Then when the Persian army and the Macedonian army approached, Alexander did not launch a direct attack, but moved diagonally to the right wing of the Persian army. Darius III was worried that Alexander would attack the left wing, so he also moved parallel. Gradually

, the Persian army walked out of the specially leveled area.

At this time, Darius III became alert. He was worried that the carefully prepared chariot would lose its effect, so he immediately ordered the left wing troops to quickly bypass Alexander's right wing to prevent him from continuing to move to the right. At this time, the cavalry on both sides began a fierce battle.

, the Persian army clearly had an absolute advantage in numbers, and because the cavalry soldiers and horses were protected by armor, Alexander's cavalry suffered heavy casualties! Then they were defeated. Alexander was so anxious when he saw this that he quickly dispatched cavalry.

To provide support, the brave cavalry continuously charged towards the left wing of the Persian army, and finally drove back the left wing of the Persian army.

Darius III saw that the fierce battle on the left wing was going on. After a brief thought, he took advantage of the situation and launched chariots equipped with sharp knives to rush into the enemy's formation, trying to disperse the opponent in this way. But when the enemy

When Liu Shi's chariot phalanx approached, the crossbowmen and javelinmen in front of the Macedonian phalanx stepped forward to fight. Under this sky-filled array of arrows and javelins, they very effectively prevented the Persian army's chariot attack.

, many tanks were stagnant on the battlefield.

Then Darius III ordered the right wing to attack the left wing of the Macedonian army, and Alexander quickly ordered to attack the Persian army that had detoured back to the right wing of the Macedonian army. The fierce fighting between the two wings of cavalry made Darius III's central army appear.

A loophole!

Seeing this, Alexander personally led the Macedonian phalanx and cavalry, and he was ready to give it a try! Then he prepared the direction, rotated inward, forming a sharp point, and penetrated directly into Darius III's camp. The Persian army suddenly became confused.

Being rushed to pieces, he could no longer organize an effective attack. When Darius III saw this, he felt that the situation was over. His previous awareness of death was obviously not high, so he fled in a hurry!

In fact, Alexander did not carry out a large-scale massacre of the Persian army in this war. Because the Persian army was too large in number, if he had rashly carried out the massacre, his own army might be destroyed! Moreover, the escape of Persian King Darius III was also

This shook the morale of the entire army, but the Persian generals continued to fight. At this point, Alexander waited and watched, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he discovered that a large number of Persian troops had escaped.

After this war, Alexander first led his army to the north to pursue Darius III. Because there were not many troops around Darius III at present, and there were not even a few people protecting him, so he killed Darius III.

This can all end.

It is not difficult to see from here that although Darius III had made a lot of preparations before and even made the determination to die, he obviously did not have a very outstanding amount of knowledge in terms of military strategy. We can also understand that this

It was caused by King Darius III of Persia being too fond of enjoyment and not learning better military knowledge. The entire war process was completely the result of command errors.

We can also imagine that the Persian army was so well-equipped and numbered in the millions! Is this a joke? Even if the main force stayed still, the crossbowmen in the center of the military formation fired wildly.

In addition, the chariots are lined up for protection, because the spearmen are definitely not as large as the crossbowmen in the killing range, and the other is the absolute numerical advantage! So even if the entire army does not move and only the Macedonians are allowed to attack,

They all had to lose miserably! We can also understand that in fact, during the course of this war, Persian King Darius III basically did not use infantry or even crossbowmen. What kind of military miscalculation was this? And it was so popular.

Shishi III was too courageous, because Macedonia did not even have 50,000 troops!

In 330 BC, Alexander pursued the Persian King Darius III. However, at this time, the great Persian King Darius III, because of his own incompetence, did not give the power to command the army to the Persian general. This led to several

He was defeated for the first time, so the Persian generals really couldn't stand Darius III's incompetence and plotted to murder him! Yes, the great Persian king Darius III was despised by his own subordinates, so he killed him!

We can also say at this point that the great Persian Empire, the Achaemenid Dynasty, fell.

After Darius died, the Persian Empire also perished because there was no king! So Alexander's army quickly occupied the entire territory of Persia. But at this time, if we follow the conventional theory, the purpose of Alexander's expeditionary force

has been reached, so the expedition should have ended. However, Alexander's ambition was too great. He just occupied the huge Persia, which was not enough to satisfy him. Alexander decided to set out to conquer the entire world! He wanted to be the king of kings! So

Alexander then fabricated lies and continued to lead his army eastward under the pretext of pursuing the remaining Persian forces.

So Alexander invaded Bactria in 329 BC. First, he captured Baisus, who had betrayed Darius III and killed Darius, and executed him.

At this time, the peoples in Central Asia were all brave and good at fighting. They did not obey a young man like Alexander at all, so they continued to resist. However, Alexander took advantage of the spearmen and used bloody tactics of treating people like skewers of candied haws.

, constantly carrying out various brutal suppressions. After all, the people in Central Asia, even the crossbowmen, cannot do anything to this group of spearmen. They have very large shields. This tactic is based on my personal feeling.

Right? It would be great to use catapults to hit Alexander's army! I can even imagine that if a large number of catapults were used to hit Alexander's army, the screams of Alexander's army would definitely shake the sky!

But Persia did not dispatch catapults at the beginning, which must be a big regret! People in Central Asia did not have such catapults. Although they thought Alexander was a fool, they were still brutally killed to the point of inhumanity.

! In the end, Alexander can say that after about two years of crazy massacres, he suppressed the city-states in Central Asia. The so-called suppression actually means that Central Asia surrendered in the face of death.

Then we have to say that it is okay for Alexander to kill people profusely! Really in his eyes, anyone who prevents him from becoming the king of kings deserves to die. Moreover, Alexander also has the habit of destroying cultural buildings, that is, large

Large-scale acts of burning, killing and looting.

However, we can also understand that everything that can happen is reasonable. In this kind of war, there is no right or wrong at all. The winner is king, and this era is such an era, and it is powerful.

You can enslave other empires or city-states and make them slaves to create wealth.

Therefore, after suppressing Central Asia with absolute bloody violence, in 327 BC, Alexander led 30,000 troops and invaded India along the Kabul River and through the Khyber Pass! At this time, India was actually before us

I have also talked about it very carefully several times, so the caste system in India at this time is not very perfect, and it is still in the period of consolidation, so there are countless small countries standing in line, and there is constant internal fighting! Such India can be said to be very weak because of the perennial civil war.

Another reason for this was the serious disagreement between King Danchashiluo in the upper reaches of the Indus River and King Porus in the east, and they were at war all year round.

When King Dancha Shiluo saw that Alexander had strong soldiers and horses, he sent Alexander a lot of gold, silver, cattle, sheep, and food to lure Alexander to attack Porus. In April 324 BC, Alexander successfully smuggled across from the upper reaches.

The 20,000-strong army of King Porus was wiped out on the banks of the Lum River! Even in the absolute bloody massacre, almost no warriors escaped from the battlefield. Porus was originally a small kingdom, and the 20,000-strong army was already very large, so

Reluctantly surrendered.

At this time, Alexander continued his expedition. When he arrived at the Hyphasis River, a disease was prevalent in the army and many soldiers died. Coupled with the fatigue of many years of long-distance fighting and long absence from their hometown, the soldiers did not want to listen to Alexander's orders.

I just don't want to move on anymore.

Alexander ordered to continue marching eastward, but after repeated persuasion, the generals still refused to accept the order. Alexander was afraid that he, like Darius III, would do too much, which would lead to the disgrace of some of his generals.

Will rebel and kill him too. Therefore, Alexander was forced to stop the Eastern Expedition and ordered to withdraw. In 324 BC, the Eastern Expedition Army returned to Babylon.

After ten years of bloody and crazy conquests, Alexander established an unprecedentedly large empire. The empire stretched from the Balkan Peninsula and the Nile River in the west to the Indus River in the east. Then he established the capital of the empire in Babylon.

We have also talked before that Alexander loved Greek culture very much, so before the expedition, he always believed that only Greece is a civilized nation, and other nations are uncivilized barbaric nations. Greek culture is the best in the world

culture, there is no real culture at all in other areas.

Therefore, Alexander felt that an important mission of his Eastern Expedition was to spread Greek culture so that all other barbaric peoples could share in the glory of Greek culture. This is what we said before, that Alexander did not respect the local culture.
Chapter completed!