Cassandris's army arrived at Ecbatana half a month after the Battle of Babylon, armed with 1,800 Thessalian cavalry of Ptolemy the Younger, 5,000 Macedonian pikemen of Creon, 1,200 Agrian javelinmen of Pyrus, 3,000 barbarian mercenaries of Seraxis, 1,500 longbowmen of Arros, and 800 Rhodes slingers. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Pesson's front foot arrived, and Cassandro followed with his back foot. No sooner had 5,000 men been recruited, and before he could train and deploy, Kassandrus besieged Ecbatana. However, as the summer residence of the Achaemenid Dynasty in the past, Ecbatana is located at the foot of a high mountain at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and it is a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, this is the time of the year when food is at its lowest, and it has just passed through winter and great war, and there is not much food left. It was this fatal point that Cassandrus seized on this fatal point and adopted a strategy of besieging but not attacking, forcing the other side to surrender or go out of the city for a decisive battle, while he could supply food from the rear, and Babylonia had enough food to supply the front line.

After more than half a month of holding on to Ecbatana, there was little food left, and the morale of the troops was very low. Knowing that this would be doomed, Peison conspired with his brother Oldmus to break out.

"Brother, the current morale of the army is seriously unstable, and if it continues like this, it may be necessary to mutiny, I knew that it would be better to fight a decisive battle at the beginning." Oldmouth was very anxious and regretted his decision in the first place.

"We don't have much food, and they won't have much, for there is a long way from Babylon to Ecbatana." Peson's subordinate Nisisius said.

"But they can collect food from all over the country, and we can only catch rats in Ekbata to satisfy our hunger!" Person snarled, he had never had much patience with fools, and Nisisius had to keep his mouth shut.

"Then what should we do now, this is definitely not the way to go." Oldmouth asked.

"Breakout!"

"Breakout?" Everyone was shocked, Ekbatana was heavily surrounded, and it was very difficult to break through without foreign aid.

"Yes, break out, we will march all the way northwest to Parthia, and if Kassandro will chase us, we can also run to the barbarians further north, I don't believe that he will chase all the way there, and then we will unite them to make a comeback."

"Huh?! Brother, we still have to toss! How many brothers would be willing to follow them all the way to such a far-reaching place! I think it's better to forget it! Oldmus admonished.

Suddenly, a stern look pierced Oldmos's heart like an arrow, and even revealed a little murderous intent, which made Oldmos tremble, he knew that his brother was not only ambitious, but also ruthless, and his outspoken words just now obviously disturbed the morale of the army, and if it was someone else, I was afraid that his head would be lost, and if he continued, Oldmos could not guarantee that Pei Song would do anything extreme, so he quickly kept silent and lowered his head.

"You must know that if I surrender, Alexander will not let me go, and the governors of the East will not let me go, and besides, you and I still have the blood of Philip, the former governor of Parthia, on our hands, including all of you, have been engraved with the mark of rebels. So you'd better not leave it to chance, at this point, we have no choice but to fight them to the end. The winner is king, and the loser is the villain, and Gai Mo is like that. ”

"Alas...... It seems that this is the only way to go. Oldmouth sighed helplessly.

The long siege made the attackers somewhat sluggish, eating and sleeping every day, occasionally scolding the soldiers on the city walls or shooting a few arrows, and then simple training, this boring life lasted for so long that anyone would be irritable. One night in the spring of 315 B.C., when an army came out of the east gate of Ecbatana to kill the camp of Cassandris, the soldiers on night patrol noticed Pezon's actions and immediately raised the alarm.

"What are you doing slowly, everyone has been killed in the barracks, and they don't want to live?" Crane scolded angrily, and at the same time secretly shouted bad luck, who let his team just block the door of the other party, the first to bear the brunt of the other party's attack.

It took a long time for the Macedonian soldiers to be fully equipped, but they did not have time to form a phalanx, and many of the soldiers were already fighting each other in the chaos. The situation outside the east gate attracted the attention of soldiers in several other places, and Seris, who was stationed at the north gate, rushed excitedly towards this side with a giant axe, he hadn't killed anyone for a long time, and he had almost suffocated him to death after waiting so long. But no one noticed that this seemingly aggressive army was not the main attacking force, and that Person and his brother Oldmus were waiting for the other side to move their forces to the east, so that they could take advantage of the opportunity to fight their way out of the siege through the north gate.

When Cassandrus learned of the situation, he immediately had the cavalry of the little Ptolemy, who was a mobile unit, attack the enemy from the flank. As a result, everyone's attention was focused on the east gate, and the barbarian mercenaries who were originally stationed outside the north gate also ran to the east gate without authorization, leaving only some pikemen and ranged infantry in the garrison. Little Ptolemy's cavalry quickly scattered the opposing infantry, and the situation was unclear at first in the night, but after a closer look, everyone found that the composition of the opposing army's soldiers was very mixed, even mixed with many peasants, and when the cavalry arrived, it almost broke up at once.

This caught the attention of little Ptolemy, but by the time he thought that this was a ploy to attack the west, Peisson and Oldmus had already led a large army to rush out from the north, and the light infantry could not stop the cavalry offensive, so they obediently gave way, and the pikemen were too mobile and too few in number, and Peisson quickly bypassed them, and he did not make any stops, but went straight to the north, and most of Peison's infantry escaped in the darkness of the night.

As a besieger, Cassandrus was too small in number, a little more than the defenders, but he had to defend the four gates, which was indeed a bit stretched, thus giving Pesson a chance to escape, although the Thessalian cavalry continued to pursue, but only a few small forces were killed or captured, and the little Ptolemy did not dare to go too far from the troops. Therefore, he had to go back and join the large army before making other plans. Despite this, Cassandrjos' mission was halfway done, and Ecbatana had been taken. But he is not a person who has no beginning and no end, and he was really unwilling to be run away under his nose by Pei Song, so he began to pursue Pei Song after pacifying the people in the city.

Pei Song came all the way to Hecania with less than 10,000 men, and this time the 10,000 men had shrunk a lot compared to before, many of them were new recruits, and they were chased all the way, and deserters continued to appear all the way. Because this time he was going to the far north, on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, where the Cypriots lived. In fact, by the time he finally reached the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, there were only more than 3,000 people left, but this did not make Peisson give up, and he still united with the Cypriots and constantly harassed and plundered the eastern territories of the Macedonian Empire. Because he was worried about the war in the west, and a large number of Peisong's soldiers fled or came to surrender on the way to escape, the Hecanian cavalry, who were unwilling to flee with Peisong, also decisively surrendered to Cassandris, so Cassandreus did not pursue after chasing to the northern border of Parthia, and the rest of Peizon were almost all cavalry, running too fast, and it was too wasteful to chase again, and he might not be able to catch up. Finally, Cassandrus triumphed over Ecbatana, and Alexander, who learned the news, ordered Ptolemy the Younger to return to Babylon with the Thessalian cavalry, and appointed Cassandres as the governor of the Medes, taking over the political and military power of the Medes, taking over the mess left by Pesson, and carrying out post-war reconstruction and army reorganization. The stall left by Pei Song was rotten enough, and he spent more than half of the money in the royal treasury of Ecbatana, and the people complained about the large-scale conscription, and the law and order was very poor. The most important thing Cassandro needed to do was to reassure the people, and he gave the Hecanian cavalry part of the mountains north of the Medes to guard the northern gateway of Ecbatana, which meant a lot to the soldiers who came from the mountains, because it was a land that was rewarded by their masters, not conquered by robbery, and they could settle here with peace of mind. Cassandrus then repatriated most of the soldiers who had been forcibly conscripted by Pezon, and reorganized the remaining strong men plus the soldiers who belonged to Pezon, including Greeks, Macedonians, Persians, and other uncivilized peoples, adding up to more than 3,000 men, of whom 2,000 were reorganized into shield-slingmen and the rest into slingers or archers, in addition to selecting some high-quality soldiers to replenish the damaged ranks. These measures quickly cemented Alexander's rule in the Medes, and the summer capital of the Persian Empire gradually began to return to its former glory. After that, Cassandrus divided his army and went to all parts of the Medes, almost reaching the point of transmission, this day really changed, the era of the princes doing whatever they wanted passed, and the people's identification with Alexander IV, the new king, became stronger and stronger, and this trend even affected the eastern part of Persia, and had a lot of positive effects on the subsequent crusades.