Alexander's most important thing is the construction of the Macedonian army, the strength of the Macedonian army he is very clear, the discipline and courage of the soldiers and the quality of the officers are very high, the most powerful infantry is the silver shield soldiers who followed Alexander's expedition to the east and west, these armies composed of Macedonian veterans were almost invincible in the known world at that time, because no army could defeat them on the frontal battlefield, even in the historical battle of Gabiena, the silver shield soldiers as the Chinese army not only firmly held their positions, He also routed the opposing Chinese army, and did not suffer much damage until the end of the war. This kind www.biquge.info of powerful power cannot be created in a short period of time, it is the combat effectiveness that has been formed after the baptism of countless wars. Therefore, Alexander mainly used the experience and war concepts of later generations to arm the Macedonian army, improve some levels of technology, and create some new troops. However, due to his own ability and the constraints of the times, the changes that Alexander could make were not exaggerated, but they could already greatly affect the direction of the war, because some changes were small but had a great effect, such as the use of stirrups and saddles. Thanks to the use of these two weapons of war, Alexander had already begun to train heavy cavalry. At that time, in addition to the best-equipped cavalry and the Royal Guards (Guardsmen), the most powerful cavalry in the Macedonian army was the Thessalian cavalry, especially its impact was amazingly strong, and in the era of no stirrups, they were the only ones who dared to attack the enemy head-on. Moreover, the Thessalian cavalry was both offensive and defensive, and each soldier had excellent combat skills and courage. In addition to equipping the stirrup saddle in the cavalry, the first to equip it was the Thessalian cavalry, who wanted to make it a replica of a medieval heavy cavalry. However, the current armor-making technology is limited, and it is not yet possible to forge excellent full-body plate armor, even half-body plate armor. Before the 14th century, the iron armor of Europe, like other regions, was mainly chain mail, supplemented by scale armor and armor. The traditional form of plate armor is the iron chest plate, which appeared in Western Europe in the early 14th century. At the end of the same century, armourmakers in Milan were the first to experiment with the manufacture of iron gloves, arm guards, leggings, and large heart goggles from steel plates, but these were not worn as simple armor, but as chain mail, scales, and armor reinforcements, which were fastened to the limbs of the armor by belts. Plate armor in the true sense appeared in the early 15th century, and the great development of forging large-scale arc metal technology and metallurgical technology laid the foundation for the monolithic plate armor of later generations. Today, blacksmiths can only produce simple iron arm guards, leg guards, and heart goggles, which are not highly protective, and this is only available for military officers, and is not widely available to ordinary soldiers. Although the protection ability of chain mail is good, the workmanship is too complicated, and it takes at least three or four days for a skilled armor worker to complete a full-body chain mail, which gives Alexander a headache, so the army is equipped with the most armor and scale armor. The craftsmanship of these two types of armor is somewhat similar, both of which require the use of needles and threads to thread the pieces of armor, but the armor is mainly rectangular strips, while the scale armor is scale-like as the name suggests. Due to time constraints and technical constraints, the standard equipment of the Royal Guard and the Thessalian cavalry was a Trazian mantle, a helmet with a brim in typical Macedonian style, a mixture of scales and armor, and shin armor and arm guards. The cavalry, on the other hand, had an extra layer of full-body chain mail inside the scale armor. On the battlefield, the three are identified mainly by the color of the cloak, purple for the mates, red for the Royal Guard, and blue for the Thessalian cavalry. All three types of cavalry were equipped with armor on the head and chest of their horses to protect them from direct damage from spears and projectile weapons. The three cavalrymen were no longer equipped with the Usstong Cavalry, as the 4-meter-long Horsetail Lance made of dogwood would break off with a single impact, or the Lance would simply be disarmed. The cavalry guns were all replaced with those equipped by medieval heavy cavalry, with a sharp metal cone mounted on the long pole head of about two meters, a hardwood body with a handguard at the position of the hand, and a wooden cone with a counterweight at the rear, and at the same time, a "butt hole" was made in the saddle to absorb the impact of the assassination when charging. In fact, even such a shortened and thickened mounted rifle would not necessarily be able to withstand the impact of a high-speed charge. However, due to the shortening of the stirrup and spear, the rider's left hand could hold a shield, a large round shield with the coat of arms of the royal family of Ajd, making it easier for the rider to resist the power of the opponent's spear. The cavalry and guards were each armed with a mace in addition to their spears, and the Thessalian cavalry was each armed with a sword. In this way, the cavalry of the allies and the cavalry of the Guards were almost invincible against the cavalry, except for the powerful impact and the mace that even the heavy cavalry could not resist. The swords of the Thessalian cavalry, on the other hand, were able to wield them freely and handily when slashing the infantry. The cavalry after such equipment has the powerful charge effect of heavy cavalry, and can be engaged in hand-to-hand combat after the cavalry is broken, and the ability of war horses and soldiers to continue fighting is much stronger than that of heavy cavalry, and the defensive ability is not much worse, and the hand-to-hand combat ability is stronger than that of ordinary heavy cavalry, and all the cavalry in this era cannot start hand-to-hand combat with the cavalry after such equipment. Ordinary Macedonian cavalry were equipped with the same equipment as light cavalry, except for saddles and stirrups, but in fact they were able to catch up with the average heavy cavalry, as they could also charge the enemy ranks, and were more agile in hand-to-hand combat, and faster than heavy cavalry. Alexander didn't have that much time to build armor and weapons, and he didn't want to waste all his money on cavalry equipment, as long as it could effectively attack and defend, it was enough to blindly pursue good looks and heavy armor, especially the horse armor, which was heavier than the soldier's equipment, and now very few horses could bear such a weight, because the added weight would not be less than 120 kg, like the Mongolian horse, nothing to consider, even if the endurance was good, Its diminutive size (the Mongolian horse weighs about 300 kilograms) is not enough to support such a large weight. Of course, the Arabian horse and the sweaty horse and the Don hippo are no problem, but they sacrifice speed and endurance, and the soldiers who are equipped with heavy armor are not dead, if the opponent is like Yue Pengju, he also cuts the horse's leg (the horse's leg is generally not equipped with armor), then it will be over, even if you don't cut the horse's leg and use a weapon like a meteor hammer and a mace or a mace to deal with the whole body armor equipped with armor and scale armor is still a piece of cake, and it is difficult for the person who is hit not to fall or fall from the horse, regardless of the horse or the soldier, And once the cavalry falls from the horse, the thicker the armor is, the more troublesome it is, and they may not even be able to stand up. Fortunately, Alexander had never heard of anyone using these weapons and tactics during this period, and his own changes were already revolutionary. …,

In addition to making changes to the cavalry, Alexander put more attention on the infantry, and he added a bronze mirror similar to the bright light armor on the chest of each of the Macedonian pikemen, who was the backbone of the horseman, but did not spend effort to polish it very smooth, in Alexander's opinion, the polishing was as pure and redundant as a mirror, and it was easy to make the opponent's sword and gun slip to the weak connection and cause unnecessary casualties. Since the Macedonian pikemen were already very tiring to hold the Sashari spear and shield, they were not to be equipped except for the heart goggles.

The equipment of the Greek hoplites remained basically unchanged, they wore high crowns with masks and exaggerated headdresses, held a huge round shield with a diameter of three feet, held a spear in the other hand, the chest and abdomen were wrapped in heavy armor, the metal or leather dress was spread out below the waist, and the legs were shiny shin guards, and the cuirass was still the bronze cuirass of the classical era, for which Alexander did not want to deliberately change them.

In fact, even the thickest armor could hardly withstand the attacks of crossbow arrows and muskets, but these two weapons were far from being available in the Hellenistic world. However, Alexander was able to craft another weapon with great armor-piercing abilities, the longbow. In the Middle Ages, England was famous for its longbow, and in the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the English relied on the longbow to create many classic examples of winning more with less. At the Battle of Crécy, Edward III defeated three times the size of the French with 12,000 men, with more than 10,000 French killed and wounded, while the British lost less than 200. In the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V defeated the French army of 36,000 men (11,000 knights, 18,000 foot knights and 7,000 ** crossbowmen) with 5,000 longbowmen and 900 foot knights with low morale and no normal food for 4 days, and the British army suffered more than 100 casualties, while the French army lost more than 10,000 again, and the nobles alone lost more than 5,000 people. While the commander's command ability was also an important factor in these victories, the horror of the English longbow was undoubtedly the most important. And now, Alexander was going to build his longbow army after the English. Although his knowledge of the English longbow existed only in theory, he was ready to apply it in practice.