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Chapter 414 The Battle of Poseidonia ([-])
Since the Samnites attacked from the north with the largest number of troops, Alexis concentrated the ballistae and most of the light infantry on this side.

When Torek temporarily led his team to retreat, 7000 Kautini warriors in the south, led by Quinduk, had already begun to climb the earth wall.

The first and second brigades were responsible for the defense on this side. Even Lizaru, who loved fighting, couldn't help but feel his scalp numb when he looked at the dense crowds of people under the earthen walls and in the trenches.

"Don't panic, just look for it and stab! No matter how many enemies there are, they can't come up!..." Litoru walked back and forth behind the soldiers with a shield and spear in his hand, observing the enemy's situation while also loudly encouraging them.

"Be careful, captain!" the guard behind him suddenly exclaimed.

Out of the corner of Lizalu's eye, he caught a glimpse of a black figure jumping down from the top of the long ladder, ignoring the soldier's stabbing, and rushing straight at him.

The incident happened so suddenly that he had no time to swing out his spear. Instead, he quickly threw away his shield and spear. As soon as he pulled out the dagger from his waist, he was thrown to the ground.

Being crushed by the enemy, the limbs of both sides were entangled. In the narrow distance, he pushed the dagger in his hand forward with great effort, but unexpectedly hit a hard object and could not penetrate into the chest.

At this time, the powerful hands of the black shadow were pressing hard on his eyes, and he only felt his eyes swelling and pain.At this life-and-death moment, Lizaru did not panic. He turned his right wrist upwards and thrust the dagger upward against the hard object.

With a muffled groan, the black shadow fell backwards, and the dagger pierced his jaw.

Lizaru pushed him away hard and immediately stood up.

The soldiers who rushed pierced the struggling enemy with bayonet guns.

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

As far as Lizaru knows, there are about four types of Samnite warriors: light infantry armed with spears and spears, without any protection; infantry armed only with spears, shields, javelins, wearing helmets, and no armor; infantry armed with long spears. There are medium-sized infantrymen who wear shields, spears, helmets, and only golden breastplates; there are also heavy infantrymen who wear colorful feather crown helmets, silver armor, and greaves. However, this kind of heavy infantry is not common among the Samnites. Not much, and his status in the tribe is not low.

Lizaru looked at the dead man on the ground carefully, bent down and pulled out the dagger, swung it vigorously, and shook off the blood stains on the sword. When he recalled the scene just now, he was also a little scared: if he was still wearing the previous The weapons and equipment still use the old curved saber (it is a curved sword, more suitable for slashing). I am afraid it will be difficult to swing it and chop the enemy's neck in the critical situation of close combat. Instead, your eyes will be blinded by the enemy's hands.

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

At this time, most of the soldiers standing behind the wall no longer stabbed downwards, because the enemies continued to climb up the wall, causing them to put up their long shields and push outwards to deflect the spearheads. At the same time, knock the enemy down the trench.Once the enemy becomes unstable, spears and short swords will be thrust through the gap in the shield.

Behind the soldiers who are fighting with all their strength, there are second-line soldiers, who are ready to replenish them at any time, and at the same time, they must surround and kill the enemies who rush in...

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The Samnites have been plundering the land of Campania over the years and rarely attack strong cities. In fact, they lack experience in sieges, so Tolic, who has never led so many warriors, is very ambitious and wants to destroy this city in one fell swoop. The camp was already surrounded, but he didn't expect that this small camp would cause his army to stumble. The wall of fire alone cost Pentney hundreds of warriors their lives, so there was a backlog of unwillingness in his heart. and anger.He retreated to reorganize the attacking team, and after the fire weakened, he blew the attack horn again.

The Samnite warriors charged forward with vengeful fury, while the light infantry followed naked. They all took off their short shirts, wrapped them in large handfuls of soil, and carried javelins in one hand and javelins in the other. Tubao, ready to rescue tribesmen on fire at any time.

When the Samnites who attacked the north of the camp endured constant attacks from stone bullets, arrows, and javelins, they jumped into the trench again, set up long ladders, and continued to climb over the corpses of their tribesmen. Dionysus, who was on the defensive, The soldiers never threw the oil cans again.

Under the protection of the guards, Tolek was anxiously urging the tribesmen to attack. He almost tripped over the earthbags placed by the light infantry in front of the trench. He suddenly had an idea and shouted: "Throw the earthbags down! Throw the earthbags down quickly!" Go down!..."

The light infantry who were throwing javelins into the camp, under the leadership of the chief, braved the rain of arrows, and quickly concentrated on throwing soil bags one by one into the trench... and soon filled in several passages on the trench.Seeing this, the Samoni people became even more excited and continued to add earth bags, hoping to build it up to the same height as the top of the wall.

The Dionian soldiers were also constantly stabbing the earthbags with their spears, trying to destroy the enemy's attempts.

A steady stream of Samnite warriors surged up from the "slope" built with earthen bags, trying to occupy the top of the wall.

The two sides clashed with each other with shields and spears, and started a fierce close-quarters fight.

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"Legion Commander, General Latignes (General of the Elian Army) is asking for help from you!" The adjutant rushed to the north of the camp and reported to Alexis, who was nervously paying attention to the war situation.

"I can't stand it anymore so quickly!" Alexis frowned. He asked the Aelia troops and half of the heavy infantry group, a total of about 2000 people, to defend Samo who came out of Poseidonia City to the south of the camp. There should not be too many Nai people, and their defense should not be too tight.

"The Elians didn't understand the tactics of the Samnites, and many of them were hit by javelins. Moreover, they seemed... frightened by the momentum of the Samnites!" the adjutant explained.

"The Allied Army is really..." Alexis said halfway before swallowing the word "unreliable": You can't say anything that undermines unity at this time.

"The Light Armored Brigade draws 400 people to assist the camp in the south!" "Dionian Military Law" emphasizes in the operational principles: the commander of the army should keep the reserve team as much as possible under conditions, in case of emergency.Therefore, Alexis put the light armored brigade as a reserve, and now it was time to use them.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a huge "crash" sound in front of him and a scream: "The wall collapsed!!!..."

Alexis was shocked, and saw: the section of the north wall that was in contact with the slope built by the enemy's soil bag collapsed due to the intense fighting and trampling of the soldiers on both sides, and it collapsed under the weight of the enemy. Dust mist...

When the dust and mist cleared, a gap about four people wide was exposed in the earthen wall. The Samonites were rushing in through the gap, and the soldiers were desperately surrounding them...

The war situation has finally reached its most critical moment!

"Edet, draw out a company to reinforce the south, and the other companies of light armored soldiers will push the enemy back immediately!" Alexis pointed to the place where the fierce battle was raging in front, and gave an order to the eager light armored soldier captain with a serious expression.

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

"Roar!!!" The highly motivated light armored soldiers roared in unison, and this roar made Alexis' tension dissipate a little.

He solemnly said to the adjutant: "You take 200 light armored soldiers and quickly go to reinforce the south! I have no reserves here, so you must guard the south wall no matter what! Latignes can't command, then It’s up to you to command!”

"Understood, legion commander!" The adjutant solemnly performed the military salute and turned to leave.

At this moment, Alexis began to anxiously look forward to the early arrival of Davos's reinforcements...

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In fact, on a hill one mile east of the Dionian Third Army camp, Davos, Tormid and a group of escorts were overlooking the battlefield: nearly 3 Samnite warriors came from east, west, The center was besieged from all sides from the south and north. The small camp was like a broken boat, in danger of being engulfed by huge waves at any time...

Tormid couldn't help but sigh: "The Third Army fought very tenaciously and was able to persist for such a long time!"

"Yeah, it's not easy!" Davos nodded approvingly, and then he asked with emphasis: "But they are not fighting alone! Have all the troops arrived at their predetermined positions?"

"Yes, Supreme Commander!" Herald Tormid finished the military salute and reported excitedly: "The first army has arrived northeast of the camp, about one and a half miles away from the camp; the second army has arrived southeast of the camp, More than a mile away from the camp; Ledes's cavalry has blocked the road to the mountainous area to the north; Izam's reconnaissance group and Laos's army are rushing to the city of Poseidonia, preparing to cut off the enemy and escape back to the city. An attempt!..."

In fact, standing on this hill, one can roughly see the actions of various troops.They did not blow the brass horns or shout, but quietly but quickly stretched the array horizontally in an attempt to surround the enemies outside the camp, while at the same time advancing towards the camp without stopping...

"Now that everything is arranged, let's just wait for the good news of victory." Davos said with a relaxed expression, and then sat leisurely on the rock, preparing to watch the battle.

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The Samnites who were injured during the attack would do their best to retreat to the rear in order not to become a burden to their tribesmen or to worry about being trampled by the surging waves of attacking people.And these soldiers who were lucky to retreat to the rear found that they were not lucky, because countless soldiers in black helmets suddenly appeared behind them, approaching them quickly, like an endless black tide roaring towards them.

(End of this chapter)