Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

The messengers sent by Puchetti for help had already reached the battlefield to ambush Tarantum, but he could not see the consuls of the Mesapi city-states headed by Pachymerus, because everyone was devoted to Tarantum. The siege of the army

The Greek heavy infantry has a strong defense and is stronger in melee combat, and the heavy infantry who only defends and does not attack is simply a hard shell. It takes time and physical strength to break it open. 【Read the latest chapter】

The initial ambush of the Messapis cut the serpentine marching column of Tarantum into a dozen segments, and the Messapis were outnumbered as they surrounded each segment of the enemy. But as the battle progressed, Tarantum casualties increased, making each encirclement smaller and smaller.

If it wasn't for the sound of Dionia's bugle, the Tarantum might have given up fighting, and the only thing that supports them today is their belief in survival. But as the small encirclements were gradually eliminated one by one, the shackles around the necks of the remaining soldiers began to become tighter and tighter.

Hytbarus had heard that Prosusus performed extremely well in the boot camp, but he did not expect that on the real battlefield, Prosusus would kill people with no mercy, and it was not like the first battle at all (it was not ), his round shield defense, top shot and the jab of the lance are very skillful and skillful, the lance will not swing randomly, but as long as he shoots, he can cause the enemy to scream, which is really ruthless and accurate. The fierceness of Prosous actually made the fierce Puchetti fearful, and they subconsciously avoided his assault.

Under the leadership of Prosous, his teammates are all vying for the lead, and the Puchetti's defense line is in jeopardy

Matonis, who was supervising the battle at the center of the brigade, saw this scene below, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and asked loudly with excitement, Who is the warrior rushing to the front?!

The sub-captain Parmanius quickly answered in the small square in front: Prosous!

It's Prosous!! The teammates also scrambled to answer.

Commander-in-chief, Matonis' 3rd Battalion has broken through the enemy's line of defense!

Amintas' fourth brigade also broke through!

The light infantry battalion of Epithenis and Tspit has crushed the enemy's flank!

Izam's mountain reconnaissance brigade joined Heraklia and Metapontum's troops to defeat the enemy's flank!

A piece of good news followed. When Thormid reported it to Davos, Eumacas couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly: Great! We finally won!

Davos also showed a relieved smile: Order,

Sound the horn of attack again and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!

Retreat - retreat - let's go! Tremoney looked bleak, but still calm, after all, he did not experience failures. The last war with the Downey people lost a lot of land, and he survived. .

In fact, there was no need for him to order at all, the whole army had collapsed, and the Puchetti fighters were scrambling for their lives

Before leaving, Tremony did not forget to take another look at the top of the mountain on the opposite side, as if to keep the dazzling flag in his heart.

Your Majesty, do you want to tell the Mesapis? Purlo reminded him.

Tremoni was in a low mood and didn't want to say more, but looking at the fallen soldiers all over the mountains and fields, how could the Messapiers not know, it is better to be a good person, he sighed: Send someone to tell them, Dionia The people attacked fiercely, we did not block it, whether to retreat or continue to fight, let them decide for themselves

The soldiers next to him fell one by one, and Diomilas was also injured in many places. He felt that he might be going to the underworld this time, but the Mesapis who surrounded them suddenly became commotion.

He heard the enemy shouting something, but unfortunately he could not understand the language of Messapi, but some of the soldiers had already shouted excitedly in a tired voice: The Messapi said that the Puchetti were defeated! The Ornias have won! We are saved!!

When the desperate soldiers heard these words, they immediately cheered up and shouted the news of victory to each other, and finally turned into the same voice: Hold on! Hold on!! The Dionysian reinforcements are coming soon!!!

Time passed with difficulty every minute and second, and the attack of the Mesapi people gradually weakened, and finally retreated away.

Facing the retreat of the Mesapis, Diomilas had no intention of pursuing him. In fact, he could not command any soldier at the moment. All the Tarantum soldiers were the same as him, resisting for more than two hours in a row, with both physical and mental strength. consumed to the limit.

He slumped on the ground and didn't want to stand up at all. The joy of the rest of his life was seeing the corpses of soldiers and the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned. No one was happy.

In this battle, the Mesapis suffered 1,200 casualties, the main casualties coming from the almost annihilated cavalry reinforcements and the casualties of the Igratia heavy infantry.

The Puchetti suffered less than 600 casualties. The reason for their low casualties was that when the infantry fought, the casualties in frontal battles were often small, and the main losses were after rout. Like the second battle between Dionia and Crotone, the light infantry and cavalry pursued and captured most of the Crotone heavy infantry who had fled. Such a good opportunity did not appear in this mountain battle. , Because the Puchetti are familiar with the mountains and have poor equipment, it is these characteristics that make it impossible for them to let Dionia's light and heavy infantry catch up when they flee, and Dionia's cavalry did not play in the battle, Even if he appeared on the battlefield, there was nothing he could do to defeat Puchetti in the mountains.

On the other side of the war, Tarantum suffered more than 4,000 casualties, close to 1/3 of its army, and most of them were killed; Dionia suffered 600 casualties, but most of them were wounded, most of whom fell from the hillside. Injured; more than 800 casualties in Heraklia and Metapontum. Therefore, although the Maple coalition forces eventually retreated, in fact the Greek coalition forces suffered more serious losses. It's just that Messapi and Puchetti lost a lot of cavalry, and Dionia gained nearly 400 high-quality warhorses.

When Davos saw Diomilas, he did not pose as a savior, and still faced him with a normal attitude. Spencer was ashamed.

The Maple coalition retreated from the Anlern Hills, entered the territory of Tarantum, and quickly retreated north.

However, the Greek coalition forces were unable to catch up due to exhaustion and too many wounded soldiers. They stationed in several nearby villages and took a temporary rest.

And on this day, the Dionysian Senate received a person.

His name is Mitrobatus, and he came to ask Dionia for help, but he is not from any of the allied city-states of Dionia, but from the Sirus tribe in Bruti.

It turned out that in the process of unification and union, the Bruti Tribal Alliance in Cosenza began to speed up the incorporation and merger of large and small tribes in the territory. Under the general trend and the situation of force coercion, most of the tribes chose to obey, but Xilu A small number of tribes led by tribes refused to integrate.

According to Mitrobatus' words: They are Greeks, and most of them were forced to flee into the mountains after the destruction of Cybalis. They have the pride of the Greeks, how could they be included by the barbarians? lived a savage life.

The messengers of Bruti Kesenza City dispatched the Xilu tribe several times. After the persuasion failed, there was no movement. The people of the Xilu tribe thought that the matter had passed. However, a few months later, after Cosenza had completed and effectively managed most of the tribes of Bruti, he sent another envoy to Siron.

This time, the messenger made a direct and tough request: the Xilu tribe immediately surrendered, and fully accepted the governance of the tribal alliance, otherwise, an army would be sent to destroy it!

Only then did the Siru tribe panic, and hurriedly sent Mitrobates to Trina for help.

Trina admitted that he was incapable of intervening in the matter, but fortunately he had already let Cypros and Dionysian consul Davos speak to him in advance, so he asked Mitrobates to turn to Dionia for help.

On this day, the rotating chairman of the Senate was Cornelus. He looked at the messenger who claimed to be a Greek but did not look like a Greek at all, with a puzzled expression on his face.

Mitrobatus saw the doubts of the elders and defended: I inherited the appearance from Bruti's mother, and it is because my appearance is not like a Greek that the chief of Sirius chose me, because only in this way It won't arouse suspicion from the surrounding Brutians.

Cornelus murmured in his heart: Davos had raised a question about Bruti once before he set off on the expedition, but before the in-depth discussion was carried out, it was interrupted because of Tarantum's request for help.

At this time, Polyxis stood up and said: What can we Dionia do now? Protest to the Brutes, let them not annex this small tribe?! I am afraid that all the adults here will not believe that only With a single word from us, the Brutus can stop the action they have been preparing for a long time. What should we do once the Brutus reject us?! If we give up, we will only lose Dionia as Dai. The prestige of Firth's most powerful alliance! But if we want to take it further, I can't think of any other way to do it than war.

But enough of the war the citizens of Dionia have gone through this year! Now our consul leads our civic soldiers to battle the mighty Mesapis and Pucherti in Tarantum! Polyxis pointed at Mitrobates, with a sympathetic look, and said in a deep tone: And you look at this messenger from Cyrus, he said that because they are Greeks, it is better to kick people to resist. , but who knows if it's true! Are we willing to send our citizens back to strange and bloody battlefields to fight the fierce Brutians for a race that doesn't look like our Greeks at all? !