This time, I went out to fight with Melantheus. I didn’t expect it to be so smooth. They easily captured the city of Turii, and Klebs also grabbed a lot of spoils. No wonder many people say that Melantheus is the darling of the goddess of luck. . Moreover, he also heard that the Crotone City Hall was planning to emigrate to the Sybari Plain, so he planned: after returning to Crotone, first cash in the spoils, save money to marry a wife first, and then join Crotone The land of the Xubari Plain is flatter and wider than the Croton Plain in Crotone, and he should be able to get a small piece of land.
That night, Klebs had a beautiful dream, but was woken up in pain. When he opened his eyes, he saw that his comrades in the tent were like wasps that had exploded their nests, running out like crazy. He who was sleeping beside the tent door had been trampled on. Several feet.
"Look at it!" he yelled angrily.
"Enemy attack! Come out and fight!" The teammates shouted and rushed out of the tent.
"Enemy attack? Where did the enemy come from?" Klebs was still a little stunned.
At this moment, a series of screams came into his ears, and he jolted, put his hands on the ground, and barely stood up. I drank a lot of wine last night, and it was not mixed with water, so I had a lot of stamina. His mind was dizzy, his body was a little out of control, he almost fell, and he didn't have time to wear armor and armor. He grabbed the thorn gun from the ground, and staggered out of the tent. In his sleepy eyes, he saw neatly dressed heavy infantry lined up closely. The front line quickly approached them, and the two companions rushed forward with stab guns, and were quickly stabbed by the enemy. The tacit cooperation and concise and skillful fighting completely frightened Klebus, and fear instantly occupied him. Whole body, he threw away the lance, turned and ran.
"Escape! Get out of here!" With a strong desire to survive, Klebs ran and looked at the position of the sun in the sky. He made up his mind to flee to the east, because the city of Castellon was to the east.
After running for a while, I saw some people running towards the front, shouting in horror: "There are enemies, run!"
Are there enemies in the east? ! When Klebs heard this, he panicked and had to run after him.
Next, he rammed around like a headless fly. There were more and more people around, and there were even a lot of pack animals running and bumping around, injuring a lot of people, but still couldn't get out.
By this time, no matter how flustered Klebs' mind was, he also understood that they were surrounded, and the circle was shrinking...
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Davos's legion headquarters is located behind the second brigade, between Camp Critina and Castellon City. Thirty guards were standing by, and their attention was mainly on the east. Captain Martius raised the banner of the legion. Davos was listening carefully to Leders' report on the latest battle situation from his subordinate cavalry.
"The first brigade starts to attack!"
"The second brigade starts to attack!"
"The third brigade is attacking!"
"The Seventh Battalion and the Lucania Battalion are attacking!"
"The first brigade advanced and won, and the enemy did not resist!"
"The second brigade is advancing smoothly!"
"The first brigade crossed the baggage area and continued to advance forward!"
"So fast?!" Davos was a little surprised and asked, "How did they do it?"
Ryders replied: "The people who stayed around the loading area were all the freemen and slaves of Turii who had taken refuge in Crotone. When they saw us attacking, they all ran away. Kapus and the others directly bypassed this area and stayed behind. One detachment is slowly cleared, and the other troops continue to advance."
"Well, Capps made the right choice!" Davers nodded in appreciation.
At this time, another cavalry came to report: "The second brigade has become two horizontal columns!"
"The first brigade has become two horizontal teams!"
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"Legion Commander, our attack is very smooth, and the encirclement is shrinking rapidly!" Asisters looked excited.
"Yeah, it went well beyond my expectations!" Davos sighed, relieved the tension in his heart, and asked Ryders again, "Is there still any movement in Castron City?"
"No."
"It seems that the enemy's vigilance and response to danger are very slow, and Alpins won't be able to fight this time." Davers was in the mood to joke at this time: "Wait until the sports champion wakes up from his sleep. Come on, it must be weird, 'Where's his army?'"
The surrounding people burst into laughter.
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In fact, Davos' judgment was still wrong. Castellon's sentries did not fail to notice the strangeness of Crotone's barracks, although Crotone's barracks was about three miles away from Castellon City, because of the woods. Blocked by the river, even standing on the city wall, the outline of the military camp could not be seen, but the huge sound mixed with the screams and exclamations of tens of thousands of soldiers could be vaguely transmitted to the ears of the sentinels.
So, the sentinel informed the captain of the abnormal situation, and the captain thought: The camp in Crotone should be very safe! The Brutians in the west were blocked by the mountains and could not get through at all. Turii to the north has been burned, not to mention the protection of the Trionto River. To the south, Crimissa also took refuge in Crotone. To the northeast is our Castellon blocking it. There will be no enemies in Crotone at this moment. Could it be that these arrogant Crotones got up early in the morning and were having a carnival again
Out of professional habit, he still symbolically sent a few cavalry over to see what happened. As a result, when the cavalry passed through the woods, they were shot by the archers of Alpins who were ambushing there, and they were all annihilated. .
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As the encirclement was further reduced, some companies even had to become three columns because the attack line was too tight, and the surrounded Crotone army became more and more crowded due to the shrinking space.
Melantheus and other senior officers were invited to the city for a feast and carnival and were unable to return, but the centenarian captain was still there, especially when the officers who were sleeping in the center of the camp noticed that the situation was not right, they began to laboriously greet their subordinates. Armor, take up arms (because most people are drunk), and get ready for battle. It's just that the Amendolara people's attack speed is too fast, and there are deserters running around everywhere, disrupting their hastily organized team. But now when the compression of space prevents deserters from running around, the centenarian captain wearing a brightly colored cap and helmet has become their backbone.
"We are surrounded, we can only survive if we rush out to the east! Rush out to the east!..." The centenarian captains shouted in unison, attracting the attention of the people around them, and under their leadership, they began to rush towards the sun one after another. , Amendolara's army also ushered in the most severe test since the raid.
Drax didn't panic at all when he saw the dark enemies coming rushing in. This is not the first time the second brigade has encountered such a situation. Last time they blocked the ferocious Lucanian food attack. After several months of training, they were more confident to block these unarmored, incomplete weapons, and even And naked enemies.
"Send orders, defend in place!" Drakes ordered the drummers (there were five drummers in each battalion, in addition to conveying orders, they could also use drums to adjust the pace of the soldiers during the march, keeping the formation in line, and at the same time Boost morale).
Rhythmic drums sounded, and the flag-bearers of each company waved their flags. In fact, the sub-commanders have already begun to instruct the soldiers to stop advancing and take precautions according to their own judgment.
Crotone's charge was like a big wave, although majestic, but the force was scattered. The defense of the second brigade was like an iron wall, although it was thin, it was strong.
The two armies collided. One has maintained an offensive posture and consumed a lot of energy; the other has been fleeing from the beginning and is exhausted. One is fully armed and one is not fully equipped. One less, one more. The two sides fought in close quarters, and the outcome was obvious. But the Crotones finally showed their courage at this critical moment: they rammed with their bodies and kicked their feet without weapons; they were stabbed by a stabbing gun, and they held on to their hands tightly…
For a time, the second brigade fell into a hard fight.
Davos got the news at the first time, and immediately ordered: "The rest of the brigade speed up the attack speed and can recruit the enemy!"
At the same time, he asked Ryders to quickly call Alpins to lead the light infantry back to assist the second brigade attack, while he led the guards to the front.
When the legion's banner appeared behind the second brigade's defense line, and the tall bronze statue of Hades shone with golden light in the morning light, the soldiers of the second brigade, who were struggling to support, were immediately boosted in morale.
"Dracos, can you still resist?" Davos deliberately asked loudly the second captain who was commanding the rear.
"Legion Commander, we will be able to beat the enemy back soon!" Drax gritted his teeth, turned back and shouted at the drummers: "Beat the drums of the attack! We must attack!"
Under the watchful eye of the commander and the sound of the drums of attack, the soldiers were full of energy. Although the formation with only three columns was relatively thin compared to the enemy, they began to counterattack, slamming the round shields and ramming forward, and the lances pierced powerfully. In the exposed gap, if the enemy grabbed the lance, he would pull out his saber and slash. Originally, the battle between Greek infantrymen was irritating. The metal muffled sound from the collision of the shield and the shield, the clanging sound from the spear stuck on the armor, and the piercing sound of the saber slashing each other. . But now, with every swipe, every stab, every slash, the groan of the enemy, the tearing of metal piercing flesh, and the string of blood from the saber...
The second battalion's swift counterattack withstood the enemy's onslaught, and the courage of the Crotones, who were mostly unarmored or even unarmed, dwindled quickly before the impregnable walls.
The light infantry who arrived soon shot arrows and flying stones to hit the rear of the Crotone line of attack, making their successors unable to keep up and forming a joint force.
The last weight on the war scale was the fierce attack of the other three brigades. The encirclement was shrinking sharply. The Crotone army in the center was almost crowded with people, and it became difficult to even turn around, let alone break through the encirclement. .
Nearly 10,000 people were tightly surrounded in this large circle with a radius of less than one mile. Arrows and flying stones kept falling from the sky, and cries of surrender and not killing kept ringing around, and people kept falling down screaming. Panic and fear quickly pervaded the enemy...
Freemen and slaves fell on their knees first.
Followed by the soldiers of Cilitin, Crimissa, and Castellon.
In the end, the exhausted Crotone bowed his proud head...
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