Although Sincinag, who was at the rear of the phalanx, could not understand the battle situation in detail, it was an indisputable fact that the team was retreating, and the screams kept coming, and when I looked to the sides, there were even soldiers in the distance who began to flee...... Sincinag was anxious and angry, and at the moment he didn't have time to think about why such a bad situation had happened, and the top priority was to stop the decline, otherwise the right wing would surely collapse, which would lead to the defeat of the entire Lucanian tribal alliance! Although Akpiru was in-law, Sincinag did not think that the domineering Grumentum chief would easily forgive Pikosis for what he had done. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Now that the warriors of Picosis have engaged in the battle head-on, he can no longer command, and the only one he can command is the Bruti warriors who have not yet engaged.

"Go and call the people from Vig City behind you to come and help! Tell their leader that if this battle is lost, the Lucarians will not forgive Vig! Sincinag yelled hurriedly at the guards beside him.

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"Great Chief, the Lucanians have gone too far! It was Sincinag who thought he could easily solve the Greeks and wouldn't let us intervene, but now he says that it was our fault that we failed! Young Saru said angrily.

Sedorum looked at the battle not far away, but did not respond.

"These Greeks are so powerful, they are obviously small in number, and they are about to defeat the Lucalians!" Saru looked ahead and said excitedly and hesitantly, "Great Chief, the Lucanians are going to be defeated!" Or...... Let's stop fighting, let's go! Maybe...... Maybe they might even take the opportunity to break away from their alliance! ”

At this time, Sedorum spoke: "Even if Lucania is defeated, how many people can they die?" Did the Greeks dare to go into the mountains? …… Saru, as long as the strength of the Lucanians is still there, they still have the final say in the western mountains! Unless we are also among the people of Senza, who move south, and are forced to go to war with Klotone for the land......" Sedorum sighed: "Order the warriors, gather the formation, and press up from the right end!" ”

Two thousand Brutis dressed in leather armor and armed with wooden shields and spears formed a more compact phalanx than the Lucanians, and stuck to its rear as the right end of the Picosis array was about to collapse.

In order to survive, most of the Lucadian warriors had to turn around and fight, after all, the Lucalian array was thick, it was panic that caused them to flee, not the mercenaries killed their line, once the reinforcements arrived, they gradually stabilized the position, the mood of the rout gradually stabilized, and the organization of the formation began to recover......

Lucanian casualties are mounting, but the mercenaries are retreating...... The pushing force generated by the extra-thick array formed by the Lucalian and Gabruti was clearly not comparable to the thin array of mercenaries. Once the gap between the two armies becomes narrow, the superb fighting skills will not play a big role, but fortunately, the experienced mercenaries will take the initiative to slowly retreat to relieve the pressure exerted by the other side, so as to maintain the resilience of the front......

Unlike other generals, Davers was personally involved in the battle, and once the battle began, it was completely laissez-faire, he rode on horseback, from left to right, right to left, in the rear of the phalanx, closely watching the progress of the battle, and giving orders through the heralds at any time. Before, the right end of the Lucanian array was about to be defeated, and his heart was also excited, who knew that the next battle situation would be reversed, and the disappointment in his heart could be imagined. But he didn't urge the soldiers to attack anymore, because he knew that in addition to the factor of the arrival of enemy reinforcements, it was also related to the physical strength of the soldiers, and of course it was impossible for such a fierce and ferocious attack to last too long, as long as it was a person, the physical strength was limited, not to mention that they were heavy infantry. Even at the critical moment, Davers ordered the light shieldmen who had retreated to the rear to join the attack on the far right of the enemy army, but alas......

If those two thousand mercenaries and two hundred cavalry were under their command, then now the soldiers were already chasing the rout! I only blamed myself for being too confident, I didn't fight to the death, and insisted on asking Turido for some troops...... As soon as the thought of regret crossed his mind, Davers snuffed it out. Any unexpected situation can happen in a war, and the commander cannot always foresee it, and the only thing he can do at this moment is to keep a cool head and try not to let excessive emotions affect his judgment.

As the phalanx moved back step by step, Davers realized that the soldiers had to compete with the enemy's powerful pushing force, and on the other hand, they had to prevent the thin array from being broken through, and they had to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible in the fight, and the consumption of physical strength and energy was quite large, and it was good to be able to maintain such a situation! Barring a major accident, the left flank of the Turii coalition will not improve; As for the middle, Yasistes' returns are similarly not optimistic, even worse than on the left; The only one who had the advantage was on the right flank, but not by much (this was the judgment of Assistes, who had gone on horseback to reconnoitre, on the basis that Tarantum's line had advanced only a little). Knowing that the overall battlefield situation was unfavorable, Davers removed the luck left in his heart and had to consider the retreat of his troops after the defeat of the battle......

On the land within a radius of ten miles on the Xubali Plain, nearly 30,000 soldiers fought here in a life-and-death contest, with dust flying, killing voices shaking the sky, contradictions intersecting, and blood splattering...... After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Greek army gradually felt overwhelmed......

The Lucanian tribal coalition outnumbered the Turriyi coalition by 6,500 men, and the scouts of Turiyi and Davers originally estimated that the Lucanians numbered at about 13,000 according to observations, but in fact the cunning Akpiru still hid part of his forces in the back hill of the camp, while the 2,000 men of Vig City joined at the last moment, thus causing the Greek army to make a mistake in judgment, and Fires's impression of the Lucarians was still a few years ago (he did not participate in last year's battle). In fact, in recent years, the Lucanians have developed rapidly, especially Grummentum, who has begun to break away from the tribal alliance and develop towards the kingdom, and in the past two years of tribal annexation wars, Grumentum's warriors have become more courageous and resilient in frequent blood baptisms.

In the old notion of the Turriyi generals, the loosely organized Lucanians would be crushed by the power of the Greek heavy infantry as long as they fought head-on. And it turned out how ridiculous their idea was, especially in the middle of the Greek army, the mercenaries in the front, the Turiyi citizen soldiers in the middle, and the freedmen in the back, the three forces could not be effectively combined into one, and under the ferocious impact of the Grumentum warriors, the Greek army in the middle was retreating at the beginning...... As the battle continued, the three soldiers with different births began to have ideas: mercenaries fought for money, and in the event of no hope of victory, they naturally thought of saving their lives first; The Turiyi citizen soldiers are indeed fighting with all their might, but half of them are middle-aged, and their physical strength has reached the limit, and they are still holding on, because Turii is their homeland and cannot be trampled by barbarians; The freedmen, on the other hand, entered the war with the attitude of giving it a try, and if they were victorious, they were granted citizenship, and when they were defeated, they fled from Turriyi and went to find a new life in another city-state.

As the Greek army retreated faster and faster in the center, the gap between them and the left and right flanks widened. When Grummentum's warriors rushed into the gaps on both sides and attacked the Greek center from the flank, the entire central phalanx collapsed, and the soldiers fled in all directions......

Davers, who had been paying close attention to the situation here, sighed, suppressed his extreme disappointment, and decisively ordered a retreat. Davers's call to retreat was peculiar, very different from that of the average Greek army: it was first a long note, followed by a melody consistent with the charge trumpet, which was repeated three times by the trumpeters, and most of the Lucanian soldiers thought that the mercenaries were about to charge again. At this moment of confusion, the mercenaries pulled away slightly, and the light shield soldiers in the rear threw javelins again (this is really a master of courage, without strict training, it is easy to accidentally injure their own comrades), and while the Lucalian people were busy defending, the mercenaries quickly and unanimously completed a series of retreat actions such as turning and running......

Note: Cosentia, the central town of the Bruti region.