Although these two terrains were dangerous, the construction of these two fortresses was still during the Mesenian riot decades ago. During the decades, the Mesenians were basically tame and no major riots occurred (during the Peloponnese War, Mesenian Helloth mainly fled under the support of the Athenians). Therefore, these two fortresses were disrepaired for a long time and were seriously damaged.

It was not until recently that the Dionian army invaded Mesenia that Sparta urgently repaired it, but time was in a hurry and always felt that the repair was not complete enough. Now he was attacked by an enemy with more than 10 times the number of defenders, which made him worried. Therefore, although the Dionians were about to land on a large scale, he still took out 200 soldiers and rushed to reinforcements.

And at this moment, the infantrymen of the Dionian fleet, who were staying near the coast, began to advance towards the shore.

According to the Dionian military law, Sephedorus, as the commander of the fleet infantry, should be in the rear, but the landing operation situation is special. Due to the difficulties of sea conditions, transportation, and concentrated reorganization of soldiers after landing, Sephedorus sent all the fleet infantry to the near coast at one time. It is useless to sit in the rear by himself. It is better to lead the way. Instead, it can boost morale and win an additional victory for the army in difficult situations. Therefore, Sephedorus, like other fleet infantry, was wearing leather armor, carrying leather shields and helmets, and swam towards the shore in a breaststroke posture.

Although all Greek fishermen are good swimmers and most of the fleet infantry come from them, this standard breaststroke posture is still taught by Professor Davers, mainly to try to be silent and save effort when swimming in armed ways.

The fleet infantry did not slash hard at this moment, like wood floating on the sea, approaching the coast along the tide.

And in the eyes of the Spartans on the shore: a black tide line that ran across the Gulf of Laconia rushed towards them quickly.

When the sea water was already shallow, the soldiers of the Dionian fleet stood up one after another.

Sephadorus was old after all, and he was a little panting when he stood up, and his body was a little cold, but he was still as quick as other soldiers to put on his skin helmet, took off his skin shield, pulled out his dagger, and shouted loudly as he could: "The whole team!"

The tide of the tide made his voice not far, but all the fleet infantry had already understood the entire landing action plan in advance. At this time, they were consciously reorganizing the formation. When they were staying in the sea, the soldiers gathered according to the combat formation. Now, after a little rectification, a dense formation that was nearly three miles long and 5 columns appeared in front of the Spartan army.

Yudamidas was surprised by the rapid formation of the Dionians, which made his attempt to attack using the disorganized formation when the Dionians came ashore and failed. He immediately realized that the Dionians were prepared this time and wanted to take advantage of the absence of the main force of Sparta and do his best to attack Sparta's territory.

I will never let your conspiracy succeed!…Yodamidas waved his spear forward and shouted angrily: “Attack!”

Driven by Youdamidas, the Spartan army began to run forward. When they stepped onto the soft beach again, dozens of stone bombs roared again, and some Black Roth soldiers were in a commotion, but under the stern scolding of the Spartan officials, they had to continue running forward in panic. Until the stone bomb fell behind them, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Sephadorus led the soldiers forward steadily. As the sea water flooded through the crotch, they could not run. Fortunately, there was a tide push, and they were not greatly hindered. When the sea water gradually retreated from the waist and hips to the feet, and the legs of the fleet infantry had just recovered their freedom, the enemy had already rushed in front of them.

The fleet infantry had neither javelin nor long shield defense. They could only raise their skin shields and short swords and push them up.

The Spartan army consisted of nearly 300 Spartan warriors, more than 500 Spartan veterans, 2,000 Biliasi soldiers, more than 4,000 Black Rous and 9,000 Dionian fleet infantry (the first fleet of the Dionia has nearly 280 crow warships, and each crow warship has 40 fleet infantry organization. The first fleet has a total of more than 10,000 fleet infantry. Although thousands of casualties were paid for the last landing operation, Sekrien sent all the fleet infantry without hesitation) finally fought on the coast.

Xenophon climbed up the whistle behind the beach and looked down at the battle situation ahead with a nervous look. He knew that this battle would determine the life and death of Sparta, and wished he could snatch the archer next to him and shoot at the Dionians himself.

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After the battle lasted for a while, the situation underwent a relatively obvious change: the right wing, with the Spartan warriors and the old warriors as arrows, gained the upper hand with the ability of the Spartan warriors and the power of the heavy infantry, and killed the left wing of the infantry in the Dionian fleet, which continued to retreat and retreated into the sea;

The middle road, dominated by Piriasi soldiers, also temporarily has a slight advantage. After all, Piriasi soldiers who often follow the Spartans have rich combat experience. At the same time, although they are wearing simple pointed copper helmets and leather armor, they still have stronger defense than fleet infantry with copper shields and spears. With the assistance of sentry archers, the fleet infantry with weak defense suffered a lot;

Only on the left wing, the Black Roxers, who were basically unprotected, fought with the fleet infantry wearing leather helmets and leather armor, and leather shields, and gradually became at a disadvantage. Even if the old Spartan soldiers mixed in it worked hard to maintain the shooting of the front and the archers in the rear, the left wing was still moving backwards... This made the front line, which was originally east-west, gradually turned into the northeast-southwest direction.

While Xenophon was sweating for the Spartan army, he stood on the flagship and listened to the lookout hand on the mast to report the war situation: "Where is the fleet infantry that went ashore yesterday?! Why haven't it appeared yet?!"

"Maybe... maybe I'm in some trouble..." the flagship captain replied carefully.

"Damn it! There is a problem at the critical moment!" Secklian cursed angrily, and then said helplessly: "Then... send the reserve team up immediately!"

"yes!"

In yesterday's military meeting, inspired by the fleet infantry commander Sephadorus, other squadron commanders also made many suggestions. One of them was: considering that the fleet infantry and heavy infantry did not have the advantage in frontal combat between the frontal combat, can the two battalions of the Seventh Legion stationed in Mesenia send some heavy infantry to participate in the landing war?

Later, after discussion and improvement, it was changed to: the Dionian troops stationed in Mesenia were invited to counterattack Sparta from the east, and at the same time, they were asked to send 300 heavy infantrymen to participate in the landing operation.

Originally, they were used as reserves, Seclian still hoped that the fleet infantry could win the battle alone, but now he saw that the battle was at a disadvantage and was worried about failure, so he had to send a reserve team.

I saw a 5-meter square raft on 5-meter square rafts urgently made by the crew of the First Fleet, a waterman was manipulating with wooden pulp. Three or four soldiers of the Seventh Army, standing in the middle, walked through the gaps between the warships. Because the raft was shallower than the boat, with the surging tide, they successfully passed through the waters of the blocking wooden piles and rowed towards the left wing of the fleet infantry...

"Oh no, the reinforcements of the Dionians!" Xenophon was very anxious when he saw this situation on the mail tower: Sparta had no extra soldiers to block the enemy reinforcements' attacks, what should I do?!

Xenophon was so anxious that he suddenly saw a group of black Roxers carrying supplies in the camp. He quickly got off the sentry building like an illness and rushed to the camp, wanting to organize these black Roxers to reinforce the Spartan army ahead.

More than a dozen old Spartan soldiers in charge of guarding Black Rous in the camp learned that the situation was urgent and immediately agreed to Xenophon's suggestion, but problems followed: Even if these hundreds of Black Rous were organized, they had no weapons, so how could they fight?

The Spartans took good care of Black Rous, and even those who were going to participate in the battle were only allocated weapons before they went to battle. After the army went to fight, there were so many Black Rous in the camp, so of course it was impossible to leave more weapons.

After searching in the camp urgently, he found more than a dozen broken spears. Xenophon had to ask the Black Roxers to draw the wooden poles supporting the tent, making promises and threats, so he forced the Black Roxers to reluctantly follow him to the right wing of the Spartan army.

Previously, the fierce attack of the Spartan warriors caused some casualties to the left wing of the fleet infantry. For the sake of honor and the life and death of the entire fleet infantry, they could only ease the pressure given by the enemy by constantly retreating. The deeper the retreat into the sea, the weaker the attack of the Spartan warriors. The reason is very simple. The surging tide and the soft seabed have a great impact on the Spartan warriors wearing heavy helmets and armor and acting more clumsy. They have to spend some energy to maintain physical balance, while the fleet infantry is used to this.

Under such circumstances, the left wing of the fleet infantry gradually recovered some decline.

Then the Seventh Legion soldiers arrived one after another and immediately launched an attack on the flanks of the Spartan warriors.

The Spartan warriors fought bravely under the attack without retreating. They knew that behind them was their homeland, so they could never retreat.
Chapter completed!