The Greek city-states attacked and retreated were roughly the same. Turiyi's military deployment had basically not changed before. In addition to allocating 200 cavalrymen to Achita, this made Achita more fond of Davers and thanked him repeatedly.

Burcos stood not far away and saw everyone discussing. He didn't understand why Davers sang praises to the Pythagoras school at this time, and had never heard him mention it before! Didn't he know that in Great Greece, except Tarantum, no city-state would have a good impression of the Pythagoras school, which made this mysterious group difficult to survive in Great Greece? His attitude may affect the perception of Ferris, Kunogorata and others!

Just when Bulcos was worried about Davers, the meeting in front of the station would soon end. Davers jumped on his horse and slowly walked towards his team, while observing the two teams that were about to fight side by side: the Tarantum reinforcements led by Achita were all strong young men in their twenties and thirties. They were energetic and carried a round shield on their left shoulder, a gun on their right shoulder, and a helmet on their helmets. While marching, they talked to their companions, with a relaxed expression; while Turiyi's civilians mostly looked solemn, and many of them had gray hair and slightly hunched over their bodies...

As he looked, Davers frowned. Suddenly he felt something was wrong. He pointed to the back of the team and said to Burkos who was following him: "What's going on? Why are there soldiers wearing leather armor?... Wait... and some of them are half-naked, and there are still many such soldiers... No, your number is more than 4,000!"

Burkos continued: "Those are free people and the Gentiles who live in Turiyi. After discussion, the Turiyi Citizens Congress passed a resolution, 'All free people and foreigners who participate in this war will become Turiyi citizens after the victory of the war'. It's your suggestion that reminds us. Now the number of people in Turiyi's team is about 6,000." Burkos is a little satisfied.

This slightly relieved Davers' uneasiness, and he sighed: "I didn't expect that there are many free people in Turiyi City!"

"In fact, this is only a small part, and most of the free people are waiting and watching and not joining the battle." While Bulcos's words surprised Davers, they also made him think.

The Turiyi coalition forces were divided into three columns on the left, middle and right, lined up in long lines on the Sobari Plain and slowly marched west along the Krati River. The reconnaissance cavalry kept traveling back and forth, rewarding the Lucanian movements.

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The messenger rushed over and said to the leader Davers: "General Ferris ordered you to stop advancing and make a formation here!"

"I understand." Davers nodded and responded, then said to the Si Hu soldiers beside him: "Blow the trumpet, stop moving forward!"

The sound of the bugle sounded, and the mercenary troops stopped moving forward soon.

"Command, array!" Davers ordered again.

The horn soldiers blew the round bronze trumpet again.

Immediately, the head of the mercenary column moved to the right and the tail of the team swung forward. Davers's army used the team as the basic unit of combat (the team only played a management role and could not fight independently). When placing the column, it was originally arranged downward in four rows of one team, so the "long dragon" of the entire team was thrown over and faced westward, and the array was basically completed and the speed was very fast.

Davers ranks the first infantry company at the far right end, because this side is to connect with Turiyi's middle lane, so Cappus, the steady first infantry company captain, controls the team's attack and retreat pace to prevent disconnection from the middle lane. The left end 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, Davers thinks that Hironimus, who is also brave but has richer combat experience, is more suitable for the responsibility.

Davers was not relieved to have this important task, but this former expeditionary general who surrendered to him had too many new recruits (who joined the team in Byzantine). Fortunately, there were two light shield soldiers behind Amintas, and I believe that there was no problem in stabilizing the defense line. Traditionally, the Greek phalanx had at least eight columns, while Davers's team had only four rows. Because of the small force, to ensure the length of the line, the thickness would be thinner. But Davers believed that experienced mercenaries could completely block the large number of enemies.

The left wing has been lined up, and the middle lane is still slowly unfolding. The shouts of the team officials, the commanders' orders, the soldiers remind each other, and all kinds of voices are intertwined, just like a noisy big market...Ferris placed a thousand mercenaries from Dracos at the forefront of the front line, and Turiyi's militias were in the middle, and behind the free house, there were more than a dozen columns of thickness...

The right wing array was also relatively fast. Achita lined up Tarantum's civilians in front, and mercenaries were behind. At the far right were two hundred cavalrymen, and his square array was also eight rows thick.

Finally, the middle lane was also arranged, and the left, middle, and right wing arrays were connected into a line. The priests of Turiyi carried the statue of Turiyi's guardian god Apollo, the sun god, and came to the square formation to sing hymns, then donated blood and food to pray for victory in the war. The soldiers also began to pray to Apollo silently in order to obtain his blessing; the soldiers of Tarantum were also praying, but not to the sun god. Their city-state had their own patron saint Poseidon, and even the legendary city-state demigod hero Frantus; and the mercenaries mostly believed in the war god Ares and the main god Zeus, but Davers' soldiers were different. They also believed in Ares, but Davers led them to achieve victory after victory and created many miracles, and began to believe in the Pluto Hadith...

When the entire army was immersed in prayer for the gods, the scouts rushed back one after another, bringing news that the Lucanian coalition was about to arrive. The Lucanian exploration cavalry also appeared in front of the Greek coalition and was soon forced to retreat by the numerous Greek cavalry.

"The Lucanians are less than three miles away from us... the entire army should be prepared!" Kunogorata said nervously.

Phiris waved his hand and said, "No hurry, the Lucanians will not attack so quickly. Their army has not yet appeared. Even if it appears, it will take some time to set up a battle formation."

Kunogorata retreated in disappointment.

After a while, I saw a golden light lit up from the field in the distance, and the mountains and fields were filled with them, rolling eastward like a golden torrent.

Kunogorata gasped and said nervously: "Just as the young leader of the mercenary said, the Lucanians have indeed replaced our weapons and armor, which is a bit troublesome!"

"Don't worry, even if the Lucanians changed their equipment, they could not learn the battle formation of our Greeks in such a short time, but they abandoned their own strengths. Maybe it would be a good thing." Phiris comforted him calmly and turned to the messenger and said, "Go and notify the officials of each team so that they don't worry and let the soldiers continue to rest."

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"Damn, we are carrying the sun on their backs. The sun shines on them, making my eyes uncomfortable. When the battle comes, it will affect Epitianis and Tspit's javelins!" Martoris felt a little uneasy.

"Then is there any way, who told us to be in the East? Isn't Turiyi's guardian god Apollo? Why don't you pray to Apollo? You don't have to come out today." Olivers said jokingly.

"It's better to find our leader Davers and let Hades turn the day into night, so there is no need to fight this battle." Epitronis also quipped.

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The mercenary soldiers were resting, and the team officials gathered around Davers and joked in a few words, not taking the large number of Lucanians on the opposite side seriously.
Chapter completed!