After a long silence, Antigonus finally said: "I believe that everyone has understood the situation, and we have another enemy in front of us, and this enemy is no weaker than the eastern governors assembled by Eumenes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info On the contrary, he has a strong appeal, he can say that we are rebellious, and we cannot argue for ourselves, we can say that we are against Polybocon, but will the soldiers believe it? I heard that Polybocon had been appointed commander of the naval fleet, which meant that he had left the army system, and this was a very vicious move, which was to show the world that he Alexander had taken control of the Macedonian army, a mere 7-year-old child! We may still be able to say that she is fighting Olympias, but she is only a woman, can a woman really lead troops to war? I'm afraid no one will believe it. Now even an ordinary soldier probably knows how wise and wise their king is, and I trust you, but I don't trust those soldiers! Especially the Macedonian soldiers, the basis of our survival, the elite of the army, they loved Alexander the Great, and they probably loved the son of the Great. This terrible situation had already occurred during the siege of Nora Castle. Therefore, if you still want to keep your position and wealth, you must guard against the recurrence of such incidents, go to the army to boost morale, and severely punish those who spread rumors and make trouble. ”

All that happened during the siege of Nora is well known, when Antigonus sent Sillonimus to persuade Eumenes to take an oath in front of the besieging army to accept an oath he offered as a condition for lifting the siege. The oath merely mentions the king in ceremonies, and is in fact entirely an oath to Antigonus personally. However, Eumenes categorically changed this oath, swearing allegiance only to the king and the queen mother Olympias, and refused to recognize Antigonus. Instead, the Macedonian army decided that this version of the oath of Eumenes was more plausible, so they withdrew the siege and instead demanded that their commander Antigonus take an oath according to it. At the same time, Eumenes returned all the Cappadocian hostages in the city, and in exchange he received a large number of horses and baggage from his Asian supporters, regrouped an army, and even received 1,000 cavalry who had fled from Antigonus's army. Enraged upon learning of his army's performance at Nora, Antigonus ordered the siege to continue, and sternly warned the army of Eumenes' acceptance of the oath change.

Everyone understands that the wavering will of the generals and soldiers under their command will be fatal, and they may be sold by the soldiers in the blink of an eye, just like the original regent Padika, who is still a regent in the morning, and becomes a dead corpse at night, how ironic it is.

There wasn't much debate in this meeting, and almost everyone knew what was going on and what needed to be done, maybe just to put things on the table and make everyone sober up. In fact, everyone is sober, but almost all of them are confused. What is sober is that they all know what they will do, and what is confused is that no one knows what the result will be. It's just that things are already like this, and they can only take one step at a time.

After receiving reinforcements, Antigonus decided that she would be able to fight Eumenes again. He began to move eastward, into Susania. Although Eumenes had enough troops to fight Antigonus, he chose to avoid the battle, as Susa was too close to both the Medes and Babylon, so Eumenes wanted to lure Antigonus farther east and deal with his opponents if they lacked supplies. For this reason, Eumenes ordered the guards of Susa's royal treasury to ignore any requests from Antigonus for money, as he was an enemy of the king. Eumenes then marched east with his large army into the province of Persia, the province of Peusestas. …,

When Antigonus arrived in Susa, he had hoped to draw a little money from the royal treasury to finance his military expenses, just like Eumenes, but the garrison commander in charge of guarding the treasury refused to talk to him at all. This angered Antigonus, and he appointed Seleucus as governor of Susania and left him with an army to besiege the inner city and treasury of Susa, and he himself led his army eastward.

Antigonus found that the regions he was now passing through were very different from Macedonia and Asia Minor, both geographically and in climate. Because the weather was so hot, he could only march at night, but many soldiers still suffered from heat stroke, and many even died. Antigonus' army crossed the main course of the Tigris, but these areas became extremely alien to them. Neither Antigonus nor Perzon knew anything about the geography of the area, they only knew that the direction of Persia was to the east, so they blindly marched eastward. Nevertheless, after a difficult march, the army reached the CopratesRiver, a small tributary near the Pasitigris River, the easternmost branch of the Tigris. Here Antigonus's army met the scout cavalry of Eumenes, who had been waiting in the area for a long time.

Eumenes' plan was to hold on to the Pastigris River, and if Antigonus's army, which had suffered so much along the way, could not pass through here, he would most likely choose to go north to the Medes to recuperate. If Antigonus did go to the Medes, Eumenes would march back to the west, waiting for an opportunity to join Alexander IV, in the past, the idea of going west was a bit fantastical, but after Alexander IV stepped into Western Asia, this plan became very good.

At this time, the first head-to-head confrontation between Antigonus and Eumenes after the Battle of Euquinia was about to begin.

For most of these three years, except for a period when he was busy dealing with the fleet of Cletus, Antigonus spent most of his time pursuing Eumenes, first through most of Asia Minor, then from Minor Asia Minor to Phoenicia, from Phoenicia to Mesopotamia, along the valley of the two rivers all the way to Babylon, and then to Susania until the present Persian border. In the eyes of Antigonus, who was bound to win every battle, Eumenes was already afraid of his might and was not afraid of it.

At the end of June and the beginning of July in 316 BCE, he finally met Eumenes head-on. The River Plates, which was now in front of him, was a very narrow but deep river with a very fast water, which had to be crossed by small boats. Despite this, Antigonus decided not to cross the river without hesitation. Since he had marched eastward in complete blindness, and now he had few rafts, he decided to send a part of his army across the river first, and before Eumenes knew that he was smuggling, he would try to establish a strong camp on the other side of the river with a trench, and then he would ferry the whole army over.

However, Eumenes had already guessed Antigonus's plan, and he sent a wide range of scouts to patrol the riverbank, and Antigonus's army was seen by scouts as soon as they crossed the river. Eumenes carefully set a trap and pretended not to have discovered the crossing of Antigonus's army, but secretly mobilized his own army. When part of Antigonus's advance party crossing the river had just landed on their feet and some were assembled on the bank of the river, and the array was in disarray, Eumenes personally led his selected 1,300 cavalry and 4,000 elite infantry to attack. Although Antigonus had crossed the river with nearly 10,000 troops—400 cavalry, 3,000 heavy infantry, and 6,000 lightly armed or auxiliary—these forces were completely unprepared for battle, and did not expect that Eumenes had long been aware of their existence and lacked effective command, and that they would collapse at the first charge of Eumenes. They scrambled to flee backwards, trampling on each other, suffering heavy casualties. Only a few lucky ones managed to grab the boat or swam back to the opposite shore, and most were drowned, killed, or trampled to death by friendly forces in their own trampling. In the end, all the remaining 4000 survivors surrendered to Eumenes.

During the whole process, Antigonus could only watch helplessly as his advance team was wiped out. The confusion and screams of his comrades at the time of defeat demoralized Antigonus's army and tarnished Antigonus's prestige. Under these circumstances, Antigonus decided to rest his army in Ecbatana, the capital of the Median of his ally Pesson, who had abundant manpower and supplies, and although he had just lost some of it to Pesson, it was still not a good base. In addition, there was a royal treasury in Ecbatana, and since not a penny was received in Susa, Antigonus's huge army began to run short of money.