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Chapter 82 Battle of Turiyi ([-])
Although Xinsinag, who was at the rear of the formation, could not understand the battle situation in front in detail, it was an indisputable fact that the team was retreating. Screams kept coming. Looking to both sides, there were even soldiers starting to run away in the distance... ... Xinsinag was anxious and angry. At this moment, he had no time to think about why such a bad situation occurred. The top priority was to stop the decline, otherwise the right wing would be defeated, leading to the failure of the entire Lucania tribal coalition!Although Akpiru is an in-law, Xinsinag doesn't think that the domineering leader of Grumentum will easily forgive Picosis for what he did.Now that the warriors of Picosis have engaged in a direct battle, he can no longer command them. The only ones who can command are the Bruti warriors who have not yet engaged in the battle.

"Hurry up and call the people from Weg City behind to help! Just tell their leader that if this battle fails, the Lucarians will not forgive Weg City!" Xinsinaga told the guards around him yelled hurriedly.

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"Big Chief, the Lucanians have gone too far! It was clearly Sinsinaga who thought he could easily deal with the Greeks and wouldn't let us intervene, but now he says it was our fault that they failed!" Young Salu said angrily.

Sedorum looked at the battle not far away and did not respond.

"This group of Greeks is really powerful. Although they are small in number, they actually defeated the Lucarians!" Salu looked ahead and said excitedly and hesitantly: "Big leader, the Lucarians are going to be defeated." ! How about... let's stop fighting and let's go! Maybe... maybe we can take the opportunity to break away from their alliance!"

At this time, Sedorum spoke: "Even if Lucania is defeated, how many people can they die? Do the Greeks dare to enter the mountainous area?...Saru, as long as the strength of the Lucanian people is still there, the mountains to the west will They still have the final say! Unless we, like the people of Cosenza, move southward and are forced to go to war with Crotone for the land..." Sedorum sighed: "Order the soldiers to gather their formation and start from Press the right end up!"

Two thousand Brutians wore leather armor, armed with wooden shields and spears, but formed a tighter phalanx than the Lucanians. When the right end of the Picosis array was about to collapse, they attached it rear formation.

The collapsed Lucarians could not break through Bruti's battle formation, but were pushed forward by them. In order to survive, most of the Lucarian warriors had to turn around and fight. After all, the Lucarian array was thick. Panic caused them to flee, and the non-mercenaries penetrated their lines. Once the reinforcements arrived, they gradually stabilized their positions, the emotions of the defeated troops gradually stabilized, and the organization of the formation began to recover...

The casualties of the Lucanians are still increasing, but the mercenaries are gradually retreating... The pushing force generated by the ultra-thick array formed by the Lucanians and the Brutians is obviously not the thin array of the mercenaries. Nothing can be compared.Once the gap between the two armies becomes narrow, superb fighting skills will not play a big role. Fortunately, the experienced mercenaries took the initiative to slowly retreat to relieve the pressure exerted by the other side, thereby maintaining the front line. toughness……

Unlike other generals, Davos personally participated in the battle. Once the battle started, he completely let the battle develop. He rode on his horse and followed the phalanx from left to right and from right to left, paying close attention to the progress of the battle at any time. Give orders through messengers.The right end of the Lucanian array was about to be defeated, and he felt excited. Unexpectedly, the situation of the battle would reverse next, and one can imagine the disappointment in his heart.But he did not urge the soldiers to attack again, because he knew that in addition to the arrival of enemy reinforcements, it was also related to the physical strength of the soldiers. Of course, such a fierce and ferocious attack before could not last too long. As long as you are a human, your physical strength has its limits. What's more, they are heavy infantry.Even at the critical moment, Davos ordered the light shield soldiers who retreated to the rear to join the attack on the enemy's rightmost end. Unfortunately...

If those two thousand mercenaries and two hundred cavalry were under his command, then the soldiers would already be chasing the defeated army!It's just that I was too confident and didn't insist on asking Turiido for more troops... As soon as a thought of regret came into my mind, Davos snuffed it out.Any unexpected situation may occur in a war, and it is impossible for a commander to foresee it all. The only thing he can do at this moment is to keep a calm mind and try not to let excessive emotions affect his judgment.

The mercenary's line was originally an "arc" with an upward curve at the end, but now it has been gradually flattened. As the phalanx moved back step by step, Davers realized that the soldiers had to push hard against the enemy. To compete with each other, we have to prevent the thin array from being broken through, and we also have to kill the enemy as much as possible in the fight. The consumption of physical strength and energy is quite large. It is already very good to be able to maintain such a situation!Unless a major accident occurs, the left wing of the Thurii coalition will not make much progress; as for the center, Asistes' return is also not optimistic, even worse than the left wing; the only one with an advantage is the right wing, but the advantage Not much (this is the judgment made by Asistes who rode to reconnaissance, based on the fact that Tarantum's front has only advanced a little).After learning that the overall battlefield situation was unfavorable, Davos removed the remaining luck in his heart and had to consider the retreat of the troops after the battle failed...

On a ten-mile radius of the Xubari Plain, nearly [-] soldiers were engaged in a battle of life and death. Dust was flying, the sound of killings was loud, conflicts intertwined, and blood was flying... After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Greek army gradually felt overwhelmed. …

The number of the Lucanian tribal coalition forces exceeds that of the Turiyi coalition army by 500. Based on the observation, the scouts of Turiyi and Daves originally estimated that the Lucanian people had about 3000 people. In fact, they were cunning. Akpiru still hid part of his troops in the mountains behind the camp, and the 2000 people from Vig City joined at the last moment, which caused the Greek army to make errors in judgment, and Ferris attacked the Lucarians. The impression still remains from a few years ago (he did not participate in last year's battle).In fact, in recent years, the Lucanians have developed rapidly, especially Grumentum, which has begun to break away from the tribal alliance and develop towards a kingdom. In the past two years of tribal annexation wars, Grumentum has The warriors of Mentum have become braver and tougher through frequent baptism of blood.

In the old concept of Generals Turiyi, as long as they fought head-on, the loosely organized Lucanians would definitely be crushed by the power of Greek heavy infantry.And the facts proved how ridiculous their idea was, especially in the middle of the Greek army. The mercenaries in the front, the Thurii citizen soldiers in the middle, and the free people in the back. The three forces could never be effectively combined into one force. In the Grumentum warriors, the fierce Under the impact of the attack, the Greek army in the middle retreated from the beginning... As the battle continued, these three groups of soldiers who were born differently began to have ideas: mercenaries fight for money, and when there is no hope of victory, Under the circumstances, of course, what they thought of first was to save their own lives; the Turiyi citizen soldiers were indeed fighting with all their strength, but half of them were middle-aged and their physical strength had reached the limit. They are still holding on because Thurii is their home and cannot be trampled upon by barbarians; and the free people come to the war with the attitude of giving it a try. If they win, they will gain citizenship rights. If they lose, they will flee Thurii and find a new life in other city-states.

As the Greek center retreated faster and faster, the gap between them and the left and right wings was widening.When Grumentum's soldiers rushed into the gaps on both sides and attacked the Greek center from the side, the entire center phalanx collapsed and the soldiers fled in all directions...

Davos, who had been paying close attention to the situation here, sighed, suppressed his extreme disappointment, and decisively ordered a retreat.The retreat order designed by Davos is quite special, and it is very different from the general Greek army: it is first a long sound, followed by the same melody as the charge, and the trumpeter repeatedly blew it three times. The soldiers thought that the mercenaries were about to charge again.At this moment of stupefaction, the mercenaries distanced themselves a little, and the light shield soldiers in the back line threw javelins again (this is really bold, without strict training, it is easy to accidentally injure your comrades in arms). While the Lucarians were busy defending, the mercenaries quickly and unanimously completed a series of retreat actions such as turning around and running...

Note: Cosentia, the central town in the Bruti region.

　I was chatting with a reader today, and I accidentally talked about my previous novels, which brought back my memories. In the evening, I went through the long-dusted "Campus Love Record", and I felt a lot of emotion, which reminds me of my lost youth!
　　
　
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