As Khao'khen had predicted, before darkness fully made its full retreat to give way for the light to have its turn to reign over the lands below, Ounephes ordered for his troops exit their camp and form up their battleline. All the nine thousand soldiers that he had formed a formidable battleline which were comprised of a thousand archers, five hundred cavalry and the rest were infantry.
Ounephes had his infantry divided into fifteen different detachments with each unit consisting of five hundred soldiers. Each unit had a length of fifty men while ten men deep and he equally divided his archers positioned on both of their flanks while being accompanied by a hundred riders on both sides. He still had five detachments of infantry in reserves and three hundred riders guarding him at the rear which would he would mobilize when necessary.