Chapter 32 Return to the Voyage
Alexander and Aris Andros returned to the camp together, and the people were already anxious and sent people to search for a while. When www.biquge.info saw Alexander returning, Yabris hurried forward.
"Your Majesty, where have you been? We've been looking around for a long time and we haven't found you! β
"Sorry to worry everyone."
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have met the Prophet and witnessed a miracle." Alexander bewitched.
Aris deserved Ross to understand, and then Alexander's words continued: "Twenty years ago I met Alexander, and the oracle revealed that he would be king of Asia. Twenty years later, Asia has once again welcomed its master. A wise and loving king. β
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"Aris deserves Ross!" At this time, Laomedon and Attalus appeared in front of Aris Deutros.
"Are you Aris Derros?" Attalus asked. Then the old man nodded.
"I didn't expect to see you, a month ago we didn't even know if we could be free?"
"I didn't know a month ago that I would have such an opportunity." The Prophet gave an honest account.
"Now that I am with you, I have nothing to worry about, and when Amintas and Eumenus return, we will prepare to return to Rhodes. I believe that our soldiers have won the victory, and Cassander will be beaten up, hahaha! Alexander laughed mischievously.
Everyone smiled awkwardly, obviously not understanding what it meant.
When it was time to return to the camp, Alexander learned from him that the garrison of Termesos numbered 2,000 men, but it was basically a militia in nature, and could not be compared with the combat effectiveness of the field army, and there was no tendency to attack Alexander. Considering that they would leave tomorrow at the latest, there was no longer any threat, so Eumenus simply returned. However, Alexander didn't have time to deal with them, as long as he didn't bother himself, he just let them go. Amintas soon brought news that there was a harbor 30 stadia west of the small fishing village, with two rows of three-row oars and five double-row boats.
This pleased Alexander, who ordered a simultaneous march by land and water, and immediately set off for the port of Termessos. Alexander and Yabris rode together on a horse, and after a rapid march of forty minutes, finally reached the port to rendezvous with the outpost of Amintas.
Because it was night, there was no one on board, the soldiers lived in barracks near the port, and the oarsmen lived in more modest huts. Since it was not yet time to sleep, Alexander ordered the whole army to suspend the attack, and he had to wait until everyone had rested, and then kill them with lightning speed when he lost the ability to resist, so as to achieve the effect of bloodless soldiers. Although there were more oarsmen, Alexander did not think about them, because oarsmen did not have any fighting power or will to fight.
By the time it was almost dawn, the camp fell silent. Alexander felt that the time was almost up, so he said to Amintas, who was beside him, "It's almost time, let's act." β
Alexander and Arbris watched the battle from the sidelines, and Attalus and Laomedon were about to go into battle together to kill the enemy, but were stopped by Alexander: "The life of a general is a matter of life and death for the entire army, and in order to achieve victory, there is no shortage of generals to kill a few more enemies themselves, so there is no need to take the lead." However, Alexander forgot that he had led the flagship to the front before, perhaps because his recklessness almost caused a catastrophe, so Alexander was a little cautious, after all, people were much stronger than his child.
"Whoosh! Sou! Almost at the same time, the two guards at the gate of the camp fell with arrows in their throats, and although they were not yet dead, they could only make a "sizzling" sound, looking very painful. Cretos stepped forward and stabbed them with a blow.
"Guard every room, and don't do anything until you have to. Remember, our purpose is to make a crash landing on them and not to add unnecessary casualties. Amintas instructed.
"Yes!" The crowd responded softly. There were less than 300 soldiers in the camp, and soon every room was filled with men, all armed with swords, guns, bows and spears.
"Boom! Boom! With the sound of kicking the door, the camp suddenly became lively, but it didn't take long for the sound to disappear again. β¦,
"Looks like they've got it. Let's go! β
"Hmm."
The four of them came to the gate of the camp, and just as Amintas came out and saw Alexander, he arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the people are all under control." β
"Very well, then General Raomodon you go and hail those sailors! We're waiting for you to pull people over, hehe! β
"Okay, Alexander, negotiation is my specialty, and I won't let you down."
After a lot of rhetoric, hard and soft, the oarsmen chose to be hired by their new masters.
In order to reach Rhodes Island as soon as possible, and to avoid complications, Alexander decided to stay overnight.
Although Alexander disappeared not long after the battle the day before, everyone has been busy fighting for a while and cannot get out, which is what Alexander asked them to do, and everything is based on the overall situation. The battleships that rescued Alexander besieged the Cassander fleet with the reinforcements that arrived after struggling to support him, and Cassander, seeing that the defeat was assured, reluctantly ordered a retreat, and the remaining less than 60 warships led by Ephialtes retreated to Greece, while the other more than 40 Cassander warships that were fighting separately also retreated soon after. The rest of the Tresphos was a man who saw the wind and steered the rudder, and was already timid at the beginning of the fire of Alexander's fleet. Because Alexander's main attack was on Cassander's side, the pressure he was under was not very great at first, but as soon as Cassander retreated, all the firepower would be focused on Telesforos, so Cassander retreated on the front foot, and he did not hesitate to retreat, but even so, the 150 warships brought with him had already lost one-third, and many of them were still large warships, which had to make Telesforos feel painful. However, he was luckier than Cassander and the Athenian fleet. Cassander and Athenians lost two-thirds of their nearly 300 ships, and Ephialtes had 30 ships left, and the Athenian navy was weakened by the loss of a large number of sailors and oarsmen. Cassander, on the other hand, lost confidence in naval warfare and focused on the struggle for Greek supremacy on land. However, because Alexander was going eastward, he had no time to take care of them, and gave them time to breathe.
The Macedonian fleet and the Rhodes fleet lost more than 80 large and small warships in this battle, and more than half of the remaining warships were damaged to varying degrees, but they captured nearly 130 warships, a small part of which were surrendered, the formation was relatively complete, the losses were relatively slight, plus other wounded, after a period of rest, the number of Alexander's warships reached 300, and the total number was close to 400. Alexander's fame spread throughout Greece, Thrace, Asia Minor, Egypt, Rome, and Persia, and even Antigonus was shocked, and for the first time there was a contradiction in his heart, but the contradiction was soon replaced by his ambition; Ptolemy was always in his poise, and no one knew his thoughts; And when the governors who met at the court of Susa found out, they made their own calculations, which is a later story.
Because it was night, and the headwind was driving, Alexander drove relatively slowly, and throughout the night, against the background of the hazy moonlight, Alexander seemed to have grown ten years old, and his immature face could not hide the vicissitudes of life. He remembered Alexander the Great, remembered Philip II, both of whom were great kings, Alexander the Great conquered Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia and Punjab, and his political acumen was no worse than Philip's, but the most fatal thing was that he did not have children early, which became the direct cause of the division of the Macedonian Empire. And Philip put a lot of effort into cultivating Alexander. So Philip was a wise king, and Alexander was a natural warrior. And as a traverser, a man who is well-versed in the past, after becoming the heir of the Ajd dynasty and the Macedonian Empire, he will have a great possibility of reshaping a powerful empire, and whether he can avoid the decline of the dynasty at that time, the cyclical law of history is almost irreversible, and it is almost impossible to achieve a perfect society in such a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, even in the 21st century. And he is not Muhammad himself, he can still rely on the power of religion to unite a free and scattered people into a powerful force, Alexander is not a god, he is not capable of this, in contrast, he can refer to some elements of constitutional monarchy to delay and contain the aging and extinction of the country.