ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 431 Battle of Ramato River ([-])

"Report! Commander, our blocking force has been repulsed, and the enemy is attacking our right wing!"

Although Felicius had been mentally prepared, he still felt a palpitation in his heart when he heard the news.He anxiously stared at the dust-filled front. The crowds of people and the noisy voices were still the same as before. The Deorian Legion, which he had placed high hopes on, still showed no signs of defeating the enemy...

"Commander, we... what should we do?" the adjutant asked nervously.

Felicius was silent: At this moment, the coalition forces have no extra strength to block the enemy's reinforcements!
It was just that he still had a glimmer of luck in his confusion, but this luck was quickly shattered.

"Report to your commander, enemy reinforcements have appeared on the right wing! There are... tens of thousands of people! They are attacking Crotone's rear formation. Crotone... The Crotone people cannot resist it... and have begun to retreat... "

"What!!" Felicius and his followers were all stunned as if they were struck by lightning.

The battle-tested Felicius was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately hissed, "Retreat! Hurry up and blow the retreat horn! Retreat now!!"

Now that the coalition's defeat has been determined, then...it is necessary to bring the Fourth and Fifth Legion back as safely as possible!Under the painful gaze of Felicius, "Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The retreating bugle sounded through the rear of the coalition forces.

This trumpet sound not only surprised the Dionian soldiers, but also made team officers at all levels unbelievable.

"Is Felicius crazy?! Seeing that we are about to break through the defenses of the Syracuseans, he dares to ask us to retreat at this time!" Dracos was furious, even if there were messengers to send Felicius Hughes told him why he chose to retreat, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

"Give me a little more time! A little more time! Wait for my legion to defeat the enemy on the opposite side before retreating! The Dionysian legion has never been defeated, and we cannot lose this honor in our hands! This is a shame!..."

Listening to the legion commander's painful roar, everyone around him lowered his head sadly.

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"We...were defeated..." After hearing the words of the messenger, Epithenes tightly clutched the mane of the war horse under his crotch. The tame war horse neighed in pain and kept digging the soil with its front hooves. Unaware.

"...move the military flag." He squeezed the words out of his mouth with difficulty, tears already shining on his face.

When the bugle blows, the legionnaires also need to look at the instructions of the military flag. This is because the battlefield is so noisy that it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves. Only by supplementing the instructions with the military flag can the confirmation be correct.

"Look! The military flag has moved!!" The Dionian soldiers looking back were in an uproar.

Not only the regimental flag, the brigade flag, but also the company flag were waved to the rear one after another...

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"Congratulations, sir! The Magna Greeks have been defeated. You have won this battle! This is a great victory. From now on, you have the final say over this land!" Facing the praise of Damocles, Di Onisius was not too complacent. More than 7 people faced more than 5 people. The victory was already expected.But what he didn't expect was that Syracuse's most elite heavy infantry was completely suppressed by Dionia's so-called "legion" on the battlefield. The key was the fourth and fifth legions composed of aliens. (Dionysius was more attentive in collecting intelligence about Dionia), what should the Syracuse heavy infantry do if they encountered the first and second legions they boasted about?
Therefore, even after winning the victory, Dionysius still remained vigilant: "Although the enemy was defeated, the battle was not over yet. He continued to urge the reinforcements on both sides to pursue them, killing and capturing more Magna Greeks, especially Dai. Onian!”

"Take all the messengers to me to find Axilita and Gaba, and tell them that I am very angry at them for not obeying the order and assisting the attack on the enemy's right wing unless they immediately give me pursuit of those black-armored enemies. , kill as many of them as possible and capture them, otherwise they won’t be able to get even a single silver coin in reward!”

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Effialt had also practiced retreating in previous military trainings, but he didn't expect to use it on his first battle.He threw his long shield at the enemy with great distress, turned around and ran away with his dagger in hand. The saber thrown by the enemy hit him on the back, and he staggered and almost fell.

Ephialt quickly got up using his hands and feet. His unit was already more than ten meters away from the enemy's array. He looked at the fluttering military flag and eagerly chased after them.

The danger is greatest at the moment when you turn around and run away.Some soldiers were stabbed by the overtaken enemy, seeing their teammates fall to the ground and calling for help, the legionnaires who always emphasized unity couldn't care less about saving their teammates at this moment, they ran desperately, just hoping to distance themselves from the enemy.

When the squad leader's voice of "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!..." clearly reached his ears, Ephialt's nervous mood temporarily relaxed.The team officer said "Quick! Quick!" does not mean to let the soldiers run around. According to the provisions of the "Dionysian Military Law", they must try to gather under the nearest military flag during the retreat and run and follow it. to avoid causing too much confusion and losing organization.

As he ran, Ephialt heard the footsteps behind him gradually getting quieter. When he looked back, he saw that the enemies had already moved a lot away from him, and some even stopped chasing.If you think about it, you can understand that within an hour, carrying heavy armor and fighting continuously, their physical strength has long been exhausted. The Dionian soldiers are in order to survive, and in their usual military training, armed cross-country It is one of the important projects. Spartans have also done this training since they were young.The Syracuse soldiers who had already won the battle obviously did not have the desire or ability to pursue them.

Effialt's nervous mood became calmer.

But after the large army continued to run backward for a while, it gradually slowed down.

It turned out that the fourth legion was located to the right, adjacent to Trina. Enarmenas led the Campanian mercenaries from west to east in an attempt to capture the fleeing Trina people, while at the same time the sailors of the fleet anchored on the river bank. Seeing that there were bargains to be found, in order to get the spoils, they also went ashore to participate in the interception. This made the chasing net become more and more dense, forcing the Trina people, a large group of panicked "fish", to flee eastward. , naturally squeezed the retreat space of the Fourth Dionysian Army.

"Quick! Quick! Quick!..." Epithenes, who was standing on the bank of the Colache River, urgently urged his legionnaires to cross the river quickly, regardless of whether the soldiers could hear him in such a chaotic scene. shout.

Felicius, who was standing on the other side of the Colache River, was even more miserable. He did not expect that this river was chosen as a barrier for the rear array in order to limit the enemy's cavalry detours, but now it has become a barrier to prevent the retreat of the Dionysian army. Although the river is neither wide nor deep, thousands of terrified soldiers poured in and trampled the river bank into mud in an instant. Once the panicked soldier fell, it would not only be a disaster for him, but also for the soldiers behind him. They are even more of a disaster.

Countless soldiers are entangled in the riverbed, and there is no order at all. Everyone is pushing and shoving, and the scene is becoming more chaotic...

Felicius seemed to have seen the reappearance of the tragedy in the Persian Canyon. His shouts and reminders were so insignificant in this ten-mile-long stretch of river that they were completely negligible.

Felicius was filled with regret and did not dare to look anymore. When he turned his head, he saw a row of buglers and drummers behind him. In an instant, a flash of inspiration flashed: "Quick! Play the "Battlefield March" quickly! Play the "Battlefield March" !..."

He seemed to be yelling like crazy, which scared the buglers and put the mouthpiece of the French horn on their right shoulder in their mouths. Because of the nervousness, the first note was played out of tune, but gradually they played better and better. The more fluent you become, the more powerful you become.

"Battlefield March" is also adapted from a symphony that Davos remembered hearing in his previous life. It uses a majestic, strong, and fast melody to show the fearless spirit of soldiers rushing to the battlefield and killing the enemy.When this melody echoed in the Colache River section, the soldiers of the Fourth Army who heard it were aroused with courage and honor in their hearts, and gradually regained their sanity, and the chaos in the riverbed was also alleviated...

Felicius also ordered the light armored soldiers who had retreated from the river bank to go down to the river bed and form a dense array to separate the Trina people and reduce the interference to the orderly retreat of the Dionian Fourth Army, even in an emergency Under certain circumstances, force can also be used to drive them westward.At this moment, Felicius was forced to treat his allies ruthlessly.

"Sir Commander, the Fifth Army...the large forces of the Fifth Army have not reached the river bank yet!" An adjutant hurriedly came to report.

"What?!" Felicius felt that his head was about to explode. The waves were rising again and again, and he couldn't help being furious: "What is Dracos doing?!"

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Due to Dracos' reluctance, he was hesitant to retreat. Most of the soldiers heard the bugle sound, but saw that the military flag had not moved, so they did not dare to retreat.

It wasn't until Dracos found out that the troops on the left and right sides of the Fifth Army were all retreating, and the Fifth Army was about to become a lone army, so he hurriedly ordered to retreat.

Originally, the retreat of the Fifth Army should have been smoother than that of the Fourth Army, because Crotone's fierce attack almost turned Syracuse's right-wing array into a semicircle. Of course, the left-wing array where the Crotone army was located also became a semicircle. After forming an arc, the Crotone soldier on the far left was originally facing south and turned his back to the north, but in the end he almost turned to face the west and his back to the east.After being attacked by Fascipesas reinforcements, they fled mainly to the southeast.The Xiliting soldiers led by Acesias were closer to the middle, because their mother state, Xiliting, was not far to the east. Most of the Xiliting soldiers did not know that there were enemy reinforcements blocking the way in the east, so they instinctively fled to the east, and ended up with the enemy. The Rotones huddled together.

(End of this chapter)