Suddenly, Agsilous's body shook a few times and almost fell down. The slave quickly supported him.

In order to boost morale and observe the enemy situation, he stood for a long time, and his aging body was no longer able to support him, so he could only sit helplessly on the wooden chair he had prepared long ago.

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Crotokatakus, the commander of the Dionian army, was also nervous. He faced such a large battle for the first time, and his opponent was the Greek overlord Sparta.

Looking at the dazzling walls that extended infinitely to both sides in the distance ahead, Crotokatax felt the invisible pressure. He knew that his order would determine the life and death of thousands of Dionian soldiers, so he was hesitating.

"Your Highness, the soldiers' gate has almost rested. You can issue an offensive order." Printols stepped forward and reminded softly.

"Uh... do you want to wait?" Clotokatax said with some guilt.

Printols looked up at the sky intentionally and said, "If you wait any longer, I'm afraid today's battle will be cancelled. I missed this opportunity and I can catch the Spartan army to fight the next time. I don't know when it will be, but the situation will become increasingly unfavorable to us..."

Printols's words changed Crotokatax's face. He was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's attack!"

"Woo!... Woo!..." The powerful and high-pitched military horn echoed on the west side of the Tigia Plain.

The military flags at all levels that were originally erected high in the array pointed to the east together as the military horn sounded.

"Go forward!" Like other team officers, Max gave orders to his squadron soldiers.

The soldiers of the squad shouted excitedly, pulled out the long shield inserted into the soil, and carried it on their backs (in order to save the soldiers' strength and facilitate marching, the weapons merchants added a long strip of cloth on the inside of the long shield according to the requirements of the Ministry of Military Affairs. With it, the soldiers can hold the long shield on their shoulders), held a spear and a javelin, and moved forward steadily with the soldiers of other squads.

The battle was about to begin, and Max was a little excited, but the excitement was far less than that of the Greek soldiers under his command. He knew that it was because they were eager to defeat the Spartan warriors who had dominated Greece for decades to prove that the Greek citizens of the Kingdom of Dionia were the strongest warriors in the Greek world, so Max did not have to worry about the soldiers' fighting spirit at all.

"The Dionians have begun to attack." Agsilous unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the sound of a military trumpet from the opposite side. Facing the mercenary general who came to ask for instructions, he said calmly: "Don't rush to blow the attacking military trumpet first, let the Dionians move forward a little longer, so that when we get into the battle, the city of Tega will be behind them."

As the soldiers of the Dionian soldiers slowly advanced, rows of wheat seedlings fell one after another. The Dionian army formation, which was originally a straight line, gradually became distinct: the light infantry with light steps had passed through the chessboard array of heavy infantry and walked in front; the second was the cavalry at both ends. Although they had not allowed the horses to run to save horsepower, they still walked faster than the heavy infantry.

The Dionian light infantry were spread all over the front of the three left, middle and right routes in their loose formations. When they were about two miles away from the Spartan army, Agsilous, who received the news, finally issued an order to attack.

The left wing is a Spartan warrior wearing a red cloak, the middle wing is mainly mercenaries, and the right wing is a mercenary soldier who just retreated from the siege not long ago. Except for the thickness of the right wing is 10 columns, the thickness of the middle and left wing arrays has increased to 20 columns, and the Macedonian cavalry at both ends are Macedonian cavalry... It seems that Agsilous has arranged a most traditional Greek phalanx and wants to fight the most formal Greek heavy infantry battle with the Dionian army. The only difference is that countless light infantry pass through the gaps in the array and also faces forward in a loose formation.

Agsilous knew about the army of Dionia. He knew that the army of Dionia was good at using light infantry to attack first in battle to disrupt the opponent's array. Therefore, he had specially instructed the generals who recruited mercenaries to recruit more light infantry in order to play a role in confronting and weakening the light infantry in the battle.

"What did you say? There are many stone-popular soldiers on the other side!" Crotokatax was surprised after listening to the report of the scout.

"Yes, Your Highness. The enemy threw a large number of flying stones at our light infantry in the distance, causing some soldiers to be injured."

"I think the Spartans may have recruited some Rhode Island stone-cattering soldiers." At the same time, the staff officer Mukru made a speculation, he sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that the stone-cattering soldiers in our First Legion have all retired!"

"Damn it! I should have asked my father to send some Bariari people!" Crotokataks regretted it at this time.

After the southern Iberian region was incorporated into the Kingdom of Dionia, the Bariali Islands naturally surrendered to Dionia. Davers allowed them to rule themselves and generously agreed to solve their food shortage, but also made a request: Once war requires it, Bariali must provide no less than 2,000 stone-piked soldiers.

"Your Highness, don't worry." Printols comforted: "The Spartans' light infantry are all temporarily pieced together, not as well as our soldiers. They just rely on their advantage in distance to take advantage of some advantage. I think our light infantry will make them suffer soon."

Crotokatax was skeptical and at least relaxed.

Shortly after the light infantry between the two sides fought, the cavalry of both sides also began to accelerate. Although the too high wheat seedlings had some obstacles to the running of the war horses, the cavalry at this time had no time to think too much, and soon the cavalry of both sides rushed together.

Both sides have 1,000 Dionian cavalry vs 750 Macedonian cavalry at both ends. Although the Dionian cavalry has an advantage in number, the Macedonian cavalry, as an advantageous group of troops as the Thessalian cavalry in Greece, are not weak in cavalry, fighting spirit, or combat effectiveness.

Although the First Cavalry Legion is "first" in name, unlike the infantry Legion, its combat effectiveness cannot be better than other legions. Even the newly built Fifth Cavalry Legion, the Sixth Cavalry Legion and the Seventh Cavalry Legion are stronger than it, because the Fifth Cavalry Legion is located in Iberia, and its main soldiers come from the conquered Lusitanian cavalry; the Sixth Cavalry Legion is located in Pohe area, and all the soldiers are Gaul cavalry; the Seventh Cavalry Legion is located in Hadrumentum, but there are no fixed personnel at ordinary times. Instead, when needed, the tribes of Sinumibia are required to provide 3,000-4,000 cavalry. It is the only light cavalry legion in the kingdom and the cavalry legion with the largest number of people.

Therefore, the Legion Commander Kuchius, who took office the year before, felt pressured and increased the intensity of training for cavalry (Redes chose to retire because of his age and injuries and could no longer ride a horse for a long time).

At this time, in a short period of time, the cavalry battle cannot determine the outcome.

The news came back to the command center behind the Dionian army. In order to prevent Clotokatax from feeling worried again, Printols took the initiative to say: "The reason why His Majesty did not send too many cavalry at the beginning was that considering that there were more Peloponnese Mountains and fewer plains, there was not much room for cavalry to play, and the army went on an expedition across the sea. The military rations consumed a lot of military rations, and the cavalry consumed more food. The Greek cavalry was not strong, so he only sent a cavalry legion, which was not the main force for us to win."

"The main force to win is our infantry army!" Crotokataks looked ahead with expectation. As the entire army continued to move forward, the dust fog that stirred up began to spread, making his vision a little blurred. Instead, screams kept coming, becoming clearer.

The Dionian light infantry, who suffered some small losses, accelerated the speed and shortened the distance with the enemy. Then the archers used the superb shooting skills obtained from years of hard training to attack the enemy, and the Cretan archers could only barely fight against it.

The Javeliners took the opportunity to advance, narrowing the distance to within 30 meters, and throwing the javelin, but were counterattacked by a large number of Thracian light shield soldiers.

Compared with the total number of only 3,000 Dionian light infantry (the light infantry brigade of the Seventh Corps stayed in the camp), the number of Spartan coalitions invested in light infantry combat is more than twice that of them. Although the ability of a single army is not weak, it is not only lacking in coordination and causing mutual obstruction from time to time. They also lack large-scale battle experience of light infantry in front of the formation. Therefore, the Dionian light infantry with a small number of people takes the initiative by relying on flexible movement and skilled tactical cooperation.

As the two armies got closer and closer, the Spartan coalition light infantry, who were worried that they would be squeezed into the formation, hurriedly evacuated from the front. The Dionian light infantry was still standing in front of the formation without fear, and instead launched a long-range attack on the Spartan coalition heavy infantry who were slowly moving forward.

Although the arrows falling from the air did not cause much damage to them, they could slow down their advancement and disrupt their arrays. However, the heavy javelins that were thrown in pose a threat to their lives.

The hired heavy infantrymen in front of the array were forced to start running before they could even get into the charge distance, making the already curved line even more uneven.

The Dionian light infantry quickly withdrew from the gap in the rear chessboard array, and the small square arrays quickly closed to form a unified array. Then the shouts of the team officials were heard: "Jaberlin is ready!"

At this time, most of the soldiers of the Spartan coalition had rushed to a distance of 40 meters, neither early nor late, and the time was just right. This was the result of the long-term and arduous training of the Dionian Legion.
Chapter completed!