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Chapter 27 Cleopatra's ** (Part 1)

"The unmarried people vow to marry their wives, while the married people rode home on horseback and couldn't wait to find their wives to have fun." - Xenophon portrayed the audience's reaction after watching the ** performance at a private house banquet.

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But Caesar continued to climb up the tower in a calm manner, and looked at the messy battlefield with ordinary soldiers. After a while, he said to the token officer and Milu in a clear voice, "No, let's not go to the Grand Theater to rashly meet with the chief brigade of the reckless man. Our soldiers are not familiar with this city and will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. See if there is any place there?"

Milu and the military guards on duty followed Caesar's expectation. Apart from the Nokias Cape, there was an undeveloped swamp, which was covered with weeds and a canal leading to the ocean. This swamp happened to be in a triangle shape with the cape and the Grand Theater. "In this triangle area, there are very dense residential buildings, which can be used as our fortifications. In addition, the forage from the swamp can also provide supplies for the cavalry horses." After saying that, Caesar made a few quick gestures, and Milu immediately understood everything.

With a sound of trumpet, the side door and main door of the Nokias camp were wide open. Milu brought three hundred elite soldiers under Caesar to form a rectangular tortoise shell formation. The guns and stones shot by Egyptian thugs were bounced away by these layers of shield armor. When Milu's tortoise shell formation crushed the Egyptians' equipment launch positions like a centipede, a series of rapid and short-term soldiers met, and the group of unkempt people with weak will fled one after another. Their crossbow cannons were either captured or burned.

But in the other side of the city, more thugs and soldiers heard that Caesar was going to break through, so they followed the streets. Many people climbed up the roofs of the houses, prepared stones, and prepared to hit them down to destroy Caesar's army in the "the vast ocean of people's war". At this moment, several sharp-eyed men suddenly shouted on the roof. It turned out that on the fork in the east of the street and the houses. Suddenly, a group of Roman cavalry emerged, most of whom were Germans, shouting and defeating the thugs blocking them. Among them, the leader of the general, whose bright bald head was particularly eye-catching under the sunlight. Isn't that the Roman dictator Caesar?

Without a decent resistance, the group of cavalry rushed to the swamp in the east. Then the elite soldiers led by Milu had no intention of charging towards the Grand Theater. Instead, they retreated slightly and arranged in a strict formation. They protected the front of the camp, and then more large groups of soldiers came out of the camp. Only a small number of people were equipped with weapons, most of which were carrying picks, shovels, and baskets for transporting bricks and stones. They began to build fortifications along the camp to the streets and houses between the swamps. They skillfully built half a wall and connected the houses that were already densely connected together, forming a diagonal ready-made barrier, connecting the swamp with the Nokias camp.

"Burn with fire!" Groups of thugs threw the cups of fire, and the bold ones rushed forward and threw torches, trying to burn the soldiers of Caesar in the houses. However, the buildings in Alexander were different from the Roman houses, which were mainly civilized. Most of them were built with bricks and stones, and they had vaults. The torches and cups hit them, and instead rolled down, burning many of their own people.

The next day, Caesar's soldiers adopted the "pangogle tactic". After they established a foothold in the swamp, they put in handy the equipment seized from the Egyptian siege team. The soldiers dismantled the bronze angles and levers on several siege tools and made a simple transformation so that three or four people could easily hold them. Then Caesar's soldiers did not walk through the street, but followed the walls of one house and chiseled through another house. Behind them, the elite soldiers holding sharp blades were killed and expelled the thugs occupying the or roof, just like killing a group of cockroaches. In this way, Caesar's defense line continued to extend along the street, and finally framed the triangular areas of the Grand Theater, swampland and cape, and were covered with shields and deer village guards.

Caesar has been fighting for about a day since he was first attacked and has opened up a solid military camp.

Facts have proved that this group of mobs could not stand the tables in front of him and his elite soldiers of all wars.

In front of a wall, several Roman big-headed soldiers were holding their breath and concentrating, looking at a shield holder in front of them, covering the bronze hitting pole and pickaxe, constantly hitting the wall in front of them. With a loud bang, the engineers quickly retreated, and the shield holder lowered his body in the smoke and dust, blocking the attacks of swords and arrows several times. Then the big-headed soldiers shouted and crossed the shield holder, rushing in along the collapsed cave, instantly killing the thugs who were still fighting stubbornly on the other side of the wall.

Then, Caesar himself hugged and crawled behind the soldiers. He frowned and looked at the corpses of enemies in the house. Then he opened the main door. The sun shone brightly. This happened to be the junction of the alley behind the Grand Theater. The soldiers of the 10th Legion patrolling at the shooting windows opposite, saw the dictator shaking off the dust on his body easily, and when he walked out to them, they cheered.

"High all the walls to forty Roman feet, so that the enemy will not be able to come in no matter what." The dance floor of the Grand Theater became a temporary command post, where Caesar and Secretreus were deployed together. "There are also garrisons called Faros Island, and our friends in the Jewish district. Don't act rashly, just hold their own positions. I will be more than enough to defend this place with my subordinates of the Tenth Legion." Caesar said confidently, and then he brought a stack of official documents and ordered Xiaoya's support force to be sent as soon as possible.

"The two legions of the cavalry commander Libidaus must have arrived at the Fortress of Perus. As long as we can hold on for about ten days, his troops will definitely come from the east by boat to rescue us. Also, what should I do with Ipos?" At this time, Caesar's confidant Igorus said.

Ijulus' subtext is that we should not send troops to attack the Pharaoh's palace, because according to the map of this city, if we attack in a straight line, Ptolemy Thirteen could not resist and could only escape from the royal dock.
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