Finally, the sound of the retreating trumpet came.

The soldiers at the right end of the right flank of Syracuse, who were struggling to resist the spear brigade and the Ket reinforcements, turned around and fled, and the originally thick array collapsed in an instant, and the fleeing soldiers were like a flood that burst the embankment, and quickly vented outward......

Seeing the soldiers next to him fleeing, Phoebe Das did not panic, he threw the bayonet in his hand at the enemy at the first time, and then smashed the round shield at the opponent, forcing a little space, and immediately turned to run away, and threw away the helmet at the same time. Despite the defeat in many previous battles, Phoebidas was still frustrated by the defeat of the battle as he fled quickly......

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"Your Majesty, the enemy has retreated! We won! We won this battle! Dioonia wins!! Tolmid looked at the soldiers in the middle of Syracuse, who were retreating in front of him, and was excited.

Davers listened to the cheers of the guards beside him, and finally put a smile on his face: "Order all troops to pursue the enemy with all their strength and strength!" ”

"Yes!" Tolmid replied loudly.

"Your Majesty—" There was a shout from behind him, and Davers looked back and saw Rodom's excited face, and immediately understood his thoughts, and said with a smile: "The escort can also participate in the pursuit." ”

Immediately a cheer rang out around him, and only a few of the guards such as Maltius remained unmoved, still standing by Davers's side.

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"Leader of Ashrita, Lord Dionysius has commanded that you must lead your men and me to kill them again!" Astargoras finally found Ashirita, who had fled to the east bank of the Thachinadi River.

Ashrita's face was cloudy with unkempt hair, and he said shirkably, "My men have all run away, and it will be difficult to gather them together in a short time. ”

"Ashirita." Astargras sneered: "You are a smart man, if this time we are defeated in Syracuse, with what you have done in the land of Dionia, do you think the Dioonians will spare you aliens!" There's a Mediterranean Sea between Great Greece and Numibia, and you can go back to Numibia on horseback?! ”

Ashirita's face changed drastically, and he only cared about running away, not thinking about it for a while.

At this time, his subordinates exclaimed: "Chief, the enemy is chasing again!" ”

Ashirita had already made a decision in her mind at this moment: "General Astargas, let's repel these cavalry first. ”

Astarklas was pleased to see the change in Ashirita's attitude, and immediately led more than 300 cavalry to join the remaining 200 or so cavalry around Ashirita to meet the enemy.

At this moment, there was a "rumbling" of footsteps in front of the left, and Astargrass and Ashirita subconsciously looked to the north, and the growing noise made them feel uneasy.

Soon, when countless Syracuse soldiers appeared in their field of vision, they all changed color like a tidal wave.

"Retreat!" Ashirita quickly turned his horse's head and fled in a hurry with the Numibian cavalry, followed by many Sicilian cavalry.

We're defeated?! …… Unable to believe this fact, Astaras was stabbed under his horse by the pursuing Dionian cavalry in a trance......

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"Victory for Dionia! We win! Crotone wins!! ......" Lucias's spies ran all the way to the ruins of the north gate of Crotone, shouting excitedly and incoherently.

The people of Crotone, who were watching the battle in the city, were already crying. Although it is far away from the battlefield, it is not true to see, but all the soldiers are running south, could it be that Syracuse will not be able to defeat! At this time, countless people shed tears of emotion: Crotone was finally saved!!

Lucias, who had been nervously standing in front of the battlements to watch the battle, had just relaxed when he found that his legs were sore, and he couldn't stand, and he sat down in the aisle, but he was faced with a rubble, desolate city, and the ecstasy of dying suddenly turned into deep sorrow: although the people of Crotone were saved, the city of Crotone no longer existed......

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When deciding to retreat, Dionysius also planned to prepare the defenders of the large battalion to meet them, and to hold back the pursuers behind, so that the fleeing Syracuse soldiers could enter the camp smoothly. As it turned out, this was simply not possible.

Because the movement of the defenders of the large camp was discovered by the Dionian troops of Asphorustum, who were closely following the movements of the camp. At the same time, the news of the "victory at the Battle of Dionia" brought by the mountain scouts made Agacia even more excited, although he was the administrator, but he was also a mercenary and experienced in combat, he took decisive action, personally led 3,000 defenders to pour out of the nest, and attacked the Syracuse camp that blocked the southbound road of Asprarustum.

Distraught by the news of the defeat in the battle, the Syracuse defenders were divided into camps, and in the face of the Asphorustum army attacking with all their might, they still had the heart to fight, and after barely resisting for a while, they easily let the excited Dionian soldiers storm the camp.

Dionysius tried to regroup his army on the way to escape, but the Dionian army in hot pursuit made his efforts in vain, and the squires sent were either coerced or knocked down by the rout, and the horses were snatched.

Sixty or seventy thousand men poured into the Thachinadi River, the entire river almost cut off, and the slippery mud and the subsequent pursuit of the Dionian soldiers left the terrified Syracuse soldiers with floating corpses after crossing the river.

The defenders of the camp were frightened by the rout of the tide, and where there was still the idea of responding, they turned around and fled first.

The surging tide of routs crushed the narrow camp gates, and some routs simply toppled the wooden fence and poured into the camp. However, the pursuers also entered the camp.

At the same time, the shouts of Dionian soldiers were heard to the north of the camp, as the Asphorustum army charged into the camp in pursuit of the retreating defenders.

The Syracuse routs were afraid that they would be cut off from their way back, so they dared to stay in the camp longer, so they continued to flee south......

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"General Shiros, the people of Syracuse have been defeated by us! They are fleeing to the Celestial Court! There are so many of them! ......" said the scout at a gallop, excited and nervous.

By this time, Shilos had crossed the Tachina River with his troops, entered the territory of Siritin, and was marching northeast to reach the camp at Syracuse.

After receiving the return of the scout, Shiros, while rejoicing, immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to destroy the enemy, and he immediately asked, "How far are the Syracuse people from us?" ”

"When I came back, they had already run into the 'hallway.'"

Shilos served as the administrator of Asprarustum. During his tenure, he had surveyed the terrain of the area several times, and he knew that the "corridor" by which the Scout was referring to was the narrow strip of coastline between the southern plains of Croton and the territory of Siritin on the west bank of the Tachina River, with rolling mountains to the north and the ocean to the south. This seaside corridor was about 36 miles long and ten miles wide at its narrowest, and his own army was at least 15 miles away from entering this corridor, and it seemed that it would not be difficult for the Syracuse troops to get there and intercept them before they ran out of the corridor. But know that your army is walking on the undulating hills, while the Syracuse people are running on the flat sea, not to mention that they are routed, and their speed is quite fast.

After a moment of contemplation, Shilos immediately ordered: "The whole army marches quickly, let me run!" ”

The run was a source of distress for the soldiers, who knew that at least half of the combined Dionian-Trina army was heavy infantry. Thankfully, the soldiers from Bruti had developed the habit of discipline and strict execution of orders after several years of training, and the Trina were supported by the flames of revenge. More importantly, the news of the "victory at the Battle of Dionia" gave them great encouragement.

When they arrived in the corridor, the distance between the leader and the end of the team was stretched four or five miles away, and many soldiers sat directly on the ground, panting for breath and sweating all over their bodies, shouting for water. For the next half hour, Shiros, who was also exhausted, struggled to reorganize his ranks, and at the same time tried his best to give the soldiers who arrived a good rest and recover some strength as soon as possible.

Most of the soldiers had already arrived, but there were still soldiers who had fallen behind one after another, coming in twos and threes.

At this moment, the scout cavalry reported that the rout of Syracuse was only two miles away from the troops.

The sane Shiros did not let the soldiers with limited physical strength intercept the rout head-on, he knew that the tens of thousands of rout soldiers who were bent on escaping back to the Siriting would not only not be blocked by his thousands, but also likely to let these tired and inexperienced soldiers fall into the flood of escape.

So he immediately lined up his troops with their backs to the mountains and diagonally toward the coast, leaving a gap for the routs to pass through for several miles, so that even if their attack was fierce and the Syracuse people fled for their lives, they would not resist much.

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Dionia's pursuit continued until dusk, when the trumpet of the troops was sounded.

According to statistics after the war, in this battle that decided the fate of Great Greece, nearly 20,000 people were killed and wounded in Syracuse, most of whom were wounded or killed on the way to escape, and more than 10,000 people were captured.

The Dionian side suffered nearly 7,000 casualties, especially the Ikat reinforcements, who suffered the heaviest casualties, losing almost half. This was followed by the Spear Brigade and the Cavalry Corps, which also cost more than two thousand men as the key to turning the tide of the battle throughout the battle.

The result of the battle: Dionya won a resounding victory with 58,000 men against 65,500 soldiers of Syracuse.