When Porus saw his old enemy approaching, he threw a spear to him with fury without listening to a single word of his proposal. Ambhi, the other Indian king, approached his rival and tried to convince him to stop fighting. Porus seemed determined to fight to the end. After seeing Porus defending himself so bravely, Alexander ordered to capture the raja alive. Porus even lost two of his sons in the battle. The elephants crushing skulls and impaling men with their tusks, The Macedonians throwing javelins to the eyes of the elephants and their mahouts, and the beasts going out of control and crushing friend and foe alike. The Indians wielding some of the biggest swords of their time, and human-sized bows made of bamboo, that couldn’t be used properly because of the slippery soil.
The night before the clash a heavy rain had turned the ground into slippery mud. Alexander and Ambhi on the other side commanded an army of Greeks, Iranians and Indians, with some war elephants as well. At the battle of the Hydaspes, Porus led a vast army of infantry, cavalry, 1000 chariots and 200 war elephants. Porus was a fearless warrior of great stature, considered a giant for the standards of the time. With Alexander crossing the Hindu Kush with a considerable force of Greek and Asian men, Ambhi saw an opportunity to turn the scale in his favour and defeat his enemy Porus once and for all. The two Punjabi kings had been in hostile terms with each other for a while before the arrival of Alexander. Indian ally marched together to the banks of the Hydaspes / Jhelum River, to face a more formidable raja known by the Greeks as Porus of Pauravas. After making an alliance with Ambhi / Taxiles, raja of Taxila, modern Punjab, Alexander and his
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