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- Heraclitus (a legendary philosopher and a representative of the Efes)

After the kingdoms of Pontus and Alexander were destroyed by the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire one after another, the alliance of kingdoms that could compete head-to-head with the re-emerging Seleucid Empire in its heyday was completely decayed; The reason why it is described as decay rather than decay is because there are two kingdoms in the Kingdom League that are still tenacious.

The most powerful in the League of Kingdoms has always been the Pontus Kingdom, and the Parthian Kingdom, which has always been unconvinced by the Pontus Kingdom, naturally has its unconvincing capital; Although the Parthian kingdom suffered a big loss in the previous battle with the Seleucid Empire, and was even forced to ask for help from the other three kingdoms of the kingdom alliance, this does not mean that the Parthian kingdom is not strong.

The Parthian kingdom is the most powerful cavalry kingdom in the kingdom alliance, in addition to the ironclad cavalry that is the same as the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, the Parthian kingdom is also the ironclad camel cavalry unique to its own kingdom; The ironclad camel cavalry is not inferior to the real ironclad cavalry in terms of combat effectiveness, and to some extent, it is still surpassed.

Just having two ironclad cavalry naturally cannot constitute the title of the most powerful cavalry in the Parthian Kingdom, but the Parthian Kingdom still has a large number of archers; From the perspective of geographical location, the Medes region, where the Parthian kingdom is located, is the core area of the Persian Empire, which dominated the eastern continent two hundred years ago, and is also the main source of the most powerful Persian archers of the Persian Empire.

After Alexander the Great led the elite army of the Macedonian Kingdom to completely destroy the Persian Empire, he brought all the original Persian Empire's ruling areas under the rule of the Macedonian Kingdom; Naturally, it became part of Alexander's empire, which later became part of the Seleucid empire after Alexander's empire fell apart, and finally became the Parthian kingdom.

Before the emergence of the independent Parthian kingdom, neither the Alexander Empire during the Alexander the Great nor the Seleucid Empire during the Seleucid Dynasty used the archery resources in the Medes region to form a powerful archery force on a large scale; After all, the Persian Empire, with its massive archers, lost to Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx.

Facts have proved that the strength of an army is often not determined by the army itself, and the more decisive factor is generally the commander in command of the army; The Persian Empire, with its large number of elite archers, lost to Alexander's Empire, which used the Macedonian phalanx, and such a record made it clear that the Persian archers were not trustworthy in terms of combat effectiveness.

However, when the Parthian kingdom had just become independent, the Parthian kingdom temporarily formed a Persian cavalry of several thousand men under the pressure of the Seleucid Empire's army; As a result, this Persian cavalry became the meritorious force that truly established the Parthian kingdom, and it was their brave battles that repelled the rebellion of the Seleucid Empire and won the victory for the independence of the Parthian kingdom.

Since then, the Parthian kingdom has begun to form its own kingdom's archery cavalry units while focusing on the development of ironclad cavalry; However, not all archers can be named Persian archers, only the most elite archers of the Parthian kingdom can be called Persian archers, which are a symbol of glory and a manifestation of power.

The Parthian kingdom, which is guarded by two ironclad cavalry and two archers, is naturally the most powerful cavalry kingdom on the Eastern Continent, and if you count the Parthian kingdom and a large war elephant army, then the cavalry strength of the Parthian kingdom can definitely crown the world and become the most powerful cavalry kingdom in the world!

It is undeniable that the military strength of the Seleucid Empire is indeed much stronger than that of the Parthian Kingdom, but the Seleucid Empire is really inferior to the Parthian Kingdom in terms of cavalry; The strength of the Seleucid Empire lies not only in its invincible ironclad cavalry, but also in its elite pikemen, elite infantry, elite chariot troops, and so on.

In other words, the strength of the Parthian kingdom was based on its cavalry, and the Parthian kingdom was nothing without cavalry; And even if the Seleucid Empire does not have strong ironclad cavalry, they still have other elite troops that can support the Seleucid Empire to remain strong, and this is the difference between the two.

In fact, when the three kingdoms had just become independent, the main force of the infantry in the three kingdoms of the Kingdom Alliance was the Eastern infantry, which was terrible in combat; The combat effectiveness of this Oriental infantry is only slightly stronger than that of the town militia during the Roman Republic, and even the youth army of the Roman Republic can easily crush these Oriental infantry, which shows how weak they really are.

And how could the three kingdoms of the Kingdom Alliance use such the worst infantry as the main infantry of their respective kingdoms, how could their armies form a strong fighting force to deal with the counterattack of the Seleucid Empire? Later, the most powerful kingdom of Pontus developed its own kingdom's Pontus pikemen and Pontus bronze shield pikemen, which changed the infantry units of the Kingdom Alliance.

Later, the Kingdom of Armenia learned from the experience of the Kingdom of Pontus and formed Armenian infantry and hoplites belonging to the Kingdom of Armenia; Only the Parthian kingdom, which was fully committed to developing large-scale cavalry troops, has never formed an elite infantry of its own kingdom.

In fact, from the perspective of the military alone, the Pontus Kingdom should be the most powerful kingdom in the Kingdom Alliance, and it is also the kingdom that learned the most from the Seleucid Empire when it was independent from the Seleucid Empire; You must know that the army of the Pontus Kingdom also has one of the most powerful armies of the Seleucid Empire, the Scythe Chariot Force, which is no less powerful than the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire.

Whether it is the Parthian kingdom with strong cavalry, or the Armenian kingdom with good balanced strength, there is a big gap with the Pontus kingdom in this regard; Unfortunately, the Pontus Kingdom has become a historical term, and the re-emerging Seleucid Empire finally turned the independent Pontus Kingdom into the Pontus Province of the Seleucid Empire again.

Without the most powerful kingdom of Pontus and the newly born kingdom of Alexander, would the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia still be able to survive the aggressiveness of the Seleucid Empire? Compared with the Parthian Kingdom, which was hit hard not long ago, the strength of the Armenian Kingdom directly affects the life and death of the Kingdom Alliance, which is the real status quo of the Kingdom Alliance.

Originally, the Kingdom of Armenia was still a kingdom headed by the Kingdom of Pontus, but since the Kingdom of Armenia annexed the region of Atropatne, the time has come for the rise of the Kingdom of Armenia; The Armenian kingdom was never militarily weak, and the armies of the Armenian kingdom were more balanced than the kingdoms of Pontus and Parthia, each of which had their own.

From a cavalry point of view, the Kingdom of Armenia had both ironclad cavalry and archers, as well as ironclad archers who combined the two; From the point of view of infantry, the Armenian kingdom has both hoplites imitating the Pontus kingdom and Armenian infantry, which is far superior in combat effectiveness to the eastern infantry, and such an Armenian kingdom is naturally not a kingdom with weak military strength.

What has always constrained the development of the Armenian kingdom is that the ruling areas within the kingdom are too barren, and the Armenian provinces and Kolchis provinces of the Armenian kingdom have no fertile land at all, and they do not even have special products that can be obtained.

As a direct result, the Kingdom of Armenia had an empty army with good combat effectiveness, but did not have the strength to increase the size of the army; Later, with the annexation of the rich Atropene region by the Kingdom of Armenia, the overall strength of the Kingdom of Armenia also skyrocketed, which gave rise to a sense of crisis in the Kingdom of Pontus, and the Kingdom of Armenia sent 20,000 troops to reinforce the Kingdom of Pontus.

Although the reinforcements of the Kingdom of Armenia did not change the fate of the fall of the Kingdom of Pontus, and the 10,000 heavily armed pikemen of the Kingdom of Armenia were also on the tower, there were still 10,000 archers who ran back; What's more, the Armenian kingdom's move to reinforce the Pontus kingdom with all its might also caused the Parthian kingdom to throw an olive branch to the Armenian kingdom after the fall of the Pontus kingdom.

This time, the Parthian kingdom did not want to continue the relationship of the kingdom alliance with the Armenian kingdom, but wanted to truly unite with the Armenian kingdom to jointly deal with the aggressiveness of the Seleucid Empire; According to the meaning of the Parthian kingdom, after forming such an alliance, the armies of the Parthian kingdom and the Armenian kingdom were also to be integrated and act in unison.

As for who will command the armies of the two countries after they are integrated, the Parthian kingdom means that the cavalry is dominated by the Parthian kingdom and the infantry is dominated by the Armenian kingdom; As long as the two countries are closely united, in order to deal with the powerful Seleucid Empire, the Parthian kingdom and the Armenian kingdom will also usher in a new round of large-scale military expansion.

In general, the alliance proposed by the Parthian kingdom was quite reliable, and the Armenian kingdom could not defend itself against the attack of the Seleucid Empire; Thus, the Kingdom of Armenia agreed to the alliance proposed by the Kingdom of Parthia, and the deep alliance between the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Parthia was formalized, and the armies of the two kingdoms began to be integrated and unified.

At the present military strength of the two countries, the Kingdom of Armenia has 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and the Parthian Kingdom has 20,000 infantry and 25,000 cavalry; The total of 50,000 infantry and 35,000 cavalry is only the existing strength of the two countries, and once they start to expand their armies with all their might, there is still a lot of room for the strength of the two countries to increase.

In particular, the size of the cavalry unit can be multiplied; Because the Armenian kingdom and the Parthian kingdom ruled the core area of the original Persian Empire, and both were rich in Persian archers, they had such capital. (To be continued.) )