Chapter 82: Dionya vs. Carthage (6)

Because when the camp was built, Leotizides asked the Allied army to build the camp according to the style of the Dionian barracks, so this added a lot of difficulties to the Carthaginian army's attack, especially the Numibian army, when they attacked the city of Minoa before, they suffered a lot of losses, many dead and wounded, morale was not high, and the action was very cautious, so despite the large number of people, the pressure on the southern army camp was not great.

But for the northern barracks, the situation is not rosy. Its hills are small and low, so its military camp is also small, making it easier to attack. The 12,000 Carthaginian soldiers responsible for the attack on the northern camp were mainly Carthaginian civilians, with a small number coming from citizens of the Phoenician allies adjacent to Carthage, such as Utica. Compared with the Numibians, this army was much more enthusiastic and well-equipped, and most of them were heavy infantry.

At this time, most of the main defensive forces in the northern barracks, Agrigento, were not in the camp, and there were not enough troops to send a battalion to attack the Carthaginians who were trying their best to dismantle the trap, so they could only ask the Dionian light infantry, who had been sent to the hill to prepare to attack the Holy Order army, to retreat to the camp and fight together, but the javelins and arrows they threw were not enough to cover the Carthaginian army that surrounded the camp.

Seeing that the Carthaginian army was approaching in front of the trench, thousands of Sichaelian warriors suddenly rushed out of the mountains to the north, and invested a large number of javelins in this Carthaginian rearguard......

"What do you say?! Four or five thousand Sikelians appeared in the north?! Monte Adno was taken aback.

"Yes, sir. These Sikel attacks inflicted a great deal of casualties on Lord Reguca's army, preventing them from attacking the Diorian camp with all their might. The scout said.

"Damn barbarians!" Monte Adeno scolded angrily, thought for a moment, turned to the adjutant and said, "Inform the Lumibian cavalry who are idle to rush to the north at once, launch an attack on the Sikels, and drive them back into the mountains, so that Reguca can attack the enemy camp with all his strength!" And also...... Go to the south yourself and send 6,000 Lumibians! ”

The adjutant had to be ordered to go.

Soon, 3,000 Numibian cavalry kicked up a cloud of dust and galloped north.

Monteadeno didn't bother to pay attention to this, his brow furrowed, his eyes fixed on the front. Although the scout cavalry could not penetrate deep into the formation to investigate and understand the real situation, judging from the earth-shattering shouts and never-ending screams, the battle should have been quite tragic. And now, the battle has lasted for more than half an hour, and the Templar army still cannot advance an inch, which makes Monteadeno very uneasy.

He hated to put the Numbian troops on top and replace them with the Holy Legion, but this was impossible, so he could only transfer the Numibians to thicken the array of the Holy Order troops and give them more strength support.

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As the small phalanx of the detachments of the Eighth Legion of Dionya approached each other, they strangled the Templar soldiers in the battle faster and faster, because the Templar soldiers were facing enemies from all sides......

The array of the Eighth Legion finally closed slowly, and the sound of fighting in the array gradually disappeared, and even the screams tended to be silent after the Holy Order soldiers who fell to the ground after being trampled on by countless pairs of feet......

Although the four detachments under the command of Diocassis were finally combined into a whole, he did not feel relaxed, because each detachment lost some soldiers, especially the two detachments at the top suffered the heaviest casualties, and the soldiers who fell in such a tragic hand-to-hand combat were either seriously injured or killed when cleaning up the battlefield after the battle, and few of them could be healed, how could his mood be happy, but it was not sad now, there were still enemies fighting ahead.

At the beginning of the battle, the attack of the Carthaginians in front of them was a little messy because of the lack of effective command, and now it is even more chaotic, because many of the soldiers of the Holy Order who were squeezed out did not want to fight anymore, but only wanted to escape, although they were in the battle before, they showed heroism, but it was for survival, as the children of the Carthaginian nobles who were clothed and fed since childhood, although they have undergone strict training and have a strong body, they have never experienced such a tragic battle, saw the comrades-in-arms around him fall to the ground injured one by one, and then trampled into flesh...... This horrific image frightened them into wanting to flee from this hellish place, and thus pushed and even clashed with the soldiers of the Order who stood in their way......

"Brothers, attack! Offensive! Completely crush the Carthaginians! Diocassis shouted loudly, encouraging the soldiers to continue fighting.

The shouts of the officers rang out one after another in the array, and Leoticides, who had been keeping a close eye on the battle on the mountainside, would not let go of this great opportunity.

"Woo! ......" The high-pitched sound of military trumpets resounded across the battlefield.

When the soldiers of the reserve heard the trumpet, they immediately strode forward, and the entire rear array attached to the Eighth Army array in front, and the two became one, and the forward, powerful advancing force gathered by tens of thousands of people was not at all able to resist the Holy Order troops, who had lost nearly half of their numbers and were in a chaotic formation, and they retreated one after another, and finally collapsed......

Originally in the rear of the Order's troops, when the army was blocked by the Dionian army, Millefio still rode his horse tirelessly, running back and forth in the rear, finding his familiar officers from the chaotic soldiers, encouraging them to reorganize the soldiers, after his long efforts, it seemed that the Templar army in the battle had some order, but suddenly it became more chaotic, and then quickly retreated.

Ignorantly, Millefio was carried by the rout and fled backwards, and his mind was blank on the way to escape, and he never figured out: how could such an elite Templar army be defeated inexplicably?

After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the Ionian legionnaires continued to pursue despite fatigue, not giving the defeated Carthaginian Legion any respite to regroup.

Leoticides also sent the Fourth Cavalry Regiment and the Light Armoured Brigade, two already swift and recharged troops from the passages reserved on either side of the Dionian formation, and soon ran in front of the heavy infantry to pursue the Order's rout.

As soon as the 6,000 Numibian troops who had been transferred over entered the lowlands, they were surprised to see that the Carthaginians, who were usually proud of their might and dressed in colorful armor, threw away their beautiful shields and beautiful helmets, and shouted at them in panic: "Help! Help me! The Dionians are here! Fast! Stop them! Just go! ……”

Thousands of people rushed towards them like lost dogs, and the Numibians, whose morale was not high, rarely made a concerted action - turn around and flee......

The rout of tens of thousands of people rushed out of the lowlands, and the momentum was terrifying.

Monte Adno was stunned for a moment when he saw this.

The adjutant also persuaded on the side: "My lord, we ...... Defeated, retreat to camp first-"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Monte Adeno turn the horse's head and clamp the horse with his legs.

The horse neighed and carried him swiftly across the Pletany River......

Originally, although the Numibians were fleeing, they were not too panicked, because there were still Holy Order soldiers running behind them, but when some of the cavalry of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment rushed into their rear from the diagonal spurs, panic quickly spread throughout the entire ranks, forcing the Numibians to rush to flee.

The Pratani River, which was originally very shallow and narrow, became the biggest obstacle to their escape, some people slipped and fell due to the silt at the bottom of the river because of panic, and they grabbed in panic in the river, and pulled more people down, which blocked the escape of the soldiers of the Holy Order behind, and they pushed angrily, and the rout soldiers were in chaos in the river......

The Dionian cavalry and infantry, who had caught up, stabbed with spears and bayonets, screaming so loudly that the river was littered with corpses and blood stained the Plettani River.

The rout fled across the river and fled straight to the main camp, and the Dionian soldiers pursued closely, because in the previous battle, Monte Adno had almost emptied the strength of the camp, and there was no defense in the camp at all, so how could the rout dare to stay in the camp for a long time and continue to flee westward.

The sudden rout of the Holy Legion surprised the two Carthaginian armies on either side who were attacking the coalition camp. When the Numibian army to the south received the news, they immediately turned and ran down the hill and began to flee. The Numibian cavalry to the north, hearing of the rout in the middle, immediately ceased their fighting with the Sichaels, turned their horses and fled westward, only to flee to the front.

However, Reguka, the general who commanded the Carthaginian citizen army, was shocked to learn of the rout in the middle, and immediately withdrew the troops that were attacking the barracks, reorganized the formation, and wanted to lead them to attack the pursuing Dionian army from the flank, in an attempt to turn the tide of the battle and save the fleeing rout.

However, many Carthaginian soldiers saw the surging momentum of the pursuit of the Ionian army on the right front, and they all persuaded: "General, let's withdraw quickly!" The Holy Legions were defeated, the Numibian cavalry fled, and it was even more unlikely that the Numibians would stay and fight! If we don't run away, we may be surrounded by the Greeks! ”

Reguca was still a little hesitant.

The Trumpets sounded in the barracks on the hill, and the Dionian Heavy Infantry Reserve Brigade sent to the barracks by Leotizides and the Agligento soldiers who had been regrouped and rushed back to the camp, totaling more than 3,000 people, rushed out of the camp and slaughtered the Carthaginian army at the foot of the mountain, and the thousands of Sichael warriors also rushed towards the Carthaginian army from the north.