If you say who is the most powerful ruler in the whole history, I think it is Qin Shi Huang! Qin Shi Huang was misunderstood by too many people, in fact, whether in terms of achievements or military points of view, Qin Shi Huang was regarded as an emperor for thousands of years. The biggest misunderstanding of the world about him is to burn books and pit Confucianism, in fact, Qin Shi Huang really died unjustly, he pit some charlatans, and burned some harmful alchemy books.
Although the Qin Dynasty promoted the Fa, for Confucianism, Taoism, and so on, they were also allowed to develop independently, and the culture before the Han Dynasty was full of flowers. Culture was really restrained by the Han Dynasty, which single-mindedly promoted Confucian culture and forbade the development of other cultures.
In fact, the military ability of Qin Shi Huang that Xiao Bian most admires, after all, during the Warring States period, the strongest strength of the six countries in China was not the Qin State, but Qin Shi Huang still unified the Six Kingdoms. In the same period, there was Emperor Alexander on the European continent, and Alexander Emperor may be the only opponent who can compete with Qin Shi Huang, and many people think that the two are both geniuses in military terms! Because both of them united a dynasty by iron horses.
Therefore, many people will have this doubt, if the Qin army and the Macedonian phalanx are against each other, who will win?
First, from the perspective of the middle forces in the armies of the two sides
In fact, The fundamental reason why Alexander the Emperor was able to travel across the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, and established Alexander's Empire, was the great military strength, and the most powerful army was the Macedonian phalanx. The Marston phalanx was modified from the Greek heavy infantry phalanx and was a warrior used in early infantry combat in the West. In fact, the reason why The Marston phalanx is lethal is mainly because in the history of war before the Homeric era, most soldiers rushed forward in a rush when fighting, without any tactics at all, that is, a chaotic way of playing.
The appearance of Marston's phalanx at that time was a major turning point in the history of Western warfare, representing a major innovation in infantry tactics. Therefore, when the strict infantry formation of the Macedonian phalanx was used, it was completely easy to solve for those disorganized enemy troops. Even with a large number of enemy troops, there is no problem at all.
As for Qin Shi Huang's ability to sweep through the Six Kingdoms, finally end the 800-year division situation, unify the Six Kingdoms, and build the first feudal monarchy and absolute state, it is not only a small infantry tactic, not only relying on the strong national strength after the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, but also many military wizards and many tiger and wolf divisions, you must know that the military weapons such as crossbows used by the Qin army at that time were very powerful!
Second, the strength of Marston's phalanx and the strength of the Qin army
First of all, from the number of troops on both sides to compete, when Alexander Emperor invaded Asia, the number of troops was only 30,000 or 40,000, but when Wang Qi attacked the Chu state, he brought 600,000 soldiers, that is to say, the number of Qin troops was only twenty times worse than the number of Macedonian phalanxes.
Secondly, tactically, the weakness of the Macedonian phalanx is very obvious, as long as they abandon the frontal attack, but instead from the two wings of the phalanx or the rear raid can completely defeat them. Because as long as the flanks of Marston's phalanx are broken, the spear array formed by these spears will not play any role at all, and even quite cumbersome. After all, the spear was in a state of close combat, and there was no way to resist the attack of the short weapon of the knife and axe.
In addition, the Marston phalanx could not resist the dense arrow array attack, because the largest number of infantry with spears in the Marston phalanx, as long as all the archers in the phalanx were killed, then the soldiers with spears would have no resistance, after all, the range of the Qin army's crossbows at that time was 200 meters away, so the long-range attack could eliminate a lot.
In the end, the Macedonian phalanx was very slow in action, because the integrity of the phalanx was guaranteed. Otherwise, the shortcomings of the wings and rear would be magnified, and the suitable combat ground for the Marston phalanx was a relatively empty and vast area, and Alexander could be completely annihilated if he wanted to attack the Qin state through the narrow Hexi Corridor.
The above shortcomings of the Macedonian phalanx can be found by anyone with a little military knowledge, not to mention the battle-hardened Qin army. In addition, the Qin army not only had a large number of cavalry at that time, but also countless strong bows and crossbows. According to historical records, the power of the Qin crossbow within 50 meters at that time was almost the same as the lethality of the submachine gun.
Therefore, when the Qin Army collides with the Marston phalanx, it must be the Marston phalanx that blocks the car with its arm!