For a time, the camp was in chaos, and Gneinart and the others were unable to gather enough soldiers to repel the riot set off by the Vigos for revenge...
"Captain, look!" Outside the Lucania camp, the mercenary cavalry who were observing the movement shouted excitedly.
Ryders was annoyed at the fact that he didn't stop all the soldiers from Lucania's news. He didn't expect the enemy's camp to catch fire, and then saw the people inside start to kill each other, he couldn't believe his eyes.
"Captain, it's infighting! The enemy is infighting!!" The cavalry next to him continued to shout excitedly.
Ryders suppressed his inner excitement and observed it for a while. After confirming it, he said, "Quick! Go back and tell the leader of Davos that the strife in the enemy camp is serious, and it is temporarily unable to send reinforcements!"
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Davos did not know that there was an infighting in the Lucania camp, and he was now worried about the stalemate in front of him.
Despite their poor equipment, lack of physical strength, and slippery feet (the river beach became muddy due to frequent trampling), the Lucanian fighters were like tides in the sea, pounding the Greek defense line after wave after wave. The blood of the compatriots was also aroused by the screams of the compatriots: even if they were stabbed by the stabbing gun, they would still hold the stabbing gun; if they were knocked down by the round shield, they would try their best to hook the Greek soldiers before they fell down the slope. feet...
The defense line to the north of the Greek army was crumbling.
"Report, Chief Drakes has fallen!"
"What?!" Davos was startled. Behind the heavy infantry front, he had already felt the commotion of the mercenaries in front, and this commotion was spreading.
"Let Archita draw out 300 people to support the north!" Davos said anxiously.
"Boss, you have given this order before, Tarantum has no troops to send, and they are also very difficult!" Asistes reminded.
"Really." Davos rubbed his face with his hands. It was the first time he independently commanded such a big battle. It was related to the future fate of him and the soldiers. He was a little nervous. He took a deep breath, tried his best to calm himself down, and then decisively ordered: "Order the slave team and the light shield soldiers to fight!"
Then, he looked back at Martius: "It's time for us to play!"
"Ho!" Martius excitedly slapped the round shield with his saber, and the guards also put down their lances, drew out their saber, and roared loudly. Experienced they know that in such an extremely crowded battlefield, long weapons are no longer useful.
Davos rushed up first, and Martius' escort followed closely, and quickly protected him.
The high-flying flag made the mercenaries who were beginning to disperse hesitate, and also allowed the rushing Lucanians to find their target, and gradually rushed towards Davos and the others, which relieved the pressure on other lines of defense a little, but made Daifus. The shock faced by Firth suddenly intensified...
At this time, the copper horn continued to sound.
Although the light shield soldiers were already numb due to the frequent throwing of javelins, they did not hesitate to raise their leather shields and long-handled reverse-blade knives under the leadership of Epithenis and Tspit, and rushed to block the hirelings. Gap in the military line.
And the slave soldiers couldn't wait, because Davos promised them that as long as the battle was won, they would be free. So when the order came, they chanted: "For freedom!!!"
With their abundant physical strength and high fighting spirit, they had no combat skills and forced some of the enemies who had broken through the defense line to be driven down the slope. At the same time, some mercenaries were pushed down by them...
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It was the team led by Mersis who also shouted "for freedom". Under the leadership of the mercenary veterans, the thousand slaves not only rushed to Felixius' place, but also bypassed the intertwined and melee together. The fronts of the teams on both sides were like a hammer hitting the sides and rear of the enemy with all their might.
Akpiru, who was worrying about the battle situation in the rear, and the other two big leaders, the five leaders, bore the brunt of the battle. The guards with a small number of people around them could not stop the onslaught of the excited slaves.
"Why?! Why hasn't Cincinnag arrived yet?!" Akpiru shouted angrily.
"Big Chief, hurry up, you won't be able to leave if it's too late!" his subordinates urged anxiously.
withdraw? Throwing nearly 10,000 fighters here? ! How could Akpiru be willing, he still wanted to persist, but he heard a sad cry not far away: "Great leader! Great leader!..."
It turned out that Udler, the great leader of Niutum, was severely injured and fell to the ground.
Akpiru finally no longer hesitated. Under the desperate escort of his subordinates, Akpiru and the great leader of Laos, Tula, fled westward with dozens of people in a hurry, and the remaining 500 Lucanian soldiers were all captured. Made dumplings.
At this time, Ryders' cavalry just rushed back to the combat site and shouted loudly: "Infighting has occurred in the enemy camp, and reinforcements will not come for the time being!"
This good news boosted the morale of the mercenaries, and the soldiers who could understand Greek among the Lucanians were shocked (the Lucanians, as neighbors of the Greek city-state, have hostility, but also trade exchanges , there are many people who can speak Greek), coupled with the leader's escape, morale plummeted...
The mercenary soldiers and slave soldiers attacked back and forth, and the five hundred Lucanian warriors were either killed or fled. After that, the united troops did not rest, and Felixius ordered the slave soldiers and mercenaries led by Merxis to quickly reinforce the western defense line.
At this time, the western line of defense was even worse than the northern line of defense. The troops led by Capps were limited and stretched.
Capps, Antonios, Alexis and the soldiers held shield guns and went into battle (according to the military law stipulated by Davos: without special circumstances, the company captain cannot personally fight with the enemy to prevent the command from losing control).
At this time of crisis, Felixius led his team to arrive, and nearly 2,000 people joined in to finally stabilize the defense line...
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The fighting lasted for more than an hour, and the impact of the Lucanian tribal coalition on the defense line began to weaken...
The entire river beach area was full of soldiers who were stabbed, robbed, arrows, flying stones, and even trampled by their own tribesmen. The moans, howls, and cries were endless, and the voices were getting louder and louder, and they were still fighting. tribal warriors are getting fewer and fewer...
Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through the siege, more and more soldiers turned to the Tino River and fled to the hot spring swamp. As a result, they were either washed away by the river water, or their feet were stuck in the swamp mud and unable to move...
At this point, Davos, when the time was right, resolutely issued the order to attack.
The copper horn sounded loudly and hurriedly, and the Greek soldiers, who were already extremely tired, were stimulated by the imminent victory, led by Davos, Archita, Felixius and other generals from the east, west, and north three sides, Like a ferocious tiger, they launched the final attack on the almost incapacitated enemy down the slope. The soldiers of Lucania were unable to resist and retreated again and again... In the end, except for a small number of soldiers who surrendered, the rest were not killed, even if they were Forced into the Tino River and the hot spring swamp, killed by the long-range attack of bows, arrows and javelins...
The first major battle independently commanded by Davos in his long military career: the Battle of the Great River Beach (later known as the Battle of the Hot Springs Swamp), against the Lucanian tribe with a mixed force of about 7,500 troops (including slaves) More than 9,000 coalition forces, the final result was that the Greek army suffered more than 1,000 casualties (half of them were slaves), and more than 9,000 Lucaria tribe coalition forces were annihilated except for the surrender of more than 400 people. Davos Big win.
The whole big river beach is piled up like a mountain, and the blood flows into a river...
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The efforts of Cincinnag, Gneinart and others were in vain. The defeat of Picocis was irreversible. They finally took more than 200 people and fled the camp in embarrassment. The camp burns to ashes...
The enemy of life and death, the Vig people, entered the westward mountain road under the leadership of Sedorum and set foot on the way back.