Contruni was rightly tending to Segovani's fears, and when he consulted privately with other Cautini chieftains close to him, he was met with strong opposition and had to give up.

But the tide of the war changed so quickly that he didn't have time to come up with a better solution to the problems of the Naconian army. The rumours in Beneventum were the ones he had people spread to confuse the public, and while they seemed to work well, they were only stopgap measures. It was also expedient to disperse the armies of the various Naconian tribes in the formation. But if they are not sent out to fight, where will these more than 2,000 Naconian warriors be placed? Kautim or Abela? This only made Segovani more uneasy, and he was convinced that only under such an arrangement would the Naconian warriors fight bravely and not dare to mess around.

It is true that Vaschunk is anxious because the Nakonian army seems to be a whole, but in fact there is no leader who can convince everyone and make them obey orders, everyone is a young man who is temporarily elected to lead the army for the first time, and no one has any prestige, including Vassunk. Although they knew that Segovani's order was not in their favor, with the Naconian army outnumbered and surrounded by other tribal warriors, no young Nakonian commander had the confidence and courage to stand up and raise his arms, and then all the Naconian warriors would obey the order and rebel.

Therefore, although the Naconian generals objected, they finally obeyed the order unwillingly and left with their own troops. And this dispersion can no longer be linked to each other in battle, let alone achieve unified action.

Vassunke saw that he could not do anything, so he could only curse the murderous and cunning Segovani in his heart, and waited for the opportunity.

Segovani adopted the traditional combat method of the Samonai against the Greek army, and the horizontal column of the army was very long, full of three miles, and the length of the column was not small, because the Samonai army was very loose, and the distance between the soldiers was large, which was easy to intersperse with each other.

At dusk, when the sun had sunset above the western sea, and the sky and sea were dyed golden, Segovani saw the figures of the enemy, their thick armor obliquely illuminated by the setting sun, emitting a flickering but not dazzling light.

The wall of light on the opposite side did not frighten Segovani and the soldiers, on the contrary, they felt reassured, because they had defeated such an opponent countless times in the past, but the length of the opponent's army was beyond Segovani's expectations, and it extended to the sides, so that Segovani could not even see its two ends, which was somewhat different from the previous tactics of the dense and thick phalanx of the Campanian army.

Could this be the way the Dionians fought? Segovani muttered to himself, saying that although he and the Dioonians had fought once, it was a chase, and the two sides had not yet had a formal meeting.

However, he could see that the opposing soldiers were still densely arranged, so that the opposing side's columns must be thin. Of course, Segovani could guess why the enemy had lined up before they even arrived at the battlefield, and it was clear that the Campanias had learned the lesson of the past, as the clumsy Campanian army was always attacked from a distance by the swift Caustini warriors as they were slowly arrayed.

Segovani hesitated for a moment, but decided not to adjust the deployment lightly, but to test for a while and see the situation.

The Dionian coalition halted its advance when it was less than 400 meters away from the opposing side, and the 3.2-mile-long formation, with only three horizontal columns, had become crooked after advancing some distance, and needed to re-straighten the line before the battle.

More than 6,000 heavy infantry (including about 1,500 reserve legionnaires from Dionia) in the middle of this formation, then a mixture of 3,000 light and light infantry troops, including the Dionian light infantry brigade, were joined on either side, with 500 Ionian light armoured men at each end, and more than 200 Campanian cavalry on the outermost part of the left flank, for a total strength of about 11,400 men.

The army of Cautini, the opponent of Dionia, had a total strength of more than 9,000 men, and the formation was three miles long, and most of its army was light infantry, and these light infantry were also divided into two kinds, one was pure javelinmen, and the other was light infantry with long shields, both of which could fight with guns and spears, and they formed the main part of the Cautini army, and only in the rear of the center there were nearly 1,000 armored infantry led by Segovani himself.

The two decades-old enemies, the Cautini and the Campanian League, today on the edge of the eastern plains of Campania, each have exhausted their forces and are about to fight a battle that will decide their fate.

But just as the Dionian coalition stopped and began to regroup, Segovani had already given the order in advance, and the light infantry in the middle of the Cautini army began to move forward, and the left and right flanks also moved with it.

Unlike the Greek formation, which moved heavily and slowly, the movement of the Cautini army was very fast.

Knowing this, Aealos stood at the front of the array as the commander of the Neapolitan army, and Zantiparis once advised him to "not be at the front line, but to command the whole situation in the rear", which he politely refused, and most of the generals elected by the Greek city-states were often on the front line during the battle, so as to show that there was no difference in status from the soldiers, so as not to be blamed by the citizens after the war, and Naples was no exception, especially at such an important moment.

At this moment, he took off his Corinthian helmet without hesitation and threw it on the ground, and the other Campanian heavy infantry also took off their Corinthian helmets one after another, like Aealos, according to the plan in advance. Only the Ionian hoplites did not take off their open helmets because they were wearing.

Aearos looked around, raised the spear in his hand, and shouted, "Apollo bless!" We will pursue it bravely and never stop! ”

The surrounding soldiers and officers also shouted one after another: "Pursue bravely, never stop!" ……”

When the Cautini army approached 50 meters, almost all the Dionian soldiers were shouting, and their fighting spirit was very high.

Zantiparis, who was behind him and on horseback, heard this thunderous roar, which also calmed his nervous mind a lot.

"Attack!" He said loudly.

"Woo! ......" The high-pitched sound of the military horn made the entire long column, whether it was heavy infantry, light infantry, light armor, or cavalry, begin to march forward.

The abrupt forward movement of the Dionian coalition did not affect the fighters at the forefront of the Kautini formation, who, as they usually do, stopped at a suitable distance, threw their javelins, and then prepared to retreat through the gap, so that the fighters behind them were in the front line, and they continued to throw their javelins...... And so on and so forth, even when the opponent was advancing, they always distanced themselves from each other, and the javelin throwing continued, inflicting great damage on the opponent's dense phalanx.

In the past, the Campanian League was not specially trained, there were no light infantry to compete with, and there were no tactics specifically designed for independent light infantry, and it was impossible for the civilian light infantry to be conscripted against the Cautini javelinmen, who were almost all strong, so often after three or four throws, the Campanian army had to stop advancing.

Then, the Cautini warriors immediately switched from retreat to attack, still in waves of javelin throwing attacks, when they threw all the javelins in their hands, the Campanians had fallen into confusion because of too many casualties, and then the final assault was made by the armored infantry and lightly armed spear-wielding infantry of Cautini, often with a single blow, and the victory was established.

But now, the Kautini warriors were amazed to see the hoplites on the opposite side quicken their pace as they advanced, and faster and faster.

Are they going to charge?! Don't they know that we can't hedge against them, and that with their clumsy speed, they can't catch up with us! …… Although the Kautini warriors were surprised, as the distance was shortened, they also had to be behind, and their first round of javelins, according to custom, because the distance was still far (more than 30 meters), so they took a slightly upward throw, so that the javelins could fly longer, and the position of the fall was often the middle and rear of the opponent's formation, thus causing confusion in the entire army formation, making it disjointed in front and back, so as to facilitate the next attack. However, the opponent's sudden increase in speed and the thinning of the column caused most of the javelins thrown to miss.

The coalition heavy infantry, who had escaped the javelin attack, were even more confident, and they raised their round shields diagonally, half-covering their heads, and their steps were more powerful and fast. This quickly shortened the distance between the two sides to within 20 meters, and the Kautini warriors who threw the javelins afterwards did not have time to be more fully prepared, so they hurriedly threw the javelins in their hands.

The 500 Nakonian warriors led by Vassunk were part of this second wave of attacks, and they had all received a hint from Vassonk beforehand, and most of the warriors casually threw their javelins into the air and then immediately retreated.

The desperate charge of the Greek heavy infantry made Vassunk's mind flutter.

Even if the Kautini warriors threw in a hurry, but the experienced ones took a direct shot in this round of javelin throwing, and countless heavy javelins were thrown by the strong arm strength of the warriors, and through the drive of the piso, with some rotation in the flight, straight to the shield of the heavy infantry, many javelins directly penetrated the shield, causing some heavy infantry injuries.