"Bulcos, long time no see, I thought you had forgotten your old friend!" Davers greeted him with a smile.
"How can I forget it! It's just that after I came back, there are a lot of backlogs that need to be dealt with urgently, and I can't make time for it." Burkes explained.
"Oh, are you finally done now?" Davers said jokingly.
"It's not over." Burkes said sternly: "However, Turii City Hall has an important order for me to convey to you."
"Oh, what is an important order? The adults of Turii finally remembered our mercenaries." Davos said teasingly.
"Want me to speak here?" Burkes glanced around.
"I'm sorry, I was negligent, go to my tent." Davos expressed his apology and led them to the center of the camp.
"Is this 'tug-of-war' game learned from Persia?" Burkes asked.
"I thought about it, mainly because I was worried that the soldiers stayed in the barracks for a long time and had nothing to do, and some unexpected situations might occur. Therefore, letting them play sports games can not only consume their energy, but also exercise their bodies. Develop teamwork skills. In fact, there is a reward for holding the final champion of this competition, and I have come up with a lot of money myself."
"You managed these mercenaries very well!" Burkes praised, and then changed the topic: "But you don't have to worry anymore, you will have something to do soon."
Davos was not surprised: "The Lucanians are all in front of us, and Turiyi doesn't act again. I thought you were ready to give them the land outside the city."
Hearing the resentment in Davos's words, Burkes was thinking about how to respond, but out of the corner of his eyes he caught a glimpse of a four-meter-high stone wall in the wooden wall on the right, and said in surprise: "You are still going to Build a stone wall?"
Davos blinked: "The ground of the wooden wall is relatively damp, so it is not strong enough, so another section of stone wall was built with those waste stones to prevent it from being breached."
"You and your soldiers are really amazing, you actually built the camp into a city!" Burkes criticized vaguely.
"There is nothing we can do. The number of people is too small. If we don't build the camp stronger, Turi will be surrounded, and we will be rescued by mercenaries. We are surrounded, who will rescue us? So everything has to rely on ourselves!" Diver said sternly.
"Then the market outside is also related to the defense of the camp?" Burkes asked rhetorically.
"At first, I just wanted to rely on the market to buy and sell things to meet my daily needs. I didn't expect it to become like this... But don't worry, when the Lucarians are repelled, everything will return to normal." Davos told him ensure.
Burkes just wanted to gain some psychological advantage in the following conversation, after all, only the city hall and council can make a decision on whether to force the mercenaries to close the market, so instead of continuing to pursue it, he decided to go back and report to Ferris. After entering Davos' tent, he directly said: "According to the situation detected, the Lucanians may attack Turii within two days. After deliberation, the generals decided to meet the enemy and ask you to arrive at that time. to fight."
"Please tell me, what is the plan of General Turui?" Davos said sarcastically. In fact, he was very helpless. As a participant in a war, he didn't even have the right to participate in the discussion before the war. This is really strange. He didn't know that the same was true when the Greek mercenaries were under the command of Cyrus, but the mercenaries at that time accounted for half of the number and were powerful. So when there are excessive demands, he will discuss with Clearkus and others... When Davos crossed, the little Cyrus had died in battle, and everything was decided by the mercenaries themselves, so everything was It's everyone's discussion. Now, Davos is back to experience the bad feeling that when he first came to this world, everything was decided by others and his destiny could not be the master.
Burkes was equally helpless. In fact, Ferris once proposed to let the mercenary leaders participate in the discussion and plan this battle. Kunogolata firmly refused, saying that it was to prevent the occurrence of an incident similar to Dionysius (Dionysius). Nisius was the tyrant of Syracuse at this time. He was once driven out of power by the democrats led by the people. Later, by quietly introducing mercenaries into the city, he bloodily suppressed the democrats, thus establishing himself as the dictator of Syracuse. throne). The hiring of mercenaries was a suggestion made by Ferris, discussed by the generals and passed by the council, and handed over to Bulcos, who was recommended by Ferris, to recruit, so he had to avoid suspicion.
"According to the investigation of the scouts, there are more than 10,000 Lucania coalition forces. On our side, your soldiers have more than 2,000, Drakes and the others have more than 2,000, and Tarantum reinforcements have 1,000. Five hundred men, Turiyi can send four thousand, we still have two hundred cavalry, and the total number is close to ten thousand..."
After introducing the strength of the two sides, Burkes picked up a branch and gestured on the ground: "The generals' plan is that the reinforcements of Tarantum will be located on the right flank when they form the formation. Given their minimum strength, Adriankes and One thousand people from Sesta were added to it; the middle road was our troops in Turui. Due to the last failure, the number of young and middle-aged citizens in Turui has been greatly reduced, so more than half of these 4,000 people are of age. Citizens over the age of forty, so add a thousand of Drakes to the middle; and... Since your troops are experienced and strong in combat, the left flank is in charge of your troops, and there are also a hundred cavalry. Another hundred The famous Tarantum cavalry is included in the right flank. Of course, this is just a plan, specific to the battlefield, it may change depending on the enemy's situation..." Burkes finished, watching the expression on Davos' face.
Davos rested his jaw in one hand, looked at the pattern on the ground and fell into contemplation, and was silent for a long time.
Burkes became nervous.
"Want to hear my opinion?" Davos raised his head, pointed to the sketch on the ground, and said calmly: "The military configuration given by Turii should be relatively balanced. Obviously, the generals mean that they want to Use our defenses to overwhelm the enemy's attack through persistent confrontation."
Burkes nodded: Phiris said something similar when he explained to him why he was set up like this. Davos really lived up to his reputation. Just by looking at the sketches, he could infer the generals' intentions.
"Although I have never fought against the Lucanians, I have fought many mountain races in Persia. Their combat characteristics should be similar, fierce, loosely organized, and poorly equipped. Perhaps this is what your generals dare to do. The confidence to take this arrangement with less to more lies. However, there are a few issues that need to be brought to the attention of your generals-" Davos changed his tone, raised his voice, and said:
"Last year, Turii killed more than 10,000 people in the battle with the Lucanians, which also meant that nearly ten thousand sets of excellent Greek hoplites fell into the hands of the Lucanians. You can use it to update your own rudimentary equipment. I encountered such a situation when I was scouting in Amendolara. Secondly, according to my scouting scouting, the number of the Lucania coalition was at least 13,000, more than We have more than 3,000 more people, which means that their formation will be thicker than us, and their formation will be longer than us. Not only are the forces of impact and push greater than us, but also the threat of flanking, and they are just bigger If you win a game, your morale must be very high in the face of us. And according to my observation, you Turii people are afraid of the Lucanians in your heart, so after a long battle, who will retreat first in the end? It’s easy to say.” Davos tapped the pattern on the ground representing Tuliyi’s middle road with a branch: “Don’t forget, there are still half of the ‘old people’ in here.”
The confidence that Burkos had originally instilled in "Greek heavy infantry fighting head-on without fear of barbarians" was shaken by Davos' words.
"Want to hear about my plan?" At this moment, Davos said.