Although the light armored soldiers are "light armor", they have "armor" after all, and they also hold leather shields and spears. How could they catch up with the enemy in a single clothes? But once they stop, the enemy's long-range attack will begin.

What is even more worrying is that the enemy in the middle lane gradually divided into three parts when the light armored soldiers advanced: one part pulls the light armored soldiers in the formation, and the other two parts go around on both sides of the light armored soldiers.

When the light armored soldiers advanced, their flanks were attacked by the enemy. They could not care about the left and right, but they could not protect the front. The light armored soldiers in Crotone rushed recklessly like a wild boar, but not only did not hurt the enemy's hair, but their own casualties were increasing little by little...

"Where are the cavalry?! Why haven't the cavalry come yet? What is Alisussis doing?!" Seeing the soldiers fall down one by one, Philip Defous became impatient and couldn't help but curse. It was the first time he realized how uncomfortable it was to fight with simple infantry against enemies full of light infantry. He could not fight, and he could not catch up, but instead became a living target for the enemy.

"Retreat to the left! Retreat to the left!!" he shouted, and the guards also shouted, if the excited soldiers could not hear what he was calling during the previous pursuit, and now everyone is gathered together, carefully avoiding arrows and stones, and have begun to feel a little afraid and tired. Philip Defoss' order was what they wanted, and the light armored soldiers retreated in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, the light infantry of Dionia chased her like a bone-attached maggot.

Philipdefos originally meant to retreat to the left and meet with the heavy infantry on the left. With their presence, they could protect the flanks of the light-armored soldiers and reduce casualties before the cavalry returned. At this moment, Philipdefos was also firmly convinced that the Crotone cavalry would win.

However, he was in the formation, but he didn't know that the heavy infantry on the left that he thought would be on his left back had actually been deviated by the light infantry on the enemy's right wing. They deliberately retreated to the northwest bit by bit, causing the slow-moving heavy infantry to unknowingly move from facing the north to advancing northwest, which resulted in the distance between the middle route of Crotone and the left wing getting bigger and bigger.

The light armored soldiers quickly retreated for a while, not only did not meet with the left wing, but instead could not provide better protection during the retreat, resulting in a rapid increase in casualties. Now they were forced to turn around again, protect themselves with leather shields, slowly retreated, avoiding the densely shot arrows, and watching the increasing injured comrades who fell to the ground in the ground ahead were cut by the enemy's throat, the morale of the light armored soldiers was shaken.

At this time, they heard the dense sound of horse hooves behind them, because they wanted to avoid arrows and could not look back, but they all breathed a sigh of relief: "Caval! Our cavalry is finally here!!"

Philip Defous was puzzled: Why did the cavalry of Arissus run to the back?! Didn’t he tell him that after defeating the enemy’s left wing, he would lead the cavalry to attack the enemy opposite? There was no such ability!! When he was upset, someone shouted anxiously: "Jaberlin! Be careful of the javelin! They are enemies!!"

With this exclamation, hundreds of javelins roared from behind.

Philip Defos was behind the array and wore a colorful helmet of generals, which of course became the target of key attacks. He immediately got three javelins. When Philip Defos fell, he did not understand until his death: Why did the Crotone cavalry, which had the superior force, fail?

The cavalry that had high hopes turned out to be the enemy! This became the last straw that crushed the light armored soldiers. They lost their fighting spirit and fled in all directions. The light armored soldiers took advantage of the situation to pursue them. The light armored soldiers could not escape these light infantry with minimal equipment, let alone the speed of the cavalry. After being caught up, most of the soldiers chose to surrender.

After dealing with the right-wing cavalry in Crotone and the light-armored soldiers in the middle, the Dionians focused their efforts to deal with the hardest heavy infantry.

When more than 3,000 Crotone heavy infantry were surrounded by more than 7,000 Dionian light infantry and cavalry, the heavy infantry all understood that their middle and left wings were probably in danger, especially the cavalry of Rides held up the head of Philipdefos, surrounded the heavy infantry formation, and shouted to surrender. The great blow to these Crotone people can be imagined.

The general who commanded the heavy infantry was Filos, the Crotones man, and the deputy general was Bossellios, the general of Silit. The two had a dispute in the face of such a bad situation.

Phillos believes that the damage caused to them by the light infantry is not too great. As long as they can persist in advancing and reaching, the main force in front of them will help the large forces defeat the army of Dionia, and the final victory will still belong to Crotone.

Baosaleus believed that under the full siege and attack, the morale of the soldiers was already very low, and the destination to be reached was at least six or seven miles. With the current situation of the soldiers, it was almost impossible for the soldiers to reach the western section of the river.

No one on both sides could convince each other, and finally parted ways. Bossaleus, with the Silitine soldiers and some Trina soldiers, began to retreat, preparing to return to the south bank of the Triwento River; Phillos led 1,400 Crotone heavy infantrymen to speed up westward.

Crotone's sudden division of troops caused trouble to several generals of Dionia.

Ryders and Tspitt believed that heavy infantry should be surrounded by heavy troops advancing westwards and use a small amount of troops to drive away the retreating enemies.

Epitensis expressed opposition, believing that since the enemy retreated, it means that the fighting spirit is not strong. As long as we continue to pursue and attack, they will inevitably surrender, and then encircle the remaining heavy infantry again to wipe out the enemy. The next plan will be easier to implement. His opinion was supported by Zantiparis.

The situation was urgent and there was no time to argue. Dionia's troops were also divided into two, and Epitianis and Zantiparis led their troops to pursue the retreating heavy infantry.

The Cialitians and the Trinas were indeed not strong in fighting spirit. They were not Crotones and did not have much conflict of interest with Dionia. Although the citizens of Cilitina suffered a lot of casualties in the raid in Dionia half a year ago, they participated in the war mainly because of the alliance, and to gain some benefits, and revenge the dead citizens were second. But when the situation of the war was bad and threatened their lives, they certainly would not fight hard. They welcomed the division of troops. They thought that the attention of the Dionian light infantry would be on the Crotones who were advancing westward, but they did not expect that the Dionians would still pursue them and were numerous. They were panicked and they had just arrived at the foot of the lower reaches of the Trionto River. They remembered that they had paid a considerable price when crossing the river. Now that they had more enemies and more aggressive attacks, their hearts were cold to the bottom of their hearts.

The Trinas first surrendered, and then the Pausaleus led the Silitines to surrender.

The heavy infantry of Crotone said that they wanted to accelerate forward, but in fact the speed was not much faster than before. Although the heavy infantry had good protection, it did not mean that they were not afraid of long-range strikes of bows, javelins, and stones. The impact of stones on the helmets would make them dizzy. Their thighs, toes, and hands were exposed, and the linen breastplate could not completely block the close-range attack of the javelin. Of course, the large round shield with a diameter of one meter in their hands and a copper-skinned shield could completely withstand the frontal attack, but the enemy was not only on the front, but also on the side, but behind the enemy, how to defend?

Only six miles away from the Crotone army, it usually takes an hour to march normally, but now half an hour has passed, and only less than a mile has passed... People are constantly being shot and fell down. They are like giant beasts, constantly biting and bleeding by the flexibly-moved wolf pack, becoming weaker and weaker, becoming more and more tired, and there is no hope in front of them, while the enemy's arrows and javelins are always so sufficient (Davs asked the Castros to offer all the arrows accumulated in the warehouse for many years, and transport them to the rear of the battlefield with pack beasts). So when Epigenis and Zantiparis led the army back and threw the captured Silitine and Trina's flags to the front of the heavy infantry in Crotone, they were surrounded. The Crotones, who were always defending long-range strikes, maintained for so long, and their shaky morale was finally broken. When they surrendered, less than a thousand soldiers were intact.

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Alsinis, who was still a recruit half a year ago, is now a squad leader of the First Legion. He has nine soldiers under his command, six of whom are reserve citizens and are recruits.

The rapid expansion of the Dionian army in the past six months is conceivable, and of course it brings many problems, especially in this tragic battle, the quality of heavy infantry on both sides gradually emerges over time. Heavy infantry is not just wearing armor, but can use shields to strike, and can stab a gun. The most important thing about heavy infantry in battle is trust and tacit understanding. On the tightly arranged front, a heavy infantry holds a shield in his left hand and a gun in his right hand. The heavy copper-skinned round shield will be

By tilting his body to the left, the round shield naturally protected his left chest and the right chest of his comrades on the left, and his right chest was protected by the right comrades on the right. In this way, the shield surface was connected to a line to defend against the enemy's piercing. He needed to move the round shield back and forth. Such movements not only consume physical strength, but also easily disrupt the array. He only needs to focus on two movements, keep poking and pushing forward with his right hand, so trusting his teammates and trusting him to protect you. This is the key to the successful operation of the heavy infantry phalanx.

There are at least a few thousand citizens in a city-state, at most tens of thousands, either neighbors or relatives. They play together since childhood, receive heavy infantry training from elders when they are young, participate in competitions, study together, work together when they are adults, and attend parties together... Although there are not many collective military trainings in the city-state every year, trust comes from their childhood training. As long as they stand on the battlefield, they will naturally stand together and become a rope.

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Tonight, my good friend went abroad to see him off and had a party, so I came back late, update later, sorry!
Chapter completed!