Trina's herald galloped on horseback, but the section of the Ramato River that crossed him was too deep to wade, and he had to make a great circle to the north.

Crossing the Ramato River, when he arrived at the battlefield where the sound of murder was earth-shattering, the skin on the inside of his legs had been worn out, and the horse's belly was stained blood-red, and the whole man was shaky on his horse, and when he saw Dionia's scouts coming up, he neighed and shouted, "I am ...... I am the messenger of Trina! The Syracuse flotilla carried tens of thousands of soldiers from the Ramato River to reinforce the ...... Fast! Report to your commanders! ……”

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Phellisius was in a good mood right now, and although he was worried about the crushing defeat of the coalition cavalry before, the Syracuse mercenaries were busy chasing down the routs rather than assisting their infantry in recovering their right flank. Therefore, while feeling lucky, he also laughed in his heart: although the cavalry of the Syracuse people was strong, they lacked the discipline and overall vision of the battlefield.

Now the left flank of Dionya is advancing, the middle is advancing, and even the right flank is advancing......

Phellisius had ordered the flagbearer to move forward the erected flag, and now it seemed that it was going to move forward one more time.

Soon! Soon! …… Phellisius wondered in his mind how long the people of Syracuse would be able to resist. At this moment, he had already decided that victory was like a ripe apple, which was already within reach.

But at this moment, the scout rode from the west: "Report to the commander!" Syracuse reinforcements are landing on the banks of the Ramato River, probably tens of thousands! "After being informed by the herald of Trina, they rushed to the riverbank to confirm it, and what they saw shocked them.

"What do you say?! Tens of thousands of enemy reinforcements!! "Phellisius, who was on the rise, was like being poured cold water, from his skin to his heart.

"Yes, Lord Commander, tens of thousands of Syracuse reinforcements! They are landing on the bank of the river a mile behind our right flank! The scout shouted anxiously, "We must stop them!" ”

This astonishing news caught Pherisius off guard, and his slightly panicked gaze swept over the people around him, who were also watching nervously, he was the commander of the coalition forces, and everyone was waiting for his instructions.

Aware of this, Pherisius coughed dryly twice and eased his panicked mind: "Order! Two light armored brigades and two light infantry brigades immediately rushed to the bank of the river where the enemy had landed, blocking them at all costs and preventing them from attacking our rear! ”

"Yes!"

"Blow the trumpet again, urging the Fourth and Fifth Army Corps to step up their attack! Immediately rush to inform the two legion commanders and the three generals of Cypros, Acercias, and Ascamas of our dangerous situation, so that they can attack the enemy with all their might! ”

The people immediately followed the command.

When everything was arranged, Phellisius did not have time to think until this moment: where did the enemy come from with reinforcements of tens of thousands of people? Could it be Medma's troops? But the people of Trina said that Madema was only a small city, how could it be possible to send tens of thousands of citizen soldiers? ……

At this time, Felicius did not think about the Syracuse troops besieging the city of Coronia, because the coalition scouts had been rewarding: more than 40,000 Sylo troops had been preparing for the siege.

Of course, he could not have known that at this time, in order to help the southern Italian coalition army, Fitun, the general of the Lijim army, even risked leading his army to attack Medema, hoping to force the Syracuse army to return to help, thus disrupting the plans of the Syracuse people.

But from this moment on, the uneasiness in Phellisius's heart began to grow......

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From the middle of the formation to the coast where Syracuse had landed, it was six miles, and although the speed of the Dionian light armor and light infantry was fast, it also took some time. By the time they reached the riverbank, most of the Campanian mercenaries had already landed and were forming their formation.

Although there were many enemies, the black oppression occupied the entire river beach. Guided by the flags held high by the officers, the Dionian soldiers bravely rushed forward according to the inertia of their usual training.

2,000 light infantry poured arrows and javelins on the enemy, and 2,000 light armoured men, armed with leather shields and short swords, walked swiftly into the loosely formed mercenaries.

The surprise attack of the Dionian army was beyond the expectations of Reptines, who, according to the habits of the Greek city-states in the past, thought that by this time the battle would be carried out, both sides should have invested all their forces in order to win, but he did not expect that the southern Italian army could actually draw a force to block the reinforcements of Syracuse.

Of course, he did not know that it was not that Phellisius had known Dionysius's plan in advance, but that the Dionian Military Law stipulated that "as a commander, you should keep a reserve in battle, so that you can enter the battlefield at a critical moment in the course of the battle, so as to change the tide of battle." This was exactly what Phellisius did, with 2,000 light armoured men in reserve, and 2,000 light infantry who had completed their initial assault and retreated to the rear of the array as part of the reserve.

The sudden onslaught of these 4,000 Ionian soldiers threw the newly landed Campanian mercenaries into confusion for a while.

At the critical moment, Reptines hurriedly commanded the remaining ships to quickly dock. As the commander of the navy of Syracuse, his original task was only to transport reinforcements to land, and it was the task of the mercenary leader Enamernas to lead the reinforcements to attack the enemy, but now Enamenas was in the chaos of the soldiers, and it was unknown whether he would live or die, and Leptinies had to take on the task of rescuing.

He jumped out of the boat and commanded the remaining mercenaries to land immediately.

The mercenaries had already seen what happened to their companions on the ship, and they were so anxious that some jumped onto the beach before the ship could dock.

Reptines hastily assembled his team, and then led them around the front line of mercenaries, which had been forced to retreat again and again, and attacked the flank of the Dionian light armor in the face of a rain of arrows from the Dionian light infantry.

The fierce offensive of the light armoured soldiers was forced to stop. In fact, the long march and the rapid attack that preceded it had drained them a lot of physical strength.

The chaotic mercenary front team finally relented and began to take advantage of their large numbers and heavy armor, and the casualties of the Dionian light armoured soldiers rose sharply. If the light armor of the 1st and 2nd Dionian Legions were here, they should have been able to hold out for a longer time, but the vast majority of the light armor of the 4th and 5th Legions came from Bruti and Lucania, and the combat education they received from the mountain people was to know how to avoid the enemy when they were weak and not to face the battle head-on......

The Dionian light armoured retreated, and the light infantry, without a barrier, of course, followed suit......

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At this time, the battle had lasted for nearly an hour, and the soldiers had weakened both fighting and shouting due to the exertion of physical strength, but suddenly the trumpets of both sides sounded almost at the same time, and the drums were loud, urging the attack.

Soldiers on both sides had to fight to the last of their strength, speeding up the offensive and defense.

For Dionysius, he had only one thought at the moment: to withstand the enemy's attack before reinforcements arrived!

For Phellisius, he also had only one belief: to break through the enemy line and win the battle before the enemy reinforcements arrived!

Both sides have reached a decisive moment to decide the outcome of the game.

Ephiarte, who had several stab wounds on his arms and thighs, was so tired that he couldn't even lift his long shield, and his hand holding the short sword trembled slightly from the excessive force he had exerted for a long time, and his panting voice sounded like a seriously ill and dying patient. The enemy on the opposite side was even more unbearable than him, because the armor was too heavy, he had thrown away the round shield, and the spear was in both hands, and the whole person was shaking.

Ephiarte did not despise them in his heart, and the Dionian Legion had not used the unique characteristics of its formation (i.e., the back and front formations were swapped) in previous battles, and he believed that it was because the oppression given by the other side was too strong and too tight, so that the Legion Commander did not dare to easily switch arrays.

In fact, another main reason for not implementing this change of formation is that the fourth and fifth army corps are participating in the battle for the first time, facing a strong enemy, but the left and right sides are all alliance troops, and it is also the first time to fight together, Pherisius is afraid of rashly changing the formation, the soldiers make mistakes under strong pressure, coupled with the alliance army's ignorance and non-cooperation, after all, the rear formation to the front requires the entire formation to gradually retreat, which may lead to chaos in the whole army.

The high-pitched trumpets not only urged the soldiers on both sides, but also other troops, such as the Syracuse mercenaries who were returning from the pursuit of the coalition cavalry, and of course, the two Syracuse reinforcements who rushed to the battlefield.

If it was according to the habit of Crotone's general Ascamas, he would have lined up in front of the array and fought the enemy face to face, but before the battle, Phellisius asked the generals of the federal army to sit in the rear and not to participate in the battle, so as to facilitate communication, at that time Ascamas also laughed at the Dionians for being greedy for life and afraid of death, and now he should be grateful to Felicius for this request, because he heard a different sound from the military trumpet from the opposite side.

The sound of bugles came from the outside of Crotone's army, high-pitched and piercing, and it was getting closer...... Then, in his field of vision, countless soldiers in bright armor appeared......

Reinforcements from Syracuse?! Panicking, Askamas fell off his horse and watched as they roared like a tidal wave towards the rear of the Crotone soldiers.

In that terrible moment, there was only one thought in Askamas's mind: Didn't Phellisius say that the enemy's reinforcements were on the right flank?! ……