More than half an hour later, almost all the Dionian troops completed the array, and this side quickly returned to silence, while the Persian side was still noisy.

Two days ago, after hearing Tribassus tell the situation of the Dionia camp, he became more confident in winning the battle. Now he is above the carriage and can see the situation on the other side. The rapid and efficient array of the Dionia army is too obvious compared to the chaos and drag on his own, which makes him feel a little uneasy. Moreover, the view is completely black. The uniform and oppressive feeling makes him heart-wrenching, which makes him shout involuntarily: "Trebassus, urge all troops to speed up the array! Speed ​​up the array!"

"Yes, king!"

After the Dionian army was lined up, the sun was almost rising into the middle of the sky, and the soldiers received orders from the team officials: "Get the time to supplement your diet."

Just as the soldiers of the first team of the Second Battalion of the First Legion were chewing the bread they carried and passing water bags to each other, someone exclaimed: "Captain, look! The Persians did have elephants!"

Standing behind the team and serving the soldiers, Alsinis, heard this and immediately walked to the front of the queue. Looking forward, he saw dozens of elephants wearing clothes and sharp swords in the opposite Persian army, under the command of the elephant husband, slowly walking to the front of the Persian array.

The elephants were huge in size and were particularly eye-catching compared to the surrounding army. Their appearance immediately caused a commotion among the First Legion and the soldiers of the surrounding legion.

Alsinis took a deep breath and turned around and shouted to the soldiers who were talking, "The Commander of the Martonis Legion told us before that there may be war elephants in the Persian army. What's so strange about you!"

"Captain, we are just curious that the Persians actually sent such a docile animal to the battlefield!" a soldier responded.

"No matter how gentle an animal is, it will be terrible once it starts crazy. Don't take it lightly!" Alsinis reminded him, and then smiled: "But the Persians don't know how many times we have seen elephants in Turiy Zoo. I thought that using it would scare us. At that time, we will in turn make the Persians suffer from the abuse of elephants!"

"Captain, don't worry, we are not afraid of elephants. We just think that elephants are so cute. It would be a pity if they all died in this battle." Another soldier said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Another soldier immediately responded: "I don't feel sorry that it is not our fault that these elephants died in battle. On the contrary, how good would it be if they could taste the elephant's meat after the war!"

"Crips, you foodie, you have eaten so much delicious food these days, but you are not satisfied! Do you think you can become as strong as an elephant by eating elephant meat?" Alsinis cursed with a smile.

"Captain, he just thinks the things under him are too small and want to get bigger." A soldier said loudly jokingly.

The soldiers burst into laughter.

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More than an hour later, the Persian army finally completed its formation.

The front row of the middle road is the Persian archers with loose formations, followed by Indian war elephants and sickle chariots. The war elephants are in the center, with chariots on both sides, followed by 3,000 Persian armored cavalry, behind the cavalry, 20,000 Greek heavy infantry and 10,000 undead troops. Artaxerxes is located in the rear, and behind him are ethnic troops from Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf coast.

The front of the right wing are Persian archers and archers from Armenia, Parthia and Medes, followed by 100 chariots from Medes and Babylon, followed by Dukeya, Armenia, Persian infantry, and then by tribes around the Caspian Sea, such as the Syrian Kali, Tapulians, etc. On the far right of the right wing are more than 10,000 cavalry from Armenia, Parthia and Medes.

The front of the left wing are the archers mixed troops of Persia, Arabia, Baktria and Alahosia, followed by infantry composed of Persia, Kariya, and the Sitakenes east of Susa, followed by Far Eastern ethnic troops led by Alahosia and Baktria. On the leftmost end of the left wing are more than 10,000 cavalry led by Persia, Scythia and Baktria, and 500 Arab camel cavalry are at the forefront.

From the Persian array situation, we can see that the Persian formation has a thick depth, among which the road power is the strongest.

The reason why the Persians made such arrangements was that the Dionian army had many infantry and had strong melee capabilities, so they increased their depth to enhance their special abilities in melee combat. Whether for safety reasons or to eliminate Artaxerxes' fear (Artaxerxes suffered from the javelin damage of Cyrus in the battle with Cyrus, which had psychological shadows), the power of the middle lane must be strengthened.

Therefore, Larabasus took the opportunity to make a suggestion: stock up on heavy troops in the middle, use war elephants and chariots to tear open the enemy's defense line on the opposite side, and then use armored cavalry to completely disrupt the enemy's heavy infantry. The Greek heavy infantry and the undead army followed the charge and completely destroyed the enemy's army, thus winning the victory...

Artaxerxes finally adopted his suggestion.

The formation adopted by the Dionian army is:

The middle route consists of the First Legion, Fourth Legion, Seventh Legion, and Twelfth Legion, the 15th Legion, which is unfolded in a checkerboard formation. When combined, the thickness is 10 columns, and there are 5 light infantry brigades in the center of the rear. The commander of the entire middle route is Martonis.

The left wing consists of the Second Legion, the Fifth Legion, the Eighth Legion, the Fourteenth Legion and the Sixteenth Legion in a checkerboard formation, and when combined, it is 10 rows in thickness, and there are no other troops behind;

The leftmost end of the left wing consists of the First Cavalry Legion, the Third Cavalry Legion, the Gaul Cavalry Legion and 2,000 Numibian Light Cavalry. The rear is nine light armored brigades. There are 6 light infantry brigades and 2,000 Baliarli Stone-spouting soldiers at the rear.

The right wing consists of the Third Legion, the Sixth Legion, the Eleventh Legion, the Thirteenth Legion and the Seventeenth Legion in a chessboard formation, with a combined thickness of 10 rows, and there are no other troops behind.

The front row of the right wing is composed of the Second Cavalry Legion, the Fourth Cavalry Legion, the Iberian Cavalry Legion and 2,000 Numibian light cavalry. The rear is also nine light armored brigades. The rear is six light infantry brigades and 2,000 Baliarli stone throwers.

The command center where King Davers is located is located in the rear of the middle road. In addition to the escort of the palace guards, there are also the Eighteenth Legion, the Nineteenth Legion, and the Twenty-first Legion located on its left and right, serving as a reserve force.

From the formation listed by the Dionys army, it can be seen that Dionys gathered heavy troops at both ends of the two wings, obviously trying to defeat the Persian cavalry first, and then detour from the two wings. The Persian cavalry was obviously stronger than Dionys, and Davers actually started from the strongest point of the enemy. He knew that there was a tiger in the mountain, but he was on the way to the tiger mountain.

Although the number of Persian troops was twice that of the Dionysian army, the caution of Persian King Artaxerxes obviously increased the depth of the array. Due to King Davers' confidence, the infantry array only maintained the thickness of 10 columns, so the length of both sides' formations was almost the same, both of which were as long as 15 miles long.

The Persian army has a complex source of troops, not only with different clothing and weapons, but also with very different soldiers themselves. Therefore, even though the entire formation is mostly dense arrays and stands on a flat battlefield, the experienced Dionian scouts can still roughly judge the troops in the front of the Persian formation through careful observation.

The Dionian army was almost all black helmets and black armor, and the troops were relatively simple. Davers deliberately did not let the enemy see the reality and reality of the array. Therefore, after the heavy infantry and cavalry in the front of the formation were arranged and able to block the enemy's sight, they began to arrange the troops in the rear.

At the same time, Davers also ordered that soldiers located behind the array should not raise their weapons before fighting!

At this moment, Phyllisus led the staff to draw a sketch of the distribution of troops in the front of the entire Persian formation based on the report of the scouts.

Davers took the wooden board he handed over and carefully read the sketch above, and was slightly surprised: "Hey, the Persians have 100 more tanks, which is somewhat different from the numbers Izam told us."

"Maybe I've arrived recently." Phyllisius explained.

Davers thought about it and made a decision quickly: "Then let... the right-wing light infantry brigade first distribute 2,000 people to deal with these tanks."

"Yes, your majesty." Phyllisus immediately went to convey the order.

"Your Majesty, it's already noon. Let's have something to eat first." Heniporis reminded from the side.

"I'm not hungry yet." Henipolis had asked several times, so Davers waved his hand impatiently. After the messenger set off, he looked left with concern, even if he was in his position, it was impossible to see the mobilization of troops several miles away.

After a while, he suddenly realized something and asked, "Hillomus, did Amintas and the others eat?"

Before Henipolis could answer, Heronimus' voice came from behind him: "Your Majesty, we are old and do not participate in the battle, so it doesn't matter whether we eat lunch or not-"

"Yes, Your Majesty, we don't have the time to eat now. Just wait for the battle to start quickly!" Amintas interrupted impatiently.

"Don't worry." Davers said calmly: "The further time goes, the more unfavorable it is for the Persians..."

As he was speaking, Izam rode on his horse from the left and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, I have found the position of the Ksokant tribe warriors in the Persian army!"
Chapter completed!