The trumpets of the Greek city-states attacking and retreating were roughly the same, and the previous military deployment of Turii remained basically the same, except that all 200 cavalry were allocated to Archita, which made Archita more favorable to Davos. Thank him repeatedly.
Burkes stood not far away and watched everyone discussing. He also had a good impression of Davos. He didn't understand: why Davos would sing praises to the Pythagorean school at this time, and he had never heard him mention it before. ! Did he not know that in Greater Greece, except for Tarantum, no city-state would have a favorable opinion of the Pythagoreans, making it difficult for this mysterious group to survive in Greater Greece? This attitude of his may affect the perception of Ferris and Kunogolata about him!
Just when Bulcos was worried about Davos, the meeting before the station would soon end. Davos jumped on the horse and walked slowly towards his team, while observing the two teams that were about to fight side by side: the Tarantum reinforcements led by Archita, all of them were two Thirty-year-old strong young man, carrying a round shield on his left shoulder, a spear on his right shoulder, and a helmet, while marching, talking to his companions, his expression is relatively relaxed; while most of the civic soldiers in Turii seem to be The expressions are solemn, many people have gray hair, and their bodies are slightly hunched...
Looking at it, Davos frowned, and suddenly he felt something was wrong. He pointed to the back of the team, and he said: "What's going on? Why are there soldiers wearing leather armor? ... Wait... there are some who are half naked, there are still many soldiers like this... No, your number is more than 4,000!"
Burkes said: "Those are free people and foreigners living in Turui. After discussion, the Turie Citizens Assembly passed a resolution, 'All free people and foreigners who participated in this war, the war will be won. I will become a citizen of Turii', but your suggestion reminded us. The number of troops in Turii is about 6,000 now." Burkes was a little complacent.
This slightly eased the unease in Davos' heart. He sighed and said, "I can't believe that there are so many free people in Turiyi City!"
"Actually, this is only a small part. There are still more than half of the free people who are watching and have not joined this battle." Burkes's words surprised Davos and at the same time made him ponder.
The Turii coalition forces were divided into three columns, left, center and right. They formed a long line on the Xubari Plain and slowly marched westward along the Krati River. The scout cavalry kept going back and forth to report the movements of the Lucanians.
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The messenger came and said to the leader of Davos: "General Ferris ordered you to stop advancing and form here!"
"Understood." Davos nodded in response, and then said to the trumpeter beside him, "Blow the horn, stop advancing!"
The bugle sounded, and the mercenary team quickly stopped advancing.
"Order, array!" Davos ordered again.
The trumpeter blew the round bronze horn again.
Immediately, the head of the column of mercenaries moved to the right and the tail swung forward. Davos's army is based on squads as the basic unit of combat (squads only play a management role and cannot fight independently). When it is thrown over and the front is facing west, the formation is basically completed, and the speed is very fast.
Davos placed the first heavy infantry company at the far right, because this was to connect with the middle road of Turiyi, so the stable leader of the first heavy infantry company Capps controlled the pace of the team's attack and retreat. Avoid getting out of touch with the mid lane. On the far left is the third infantry company led by Amintas. Considering the large number of enemies, the flank on the far left may be surrounded. A company captain who dares to fight will keep the morale of the soldiers high. , in fact, Davos felt that Hieronymus, who was equally brave and had more combat experience, was more suitable for this important task. However, the expeditionary general who had just joined him had too many recruits (the one who joined the team when he was in Byzantium). ), Davos is still not very relieved. Fortunately, there are two companies of light shield soldiers behind Amintas. I believe that there is no problem with the stable line of defense. Traditionally, the thickness of the Greek phalanx has at least eight columns, but Davos's team has only four rows, because of the small number of troops, to ensure the length of the front, the thickness can only be thinner. But Davos believed that experienced mercenaries were fully capable of holding off a large number of enemies.
The left flank has been formed, and the middle road is still slowly unfolding. The shouts of the officers, the orders of the messengers, and the soldiers reminding each other, all kinds of voices are intertwined, it is like a big noisy market... General Ferris A thousand mercenaries of Drakes were placed at the forefront of the front line, and the Turii citizens were in the middle, and after the free residence, there were a dozen columns thick...
The right-wing formation was also quicker. Archita placed the Tarantum citizens in the front, the mercenaries in the back, and two hundred cavalry at the far right. His phalanx was also eight columns thick.
Finally, the formation of the middle lane was completed, and the formations of the left, middle and right flanks formed a line. The priests of Turii carried the statue of Apollo, the sun god, the protector of Turii, came to the square and began to sing praises, then offered blood and food, praying for the victory of the war, and the soldiers also began to silently pray to Apollo. Luo prayed for his blessing; the soldiers of Tarantum prayed too, but not to the sun god, their city-state had its own patron saint, Poseidon, and even the legendary city-state demigod, the hero Fa Lantus; and most of the mercenaries believed in Ares, the god of war, and Zeus, the main god, but the soldiers of Davos were different. They also believed in Ares before, but Davos led them to victory one after another, After creating many miracles, I began to believe in Hades, the king of the underworld...
When the whole army was immersed in prayers to the gods, the scouts also rushed back one after another, bringing the news that the Lucania coalition was coming, and Lucania's scouts also appeared in the Greek coalition. He was quickly pushed back by the overwhelming Greek cavalry.
"The Lucanians are less than three miles away from us... The whole army should be prepared!" Kunogorata said nervously.
Ferris waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, the Lucanians won't attack so quickly. Their army hasn't appeared yet. Even if it does, it will take a while to set up a battle formation."
Kunogolata retreated in disgust.
After a while, I saw a golden light lit up on the field in the distance, covering the mountains and plains, rolling towards the east like a golden torrent.
Kunogolata took a deep breath and said nervously: "Just as the young leader of the mercenary army said, the Lucanians really changed into our weapons and armor, which is a little troublesome!"
"Don't worry, even if the Lucanians changed their equipment, in such a short period of time, they couldn't learn the battle formation of our Greeks, but they abandoned their own strengths. Maybe it's a good thing." Si calmly comforted him, then turned to the herald and said, "Quickly inform the officers, let them not be in a hurry, and let the soldiers continue to rest."
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"Damn, we are carrying the sun behind our backs. The sun shines on them, and it hurts my eyes. When we fight for a while, throwing javelins on Epithenes and Tspit will have an impact!" Matoris felt a little bit. Uneasy.
"Then what can be done, who told us to be in the east. Isn't Turiyi's protector of Apollo? It's better for them to pray to Apollo, so they don't have to come out today." Olivers said jokingly.
"It's better to find our Davos leader and directly let Hades turn the day into night, and this battle will not have to be fought." Epithenes also joked.
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The mercenary soldiers were resting, and the team officers also gathered around Davos and joked in a few words, ignoring the large number of Lucanians on the opposite side.