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Persian army to 3 V B.C..
The main disadvantage in the Persian army of this epoch consists in its irregularity. It was completed according to the territorial principle, in each satrapii (territorial unit) was located critical for the "rekrutskiy collection", kotryy was conducted by necessity. I.e., in 90% army was martial militia that was implied the insufficient state of training of soldiers, the weak organization of interaction of subdivisions while under power and in the battle these deficiencies were aggravated by lingual barrier - in the state not there was united language and often subordinates did not understand the speech of their commander. From the militia was formed in essence light infantry, drotometateley, archers or the lekguyu cavalry.
Rest 10% - this nucleus troops. It included tsarist bodyguards, garrisons of satrapiy and Greek mercenaries, who were in the honor in Persians and they were paid sufficiently generously. Greeks brought into Persiyu construction by the phalanx, which, however, not was acknowledged because of the dissociation of peoples in the Persian troops.
To ehlite of army composed the "immortal" bodyguards of tsar by the number of force into 10000 people. "immortal" they were called because loss in this force instantly would be completed and the killed soldiers thus seemingly revived in their receivers. "unestimated" were armed by the small bows, useless against the armors, by short swords and by short spears, from the armors they bore metallic breastplates and used leather panels. This was not allowed, in spite of "elitnost'" to war against the cavalry and kopeyshchikov.
Persian cavalry was divided into the light (it consisted of nomads from the east - Scythians, Sarmatians, baktriytsev) and the heavy, strictly the Persian and the the midiyskuyu. The heavy armored cavalry consisted of aristocrats, it counted the order of 10000 horsemen.
In the offensive the cavalry supported combat chariots - serponosnye kvadrigi, charged dvumya-chetyr'mya with horses and had sickles on the rims of wheels. Chariots brought essential loss to enemy.
Another special feature of the army of Persians was the presence of elephants from Indian satrapiy.
The army followed enormous convoy - wife and children of military leaders, eunuchs, servants, craftsmen, merchants, domestic cattle ("living foodstuffs"). This convoy considerably decreased the speed of forces while under power. It was most present burden, which deprived troops of freedom of maneuvering.
Poor learning ability and state of training, raznoplemennost' and raznoyazykost', a constant caution of commanders to the rear and the convoy - all this hampered the passage of drive signal, in consequence of which Persian army won battles exclusively because of the numerical superiority.
On rof ekonstruktsii Of m.V.Gorelika (ris.y), made on the archaelogical findings, to the monuments of depictive skill and to the descriptions of Xenophon, Arriana and Curtius Rufus, you can see the armament of soldiers Persii:
1. the Persian heavily armed rider
2. the Persian rider- bodyguard
3. the Persian lightly armed rider- archer
4, The likiyskiy heavily armed rider
5. the phrygian heavily armed soldier
6, The sogdiyskiy soldier
7. Sakskiy heavily armed rider.
Ris.y. Soldiers of akhemenidskogo Iran and Central Asia.
