Vol 5 Chapter 12: Millon's counterattack

Matones cursed the timid Crotones and forced some soldiers to participate in the bridge. Look at ΔΔ书阁WwんW. 『kan→shu→ge. La
The Wembley River is not too wide, nor too deep, and it is full of labor. Seeing that the soldiers on both sides of the strait are under the command of the engineering personnel, a wooden bridge will soon be built in accordance with the steps of bridging the "Army Law." After the construction was completed, Matones received a return from the detective: about 8,000 Crotone light infantry attacked him!
His listless face suddenly had the spirit: "Brothers, I got up and got beaten!"
What kind of people bring what kind of soldiers. The soldiers who had been lying down and resting, immediately stood up, dressed up, quickly approached the base, looked out excitedly, and the soldiers who built the bridge quickly heard back.
Not long after, they saw the figure of the Crotone.
........................
After Miron escaped to Crimea, he had specifically asked the few surviving soldiers of Ladfoss and came to the astonishing conclusion: the army of Ladfoss turned out to be the light infantry of Dionia. Defeated! Now he has the conditions of less heavy infantry and more light infantry, and he is also determined to learn the enemy's tactics. Even he allowed the sailors of some of the fleets that docked at the port of Crimea to join the troops.
8,000 people came ashore from the south bank of the estuary of the Wembley River. Under his leadership, they rushed along the Wembley River and rushed to the south bank of Dionia.
Seeing the daggers and earthen walls built by the Dionyns, Milon smiled instead: the Diaonians tied their hands and feet, which was more conducive to the light infantry attack.
Two hundred meters from the Dionyrians, he loosened the troops and wrapped the Dionya, a semi-arc temporary defense camp against the Wembley River.
Under one command, the bowmen marched within a hundred meters and began to throw arrows.
For the Dionysian heavy infantry with earth wall protection, the rain of the sky seems to be scary, and the damage to them is not great. They just need to put the round shield on the wall and block the head. The Dionysian soldiers also joked: "The Crotones must have known that our bows and arrows were running out in the last battle, so we sent us arrows with great kindness." But Diaonia This relaxed mood of the infantry quickly disappeared.
The Crotone inner infantry continued to move forward, with a distance of about 50 meters, and the accuracy of the bow and arrow increased greatly.
Of course, for the Oriya heavy infantry with the shield and the earth wall protection, there is still little damage.
However, then Crotone's javeliner continued to advance to the twenty or thirty meters, allowing the Diaonian heavy infantry to feel the pressure. Of course, there is no damage at all after the earth wall. Anyway, the enemy is a light infantry, and they dare not kill them with them. But when the tortoise turtle is not the style of Matones, not to mention the fact that once it has been retracted to the earthen wall, it will not fully understand the other party's movements. What if they bypass the line of defense and go down to the river to burn the wooden bridge being built? !
Matones is now the commander of the South Bank forces and he knows very well what his responsibilities are.
"Javelin!" He screamed, suddenly stood up from the wall, quickly put down the round shield, leaned back, did not run, just relying on the waist and hand strength, the javelin in his hand threw more than 20 meters, running through a Crowe Tone Javelin's chest, then kneel down immediately.
The Dionian soldiers, who had been suppressed by bows and arrows, got orders from Matones, and immediately began to fight back. Countless javelins flew over the earth wall, ditch, and plunged into the army of Crotone, splashing a flower. Blood flower. Crotone's arrows and javelins also fell on the Dionian heavy infantry, and the casualties on both sides began to increase.
In front of the Bowers, Milon paid attention to the development of the battle. He began to realize the benefits of using a large number of light infantry to attack the simple heavy infantry. Unfortunately, the Diaonian heavy infantry is not a traditional Greek heavy infantry. The javelins they throw are very harmful to Croton's weakly guarded javeliners, and the casualties of the two sides are also quite different.
But Milon believes that several light infantry will be replaced by a heavy infantry. This sale is worth doing. Crotone is not lacking free sailors. What is lacking is the citizen of heavy infantry.
........................
"The leader of Epiphanis, the enemy on the south bank is in a fierce attack! The captain of the Tonys wants to get your reinforcements!" The commander brought the news of Matonis.
"I know!" Epiphanis frowned and responded. He thought about it and said, "Anpio Lex!"
"Below!"
"I want you to lead the stone soldiers, and immediately cross the river to support Matonis!" Epiphanis looked at his captain, and said: "Remember! Do not enter the camp of Matonis, otherwise narrow The camp will prevent you from escaping the attack of a large number of light infantry in Crotone! You have to go around the enemy and attack the enemy with a super-range range of the slingers!"
"I understand, the captain!" Anpiolex was busy calling the soldiers.
The formation of the Light Infantry Brigade (ie the Seventh Brigade) of the Dionysian Army is somewhat different from that of the heavy infantry. In accordance with the "Military Law Regulations", the Heavy Infantry Brigade has five company companies, each of which has 200 companies and a total of 1,000 people. The Light Infantry Brigade, although it is also a thousand people, has only three companies, namely the Stone Corps Company. , the archers and the company, the javelin company, the number of people under the various companies is uncertain.
This is because the light infantry has a higher technical content than the heavy infantry, and the javelinmen are better. The archers and the stone throwers are difficult to become a qualified light infantry without long-term training, so Dionia The composition of the Legion Light Infantry Brigade is often based on the actual situation in the region where it is located. For example: the first legion light infantry brigade, the number of three arms is not much different, but its javelinmen are actually Thrace light shields; the second leg light infantry brigade is mainly from the reserve citizens of Turui, most of them are born Free people and sailors, so there are more archers, but also some light shields; and the third army light infantry brigade mainly from Lukaria, so the javelin soldiers are mostly. Because the light infantry formation is loose, the elasticity is large, and there is little direct contact with the enemy. The light infantry has more and fewer arms, and the impact on command operations is not too great.
"The captain, Empi Orex took the stone thrower, and the Crotone tanks parked in the river will not see our number decrease, take the opportunity to go up the river and come to destroy the wooden bridge we just built..." The shield company commander Zegnaris said worriedly.
"I really hope that they will come, even if we have fewer soldiers, I have the confidence to destroy them! Instead of being like this, we can neither attack nor retreat, let the wooden boats staying there contain us, and we cannot reinforce the comrades on the other side!" Epiphanis said angrily.
"Since they don't come, we can't attack them in the past!" A friendly guard next to Epiphanes, a handsome young man interjected.
Epiphanes gently patted him on the back of his head and smiled and said: "Stupid, the place where the enemy ships are moored, the riverbank is low, we have to go there to attack the ships, just like attacking the enemy on the wall. I have lost a lot of money, and the enemy’s loss is small. This kind of battle that knows what to lose, what will I do with Epiphany?!

"Now we are located in the high bank of the river bank. There are rivers and rivers on the river. The enemy knows that the boating will be passively beaten here. Will they do this stupid thing?!" The handsome guard asked.
Epiphanis paused for a moment, then gently pushed him with his hand, and smiled and said: "Yes, you are growing very much now!" Then he sighed helplessly: "It seems that we are fighting with the enemy's warships." On the way, the commander asked us to protect the wooden bridge. I thought it was a simple task. Now it seems that it is really a troublesome thing!"
.....................
While Milon was fighting Martonis, Davers had already got the news. For Milon to dare to use light infantry to attack, Davers was surprised, but did not have any concerns: "Notify Ledes, his The cavalry team was temporarily placed under the command of the First Corps. I believe that Capps will soon be able to repel the enemy!"
Captain, the first commander of the Daves-authorized team, immediately mobilized three heavy infantry battalions and cavalry teams to quickly cross the river and want to wrap around the Crotones and cut off their retreat.
Who knows, Milon learned that the news of the arrival of the reinforcements of Dionia, in the case of the advantage, simply ordered the retreat.
This battle is over. Among the 2000 heavy infantry men led by Matones, 500 were casualties, mostly wounded. More than 700 of the 8,000 people in Milon have been killed or injured, but there are many deaths. But Matones thought he had suffered a loss, and Milon thought that Crotone won a small victory, because it would slow down the progress of the construction of the camp and the siege of the Crimea.
But when Miron returned to the city, he immediately got a bad news: a large army came from the north~EbookFREE.me~ was entering the military camp in Dionia.
That must be the reinforcement of Niutum! Milon suddenly got nervous.
.....................
In fact, not only the 5,000 soldiers from Niutum, but also 3,000 Ratos allied forces entered the Dionysian military camp, making the frontline strength of Dionia reach 22,000.
The original morale of the Dionysian military camp was cheering everywhere...
Davers went out to meet the ruins of the Aros, the Argos, and the first captain of the Third Corps, Bagul, the adjutant, Assisi, the second captain, Lizaru, etc. A number of senior team officers.
"Commander, we are coming late!" Yasister's respectful salute, then apologetic.
"More than three days from Niutum to Krimissa, is this marching slow?!" After Daves’ serious return, he smiled and said: "You are coming. The next battle will depend on you!"