Vol 5 Chapter 2: ambush?

"have not reach yet."
"In front of the notice, slow down the marching speed, and let Ladfoss make the momentum bigger and attract the attention of the enemy. Also... let Aly Sosis (Crottone Cavalry Captain) take the detective ride Withdrew, since the situation is clear, don't waste our cavalry!"
"Yes!"
After the order was issued, Milon’s eyes turned to the woods in front. Here, he is quite familiar, because through it, to the west is where the army of Meranthus was sneaked. After signing a peace agreement with Dionya, Milon personally led the team from there. Thousands of corpses, allies and Crotone... The tragic scene made him forget for a long time!
Milon tightens the reins: this time Crotone will wash the shame and avenge them!
The troops walked out of the woods, and the front was a flat and high-lying wilderness. The river of Trionto narrowed here, so the depth of the water could not be walked. This was the reason why Meranthus was camping here.
"Enemy! Look at the enemy!!" The soldiers near the river bank swayed.
In front of the team, on the other side of the Trionto River, a fully armed Dionia team marched westward along the river bank.
It seems that the Deonians have already explored their movements and are prepared to stop them from crossing the river. Miron is not too worried. Although he can't see the whole picture of the enemy on the other side, he feels that the number of the team is not too much. As the secret letter said, the Dionians sent to Kas. Tron’s pioneering force was less than 4,000, and he had to defend against Ladfoss. How many enemies could be left in the front to stop his army crossing the river!
The upper reaches of the Trionto River rushed through the narrow valleys between the mountains until it rushed out of the gorge, but it encountered a flat lowland. It was like a child who had left the tube and happily extended its territory to the sides to make the river At the same time as the surface is three or forty meters wide, the water flow is also slowed down, the depth is reduced, and after a long period of two miles, the river surface becomes narrower and deeper again because of the increase of the terrain...
At this moment, Milon, on the south bank of the Trionto River, arranged his 22,000 soldiers (including 2,000 light infantry) into a thickness of ten columns, and the column was more than two miles long, with a winding cover. The long array of walkable sections of the river, because the enemy of only 5,000 people on the other side also has the same length array as Crotone, but not only the thickness is thin, but the formation is also very loose. Milon firmly believes that even with the help of the Trionto River, it is difficult for the Dionysian army to block the advancement of the Crotonian army. Their thin fronts will inevitably be thickened by the Crotonne Army. Break it!
"Offensive!" Milon, who is behind the middle road, is full of heroic orders to the division.
The singer’s squad sounded through the quiet and flowing River of Trionto, except for the two thousand people in the middle of the middle road, which were intimately moved, because he felt that his own strength was far more than the enemy, and there was no need to invest all of it. Fighting, the entire phalanx began to move slowly to the river bank...
Krebs was one of the 20,000 soldiers. The last time he was captured by the Dionys, he had been watching the road for half a year, and he had suffered, and his family had redeemed him. He owed a large debt. This time he was called by the city-state and once again fought with Dionya. In addition to his strong desire for revenge, he also hoped to defeat the Diaonians, gain valuable loot and pay off his debts. The river beach here is not soft sand, but pebbles of different sizes and sizes. The ground is hard, but it is easy to cripple, so they are slow and steady.
The Triongto River is in front, and the forefront of Kolbus through the eyes of the small Corinthian helmet, seeing a lot of people in the array of enemies on the other side, without waiting for the team officer to remind, he has quickly lifted Round shield, blocked in front of the chest.
"Hey!" The Danonian's arrow hit his bronze shield, making a harsh sound, but he couldn't damage it. His right foot had already entered the river.
"Be careful with your head!!" The dense helmet echoed the scream of the team officer. The voice was weak and far away. He looked up subconsciously and saw countless black spots falling in the air.
"Damn, it's a throw!" He hurriedly raised his shield.
At this time, I heard the team officer yelling: "Be careful!!"
However, the hearing and vision of the heavy-armored soldiers were severely weakened, causing their reactions to be slower than the average person. Many people could not quickly take care of them, including Kolbus. He felt a punch in his chest, and then a bit of pain. An arrow was stuck on his left chest. He should have penetrated the layers of densely woven linen breastplate, but it has already consumed kinetic energy. Exhausted, the arrow tip just touched his skin, and the experienced Kolobs knew that the damage was not great.
However, his teammates were shot in the thigh without armor protection, screaming and falling into the river, blood is about to smash the river, watching the teammates struggling in the water, Kolbus wants to help him, but he has more than enough Insufficient force, the embarrassing Deonians used both the projectile and the direct shot to let them take care of themselves. Looking at the teammates who finally stopped struggling floating on the river, Klebs’s heart raised a bit of grief...
"A big step forward! Stride forward!..." The team officers shouted and urged the soldiers to speed up the river.
The river is really not deep, just before the knees, there are many pebbles at the bottom of the river, some slippery, so they are half-squatting down with the round shield, blocking the head and chest with a round shield, and the river blocks the legs, hit by the bow The chances are greatly reduced, but the speed of advancement is not fast. After experiencing the initial panic, the soldiers gradually calmed down, slowly moving forward, while protecting the arrows, while re-adjusting the previously chaotic formations in the process of moving forward.
Almost in the middle of the river, the water depth did not increase much. Even in the right wing of the square, Kolbus blocked the river because of the long array on the left, and did not feel the momentum of a little water flow. At this time, he observed that some people in the enemy line on the other side rushed to the river, almost less than 20 meters away from them, the tip of the spear in the sun shimmering in the sun... The heart of Kolbus Jumping up, he instinctively took his body down and almost immersed the entire body in the water.
"Be careful with the javelin!!..." The volume of the team officers has increased significantly, because the javelin is significantly more harmful to the heavy infantry than the arrow.
Collebs heard a whistling sound from the ear, followed by a "shock!" a scream of screaming from behind his teammates, the javelin straight on the round shield, the spear tip pierced the copper, crushed The wooden board directly nailed his left arm, and the strong impact pushed him backwards, and brought down the soldiers behind him. If it was not the timely help of his teammates, I am afraid that these soldiers wearing heavy helmets will be This seemingly gentle and harmless river water sputum nose, causing cough and eventually suffocating, showing the strength of the enemy throwing a javelin, causing the front of the Crotone army to be a panic.
At this time, the light infantry in the backcourt also followed, and finally can start to fight back. The arrows they fired fell on the opposite bank like raindrops, forcing the enemy's javelinmen to dare to attack the front.
The Crotonean casualties are nothing more than a huge army. Although Milon has a bit of pain, he is not too concerned. He is only surprised that nearly half of the 5,000 enemies on the other side are light infantry. These light infantrymen are skilled, tactical, and aggressive, but they have never seen him in previous battles, which has aroused his vigilance. But this time the battle ending is no doubt, because -
"General! Our army is ashore! We are ashore!..." cheered around.
Before, Milon thought it was very easy to cross the River of Trionto, but look at the floating body on the river~EbookFREE.me~ Seeing the expressions of the men’s relief, they all illustrate the other’s light infantry. Their expectations.
"Sound the drums! Don't let them escape!" Milon, who was riding on the horse, could see vaguely that when the front soldiers of his team set foot on the river beach, the enemy light infantry had quickly retreated through the gaps in their arrays. .
"Yes, the general!" The voice of the commander just fell, and he heard the sound of the squadron on the other side. The sound of the deafening sound required at least ten divisions to play at the same time.
Milon was hard to hide the shock in his heart. Is it that the troops sent by Deonia to Castron are not only five or six thousand people in front? ! Milon and his men’s hearts flashed this amazing thought at the same time, and their eyes were fixed on the back of the opposite bank.
The battle drum of "Hey! Hey! Hey!..." was quickly screamed and passed to the ear of Klebus, who had already landed, to cheer him up.
"Offensive! Offensive!..." Without the impact of bows and arrows, javelins, the orders of the team officers are also full of excitement.
The Crotone soldiers shouted the name of "Apollo" and strode to the enemy in front.
But the louder shouting came from the opposite side, and a red flag was suddenly raised behind the river beach. Then there was a soldier who couldn’t see the head and was closely arranged. In the same passionate drums, they quickly rushed to themselves. The comrades who used to be bait in front, the flag that was erected and greeted by the wind, evoked the tragic memories of the Crotone soldiers who had served as captives like Klebus.
be cheated! Ambushed in! Similar thoughts appeared in the minds of every Crotone soldier, and the idea was quickly swallowing their high morale, causing them to hesitate and squat on the shore, cringing, watching Diony The Asian army joined the previous troops and began to reorganize the formation...