He asks the soldiers to pray for his soul.

Ḥud h ayfa told him the soldier prayed before fighting.

Francisco Pizarro placed the cross in Pueblo Libre; soldiers would pray before going to war or when making a hard distant journey.

"As the soldier prays for peace, he must be prepared to cope with the hardships of war and to bear its scars," the general wrote in his autobiography.

Such is the ferocity of the army discipline, that a soldier sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.

But things rarely go as planned in war, and as the onset of conflict appeared imminent today, soldiers prayed and prepared to move.

And the old soldier held Shandril in his arms and waited for the sound of running feet, and prayed on.

The soldiers stood bunched together and also prayed for an acquittal.

At nightfall, everything changes, the rebels take over, and the Russian soldiers pray to make it to morning.

He leads them to the door into the Labyrinth, where they are attacked by Ares after a soldier prayed for him to come.