In the autumn of 315 B.C., Alexander landed on the peninsula of Calibolu (Calipolis, meaning beautiful city in Greek), less than two years after he left Europe, but this time he returned to Europe in a very different way, and the two years had already allowed him to grow a lot, and his prestige spread widely throughout the empire. Nowadays, no one will despise him because of his age.

With the accession of Asander and the total occupation of Asia Minor, Alexander's army was expanded, in addition to the 1,500 Macedonian cavalry, 3,000 friendly infantry and 1,500 archers led by Patrocles, Alexander's army also included 1,200 guards cavalry, 400 armored cavalry, 2,000 royal spearmen, 7,000 friendly infantry, 4,000 Macedonian cavalry, 2,500 Macedonian escort cavalry, 6,000 Greek heavy infantry, 2,200 leather shield spearmen, 4,000 ordinary archers, 2,000 longbowmen, 2,200 slingers (including 1,600 Rhodes), 5,000 Macedonian pikemen, 9,000 levy spearmen, 1,300 Taranto cavalry, 2,800 silver shield men, 2,500 shield bearers, 450 Spartan hoplites, 800 Phrygian axes, 500 Thracian mercenaries, 2,000 javelinmen, for a total of nearly sixty thousand men, plus 21 war elephants and 40 chariots. In addition to leaving 3,000 Macedonian pikemen and 3,000 conscripts to garrison the various places, a total of more than 50,000 people were dispatched for this operation.

The Gelibolu Peninsula is a long and narrow peninsula extending southwest from the southeast coast of Thrace, extending from northeast to southwest, with a length of 56 km and a maximum width of 21 km, and is bordered by the Blair Isthmus, which is 5 km wide. On the other side of it is Asia Minor, separated by the Hellespont (Dardanelles, Canakkale Strait), at this time Lysimachus has not yet built the city named after him, Lysimachia, his administrative center is in Gelibolu, which was originally a small city of less than 20,000 people, as an administrative center is indeed a little small, but because Lysimachus is busy with the war and does not have the energy to build cities, so it has been used. Gailibolu was built on the banks of the Hellespont, but because it was built by the Greeks, the walls were relatively well built, but because they were located on the plains, they were easily besieged. Lysimachus had no intention of holding on, he knew that such a city would not be able to stop Alexander's army, and he did not dare to gamble, because he did not know when reinforcements would arrive, so he withdrew inland through the Blair Isthmus. Alexander saw that he did not defend the city, and did not enter the city, so he chased after him. From here to the Elguene and Evros rivers are basically plain terrain, both sides run very fast, and within four days Lysimachos arrived at a small town near the Evros River, where the Roman Emperor Hadrian later built Adriatic. It was strategically important and had always been a battleground for soldiers, but now it was an unknown town, and Lysimachus stopped here because the reinforcements were about as close as he was to Alexander, and he was going to give his soldiers a good rest before the battle. Alexander was also informed, so he set up a large camp outside 200 Stadia and sent men to persuade Lysimachus to surrender, while secretly sending a large force across the Evros River to intercept Cassander. The distance between the four forces is about the same, so Lysimachus dared to stay still, waiting here, only after the three armies met, he dared to fight with Alexander, and Alexander also took advantage of his psychology to take the strategy of "Ming Xiu Plank Road and Dark Chen Cang".

"How far are they from here?"

"It's about 25 Stadia away."

"Be careful, send more scouts to find Your Majesty, and explain to him what we are doing here, a day ago I learned that the army was near the Elguene River, but now I don't know where it is. Our ambush will only slightly deplete Cassander's forces, so we must get in touch with Your Majesty and find out whether it is time or what, and I will not be able to stop them after this place. Patrocles said to a few of his men.

"Yes!"

At this time, Patrocles was on an unknown high ground, and he had been scouting the movements of Cassander's army, so he had found such a place in advance that he thought the other party must pass through. Frankly speaking, this is not an excellent place for ambush, the valley floor is too wide, and the height on both sides is not a dangerous place, no more than 40 cubits high, so it can only catch the other party off guard, and when they react, Patrocles will not be able to ask for much benefit. But this is the only place where the ambush can be successful, because it is the best road in the low hills that extend from the Rhodope Mountains, which is more suitable for large armies, and there are a few narrower roads that Cassander will not take, and the flattest road is of course in the coastal plains, but then it will be a long detour, and Cassander will not go far either.

At this time, Cassander's march was accelerating, although the pace was not fast, but he hardly rested, because he got the news that Alexander was biting Lisimachos, so his current straight-line goal was to follow the direction of Lisimachus's travel, that is, to the northwest, and then adjust the route appropriately when Lisimachus sent someone to deliver information. At this time, Cassander really regretted a little, he didn't expect Alexander to come so quickly, and he pressed forward step by step, and he didn't know if he could maintain his combat effectiveness when his army and Lisimachus met.

"After passing through the valley in front, the army rests for a while, and the men and horses rest." Cassander said.

"Well, it's time to rest, we've already driven 70 Stadians in a row." Philip agreed.

At this moment, a cavalryman ran over and hurriedly said: "General, we are still nearly 300 stadia away from the camp of Lysimachus, and we can definitely reach it in a day and a half if we march hastily." ”

"I see, keep looking into the situation, especially Alexander's."

"Yes."

Soon Cassander arrived at the site of Patrocles' ambush.

"That's the last valley ahead, and beyond that, it's a flat river." Cassander said that he is also a veteran of more than 20 years of war, and has fought several battles with Lisimachos, so he is still familiar with the geography here.

"There won't be a problem ahead, right?" Philip said with a little worry.

"As far as you are suspicious, that place is not narrow, unlike the terrain of Marathon and Thermopylae, and I have never heard of anyone ambushing anyone here, not to mention that Alexander is now tracking Lysimachus, and the scouts have not received news that Alexander's army is here, are you still worried about encountering another Misia or Leonidas? Ha ha! Cassander laughed.

"Hehe, probably because I'm nervous." Philip shook his head and shut his mouth.

On the top of the mountain, Patrocles was paying close attention to the situation below, and said earnestly to a general beside him: "Carlos, although you and I are generals, but Your Majesty has great trust in us and has high hopes, this is a good opportunity for us to make meritorious contributions, we must not let him down, let this battle prove the value of your existence!" ”

"I understand, don't worry, General, this time I will beat Cassander hard." With that, he picked up a flag and tossed it down......

Soon after Cassander and Philip passed through the pass, shouts and screams were heard from behind.

"Not good!" Philip immediately thought that he must have been ambushed.

"How can this be reasonable, there are really fucking ambushes!" Kashan scolded his mother angrily.

"I didn't expect it to be so back, where did the ambush soldiers come from, why didn't they find it? It seems that we were careless, and we knew that we should take some time to go up and search. Prey forced Rolls to be annoyed.

"I'll take a look right away." As he spoke, Philip was already riding his horse and running back.

"Because the ranks of the Germans in Kasan were very dense, they suffered a lot of losses, and Patrocles's archers basically had no arrows, because they didn't need to aim to shoot at the opposing soldiers, and the others picked up stones and threw them down, always killing people.

"Quick! Raise your shield, spread out, spread out! Prime forced Laus to shout, the archers did not aim at the heavy infantry, the heavy infantry armor was too thick, so it was handed over to the other infantry to stone. Most of the arrows were fired at the cavalry, the small shield armor of the cavalry was generally not too thick, and there were unarmored horses, the target was larger and easier to shoot, whether it was a dead man or a horse, the loss was greater than that of the dead infantry, except for the Thessaly region, the war horses in other parts of Greece were very expensive, a war horse was equivalent to the price of 100 sheep, and it was about the income of a construction worker for a year and a half.

"The people behind turn around and run back, and the front ones go forward, leave here first, climb to the sides and destroy them, and the archers come back to suppress the enemy forces on both sides of the hills." Philip shouted, but Patrocles had chosen a good time to attack, and the archers had already run to the front, and now they had to run back.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the archers, Patrocles shot a few showers of arrows at them and said, "Withdraw, we can't get any bargain from them, after all, there are so many of them that there is nothing to fight in this kind of battle." According to the original plan, we withdrew to their rear in two ways, and then waited for news from His Majesty's side, whose main goal was to rendezvous with Lisimachos, and it was impossible to pursue us. ”

"Yes, General."

"General Philip, they ran away." Prime forced Rolls to say.

Philip glanced hatefully at the hillside and said, "Keep going." ”

"General, don't you send troops to pursue?" Prey forced Rolls to wonder.

"Chase? How to chase? They accept it when they see it, they don't love to fight, they obviously plan very carefully, they are also very well prepared, and they rush to pursue, even if we don't ambush again, we may not be able to catch up, and it will delay the big thing. Philip glanced at Pris, and said sternly, "Now the most important thing is for us to hurry up and join Lysimachus, this is a harassing force, and pursuing them is exactly what they want." ”

"Makes sense." Purry forced Rolls to think for a moment and nodded.

In this battle, Cassander lost seven or eight hundred men, and two or three thousand wounded, and the cavalry lost two hundred, and the losses were so-so, mainly because the morale was greatly damaged.