to prevent the Dionian army from continuing to advance north, and at the same time to Salvi The two tribes of Si and Knomani asked for help urgently.

Leotichides led his army to station on the south bank and ordered all engineering battalions to speed up the construction of bridges and prepare to cross the river. At the same time, they sent troops down the river in an attempt to cross the river in another place.

While preventing the Dionian army from building a bridge near Cremona, the Zenonians also separated troops to track the enemy’s movements, and even therefore entered the territory of the Vinetti, with the same taste. There were some conflicts between people (Vinetti's territory was originally in the lower Po River area, and later the land on the south bank was occupied by the Sesenonis).

During the confrontation between the two sides across the river, Salvez and Knomani sent as many reinforcements as possible, whether it was due to their compatriots or the mentality of death and tooth loss, to make Gaul on the north bank of the Po River. The number of fighters has increased to nearly 70,000, which immediately increased the confidence of the Senonius people.

At the same time, Patroclus, who has basically wiped out the Gaul remnants in Etruscans, led the 3rd, 12th and 14th Army, under the leadership of the Border Army, passed The Lucca Barracks, first marched on the road by the sea, then trekking through the valleys of the mountains and valleys, and finally reached Palma, quickly marching eastward, encircling the defenseless highlands east of Cremona and on the south bank of the Po River. Lucheng Town Piacentia (placentia, today Piacenza).

After occupying it, the engineering battalion quickly began to build bridges. Because there are several Jiangxin islands in the river section near Piacentia, with this convenience, bridge construction is very fast. It only took a day and a half to complete the bridge, and Patroclus quickly led four legions across the Po River and went straight to the center town of Salves-Midioran.

After getting the emergency report, the Gauls realized that they had been fooled and hurriedly led the army to rescue them.

Who knows, Patroclus stopped his advancement when he reached a small town in Lodi halfway, and ordered the soldiers to rest and wait for the battle.

When the Gallic coalition rushed to Lodi, Patroclus had led the army to line up outside the town.

At the same time, the main force led by Leotizides crossed the river from Piacentia and rushed to the vicinity.

Two Dionian armies, one from the south and the other from the north, pressed towards the Gallic coalition forces. The Gallic coalition forces were unable to advance or retreat and had to be forced to fight.

The only battle between Dionia and Shannegaul on the Po River plain began hastily.

Although some Gauls from nearby heard the news during the battle and joined the battle, the Gaul coalition forces were in danger of being attacked by two sides from the beginning, and the number of them was far fewer than their opponents. But the Gaul fighters fought desperately and even used chariots against the Dionian army for the first time.

Nearly two hundred two-horse chariots rushed towards the approaching main Dionian army, trying to disrupt the enemy's dense formation first, and then let the soldiers charge with great swords.

However, the Dionian Military Department has long studied the tactics of the Gauls, and Leotizides and Patroclus have also specially trained on this, so they first rushed out of the army outside the array. The light infantry attacked the horses carrying the wagons from a long distance, and then the phalanx of the heavy infantry quickly turned into a checkerboard array, widening the gap between the detachments, and reserved channels for the remaining Gaul chariots, even if they rushed into the formation. , It couldn't have a big impact on the entire formation, and it was quickly wiped out.