Severa staggered back a few steps, and wanted to throw the spear in his hand to fight back, but his tired body was severely injured, and his strength was exhausted.
Sevilla's death did not frighten the successors of the soldiers. The belief of living gave them temporary courage and strength. Soldiers kept being shot and fell, and fighters kept rushing up, watching the Lucanian fighters. Approaching the top of the hill...
The copper horn sounded in a timely and rapid manner, and the light shield soldiers quickly retreated from the gap between the mercenary heavy infantry formations. Destroy the enemy's hope of escaping; and the light infantry behind them, regardless of their numb arms, continue to fire javelins, arrows, and flying stones, letting them pass the heavy infantry ahead in a perfect arc and land on the slope. Down, continue to kill the follow-up enemy to avoid it forming a continuous impact; the slaves in the back have brought in bundles of arrows and javelins to supplement the long-range weapons consumed by the light infantry.
Drakes stood at the forefront of the defense line, facing the enemies who were rushing up the slope one after another, not only did he not have any nervousness or fear, but was full of fighting spirit: "Brothers, drive the enemy down to me!"
"Roar!!!" The soldiers were infected by him, raised their shields and spears, and roared in unison.
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As the great leader of Grummentum and the ally of the Lucanian tribal coalition, Akpiru, who is over fifty years old, certainly couldn't be as impulsive as a young warrior into the pursuit. He does not pursue him. There are four hundred Grummentum warriors who are responsible for his security guards. Of course, it is impossible to leave him to pursue alone. In the same situation as him, there are Niutum and Laos, three There were about seven hundred soldiers in the team.
After they met, they moved forward at a relatively fast speed. When they arrived at the hot spring swamp, they heard the loud fighting and screams in front of them...
The faces of the big leaders changed.
"Speed up and rush over!" Akpiru ordered eagerly.
The fast-moving team encountered the Davos mercenaries who were also rushing to complete the sealing work of the encirclement.
When Felixius saw the enemy on the mountain road, he gave a "crack" in his heart. Fortunately, he quickly made his own deployment: the first, second, and third companies were commanded by Capps, who blocked the enemy. Encircled enemy; the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th companies followed him in attacking the enemy in front.
At the same time, Felixius also called the messenger: "Go and inform Mersis, let him lead the slaves to arrive quickly!"
Seeing that the Greeks dared to divide their forces even when they were approaching, Acpiru became more and more uneasy: If there were no more urgent matters, would these timid Greeks dare to do so? !
He immediately gave an order: "Give me a full attack!"
The two well-armed teams, also their own elites, collided directly without forming or unfolding...
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Capps led his army to the west of the big river bank and ran into the terrified Lucarian warriors who had just climbed out of the slope.
They were immediately beaten, dropping dozens of corpses and rolling down the slope, and the mercenaries immediately plugged the gap.
Now, to the east of the Great River Beach are the reinforcements of Tarantum; to the north are Drax's mercenaries, all light infantry, and slave soldiers; to the west are the heavy infantry of Davos' mercenaries; to the south is the spring. Rain-flooded thermal swamps and the Tino River.
The 9,000-odd Lucanian tribal coalition forces were surrounded by a narrow and low-lying area about two miles long and half a mile wide. The total strength of the encircling side was only more than seven thousand (plus slave soldiers), and its blocking line was weak. , especially in the west, there are only 600 Davos mercenaries, almost only a single column of infantry, extending to the north of the Drakes mercenaries, connected to their arrays, like dumplings with thin skin and a lot of stuffing, they will be squeezed at any time. Fortunately, the Lucanians in the encirclement were temporarily chaotic and disorganized, ramming around like headless flies, unable to form a joint force.
In Davos' plan, the long-range firepower of the light infantry was the main factor to weaken the enemy's strength, and his Persian expeditionary force not only played the role of completing the encirclement, but also his most trusted offensive force. , The strength of this expeditionary force was dispersed. After Davos learned about the emergency through reconnaissance, although he was anxious, it was one of the several possibilities he had planned in advance, and he had backup measures.
He immediately dispatched cavalry, urged Mersis to speed up the advance, rushed to the place where Felixius' troops were fighting, joined with Felixius, concentrated his forces, annihilated the unexpected enemy in one fell swoop, and then re-invested in the fight against Lu The Karians are under siege.
Time, now is the key to the victory of the Greek army.
Acpirus also knew its importance.
Two elite troops fought bloody battles: one was a warrior selected from the entire Lucanian tribal alliance, who had not undergone intense fighting, but was still physically strong; the other was a Greek mercenary who had gone on an expedition to Persia, experienced and skilled. Superb, but non-stop running makes them extremely lack of physical strength. But the course of the battle surprised Akpiru. He originally thought that the Greeks did not form a phalanx, and such a melee should logically be the advantage of the Lucanian warriors who were used to this fighting style, but the Lucanian warriors gradually began to retreat...
Standing high in the rear, Acpiru observed that the Greeks often gathered in groups of dozens of people (in fact, it was the unique detachment of the Davos mercenaries). Very tacit understanding, more lethal, but the Lucanians were cut into pieces by them, like a plate of loose sand...
This made him realize the seriousness of the matter, he quickly dispatched a small team of soldiers, ordered them to return to the camp quickly, and informed the chief leader of Picossis, Cincinnager: Immediately lead the soldiers who stayed behind to help him defeat the current enemy, Further smash the enemy's conspiracy!
The soldiers who went back to report were attacked by the Ryders cavalry (last night, Davos took the opportunity to temporarily borrow ten horses from Burkes, so that the mercenary cavalry squad could be rebuilt), due to the roughness of the mountain road, The speed of the cavalry could not be fully utilized, and several wounded soldiers escaped the pursuit of the cavalry and ran all the way into the Lucania camp.
"Hurry... hurry up and inform the chief of Cincinnagar! We are in an ambush, send reinforcements quickly!" Under the surprised eyes of the soldiers who were about to withdraw the camp, they were exhausted and shouted eagerly.
However, the expressions of the surrounding warriors began to look a little weird.
"Oops, it's a Vig!" The soldiers who reported the letter were surprised when they discovered the difference between these people.
But he saw a person crouch down and asked in a deep voice, "What ambush?! What happened?!"
The warrior seems to remember that the person who spoke was a leader of Vig City named Saru...
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Acpiru asked Picocis and Vig to be responsible for the evacuation of the camp, but Cincinnag handed over all the drudgery to the Vig, and he, his son and several leaders were in the tent to "occupy the next" how to protect the interests of Picocis after the Subari Plain”.
The guard suddenly broke in and shouted in panic: "Boss, it's not good! The Vig people suddenly attacked us!"
what! ! Cincinnagar was shocked, and immediately cursed angrily: "The Vig people who deserve to be killed, don't they want to live!!"
He hurried out of the military tent, and the scene in front of him was far beyond his expectations: smoke billowed everywhere in the camp, countless tents were burning in the fire, Vig people armed with spears, divided into countless squads, chased and killed the unsuspecting Pico everywhere. Sith warriors, Picosses flee in embarrassment...
Cincinnagar's ears were filled with the shrill screams of the clansmen, which made him almost mad: "Ah!!... I said long ago that these despicable Bruti people should be killed, but Akpiru just won't listen! … Gnaine Express! Go and organize the warriors to fight back! Fight back! Repel them! Kill them all! And destroy Vig City!!… Ahh!!…”
No need for him to say more, Glenart and several leaders rushed out anxiously.
But for Picocis, the situation was dire. The Vigos came prepared, while the Picosses suffered too many casualties yesterday (more than 1,000 people, most of them wounded), most of the soldiers stayed in the tents to take care of their comrades, and the Vigos set fires everywhere, causing them to ignite. Many Picosses were burned alive in tents…