For a moment, the camp was in chaos, and Geninath and the others could not gather enough soldiers to fight back the riot caused by the Vigs to avenge the revenge...

"Captain, look!" outside the Lucanian camp, the mercenary cavalry, who were observing the movement, shouted excitedly.

Ledes was originally very upset because he did not stop all the soldiers who reported Lucania. Unexpectedly, the enemy's camp caught fire. Then he saw the people inside fighting each other. He couldn't believe his eyes.

"Captain, it's an internal strife! The enemy is in internal strife!!" The cavalry next to him continued to shout excitedly.

Ryders suppressed his inner excitement, observed for a while, and after confirming it, he said: "Hurry! Go back and tell the leader Davers that there is serious internal strife in the enemy camp and he is not able to send reinforcements for the time being!"

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Davers didn't know that there was an internal strife in Lucania camp, and he was now worried about the stalemate situation in front of him.

Although the Lucanian soldiers were not equipped and lacked physical strength, and their feet slipped (the river beach became muddy due to frequent trampling), they were still like tides in the sea, rushing wave after wave of the Greek army's defense line, and their blood was also aroused by the screams of their compatriots: even if they were stabbed by a pierced gun, they would hold the pierced gun to death; if they were knocked down by a round shield, they would desperately hook the feet of the Greek soldiers before sliding down the slope...

The defense line to the north of the Greek army was shaking.

"Report, Chief Dracos has fallen!"

"What?!" Davers was shocked. Behind the heavy infantry front, he had already felt the commotion of the mercenaries in front, and this commotion was spreading.

"Let Achita pull out three hundred people to support the north!" Davers said anxiously.

"Chief, you have given this order before. Tarantum has no soldiers to send, and they are in trouble!" Yassitus reminded.

"Is that?" Davers rubbed his face with his hands. The first time he independently commanded such a big battle was related to his future destiny and the soldiers. He was a little nervous. He took a deep breath, tried his best to calm himself down, and then decisively ordered: "Order the slave team and the light shield soldiers to join the battle!"

Then he looked back at Martius: "It's time for us to play!"

"Huh!" Martius excitedly slapped the round shield with a saber, and the guards also put down their guns, pulled out their sabers, and shouted loudly. They had rich experiences and knew that in such an extremely crowded battlefield, long weapons were no longer useful.

Davers rushed forward first, and Martius's guard followed and quickly protected him. Yasserz held high the military flag behind Davers.

The high-flying military flag made the mercenaries who had begun to scatter and hesitated, and also made the Lucanians who were rushing around to find their target. They gradually rushed towards Davers and the others, eased the pressure on other defense lines, but the impact Davers faced suddenly increased...

At this time, the sound of the bronze horn continued to sound.

Although the light shield soldiers had their hands and feet numb because of frequent javelin throwing, they did not hesitate to raise their leather shield and long-handled reverse blades under the leadership of Epitianis and Spitt, and rushed up to block the gap in the mercenary defense line.

The slave soldiers were impatient, because Davers promised them that as long as the battle was won, they would be free. So as soon as the order arrived, they shouted: "For freedom!!!"

With their abundant physical strength and high fighting spirit, they had no fighting skills to rush some of the enemies who broke through the defense to the bottom of the slope, and some mercenaries were squeezed down by them...

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The team led by Melsis also shouted "for freedom". Under the leadership of the mercenary veterans, the thousand slaves not only quickly arrived at Phelisius, but also bypassed the front of the two teams that were fighting together, like a hammer hitting the enemy's side and rear with all their strength.

Akpiru and the other two big leaders, who were worried about the battle in the rear, were in the brunt of five. The few guards around him could not stop the fierce attack of the excited slaves.

"Why?! Why haven't Cincinnag arrived yet?!" Akpiru shouted angrily.

"Grand leader, retreat quickly. If you are late, you won't be able to leave!" his subordinate persuaded anxiously.

Retreat? Throw nearly 10,000 soldiers here?! How could Akbiru be willing to bear it? He still wanted to persevere, but heard a cry from a distance: "Big leader! Big leader!..."

It turned out that Udle, the leader of Niutum, was hit by several spears and fell to the ground with serious injuries.

Akpiru finally stopped hesitating. Under the desperate escort of his subordinates, Akpiru and Tula, the leader of Laos, fled west with dozens of people in panic, and the remaining 500 Lucanian soldiers were all wrapped in dumplings.

At this time, Ledes' cavalry rushed back to the combat site and shouted loudly: "There is an internal strife in the enemy camp, and reinforcements will not arrive for the time being!"

This good news even increased the morale of the mercenaries, and the Lucanians who could understand Greek were shocked (as neighbors of Greek city-states, the Lucanians had hostile trade, and there were many Greek people). In addition, the leader escaped at the last minute, and his morale plummeted...

Mercenary soldiers and slave soldiers attacked each other, and five hundred Lucanian soldiers were either killed or fled. Then the team joined forces did not rest. Philicius ordered the slave soldiers led by Melsius to join the mercenaries and the mercenaries to quickly reinforce the western defense line.

At this time, the situation in the western defense line was worse than the northern defense line. Cappus led a limited force and was very short of his strength. The thin defense line was broken through by the surging crowds.

Cappus, Antonios, Alexis and the soldiers held shield guns and fought (according to the military law formulated by Davers: without special circumstances, the company captain shall not fight with the enemy in person to prevent command from losing control).

At this time of crisis, Philicius led the team to arrive, and the joining of nearly two thousand people finally stabilized the defense line...

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The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the impact of the Lucanian tribal coalition on the defense line began to weaken...

The entire river beach was covered with soldiers injured by being stabbed, robbed, arrows, flying stones, and even the trampled soldiers of their own tribe. The sounds were endless, and the sounds were getting louder and louder, but fewer tribal warriors were still fighting...

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, more and more soldiers turned to the Tino River and fled to the hot spring swamp. As a result, they were either washed away by the river or their feet were trapped in the silt of the swamp and could not move...

At this time, Davers was right and resolutely issued an order to attack.

The sound of the bronze horn sounded loudly. The already exhausted Greek soldiers, led by generals such as Davers, Achita, and Philicius, launched the final attack on the enemy who had almost lost their resistance from the slope like tigers pounced on food. The soldiers of Lucania could not resist and retreated one after another... In the end, except for a few soldiers surrendered, the rest were not killed, even if they were forced into the Tino River and the hot spring swamp, and died under the long-range attack of bows and arrows and javelins...

The first large-scale battle that Davers independently commanded in his long military career: the Battle of the Great River Beach (also known as the Battle of Hot Springs and Swamps in the later generations), with about 7,500 mixed forces (including slaves) against more than 9,000 people from the Lucanian tribe coalition. The final result was that more than 1,000 Greek casualties (half of them were slaves). In addition to more than 400 surrenders, the Lucanian tribe coalition was wiped out, and Davers won a complete victory.

The entire river beach was filled with corpses and blood flowed into a river...

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The efforts of Cincinnager, Geninath and others were futile, and Picossis's defeat was irreversible. They eventually fled out of the camp with more than 200 people, watching the fire burning the camp that stretched for miles to ashes...
Chapter completed!