v9 Chapter 139： Spartan Landing Battle (1)

Xenophon walked over and saw his Spartan soldiers greeting him: "Xenophon, you are here again!"

"Relax, old man. With us guarding here, the Dionysians can't get on the shore. Your elderly people over 60 can rest at home at ease."

"I said that the reason why Xenophon came here every day is not to fear that we can't keep the coast, but to fear that we have captured a lot of Dionysian captives, but it is not for you."

"Hahaha..."

Xenophon was not annoyed when he heard the soldiers joking, and said with a smile: "Do I still need you to give me a captive, I will do it myself."

"No, you don't have a chance." A Spartan warrior quipped: "The Elders Council has stipulated that elderly people over 60 can only stay at home. As a final preparation, I think you still go back to the city to listen Our good news!"

The soldiers laughed again.

Xenophon liked this atmosphere. He felt the confidence of the soldiers in defeating the powerful enemy, so he patted his chest and said aloud: "Although I am over 60 years old, it is not worse than your young people! If you don't believe it, come out with me Compare!" He said, lifting his clothes and posing in a wrestling stance.

The soldiers booed, you pushed me, I pushed you, but no one was willing to stand up and compete with him, and all felt ashamed of the old man.

At this moment, a high-pitched horn suddenly sounded in the camp.

"There are enemies!!" The soldiers reminded each other loudly, and each quickly ran back to their tent. Soon they wore armor, picked up the shield spear, and formed a team of 10 in front of the tent. Under the leadership of the team officer, he ran out of the camp and ran to the beach.

But in a quarter of an hour, Xenophon's surroundings became empty, and he couldn't help but sigh: It would be nice if the Spartan army defending the coast were such soldiers!

Unfortunately, there are only over 300 well-trained, young and powerful Spartan fighters here. Although there are more than 500 Spartan veterans aged 50-60 years old who are not weak, they are assigned to the camp. The Pirisians inside and the Black Rogers served as team officers.

So when Xenophon continued to move forward, he saw the old soldiers yelling, while the Piriasi soldiers and the black robbers were in disorganized armor and chaosed around.

He frowned, accelerated his pace, walked through the camp, stood at a higher place, and looked forward: under the sun, it was still sparkling on the high tide, except for the flying seabirds, it looked very calm, There seems to be nothing unusual.

But Xenophon did not take it lightly. The Spartans built several 5-meter-high sentries on the seashore, and the sentry on the top of the building would naturally discover the enemy's situation earlier than him.

Sure enough, after a while, some black dots appeared in the farthest field of vision, and soon after the black dots became sails, then turned into warships, and then quickly covered Going straight ahead to the sea ahead, heading straight towards the bay where you are...

In the process, a team of Spartan soldiers ran to the beach one after another, and under the command of the team officers, they were arranged in an arc-shaped array along the flat coast.

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These Dionysian warships traveled less than one mile from the coast and stopped advancing, lined up, then lowered their sails, dropped anchors, and tried to stay where they were...

This scene is not much different from yesterday, is it a feint of the Dionysian fleet? ... Xenophon was thinking suspiciously, and then saw a lot of sailless boats sailing between these tall Dionysian three-layer paddle warships, carrying many soldiers on board, taking advantage of the high tide At that time, by the tide, with the shallow draft of the boat, it was able to cross the underwater resistance pile and continue to drive towards the coast...

The Dionysians are really going to land this time! Xenophon was surprised.

The Spartan commander by the sea obviously noticed the enemy's intentions, and the bugle sounded again.

Hundreds of Piriasi crews flocked to more than a dozen small and medium warships moored on the beach and pushed them into the sea.

Sparta suffered a terrible defeat in the naval battle with Athens last year, and more than 20 other warships were moored in the Gulf of Laconia. After the arrival of the Dionysian fleet, in order to prevent it from being destroyed by all, it had to be destroyed Push ashore.

In order to prevent the landing of the Dionysian warships and the large number of ship blocking piles, the Spartans specially left a gap in the sea of ​​more than 100 meters near the shore to ensure that their own warships can also participate in the defense. In the last landing operation to block Dionia, the Spartan warships did play a large role, this time it was a repeat of old tricks.

These Spartan warships were pushed away from the coast, and under the hard work of the sailors, they were ready to meet the Dionyan boats sailing towards the coast.

However, the Dionyan boat running in the front stopped about 200 meters away from the coast, and the infantry of the fleet carrying leather shields and helmets and daggers jumped off the ship. The depth of the sea here is more than two meters, but the soldiers do not need to physically step on the water all the time. Instead, the dense ship-blocking wooden piles become their help. They only need to gently support and stay in place.

The Piriasi crew members were surprised to find that the Dionysian soldiers stayed in place after jumping into the sea, and the boats began to return. If they want to attack the Dionysian soldiers floating on the sea, they have to pass through dense ship-blocking wooden posts, which is undoubtedly more difficult.

As they hesitated, they suddenly saw dozens of small black spots flying from the Dionysian warship in the distance.

"It's the Dionysian ballista! Hurry!" the crew exclaimed.

"Don't worry too much, they are too far away, they can't hit us at all." A crew member reassured that the last time the Dionysians landed, they used ballistas but hardly caused Spartan warships. Any loss, so most of the crew are not too worried.

Unexpectedly, dozens of stone bombs roared, concentrated on the top two Spartan warships, and hit a water column. At the same time, eight or nine stone bombs accurately hit the hull.

In the shock of "Boom! Boom!", some stone bombs hit the mast, some hit the deck, sawdust flew across, the crew's screams and screams were intertwined.

Just as the two ships were in a panic, dozens of stone bombs screamed and flew more precisely around the two almost stationary warships. They soon saw a broken mast and hull Start to overthrow.

Sekerian learned the last experience and after brainstorming by the squadron chiefs, he specially selected the calmer today as the offense day, and the 40 ballistas borrowed from the land army are no longer scattered On the 40 warships, the five crow battleships closest to the center of the coast were traversed, close to each other, and connected to each other with a crow suspension bridge to form one body. 40 ballistas were concentrated on the decks of these ships On top, unified command, use the smallest type of stone projectile (which can increase the range), and focus on attacking a target instead of fighting each other like last time, which greatly improves the hit rate.

The first two rounds of the launch hit the enemy ship, which increased the confidence of the soldiers of the Dionysian artillery team. Under the command of the team officer, they then concentrated on the scattered Spartan warships one by one. .

The commander defending Spartan territory was Yoda Midas, brother of Phibidas, an outstanding military general. At the moment he was standing on the shore, paying close attention to the enemy's situation on the sea, he did not expect Dioni Asian soldiers will go to the sea so far away from the coast, and stay in the sea area where the ship is blocking the piling, and meet with the soldiers on the boat that is constantly coming behind, whether it is a war ship or an archer on the shore post. They attack.

He didn't even think that the stone bombs fired by the ballistas on the Dionysian warship would be so accurate today. The Spartan warship was less than half an hour away from the beach, and already seven or eight warships were not sunk. , Is destroyed so that it cannot be used.

He had to order that the few remaining warships ran aground on the beach.

Unexpectedly, he saw Dionysia's ballista fired stone bombs again. The target was no longer a warship, but a screaming towards the Spartan soldiers on the shore.

He shouted anxiously: "Flash fast! Flash fast!..."

After all, after the last defense landing, the soldiers behaved calmly. They looked at the direction of the stone bombing and quickly dispersed to avoid.

The loud stone bombs fell one after another, and the sand was scattered, but no casualties were caused.

But when Diona's ballista turned to attack other troops on the coast, UU reading immediately rioted, causing casualties.

Under such circumstances, Yoda Midas had to order: "All the troops withdrew beyond the range of the ballista!"

As a result, there is a distance of about one hundred meters between the front of the Spartan army and the beach.

Yoda Midas made up his mind: Once he found that the enemy was about to go ashore, he led the army to push up quickly, and started fighting with the enemies with irregular formations. The two sides were close to each other, and the ballista could not function.

Just when he felt some headaches for the new landing tactics of the Dionysian army, he received two bad news in succession: the Lagonda Pass stronghold was hit by thousands of Dionysian soldiers from the west Violent attack. At the same time, a number of Dionysian soldiers appeared on the seaside trail on the western headland of the Gulf of Laconia, trying to capture the fortress south of Port Ision.

As Agsilaus led the main force north, and Mesenia has been relatively calm, so there are not more than 100 soldiers left in these two important defensive positions, and most of the soldiers are Piriasi.

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