Swings and roundabouts. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info It's a fitting way to describe what happened to Cassander. The Cassander fleet was lost at the Battle of Rhodes, and its long-established prestige was dealt a major blow, and the Greek city-states that had been attached to it began to stir up, but this time came good news. Cassander's younger brother Philip and Preus's Macedonian march was eventual but eventually captured Macedonia, and the Thracian army was eventually repulsed.

Alexander informed Lysimachus of his plans to go east early in the morning, and appointed him as the governor of Macedonia, in fact, he and Cassander were exhausted, no matter who won or lost, they would lose their own strength, and weakening the strength of these Diadochi was of course Alexander's most desirable thing. Cassander, on the other hand, regarded Macedonia as his own nest, and his family's rule over Macedonia was already very mature in his father's time, so Macedonia was a must-win for Cassander. At this time, Epirus was very unstable, and due to the excessive power of the nobility, the royal power was greatly weakened, so that every policy of Epicades was constrained by the aristocracy, and there was no time for other care, so it did not participate in the battle for Macedonia.

When Pry's army reached Thessaly, Lysimachus's army had already advanced to Pega, and Pry-Rouse didn't know it, he only thought that it would be a smooth ride to receive Macedonia, but he didn't expect that Alexander had already designed a plan for the snipe and the clam to fight, leaving him with a cruel war.

By the time Prylos reached Medunny, Lysimachus had already reached Pella and sent his younger brother, Ottolicus, one of Alexander IV's former personal bodyguards, to await Prycous' army on the north bank of the Ariacmon River. The Al Akmon River (Haliakmon River) was as wide as the Vardar River (Axias), and in the face of the Thracian army on the north bank, Purry forced Laus to look very helpless, but he had to cross the river, otherwise he would not be able to account for it at all. I have to say that Cassander does have a knack for winning people's hearts, and his generals and soldiers are still very loyal to him. Purry forced Laus to foresee that this battle would not be easy, so he sent someone to report to Philip, and the army was stationed in the same place, but Ottolicus was young and vigorous, and after waiting for two days to see that the other party still did not move, he began to be impatient. So he wanted to cross the river on his own initiative, but he was not stupid, he let the army provoke the other party by the river, and sent another army to cross the Aliakmon River from upstream, and raided the Pryses at night, but he did not expect that the defense of Pryses was very good, and he was prepared to eat the lone army before the reinforcements on the other side of the river crossed the river. Pricy forced Laus to immediately turn around and fire arrows at the Thracian soldiers who were still in the river, and the Thracian soldiers suffered heavy casualties, so Prius forced Laus to cross the river to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the situation to kill and drive Ottolicus back thirty miles. Lysimachus was very angry when he heard the news, and personally led a large army to come, and Prius forced Rolls to have no intention of backing down, and set up troops on the north bank of the Aliakmon River, ready to fight on his back. However, in the face of the menacing Thracian army, Pri forced Laus to have no bottom in his heart, and finally under the impact of the opposing cavalry and Triibalians, Pri forced Laus to be defeated and retreated to the south bank. So the battle came back to the same state and a stalemate was formed.

However, Philip did not delay at all after receiving the distress message, and he must not be sloppy in the face of Lysimachus, the veteran general of the Alexander era. When he learned that the two sides were fighting around the Aliakmon River, he came up with a brilliant plan, which Han Shin had also used. (See Battle of Jingcheng)

Philip sent almost all of the Macedonian and Thessalian cavalry to cross the river from the middle reaches of the Aliakmon River to make a flank and rear detour, and had a simple embankment built a few dozen miles east of Lake Kastoria in the middle reaches of the Aliakmon River, so that the amount of water downstream was suddenly reduced. In this way, a battle that would decide the fate of Macedonia was about to begin.

"General Philip, I failed, I did not expect the Thracians to occupy Macedonia first, now they have the upper hand, and I have lost this battle, and now the morale of the soldiers is very low, this is all thanks to me, please punish the general." Pricy forced Laus to say it very sincerely, but Philip did not mean any punishment, he knew that Price was not a very good general, but he was not a mediocre talent, and he was as reliable as Glaucias, and it was normal for him to lose the battle in the face of Lysimachus. …,

"The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, one moment it is still the winner, the next moment it is possible to lose, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, there is no need to blame ourselves too much, now we must work together to repel the enemy in front of us." Philip said very calmly, and comforted Pleus.

"The general is relieved, but he has an order and can do everything." Prie forced Rolls to speak sonorously.

"Very well, I have ordered the men to build a upstream, and I will immediately send troops across the river to attack the Thracian army, and then retreat to the south bank of the river under the pretense of defeat and attract the enemy's pursuit, and when half of the enemy army has crossed the river, the upper reaches will destroy the dike, and let the accumulated torrent cut off the Thracian army, and wash away a large number of Thracian troops, so that the remaining army will be greatly shocked, and we will kill them all. In addition, I have sent cavalry around their rear, and the rest of the enemy will be intercepted by our cavalry when they retreat. If this plan succeeds, Lisimachos will be defeated. ”

"Wonderful! This strategy is really wonderful, as long as they succeed in attracting the other party to pursue, then they will not only lose, it will be a fiasco! Generals are really modern military gods, and Alexander the Great is no more than that! Prey forced Rolls to praise from the bottom of his heart.

I don't think Philip was quite useful at first when he heard Pride's boasting, but he was shocked when he heard it, because Philip had just received the news that his brother Cassander had been defeated by Alexander. Then Philip popped out a few words: "Do according to the plan!" Then he ran out of the tent with a frown, leaving behind the inexplicable Pry-Rolls, who really couldn't understand why the other party suddenly changed his face, so he had to think that Philip was in a hurry to defeat Lysimachus.

A trumpet blew and Philip began to attack the Thracian army, and Lysimachus was wondering why such a large river had suddenly lost so much water, and before he could understand it, he heard the sound of the enemy's horn, so he had to call Ottolicus to prepare for battle. Seeing that the other party was almost out of the nest, the momentum was huge, and Lisimachos couldn't help but think that the other party had launched a decisive battle. So all the troops were pressed up, and the battle turned into a melee, and there was no formation to speak of. The result can be imagined, Philip was defeated by the Thracian army, fled in confusion, Ottolicus saw the defeat of the other side, and immediately ordered the pursuit, and Lysimachus, although he felt that something was not right, could not say, so he acquiesced in the pursuit of his brother.

As soon as Philip's troops withdrew to the other side of the river, they immediately turned around and joined Priolaus's army to meet the Thracian army with a spear formation, forming a half-moon-shaped encirclement on the beachhead, and at this time a loud noise sounded in everyone's ears, and the earth trembled, and many people could not stop looking around but did not see anything unusual, but only felt that the earth was shaking, and Lysimachus suddenly had an ominous premonition at this time.

"Not good, immediately order the army to stop the pursuit and immediately withdraw to the shore." Lysimachos roared at the soldiers beside him, he was almost crazy, if it was really as he suspected, then the army in front of him would inevitably suffer a catastrophe, which he could not accept in any case, and at this time he could only beg Zeus for blessing and not let the disaster happen.

However, it backfired, the disaster still happened, a torrent rushed downstream at a speed of nearly 10 m/s, when the soldiers in the river saw it and turned around and fled, it was obviously too late, except for some soldiers close to the river who fled to the shore, a large number of soldiers stranded in the river were ruthlessly swept away by the flood, none of the Thracian soldiers on the south bank dared to retreat, it was better to die or be captured here than to be swept away by the flood, and some of the soldiers near the south bank also frantically poured ashore. But at this time nearly half of the Thracian army was swept away by the flood, and the rest was divided on both banks, and the torrent had not yet passed, and by the time the flood stopped, I was afraid that the army on the south bank would have been completely annihilated. The current Lisimachos is really like ants on a hot pot, and now there is no way to pass on the news if he wants to negotiate peace, and the younger brother on the other side is a stunned young man, and he is still dying with the other party at this time. However, Philip did Lysimachus a great favor, and Ottolicus, who rushed to the front, was soon captured because of his wounds, and the others had to lay down their arms when they saw that the lieutenant was captured. I have to say that at this time, the Europeans, especially the Greeks, were still very credible, and generally did not kill prisoners of war, and they would have due respect for the corpses, which was very different from Sun Wu's meticulous soldiers, and there would not be such a tragedy as the killing of 400,000 prisoners of war in the Battle of Changping. …,

Philip's cavalry also rushed to Lysimachus's army from behind at this time, and in the face of this situation, Lysimachus had no choice but to negotiate peace, not so much to negotiate peace as to surrender, because the battle was like this, and Lysimachus had no point to talk about at all. However, Philip was quite kind, and had already been ordered, and the cavalry accepted the peace negotiation, and waited until the water receded to begin negotiations.

The Thracian army suffered a crushing defeat, most of the soldiers swept away by the flood were drowned, and only a few survived. Philip, on the other hand, lost some of his troops when he feinted, but it was a great victory in comparison. In the end, Lysimachus had to accept the harsh conditions of the other side: the payment of a war reparation of 2,000 tarrant silver, the withdrawal of all troops from Macedonia, and the recognition of Cassander's sovereignty over Macedonia.

Lysimachus lost face in this battle, and domestic opposition began to sound, and the Scycians and Thracian getas in the north, who had been eyeing each other, began to stir up, and Thrace began to have internal and external troubles that lasted for several years. Cassander, on the other hand, gained a foothold in Macedonia, also intimidated the surrounding Greek city-states, and began to rebuild the navy in anticipation of changes in the situation in the East.

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1 Allyakmon River: A river on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, it is the longest river in Greece (297 km). The Grammos mountain, which originates in Epirus, flows southeast, through gentle valleys and basins, and after flowing through the Kastorias lake, into the Pindus gorge. It flows between the Vermion and Pieria mountains and flows through the plains of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and empties into the Aegean Sea in the Gulf of Sermai (Thermaikoskolpos).

2 Vardar River: A river in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, originating on the eastern slope of the Sal Mountains on the border between Macedonia and Illyria, flowing through northern Macedonia and then turning southeast to emptie into the Gulf of Thessaloniki in the Aegean Sea. It has a total length of 420 kilometers, mostly in Macedonia, and a basin area of 28,400 square kilometers. The river valley develops along the large fault zone, the canyon is deep, and the Morava River valley is connected to the north, which is one of the north-south traffic arteries of the Balkan Peninsula. The upstream water flow is turbulent and the hydraulic resources are abundant. The middle valley is rich in cotton, rice, grapes and vegetables.

3 Philip: Cassander's younger brother, in 323 BC, Philip and his two brothers Cassander, Iolas, were suspected of poisoning Alexander the Great. Later, in 313 BCE, Cassander sent him to lead an army to invade Aetolia, but when Philip marched to Acarnania, news came that King Epirus had regained his throne, and Philip turned back to attack Aethacades and defeated his opponents in a fierce battle. Aethacades led the remnants of his army to join the Aetolians, and Philip then defeated the combined forces of Epirus and Aetolia in another battle, in which Aeacades was killed and caused the Aetolians to abandon their easily conquered areas and retreat into a fortress in the mountains.

4 Kastoria Lake: i.e. the reservoir of the Aliakmon River