Chapter 39 Dionia vs Rome (8)

Especially in the first column, after the Dionian soldier used the force of the charge to break through the shield of the enemy in front of him, the thorn in his right hand pierced like lightning. The Roman soldier escaped this thorn, and another thorn beside him. Guns are coming... Due to the disparity in numbers, young Roman soldiers are often faced with a dangerous situation of one-to-two. Therefore, despite their bravery in combat, casualties are gradually increasing, and the array is constantly retreating. At the same time, shrill screams continued to sound in the array. Most of them were wounded soldiers who were stabbed with javelins and lay on the ground. They were trampled many times by the retreating Roman teammates, and their mourning gradually became silent. It added to the panic in the hearts of the young soldiers...

Camelus, who was riding behind the center, looked at the front line that was constantly retreating in front of him. He frowned and quickly made a judgment: not only in the center, but also on the left and right flanks. The initial javelin attack of the Dionians and the just right swift and violent charge made the young soldiers, who were more than brave and lacked in composure, confused.

"Blow the bugle immediately and change the array!" Camelus gave the order without hesitation.

Out of trust in the commander-in-chief, the trumpeters blew the bent bronze horn without hesitation.

On the other hand, Lucius, who was beside him, asked his father: "Although the front-line soldiers are unstable, they are still fighting tenaciously. If they retreat at this time, it will easily increase their casualties. It is better to wait for the battle situation. Change it after it stabilizes a bit.”

"If the order is issued later, the loss will only be greater!" Camelus remorseful on his face: "I didn't expect to encounter the Dionysian army in Wolsey, I should have learned more about their battle in advance. Features!"

Lucius wanted to comfort him by saying, "You just want to understand, and no Romans know." But looking at Camille's serious expression, he didn't say it.

Hearing the sound of the bugles, the phalanx of the Roman veteran squadrons on the third line began to move forward. When they were about to touch the gap between the phalanxes of the squadrons of the middle-aged soldiers on the second line, they did not immediately squeeze in and spliced ​​together. form a complete new front, but stop there, leaving the gaps that are enough to fit into a squadron square.

Hearing the repeated sound of the bugle, the young Roman soldiers who were struggling to resist the Dionian attack were all relieved, but under the reminders of various squadron leaders and officers, they still had to work hard Supporting the front line, while slowly retreating.

However, under the pressure of the Dionysian soldier's attack, part of the Roman array had begun to collapse, but the squadron of the second line was not far behind them, and the two sides soon touched together. There is a squadron of young soldiers in the rear to support it, and the squadron of young soldiers in the front has some confidence. The young soldiers who were not supported by the squadron in the rear accelerated their speed and retreated into the gap, and then slipped away through the gaps on both sides of the veteran squadron in the rear.

The Dionian soldiers who have been fighting face to face will also squeeze into this gap, and they will face a situation of being surrounded on three sides.

Of course, the young soldiers and the squadrons of mature soldiers who have not retreated from the other side are also facing such a situation. Therefore, the front lines of the two sides are like interlaced teeth, and they are closely intertwined. But as the phalanxes of the senior soldiers continued to retreat, the young soldiers would eventually retreat completely to the rear, and the senior soldiers and the veteran squadrons would eventually form a new formation.

Amyntas, who was also behind the center of the Dionysian army, had learned from the cavalry cruising on the periphery of the Roman army that the Romans were undergoing an array conversion, and had led troops to fight in Dionia for more than ten years. Facing the Roman army with similar tactics, he still couldn't understand what the Romans were going to do next.

"Legion Commander, we should sound the bugle and let the fourth, fifth, and sixth brigades come forward." Just when Amyntas was still thinking, Printols suggested.

Amyntas hesitated for a moment, he understood why Plintors made this suggestion, he must have taken into account: At this time, the Dionian soldiers on the front line had an advantage in the offensive, if they could continue to strengthen the offensive , then the evolution of the Romans is impossible to do easily, but will cause more casualties due to chaos. However, judging from the current battle situation, the front-line soldiers have not been able to do it. This may be because the rapid offensive just now may have exhausted the excess physical strength accumulated by the front-line soldiers. Otherwise, according to the combat characteristics of the first army in the past, At this time, they will definitely seize the chaos of the opponent and rush, so that the front-line soldiers of the opponent are likely to evolve into a rout in the retreat, but now the soldiers' attack speed is constantly slowing down...

Amyntas stared at the battle situation in front of him, and he knew in his heart: once the Romans' formation was completed, and the soldiers of the first, second, and third groups lacking physical strength faced the Romans' well-prepared new battle formation, it was very likely that they would suffer a loss. It's your own soldiers.

Although he longed for the warriors to be able to kill the enemy bravely, he did not want them to encounter difficulties and affect the outcome of the battle, so he finally adopted Printols' suggestion.

Dionia's bugle sounded, and the officers and soldiers of the 4th, 5th, and 6th battalions were not surprised when they heard the order, because they saw the performance of the comrades in front.

The officers and soldiers who were fighting were relieved. Many of them were so tired that they couldn't even breathe. Fortunately, the enemy kept retreating, otherwise the enemy would push him hard, and some soldiers might suffer from weak legs. fall to the ground.

As a result, the panic-stricken young Roman soldiers saw a strange scene, and the enemy who was chasing and beating them suddenly began to retreat...

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Hearing from the reconnaissance cavalry that the enemy was also retreating and changing formations, Camillous was not fortunate to have escaped the disaster, but the calmness of General Dionia and the determination of his soldiers to carry out orders made him frown deeply.

At this time, the battle lines between the two sides had already opened a distance of nearly 20 meters. The battlefield that had been killing the sky just now became a little quiet, leaving only the dead corpses lying on the ground in the middle of the open space, and a few wounded soldiers crawling on the ground and groaning. The vast majority of them were Roman soldiers.

However, the Roman strongmen and old soldiers who were not far from them were holding weapons and staring at the enemy in front, and no one went up to rescue the wounded.

Camelus understood that the Dionians could spend time without fear, but his own army could not wait, so he ordered again: step up the attack!

Amid the shouts of the squadron leaders, the new Roman soldiers were more cautious. They covered their upper bodies with long shields and moved forward steadily. Obviously, the previous javelin attack had given them a heart.

But in fact, the Dionian soldiers of the 4th, 5th, and 6th battalions, who had already cast their cursors, felt a little amused when they saw their opponents look so cautious.

But when the two armies approached and the fighting resumed, the Dionian soldiers couldn't laugh anymore.

The Roman soldiers were skilled in the combined use of shields and spears, the spears were accurate and ruthless, and the shield formation between the soldiers was also very tacit. Their overall combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the Dionian Legion. Surprised the Dionian officers on the battlefield.

If the Dionysian soldiers knew Rome, they would know that these new Roman soldiers had served for more than eight years, participated in many foreign battles, and many soldiers had won the citizenship crown. Will be surprised (citizen's crown, is the Roman Senate's commendation for heroic Roman citizens in many battles, in public, all Roman citizens, including the senators, will show respect for the citizens who wear the citizen's crown, even Even their fathers will be treated with courtesy. This is an honor, and there is no material reward, but the Roman citizens highly respect it and want to have it. It can be seen that the Romans are also very virtuous and extremely virtuous. martial spirit race).

For a time, the frontline soldiers of both sides were at a stalemate in the fierce battle.

Of course, Camelus would not be content with merely maintaining a front-line battle with the Dionians, he must hurry to defeat the enemy.

So he ordered again: let the 12 Roman squadrons (including ten squadrons of young soldiers and two squadrons of senior soldiers) as a reserve group be divided into two groups, bypass the front-line arrays on both flanks, and attack the enemy's flanks.

After giving the order, Camelus turned around and asked, "Have our casualties been counted?"

"About...more than 400 civilian casualties..." Lucius couldn't help but shudder when he reported: The initial battle didn't last long, but in this short period of nearly 20 minutes In the contact battle, they lost four squadrons, which they had not encountered in the last ten years of fighting.

At this time, Camelus was equally heartbroken, but the order he said was firm: "Let the retreating squadron reorganize immediately, wait for my order, and then attack the enemy! The shame they suffered before needs to be used by them to win. Come wash up!"

At the same time, Amintas is also asking his adjutant: "How is the situation on the Volsi side?"

Aristonos glanced at the scoreboard and said, "The messenger reports that they have already set off! Setia has dispatched 1,000 people and Bolefnum has dispatched 7,000 people, and they are coming here!"

Amyntas was determined and continued to pay attention to the battle ahead.

At this time, the reconnaissance cavalry rushed over: "Report to the commander, the enemy has dispatched more than 700 infantry, and they are going around the side and rear of our left flank!"

As soon as the words fell, another scout galloped over: "Report to the commander, the right wing found that there are seven or eight hundred enemy heavy infantry around our flank!"

Amintas' face changed slightly, and he said loudly without hesitation: "Let the first brigade rush to protect the left wing! The second brigade protects the right wing! The third brigade..."

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