Chapter 207: Joining Of Forces
Their stay in Sparta was relatively limited, only a handful of days wherein they purchased a number of donkeys and carts before sending them back to the ocean encampment where they could load up the supplies they brought and rejoin the legions before heading off towards the front.
The handful of days were spent in relative peace... well peace for a spartan, Julius was challenge almost daily while undergoing his own military practice, the spartan’s meanwhile conducted a mock battle against the legion, which was followed shortly thereafter by a mock battle with the Spartan royal guard against Julius’s Praetorians.
The army battle ended in a relative draw as the men became exhausted long before either side could clear have been called a winner, however the Praetorians were handidly the winners in a smaller scale fight where the Sparta phalanx couldn’t be utilized fully.
The prowess of these outsiders was shocking to the Spartans, however the respect for them also grew, nothing was better than another like minded colleague after all.
Sadly the relentless thrill of new combatants came to an end, after the Romanus solidery was easily fired up after their series of battle and the fact that the Spartans were the best of the best when it comes to hoplite battles their morale was soaring knowing they were off to fight against hoplites who weren’t professional soldiers.
Just like when the fought against the Lunan armies or Visigoth who were conscripts pulled up from the commoners and rushed through training as quickly as possible.
These battle hardened veterans joined up with the recently arrived regular soldiery with the supplies entow.
The soldiery rejoined had a whole new plan in place for their own personal training tricks and tactics that they had picked up from their comrades within the Spartan forces on how to further progress their own performance as hoplites.
as the 11,000 Romanus soldiers marched on away from the capital of sparta towards the border and ever closer to the front against the allied armies.