After Horn's command was issued, the Child Soldiers and Messengers galloped away, and with the dust raised by the horses' hooves, the previously ironclad formation began to waver.
The quiet battlefield was filled with the sound of whistles, as Brigade Commanders, with flushed faces, brandished their feathered pikes, running back and forth among the troops, striking soldiers who were standing in the wrong positions.
With orderly steps, the Brigade Commanders crossed their longspears, pressing them against the soldiers' chests, scanning from left to right, guiding them into the correct positions and alignments.
The initial horizontal formation transformed into a vertical one in less than five minutes, and within those five minutes, many began to cough.
The effect of the firewood and straw Mizam ordered to be burned at the upper wind point finally took hold.
