Chapter 76 The First Battle of Syracuse (2)

As for the rumors that "Dionia also has ballistas", he doesn't quite believe it. Locley, who has been founded for hundreds of years, could not create such a powerful siege weapon. How could the Dionian League of 2000 have it! (The Fourth Dionysian Army attacked Knapetia with ballistas, and because of its remoteness, not many people knew about it. The Trina knew about it, but at the request of the Dionians, they I tried my best to keep it a secret)

"Come closer! Come closer!..." Diopantos excitedly urged the Syracuses to move the ballista forward, and for this reason the entire army moved forward. He wants to make the ballista's bombardment more accurate, and to smash the walls that the Dionians have built so hard that they have nowhere to hide! He wanted to watch them hide in panic under the impact of stone bullets, or be forced to leave the camp and come out to fight.

Although Dionysius gave Fasipesas and his orders to contain the Dionysian army of Corenia, of course Diopantos would not mind defeating them and breaking the Dionysian army if there was a good chance. The Onian army has yet to record a single defeat in Greater Greece, and has won greater honor for itself.

Watching the Syracuse gunner in front put heavy stone bullets into the cannon, Diopantos looked at Dionia's camp with anticipation, and then he was surprised to see ten small black dots from the enemy camp. Flying out, roaring and falling into the Loclery formation in an instant...

"Ballista!!" Diopantos' soul was surging, and with his exclamation, there were countless screams in the team.

Since the stone bullets fall in a relatively large arc, the lethality is not great, but the effect is too amazing. The hands are broken, the legs and legs are broken, and the head is flat. If you use a round shield to block it, the shield will be broken. Death. Such a tragic sight, how could the soldiers around Lochry, who had never experienced ballista strikes, feel terrified, and their morale suddenly dropped by half.

And when the team was panicking, Dionia's second wave of stone bombs came again, and the Lokrie soldiers evaded in panic, and the entire formation became chaotic.

"Go back! Quickly go back!!" The stone bullets kept falling, and one of them landed near Diopantos. He was so frightened that he couldn't care about the Syracuse ballista in front of him, and hurriedly issued an order.

But when the retreating bugle sounded, the east, west, and south gates of Dionysian West Camp suddenly opened at the same time, and the soldiers who had already prepared for it rushed out quickly and in an orderly manner. The cavalry charged ahead, followed by light infantry, light armor, and finally heavy infantry. Although they were destined to be unable to catch up with the fleeing enemy, they could hold the line for the troops in front to prevent the opponent from counterattacking.

The Lochry army, which had been bombarded with falling stone bullets, demoralized and fragmented, was retreating in a disorderly manner. Seeing that Dionysian army was exhausted, it was black (because of the color of the weapons and equipment), and the menacingly attacked him. They rushed forward. Even if Diopantos was determined to fight back, he had already lost control of the army, and the soldiers had no courage to take on the battle, and ran back one after the other.

Sobokos led the cavalry, chasing the enemy from the outside with the conviction of avenging his comrades.

The Dionian cavalry did not use spears, but rode their horses straight into the ground, making the already scattered troops more scattered and unable to regroup. After the thousand cavalry had crushed them for a while, the warhorse itself also slowed down instinctively. Seeing that the troops in front of him were gradually sparse, Sobokos raised his spear decisively and kept drawing circles in the air.

"Drive them east!" cried Sobokos. Under his command, the cavalry began to separate to the left and right, pulled out an arc, and began to drive the defeated soldiers eastward. The light infantry and light armor also cooperated with the cavalry's actions.

Most of the Lochry troops were like headless flies. Under the intentional drive of Dionian soldiers, they couldn't tell the difference between east and west, and they only fled for their lives in the direction of least pressure.

At this time, the Syracuse troops outside Dongying were also bombarded by the Dionysian ballista without any precautions, but the experienced Syracuses did not panic, and quickly stabilized their positions and retreated. After a distance, they started to use ballistas to fight back. The two sides were in a confrontation. Lochry's rout troops rushed toward the tide, and immediately disrupted the left flank of the Syracuses.

How could Drakes in the camp miss this great opportunity and immediately ordered: All troops attack!

The soldiers of the Fifth Legion quickly rushed out of the camp gate.

Fasi Pesas saw that the situation was not good, and decisively ordered: retreat.

The Syracuse army quickly retreated, and at the same time tried their best to maintain a relatively overall queue, and roughly squeezed the scattered Lochry troops behind.

The Dionian cavalry and the fourth soldiers continued to pursue five or six miles, until the enemy cavalry of the brigade came up, and Epithenes ordered the troops to return to the camp, because he was impressed by the fierce cavalry of Syracuse. , worried that the tired and scattered soldiers would suffer. In fact, the Syracuse cavalry and mercenary cavalry had already gone to Hibernian with Dionysius, and it was only the Locri cavalry who appeared here.

The Fifth Legion without the help of the cavalry, under the supervision of Drakes, chased after the light armored soldiers who were the best at running until their feet and legs were weak, and then they sounded the trumpet for closing troops.

On the way back to the city, Diopantos, who lost his helmet and dismounted his armor, met Fasipesas, who had lost the first battle and was in a bad mood, and was scolded by him...

This was the first time the Dionian ballista was used in a field battle, and it caught the unsuspecting Silo coalition by surprise. The ballista itself killed only a few dozen people, but it caused panic in the Lokri army, creating the conditions for the raid of the Fourth Dionysian Army, and the surprise attack of the Fourth Army and the subsequent expulsion of the rout by experienced troops caused the Greek army to panic. The Great Retreat of the Silo Coalition.

In this battle, the Silo Coalition had more than 1,000 casualties, including more than 500 captured, mainly Lokrey soldiers. It was also a big victory for the Dionysian Southern Front.

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When Trina urgently asks for help late at night, Asisters is taken aback.

The fact that Yasisters could become the acting chief executive of Knapetia was actually due to the fact that Davos used Yasisters to have rich administrative experience in the mountains of Lucania, as well as rich military experience, suitable for him. Acting as Knapetia - this is mostly Brutian, and is the administrator of the southern border city of Dionia, and won it from the Senate. Since he is not a senator, he can only act as an agent He served as the chief executive, but the experience of serving as the chief executive of the city laid the foundation for Asisters to be elected to the Senate next year.

After Asisters took office, he used the experience he had learned in the Lucania region to effectively ease the racial conflicts between the Brutians and the new Greeks in the city of Kenapethia. Geographical location, vigorously developing trade with Trina and other South Italian allies, improving the living conditions of the originally poor Knapetians, making Knapetia politically stable in recent years, living up to Davos expect.

At this time, the news that "the Syracuses have approached Trina in such a short time" made his heart very uneasy. He was quite familiar with the South Italian Alliance's combat plan: Trina, Crotone, and Siriting joined forces to defend the west coast passage, prevent the Syracuse army from invading the South Italian Alliance territory, and serve as the main force of Dionia's main force. Do your best to get back to winning time.

Originally, Asisters estimated in his heart that the citizens of the three city-states of Crotone, Cilitin, and Trina had a combined total of more than 30,000 citizens. It should not be a big problem to hold the natural barrier of Tuohe for ten or twenty days. And once the troops are tight in the later stage, the reserve soldiers in the entire Bruti area can also provide help in time.

But he did not expect the Syracuses to come so quickly, far beyond the speed at which most Greek city-state armies were mobilized, assembled and marched. Of course, the Syracuse army had already been mobilized and assembled, but being able to make such a huge army complete from landing to marching close to Trina within three days is enough to show that the Sicilian dictator Dionysius was preparing for this war. Full of sufficiency and determination!

Are you going to send troops to help? The reason why Asisters hesitated was because Davos personally wrote him a letter a few days ago, in which he reminded him repeatedly: to strengthen the city defense, strengthen the defense, once the Syracuses broke through the defense line, he must Do everything possible to defend Knapetia and not allow the Syracuses to step into Bruti territory!

But Trina and Dionia are closely related! Not to mention their firm support for Dionia in the South-Italian Alliance, and because the two cities of Knapetia and Trina are very close to each other, trade exchanges are frequent, and the relationship is very good. If it fails to save, I am afraid that it will destroy the good impression of the Trina people on Dionia, and it will also destroy the good business that the Dionysian Alliance has built up in Great Greece after years of hard work!

After thinking about it, Asisters finally made up his mind.

He made a promise to Trina's messenger: Hades is above, he will lead the Knapetia reinforcements to Trina in person tomorrow morning!

After sending away the grateful messenger, Asisters decided to write a letter to Hiros, who had just taken up the post of Cosenza administrator, to tell him the new movements of the Syracuse army and his worries, and to ask him for help. He believed that the former captain of Davers would make the right choice!

After writing, he asked his confidants to set off immediately with the letter, and Xingye rushed to Cosenza. Then, he called the patrol captain who had just fallen asleep and asked him to notify the reserve soldiers of the Fifth Army to gather in the square early tomorrow morning.

After doing these things, Asisters returned to his bedroom exhausted physically and mentally.

His wife Tina hadn't slept yet. Seeing her husband's preoccupation, she asked in Greek with concern, "What happened?"