Eumenes was a Greek born in Cedianchersonese, Thrace. Originally Philip II's personal secretary www.biquge.info Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion was trusted by Philip II for his decisiveness and efficiency. After his death, Philip II became Alexander the Great's personal secretary and accompanied Alexander to Asia. After Alexander's death, Eumenes ordered a brigade of Macedonian and Greek soldiers to fight in support of Alexander IV. In the ensuing division of the empire, he divided between Cappadocia and Paphlagonia. Since the two places were not conquered, Padica ordered Leonato and Antigonus to take them for Eumenes. However, Antigonus did not listen to Padica's orders, and Leonato lobbied Eumenes to join him in Europe. Eumenes joined Padica, who placed him in Cappadocia.

After Alexander's death, his subordinate Padika, after purging Meliag and other opponents, climbed to the position of regent and became the de facto ruler of Macedonia after Alexander's death. In the early years of his reign, Padica strengthened his power base through a marriage with Antipater, a remnant of the European mainland, and weakened the influence of his greatest rival, Claterus, before the Macedonians quelled the Greek revolt in mainland Greece and Central Asia.

Padica then even captured Cappadocia and Pisidia, which had not been captured during Alexander's time, and appointed Eumenes and his brother Arsetas as governors of Cappadocia and Pisidia, respectively. However, his power was soon challenged, and as he divorced Antipater's daughter Nicia in order to marry Alexander's own sister Cleopatla, Antipater married Nichymachus and united with Craterus (also Antipater's son-in-law, who married Phila, who was later the wife of Dmitry I, who was very virtuous) and Lysimachus of Thrace. At the same time, Ptolemy, who remained in Egypt, snatched Alexander's hearse, which was supposed to be sent to Egypt but was diverted by Padica. So Padica himself led a large army to conquer Ptolemy, leaving Eumenes to fight against the armies of Antipater and Claterus.

To everyone's surprise, Padica's invasion of Egypt failed and he was assassinated by his generals, but Eumenes defeated Kratrus, the most powerful and popular general in Macedonia at the time. After a brief period of chaos and strife, Antipater eventually became the sole regent of Macedonia. He handed over the military and political power of all of Asia to Antigonus, the one-eyed dragon who had just married him, and returned to Europe with the king and most of the Macedonian army.

Now, Antigonus was to bring his army to the task of exterminating the remnants of the Padicca, the governor of Cappadocia, Emenes, and the governor of Pisidia, Arcetas.

Eumenes could never have imagined that within three years, he would be swept into the whirlpool of fate and sink so deeply. From the time of Philip II, he, a Greek from Cesonis of Thrace, was a secretary and only a secretary. He was just a recorder and had little interest in the power struggles between the Macedonians. He was just a Greek, and even if there was no one to compete with him, he could not have been recognized as king by the Macedonians. For him, the highest position he could attain was only that of the chief adviser of a new Macedonian king.

In the chaos of Babylon after Alexander's death, it was he who stepped forward to mediate the dispute between Paddicka and Meliaig. At that time, he was able to mediate from a neutral position, largely as he himself put it: "just a Greek, and the future distribution of power has nothing to do with him".

For Eumenes, if there was anything in this world worthy of his allegiance, it was the legitimate royal family of Macedonia, the descendants of Philip II. It was the promotion of Philip II and Alexander the Great that transformed him from an ordinary Greek into a royal secretary with wealth, status and prestige. …,

For Eumenes, Padica, a distant relative of the Ajid royal family, was a Macedonian dignitary trying to integrate into the family of Philip II, and Antipater and others were unruly and dangerous elements, so he quickly became a supporter of Padica, and tried to facilitate the marriage of Paddicka and Cleopatla. That said, he wasn't really a Padica. Instead, he sought to preserve the status of the descendants of Philip II. So, he tried to broker a reconciliation between Kratrus and Padica. Sadly, however, the forthcoming understanding between him and Craterus was shattered by Neoptormos's provocation.

The fate of Eumenes is as unpredictable as Sophocles' Oedipus King. In the ensuing battle, he was forced to confront his former friend Craterus, who would have been afraid that the Macedonian soldiers under Eumenes would run to the opposite side without hesitation as long as Craterus stood in front of Eumenes' army and shouted loudly. Unfortunately, Eumenes did not give him this opportunity, but ordered the more than 6,000 Cappadocian cavalry he had recruited to rush forward regardless of the three, seven and twenty-one, and Craterus, who happened to be lightly defeated, was riding in the front with a graceful horse, and when he saw that the cavalry rushing towards him was completely unknown to him but in good spirits, he knew that he had been deceived by the son of Optolemus. But it was too late to regret it, he was unfortunately attacked by a Thracian mercenary and fell off his horse, but what was even more unfortunate was that he was actually crushed to death by his own mount, and later generations couldn't help but sigh "Lu Wu"!

In this way, Eumenes won the battle without any suspense, but at the same time, he was tricked by fate to lie on the corpse of his friend and wept bitterly, lamenting that fate had made two good friends meet on the battlefield and kill each other, which made him seem a little crazy. He began to look for Neoptolemus, who betrayed Padica and wanted to attack him but was defeated and fled, and Craterus wanted to reconcile with Eumenes but heard the incitement of Neoptolemus who defected, so he changed his mind. Eumenes soon found the guy he hated the most in his life, and in a fit of rage, he actually chose to fight him alone, Neoptolemus probably thought that he could not defeat Eumenes, a secretary, as a general, but soon he found out that he was not Eumenes' opponent, so he pretended to be dead after being injured a little, waiting for an opportunity to plot against the other party. His first attempt, which he unsuccessfully, then performed a second attempt, this time stabbing Eumenes, but was also killed by Eumenes. This unprincipled, despicable scum is finally dead, but his friend cannot be resurrected. The victory was meaningless, and although he eventually defeated his old enemy, Neoptolemus, his fledgling victory seemed to be a curse due to his popularity among the Macedonian army, and he remained unpopular with the Macedonian army until his final death.

Originally, he sent someone to report the news of his victory, but the hapless Paddicka was murdered by Antizhenis, Seleucus, and Pesson on the Nile, and the letter was only 10 days late, otherwise Padica, who had suffered several defeats, could have restored the morale of the army. However, Hades couldn't wait, and he also seemed to feel that the reckless and impulsive Paddicka was not capable of achieving great things, so he deprived Paddicka of his life prematurely. At this time, Eumenes almost became the loneliest person in the world. He was sentenced to death in absentia by Padica's mutinous army, and when he tried to unite with Padica's brother Alcetas, who was also sentenced to death, the stupid Arcetas didn't take him seriously at all. Fortunately, his own army was stable for the time being, and he summoned his leading officers to announce Padica's death and his death sentence, and referred to the commotion he had just heard about the Macedonian royal army at Tripalatisus, and the fact that Antipater himself lacked military spending, and promised to allow his army to plunder the "enemy's" countryside and extort the city. In addition, the sense of honor of his army overshadowed the fear of his army, and they unanimously demanded to fight the royal army that had come to defeat Eumenes. …,

Eumenes, after plundering and extorting large sums of money from the cities and countryside of western and central Asia Minor, Phrygia belonging to Antigonus, returned to his own Cappadocian precinct to prepare for the challenges ahead. For him, to face and defeat this challenge is not for the sake of higher power, but only for the sake of survival, as long as he surrenders or escapes, and in the present situation his only end is to be executed, and there is no place from the Indus to Greece that can accommodate him. He must survive until the external environment changes radically.

However, he also had his own advantages, and apart from the "strong" Asian cavalry he had trained himself to kill Claterus, his opponents were not in much better shape right now. Although Antipater grew in strength after annexing Padica's army, the army was so disorganized that it was unable to fight effectively.

After a long period of tossing, Antipater returned to Macedonia with the main force of his much-underpaid royal army, as well as the two kings, and at the same time handed over all of Asia's military command, along with a small part of the royal army, to Antigonus. In the opinion of the elderly Antipat, the most important thing is to return to his hometown in Macedonia as soon as possible, and the affairs of Asia can be resolved slowly.

Antigonus suddenly found that he had picked up a treasure, and Antipater had rushed to Asia from Macedonia without any money, so that the military was distraught and had no time to take care of it. Now Antigonus is no longer the Antigonus who went to Macedonia to ask Antipater for help, he knows very well how rich the resources of Asia are, and the military and economic resources that can be mobilized in Anatolia alone are more than Macedonia and Greece combined, and Antigonus has been operating in central Asia Minor for more than ten years, and is very familiar with this place. So at the end of 320 BC, he boldly entered Phrygia with his army, placing his army between the domains of Eumenes and Arcetas.

However, although Antigonus was courageous, he did have a small army at his disposal, with only slightly more than 13,000 infantry, including 8,000 Macedonians, in addition to 2,000 cavalry and 30 war elephants from the royal army that he had obtained from Antipater. To the south of him was the army of Arcetas in Pisidia, and to the northeast of him was the army of Eumenes of Cappadocia, two enemy armies that fought separately but had at least 20,000 infantry on each side and more cavalry than Antigonus. However, Antigonus had to put pressure on her opponents, so she decided to let her army survive the winter between the two rivals.

Antigonus's almost provocative and bold actions had a certain effect. One of Eumenes' generals, also named Padica, decided to lead his 3,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to Antigonus. When Eumenes discovered this serious defection, he immediately sent his henchman Phoenix, an elite of 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, to pursue the rebels. Phoenix was one of the two cavalry generals who killed Kraterus that year, so it was natural to deal with these rebels.

Phoenix made a forced march and caught up with the rebellious army in the middle of the night, and the sleeping defectors were unable to resist, and Phoenix disarmed them almost without blood, and escorted them all back. At the moment of the great enemy, Eumenes could not and did not dare to kill, so he ordered the execution of Padika and several others who took the lead, and mixed the remaining soldiers.

After dealing with this mutiny, Eumenes waited for spring to come. Although the regent Antipater had a bad relationship with him, Craterus, who had died in battle, and Antigonus, who had now come to fight against him, were his early friends, but they inevitably met each other in battle, and Eumenes could not help but feel that creation was a fool again. …,

However, at this time, Antigonus encountered a more serious collective rebellion and desertion than Eumenes. Antipater, who left him with 3,000 of the 8,000 infantry of the Macedonian royal army, broke away from his command due to unpaid problems and began to plunder his Phrygian precincts. These infantrymen were veterans of the war for many years, and their rebellion forced Antigonus to stop preparing for war and return to the incident.

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Neoπt?λeμo?,?? - 321 BC), an officer of Alexander the Great, who, according to Arion, was of the Aeacidae ethnic group, most likely of Epirus royal blood. He served in the cavalry of his allies, and few accounts of him are recorded during Alexander's expedition, but it is certain that his exploits earned him a high reputation, and after Alexander's death, he was made governor of Armenia. In 323 BCE, he seemed to be on the verge of making a move, possibly harboring dissenting intentions, so the imperial regent Padika became suspicious of him. In 321 BCE, when Padika was on an expedition to Ptolemy in Egypt, he appointed Menes as the superior of Neop Tolemos and told him to keep an eye on him. Neoptolemus did have correspondence with the hostile Antipater and Claterus, and refused Eumenes' order to join his army. Eumenes immediately crusaded against him, defeated his army, and forced his Macedonian soldiers to swear allegiance to Padica. Neoptolemos fled with only a small force of cavalry and joined the army of Craterus. Neoptolemos instigated Craterus to lead his army to a decisive battle with the Eumenes, believing that the Eumenes army had just experienced a major battle and had not yet recovered to prepare for the next battle, but the appearance of the Craterus army did not catch the Eumenes army by surprise, and the outcome of the battle was beyond everyone's expectations.