In fact, although these Gentile merchants who auctioned land in Amendora and produced and sold specialty goods benefited a lot from some preferential bills issued by the Alliance, except for a few such as Theos and Dickpolis who joined the Alliance, most of them were still hesitating and waiting. Especially after the outbreak of the war with Syracuse, the failure of the Southern Italian coalition battle and even the destruction of the Tarantum cavalry on the industrial manufacturing area made them look down on the prospects of the Alliance. If it weren't for the blockade of the Taranto Bay by Syracuse and the Tarantum fleet, they would have fled by ship.

However, Davers' return wiped out Tarantum Sea and the army in one day, defeated the powerful navy of Syracuse, creating a miracle of war in the impossible, which shocked these Gentile merchants. They were infected by the fanatical people of Dionys and began to believe that Dionys was indeed blessed by Hades. As those who did business in the Mediterranean and dared to invest in Dionys, they did not lack adventurous spirit, nor did they lack vision, when they began to treat them.

When Dionia had hope in the prospects of this war, they suddenly discovered that if Dionia really won the war, then Dionia's power would inevitably expand as rapidly as it had been after the previous wars. In the southern part of Greater Greece and even in the eastern part of Sicily, the main trading circle in the Western Mediterranean was under the control of Dionia's power, what does this mean for anyone who does business and trade in this region!

So at the instigation of Dickpolis and Theos, the merchants made bold investments and commissioned Theos to deliver the list of supplies to the hands of Davers, the new king of Dionys, who they confirmed to be descendants of Hades.

Davers carefully read the huge amount of materials recorded on the papyrus again. The sincerity of these Gentile merchants was clear at a glance. Of course, Davers also knew what they longed for, so he said: "Tios, go back and thank them for me, and tell them that the alliance will never forget the traitor who stabbed the dagger behind us when we are in trouble! But he will not forget the friends who helped us in the most difficult times! There is an old saying in the East that is, 'The kindness of a drop of water must be rewarded with a pool of spring water!'"

After seeing off Theos, Davers came to the training ground in the barracks. Here, the free people recruited by Capps are training.

Capps saw Davers coming and rushed to the sidelines.

"Have all the soldiers summoned?" Davers looked at the field. The training ground that could accommodate more than 30,000 people was occupied by a team of free people, and it still seemed very empty.

"Only 2,570 people have arrived," Capps explained. "Others, because they have to donate to Victory Square, will not arrive tomorrow morning."

Davers expressed his understanding, then looked at the relatively neat queue on the field, and asked, "Are they all free people who have received more than one year of military training?"

"Your Majesty, there are not so many free people in the port who have been trained by us. I have drawn out the personnel from the baggage team and collected enough 6,000 people." Cappus said truthfully.

"Will there be any problems with the next material transportation?" Davers asked again.

"I retained the management and officers of the baggage team, and recruited free people from the port to make up for the number of people. Now that Syracuse's maritime advantage has been broken, there should be no more enemies to land in our rear and attack our baggage team. It should not be a problem to complete the transportation task," Capps explained.

"Oh, break down the east wall and repair the west wall!" Davers sighed. This war allowed him to see that the population resources of Dionia were still short of, and he had no better way for a short period of time: "Send the spear and let them practice the queue first, I'll take a look."

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Tapirus was a slave to Cristoya restaurant. After more than four years, he had left his slave and became a free citizen. He was already a person in charge of a restaurant in Turiyi City. When Cappus went to the baggage team to draw personnel, he took the initiative to join because it was too long to become an alliance citizen according to the normal way. Only by participating in the battle can the years be shortened as quickly as possible. Therefore, Tapirus believed that this was a rare opportunity. Although life was in danger, this danger was worth taking, because King Davers was back, and this army was formed by him!

Many free people force themselves to join this team with this idea.

Tapirus was appointed as the team leader because of his high military quality (having participated in military training for one and a half years), and knowing arithmetic and literacy (skills learned in restaurants). However, the position he is currently standing at the left front of a team, which is the position of the team leader. Because it should have been drawn by various legions, the veterans who served as team officials at all levels in this new team have been disbanded and returned home and will be able to return to the team tomorrow, so the new recruits are temporarily replaced.

At this time, the city-state slaves held bundles of spears and distributed them to every free people.

This is the weapon we want to use?! Tapirus looked at the spear in his hand in surprise. It was much longer than the spear used in training.

The free people were a little excited after getting their weapons, and some even waved them. However, the free people who were not proficient in using this spear were either the spearhead and other spears, or the tail of the gun touched the teammates next to them, and the formation was chaotic for a moment and the noise was everywhere.

The rapid military horn sounded immediately on the training ground, and the free people rushed to do so. Although the spears were still colliding with each other, few people would make noises loudly. They had long experience in military training and knew that if they did not comply with the orders, the team officials would pull out the offenders and take off their pants and stick them in public, which would be too detrimental to dignity!

"You all pay attention!" Several training instructors shouted loudly in front of the queue: "You must hold a gun like this when standing..."

Tapirus, in accordance with the instructor's posture, put the spear on the left side, touched the ground with the tail of the spear, stretched his left arm straight down to hold the spear, crossed his right hand across his left shoulder, and held the spear.

The soldiers did this one by one, and the spears no longer collided, but stood upright, like a neat and dense forest.

Davers was satisfied that the free people on the field could implement orders so quickly and quickly grasp the key points of holding guns.

"It seems that their more than a year of military training has not been in vain!" he said with relief.

At this time, the long military horn sounded again, and the flag bearers of each team immediately pointed the black team's flag in front of the flag.

"Go forward!" Tapirus shouted, the drummer beat the snare drum rhythmically, and the soldiers began to step forward with their guns.

As the steps progressed, the originally neat formation became more and more uneven, and the array became a little scattered. The spears that were originally standing upright moved with the movement of their bodies, swinging left and right, and hitting each other, making a sound of "Crash! Crash!..."

Seeing Davers frowning, Capps explained: "Your Majesty, because all the veterans have disbanded and returned home, their control of the entire team, the maintenance of the formation, and the execution of the orders are much worse."

"I understand." Davers said, his eyes always staring at the performance of the free people on the field.

The sound of the bugle changed again.

"Defense!" yelled Tapirus.

The soldiers of the squad in the advance stopped and began to gather in the middle: after the first row of soldiers laid their spears downward, the next few soldiers who were close to each other held their spears forward in turn, until the spears in the sixth row could still cross the shoulders of the first row of soldiers and form part of the spear wall. At this time, the entire array, which was originally scattered, became a dense and thick spear square array.

Davers' brow still did not stretch, and he turned to Capps and said, "Do you know why I was drawing freeminists to use this extended stabbing gun?"

"Because we have to deal with the cavalry of the Syracuse people." Cappus said without hesitation, obviously thinking about Davers's move.

"Yes, our cavalry cannot resist the Numibians and Celtics who have grown up on horseback since childhood. I designed this super spear to deal with the mercenary cavalry of Syracuse. However, what I want is not to use this rigid and rigid defensive formation to stop the cavalry's attack, but what I want is to use attack to smash the enemy cavalry's attack!" Davers stared at Capps with bright eyes.

Cappus was somewhat surprised: "Let them attack the Syracuse cavalry with four meters of spear?!"

"Yes." Davers said in a affirmative tone: "And they are required to attack at the speed of charge and try to maintain a dense formation during the attack. Therefore, I am not going to equip them with armor, just need to move and run with guns in both hands, so that they should be lighter and more flexible."

The super spear phalanx conceived by Davers was not to learn from the Macedonian spear phalanx in his previous life. He didn't even look down on the clumsy formation. Dionia already had his own heavy infantry legion phalanx, and its combat effectiveness was no worse than that of the Macedonian phalanx. He wanted to learn from the famous Swiss spear soldiers in the medieval European medieval era in his previous life. These strong mountain men from the mountainous areas were even able to hold 4-meter-long spears and halberds, launching a group charge of the entire phalanx towards the heavy armored and heavy armored medieval heavy cavalry, and defeated the French heavy cavalry many times, thus gaining fame in Western Europe and becoming an important means for medieval Swiss to make a living. Even the French royal family and the Holy See hired them as the court guards.

Your Majesty, if they are not equipped with armor——” As the responsibility of the leader, Capps had to remind: “Under the attack of bows and arrows and javelins, their casualties may be huge!”

"They only protect the flanks of the entire formation and will not be arranged on the front. Besides, it is too late to make protective armor for them at this time." Davers replied.

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