Chapter 81 The Battle of Poseidonia (2)

Because the Samonei attacked the most from the north, Alexis concentrated the ballistas and most of the light infantry on this side.

When Torek temporarily retreated, the 7,000 Kautini warriors in the south, led by Quindok, had already begun to climb the dirt wall.

The first and second battalions were in charge of the defense on this side. Even Lizaru, who loved fighting, could not help but feel numb in his scalp when he saw the crowds of people surging under the earthen walls and in the trenches.

"Don't panic, stab again when you see it! There are more enemies, but they can't come up!..." Litoru walked back and forth behind the soldiers with a shield and spear.

"Be careful, Captain!" The guard behind him suddenly exclaimed.

Out of the corner of Lizaru's eyes, he saw a black figure, ignoring the soldier's jab, jumped down from the top of the long ladder, and rushed straight towards him.

When the incident happened suddenly, he didn't have time to swing the lance, but quickly threw away the shield and spear, and was thrown to the ground as soon as he pulled out the dagger from his waist.

Being pressed by the enemy, the limbs of both sides were entangled. In a small distance, he laboriously pushed the dagger forward in his hand, but it hit a hard object and could not pierce his chest.

At this time, the strong hands of the shadow had already pressed hard on his eyes, and he only felt the pain in his eyes. At this moment of life and death, Lizaru did not panic, he turned his right wrist up, and the dagger pressed upward against the hard object.

The shadow groaned and fell backwards, the dagger pierced through his jaw.

Lizaru pushed him away, and immediately stood up.

The soldiers who came pierced the struggling enemy with their lances.

Lizaru shook his dizzy head, rubbed his sore eyes lightly, and squinted: the man was wearing a silver-white armor and silver-white greaves on his legs.

As far as Lizaru knows, there are about four types of Samonite warriors: light infantry with spears and lances without any protection; infantry with only spears, shields, javelins, helmets and no armor; Shields, spears, wearing helmets, and only medium infantry with golden breastplates; there is also heavy infantry with greaves wearing a helmet with colorful feather crown and silver armor, but this heavy infantry is not common among the Samonais. Not much, and not low in the tribe.

Lizaru looked at the dead man on the ground carefully, bent down and pulled out the dagger, swung it vigorously, and wiped off the blood stains on the sword. At this time, when he recalled the scene just now, he was also a little afraid: if he was still wearing the previous Weapons and equipment, also used the former kind of curved saber (that is a curved sword,

It is more suitable for hacking), I am afraid it is difficult to swing in the critical situation of melee combat, slashing the enemy's neck, but his eyes will be blinded by the enemy's hands.

Lizaru simply held a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left, standing in place and looking forward.

At this time, most of the soldiers standing behind the wall no longer stabbed downwards, because the enemy kept climbing up the wall, which made them erect long shields and push outwards to block the spearheads. At the same time knock the enemy into the trench. Once the enemy is unstable, the lance and short sword will pierce through the shield gap.

There are second-line soldiers behind the soldiers who are fighting with all their strength. They are ready to replenish at any time, and at the same time, they want to surround and kill the enemies who break in...

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The Samonites have always been looting the land of Campania these years, and rarely attacked fortified cities. In fact, they lacked experience in sieging cities, so Tolic, who had never led so many warriors, wanted to destroy this city in one fell swoop. The camp that has been surrounded by circles, but he didn't expect that this small camp would make his army fall into trouble. The wall of fire alone cost the lives of hundreds of warriors in Pentney, so there was a backlog of unwillingness in his heart. and anger. After retreating to regroup the attacking battalion, and after the fire weakened, he sounded the attacking horn again.

The Samonei warriors charged forward with vengeful fury, while the light infantry followed, naked, all stripped of their short linings and packed with large wads of dirt, javelins in one hand and javelins in the other. Earthbag, ready to rescue the burning clansman at any time.

When the Samonei who attacked the north of the camp, under the constant blows of stone bullets, arrows, and javelins, jumped into the trench again, set up a long ladder, and continued to climb up on the corpses of the tribesmen, the defending Dionys The Asian soldiers never tossed the oil tank again.

Under the protection of the guards, Torek, who was anxiously urging his tribe to attack, almost tripped over a dirt bag placed in front of the trench by the light infantry. Go down!  …”

The light infantrymen who were throwing javelins into the camp, under the leadership of the big leader, braved the rain of arrows, and quickly threw the earthbags one by one into the trenches... Soon several passages were filled in the trenches. Seeing this scene, the Samonites were even more excited, and continued to add earthbags, trying to build it up to the same height as the top of the wall.

The Dionian soldiers also kept stabbing the dirt bag with stab guns, trying to sabotage the enemy's attempt.

Samonei warriors poured up from the "slope" built by the earthbags in an attempt to seize the wall.

The shields and shields of the two sides were offset, guns and spears came and went, and a fierce close-quarters battle was launched.

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"Legion Commander, General Latignes (General of the Generals of Elia) asks you for help!" The adjutant rushed to the north of the camp and reported to Alexis, who was nervously watching the battle.

"I can't stand it so soon!" Alexis frowned. He asked about 2,000 people from Elia's troops and half a heavy infantry brigade to defend the south of the camp, Samo, who came out of Poseidonia. There shouldn't be too many Nai people, and their defenses shouldn't be too tight.

"The Elias didn't understand the tactics of the Samonites, they were hit by javelins, and they seemed... intimidated by the momentum of the Samonites!" the adjutant explained.

"The allied army is really..." Alexis said halfway, and swallowed the word "unreliable" back in his stomach: At this time, you can't say anything about destroying unity.

"The light armour brigade draws 400 people to aid the southern camp!" The Dionysian Military Law emphasized in the operational principles that the commander of the unit should reserve the reserve as much as possible in case of emergency. Therefore, Alexis made the light armour brigade as a reserve, and it was time to use them.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud "crashing" and exclamations in front of him: "The wall is collapsing!!!..."

Alexis was startled, and saw: The section of the wall where the north wall was in contact with the slope formed by the enemy's earthen bags collapsed due to the intense fighting and trampling of the soldiers from both sides, and collapsed and swelled up. dust fog...

When the dust and mist dissipated, a gap of about four people's width was revealed in the earth wall. The Samonais were rushing in through the gap, and the soldiers were trying their best to contain...

The battle situation has finally reached the most critical moment!

"Edt, pull out a company to reinforce the south, and the other light armored companies will immediately press the enemy back for me!" Alexis pointed to the place where the fierce battle was going on ahead, and gave an order to the light armored captain who was eager to try.

"Brothers, it's finally our turn!" Edt turned around and shouted excitedly to the light armored soldiers.

"Roar!!!" The combative light armored soldiers roared in unison, which made Alexis' nervousness dissipated a little.

He solemnly said to the adjutant: "You bring 200 light armoured soldiers to the south to reinforce quickly! I have no reserve here, so you must defend the south wall no matter what! Latignes can't command, then It's up to you to command!"

"Understood, Legion Commander!" The adjutant solemnly finished the military salute and turned to leave.

At this moment, Alexis began to anxiously look forward to the arrival of Davos' reinforcements as soon as possible...

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In fact, on a hill a mile east of the camp of the Dionysian Third Army, Davos, Thormid and a group of escorts were overlooking the battlefield: nearly 30,000 Samonei warriors from east, west, The south and the north are besieging the center, and the small camp is like a tattered boat that is in danger of being swallowed by the huge waves at any time...

Thormid couldn't help but sigh: "The Third Army has played very tenaciously, and it can last for such a long time!"

"Yeah, it's not easy!" Davers nodded approvingly, and then he asked in a serious tone: "But they're not fighting alone! Have all the troops reached their intended positions?"

"Yes, Your Excellency Supreme Commander!" Herald Thormid finished his military salute and reported excitedly: "The first army has reached the northeast of the camp, about a mile and a half away from the camp; the second army has reached the southeast of the camp, More than a mile from camp; Ryders' cavalry had blocked the road to the mountains to the north; Izam's reconnaissance brigade and Laos' army were on their way to Poseidonia, ready to cut off the enemy and flee back to the city attempt!  …”

In fact, standing on this hill, you can also roughly see the actions of the various units. They did not sound the bronze horn, nor shouted loudly, but silently and quickly elongated the array horizontally in an attempt to surround the enemies on the periphery of the camp, and at the same time they kept advancing towards the camp...

"Since everything is arranged properly, let's just wait for the good news of victory." Davos finished with a relaxed expression, and then sat on the rock with a leisurely expression, ready to watch the battle.

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Wounded in the attack, the Samonais would do their best to retreat to the rear so as not to become a burden to their clan or fear being trampled by the onslaught of the attacking crowd. And these lucky soldiers who retreated to the rear found that they were not lucky, because suddenly there were countless soldiers in black helmets and black armor behind them, and they were rapidly approaching them, like an endless black tide roaring towards them.