Vol 8 Chapter 388: Battle of Addis (2)

"No, Printalls, you are not only a good staff officer, you are also an excellent commander! The reason I say so much is to hope that I can get your approval and help me win this battle! "Alexis said sincerely.
After a brief moment, Princeton looked forward, and then said: "Master Commander, you see ... the Carthaginians seem to be lengthening the array, so that their wings may exceed the bottom of the valley and be close to them. The mountains have limited the power of the Numibian cavalry. Since the Carthaginians are desperate to fight us, can we directly ask them to line up and stay away from the mountains? "
Alexis's eyes lit up with a smile: "This is a good idea. We also try to command Carthage's army."
Just do it. He immediately selected a Carthaginian soldier from the guards and asked him to serve as an ambassador. He went to meet the Carthage army coach and made this request to him.
Ten minutes later, the soldier returned safely and relayed the words of Carthage's commander Samuels: he agreed to move the army forward.
In fact, after hearing the demands made by the Dionysian messenger, Samuels was not angry, but rather rejoiced, because he led the army out of the city, which was to attract the Dionysian army and conduct a battle. Onion ’s army simply ignored it, and everything he did was wasted. Now the Dionysians make a request, but instead show their willingness to engage in battle. In order to achieve this, they can only give up a little tactics temporarily. The advantages are also acceptable.
When Samuels ordered the array to move eastward, Alexis had returned to the camp. He called Armintas, Matonis, and Lizaru, and sent them to the Carthage army. The command of the battle, the three legionnaires heard the excitement.
Alexis then said solemnly: "Amintas, Matonis, Lizaru, please tell the soldiers of the Legion that this may be the last battle in this long war. The Carthages defended themselves. Their homes will definitely fight hard! If the final kingdom wins, they will win the supreme honor! If we fail, we will have no way back! The victory or defeat of the battle will ultimately depend on whether they have worked hard! "
Armintas immediately said confidently: Don't worry, the soldiers of the First Army are battle-hardened and do not need us to mobilize. They know when and what to do.
Matonis and Lizaru also expressed the same opinion.
Before landing in Africa, all three legions had experienced fighting and suffered casualties, especially the first legion to defend Celinus. The casualty number was close to a quarter of the total legion number. It would be difficult to play without supplementation. It is effective, but it is undoubtedly too time consuming to transfer reserve soldiers from Turui, so Deverste allowed the three legions to draw soldiers from other legions to supplement the establishment.
The three legionnaire commanders took this instruction from Daphs and excitedly selected the best soldiers in each legion. In addition to the fourth legion, the other legion chiefs actively cooperated. After all, most of his team members and soldiers were Urgently want to go to Africa to make new achievements and get honor again. Therefore, at this time, the three legions, which were almost full, were much stronger in terms of experience and combat effectiveness than at the beginning of the war, which gave them ample confidence.
On February 6, 378 BC (16 years of the Kingdom of Dionia), the area of ​​Addis and Hardrumentum was sunny. Although it was still winter, it was clean and clear at noon in this coastal area. , Suitable for traveling, the troops of both Dionysian and Carthage opened the battlefield here.
The Carthage army includes 6000 Carthage heavy infantry, 4,000 Carthage sacred legionnaires, 2500 Carthage light infantry, 1,500 Carthage light infantry, six hundred holy corps cavalry, and 3,000 Newly added reinforcements of Carthage elderly and juveniles, plus 6,200 Phoenician reinforcements (including 3,000 heavy infantry, 1,000 light armored, 2,000 light infantry, and 200 cavalry) The strength is 23,800 soldiers.
The Dionysian army against it consisted of three legions and Sinumian cavalry. Among them, the Dionysian Army had 18,000 heavy infantry, 3,000 light infantry, 3,000 light armored soldiers, and 2,500 Xinumi. Biya Cavalry, a total of 26,500 soldiers.
The Carthage army formed the formation early. Later, after observing the formation of the Dionysian army, Samos made some adjustments. The final formation is: 4,000 holy corps soldiers are in the forefront in the middle. 3,000 new reinforcements consisting of old people and juveniles are arranged at the rear; 6,000 Carthage heavy infantry on the left and 600 holy cavalry cavalry on the left; 3,000 Phoenician heavy infantry on the front and 2500 A light armored soldier with 200 Phoenician cavalry on the periphery of the right wing. In addition, Samos placed an average of 4,500 light infantry behind the array.
If the formation of Carthage is that the left, middle, and right paths are relatively balanced and the left wing is relatively strong, the strength of the left, middle, and right paths of the Dionysian array is exactly the same: the first legion is on the middle With the Second Army on the left and the Third Army on the right, 2,500 Sinumian cavalry were evenly distributed around the two wings, and Alexis left only 3,000 light armour as reserve.
There is nothing strange about the formation of the two sides, that is, the most common formation of the Greek city-state heavy infantry in the early years. Even in today's war-prone Greek mainland, it is increasingly rare, but such a mediocre formation will Determine the rise and fall of a city-state that once had a glorious history.
The soldiers on both sides of the array seemed to realize the importance of this battle. They stopped all the noise and stood quietly. The dust and mist that had been stirred up gradually dispersed, and the soldiers could clearly see a few hundred meters. Faces of outside opponents.
On this wide flat brownish yellow land, the array of several miles formed by Carthage and Theonian army is like a black, a white and two parallel lines. The contrast between black and white is so vivid, as if Day and night are doomed to coexist.
"Woo !!!!" The bugle sounded long. The Dionian army first launched the attack. The slinger, javelin, and archer passed through the checkerboard formation as quickly as the water and rushed towards the Carthage formation.
The Carthage army also blew the offensive bugle, but they did not let the light infantry out of the array to fight against the Dionysian light infantry, but the entire formation was accelerating.
When the Dionysian light infantry had just rushed out of the array, the two-wing East Numebian cavalry had approached the array of Carthage's two wings.
However, the cavalry in the Carthage array did not attack, but retreated to the rear. After all, the Carthages had dealt too much with the Sinumbia cavalry, and they knew its characteristics.
As the Xinomibian cavalry continued to approach forward and began to prepare for bow archery, the light infantry archer at the rear of the Carthage array, relying on the long range of their bows, began to target the two-winged Sinomibian cavalry Shooting arrow rain.
At the same time, the lead shot thrown by the stone troopers of the First Legion of Dionia has already flown over the Carthage Army ...
Arrows, javelins, and lead shots continued to fly into the Carthage array, and the screams continued, but the Carthage soldiers were unmoved, they steadily charged forward, and soon met with Dioni Asian soldiers slaughtered together.
Broken spears, broken shields, flesh flying, killing sounds ...
On the one side is the rise of the new forces in the Western Mediterranean, the soldiers are all well-trained, with passion and pride, and vowed to win more glorious glory; the other is an old strong state with hundreds of years of history, proud and Although glory is a thing of the past, but now the enemy is invading, the soldiers have only one thought in their hearts: "defend their homes and drive away the enemy." For this reason, they are not afraid of sacrifice.
Therefore, despite the strength of the Dionysian army, the quality of the soldiers is better than the other, the organization is more efficient than the other, and the cooperation of the soldiers is better than the other ... but in fighting for two After more than an hour, the entire front of Carthage had retreated from the previous, but the two sides remained basically balanced.
Even the Carthaginians prevailed on the cavalry. Samuels used light infantry to fight against the windy West Numbia cavalry. After a long battle, the Xinumbia cavalry was tired and exhausted, plus they never used to. Direct confrontation with the enemy ~ EbookFREE.me ~ so basically it can be said that the combat effectiveness has been lost.
At this time, Samos sent the holy cavalry cavalry and Phoenician cavalry, who had been rearing up, to send them together to attack the left flank of Dionia.
Alexis had to send 3,000 light armored soldiers as a reserve team to the left to eliminate the threat.
I learned that the cavalry's offensive was contained by the enemy. I saw that the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time were sweating and exhausted. The entire front was slowly retreating ... The anxiety in Samos's heart was gradually increasing.
Before that, he had never played against the Dionysian army. He spent most of his military commanding career conquering and suppressing the Numibians. He has always been smooth and without defeat. Although he heard a lot of scary statements about the strength of the Dionysian army, he didn't take it too seriously. According to the situation he had learned, he believed that in this war, Carthage faced the current difficulties. It was mainly the strength of the Dionysian navy that caused the Carthage navy to be defeated. In terms of the army, the strength of the two sides should not be much different.
Because in Samors' view, the real test of the army's combat effectiveness is fighting, and there are not many fightings in this war.