As early as the news of Padica's death came, Eumenes had already thought of leaving a way back for himself, and he prepared for the worst by choosing a safe place for himself, a special place that would allow him to withstand several times the enemy after his defeat. This is Nora on the border of Cappadocia www.biquge.info this fortress is a small fortress with a wall less than a kilometer long, but it is in an excellent location, on a cliff that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Eumenes had stored enough fresh water, grain, and even salt and timber in the city for several years, and now that Eumenes had fled here, these stores had served a great purpose. Although he only had 700 men at his disposal, these were his staunchest supporters, as he had already sent home everyone who wanted to go home. Nora only needs a small but determined defender, and it is better not to have a strong will to mix in with the food and rebellion, and it will be miserable to cooperate with the attackers when the time comes. Of course, all that Eumenis can do here at the moment is to protect himself. Perhaps one day, Alcetas, who had a common enemy with him, or someone else, would come to relieve him, but until then, he was no different from a prisoner in the shelter on this hilltop, only better than being defeated.

When Antigonus's army pursued here, he found that there was no possibility of breaching the fortress from the front, so he ordered his soldiers to begin digging walls and ravines in the outer part of the fortress, setting up sentry posts, and trapping Eumenes from the outside. However, the prospect of this siege did not make Antigonus happy, because the strata were all solid rock, and the project was too large for him to accept, and it would take several years to break the city, until the mountain of supplies in Eumenes was exhausted. Until then, he will waste a lot of manpower and supplies in this long siege. So, before the siege began, Antigonus tried to negotiate with Eumenes.

Antigonus sent his own nephew Ptolemy into the city as a hostage and persuaded Eumenes to go out of the city to negotiate with him. The two had a good relationship in the court of Philip II in their early years, although Eumenes at that time was only a young secretary in his twenties, a so-called man of culture, who could never have imagined that one day they would meet on the battlefield. They had not seen each other for fifteen years since they were last separated, leaving Antigonus there to deal with the remnants of Persia when Alexander conquered Asia Minor in 334 BCE, and they had not seen each other since.

Still, when the two old friends come face to face, they soon begin to renew their old friendship. They hugged and greeted each other warmly, after all, Antigonus was only on the orders of Antipater in the name of the royal family. The young Macedonian soldiers under Antigonus's tent also gathered, who had not participated in Alexander the Great's crusades, and had only heard of but had not met the legendary Eumenes, the former secretary of the royal family, who had become a general, who had defeated the invincible Craterus and had become an enemy of the state. Since the death of Kraterus, there has never been a single person, neither Antipater nor Antigonus, who has caused such a stir and onlookers among the Macedonians. Antigonus feared that the overzealous (and perhaps hostile intentions of some of the young men) would hurt Eumenes in the chaos, so he took him to his confidant generals and began formal negotiations.

Eumenes demanded that Antigonus fully recognize and restore himself to the position of governor of Cappadocia, and he did not even mention the death sentence imposed on him by the Macedonians on the banks of the Nile, as if it were unjust and unworthy of mention. Antigonus did not refuse his request, but told him that, although he supported his wishes and did not feel much point in going to war with him now, it was up to the king and the regent to decide all this. Therefore he was to send a messenger to Macedonia proper, to present this request to Antipater, and to have Eumenes send his own cronies with him. Eumenes let his fellow countryman, Sillonimus, who was slightly younger than himself, go with him. This Silónimus was only in his thirties at this time, just an ordinary military officer, and no one expected that his final ending would be a role misalignment with Eumenes - Eumenes was forced by fate to become the creator of history from a chronicler of history, and Silónimus finally retired from the battlefield and became a historian. His writings are our first-hand source of knowledge of the history of that period, and he himself lived to be more than a hundred years old before he died. …,

As the mission marched towards Macedonia, Antigonus sent Eumenes back to the fortress of Nora, where the two had to abandon their personal friendship and become hostile. Antigonus had little interest in commanding the long siege, believing that a besieged but not a well-stocked garrison would be enough to be left to his men. Yes, he was right, this kind of thing should have been in no suspense. However, the end result was beyond everyone's expectations.

Soon after, the siege fortifications he had built outside Nora were completed, and he decided not to waste any more time, leaving behind enough troops to trap the defenders, and then leaving behind this hard bone and leading the army west to prepare for a crusade against Padica's brother Arcetas, who still had the last intact "illegal" army in his hands. Eumenes could finally take a breath and wait for fate to flop again in Nora with his seven hundred loyal followers.

The situation on the side of Alcetas, as governor of Pisidia, was quite different, and after Padika's departure for Egypt, he was largely content to defend himself, and many of his men were resentful of the Kunanie he had killed the Macedonian royal family, and he did not dare to direct them to intercept Antipater or others. Perhaps it was the act of killing Kunagne that kept him in a state of apprehension and suspicion, and he was so timid that he gave up the best time to protect himself (which might have been a completely different outcome than if Eumenes had attacked Antigonus). Despite this, he was still fighting hard in Pisidia, a newly conquered land, trying to strengthen himself. After Padica's death, his brother-in-law Attalus came to him with many remnants of Padica, and Documos, the governor of Babylon appointed by Padica, fled to him after burning and plundering several temples in Babylon. After receiving these supports, he defeated the crusading army sent by Antipater, led by Asander. Recently, he also welcomed a special defector, the Syrian governor Laomodon.

Laometon was a close friend of the Egyptian governor Ptolemy, and Padicka removed him from his post when he invaded Egypt. Finally, after Padika's death, Raomo was reinstated. But after Ptolemy killed Cleomenez and annexed Cyrene, his strength had increased considerably, and he had infiltrated Cyprus, a small kingdom. He even had a huge sum of 8,000 talants on hand, so he felt the need to take control of Koro Syria (also known as the Syrian Valley, from the Sinai Desert to the Jordan Valley) in southern Syria to expand his power and further consolidate his position. If these areas could be controlled, Ptolemy would have had an effective buffer time in the event of an attack.

He began to try to convince Raometon with friendship that he would give him a large sum of money to buy his territory, but Raomodon refused, so he sent Nicano into Syria. Unable to match Ptolemy's military or financial strength, Laomodon was soon captured, and Ptolemy went on to annex the entire Phoenician region. Raomedon was soon able to escape, and in desperation, Pisidia defected to Alcetas.

Ptolemy also annexed Palestine along the way, taking advantage of the Jewish Sabbath-keeping habits in Jerusalem, and on a Sabbath day in late 320 or early 319 B.C., he captured the city bloodlessly. The Jews had to obey their own laws, and on the Sabbath they were unable to organize any effective resistance to the invaders, a habit that was repeatedly exploited by the invaders. Ptolemy forcibly emigrated a large number of the Jewish middle and upper classes to the new city of Alexandria, which he built, and this forced migration eventually led to the translation of the Old Testament into Greek, which was an important condition for the emergence and spread of Christianity (the famous French historian Bouche-Leclercq believes that this Sabbath occupation and migration took place in 312 BC).

Ptolemy did not continue his march north, after all, he was now only making a small fortune in the chaos, and if he gained too much, he would inevitably become the target of public criticism and be besieged. He knew that as a wise politician, he had to use reason to restrain his ambitions, as he had done when he had been elected regent before, and he did it now. He returned to Egypt with his booty and the Jews who had been forcibly resettled.