"Did they chase after them?" Patrocles asked a scout who had just arrived.

"No, but the people we sent out have a letter back, and Your Majesty is now rushing towards the Kassantes, trying to break them before the coalition forces meet.

"Isn't Your Majesty after Lisimachus? So what's going on over there with Lisimachus? ”

"It was as if they had stopped at a place near the middle reaches of the Evros River, and His Majesty and he were still a little more than a day's way away, and His Majesty thought that he was waiting for reinforcements, and if he continued the pursuit, it was likely that when he arrived, the other party's reinforcements would also arrive. So, on the surface, I camped on the spot and sent men to persuade them to surrender, and secretly crossed the Evros River, and searched everywhere for Cassander's army, but I have already made contact with His Majesty's scouts, and have told them where they are, and I am sure that Your Majesty will be able to deduce their march and catch them. ”

"Good! It's just wonderful. Carlos, let's go back. ”

"What is the General going to do?"

"We will follow Cassander's troops closely, and when His Majesty engages them and kill them from behind, Cassander will be even more defeated. In this way, I leave you with the infantry and archers, and you continue to return to our ambush points to lay ambushes. Oh no, they probably guessed that we would go back. Patrocles opened the map and continued: "There are so many roads here that you can't block them all, you see, this is Paranestion, it's a long and narrow path, and you hurry here to stop Cassander's rout. Remember, this time it's not just an ambush but a way to block his retreat, but you'll need to get to Neapolis (Kavala) with a small group of troops and the navy to help you out. The navy can play a certain deterrent role, and the firepower is strong, it can play a great auxiliary role, hold these two places, Cassander will have no way to escape, unless he runs to the mountains, but then the speed will inevitably slow down, and we can continue to retreat and intercept layer by layer. Of course, in the end, it will be necessary for His Majesty to have enough troops to come and pursue, then it depends on His Majesty's intentions, anyway, you just need to complete your mission. Patrocles finished and patted Carlos on the back.

"Everything is subject to your arrangement, you can go with confidence."

Alexander's troops were divided into two routes, one to the west led by Eumenes, and the other to the northwest, led by Alexander himself. At the same time, a large number of scouts were sent to search for Cassander's main force, and a lot of cavalry was arranged in front of the army to intercept and kill the opponent's scouts at any time to avoid being detected by them. Soon there was news, and by noon the next day, I finally got the news, not only the news of the position of Cassander's main force, but also the news brought by Patrocles. So, after some calculations and speculations, Alexander waited for Cassander on a plain west of the Evros River.

At this moment, Cassander also got the news that a large number of scouts sent out had been killed.

"It looks like Alexander must have sent an army to intercept us." Cassander was very annoyed at the moment.

Pricy forced Rolls to be very depressed, and had to admit: "That's right, I'm afraid they have all been poisoned, otherwise the scouts who couldn't have been sent out are almost all gone." ”

At this moment, a soldier covered in blood staggered back, and was seriously wounded by a javelin pierced in the shoulder.

"General, I found the enemy army to the east beyond 40 Statia."

"Are you sure? How many people are there? Cassander is not calm.

"There are about 20,000 people, they are very tightly blocked, I finally found out, the other brothers are dead, and I escaped alone."

"Do you know who is in charge?"

"The subordinates are incompetent, and I haven't figured this out."

"You go down and heal your wounds first." Philip waved his hand and let the soldier out.

"It seems that Alexander has played us tricks, he just wants to defeat our reinforcements first, but why are there only 20,000 people, can there be other people to intercept the barbarian reinforcements?" Cassander wondered.

"No way, unless they all send out their cavalry, it will be possible to intercept the barbarians and Lisimachus before they can join them, but then his cavalry will have much combat strength, and as far as I know, his cavalry will not be so numerous." Philip affirmed.

"And are the rest still on the east bank of the Evros?" Prime asked.

"I can't be sure of that, but we're already riding a tiger, and Alexander is blocked to the east of us, and no matter how we go, it's unlikely that we'll be able to bypass him and join Lysimachos." Philip said helplessly.

"Then there is only fighting, anyway, there are not many others, just take this opportunity to destroy them." Cassander said viciously, but Philip looked sad.

Seeing Philip like this, Cassander couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"We can't be sure of winning all of these 20,000 people, and if he still has reinforcements, then we will be very dangerous."

"I'm afraid I can't control so much now, even if we don't fight, he won't let us go, the more it drags on, the more bad it will be for us, let's kill it!" Prey forced Rolls to say impatiently.

"Alright, but just in case, send out a lot more scouts to scout what's going on in every direction around us." Philip said cautiously.

"Well, that's right, Prie forced Rolls, you go and arrange it."

"Yes, General!"

Alexander stopped his march to wait for reinforcements from Eumenes, not wanting to engage Cassanders too soon, but also to allow his soldiers to rest a little more.

Two hours later, the two armies finally met. On Alexander's side there were 300 cavalrymen, 2,000 royal spearmen, 4,000 infantry men, 1,500 Macedonian escort cavalry, 4,000 Greek heavy infantry, 2,200 leather shield spearmen, 1,400 longbowmen, 1,800 slingers (reorganized after entering Asia Minor), 1,300 Taranto cavalry, 2,800 silver shield men, 450 Spartan hoplites, 800 javelinmen, a total of 23,550 men, plus 21 war elephants and 40 chariots. On the Cassander side were 1,100 Macedonian escort cavalry, 1,200 Macedonian lancers, 3,000 Macedonian cavalry, 4,000 friendly infantry, 3,000 Macedonian pikemen, 3,000 conscripted spearmen, 5,000 Greek hoplites, and 5,000 archers, a total of 25,300 men.

"Wait for the direct rush to the past, don't say anything to them, let alone let the other party demagoguery, Alexander is the king after all, and his prestige is getting higher and higher, if he stands in front of the formation and says a few words, it will definitely have an impact on our military morale, so he must not be allowed to have this opportunity." Philip reminded.

"That's right, give me the order, attack!"

Alexander had too few cavalry, so he gave the commanders on both flanks a stronger infantry to compensate for the lack of cavalry strength on both flanks. Leave the war elephants in the rear, and the chariots are deployed on the left flank to deal with the relatively strong right flank of the enemy cavalry. Alexander was confident that his elite army would be able to wipe out the troops that the opponent had struggled to put together, whether reinforcements came in or not.

The first half of this battle was indeed a wrestling match, because it was a plain, there was no way to arrange ambushes, and all the forces of both sides were put into the frontal battlefield. The two sides did it all at once, the strength of the central phalanx was about the same, Cassander's army was large, Alexander's was more elite, both sides were up and down, Alexander on both flanks was stronger than the other party, under the impetus of the powerful infantry, Cassander's army was defeated and retreated, Cassander's cavalry wanted to outflank but because of the flexible changes of the opponent's infantry always hindered his impact, and finally Cassander himself came on the field, wanting to learn from Nikanor to directly charge Alexander's own formation, but was stopped by the cavalry and the attendants.

"Woo-woo-" a horn sounded.

"What's going on! Could it be that Alexander still has reinforcements! Glausias, who commanded the elite infantry of his friends in the center, was very uneasy.

"Damn, Alexander has gathered all his troops against me, this is to destroy our coalition forces!" A terrible thought came to Cassander's mind, and seeing that he would not be able to kill Alexander for a while, he hastened to withdraw to his position.

At this time, Eumenes' reinforcements slowly appeared in front of the Kassander army, and more than 20,000 people came over in a mighty manner, putting considerable pressure on the Cassander army.

"General, the enemy is outnumbered, you retreat quickly, I will leave the palace." Glausias said anxiously.

Cassander looked at Glaucias, then sighed and said, "Well, since you choose to stay, you must try to hold on for as long as possible."

Under the siege of superior forces, Glaucias's palace army was quickly engulfed, and Glaucias, the executioner who had killed Alexander IV's mother and son in history, was killed in battle. Due to the deliberate detour of Eumenes and the cutting through Cassander's right rear, Cassander's infantry did not run away much, and a large part of them were left on the battlefield. Under the siege of Eumenes, Cassander and Philip broke out of the encirclement with less than 700 cavalry, 1,800 Macedonian cavalry and 700 lancers, and they broke through in three ways. However, because Cassander's main road back to Pela was blocked, Cassander was forced to flee to the mountains, and at this time he was left with only 400 cavalry and Philip's 1,000-strong Macedonian cavalry.