v6 Chapter 184： Crotone Battle (10)

Finally, the retreating army number came.

The soldiers on the right wing of the right side of Syracuse, who were struggling to resist the spear brigade and the Kate reinforcements, were stunned and turned away. The original thick array collapsed in the ruins, and the escaping soldiers were like the flood of the levee. Venting outward...

After seeing the soldiers fleeing around, Phibidas did not panic. He threw the spur gun in his hand at the first time, then slammed the shield to the other side, forced a little space, and immediately turned and fled. At the same time, throw the helmet away. Although there have been many battles that have failed before, Fibidas is still frustrated by the failure of the battle on the way to fast flight...

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"Your Majesty, the enemy has retreated! We won! We will win this game! Diaonia wins!!" Tolmid looked at the soldiers in the middle of the Syracuse Road, which was in the rage, and was very excited.

Deavers listened to the cheers of the guards around him, and finally showed his smile on his face: "Command the troops to spare no effort and pursue the enemy!"

"Yes!" Tolmid responded loudly.

"Your Majesty--" came behind him and Daves looked back and saw that Rodolm was excited. He immediately understood his thoughts and smiled: "The guards can also participate in the pursuit."

Immediately there was a cheer around him. Only a few guards, such as Martius, were unmoved and still guarded by Daves.

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"The leader of Axirita, Master Dionysius ordered that you must lead your men and I will go back together!" Attagras finally found the Axirita that had fled to the east bank of the Tacinadi River. .

The face of Ashridge was covered with unkempt hair. He shrugged and said: "My men have run away and it is difficult to get them together in a short time."

"Axi Lita." Astagras sneered: "You are a smart person. If this time we lost in Syracuse, what you have done in the land of Dionia, you Do you think that the Diaonians can spare you these aliens! Between the Great Greece and Numidia, there is a Mediterranean Sea. You can return to Numibia by riding a horse?!"

Axi Lita’s face changed greatly. He only managed to escape, but he did not think about it.

At this time, his men exclaimed: "The leader, the enemy is chasing again!"

At the moment, Axirita made a decision in his heart: "General Astagras, we will repel these cavalry first."

Astaklas was pleased to see the change in the attitude of Axirita, and immediately led more than 300 cavalry and the only two hundred riders around Axirita to return to meet the enemy.

At this moment, the footsteps of the "rumbling" came from the left front, and Astagrass and Axirita looked subconsciously to the north, and the growing buzz made them feel uneasy.

Soon, when countless Syracuse soldiers came to them like tides in the field of vision, everyone changed color.

"Quick withdrawal!" Axi Lita quickly turned the horse's head, hurriedly fled with the Numidian cavalry, and many Sicilian cavalry also followed.

Are we defeated? ! ... Astagras couldn't believe the fact that the Devianian cavalry, who was chased by the sorcerer, stabbed him under the horse...

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"Dyonia wins! We win! Crotone wins!!..." Lucias sent the spies all the way, rushing to the ruins of the north gate of Crotone, excited, incoherent Shouted loudly.

The Crotone people who watched the city had already cried. Although far from the battlefield, I can't see it, but all the soldiers are running south, will it be that Syracuse can't win! At this time, countless people shed tears of excitement: Crotone was finally saved! ! !

Lucias had been nervously standing in front of the city to pay attention to the battle. When she was just relaxed, she found that her legs could not stand. He sat down on the aisle, facing the rubble and the eyes. In the urban area of ​​Cangyi, the ecstasy of death and death suddenly turned into deep sorrow: although the Crotone inner people were saved, the Crotone inner city no longer exists...

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At the time of the decision to retreat, Dionysius also planned to let the garrison of the battalion prepare for the encounter, and blocked the chasing army behind, so that the fleeing Syracuse soldiers could enter the camp smoothly. It turns out that this is simply not possible.

Because the mobilization of the battalion of the battalion led to the discovery of the Dionysian forces of Asprostum, who closely watched the movement of the camp. At the same time, the news of the "Diaonia victory" brought by the mountain reconnaissance team made Agarcia excited. Although he was a chief executive, he was also a mercenary and experienced in combat. He took decisive action. He personally led the 3,000 garrisons to the nest and attacked the Syracuse camp on the south-street road of Asprostum.

The news of the failure of the Syracuse defenders in the battle of the battle was disturbed, and they were sent out by the divisions. In the face of the full-scale attack of the Asprostum army, there was still a struggle and a reluctance to resist for a while. It was easy for the excited Dionysian soldiers to break into the camp.

And Dionysius still wants to reorganize the army on the way to escape, but the chasing Devianian army has made his efforts in vain. The attendants are either not wrapped up or knocked down by the defeated soldiers. snatch.

Sixty-seven thousand people rushed into the Tacina Di River, and the entire river was almost cut off. The slippery mud and the follow-up of the Dionian soldiers allowed the frightened Syracuse soldiers to cross the river. Leave a piece of floating body.

The defenders of the camp were frightened by the tides of the rushing soldiers. Where are the ideas of the response, they took the lead and fled.

The raging tide of the squadron crowded the narrow camp gate, and some of the squadrons simply pushed down the wooden sill and poured into the camp. However, the chase also entered the big camp.

At the same time, in the north of the camp, the death of the soldiers of the Dionysian was also heard. It was the Asprustum army that rushed into the camp to pursue the retreating defenders.

The Syracuse squadrons were afraid of being cut off, and they dared to stay in the camp, so they continued to flee south...

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"General Hilos, the Syracuse people were defeated by us! They are fleeing to the West Chamber! They have too many people!..." The detective rides galloping, excited and nervous.

At this time, Hilos had led the team to cross the Tacina Di River, entered the West Riding territory, marching northeast, ready to reach the camp in Syracuse.

Upon receiving the return of the detective, Hilos was immediately happy to realize that this was a good opportunity to defeat the enemy. He immediately asked: "How far is the Syracuse from us?"

"When I came back, they had already ran into the 'corridor'."

Hilos served as the chief executive of Asprostum. During his tenure, he has been surveying the terrain of this area many times, and he is familiar with it. Of course he knows that the “corridor” referred to by the detective is actually referring to the southern Croton Plain and the West Territory on the west bank of the Ticina Di River. Between the coastline of this narrow strip, it is surrounded by rolling hills to the north and the ocean to the south. This seaside corridor is about 36 miles long and the width is the narrowest ten miles. The army is at least 15 miles away from entering the corridor. It seems that before the Syracuse crashed out of the corridor, it rushed there and intercepted it. They are not difficult. But know that your army is walking on the undulating hills, and the Syracuse people are running on the flat sea, not to mention that they are defeated, and their speed is quite fast.

With a little contemplation, Hilos immediately ordered: "All the troops are rushing to the army and they are running for me!"

This run made the soldiers complain, knowing that at least half of the Dionysian Trina coalitions were heavy infantry. Fortunately, after years of training, these soldiers from Bruti have developed the habit of obeying discipline and strictly executing orders, while the Trina people are supporting the flames of revenge. More importantly, the news of "Diaonia's victory in the battle" gave them great encouragement.

When they arrived at the corridor, the length between the team leader and the team tail was four or five miles away. Many soldiers squatted directly on the ground, gasping for breath, and they were sweating and they were drinking water. In the next half hour, the equally exhausted Hilos was trying his best to reorganize the team, and he tried his best to let the rushing soldiers rest and recover as soon as possible.

Most of the soldiers have arrived, but there are also soldiers who have left the team, and they are coming in twos and threes.

At this time, the detective return: Syracuse's squadron is only two miles away from the army.

The sensible Hilos did not let the soldiers with limited physical strength block the soldiers. He knew that the tens of thousands of soldiers who wanted to escape to the West Chamber would not be blocked by thousands of them, and they might be tired. The inexperienced soldier was caught in the torrent of escape. So he immediately let the troops back against the mountains and diagonally to the coast, leaving the broken soldiers with enough gaps for them to pass. Even if their offense is fierce, the Syracuse people will not be too rebellious to escape.

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The pursuit of Dionynia continued until dusk, only to blow the military number of the troops.

After the post-war statistics, in this battle to determine the fate of the Great Greece, Syracuse died and injured nearly 20,000 people, most of whom were injured or killed on the way to escape, more than 10,000 people were captured, this more It was the credit of Hilos. He first let the soldiers continue to kill the squad who fled on the edge of the "Coastal Corridor". Later, they decisively ordered the attack, and immediately intercepted the tail of the squadron. Finally, the Syracuse soldiers had 3 More than 10,000 people fled to the West Chamber.

On the other hand, there were nearly 7,000 casualties on the Dionya side. In particular, the Ketter’s reinforcements were the most serious casualties, almost half of them were lost. Secondly, the spear brigade and the cavalry regiment, as the key to the entire battle to reverse the battle, they also paid the price of more than 2,000 people.

The result of the battle: Diaonia played 5,500 people against Syracuse's 65,500 soldiers and won a total victory.