Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 98: The Battle of Ramato River (7)

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"Report! Commander, our blocking force has been repelled, and the enemy is attacking our right flank!"

Although Felicius had been mentally prepared for a long time, he still felt heart palpitations when he heard the news. He stared anxiously at the dusty and misty front, the shadows and loud voices were still the same as before, and the Diorian Legion he had high hopes for still showed no signs of breaking the enemy...

"My lord commander, we...what shall we do?" the adjutant asked nervously.

Philipsius remained silent: At this moment, where does the coalition have extra power to block the enemy's reinforcements!

It's just that he still has a fluke in his heart, but this fluke was quickly crushed.

"Report to the commander, there are enemy reinforcements on the right! There are... tens of thousands of people! Crotone is attacking Crotone’s back line, and Crotone... Crotones can’t resist... it has begun. Retreat..."

"What!!" Felicius and his entourage were struck by lightning, all dumbfounded.

The battle-tested Felicius was the first to recover, and immediately hissed and shouted: "Retreat! Blow the retreat! Retreat now!!"

Since the defeat of the coalition forces is set, then...the Fourth and Fifth Army should be brought back as safely as possible! Under the painful gaze of Felicius, "Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The retreating bugle sounded through the rear of the coalition forces.

The sound of this trumpet not only surprised the Dionian soldiers, but also made the team officers at all levels unbelievable.

"Is Felicius crazy?! Seeing that we are about to break through the Syracuse's defenses, he dare to let us retreat at this time!" Dracos must be angry, even if there is a messenger afterwards Telling him why Felicius chose to retreat, he couldn't accept it for a while.

"Give me a little more time! A little time! Wait until my legion destroys the enemy on the opposite side before retreating! The Dionian legion has never been defeated and cannot lose this honor in our hands! This is a shame! ……"

Listening to the painful roar of the legionnaire, everyone around bowed their heads sadly.

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"We...defeated..." After listening to the messenger's words, Epithenis clutched the mane of the horse under the crotch. The horse that was so painful and gentle was screaming again, and he kept the front hoof planing. He didn't notice it.

"...Move the flag." He squeezed this sentence out of his mouth with difficulty, tears flashing on his face.

When the bugle is sounded, the Legionnaires still need to look at the instructions of the flag. This is because the noise on the battlefield makes it difficult for the enemy and the enemy to distinguish between them. The instructions of the flag can be used to confirm the correctness.

"Look! The flag is moving!!" The Dionian soldiers looked back in an uproar.

Not only the regiment flag, the brigade flag, and the company flag waved to the rear one after another...

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"Congratulations! The Great Greeks are defeated. You have won this battle! This is a great victory. From then on, this land is yours!" Facing the praise of Damocles Sounds, Dionysius was not too complacent, with more than 70,000 people versus more than 50,000 people, the victory was expected. But what he didn't expect was that Syracuse’s most elite heavy infantry was completely suppressed by Dionian’s so-called “legion” on the battlefield. The key to this was the fourth and fifth legions composed of aliens. (Dionysius is more attentive to the collection of Dionian intelligence), what should the Siracusa heavy infantry unit do if it is the first and second army that they boast about?

Therefore, even after winning, Dionysius remained vigilant: "Although the enemy is defeated, the battle has not ended. Continue to urge the reinforcements on both wings to continue pursuing, killing and capturing more Greeks. Especially the Dionians!"

"You bring all the messengers to find Axirita and Gaba, and tell them that I am very angry that they did not obey the orders and assisted in attacking the enemy's right-wing troops, unless they immediately pursued the black ones. Enemies in armor, kill them as much as possible and capture them, otherwise they don’t want to get even one silver coin!"

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Effiart has also practiced how to retreat in previous military training, but he did not expect to use it the first time he participated in a battle. After smashing the long shield against the enemy with great distress, he turned and ran with the short sword in his hand. The saber thrown by the enemy hit him on his back. He staggered and almost fell.

Effiart used his hands and feet together and quickly got up. The unit he was in was already ten meters away from the enemy's array. He watched the flying flag and eagerly caught up.

The moment when he turns around and escapes, the danger is the greatest. Some soldiers were stabbed down by the enemy they were overtaken. Seeing their teammates fell to the ground calling for help, the Legionnaires, who had always emphasized unity, couldn't care about saving their teammates at this moment. They ran desperately, only hoping to distance themselves from the enemy.

When the team leader's "Quick! Quick! Quick!..." voice came to his ears clearly, Effiart's nervous mood temporarily relaxed. The team officer said "Quick! Quick!" does not mean that the soldiers are allowed to run around. According to the "Dionian Military Law", they must gather as much as possible under the nearest army flag and follow them when they retreat and run. , In order to avoid causing too much confusion and loss of organization.

As he ran, Effiart heard the footsteps in the back gradually quieter. Looking back, the enemy had been pulled a lot away by him, and some even stopped chasing after him. If you think about it, you can understand that within an hour, carrying a heavy armor and fighting continuously, the physical strength has long been exhausted. The Dionian soldiers are to survive, and in their usual military training, they are armed with off-road notebooks. This is one of the most important items. The Spartans have done this training since they were young. The Syracuse soldiers who had already won the battle obviously did not have this desire and this ability to pursue them.

Effiart’s nervousness became calmer.

But after the large group continued to run backwards for a while, they gradually slowed down.

It turned out that the Fourth Army was on the right, adjacent to Trina. En Ammenas led Campania mercenaries from west to east trying to trap the fleeing Trina, while mooring on the river bank. Seeing that there was a bargain to pick up, the sailors of the fleet also went ashore to participate in volleys in order to get the spoils, making this large net of pursuit become more and more dense, oppressing the panic-stricken group of Trina people. Fleeing east, naturally squeezed the retreat space of the Fourth Army of Dionia.

"Quick! Quick! Quick!..." Standing on the bank of the Kolache River, Epithenis anxiously urged his Legionnaires to cross the river quickly, regardless of whether the soldiers could be able to cross the river in such a chaotic scene. Hear his shouting.

Felisius, who stands on the opposite bank of the Kolache River, is even more painful. He did not expect to choose this river as a barrier to the back line in order to restrict the detour of the enemy cavalry, but now it has become an obstacle to Dioni. In the shackles of the retreat of the runner-up, although the river is neither wide nor deep, thousands of frightened soldiers rushed in together, and instantly stepped on the river bank into a piece of mud. Once the panicked soldier fell, it was not only a disaster for him, yes. The soldiers behind are even more disasters.

Countless soldiers entangled in the river bed, and there is no order at all. Everyone pushes me and the scene is becoming more chaotic...

Felicius seemed to have seen the reappearance of the tragedy in the Persian Canyon that year. His shouts and reminders are so small in this ten-mile stretch of river that it can be completely ignored.

Feirisius was full of remorse and did not dare to look again. When he turned his head, he saw a row of trumpeters and military drummers behind him. In an instant a flash of light flashed: "Quick! Play "Battlefield March"! Play " Battlefield March"!......"

He yelled like crazy, scared the trumpeters hurriedly put the French horn on their right shoulder in their mouths, because of tension, the first note was blown out of tune, but gradually they played Get more and more fluent and more powerful.

"Battlefield March" is also adapted from the symphony that Daves has heard in his previous life. It uses a majestic, powerful, and fast melody to show the fearlessness of soldiers going to the battlefield and killing the enemy. When this melody reverberated in the Kolache River section, the soldiers of the Fourth Legion who heard it were awakened with courage and honor in their hearts, thus gradually regaining their sanity, and the chaos in the riverbed was also reduced...

Feirisius also ordered the light armoured soldiers who had retreated from the river bank to go down to the riverbed, line up a dense array to separate the Trina people, and reduce the interference with the orderly retreat of the Dionian Fourth Army. Even in an emergency, they can be driven west by force. At this moment, Felicius was forced to deal with allies cruelly.

"Your Excellency Commander, Fifth Legion...The major forces of the Fifth Legion have not yet reached the river bank!" An adjutant hurried to report.

"What?!" Felicius felt that his head was about to explode, and the wave was not smoothed up again, and he could not help being furious: "What is Dracos doing?!"

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Dracos' unwillingness made him hesitate to retreat. Most of the soldiers heard the bugle sound, but saw that the flag did not move, and did not dare to retreat.

Until Dracos discovered that the troops on the left and right sides of the Fifth Army were all retreating, and the Fifth Army was about to become a lone army, he hurriedly ordered the retreat.

Originally, the retreat of the Fifth Army should be smoother than that of the Fourth Army, because Crotone’s fierce attack almost turned Syracuse’s right-wing army into a semicircle, of course, the left wing where Crotone’s army was located. The array also became an arc. The Crotone soldier at the far left was originally facing south and facing north, but in the end it almost became facing west and facing east. After being attacked by the reinforcements of Fascipesas, the direction of their rout was mainly towards the southeast. The Siritian soldiers led by Arcesias were closer to the middle road, because the mother state Siriting was not far to the east. Most of the Siritian soldiers didn’t know that there was enemy reinforcements to the east, or they instinctively fled to the east. The Rotone people huddled together.