Alexander was born in 356 BC in the Macedonian kingdom and was called Alexander III. He was a famous military and politician in world history, whose father was the son of King Philip II of Macedon.
Alexander was erudite and intelligent from an early age, and studied under Aristotle, and under the guidance of famous teachers, Macedonian mastered the martial arts. At the age of 16, his surrogate father ruled Macedonia, and he seemed to be very talented!
In 336 BC, Philip II was assassinated at a banquet, and alexander, at the age of 20, took over Macedonian power and began a vigorous eastern expedition.
In 335 BC, Macedonia led a large army to unify all of Greece.
In 334 BC, he led an army to the east, successively destroyed the Persian Empire army at the Battle of granicus, the Battle of Issus and the Battle of Gaugamela, swept through Asia Minor, the Middle East and the Iranian plateau, occupied all of Egypt without a single soldier, and annexed the Persian Empire in 330 BC. In 329 BC, he moved to Central Asia, and in 327 BC continued his southern conquest of India.
In the 13 years of conquest, it has conquered about 5 million square kilometers of land. A vast empire was built across the Nile, Two, Indus, and Syr Darya rivers.
During the southern conquest of India, because of the severe plague in the army at that time, coupled with the incompatibility of the water and soil and the homesickness of the warriors, Alexander established a governor in the North India region and withdrew from India to return to Babylon. After returning to Babylon, Alexander continued to plan the conquest of southern India, but died of a serious illness at the age of 33.
Returning to Alexander's life, he began to grasp the military power in his youth, led his troops to Asia Minor and Central Asia, won a series of victories, and finally died of a serious illness. Alexander was a young man, talented, strategic, and looking at the entire history of the world, it is difficult to find someone who can achieve such success at such a young age.
In fact, Alexander's crusade is also a topic that historians talk about. Many people have made assumptions, if Alexander did not die young, but continued to march to the Qin State, would he be able to defeat the Qin State and conquer the Seven Heroes of the East?
Looking at historical sources, we learned that the size of the army of the Great Crusade on The Pressure Mountain was 40,000-50,000 people. Alexander's crusade was undoubtedly proud of the Macedonian phalanx, so in the following pages I will introduce you to the Macedonian phalanx.
The Macedonian phalanx usually consisted of 64 armored soldiers in a platoon, 128 in a company, 256 in a battalion, 1,024 in a regiment, and 4,096 in a division. In addition to heavy infantry, it included 2,048 lightly armored shield soldiers, 1,024 auxiliaries, and a cavalry regiment of 1,024 men, for a total of 8,192 men (i.e., the primary phalanx). Each joint phalanx consists of 4 primary phalanxes with a size of 32,000 people.
The weapons carried by the phalanx soldiers were mainly Macedonian spears, which were 13-14 feet long and converted into meters of 3.96-4.26 meters. Operated with two hands, the later spear is 18 feet. In addition, each soldier is equipped with a 2-foot round shield, mainly to cover the flanks and nearby teammates. Once the soldiers in front have fallen, the soldiers in the back quickly fill the vacancies and attack forward with the length of the spear to form an advantage.
The entire Macedonian phalanx is very lethal, and the essence of the phalanx tactic is that all the soldiers work together and go hand in hand, and those who flee from the front will be punished most severely. The disadvantage is the lack of mobility and the inability to use mountainous areas.
At this time, the Macedonian phalanx embarked on the road of expedition to the Qin State, and the first problem it faced was to cross the Qin Mountains. Heavy mountains, freezing cold, the road is full of uncertain dangers.
In order to supply 40,000-50,000 people with food and grass, hundreds of thousands of people need to be mobilized from India to transport. Under backward transportation conditions, it is simply more difficult to transport grain and grass over long distances than to ascend to the sky, and you can refer to the Mongolian army's expedition to Huarazimo.
Even if the expeditionary force crossed the Qin Mountains, there were still countless deserts and Gobi in the middle. A march of thousands of kilometers would also take months. In addition, there was harassment by western soldiers and Xiongnu soldiers.
The problem of water is the first thing to consider, most of the roads passed by the expeditionary force are deserts and Gobi, which are very water-scarce, and in the case of long-term water shortage, it is easy to affect the military's morale.
Alexander wanted to conquer the Qin state in the east, and he must use the strength of the whole country to ensure logistics, otherwise the people would arrive and starve to death in the middle of the road.
Even if the Eastern Crusade army was fortunate enough to come to the Qin State Wall, facing the tall city wall, for the lightly armed Eastern Crusade Army, if it wanted to capture the impregnable city, it was undoubtedly to brush the Experience of the Qin Army.
At this time, the State of Qin was in the period of King Hui of Qin, the Shang Martingale Transformation Law had been consolidated, and the military discipline and productivity had been greatly improved.
In the war of the Seven Heroes of the East, it was often a large-scale regimental battle of hundreds of thousands of people. Moreover, the standing military strength of the Qin State is more than 300,000 people, and in the face of tens of thousands of people, it is not enough for the Qin soldiers to take the military industry.
The Qin army wanted to fight with Alexander's expeditionary force, there was no need to confront it, it only needed to encircle the point to help and cut off the grain route to win.
Therefore, some historians have said that even if the size of the expeditionary force reached a million people, it might not be able to take the Qin state. First of all, the armies of these countries are patchwork, the language is not unified, the military orders are not unified, and each of them is pregnant with a ghost fetus. Once the war is lost, the fragile alliance will collapse in an instant.
If you want to supply the logistics of millions of people, the manpower and material resources required are unimaginable. Soldiers are not many, in fine. Under the historical conditions at that time, as long as the Qin state did not take the initiative to surrender, it was impossible for Alexander's crusading army to conquer the qin state.
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