However, the spear phalanx of Dionya was approaching, and the Celts at the forefront were directly facing the terrifying threat of the spear wall. They were already angry because they had been attacked by the Numibians. Now, in order to flee for their lives, some of them simply wielded their swords and slew at the Numibians who stood in their way. This caused anger and revolt among the Numibians, and even delayed the escape of the entire cavalry group.

The leaders and officers of the two tribes, such as Axirita and Gaba, shouted loudly and even sounded the horn of retreat, but their efforts could only be in vain for this dusty, noisy, chaotic battlefield for several miles......

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When the huge figures of the Celtic cavalry and men and horses collided with Tapilus, Tapyrus couldn't help but tense his whole body, closed his eyes tightly, and subconsciously clamped his spear, ready to withstand the impact of great force.

Only the miserable neighing of the horses was heard, and a strong force was transmitted to the barrel of the gun, making it almost impossible for him to hold on tightly. The soldiers from the previous columns also ran into him at the same time, pushing him backwards.

"Steady, brothers! Steady! ......The soldiers behind him struggled to resist his body, giving him strength and cheering them on loudly.

The 15-column phalanx of spears, together with the light armoured soldiers behind it, gave Tapyrus enough strength to support them and stabilize their figures.

Tapyrus opened his eyes and saw that the horse's hind hooves were on the ground, the front hooves raised, and eight or nine spears pierced his neck and chest at the same time, holding it in mid-air, but it was not dead, and it was wailing. The enemy on the horse, however, had been pierced through the chest by two spears, and lay on the ground, dead. Horse blood and human blood flowed down the barrel of the gun......

The soldiers struggled to pull out their spears.

Tapyrus was surprised to find that although the enemy cavalry was menacing, the soldiers did not suffer major casualties, and the formation was relatively intact, only a few soldiers' spears were broken. And after this cavalry ramming, the enemy did not dare to continue the attack, but urgently stopped the horses, panicked and wanted to flee, and there was a chaotic scene in front of their formation......

Tapirus and the rest of the soldiers were relieved of their suspense, and the cowardice of the enemy fueled their courage.

"Brothers, keep going!" Tapyrus shouted, and the soldiers responded with roars.

They stepped over the corpses of the enemy, bypassed the dying horses, and continued onward.

Kappus, who was at the rear of the phalanx, was pleasantly surprised to see that the entire phalanx had successfully blocked the advance of the enemy's huge number of cavalry, and the enemy who was in chaos also made him realize that the opportunity could not be lost, and he would not come again, so he decisively ordered: "Charge!" ”

Yes, the soldiers of the spear brigade will not only move forward steadily, they can charge like heavy infantry without wearing any armor, and this tactic has been the focus of training these days.

The rapid and continuous blowing of the military horn lifted the spirits of the soldiers.

"Attention! It's time to charge!! ......" Tapilus hissed.

The soldiers of the company immediately stopped sticking to each other so tightly, but opened up some of their spacing, and their feet were still small steps, but the cadence was gradually accelerating......

The speed of the phalanx's advance increased, and the enemy horsemen were stabbed off their horses one by one, and the screams came and went.

At the same time, the entire phalanx became discontinuous, and there were many gaps, and the light armor soldiers poured into the array along the gaps, cooperating with the spearmen, and together they killed the enemies who were sitting on their horses and did not move.

When the Dionian cavalry of the luring enemy turned earlier, a few cavalry stumbled into the spear phalanx due to nervousness, and some of the cavalry at the back of the line were wounded and killed by the Celtic cavalry who caught up...... After suffering a number of casualties, they withdrew from both sides relatively smoothly. At the same time as the spear phalanx blew the trumpet of the charge, the Dionian cavalry, which had been quickly reorganized, immediately turned back from both sides, and they bravely blocked the passage on both sides.

"Avenge Sobex!!" Ryders shouted loudly and gave the order to attack.

The infantry had the indomitable hero Dracos, and the cavalry also had the hero Soberx, who died in battle. At this time, the Dionian cavalry held on to the humiliation of their previous defeat to the mercenary cavalry of Syracuse, and desperately fought the enemy regardless of life and death.

On the battlefield where the horses could not gallop, the gap in horsemanship could not be seen and could not be used, which made the Dionian cavalry fight with the Celts and Numibians on both sides, and also made it even more impossible for the enemy to escape from the battlefield from both sides, resulting in the compression of the regional space of the central battlefield and the inability to evacuate from the rear for a while, thus creating conditions for a large number of spearmen and light armor soldiers to annihilate the enemy.

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"Your Majesty, the spear brigade has blocked the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry and is now counterattacking!" Hearing Tolmid's excited report, Davers's anxious heart calmed down, but his expression was still solemn: "Now it's up to the First and Second Legions and Milon to them!" ”

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Phoebedas, who was in the middle of the formation, did not know the situation of his own cavalry, and he was now concentrating on leading the right flank of Syracuse in great strides, while he kept an eye on the entire right flank as he went, and as he expected, the whole array was gradually tilting to the left.

The Spartans' best infantry tactic was the "left-hand tactic". During the battle, the Spartans took advantage of the characteristics of the heavy infantry holding a shield in their left hand, leaning to the right, and gradually deflecting to the left during the march, and designed to let the soldiers on the far right accelerate their advance, and after reaching the enemy formation, the right flank naturally turned to the left as a whole, so as to directly attack the flank of the enemy's left flank, resulting in the untrained enemy being the first to be routed when the flank was fiercely attacked. Most of the time, the battle is over before the other two sides come into direct contact.

At such an important moment of the general battle, Phoebidas, who was also nervous, chose the tactics he was most familiar with. Although the Syracuse army could not achieve a uniform left-hand strike in battle like the Spartan warriors who had been trained together since childhood, the Syracuse army also had an advantage over the Spartan army, it had a large number of infantry and cavalry, and they had more soldiers than the Dionians, and they had more cavalry than the Dionians. After a cursory understanding of Dionia's formation, Phoebidas was pleased to find that he could concentrate his troops on the right flank, take the lead in defeating the enemy's left flank, and lay the foundation for victory in the entire battle!

Since the left end of the right flank was connected to the center at the beginning of the march (the cavalry connected at the right end had already rushed to the front), according to the previous custom, the speed of the march was instinctively slower than that of the soldiers who were not friendly outside the right side, and the characteristic of the heavy infantry marching to the right, the right flank of Syracuse, which was more than two miles long, had advanced for a while, and the whole array was obviously tilted.

In this regard, Phoebidas rejoiced in his heart and was happy to see it happen. He calculated: when making contact with Dionia's left flank, the inclined array should be able to cut to the enemy's flank. By that time, the cavalry should have dealt with Dionia's cavalry, and then turned to attack the rear of their left flank, Dionia's left flank was attacked from three sides, even if the heavy infantry was strong, I am afraid it would not be able to resist!

Phoebidas could detect anomalies in the array, as did the experienced officers of the 1st and 2nd Dionian Legions on the opposite side, and the two Legion Commanders who kept receiving reports immediately realized that something was wrong, and the two armies were only less than 400 meters apart.

Antonios immediately sent heralds to convey his advice to Amintas, Milon and Sipros at both ends: immediately stop the advance and regroup the array to deal with the enemy in front of him.

The consent of the commander of the 2nd Army, Amintas, was soon obtained.

Antonios could not wait for the response of Milon and Cipros, who were still hesitating, and decisively sounded the trumpet of "stop advancing", and then the Second Army issued the same order.

The 1st and 2nd Legions are worthy of being the oldest Ionian Legions, with the most veterans and the strongest combat effectiveness, and the strongest combat effectiveness also means that the ability to carry out orders is also the strongest.

Trumpets sounded, flags waved, and the officers and soldiers stopped their advances, despite their doubts.

The two Ionian legions stopped their advance, leaving the Crotone-Trina reinforcements on the far left overwhelmed, and Milon and Sipros, who were still hesitating, had to give an immediate order: stop advancing!

Their city-state citizen soldiers did not have systematic military training and complex army rules and establishments like Dionia, and they did not even have a military call to "stop advancing", so they could only send many heralds to convey orders loudly in front of and behind the battle, so the whole array appeared to be a little disordered. Fortunately, they were connected to the First Legion, and the First Legion did not move, which naturally affected the soldiers of the adjacent Kett reinforcements, who hastily stopped advancing.

At this time, the first and second armies had already begun to turn the entire array unhurriedly, and the Kett coalition forces could only follow suit, which was a little difficult. Because the Dionian legion marched with the company as a checkerboard array with a dense small phalanx, which had strong flexibility, plus competent officers and strictly trained soldiers, it was very easy to throw the queue over, so that the front of the formation faced the enemy again. The array of the Kett coalition army is a dense array, about half a mile long, up to 15 columns thick, the soldiers are heavily armored, the thick and airtight Corinthian helmet is a little difficult to receive the command of the voice, it is not easy to make a turn in place in ordinary training, not to mention that this is a battlefield with a killing sound, in the face of the rapidly approaching enemy army, it is even more difficult for the Kett reinforcements to complete such a more complex tactical maneuver.