Because Leotizides once again received an urgent call for help from Minoa, the Carthaginian army stormed for several days, and the siege equipment they made caused great casualties to the Minoan defenders, and Minoa was almost unable to withstand it. At the same time, he received news from Selinus that he had led his army to leave the port of Selinus by boat, and the Carthaginians had launched an attack on the city of Selinus the next day.

All this made Leotizides eager to deal with the Carthaginian army under the city of Gera as soon as possible, so after consulting with the Gera and the Camanlina reinforcements, he decided to have a battle with the Carthaginians.

Early in the morning, Leotizides led 8,000 soldiers of the 8th Legion, 1,000 cavalry of the 4th Cavalry Legion, 5,000 soldiers of Gela, and 3,000 reinforcements of Kamanlina, a total of 17,000 men, out of the city of Gera, and after marching four miles west, he faced the Carthaginian army camp and set up a position.

The arrival of the huge convoy of troop convoys into the port of Gera could not hide the Carthaginian army that had built a camp near the sea, so the Carthaginian army did not attack the city for two days, but under the repeated persuasion of Kisgow, Hasdruba summoned about 2,000 soldiers stationed in Echnom, and only a few hundred remained. In addition, he issued an order to the Carthaginian army under his command who had participated in the siege of Enna, and sent 1,500 soldiers to the city on a journey through the mountains and under the stars.

Hasdruba was struck by one of Kisgow's sayings: "...... According to what the sentries observed, there were no less than 200 Dionian troop carriers, so at least 10,000 Dionian soldiers entered Geira. As a result, the defenders of the city are not about the same number as our soldiers, so it is impossible for the Dioonians to try to defeat us just to defend the city, because we are small in number compared to the large army led by Lord Margo, but we are the closest to the Dionian territory, and we are a great threat to them. As long as we can defeat the Dionian army, we will be able to accomplish the goal promised by the Margoth in the Senate as soon as possible to drive the Dioonians out of Sicily, and Hasdruba you will be praised by the people of Carthage! ……”

So when he learned that the Dionian army had left the city of Gera, Hasdruba couldn't wait to start gathering troops in the camp.

While the Ionian coalition was arraying, Hasdruba also led his army out of the camp and came to the opposite side of the Dionian coalition, where they also began to array.

Hasdruba's army consisted of 10,000 mixed Phoenician and Numibian troops, 4,000 Iberian soldiers, 2,500 Lusitan warriors, 600 Celtic warriors, and more than 1,000 special soldiers, for a total of about 18,500 soldiers.

Since the place where the two sides were about to engage was a flat meadow with an unobstructed view for several miles, the Dionian coalition began to line up first, thus giving Hasdruba and Kisgow a chance to observe.

The battle formation of the Dionian coalition was about three miles long, and it was all heavy infantry, and they were stacked on top of each other like a long iron wall.

Because the unique black helmets and black armor of the Dionian army were very conspicuous in the formation, it first attracted the attention of Hasdruba, who found that the Dionian army was mainly concentrated on the right side of the battle formation (the left flank of the Dionian coalition), so after a short discussion with Gisgow, he began to arrange the formation: 7,000 mixed Phoenician and Numibian troops were on the left flank, facing the Dionian legionnaires.

This army is the Magonides family to prepare to Iberia to develop after the specially formed army, for various considerations, at that time did not recruit Carthaginians, but in the Numibian region and the North African coast of the Phoenician allies recruited a lot of poor and displaced people, at the beginning of 20,000 people, at the peak of the 40,000 people, they are the Magonides family in Iberia to gain a foothold, expand the territory of the main force, more than ten years under the leadership of Margo, Hasdruba, Having fought countless battles against the fierce natives of Iberia, they were the most relied upon strength of the Magonides. In this attack on Sicily, Marco brought 20,000 men with him, and 10,000 soldiers remained in southern Iberia.

In the center, Hasdruba prepared to defend the remaining 3,000 Phoenician and Numibian soldiers with 2,000 Iberian infantry.

The Iberian infantry was made up of natives living in southern Iberia, and although they were not as fierce as their distant counterparts, the Lusitanians, they were more numerous and united, and they caused great trouble for the Magonides conquest in southern Iberia, and it took about 6 or 7 years for most of the tribes to submit to Marco.

Therefore, Marco did not dare to enslave the southern Iberian races in the same way that Carthage had enslaved the Numibians, but heeded the advice of his nephew Haka: as long as they submitted, he did not deprive them of his territory, allowed them to live freely in his jurisdiction, did not levy taxes on them, did not interfere in the internal affairs of the tribes, and traded with these tribes for the goods of daily life at lower prices......

But these races also had obligations to follow: not to violate the laws of the colonies (this law was not Carthaginian law, but the laws of the Haka based on the situation in southern Iberia), and when the Magonides waged war abroad, they were required to provide troops, and of course, if they won, they would also receive a good return of booty; In addition, there must be no war between the tribes, and once there is a conflict, it will be resolved by the Magonid family, which is equivalent to making the Magonid family the great leader of the tribes in southern Iberia, and the interests of the tribes have not been harmed, but have gained a lot of benefits, and the resistance to the Mago has naturally been greatly reduced.

At this point, Margo's territory in southern Iberia was not only largely stable, but also had a large supply of free soldiers, which greatly reduced the military costs for maintaining the security of the territory, and also reduced the number of mercenaries (mainly Phoenician and Numibian forces), and Marco brought 15,000 Iberian infantry with him during this landing.

And the right flank is made up of 2,500 Lusitanian fighters and 2,000 Libyan soldiers. The right flank had the least number of soldiers, but Hasdruba pinned his hopes of victory on the right flank, and this was due to the presence of Lusitanian fighters.

The Lusitanians were actually an offshoot of the Celts, they were tall and strong, fast and powerful, good at using large shields and facata daggers, and similar in the use of weapons to their relatives Iberian infantry, except that the Iberian infantry was steady, while they were more violent and better suited to attack when fighting, so Hasdruba placed them on the far right, hoping to use them to open the way to victory.

As for the 600 Celtic warriors, Hasdruba left them behind in the center, not because he was already in the habit of keeping reserves, but because he had vaguely observed that the Dionian coalition had quite a few cavalry.

Hasdruba is not like Monte Adno, he and his uncle Margo have carefully studied the past battles of the Dionians, and found that cavalry played a very important role in it, and even they used it in the war to conquer southern Iberia, and used cavalry to defeat the enemy and turn the tide of the war many times, after all, Carthage's cavalry resources are very rich, Carthaginian cavalry, Numibian cavalry, Mauritanian allies cavalry, and even Lusitanians also have a lot of cavalry, This time, there were more than 7,000 cavalry in the army led by Margo.

However, since Hasdruba had to lead his army over the mountains, raid the Sichaels, and then run to the rear of the Dionian army, the cavalry became a burden, so that there was no cavalry in the current army, so he had to leave the Celts to protect the other army against the attack of the Dionian cavalry on the flanks of the army.

Of course, the Celts were unruly and difficult to coordinate with other troops in the battle formation, which would hinder the attack, which is why they were brought out alone, so Hasdruba also put Kisgow in the rear of the center, one of the tasks was to restrain this Celtic force.

After making these arrangements, Hasdruba ran to the right flank, and he was to personally attack the enemy with the Lusitanis, and the head of a Carthaginian army was actually lined up with a group of natives, and it was at the forefront of the army, which was indeed unique to the Carthaginian nobles, even Marco could not do it, but Hasdruba won the respect of the Iberians, Lusitanies, and even the Celts, and everyone was willing to obey his command.

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Leotizides was rewarded by the scouts, and when he learned that the Carthaginian army had left the camp, his mind was settled: today's battle would definitely go on.

He began a more detailed arrangement: the 6,000 heavy infantry of the Eighth Army lined up from the right flank to the center, with only eight horizontal columns, so that the Eighth Army occupied half the length of the entire formation; Joining the Eighth Army were Geira's heavy infantry, which they increased to 14; To the left of the Gera were the Kamanlina hoplites, also with 14 cross-.......

The formation of the Dionian coalition was like a hatchet, with a thinner wooden handle on the right and a thick blade on the left, and the reason why Leotizides arranged it this way was also a last resort: the Dionian legion and the friendly armies on the south coast fought together for several months, and he had a deep understanding of the armies of these Greek city-states, most of them had more skilled heavy infantry combat skills, and they were brave in battle, but the discipline was looser, the battle could not last, and in the event of defeat, it was easier to break up, out of fear for them, That's why they thickened their array. In this way, even if the soldier in the front who was wearing thick Greek heavy infantry armor and had difficulty moving forward, even if he was timid and wanted to retreat, he had to fight forward under the push of the rear soldiers, otherwise he would be more likely to die from the enemy's attack and the trampling of his own comrades.