Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 80: Dionia VS Carthage (4)
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But it's been almost two months since this adjutant was sent, and he didn't even remember the adjutant's name when he got along day and night. Fortunately, the adjutant has already understood Leotizides’s character through this period of contact. He didn’t care about it, but seriously replied: "My lord, my name is Mukru!"
"Are you from Bruti?" Leontizides asked, looking at his look different from the Greeks.
"Yes, I am from Cosenza in Bruti."
"Yeah." Leottizides nodded and waved: "Go and pass the order."
"Yes." The adjutant hurriedly turned around, but there was a smile on his face. Based on what he knew about the commander, he knew that he had been dubbed "the most severe legion commander" by his colleagues in the military department. "Recognition.
Actually, the identity of Adjutant Mukru is not simple. When he was eighteen years old, he followed Hironimos to participate in the Battle of Crotone and was wounded. After the war, he was also affected by King Daves. Condolences. Later, he formally joined the Fifth Army. He has participated in various wars in the kingdom for more than ten years, and he has repeatedly made military achievements. He has been promoted to the captain of the brigade. However, he requested to study at the General Staff Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs. For Dionia's senior team officers, there are very few active requests for further study, which is very rare, so even though he is over 30 years old, Felicius made an exception and transferred him to the staff.
After Mukru was transferred to the staff, he won the praise of his colleagues with his consistent diligence. This time, in view of the importance of this war, Felicius reluctantly sent this capable and stable man. It now seems that the request of the difficult Leotizides has finally been met.
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The 15,000 soldiers led by Leotizides this time included 8,000 official soldiers of the Eighth Regiment, 5,000 heavy infantry in the reserve, nearly 1,000 light infantry in the reserve, and members of the 4th Cavalry Regiment. One thousand cavalry (the Fourth Cavalry Corps has always been short due to the population and horses of the Sicilian Territory).
The soldiers of the Eighth Army were very excited when they heard that there was a battle. Two years ago, the war to put down the West Kells gave the soldiers a lot of rewards. They have been eager to make new achievements. Now the opportunity is here!
The soldiers in the reserve team are looking forward to performing well in the upcoming battles, adding a strong touch to their military resumes, so that they can smoothly transform into official legionaries.
Under the leadership of the team officers, the soldiers ran to the foot of the mountain in an orderly and swift manner, and began to arrange the formation in a chessboard format.
As soon as the formation was completed, the soldiers heard a loud noise coming from ahead.
The chaotic and thunderous footsteps are getting louder and louder...
Soon, they saw the black and crushing soldiers in front of them, like flash floods pouring down to the low ground in a torrential rain, roaring and rushing towards them.
Some Dionia recruits began to swallow a little nervously.
"Order the squads to quickly set up the shield formation!" Diocassis, who was the inspector of Naxos two years ago, is now the company captain of the first company of the first squadron of the Eighth Army. He is calm and calm. Reached the order.
Other team officials also issued similar orders.
This time, Dionia’s shield formation is different from the past. The soldiers of each unit not only erected their shields on the front, back, left, and right periphery of the small square, but also pointed their spears toward the front, back, and left. The four directions to the right are flat, like hedgehogs with thorns erected one by one.
At the same time, the soldiers continued to shout: "Go from the gap!!! Go from the gap!!!..."
In order to facilitate the retreat of the troops, the distance between the small squares of the Eighth Army's detachments was much wider than the usual training positions.
Seeing the densely laid flat stabbing guns, as long as you are not fools, you will not take the initiative to hit them. Besides, there are voices reminding the broken soldiers. There are light armoured soldiers in the front to guide them, and the broken soldiers are very Naturally, it split into small streams in front of Dionia's formation, and ran to the rear along the gap between the small squares.
Of course, there are also rout soldiers who crashed into the shield wall because of the hustle and bustle and panic. They were stabbed and screamed. However, the Dionian soldiers would not retract the stabbing and rescue the wounded. Stick to the position, motionless. The screams of the companions will warn others to stop in front of the shield and not to bump into them.
"Catch up! Don't let them run away!..." Millefio riding on a horse followed the Holy Order troops and rushed forward. He shouted excitedly, regardless of the soldiers running around. Can't hear.
He sits high on the horse, and can see that the soldiers of the holy regiment are indeed well-trained. Even after the victory, they can still maintain a relatively complete formation, like a red tide pushing forward. Chung, of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the enemies flee directly backwards instead of running around.
Whether it is Monte Arderno or Millefio, they only know that the Dionian forces are building camps on the hills on the east bank of the Plaitara River, but what is the specific layout? What kind of terrain is here? They are not very clear. On the one hand, it was because they did not take the initiative to obtain information about the surrounding environment and the enemy. On the other hand, under the long-term influence of the "Dionian Military Law", Leotizides had the ability to protect his army. The initiative that military secrets are not leaked, so while building the camp before, he sent all the scouts and mountain reconnaissance teams, and even some light armoured soldiers patrolled around the camp, expelled Carthage’s spies, and shielded the area around the camp. Information.
Therefore, when Millefio was in the middle of the battlefield chasing the enemy enthusiastically, he was not very aware that there was a hill on the left and right sides of it a mile away, with the enemy’s barracks on it, and he even more What I didn't know was that there was a bigger hill three miles ahead, blocking their way forward. The real enemy of Carthage, the army of Dionia, was stationed on this hill. Now, the three hills are like giant crabs with open claws, waiting for the ruined soldiers to introduce the unsuspecting Carthaginians into its hungry mouths.
The company led by Diocasis was divided into four small phalanxes, two at the front and two at the rear. In the gap between them, I paid close attention to the situation of the defeat.
Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and through the gap between the Allied soldiers who had lost their helmets and unarmed, he saw the Carthaginians in brilliant armor.
According to the usual tactical principles of the Dionian Army, the small phalanx in the back row should move forward quickly to fill in the gaps in the front row to form a complete and dense phalanx, but in this way, The defeated soldiers who ran at the end would be intercepted before the phalanx formed by the Dionian army, sandwiched between the Dionian and Carthage armies, becoming victims of the confrontation between the two armies.
However, the small phalanxes of the Eighth Army did not move. The soldiers pressed the long shields closer and the stabbing guns tighter, but they still stayed where they were, motionless.
This is not because they have to take care of these poor Allied soldiers, but because it was originally Commander Leotichides' tactics.
Some of the soldiers of the holy regiment who were chasing saw the dense array of lancets in front, and they stopped advancing in surprise, but were pushed up by the comrades behind them involuntarily, so they could only use bucklers. Protect yourself and stab spears at the newly-appearing enemy; while some holy soldiers rushed into the gap between the small phalanxes following the defeated soldiers, and then were blocked by the next small phalanx, some of them The soldiers of the Holy Regiment blindly followed the defeated soldiers and turned to the next gap...
"There is an enemy ahead!!"
"It's a Dionian!!!"
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The slightly panicked screams of the soldiers reached Millefio’s ears. He rode on the horse to see more clearly: Dionian soldiers in black armor gathered in small phalanxes. In the impact of the defeated soldiers and the soldiers of the holy regiment, they are like small islands in the torrent, and they are in danger of being submerged at any time...
Even though he knew that he had lost control of the holy army, Millefio still wielded his spear and hissed loudly: "Warriors of Carthage, kill me and crush the Dionians. !"
But in the eyes of Leotizides, who is halfway up the mountain and overlooks the entire battlefield: the checkerboard array laid by the Eighth Army has divided the turbulent Carthage army into countless numbers in the pursuit. The Carthaginians, who lacked organization and command and were unable to form a joint force with a trickle, could not shake the phalanx of the Dionian squadron, which was as solid as a rock in the torrent!
"Let the reserve team close!" Leottizides gave the order.
The adjutant Mukru hesitated a little: "Would you like to wait a little longer? After all the soldiers of the allied states have escaped--"
Leotizides looked indifferently: "The current situation is that all Allied soldiers have escaped, and some Carthaginians will also run to the rear of the array, adding unnecessary trouble to our soldiers in the next battle. I have given them a chance, but to blame it is that they are not running fast enough!"
"Yes!" Mukru said no more, accepting the order immediately.
"In addition, notify the generals of the allied states, seize the time to gather the defeated soldiers, and quickly lead them back to their camps to resist the enemy's upcoming attack."
"Woo!..." The high-pitched bugle sounded from the mountainside.
The reserve officers at all levels, who had been repeatedly instructed by the corps commander in advance, began to command the small phalanxes of the various squads behind the entire array, and they slowly moved forward and inward to each other.
The torrent of broken troops and chasing troops flowed to the rear through multiple gaps. The impact on the small phalanx has been weakened. There were stabbing guns to clear the way and long shield defense, accompanied by the screams of enemy and friendly soldiers. The soldiers of the Legion Reserve at the end of the formation relied on a dense array of 50 people. They entered the gap in front of them without much hindrance. Together with the small phalanx of the front detachment, they formed a four-column, but thick array. The dike, which is about two miles long, completely cut off the torrent.