Not only him, but also the fourth and fifth captains and other company captains made a decision quickly: let the soldiers rush up quickly, entangle the enemy, and prevent them from escaping!

However, the soldiers of the Dionian Legion, who had exhausted their energy, staggered and chased after them, just to make the distance between them and the Roman soldiers farther and farther.

As for the two Roman young soldiers on the flanks, because their previous attacks were too fierce, the arrays of both sides were intertwined and stuck too tightly, making it difficult to withdraw for a while. Especially behind the right wing of the Dionian army formation, nearly half of the more than 2,000 Roman young soldiers who came to attack were red-eyed and were only concerned about attacking, and they were unheard of the sound of war trumpets and shouts from the outside world.

At this moment, more than 2,000 Volsians from Antium and Setia quickly arrived, and attacked the young Roman soldiers with the Third Battalion of the First Legion and the Light Armored Soldiers, and actually surrounded most of them.

But for a moment, these Roman soldiers were not panicked. The squadron behind turned to resist the attack of the Wolseys, while the soldiers in the front attacked even harder, which almost disintegrated the third battalion and the light-armored soldiers in front of them. Fortunately, they knew the news of the arrival of reinforcements, which strengthened their confidence to stick to them.

At the same time, Amintas urgently transferred the second troop soldiers next to the third troop to strengthen the defense line.

When the other reinforcements of Wolsey arrived at the battlefield, they saw that the entire Roman army was retreating, so they immediately began to pursue.

The Dionian heavy infantry were exhausted and had no choice but to run for a while. Only the light infantry and cavalry were still chasing.

The Seventh Battalion, which was all light infantry, was the most physically strong among the First Legion. They ran desperately, trying to get around to the front and intercepted the six Roman youth squadrons that had originally attacked the left flank.

Unexpectedly, these Roman squadrons did not know the news of the arrival of Wolsey reinforcements when they were on the left wing, so they just responded to military orders to retreat instead of retreating, and their morale was pretty good. And they were somewhat similar to the way the Dionian army retreated. They retreated as a whole, instead of running around completely dispersed, and could immediately organize a counterattack.

After suffering some losses, the Seventh Brigade no longer dared to stand in front. Instead, he followed them and attacked with javelins and bows, thus achieving some results.

The pursuit of the Dionian cavalry was more direct, driving the horses directly from the rear, smashing the enemy's squadrons apart, and then stabbing the lonely enemies one by one. However, this method is more harmful to the already tired horses. The cavalry only used it a few times when they first started chasing, and then they only attacked some scattered enemies of the falling team.

The battlefield was only four or five miles away from the Roman camp. Camillus, with most of the top soldiers, veteran squadrons and light infantry, retreated to the north gate of the camp without any obstruction.

Frius had already received the news that the camp gate had already been opened and was preparing to pick up Camillus.

Camillus did not enter the camp immediately, but reminded Frius to guard the camp to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to attack the camp. He also asked the light infantry to quickly stand on the wooden wall, climb up the sentry tower, and attack any enemy who dared to approach the camp. At the same time, he led the more than 3,000 young soldiers and elderly soldiers to line up a 100-meter-long camp, and launched a rapid attack on the Wolseys who had chased after not long.

Because the Wolseys were only concerned about pursuing the defeated soldiers, their formation had long been scattered and lost their organization. They were soon defeated by Camillus's troops.

After defeating several Wolsians' pursuit troops in a row, Camillus defeated several groups of pursuing troops and ensuring the safety of the Roman defeated troops, he did not carry out counter-pursuing troops, but led the troops to retreat steadily, stood 50 meters away from the north gate of the camp, and guarded the passage of escape from the light infantry behind him.

By the time the Volseys had to gather all the pursuers and form a large army to approach the Roman camp, Camillus had already led his troops to retreat into the camp.

Looking at the Roman soldiers covered with wooden walls, the Wolseys finally gave up the idea of ​​taking advantage of the situation to attack the Roman camp.

It was not until this time that the arduous battle finally ended.

Although the battle was won, Amintas was not happy when he looked at the wounded soldiers all over the ground. A rough count of casualties had been revealed: the First Legion had more than 2,400 casualties, which was 1/4 of the entire Legion, especially the Third Battalion and the Light Infantry Brigade were more than half of the damage. Although some of the wounded soldiers were only injured in flesh and blood, and after bandage, treatment and rest, they could recover soon, but this had already caused the First Legion to be damaged.

Rydes next to him was also sighing: the First Cavalry Legion blocked the retreat of the Roman grain-raising troops at the beginning, and finally blocked the reinforcements of the Roman heavy infantry and cavalry, so it paid a great price. The final casualties were as high as more than 700 people, which was nearly half of the number of troops. Especially the loss of horses was very serious, and war horses might take some time to recover before they could go to the battlefield again.

"This battle is a big loss!" Ledes lamented on the side. His voice was so loud that Amintas could hear it. Although he tried his best to assist Amintas in the battle, this did not prevent him from venting his resentment after the war.

Amintas did not refute, but in fact he had no intention of refuting now. While asking the messenger to quickly inform the medical battalion to come to treat the wounded, he asked the soldiers of the physically fit guards to help the wounded bandage the wounds and conduct preliminary treatment (in daily military training, the soldiers have received this training).

At this time, the soldiers of the First Legion were so tired that they even had time to take off their helmets and breastplate, so they lay on the ground and slept soundly. They even had no reaction when they were stepped on by someone. They were mistaken for corpses by the guards many times. They were so tired.

Amintas walked among the soldiers, walking cautiously, fearing that he would wake them up, but his mood was heavy: he had been the commander of the First Legion for nine years, and he was very familiar with all the soldiers and team officials in the army. Now, seeing these soldiers and team officials who were often together and killed the enemy side by side under his command during war, how could he not feel distressed!

At the same time, he was also blaming himself: Although before leaving, King Davers reminded him several times to pay attention to the Roman army, he still underestimated the Romans, otherwise he would not have allowed the army soldiers to attack the enemy that was more than them after a long march. He treated the Romans as the Mesapi people, Puchetti people, and Donis who had fought with the Dionian Legion in the past. But the facts proved that King Davers's concerns were correct. The organizational form and tactics of this soldier, which were somewhat similar to Dionian army, indeed had combat effectiveness better than Dionian's previous enemies!... If the First Legion had more physical strength and more people, he would never be so passive! Rome...Roman...

Amintas thought as he walked, and Heitbarus stood up swayingly in front of him. His right arm was tied with bandages and there was a long blood mark on his forehead. He could only barely salute with his left hand: "Military...Legislative Commander..."

"Let's go down quickly, Heit Barus!" Amintas said hurriedly. Facing the captain of the third brigade, he showed a gentle and concerned smile.

"Legislative Commander, brothers of the Third Battalion..." Heitbarus looked sad, and before he finished speaking, his eyes were filled with tears.

Amintas's smile froze on his face, and he could only say in a deep voice: "Thanks to your Third Battalion and Eighth Battalion stubbornly blocking the enemy's attack, we won this victory! The medical camp will do its best to save your soldiers! You must also receive good treatment and recover as soon as possible. You are bound to be free from the First Legion!"

After saying that, Amintas hurriedly left.

At this time, the adjutant Aristonos came over and whispered: "Legislature, Stiflos was slightly injured, and it was not serious." The children of the old veterans of Dionia were more familiar with each other.

"He was injured too light!" Aristonos was stunned by the sigh of Amintas.

…………………………………

In the camp tent in Rome, Camillus briefly described the battle to Frius.

After hearing this, Frius couldn't help but gasp: "Camillus, do you mean...Dionia's army marched from Selshe to the south of our camp. Without stopping in the middle, it launched an attack on our grain collection force, and then... also resisted the continuous attack of more than 9,000 infantrymen, and finally waited for the arrival of Wolsey reinforcements?!..."

"Yes!" Camillus sighed and said with a serious expression: "The key is that our number is much higher than them. More than 9,000 heavy infantry, plus 2,000 light infantry and 700 cavalry, the troops I led were nearly 12,000, and the Dionians... After repeated rewards from the scouts, they had about 10,000 people, but the heavy infantry may only be six or seven thousand, but in this way, an army with less physical strength than us and fewer people than us, our Roman soldiers fought fiercely for more than two hours, but they were still unable to defeat the other side!"

In recent years, the Roman army has been invincible in the Latinum and Etruscan regions. Frius, who has become accustomed to victory, has difficulty accepting the fact that the Roman army is inferior to the Dionysian army. Of course, he knew Camillus and did not think that this respected veteran would distort the facts in order to clear his crime of defeating the war, so he couldn't help asking again: "The combat effectiveness of the Dionysian army is really so strong?!"
Chapter completed!