Puchetti's emissaries for help had already arrived at the battlefield to ambush Tarantum, but he was unable to meet the consuls of the city-states of Mesapi, led by Pahimelus, because everyone was engaged in the siege of Tarantum's army......

The Greek hoplites had a strong defense and a stronger defense in close combat, while the heavy infantry, which was bent on defending without attacking, was simply a hard turtle shell, and it took time and physical strength to smash it open.

The initial ambush of the Mesapi cut Tarantum's serpentine marching column into a dozen sections, and the Mesapi soldiers were outnumbered when it came to encircling each section of the enemy. But as the battle progressed, the Tarantum casualties increased, and each encirclement shrank smaller and smaller.

If it weren't for the sound of Dionia's trumpet, the Tarantum people might have given up the fight, and now they are supported by the only thing they can do to survive. But as one small encirclement after another was gradually eliminated, the shackles around the necks of the remaining soldiers began to tighten more and more......

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Heitbarus had heard that Prosious performed extremely well in the boot camp, but he didn't expect that on the real battlefield, Prosious was not soft at all in killing people, not at all like the first battle (it wasn't at all), his round shield defense, top attack and bayonet stabbing are very skillful and skillful, the bayonet will not swing indiscriminately, but as long as he shoots, it can cause the enemy to scream, it is really ruthless and accurate. Prosious's ruthlessness made the fierce Puchetti people fearful, and they subconsciously avoided his surprise attack.

With his team-mates battling for the lead under Prosous, the Puchetti defence was in jeopardy......

Seeing this scene below, Mattonis, who was supervising the battle in the center of the brigade, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and asked excitedly and loudly, "Who is the warrior who rushed to the front?!" ”

Captain Parmanius quickly replied in the small phalanx ahead: "Prosous! ”

"It's Prosous!!" Teammates also scrambled to answer.

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"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, Matonis' 3rd Brigade has broken through the enemy's lines!"

"Amintas's Fourth Brigade has also broken through!"

"The light infantry brigades of Epitenis and Zpitt have routed the enemy's flank!"

"Izzam's mountain reconnaissance brigade converged with the forces of Heraclia and Metapontum, and also routed the enemy's flank!"

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Good news came one after another, and when Tolmid reported it to Davers, Eumacus on the side couldn't help but exclaim excitedly: "Great! We've finally won! ”

Davers also showed a relieved smile: "Order, blow the horn of attack again, and crush the enemy in one fell swoop!" ”

“…… Retreat-retreat-let'......" Tremoni's expression was gloomy, but he was calm, after all, he was not without defeat, and he survived the last war with the Daoni people, losing a lot of land.

In fact, he did not need to give orders at all, the whole army had collapsed, and the Puchetti warriors were scrambling to flee for their lives......

When Tremoni left, he did not forget to look at the top of the mountain opposite, as if to keep the dazzling banner in mind.

"King, do you want to tell the Mesapi?" Poolo reminded him.

Tremoni was in a depressed mood and didn't want to say much at all, but looking at the rout army all over the mountains, how could the Mesapi people not know, it was better to be a favor, he sighed: "Send someone to tell them that the Dionians are attacking fiercely, and we ...... If you don't stop it, let them decide whether to retreat or continue fighting......"

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One by one, the soldiers beside him fell, and Diomilus was also wounded in many places, and he felt that he was afraid that he was going to return to Hades this time, but the Mesapi people who surrounded them suddenly stirred.

He heard the enemy shouting something, but unfortunately he could not understand the language of the Mesapi, but someone among the soldiers was already shouting excitedly in a tired voice: "The Mesapi say that the Puchetti are defeated!" The Ionians won! We are saved!! ”

When the desperate soldiers heard these words, they immediately lifted their spirits and shouted to each other the news of victory, and finally turned into one voice: "Hold on!" Hold!! Ionian reinforcements are coming soon!! ……”

As the time passed, the Mesapi attack gradually weakened, and finally retreated.

In the face of the retreat of the Mesapi, Diamilus had no intention of pursuing, in fact, he could not command any soldiers at the moment, all the Tarantum soldiers were like him, resisting for more than two hours in a row, and their physical strength and energy were exhausted to the limit.

He sat down on the ground, not wanting to stand up at all, and the joy of the rest of his life was not happy to see the corpses of soldiers on the ground and the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned......

In this battle, the Mesapi suffered 1,200 casualties, mainly from the almost total annihilation of the reinforced cavalry and the casualties of the Igratian heavy infantry.

The Puchetti suffered fewer than 600 casualties, and their low casualties were due to the fact that the infantry often suffered few casualties in frontal battles, and the main losses were after the rout. For example, the second battle between Dionya and Crotone, which relied on light infantry and cavalry to pursue and hold back most of the fleeing Crotone heavy infantry, such a good opportunity did not appear in this mountain battle, because the Puchetti were familiar with the mountains and were poorly equipped, and it was these characteristics that made it impossible for them to let the light and heavy infantry of Dionya catch up with them when they fled, and the Dionian cavalry did not play in the battle, and even if they appeared on the battlefield, there was no way to take the Puccitti rout in the mountains.

On the other side of the war, Tarantum suffered more than 4,000 casualties, close to 1/3 of its army, and most of them were killed in battle; Dionya suffered 600 casualties, but most of them were wounded, mostly from falls down the hill; More than 800 people were killed or wounded in Heraklia and Metapontum. Thus, although in the end it was the Mep-P coalition that retreated, in fact the losses on the side of the Greek coalition were much heavier. It's just that Mesapi and Puchetti lost a large number of cavalry, and Dionia also obtained nearly 400 high-quality war horses.

When Davers saw Theomillath, he did not assume the posture of a savior, but still faced him with a normal attitude, and at the same time enthusiastically directed the medical team to help the wounded soldiers of Tarantum, which made Deomiras feel ashamed.

The combined forces of the Mep retreated from the hills of Anglene into the territory of Tarantum and soon retreated north.

However, the Greek coalition was unable to catch up due to fatigue and too many wounded soldiers, so they settled in several nearby villages to rest and recuperate, and at the same time sent people to report the battle to the city of Tarantum and escort the wounded back to the camp.

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And on this very day, the Dionian Senate received a man.

His name was Mitrobatus, and he had come to ask for help from Dionia, but he was not from any of the allied city-states of Dionia, but from the Siru tribe in Bruti.

In the process of unification and union, the original Bruti tribal alliance in Cosenza began to speed up the integration and merger of large and small tribes in the territory, and under the general trend and force and coercion, most of the tribes chose to obey, but a small number of tribes led by the Xilu tribe refused to integrate.

According to the words of Mitrobates: they were Greeks, and most of them were forced to flee into the mountains to avoid disaster after the destruction of Syria, and they had the pride of the Greeks, how could they be co-opted by the barbarians and really live a barbaric life.

The envoys of the city of Brutiksenza sent several envoys to the Xilu tribe, but after the persuasion failed, there was no movement, and the people of the Xilu tribe thought that the matter had passed. However, a few months later, after Cosenza had completed his control over most of the tribes of Bruti and had effectively administered them, he sent another envoy to Siren.

This time, the envoy directly and forcefully demanded: the Xilu tribe should immediately submit to the tribal alliance and fully accept the governance of the tribal alliance, otherwise a large army will be sent to wipe it out!

The Siru tribe panicked and hurriedly sent Mitrobatus to ask Trina for help.

Trina decided that he was not capable of intervening in this matter, but fortunately he had already made Sipros angry with Davers, the Archon of Dionia, in advance, so he asked Mitrobatus to turn to Dionia for help.

On this day, the rotating chairman of the Senate was Cornerus, and he looked at the messenger who claimed to be a Greek, but did not look like a Greek at all, and looked puzzled.

Mitrobatus saw the doubts of the senators and justified: "I have inherited the appearance of my mother from Bruti, and it is precisely because my appearance does not resemble the Greeks that the chief of Silu chose me, because only in this way will it not arouse the suspicion of the Brutians around me. ”

Cornerus muttered to himself: Davers had raised the issue of Bruti once before the expedition, but before he could discuss it in depth, it was interrupted by Tarantum's request for help.

At this time, Polyxis stood up and said, "What can we Dionya do now?" Protest to the Brutis and tell them not to annex this small tribe?! None of you here would believe that our words alone would make the Brutis stop what they had been preparing for a long time. What are we going to do as soon as the Brutis reject us?! If you give it up, you will only lose the prestige of Dionia as the most powerful league in Davers! But if we want to take further action, I can't think of any other measure than war.

However, enough of the war experienced by the citizens of Dionya this year! Now our Archon is also leading our citizen soldiers in battle against the mighty Mesapi and Puchetti in Tarantum! Polyxis pointed at Mitrobatus, with a compassionate look, and said in a deep tone: "And look at this messenger from Silu, he said that they are because they are Greeks, so it is better to resist than to kick people, but who knows if it is true!" Are we willing to send our citizens to a strange and bloody battlefield again to fight the fierce Brutis for a race that doesn't look like us Greeks at all?! ”