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QuoteReplyTopic: Alexander Invades China and Korea Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 00:26
The way he would do this is with 300,000 troops that are Macidonian,Persian,Egyptian,and others also he would bring many War Elephants that seems like the only way to Invade China and then add more troops from Chinese cities until it reched 600,000. and marched towards the capital
And then from the Mountains of Goguryeo, General Eulji Mundeok arrives
with 100,000 Gema Cavalry, 200,000 Axemen, 150,000 heavy infantry, and
300,000 crossbowmen and Archers. An aditional 500 have been
recruited from the Okjeo region and the Malgal Chieftans have agreed to
send 100,000 of their finest tribal warriors.
Messages are then sent promptly south to Shilla, Gaya, and Baekje.
Shilla has sent 400,000 infantrymenmen led by General Kim Yushin, which
is augmented by the legendery Bamboo Leaf Army of about 200,000
infantryman/bamboo people and about 150,000 calvalry. With him,
General Kim carries The Flute to Calm 10,000 waves, which when played
wreaks destruction on enemy lines. An extra 200 men have been
recruited from the neighboring tributary Usanguk.
In the federation of Gaya, the two major powers, Dae Gaya and Bon Gaya
have set aside their rivalries to help fight the common evil.
They each send 50,000 heavy plate armoured infantrymen.
Baekje, decides to send a good 350,000 infantrymen led personally by
General Gyebaek. In addition to this, the good general commands
100,000 of Baekje's finest cavalry. With him, General Gyebaek
carries the 7-pronged sword with which he is able to carve large swaths
into enemies in a 1 li radius. An extra 200,000 Wae (Japanese)
Tanko infantry have arrived from the Wae tribes to the south and from
Tamna have come 500 horsemen, famed for their skill.
From all the temples of Korea, Buddhist monks have amalgated to form
the "Subdue Western Demon Corps", a massive force 400,000 of sinewy
martial arts madness.
Oh...and they also have about 1000 Shingicheon Hwachas...yea those
rocket launcher thingies. Have Alexander take a bite of that!
Gubook Jangoon, what was the approximate population of Korea in 330BC? When did the Koreans invent the hwachas? I thought that they needed gunpowder.
Anyway, I doubt if Alexander could have invaded China. The logistics of transporting 600,000 people across thousand of kilometers of rugged terrain: mountains and desert, just boggle the mind. They obviously couldn't live off the land in the Takla-Makan or in the Gobi. Transporting enough food for a 6 month march for such an army... Let's see: each soldier needs at the very minimum .5 kg of food. Over 6 months, that's 90kg of food that he'd have to transport himself, on top of his gear, which was like 20kg. I'd like to see you march for 6 months in the hot desert sun, carrying 110 Kg (that's 240 pounds) on your back. And where would the army get 5400 tons of food? At the time, it was the entire food production of a country...
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There was no professional army in Alexander's time that could have
numbered that many. 600,000 was the entire population of a kingdom at
that time. Without even looking at the logistics or the enormous cost
to maintain it, to gather such an army you would have to conscript
untrained, ill-equiped levies. As shown in the Persian Wars, such an
army, no matter what the size, will be slaughtered by the professional
arms of a nation. Against a technologically superior foe in China (I do
not know about Korea), a nation who could also 'out-levy' the
Macedonian Empire, Alexander's army would be wiped out to a man.
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