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Chapter 41 surprise attack (1)

Originally, when Timaras saw too much baggage, he suggested: load some of the spoils and transport them back to Crotone in advance.

Melanteus rejected him, his reason was: Castron, Crimesa joined our Crotone Alliance for the first time, and we need to show them the results of capturing Turi and the serious consequences of doing the right thing with Crotone!

In fact, he had another reason in his mind: he was afraid that the materials transported back would be divided privately by the people in the city hall, so that the wealth he had divided would be much less.

As for why the pontoon bridge was not burned? Davers's concern was completely redundant. Melanteus did not take Amendorar seriously at all. He believed that when the city of Turiyi was destroyed, there was no force in the northern part of Great Greece that could threaten Crotone. In order to facilitate the Crotone's migration to Ebari soon, the pontoon bridge was retained.

The marching column in Crotone was more than ten miles long, most of which were loaded with carts, so the march was extremely slow. At dusk, the front team had just arrived at Castellon.

The Castrols were indeed afraid. The Chief General Amicles led the city-state's top leaders with a smile on his face. The city welcomed the victorious return of Melancius and wanted to hold a grand victory banquet for him, and at the same time, they tactfully said to Melancius: Castrol is small and cannot accommodate such a huge army. Moreover, so much baggage is placed in the city. If it is lost, it will be bad if there is a conflict.

They also said: Castrone City has prepared a large amount of wine and food for the soldiers in Crotone to wish them a happy victory and make up for Castrone's apologies that it was unable to let them enter the city.

Melancius was not a person who could think about the soldiers. Seeing that the Castros was so thoughtful, he happily agreed and led more than a dozen senior team officials including Timaras into the city with Amicles.

On the way to the city, Melancius heard the spies' reward: The people of Amendorala rushed to the Sobari Plain to rescue Turi's Ren. He immediately laughed and said, "Amendorala is useless to do this. We will come back soon. The Sobari Plain can only belong to Crotone!"

After hearing that there was wine and meat, the soldiers in Crotone immediately accelerated the march. It was too late and they started camping. They just set up tents, and then they couldn't wait to start drinking and eating meat to celebrate victory. They kept making noise until late at night. The tired bodies could not resist the invasion of the sleeping god, and then fell asleep deeply...

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Ansitanos did not write in his book: On this day, the citizens of Amendorala made up their tents and simply built the camp, and then they all started to sleep. In fact, the main people who rescued Turi's people outside in the afternoon were Amendorala's women, teenagers, and elderly people...

Amendorala almost went out to do everything in the city for this battle.

That night, Davers did not allow the Turiyi people to enter the newly built camp accommodation, and the exhausted Turiyi people fell asleep in the mud. At this time, the Amendolar militia in the camp were awakened one by one by one by the team officer. They began to eat the prepared freshly baked bread in a daze, drink hot lamb soup, and a little mutton and cheese. Although they had already had dinner a few hours ago, these foods would store more protein and calories for them as a consumption for the subsequent long-distance marches and fighting. Then, they began to wear the breastplate taken out of the cart, check the spear, the knife and the round shield.

At this time, several torches were erected in an open space in the center of the camp. Davers, the captains of the team, the company and the team leaders were carefully observing the information obtained by Izam and others, and they simply made a terrain model of the Crotone camp with soil based on the information obtained by Izam.

"Melanteus was a little cautious. He let his troops cross the Trionto River and camped south of Castrone. He thought that with Castrone blocking them, they would be safe, but this would make his soldiers even less prepared." Davers pointed the Trionto River model that separated Castrone from Crotone Camp with a wooden stick: "But Izam led his men to try again and again on different sections of the river. He said that there was a section that could be completely traversed because it was in the middle and far from Crotone Camp and would not be discovered. He also sent someone to report that, 'Crotone people spent all night drinking and celebrating in the camp', and believed that when we attack tomorrow, they would sleep like dead pigs." Davers's words made everyone laugh understandably.

"They did not dig trenches or set up fences. Luzhai, and I'm afraid there would be no sentinels tomorrow morning. Do they think this is a walk in their own courtyard? It's so easy!" The team officials not only did not feel funny when they listened to the situation introduced by Davers, but were angry and secretly became angry. They would definitely not let these arrogant Crotones go.

"The only trouble is that their tents are very scattered and the interval is relatively large. A large piece of them stands out from the south, because the supplies they stolen are all concentrated here." Davers drew a large circle above the camp model with a wooden stick and said cautiously: "Our civilians and the Lucanian brigade led by Bagule are only about 5,000 (Artenis sent people to the Eastern Mediterranean to recruit some free citizens from Thrace, Rhodes and Crete, making the seventh brigade complete). In order to fully surround the camp in Crotone, our attack formation can only have single soldiers."

"Legislative Commander, don't worry, one line is enough! It's more troublesome to deal with people, isn't it easy to deal with a group of sleeping pigs?" Amintas's words made everyone cover their mouths and laugh.

Davers smiled slightly and said to Capps beside him: "The south side of the camp is handed over to your first brigade. You will first launch an attack. Because the south side is large and there are many carts and supplies to block the advance, how to solve these problems, you and your subordinates will come up with a solution. I only have one requirement. Whether the first brigade can become the first in the entire army depends on whether you can keep up with the attack speed of other brigades, even faster than them!"

Capps, who was usually steady, was also excited at this moment: "Don't worry, the First Team will never let your expectations down!"

Davers nodded and turned to Drax: "The Second Battalion went to the east of the camp. After the First Battalion launched an attack, you can start the attack. The east side of the camp is close to Castron City. The first thing the enemy who was panicked about when attacked was to escape into the city, so you have to use the most fierce attack to let them dispel this idea!"

Drax glanced at Capps and said, "League Commander, our second team will prove with actions that we are no worse than the first team!"

"Okay, you have to have this confidence!" Davers praised, then turned to Hironimus: "The Third Team attacked from the west, although most of you are recruits, I believe the Third Team will perform well."

Hironimus clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry!"

"Epigenis."

"exist."

"You and Tspit led the 7th Battalion's light shield troops to attack from the north."

"Legislative Commander, are we less offensive?" Epitians immediately asked a question.

"Don't worry. Is Baguel coming?" Davers asked.

"I'm here!" Bagule said behind the crowd.

"Come ahead." Davers waved to him and said in a deep voice: "The Lucanian brigade you led will join the north attack, and the commander will be Epigenis."

Bagule looked at Epitians with a little hesitation. Epitians smiled at him friendly, lowered his head and said, "Okay."

"The light shield soldiers are good at melee combat. The impact of your Lucalian warriors is also very powerful. The enemy may not consider escaping north at the beginning because the Trionto River is blocking it. I am not worried about your attack. I am only worried that you lack cooperation and the breakthrough is too fierce, which leads to gaps. So after you come down, you must communicate well to solve the problem of how to improve cooperation and control the rhythm of the attack."

"There is more important point!" Davers emphasized his tone and said with a serious expression: "Bagul, I have told you before, and I will emphasize again that before the war, whether it is marching or lurking, you must keep quiet and not disturb the enemy! You must warn your tribe members and keep their mouths in good condition. If anyone does not obey the orders, it will affect this action. Those who are serious in accordance with the "Amendorala Military Law" will be executed!"

"I understand." Bagule was secretly frightened. After deciding to go back, he immediately discussed with Yassitus: how to prevent the tribe members from making mistakes.

"Legislature Commander, are we archers and stone throwers not participating in this operation?" Alpunes couldn't help but ask urgently when he saw that he had no place in the deployment of the attack camp.

"Of course you are indispensable." Davers smiled and said, "Alpunes, you lead the archers and the throwers to ambush the road leading to Castellon City on the east side of the camp. Once someone leaves the city to rescue, they will be given the greatest damage!"

"yes!"

"According to Izam's information, Castron's soldiers who fought with Crotone did not return to the city because they were going to celebrate victory in the camp. There should not be many soldiers in the city, and their combat effectiveness should not be strong. Oh... And those Crotone generals who were looking for fun in the city will probably be weak by tomorrow morning, so they can't get weapons..." After Davers said, everyone laughed ambiguously.

"After you go down, deploy your subordinate company to the attack line, but please remember that there should be no gaps in the attack line between the team, between the company, between the brigades, between the brigades, between the brigades, between the brigades, between the brigades and the brigades!"

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