Antigonus, who was known for his quick marches, took 12 days to reach the place of Palasanga outside the city of Babylon.1 After staying for one night, the whole army was marched the next day, and Antigonus did not allow the army to light a fire, but only took dry rations with him, and hurried to the city of Babylon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, his actions did not hide from Alexander's scouts, and Yumenus kept an eye on the other side's movements, and the actions of such a large army could not escape the eyes of the scouts. When Antigonus's army appeared outside Babylon in the 15th place of Statia, the trumpeters at the head of the city sounded their trumpets to warn of an enemy invasion. The moment finally came, and Alexander quickly gathered the soldiers of the whole city to parade on the school grounds, which was actually a pre-war mobilization.

Dressed in a cloak and riding on Pegasos, Alexander walked up and down the avenue in front of the school yard and made an impassioned statement: "Soldiers of the Macedonian kingdom, this battle is the day that will decide the fate of the empire, and it will also be the one that will decide the fate of the whole of Asia. Not far outside the city, the army of the traitor Antigonus was marching on Babylon. He had more than 50,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, 200 chariots and 50 war elephants. There are twice as many troops as ours, as well as chariots and war elephants that we do not have. However, we need not be afraid, in the siege war, their cavalry, chariots and elephants are useless, they have 50,000 infantry at their disposal, their infantry is more than us, but their overall quality is not as good as ours, and their soldiers who are as elite as us are only equal to us. Each of you only needs to kill one enemy soldier and they're done! It's as simple as that, what else do you say is terrible? ”

“alalalala！”

"Artalamas, I remember the day you took the tower of Tyre, you are a Hercules, how will you fight today?"

"Desims, Athena is on top, how far did you throw that guy in the last time you were in an Olympic wrestling match? Are you worthy of your spear? ”

"Hahaha......"

"Timand, your father Manand is a fine soldier under my father, your brother Edaos, who died so valiantly in Tyre, how glorious your father and brother are!"

"Most of you have ancestors who won honor for the Empire, and today you are going to fight for your parents and brothers, for your king, for the honor of the Macedonian Empire. Now, they are watching us either from heaven or from home, watching us in Babylon, the capital of the empire, bravely fighting the rebels. ”

Chirp...... (Eagle calls)

"Which bastard encouraged his men to rebel and force his soldiers to fight? Which traitor was pointing his weapon at his king? Which beast enslaved and deceived my subjects? It's Antigonus! ”

“alalalala！”

"But he's just a strong man on the outside, his soldiers don't fight to defend their homeland, they fight because this beast is forcing them. And my soldiers, I know that every one of you is good, and every one of you is full of blood and passion. Today, we are here as free citizens of Macedonia against Antigonus, a traitor to the Kingdom of Macedonia! ”

“alalalala！”

"But you, my good brothers, may not live to see the sun set today, but I will tell you a truth that every warrior has understood since the beginning of the world: if you defeat fear, I promise you will overcome death."

When our children and grandchildren ask us how we defend the dignity of the Macedonian Empire in Babylon, you can proudly tell them: "On this day I am in Babylon - fighting for the freedom and glory of Macedonia and the whole Greek world!" Zeus is with us! With that, Alexander rode Pegasus and ran. …,

“alalalala！” The roars of the warriors reached a climax.

Alexander was running on his horse for the first time, which made his companions raise their hearts to their throats, for they were worried about whether such a small body would be able to stand tall in the run. And the soldiers cheered and shouted hooray. Everything is crazy and it will be a crazy day too.

When the first rays of light from the east shone on the earth, Antigonus came to the city of Babylon, and then he knew that he had done too much, that the other party was already fully prepared and waiting for him, and that his surprise attack had no chance of success. So he began to let the engineers assemble the siege equipment, and the other soldiers rested in place.

Most of his officers had been to Babylon, so they knew the city well, and because of this, everyone knew that this battle would never be easy to fight. The inner walls of Babylon were 64 cubits high, or about 36 meters, and the outer walls were 24 meters high. The average width of the moat is 15 meters, the widest point is nearly 18 meters, and the depth of the water reaches 7 to 10 meters. Babylon was the most difficult city in the world to conquer outside of Tyre, with its wide and deep moat making it extremely difficult to dig tunnels, and the siege towers had no way to get close to the walls. Since it wasn't at sea, it wasn't useful to place the floating platforms used to place siege towers like Alexander's attack on Tyre. Everyone knows that the first step in attacking a city is to level the wide moat in front of you.

Since the other party had already prepared, Antigonus had to order the army to rest in place, and wait until all the labor and materials were in place to start building and assembling siege weapons, because he had learned about the structure of Babylon City early on, so Antigonus had already made full preparations this time, bringing a lot of labor and various materials, but because Antigonus was in a hurry, the supplies were basically still on the way. Antigonus's first step was to surround Babylon, and then began to bury the pot and wait for the transport to arrive.

Antigonus didn't have to wait long, and after a day and a half, he began to build the siege machine, but it was very laborious to build and assemble the equipment, and it took him four days to build and assemble the equipment, several giant siege towers, battering rams, and a large number of trebuchets, but it was already very fast. In order to test the opponent's combat power, Antigonus could not wait to order the army to start attacking the north gate.

At the forefront were the recruited paupers, who carried stones and bundles of wood and even sand, which were used to fill the moat, and the archers followed behind to cover the laborers in front, and then the trebuchets and ballistae, and the army was at the end, and when the moat was filled, they could start attacking, but the moat was so wide and so deep that it could be filled so easily, and the most important thing was that the soldiers on the walls were not vegetarians.

A large number of longbowmen and ordinary archers have been waiting for them for a long time, due to the height advantage, less than 400 paces away, the arrows of the longbowmen have been shot at the laborers in the front row, these poor people are basically forcibly recruited, there is no morale in themselves, not to mention that they are not equipped with any armor, so wherever the arrows go, most of their bodies are penetrated, in the face of sudden killing, almost all of them choose to flee, but the soldiers behind immediately catch up and brutally kill the escapees, Leave no mercy at all. So they were driven to the front again, and continued in fear, and no one knew whether the next arrow would fall on their heads.

The laborers went on for more than a hundred meters, and this hundred meters was like the most convenient passage to the eternal kingdom of Hades, and the destruction of the flesh was secondary, and the destruction of faith was even more terrible, and the people who were full of fear could no longer endure this torment, because more than 3,000 of their companions had been lying down forever. In this case, by the time they reached the moat, tens of thousands of people would have to lie down.

At this time, Antigonus decisively ordered a retreat, a one-sided wound that he could not bear, even if most of the dead were not his soldiers. So all the paupers threw down whatever they had in their hands and ran back like crazy, but even so, many of them were pierced through the back by arrows.