The javelin that flew away covered the entire square formation, and only the "boom" sound was heard. Some javelins slipped on the shield, while others pierced into shields, tying the entire square formation into a hedgehog... But neither soldiers fell down in this square formation, nor screaming, it stood intact.

When the Samones were surprised, the Greeks suddenly withdrew their long shields, and javelins flew out of the square formation, and threw them in a concentrated manner, which was where Taruk stood.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was close to 20 meters.

Taruk had no idea that the other party would have such a fatal move. As the leader of the tribe, Taruk had his own armor and shield, but in order to better pursue the fleeing Greeks, he placed it in the village. Seeing the javelin shooting directly, he could only dodge by instinct. Then he let out a scream, and a javelin pierced his right leg, and he fell to the ground dejection.

At the same time, seven or eight soldiers beside them also fell down screaming.

"Chief!!!..." The panic shouts of warriors sounded in his ears, and Taruk suddenly remembered in pain: what a great leader mentioned ten years ago,

The enemy of these black helmets and black armor should be the Dionians!

"They are Dionians!" Taruk reminded loudly.

At this time, the soldiers of the Dionian had rushed closer.

In order to protect their leader, the Kauteni soldiers did not retreat, but hurriedly met and fought with the soldiers of the Dionians.

This is obviously a wrong move. Even though there are more Kauteni warriors than the opponent, the unprotected Kauteni warriors fighting with the heavily protected Dionian Legion soldiers was simply hitting stones with eggs.

After a lot of casualties, the Kauteni warriors had to retreat.

At this time, they heard the sound of horse hooves behind them.

"It's the Greek cavalry!!" exclaimed the warrior Kautini.

Going back, dozens of Dionian cavalrymen who were galloping from their way to throw javelins at the retreating Kauteni soldiers, slowing down their retreat speed.

The soldiers of the Dionian Legion were quickly approaching.

Under the front and back attacks, the Kautini soldiers were completely defeated and fled in all directions. They would become the targets of the Dionian cavalry.

At this time, the captain of the Dionian Legion team stood in front of Taruk who was stunned, looked back at the Campanian army that had arrived at this time, and asked the scout who arrived, "Where is the nearest enemy to us?"

The scout pointed to his right and said, "About 400 meters away from here, more west, there are about 300 Kauteni people. The comrades in your third team and a light armored soldier company are preparing to raid them."

After hearing this, the team leader immediately shouted: "The brothers from the second team gathered! Except for you injured stayed for treatment, the others immediately followed me to the west and cooperated with the third team to attack the Samones!"

"Captain, we are just a minor injury. We will continue to fight, there is no problem at all." The injured soldier said unwillingly.

"This is an order, execute it immediately!" After the squad leader said this, the injured soldiers stopped saying a word.

"What should those Kautenis hiding in the village?" asked a soldier.

"Leave it to the Naples, there are only those remaining soldiers, I think they should be able to deal with it." As he said that, the team leader led the soldiers to turn west immediately.

This similar scene took place in multiple places in the Campania plains.

Only in Atella, the situation is different.

Atlas was originally a small town established by the Etruscans and later joined the Campanian League. It is northeast of Naples, located in the middle of the Campanian plain, less than 25 miles from the city of Naples.

Twenty years ago, it was taken away by the Kautini people, and since then Atlas became the advance base and the transfer site for the Kautini people to invade the coastal city-states of Campania.

The Campanian League was deeply hurt. Therefore, after forming an alliance with Dionya, he took advantage of the defeat of the Cautenis by Dionya and was still in negotiations to ask Davers: Can the Cautenis return Atlas to the Campanian League?

Davers agreed.

The Kautini people were forced to make concessions due to the situation at that time.

This shame has always been pressing against Segovani, the great leader of Kauteni. Therefore, this time he will take advantage of the opportunity of the Campanian Alliance being busy dealing with the invasion of various tribes, gather heavy troops to regain Atla in one fell swoop, and establish his reputation. As for Dionia sending envoys to criticize him, Segovani has already decided to deal with it, so he used the words "Atra belonged to the Kauteni people" to make excuses. Anyway, the Dionians only know how to threaten with words and cannot harm him at all. By then, the Dionians have no way to deal with him.

Segovani spent two days in Katium to assemble about 5,000 soldiers from the surrounding tribes, and entered the city of Cesara with a relatively secretive action.

Half an hour after the other tribes began to invade the west, he led the army to set off. Because he specifically ordered that "all tribes should not loot on the route from Sassera to Atlas", the march along the way was smooth and no enemies were encountered.

Sassera was less than 20 miles away from Atlas, all of them were flat. An hour later, the army led by Segovani approached the city of Atlas.

The Atlans obviously did not expect that the Kauteni, who had always been robbery, would suddenly lead a large army to attack the city, with only a few panicked sentinels on the city wall.

Segovani made full preparations. Not only did he let the soldiers carry enough ladders, but he also concentrated Kauteni's heavy infantry (equivalent to the intermediate infantry of the Greek troops) into the team, with a total of 3,000 people.

"Attack!" Segovani immediately issued an order without hesitation. He did not want to leave any time for the enemy to react.

The soldiers rushed towards the city of Atra roared.

At this time, the spy rushed over: "The leader has discovered the enemy's scout!"

Segovani felt tight and then felt relieved: So what if the Greeks discovered it? Now he is sure to win.

"Continue to observe the enemy's movements south and report to me at any time." He waved his hand and said.

"Yes, the big leader." The spy ran away.

Cavalry! This is the pain in Segovani's heart: the Samonets are mountainous races and have never had cavalry, but after the Kauteni occupied the eastern plains of Campania, he began to plan to build a cavalry to enhance the reconnaissance capabilities of the troops and assist in combat. However, no Kauteni warrior was willing to try riding horses. They were more willing to fight face to face with the enemy, rather than riding horses like cowards and hiding around. Of course, sitting on the bare horse back also made these Kauteni warriors feel completely insecure, far less than standing on solid land, making them feel at ease. In the end, the dream of establishing a cavalry could only be vained...

Segovani sighed, threw away the annoying thoughts and bet on the battlefield again. He was delighted to see: the soldiers had used the ladder to cross the trench and force it to the wall. Until then, many panicked Greek defenders appeared on the top of the city...

By the time the reinforcements from Naples arrived, I had already taken down the small town! Segovani clenched his right fist confidently.

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"What did you say?! More than 5,000 Kautenis are attacking Atlas!" Naples General Aaros was shocked when he heard the news from the detective.

He then reacted and shouted with a pale face: "We have all been deceived by the Kautini people. This time they are not just robbing, but want to occupy our land!" Earos said mainly to Lizaru.

At this moment, Lizalu, who was sitting in the tent, looked very bad. After sending out the troops of the Third Legion to raid the Kautenis who were invading the Campania League, he sat in the military camp. There was no way, because the invasion site was too wide, the troops, companies, and detachments of the Third Legion were scattered in this vast area, and he could only rely on the planning of the many reconnaissance cavalry, messengers, and staff officers to barely achieve a general control. There were only 500 light infantry left in the camp, which he left for the reserve team.

Lizalu looked carefully at the Campania map on the table and asked loudly, "How many civilians are there in the city of Atla?"

Aaros thought for a while and came over and said, "Atra is a small town with only a few thousand people and can draw out nearly 400 civilians."

Speaking of this, Earos felt a little regretful: when Atla returned the Campania League, the city should have expanded, strengthened the city defense, and sent more young and middle-aged citizens, but at that time, the city-states in the league had debated endlessly because of the amount of the allocation of construction costs and the amount of land they obtained, and this important measure was not implemented. Later, everyone found that the Kautini people were very peaceful under the strong constraints of Dionia, so they were too lazy to make changes to Atlas. In the past two years, Kautini began to attack the Campania League again, but it was mainly to rob property, occasionally looting people, and not attacking towns, so it did not cause any warning.

Lizalu frowned and asked again, "How many soldiers do you have not sent out to fight?"

Earos hurriedly discussed with several generals in the alliance next to him, and then said helplessly: "According to General Lizalu's previous advice, we have retained the reserve team, with about 2,000 soldiers."
Chapter completed!