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Alexander the Great (Greek: m?γa?Αλ?ξaνδpo? or Αλ?ξaνδpo?om?γa?, whose name Alexander means "the guardian of human beings (aνδp??) (aλ?ξakeδ?ν). In the summer of 336 BC, Philip II, the father of Alexander and the ancient Macedonian king, was suddenly assassinated at his daughter's wedding. Alexander, who had just turned 20, inherited the throne and was employed by Philip II.

The conquered Greek city-states, Thrace, Illyria and other tribes took the opportunity to rebel or declare independence. The young commander Alexander first led his army to the north of the Balkans, conquered the Illyria tribes that betrayed him, and repelled the Thraces to the Danube River. At this time, the Thebes who had opposed Macedonia in the past rumored that Alexander had died in the battle, and took the opportunity to stir up an uproar against Macedonia. Alexander knew that Thebes was a Greek city-state

If the famous city-state did not quell the riot, the consequences would be unimaginable. So he decided to kill a warning to all, and immediately made a quick decision and rushed south, and appeared at the city of Thebes in an unexpected way with hostility as lightning speed. The people of Thebes could not believe their eyes and were panicked. The city of Thebes was captured and turned into a pile of rubble, and all the residents were sold into slavery. Only those who had been friendly with Philip II or Alexander in the past or sponsored Macedonia.

Except for the few people.[bsp;    Alexander achieved his expected goal, and the destruction of Thebes did play a role in a warning to all. The Greek city-states looked for surrender and expressed their surrender. Then Athens also expressed their surrender and begged for forgiveness. Not long after, the states unified under the leadership of Alexander and recognized Alexander as the supreme commander. So, Alexander could make great progress without any worries and organize an expedition to the East.

The excuse of Alexander's expedition to Persia in the East was that the Persians had ravaged the Greek holy land and participated in the murder of Philip II. It is said that before the expedition, Alexander gave all his real estate income, slaves and herds, all his family income. At that time, a general asked in confusion: "Your Majesty, you divide everything, what do you leave to yourself?" "Hope!" Alexander replied neatly, "I leave hope to myself! It will bring me endless wealth!" Then, with the desire to conquer the world, Alexander left his hometown and embarked on a journey of thousands of miles.

In the spring of 334 BC, Alexander crossed the Hellespont (i.e. the Dardanelles Strait) and began the 10-year Eastern Expedition. The army he used to start the expedition to the Persian Empire, consisting of 30,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry and 160 warships. The Persian Empire had hundreds of thousands of troops and 400 warships. Moreover, the area of ​​the Persian Empire was about 50 times larger than that of the Macedonian Kingdom, not to mention that many countries such as Egypt, Babylon and Phoenicia in the Far East had been conquered by Persia and incorporated into the Persian territory. Despite the huge power gap, Alexander was good at looking at problems in essence.

He knew very well that although the Persian Empire had a vast territory, a huge army, and still had its reputation, its power had declined and its internal divisions were divided. Emperor Darius III was a mediocre and foolish monarch with weak will and lack of wisdom and planning. The Macedonian Kingdom was in full swing and was unstoppable. Alexander used his remaining power to cross the Hellespont Strait in one fell swoop, and used his high morale to break through the enemy's defense line, won the first battle, completely destroying the morale of the Persians and their determination to resist, and opening up the road to expansion to Asia. Many city-states surrendered without fighting, and even regarded Alexander as a savior who liberated them from the Persian rule.

In the autumn of 333 BC, Alexander defeated Darius III, who was unwilling to fail in the first battle with his famous "Macedonian phalanx" near the city of Issus.

In the spring of 331 BC, Alexander led 40,000 infantry soldiers and 7,000 cavalry to march towards Mesopotamia, and launched the last large-scale decisive battle with Persia in Caucasia near Nineveh. Darius III carefully prepared, with 40,000 cavalry, 200 infantry, 200 sword-wheeled chariots and 15 war elephants from India, which had an absolute advantage compared to Alexander's army. However, Alexander and Darius III fought with wits and tricks,

Again, miraculously defeated the Persian emperor. What is particularly interesting is that when Alexander, who had less than 50,000 troops, ordered his soldiers to rest for the upcoming battle and to accumulate strength, Darius III, who was holding a large army, made the soldiers sleepless all night because he was afraid of night attacks. Persian soldiers stood in fear of fear of fear of a night of attacks all night. They stood all night in fear, all of them were listless and had no fighting spirit. The next day, on the morning of October 1, 331 BC, Alexander

Leading an army full of spirit and high morale to enter the battlefield, skillfully using its maneuverable and flexible "Macedonian phalanx" to finally defeat a strong opponent. Alexander took advantage of the victory to advance eastward, occupied the largest city in the East, the cultural center of the ancient East, and gave himself a title - "Babylon and the King of the Four Directions of the World". After that, Alexander led his troops from Babylon and occupied the Su-requisite capital of the Persian Empire with a storm. Persian Po

Lis and Ekbatana three capitals. Darius III fled to Daxia in the north, and was killed by Bisos, the governor of Daxia, and abandoned his body on the side of the road. In the end, Alexander found his body while chasing him, and sent him back to Persepolis, and buried him in the tomb of the Persian emperor. At this point, the ancient Persian Empire and the Achaemenid dynasty were destroyed. The Macedonian army conquered all the territory of Persia, and a Alexander Empire spanned Europe, Asia and Africa.

In 327 BC, Alexander led his army to advance eastward from the area south of the Caspian Sea, through Anshy (Pathia), Aria, and Tranguana, and headed north across the Hindu Kush Mountains to reach Baktria (Daxia) and Sogdian. In 325 BC, he invaded the Kingdom of Polaval in India. Although the Kingdom of Polaval is not as large as Persia, it is also considered a powerful country in the local area. King Bolas was good at fighting, with 30,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry and 300 chariots under his command. In addition, there is a unique army - 200 war elephants. In terms of number, it is comparable to Alexander's troops.

It was summer, and it was raining heavily and the river was deep. There was natural danger to the Jinna River. Therefore, Bolas was very confident in preventing Alexander from attacking. He heard that Alexander led his troops to his country, so he laid troops along the river and defended strictly. In each stroll, in addition to setting up sentries, he also sent elephants to "guard". The elephants were so clumsy, so why did they send them to "guard"? It turned out that Macedonian war horses all came from the north and had never dealt with such giants as the south. When they saw the elephants, they would jump into the water from the boat because of fear, so that the Macedonian cavalry would naturally not be able to cross the river.

Alexander knew that crossing the river was not easy, so he made full preparations. He asked an officer to go to the Indus River. He commanded the soldiers to dismantle the boats he was preparing to cross the river. The small boats were demolished into two sections, and the large boats were demolished into three sections, and transported them to the west bank of the Jinnah River by a large chariot to hide. After reconnaissance of the river surface and the terrain of the west bank, he formulated a plan similar to Han Xin in the Han Dynasty in my country to "build a plank road openly and cross Chencang secretly". This plan was divided into three steps. The first step was to cross during the day and exhaust the enemy. Alexander ordered the ships to launch a raft near the camp and sail back and forth along the river. The soldiers on the shore also moved parallel with the ship, as if looking for a suitable opportunity and place to prepare for the ferry. Bolas did not dare to neglect, and also followed the enemy's ships on the other side, and came.

Running back and forth, for several days, every day. Before the Macedonians had crossed the river, Bolas' army was exhausted. The second step was to pretend to cross at night to confuse the enemy. When the daytime crossing stopped, the Macedonians began to operate at night again. Alexander personally led some cavalry to run back and forth along the coast, shouting the slogan of charge while running, as if he wanted to cover the night and sneak across the river. So Bolas led his army to run back and forth on the other side. After several days, the Macedonians had not crossed the river. Bolas concluded from this that the enemy did not dare to cross the river, but just bluffed. So no matter how the enemy acted or shouted, he only let the sentry defend the coast. The large force stopped moving. Alexander saw Bolas

Exhausted and numb, he began his next move and smuggled at night. On the surface, they still bluffed and repeated the same trick to numb each other. It was like in the secret that most of the people, ships and rafts were secretly transferred to the upper reaches of the river about 50 miles from the original camp. This is the place where the Jinna River turns, forming a snatch, with dense trees on the snatch. There is an island in the river opposite the snatch, which is also covered with trees and rarely visited. This formed a natural barrier, where the Macedonians were doing tense and serious preparations for crossing the river. One night at the end of June 326 BC, dark clouds rolled, lightning and thunder, heavy rain, and the river roared. The Macedonians used the cover of God to drive infantry

The cavalry all concentrated on the shore. It happened that the rain had passed before dawn and the weather was clear and the wind was calm. Alexander immediately ordered 15,000 cavalrymen to board the warships and rafts and sail straight to the island in the river. As soon as they bypassed the island, they were discovered by the sentries of Bolas on the other side of the river. Alexander estimated that Bolas had not concentrated his troops here yet, so he ordered the ships to sail to the other side of the shore and immediately formed a battle formation after they got ashore to prepare for battle. But this was not the east bank of the Jinnah River, but another small island. The Macedonians complained endlessly when they saw that all their efforts were wasted. Fortunately, there were not many enemies on the other side, and they found a place to cross the river. The river water was only as deep as the neck, so they could barely interfere. Alexander did not dare to delay and directed the army to take the risk of crossing.

Bolas learned that the Macedonians crossed the river in the area of ​​Xiajiao, and they couldn't figure out where the main force of Macedonia was. They wouldn't lead the large troops to block the attack. The enemy might have crossed the river from there and led the army to meet the enemy. They were afraid that the enemy on the other side would take the opportunity to cross the river. After thinking about it, they hesitated. As a result, they only sent their son Bolas to lead 2,000 infantry and 120 chariots to block the attack. When Bolas arrived on the other side of Xiajiao, most of the Macedonian troops had already crossed the river. He had too few men and defeated with one blow, and he also sacrificed his life.

Bolas heard that Alexander led the army across the river, and the well and killed his son, and was extremely sad and angry. He only left a few troops to guard the local river bank, and personally led 30,000 infantrymen. 4,000 cavalry, 180 chariots and 200 elephants to fight Alexander. When he came to a flat and hard sandy area, he set up a formation there. He placed 200 elephants in front, each several meters apart, forming the first front, making the enemy's war horses afraid and the infantry dare not pass through. He also let the infantry stand behind the elephants to form the second front, holding every gap between the elephants. Cavalry are arranged on both sides of the infantry to provide mobile support. And 180 chariots are placed in front of the cavalry on both sides of the left and right wings. These chariots seem very majestic, but they have no effect in actual combat.

When Alexander met Bolas' army during his march, he immediately transferred the troops into combat formations and prepared to fight back. Like in the past, he let the phalanx infantry occupy the middle position, facing the elephant of Bolas, and ordered them not to enter the battle first, and to attack when the Macedonian cavalry disrupted the opponent's cavalry and infantry. At the same time, he ordered Conas to lead two teams of cavalry to sneak towards the enemy's right wing, and when the enemy cavalry fought with his right wing, he went around behind to attack the enemy. Alexander led most of the cavalry to occupy the right wing and prepared to launch an attack from here first.

When Bolas found that a large number of enemy cavalry were concentrated in his left front, he transferred the right-wing cavalry to the left wing and asked all the cavalry to attack the enemy cavalry together. When Alexander saw the enemy cavalry dispatched, he ordered 1,000 horse archers to shoot arrows at the same time. Bolas' cavalry was in chaos. Taking this opportunity, Alexander led the cavalry to gallop up.

The two cavalry fought in a regiment. At this time, the cavalry of Conas appeared behind the Bolas cavalry, causing them to be attacked on both sides. The cavalry of Conas was forced by the situation and pulled out some of the troops to turn against Conas. Alexander saw some of the cavalry of Polas turn back and took the opportunity to cover the killing, forcing the enemy cavalry to retreat to the battle elephant. When the elephant of Polas saw the enemy cavalry coming, he rushed the elephant to stop it, and thus he was confused. The infantry of the Macedonian phalanx kept watching the battle and waiting for the opportunity. Now that the time had come, he rushed up, besieged the elephant, and threw guns and arrows from all directions. The elephant of the elephant was not afraid, and drove the elephant to rush towards the enemy phalanx, causing the Macedonian phalanx to mess with the Macedonian phalanx. The cavalry of Polas was brave and tenacious, taking advantage of the situation to fight the enemy cavalry again, but because of too little experience and insufficient training, the result was

After defeat, he retreated to the vicinity of the elephant again. The Macedonian cavalry and infantry advanced step by step, throwing guns and arrows at the enemy's cavalry and war elephants desperately threw guns and arrows. The Bolas' cavalry suffered heavy casualties. Especially those war elephants, who were seriously injured and unbearable pain, became furious. They ran around and rushed around, trampling ruthlessly regardless of the enemy and us. The Bolas' infantry and cavalry, who were crowded with the elephant, were forced by the enemy and had nowhere to hide. Many people were injured and many died under the elephant hooves. At this time, Alexander let the cavalry intercept the opponent's back, and let the infantry move the shields closer and advance step by step. Many Bolas' soldiers could not escape and died tragically. At this time, the 8,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry left on the west bank of Macedonia directly crossed the river, and ended the battle with the troops led by Alexander himself.

Although Bolas failed, he did not escape in front of the battle like Darius III, but he bravely led his troops to fight on the battlefield. Later, when he saw that most of his soldiers were casualties and had no hope of victory, he led his army to retreat. When Alexander saw this man so brave, he felt that he would consolidate his rule over here in the future. He was a rare talent. Therefore, he ordered not to hurt him, and repeatedly sent people to invite him to meet him. When Bolas arrived, Alexander personally greeted him and asked him what he had requested. He said, "You want it."

Treat me like a king." Alexander met his request, let him still manage his country, and gave him a taxi land that was larger than his original territory. So Bolas surrendered to Alexander. After eight years, a journey of more than 50,000 miles, many soldiers were injured, disabled, sick, and dead. The survivors were unwilling to fight again. They all wanted to go back alive and see their elders, wives and children, so they complained and even publicly refused to fight. Alexander had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

In July 325 BC, he withdrew his troops from India.

In 324 BC, its army returned to Perslis and Susa, and the fleet bent at the mouth of the Tigris River and then returned to Babylon, and the eastern expedition came to an end.

In 323 BC, Alexander died of a high fever in Babylon. Before Alexander passed away, he understood the void of life. He fought for more than ten years and was invincible, but he could not defeat death. He ordered his subordinates to leave holes on both sides of his coffin after his death and stretched out his hands to show that he was later. Although he fought for his whole life, he left empty-handedly.
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