| Alexander Invade China,possible? | |
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| Oct 30, 2007 04:29 |   |
 | Here is a scenario: "What happen if Alexander invade China, during the time is only 5 state with Qin is the great. Can Alexander win or not?" As far as I know, after 11 years of virtually non stop fighting, Alexander's men were throughly fed up and refused to march further. Is it possible for Alexander to invade China? Alexander reached India in 326BC and fought the battle of Hydaspes in the same year aginst the Indian King Porus, Alexander being 30 in that year. At that time, China was experienceing a tumultuous period-the Warring States Period. If Alex invade China, what would have happened? |
| Oct 30, 2007 22:53 | #1 |
| If Alex invaded China, it was very possible that he would fail. After the long-term non-stop fighting, Alexander's troops were exhausted. The morality was quite low after the fierce battle fought in India. From the point of Chinese side, the military power of the seven states were reinforced in Warring States Period than that of the previous Spring and Autumn period due to the longstanding warfares.If the boy Alex did invade, it was hard for his men to win. |
| Oct 31, 2007 03:56 | #2 |
| Alexander is a dictator. He is arrogant and aggressive. Compared with Qingshihuang, ( the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty) Alexander was a little kid. |
| Jun 23, 2008 00:29 | #3 |
| GUEST56040 | if both sides were with fresh soldiers alexander would have won because of his superior general skills, he already knew how to fight against big numbers. It was a "little kid" that conquered the greatest empire of the time with about 45000 men |
| Jul 25, 2008 20:43 | #4 |
| GUEST26668 | he really had come to china. his chinese name is "alek the king of xiongnu" xiongnu is a nick name with meaning as"barbar people" he had come to the first site of china "taklamakan" then there were nor vainly desert,not endless sanding area but as a samely fertile land . |
| Jul 25, 2008 21:27 | #5 |
| GUEST26668 | there were many pools and some great lakes isokrates(reporter of alexander' present) had writed a scene of "about great lake battle" many ancedent(also nowaly) readers think the battle was in &near caspian sea during 10 years but alexander had conquared persia already then. so it's not true. it's(the scenes of writing) alike near some steps(then) and lakes(aring,ching hao) of kaklamakan area. maybe alexander had been there in his hidden years after 33 age. he also travelled steps of alongside with northern area of china(as waring countries era) and a king was entered a stage from "xin" his name is "xinxiwhang" at his last. he had united all countries of china against "the xiougnu people" and got a battle with them at the first of china. he had stored a wall from their war site and those battles were began and began to the last time of 7 years during the alek king's troops had shifted each site and each battle and each a small wall to the easten china. last alek has a great battle in western manzuria the war was ended maybe no one has victory. and |
| Jul 25, 2008 21:51 | #6 |
| GUEST26668 | remainers had start a small country over the wall. turkey,mongol,and northern manzurian countries. korea was one of them. the last heritage had been in this northern area. .kogureo is the first korean country after xinxiwhang's unity of china. it means "highly greece" maybe then. the name of korea was derived from old greek country "greios" (greece in greek peninsula and another greece in the apllo's first area) many ancient cultures was samely |
| Jul 26, 2008 16:43 | #7 |
| 'Alexander is a dictator. He is arrogant and aggressive. Compared with Qingshihuang, ( the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty) Alexander was a little kid.' Alexander the great is considered possibly the greatest military commander of all time by many. Who knows what would have happened. Ask someone who is interested in wargames whether they have done any battles using the 2 armies, it would be interesting to see who had the theoretical advantages. No good asking me as my armies are fron Han dynasty 400 years later. |
| Jan 22, 2009 07:23 | #8 |
| GUEST12097 | hm lets see, if both troops were fresh when they first meet: Alexander's forces would never be fresh when facing the Chinese in the final battle since their favorite tactics where always attrition, hit and run, etc... second the only way to enter China is from desert or mountain/forest. Alexander's advantage are professional heavy infantry, powerful heavy cavalry, excellent strategist, army good moral. disadvantage outnumber,inferior technological , and although Alexander was brilliant he was impudent. China's advantage better weaponry (specially crossbow created in 5th BC)because and much better metallurgy, much superior in number probably even greater than the Persian, and last excellent tacticians too, home terrain advantage. disadvantage weak regular infantry, not good in moral(not united), weaker cavalry. my conclusion China wins, because unless you can blitz like the mongols with cavalry in cheer number after thousands of years fighting each other, Alexander's army was much slower and they don't know the chines, and Alexander him self cares about honor so he wouldn't use sneaky strategy's but the Chinese wont care about that and they will use every dirty trick to win (it's call tactics) + home terrain advantage = Alexander facing a surprise attack in a mountain/ rocky terrain probably with lot's of forest (guerrilla ). Crossbow can easily penetrate armor/ shields of that time slaughtering many of Alexis forces, and their cavalry wouldn't respond efficiently because of the terrain. In fact they may even burn Alexander and his army in the forest at night... even if he tries to face China in desert the Chinese wouldn't do it after one or two battle they will retreat, and wait until He across the desert, exhausted and once again beyond the desert is: mountains and forest so in the end it would be the same. |
| Feb 1, 2009 15:52 | #9 |
| GUESTLYSANDROS | Alexander had a vast army after the battle of the Hydaspes River he commanded the macedonian army the allied greek ,persian and indian forces, his army was far bigger than before and he had a vast amount of gold from the persian empire.Superior numbers,war elephants,crossbows Alexander always seemed to surpass the odds and win |
| Aug 4, 2009 05:23 | #10 |
| GUESTIDIOT | Wargames demonstrate that even with Alexander's tactical superiority, the technology (such as crossbows) would seriously damage the lines of Macedonian and Persian troops. |
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