When Mukru hurried to the vicinity, he saw such a sight, and his heart sank to the bottom: Oops, the Tegurs have rebelled!

The Mandinian guide next to him, Carisenos, was also dumbfounded: "This ...... This...... The Tegurans betrayed the Arcadian Alliance?! …… General Mukru, I can swear to Zeus that we Mandinias don't know about it! ”

Mukru's face was gloomy, and he did not understand Kalisenos's justification, and he immediately turned his horse's head, clamped the horse's belly with great force, and galloped towards the command center of the army, and he wanted to inform the commander of this terrible turn of events.

Karicenos glanced angrily in the direction of the city of Teguya, and followed Mukru as well.

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As a detachment leader, Max tried his best to control the entire detachment and not let the soldiers run away when his fifty soldiers were excitedly pursuing the enemy.

This is the requirement of the "Ionian Military Law", the First Legion as one of the most effective regiments in the Ionian army, not only because the soldiers' combat skills are very strong, but also because of their strong execution of military law, but today in the pursuit to control the formation of the detachment is increasing, this is because these enemies in front of them even if they are wearing armor and holding shields and guns, the speed of escape is not slow, except that the soldiers took advantage of the initial rout, and soon after the distance between the two sides was widened, the soldiers were never able to catch up with the rout, which made the arrogant First Legion soldiers very unconvinced: in the annual Ionian army competition, the First Legion has never fallen into the top three in the armed race, and now it can't outrun a group of mercenaries!

The soldiers tried their best to catch up, but naturally they couldn't listen to the orders of the officers, and Max's voice was almost hoarse, and he could only watch the whole detachment almost run away. At this moment, he heard the sound of a military horn coming from the rear.

He instinctively looked back, and in the dust and mist, he saw those colorful military flags flying high one after another began to wave rapidly from front to back.

He didn't think too much about it, and immediately shouted loudly: "Stop advancing, this is the order of the legion!" Stop moving! ……”

The soldiers beside him also shouted with him, one by one, and it didn't take long for the soldiers in front of Max to stop the pursuit, although they were all panting, but they all looked at the fleeing enemy in front of them unwillingly.

"Assemble! Assemble quickly!! ......" Max hissed and shouted.

In fact, there was no need for him to work so hard, and the soldiers around him automatically moved closer to him, some of them were not even soldiers of his detachment, but the white hat on the crown of Max's helmet gave them a choice, which was an instinct after countless trainings.

Just as the soldiers of the First Army Corps were approaching the detachment commander and company commander, the routed soldiers in front also stopped fleeing one after another, and then roared angrily, turned around and killed again.

"Damn! They are deceitful! ......" Max, who was at the forefront of the legion, was shocked when he saw the scene in front of him, and once again ignored the stinging pain in his throat and shouted vigorously: "Assemble!!" At the same time, he held the bayonet in the air and kept swinging.

Dorios, a member of the King's Guard of Sparta and the former military governor of Messenia, abandoned Messenia without a fight due to the arrival of the Dionian army, and was nearly expelled from his home state by the Council of Elders and the Inquisitors. Although he was finally made guilty and meritorious, but during the time he was in Sparta, his life was not easy, and the people of Sparta who had lost the land of Messenia saw him, all of them glared angrily, and even shouted insults, and he could only swallow his anger, he had always been regarded as glory by his parents, wife and children, how could he have suffered such an insult, he didn't know how he had passed those days, but all patience was for today.

He is almost 50 years old today, as an ordinary warrior, fighting on the first line, he has been defending in the previous battle, trying to save physical strength, but after this fast run has made him wearing heavy armor a little breathless, after all, the years are not forgiving, and the Dionian soldiers are still chasing closely, this is the first time he has encountered in the battle he has experienced in the past, he finally decided to give up running, stopped, and wanted to take advantage of the little physical strength to be able to kill one and kill the other, but he saw that the pursuers behind him stopped one after another.

This is something that Dorios has never seen in previous battles, when they used this tactic, the enemy would run more and more scattered in the pursuit, and in the end it was completely scattered, and many people even threw away their helmets and shields, so once they counterattacked, they could easily defeat the enemy.

What he could see through the eyeholes of Corinthian's helmet was that the Dionian soldiers were all well-armed and well-armoured, and they were still actively retracting in an attempt to regroup......

Dorios was in a hurry, he could not allow the soldiers' hard work to be in vain, so he slammed his bronze shield into the soldiers around him, shouting, "Attack!!" Then he took the shield gun and accelerated to charge back.

The enemy must not be allowed to reunite! …… With this conviction in mind, he leapt to his feet and swung his spear out with all his might, stabbing at the nearest Ionian soldier.

The soldier quickly lifted his shield upward, "Dang! There was a crisp sound, and the head of the gun stuck to the ramming horn of the long shield.

Following the inertia of the forward rush, Dorios slammed forward with a copper shield, and the two shields collided and issued a "Bang!" The Dionian soldier was knocked back by the powerful force.

Dorios poked his bayonet once more, and the spear pressed against the top edge of his opponent's long shield, stabbing his enemy into his exposed throat with lightning speed.

The soldier quickly turned his head away, and the bayonet spear pulled off his helmet, leaving a terrible blood mark on his face, and he screamed in pain.

Instead of swinging his bayonet again, Dorios used his shield to push away the wounded Ionian soldier and continued to charge, believing that his comrades would finish off the enemy once and for all.

After just a few steps, a force slammed into his back, followed by severe pain, and the strength he had accumulated under the severe pain was rapidly draining. He staggered a few steps, looked back in astonishment, only to see the wounded Dionian soldier looking at him with a resolute expression, and the hand that had been holding the bayonet was empty, and was immediately overwhelmed by the swarming Spartan warriors.

Dorios slowly fell to the ground, his unwillingness to die for failing to kill a Dionian soldier to clear his name.

When the Spartan warriors who fell behind in the fleeing turned to attack, the warriors in front would also turn to the offensive immediately afterwards, and the time required for the whole army to turn from rout to attack was very short, and there was no need to use military trumpets to command, which was a tacit understanding cultivated by their long-term training from childhood to adulthood.

The soldiers of the 1st Ionian Legion at the forefront have been dispersed, and in the face of the surging Spartan warriors, they simply cannot return to the team in time, but even if they know that they are outnumbered, they do not turn around and run away, but bravely block the enemy in place to win a little time for the comrades behind, which is the result of the long-term training of the Dionian legionnaires in accordance with military law.

Max's detachment numbered less than 50 people, but the situation was critical, and he could no longer wait, so he immediately ordered loudly: "Tortoiseshell formation!" ”

The entire phalanx of the detachment quickly formed a column of five men facing the attacking Spartans, and the outermost soldiers raised their long shields to their chests to form a shield wall, and the soldiers inside buckled the long shields to their heads, and then everyone threw away their bayonet guns and drew their short swords, because in the small space sealed by the long shield, the bayonet guns could no longer be used.

Almost all of the officers gave the same order, because the hastily formed phalanx was far apart, and in the absence of friendly support for the time being, the Tortoiseshell Formation was undoubtedly the strongest defensive in the face of encirclement.

As soon as Max's makeshift detachment was formed, the Spartan warriors rushed to him, and the formation of the Dionians, although strange to them, did not stop attacking: shields, spears.

The two most common attacks were apparently ineffective against Dionia's strange formations, with some Spartan warriors simply hitting them with their bodies, only to have their daggers emerge from their shields like vipers and stab them.

The Spartan warriors who rushed to the front had no way to take the tortoiseshell array for a while, and the constant influx of warriors in the rear forced them to stop longer and continue to rush forward.

It didn't take long for the entire phalanx of Max's detachment to be surrounded by Spartan warriors, and the Dionian soldiers in the small and crowded space could not see the situation outside, but they could hear the deafening roar of the enemy, and they nervously fought against the impact from the long shield one by one, while carefully dodging the belated spears from the gaps, and the short swords in their hands were constantly piercing to stab those enemies who were too close to the shield array......

These small Ionian phalanxes at the forefront were like small boats in turbulent waves, swaying left and right, and could capsize at any time, and every minute and every second seemed so long to the Ionian soldiers in the tortoiseshell array.

And for the officers in each array center, the only thing they could do was to constantly encourage the soldiers in hoarse voices: "Brothers, hold on!" Our reinforcements will be coming soon! ……”

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Ever since the defeat of the right flank of the Spartan army, Agesilaus had been in a state of tension, and from time to time he sent his guards to the front to carefully probe the battle in the middle, and when he learned that the mercenaries at the right end of the center had begun to retreat and there was some confusion, he was so angry that he even wanted to rush over himself to boost morale, but was dissuaded by the guards.

It didn't take long for him to learn that the Spartan warriors had stopped retreating, began to fight back, and disrupted the Ionian array, and he was excited again, clenched his right fist, and waved vigorously: "Well done! ”