Vol 6 Chapter 176: Crotone Battle (2)

Daves apparently did not wait for the patience of the other end, immediately ordered: "Offensive!"
Dozens of squadrons, evenly arranged behind the huge array, blew the military numbers in their hands.
"呜!!!..." The sound of the majestic sounds rises to the sky.
"Revenge for the deputy corps and the dying brethren!" The fourth and fifth legions of the soldiers in the middle of the huge phalanx first shouted and quickly received responses from other troops. The revenge shouted instead of Hades. The call of the Dionian soldiers has risen to the peak when the voice of the enemy is heard.
"The sly Daves! Damn Daves!" Dionysius was mad, and the Syracuse army, dominated by the forces, was repeatedly controlled by the Dionyns, which has since landing in Greece. He feels awkward on the land. The Syracuse soldiers have not completed the prayers, the enemy has begun to attack, because of the tactical arrangement, he can not wait for the soldiers to complete the prayer and then advance, so this will inevitably have an impact on the morale of the soldiers, he can only comfort himself. : The young man will only be clever and clever. If you really decide to win the game, you must rely on strength!
"Offensive!" He looked at him and shouted with resentment.
On the afternoon of the last day of 394 BC, on the Croton Plain, a major battle to determine the hegemony of the Greek city of the Western Mediterranean began.
The Dionysian Union has more than 5,000 first legions, more than 7,000 second legions, more than 12,000 fourth and fifth legions, 14,000 sixth and seventh legions, 6,000 rifle battalions, Hiro Nimous has recruited 5,000 Brutus fighters, 5,000 Crotone and Trina reinforcements, plus 1,500 cavalry regiments, 1,000 mountain squadrons, and 300 escorts. The total strength of the country is more than 58,000.
Davers placed the seventh legion led by Matonis on the far right, near the Tacina di, and then to the left, respectively, the sixth legion of Oliver, the Brudy warrior of Hieronymus , the fourth legion of Epiphanis, the fifth leg of Felicius, the second leg of Amintas, the first leg of Antonios, Crotone - Trina reinforcements, Ledes The cavalry regiment is located on the far left, and the spear brigade led by Capps is behind the Ketter reinforcements, arranged in columns and perpendicular to the square. The left wing of the Kate reinforcements and the first and second legions formed a course with a thickness of 15 columns according to the special shackles of Daves. The remaining units were 8-10 columns in thickness.
The cavalry regiments are the most special. They try to spread to the left and backwards in a loose formation, trying to occupy a large area, while obscuring the enemy's exploration of their own long-haired brigade, and also aiming at another purpose before the battle.
When the Syracuse army landed in Great Greece, it had 80,000 infantry, 2,000 Numidah cavalry, 800 Celtic cavalry, and 1,000 Sicilian cavalry. The Lamato River lost about 4,000 people. Later, Cologne surrendered and provided 4,000 soldiers. In addition, some of the Rocky League's troops joined, and Syracuse's army strength exceeded 90,000.
However, the two conquered city-states, such as Xiliting and Trina, need to arrange garrisons. In particular, the number of troops required for the logistics supply base of the Western Army as a large army must not be less, in order to prevent the attack of Dionia from the direction of Bruti. And its naval raid from the sea. There is also a need to be stationed in the camp facing Asprostum City to prevent the enemy from attacking the city of Asprostum during the battle and attacking the rear of the army. In this way, a total of nearly 13,000 people were separated.
After conquering Crotone, the Syracuse army later counted about 7,000 dead and seriously injured soldiers. The Dionysian Navy fought in the Crotone Sea. As Leptinies listened to Dionysius's suggestion, he sent 9,000 elite soldiers to fight on the ship. The result was fiasco, and the loss of soldiers was about 7,000. Therefore, the Syracuse infantry that eventually participated in this battle had a total strength of 62,000, plus 3,500 cavalry (a loss in the Ramatu River and the looting of the Dionysian land), a total of 65,500. People are more than 7,500 more than Dionia. The cavalry is more than twice as many as the Danonian cavalry.
Therefore, after a preliminary understanding of the layout of the military array of Dionia, Fibidas discussed with Dionysius: the weaker Sicilian other city-state coalition forces, plus the 18,000 people of the Lockley League army. West Pesas was laid out on the left; 10,000 people from Campania and 9000 from Syracuse, Dionysius personally led the town; while the right wing followed Dionysius for many years. 15,000 soldiers (mainly mercenaries, after Dionysius gave Syracuse citizenship and land, most loyal to Dionysius), Syracuse civic soldiers 10,000 by Phoebe Das led; the right wing was 3,500 cavalry. Because in the last battle, the hiring cavalry did not follow the prior plan, so before this battle, not only Dionysius warned the two alien leaders, And let the grumpy and fierce Astagras act as the temporary commander of the cavalry from three different forces to facilitate the implementation of the plan.
The military number of the attack blew, and the three left, middle, and right armies of Dionia progressed steadily at the same time. The light infantry of the seventh corps of each legion quickly passed the interval of the small square of the "checkerboard". Before the battle, rushed to the enemy line with a loose front. The reason why they are so advancing so quickly is that they are forced to retreat in front of the enemy in front of the array, and it is no longer possible to observe the subsequent movements of the Dionyrian army. The hired cavalry also retreated to the right wing of the Syracuse Army as they wished, taking a break to prepare for the next attack.
The light infantry of Syracuse was placed in front of the array, and it did not show weakness.
When the main force of the heavy infantry of the two sides is still 500 meters away, more than 10,000 light infantrymen have begun to fight. For a time, from the west to the east, the line was about eighty-nine miles long, the arrows were like rain, the javelin was like a dragonfly, and the collisions were interlaced in mid-air without interruption, then stabbed the soldiers’ bodies and took their lives...
Compared with the left, middle and right roads of the Dionysian Army, they are all moving at almost the same speed. The situation in Syracuse is different. Its left and middle two main battles are slower. The right path is a big step forward.
Fibidas is the foremost leader in the right wing. This powerful right wing consisting of 25,000 Syracuse soldiers with a thickness of 25 courses greets the enemies in front of the enemy twice as fast as the middle road soldiers. Gradually Start to detach from the middle road.
And the right-wing cavalry is faster. With the sound of guns, more than 3,500 cavalrymen accelerated forward with a width of more than a mile. The horses that had opened their four hooves quickly increased their speed.
The 800 Celtic cavalry are at the forefront. This group of fierce races from the foot of the Alps and living in the plains of the Po River, their cavalry tactics are different from the fast-moving Numidian cavalry, they do not bother to lure, harass, invest Javelin to kill the enemy, better at face-to-face assault, especially driving a chariot to attack the enemy's tight military line, just because it was employed in Syracuse, the road is far away, it is not convenient to transport the chariot, it is not carried. But even without the chariot, the impact of the Celtic cavalry is still terrible, most of them are armed with large swords instead of spears, which makes it easier to cut the other's neck in the cavalry, so Astagras will At the forefront, using its powerful lethality to disrupt the enemy's cavalry formation.
The subsequent more than 1,800 Lumbia cavalry, then the first phase of the creation, the final Syracuse flag, and under the leadership of Asta Grass, just to clean up the mess, and then constrain these hiring cavalry, do not pursue Together, attacking the rear of the enemy's left wing, thousands of horses galloping, once again picking up the sky and dust, repeating hundreds of sets, drums, and thunder, the earth is constantly tremble
And more than 1,500 cavalry in Dionia are also advancing, but the speed is not as fast as the enemy, especially the cavalry on the tail of the cavalry, but also dragging the branches, it is easier to stir up the dust on the ground.
When there were more than two hundred meters from the enemy's enemies, the captain of the cavalry army, Leddes, looked back and saw the dust and fog that had begun to fill behind him. He shook a little nervously to the several cavalrymen who were next to him: "Retreat!"
Even if several military numbers are blowing at the same time, the battlefields with hooves can't guarantee that the same type of loose, long-formed Dionysian cavalry with a length of nearly one mile can hear all of them. After the training, the cavalry always pay attention to the movements of nearby teammates.
Just when the Dionysian cavalry all plucked back to the horse~EbookFREE.me~Siracusa cavalry has approached within 100 meters, and the roaring horseshoes behind him beat the nervous heart of Ledes, and he urged the horse to advance. One side stared at the front, and when I saw the wall, a heart suddenly hung up: "Turn!" He shouted and yelled at the horse.
There is no need for him to yell at all, and all the Dionysian cavalry who can see this scene quickly separated to the sides according to the training received before.
At the rear of the cavalry, they watched the movement in front of them. As soon as they saw the change of their comrades, they immediately changed.
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When the offensive squad of Deonia blew, the spear battalion did not immediately advance along with other troops, but quickly extended the column and immediately moved to the position of the original cavalry, forming a length of about one mile, thick The square array of ten columns was smothered behind the army.
At the back of the square, Capus is already a war-torn general. At this moment, his mood is extremely tense: although the tactics against the enemy are similar to those of the Trionto River, the scale of the war is large. Several times, the enemy's cavalry is also more sturdy, and the quality of the soldiers they led is not comparable to the original group of soldiers from the Persian Expeditionary Force. Can they resist thousands of enemy rides from frontal assaults? !