Although the Lockley fleet had fewer ships, it still attacked without hesitation, and the ships of both sides quickly sailed towards each other and staggered past each other, but the ships of the Lockley did not stop fighting, but continued to accelerate forward, to the surprise of the Crotone, so that they easily disengaged from contact with the Crotone fleet at a slight cost of one or two ships.

Could it be that the Lokley people want to escape?! Ascamas was surprised to see the Lockley fleet behave like this.

However, the actions of the Lockley fleet once again surprised him, and after pulling some distance from the Crotone fleet, the Lockley fleet once again turned its bow and assumed a posture of attacking.

Ascamas didn't think about it for a moment: what did the Rockrie people do this for?

His fleet followed suit.

The two fleets approached again quickly, only this time the Lockley fleet did not flee again.

The warships of both sides were intertwined, circling and ramming each other.

Battles at sea are different from those on land, where battles are extremely particular about array formations, once the formation is broken, it often means defeat, and once the battle at sea begins, the formation is scattered, and it is often a separate duel between warships and warships, and it is necessary to win by virtue of the advantages and disadvantages of the warships and the skilled skills of the captains and sailors.

Crotone and Lockley have had decades of grievances and know each other very well. The strength of the fleet, the composition of the crew, and even the characteristics of the generals, Ascalmas was very clear, and he firmly believed that with the advantage of his fleet of six more three-layer ships, a total of ten ships in the Lockley fleet, it was only a matter of time before he won the naval battle.

During the battle, Askamas's ship retreated with great skill, narrowly avoiding the impact of the enemy ship on the middle of the ship, and after saving the danger, the enemy ship was placed horizontally in front of the bow of the other ship, the bronze ramming angle. This was a great opportunity, and how could he let it go, and immediately let the sailors quickly thrash backwards, and the ship quickly turned from backward to forward.

But the enemy ship also spun around quickly, turning its bow to Asmakas's seat.

Although the enemy ship reacted quickly, the experienced Ascamas did not give up, and the ships were rapidly approaching the enemy ships, and were about to get close to each other and stagger past, Ascalmas shouted: "Collect the pulp!" ”

The boatswain, who was listening to the order in the bottom compartment, immediately conveyed to the sailors that they were well-trained and immediately withdrew the pulp, and the enemy ship had just fallen off the bow and had no time to collect the pulp, and the three-story paddle ship, which was more than 20 meters long, broke most of the wooden oars of the enemy ship close to its side by the huge inertia of the forward thrust, so that the enemy ship fell into the predicament of being unable to move forward due to lack of pulp.

Just as the sailors cheered and Ascamas was about to turn the bow of the ship and sink it completely, a fleet of more than 20 three-story ships suddenly appeared in the rear of the Crotone fleet and immediately launched an attack on the Crotone warship.

Crotone's fleet was in a dangerous position to be caught between the north and the south.

In the end, the Crotone fleet suffered a crushing defeat, with 15 ships sunk, 8 captured, and 10 severely damaged, and Askamas led a small number of ships to break out of the enemy's encirclement.

On his way to Crotone, Asclamas was in frustration and wondered where did the extra ships come from?

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The victory in the naval battle inspired the Lokrie army besieging Coronia. Early the next morning, when Crotone's reinforcements arrived near the city of Coronia, Lockley's army immediately launched a battle, despite the fatigue of attacking the city during this period.

The Crotone army did not shy away from the challenge.

As a result, a fierce battle broke out on the outskirts of the northern part of the city of Coronya.

In terms of troops, Locli was a little more, but because he had to divide part of his forces to besiege Coronnia, there was little difference in numbers between the two sides. However, Lockley's army was dominated by heavy infantry and light armor, while Crotone had a clear advantage in light infantry consisting of a hand-picked group of 5,000 free men.

General Lockrie, fearing the impact of the heavy infantry in Crotone, thickened the column. The Crotonens, because of the constraints of the conditions, had learned a lot from the bitter lessons of the battle with the Dionian army, and immediately after the formation was completed, they sent light infantry to attack, but the light infantry of Lockley was quickly defeated because of their small numbers.

The Crotone light infantry then began to throw javelins at Lokrie's formation, causing considerable casualties.

Under these circumstances, the Rocky immediately sounded the horn of attack.

In the face of a sea of heavy infantry charges, the Crotone light infantry did not have the strict organization and discipline of the Dionian light infantry, nor did they have the experienced veterans to stabilize the morale of the army, nor did they have the exquisite and flexible command of excellent light infantry generals such as Epitenis, Tspit, and Alponse, and there was no stimulation of material rewards such as citizenship and land, and there was no extra space for them to retreat in the dense heavy infantry formation of Crotone, so they could only flee the battlefield from both sides in panic. As a result, many light infantry did not have time to escape, and died under the charge of the heavy infantry in Lockley. Finally escaping, the light infantry tried to regroup, thanks to the efforts of the generals, but was immediately attacked by the Lockley cavalry and dispersed again.

However, the light infantry also drained and distracted the Lockley infantry, and now only infantry-to-infantry combat remained on the battlefield. One party had just escaped from Dionya and had not yet fully recovered; One side attacked Coronia in succession and did not get enough rest. One side has few soldiers, but has the belief to wash away the shame and defend the territory; One side has many soldiers, but it has suffered from light infantry blows before, and its morale is slightly low.

The two sides fought for nearly two hours, and Lockry finally gave up and retreated from the battlefield.

In this battle, the number of casualties in Crotone and Lockley was similar, about 2,000 people, but more of the casualties in Crotone were free people.

Although Lokri was defeated, the casualties were not severe, and it withdrew from the siege of Coronnia.

Crotone's reinforcements were able to enter the city of Coronia and were warmly welcomed by the city's populace, but the situation was not favorable to Crotone.

Lockley's army retreated to camp south of the city of Coronnia, still eyeing the city.

Lockley's fleet cruised the seas, blocking Crotone's sea routes, and Androny's pain before was also felt by Crotone.

Two days later, more than 1,000 Crotone soldiers landed on the coast between Crotone and Siriting, burned and looted all the way, and invaded the territory of Crotone northward.

After the shock of the disastrous defeat in the naval battle, the people of Crotone were terrified again when they heard the news of the invasion of the Lokleys. The council accused Lucias of having gone his own way, leaving the city with no troops to repel the enemy's invasion.

Lycias did not refute the council's criticism of him, and he was equally shocked by the fleet's defeat, at which point he could only propose that the council mobilize the whole city, and send emissaries to Dionya and Asprarustum for help.

In this case, Crotone actually has no other way to think of, but the war with Dionya has just ended, and the scolding of Dionya in the entire city of Crotone has not disappeared, but at this moment they have to beg for help, whether it is the parliamentarians or the people, they are a little embarrassed.

Asphorustum was not far from Crotone, and Sisplutis hurried to the south gate of Asphorustum City in less than two hours.

Although Dionia had made peace with Crotone, Asphorustum's defenses had not been relaxed, but had become more fortified. There were sentries patrolling back and forth in the city, and there were guards stationed in front of the city gates, and although there were only a few pedestrians entering and leaving the city gates, they still carried out their tasks seriously, which allowed Sisprotis to patiently accept the guards' examination.

When the captain of the city guard appeared to him again, he brought an order from the prefect, Shiros: he was allowed to enter.

As soon as he entered the city, he was struck by what he saw: the main street, which was not very wide, was dusty, some people were digging ditches with pickaxes on both sides of the street, some were beating stones piled up beside the road with hammers and awls, and laying the cut stones on the dirt road, and others were tearing down some of the buildings that obstructed the road and rebuilding them with brick walls......

Soil, stones, and garbage...... Countless sturdy men were busy all the time, turning this place into a big construction site, and everyone was in full swing, and almost no one stopped what they were doing to look at him more.

"What is this doing?" Sisprotis asked curiously.

The captain of the city guard replied, "Because we will be moving here in the future, we are building our own home. The roads in this city are too narrow and uneven, and garbage and sewage are everywhere......"

The captain said a lot about the ills of the city, and Sisprotis thought it was very funny, he often came to the city of Asporustum, and felt that it was no different from the city of Tarantum, how could the Dioonians say those questions, and immediately asked: "You are not Greeks, are you?" ”

"We are Lucalians, but we are Dionian citizens!" The captain of the city guard said loudly.

"You speak good Greek." Sisprotis praised it, and then changed his words: "I heard that your Lucania area is all mountainous, the land is barren, and you often don't have enough to eat, but I didn't expect to care so much about the living environment. ”

"Since our tribe joined Dionia, we have stopped starving for a long time!" As if humiliated, the captain cried out with a red face, "It is true that the place where we used to live is not as good as the houses here, but this place is far from the Turii I have seen!" ”