Alexander himself liked "Homer's Epic" very much, and always had "The Iliad" beside his pillow. The hero he admired most was Achilles, the hero in Greek mythology, and he hoped that one day he could be like him.

, establish great achievements.

At this time, the civil war between various Greek city-states was still continuing, and it was more serious than before. The civilians in many Greek city-states were really hungry, naked, and afraid of coercion.

Conscription forced them to die. At this point, the overall strength of the entire Greek Empire was very seriously affected.

It was at the moment when Greece was in this situation that Philip II saw the opportunity and launched a war! In an attempt to conquer all of Greece! Because at this time Philip II's Macedonian Kingdom was already very powerful, and then there was the Greek Empire

This place had declined to the point of disgrace, so Philip II wanted to become the King of Greece!

So Philip II began to gather the army. In 338 BC, Philip II and Alexander met the armies of the two city-states of Thebes and Athens in Chaeronea in central Greece. Before the battle,

, the Kingdom of Macedonia, under the leadership of Philip II, formed a phalanx of sixteen rows. Each soldier in the phalanx held a large shield that could cover his entire body in one hand, and held a shield in the other.

A five-meter-long spear. Then the soldiers in the rear row put the spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, and there were cavalry in front and on both sides. Philip II gathered the Macedonian cavalry again, forming a very powerful formation.

of the offensive force. He also personally served as commander-in-chief, commanding the right wing, and appointed Alexander as deputy commander-in-chief to command the left wing.

After the battle began, the two sides fought to the point where they were inseparable. The Holy Troops of Thebes was the name of a part of the army, just like what we call an artillery company or a machine gun company today. The general concept is this. Then there is Thebes.

Sri Lanka's holy troops broke through Philip II's right wing and advanced rashly, which resulted in the battle line being stretched. However, Alexander seized the opportunity and led the cavalry to attack quickly, defeating the Greeks in one fell swoop!

In fact, the entire battlefield is also very bloody and cruel, but compared with the previous war, this kind of cruelty seems to be on a higher level. Think about it being skewered by a five-meter spear like a candied haws on a skewer.

Greeks, think about what this miserable scene looks like? In short, we can also say that the Macedonian spear temporarily changed the cruelty of the previous art of war.

Moreover, after this battle, the Greek Empire has been experiencing internal strife and wars. It has not had many warriors for a long time, and there are not enough resources. What is going on? In fact, this is not difficult to understand. We can analyze it.

Let’s take a look: The Greek Empire has been experiencing civil strife, which has led to more people not planting crops at all, but fighting wars, so the production of food has decreased sharply. Then there is the military aspect, in terms of the military fortifications created, completely

It is not destroyed quickly, and this situation will have an impact on every aspect. It can mainly be understood as a sudden drop in the labor force! Therefore, the Greek Empire itself is already weak, even the Spartans, they are so brave

It is of no great use, because in the past civil strife, the Spartans lost too many warriors, and now the Spartans use slaves to fight, so we can imagine that the current situation in the Greek Empire is simply

I can not imagine.

Another situation is that of Persia. Although King Xerxes of Persia was determined to conquer Greece and the Kingdom of Macedonia at this time, he was old, so he was unable to move and his brain was not easy to use. Although the Phoenicians and even

The top officials of other Persian provinces were advising Xerxes that they should seize the opportunity to annihilate the Kingdom of Greece and Macedonia in one fell swoop and achieve the great goal of becoming the Persian world hegemon! However, Xerxes rejected these proposals and thus completely missed the opportunity.

This is simply an opportunity that is rarely encountered in a million years.

In the end, this became the Kingdom of Macedonia. Under the auxiliary rule of Philip II and Alexander, these two military and even political wizards used a very tough attitude and even a very powerful advanced military formation to destroy the entire Greek city-states.

Including the Spartans!

This was a massacre that lasted for several years. All the city-states in Greece completely lost their fighting ability due to the civil war that lasted for countless years. In this baptism of blood again, the Kingdom of Macedonia conquered all of Greece.

All the city-states were included in the territory of the Kingdom of Macedonia!

The Kingdom of Macedonia has since become the absolute overlord of this place, but its strength is still not very strong. After all, Greece has long been damaged and will not be able to recover for a while. But in any case, at present, the Kingdom of Macedonia

It is no exaggeration to say that he is the overlord of this place, comparable to the initial state of Greece. Another thing is that the Kingdom of Macedonia, including the entire Greek city-states, is also slowly recovering its productivity and even its military strength.

However, Philip II's rule plan was still based on exploiting civilians, and the Greek Empire had not treated their Kingdom of Macedonia well before, so Philip II seemed to have some revengeful mentality now, which was very harmful to the Greek city-states.

The civilians were not very good, and some even treated them as slaves. This made the civilians in various city-states of the Greek Empire very resentful and thinking about how to kill Philip II. We can say that this seemed

The civil war begins again.

But because the Greek city-states have been included in the Kingdom of Macedonia, all resources are controlled by the Kingdom of Macedonia. Therefore, if you want to resist, the chance of success is not very high. But some people in the city-states don’t think so. The so-called capture

The thief captures the king first, right?

So in 336 BC, Philip II was unfortunately assassinated at his daughter's wedding! This was definitely an assassination caused by public resentment. Although the assassin was caught, Philip II could no longer carry out the assassination.

His eyes. At this time, Alexander, who was only twenty years old, succeeded to the throne of Macedonia.

When the various Greek city-states saw that Philip II was dead, they all got rid of Macedonia and declared their independence! This was the beginning of the biggest civil strife, but Alexander showed his own talent and strategy at this time, and he quickly

He used very violent methods to first put down the chaos within the palace, that is, to drive out all the disobedient people and those who went against him! Then he used this method to bloody and brutally put down the rebellious tribes in the Kingdom of Macedonia, and

After all this was stopped with blood, the finger was pointed at the various Greek city-states that had declared independence.

Among the various Greek city-states, two factions were formed at this time. One faction supported the rule of the Kingdom of Macedonia, and the other opposed the rule of the Kingdom of Macedonia. The Greek city-states that opposed the rule of the Kingdom of Macedonia wanted independence, while those who supported the rule of the Kingdom of Macedonia wanted independence.

The Greek city-states hope that the Kingdom of Macedonia will unify Greece, and then in order to solve the current poverty in the empire, they will send troops to the east to plunder the wealth of Persia!

After Alexander learned about this situation, he led a large army to first attack Thebes, a Greek city-state that opposed the Kingdom of Macedonia. He razed the entire Thebes to the ground with a very cruel attitude and turned it into a pile of rubble! Then he destroyed it.

All the residents in the city, including nobles and even high-ranking officials, who were against the orthodox tradition, were sold and became slaves! Now the Greek city-states that opposed the Kingdom of Macedon were frightened, really and completely frightened! Because Alexander had some

It was so perverted that it was even what we today call inhumane! Therefore, these Greek city-states that opposed the Kingdom of Macedonia chose to submit to the Kingdom of Macedonia after a very short ideological struggle.

After all, death is one concept, but becoming a slave is another concept. It is better to go into battle and kill the enemy, which is millions of times better than becoming a slave! Because the Greek city-states know what a slave is, and they are completely

While they had no power, they could also be said to not be human at all. After all, various Greek city-states had been plundering slaves, so they knew very well that slaves were the most despicable commodity.

After the various Greek city-states surrendered to the Kingdom of Macedonia, the current Kingdom of Macedonia has restored its previous production capacity and has the military strength to develop for the better. However, this development is very slow, because the Greek Empire originally developed after countless years.

The civil war is really not something that can be recovered in a short while.

As for the slowness of this recovery, other contradictions will definitely arise. For example, all the civilians in the Greek city-states did not live a good life. They worked every day and had neither enough food nor clothing to cover their bodies. This is different from the life of slaves.

What's the difference? At this point, Alexander also understood that if he continued to manage like this without any strategy to make the Greek city-states vigorously improve by leaps and bounds, then he would be like Philip II and might be assassinated again someday.

.After all, no one in the Greek city-states likes to be a pariah, and no one likes to be a slave of this disguised Macedonian kingdom.

After Alexander's very difficult ideological struggle, in 334 BC, one year after he regained the various Greek city-states, Alexander could no longer hold on. His development was really too slow. This had an infinite impact.

There was another large-scale civil war, and once it broke out, Alexander was not completely sure that it would be settled again.

So in 334 BC, Alexander personally led an army of 35,000 and more than 160 warships on an expedition to Persia. But Alexander was not a fool. He understood that their own Macedonian Kingdom's military strength was not at all comparable to that of Persia.
Chapter completed!