About a few days later, Libida and Cleopatra, sailed west from Sepi Island with the fleet and two legions, and headed to Alexander to help Caesar.

Just at the same time, in the city, Diotus and Moteménius came to the prison of the palace together. Scipio lay in exhaustion. Seeing the two men shaking their keys, they thought they were here to release him, but soon they walked over and came to the cell next to them, where Septimius, who killed the two consuls, was sitting cross-legged on the dirty ground, catching all kinds of reptiles with relish.

"Ceptimius, I am here to deliver your reward on behalf of His Majesty Pharaoh."

"Now I want 15,000 Drachma silver coins to offset the torture I suffered in this damn prison." The other party said in a hoarse voice.

"This is absolutely OK, but we can add another 30,000 silver coins, as long as you are the consultant to besiege Caesar in the Grand Theater." The eunuch said with a hand.

Septimius laughed, and asked the eunuch back, "I only need the original bounty now, and take my wife and children to the Cyraniga for refuge and live a happy life. Now you want to give me this money and ask me to do something that will never be restored - you Egyptians cannot win this war."

"As long as the power of His Majesty Pharaoh is here, victory will still belong to us. Caesar now has only a few soldiers. Our army can take advantage of his reinforcements to cut off his head." Mothamenis said with all his gamble.

So Septimius blinked, saying that the reward was finally quite good and he could consider it.

"Look at this old thing tighter!" The eunuch reminded Diotus before leaving.

In the afternoon, Septimius was guarded by many Gorta soldiers. He ran around Caesar's fortification camp and immediately made a suggestion: Caesar could build fortifications and hold on, and you could also set up higher fortifications to attack them.

Then, Septimius circled around the city again, and then pointed out that the alley should be blocked with a horizontal wall, that house should be demolished, which streets should be buried, and which must be cleared. Then he said that a thousand soldiers from the Gorta Legion, formed a single brigade, and stationed in the central square within the area designated by me to serve as a reserve force. The remaining mobs of the people and thugs were dismissed. They had no beneficial effect except blocking their attack routes.

Under the guidance of this old consultant, the streets to Caesar's camp were instantly unblocked. The guns, spears, and stone bullets made in the temple of the Great Isis were all loaded on mule carts. Then the mule carts and mule workshops were connected in series with ropes and iron chains, and rumbling across the straight streets, sending ammunition directly to the front line. The Egyptian army also created a large number of siege towers and stone throwers, and began to shoot at Caesar's camp strongholds continuously.

It seems that the Egyptians learned very quickly in war!

Through fierce shooting and erosion, the Egyptians actually captured several small strongholds of Caesar two days later, because after all, Caesar had too few people and was a little stretched, so defense began to become difficult.

At this time, Ptolemy Thirteen himself also made efforts. He broke and melted all the valuable things in the palace and distributed them to soldiers, civilians and armed slaves. He promised to kill Caesar, he would give these people more. The enthusiasm for fighting in the whole city was aroused again. Then, some engineers also proposed a strategy of water cut off. They proposed that the water source in Alexander City was mainly provided by the canal in the south. The residents dug out many canals from the canal and extended to every corner of the city. The wealthy families had water pipes to supply water. The water became very clear after filtering, but the poor families could only drink sewage mixed with mud. Now, as long as we dig out the canal, Caesar could die of thirst.

The group of people thought of doing it. They first dug all the canals leading therein, whether it is bright or dark, along the triangular area where Caesar's army was defending, and completely drained the water. Then these people with a sense of humor finally left a canal, but led it into the ocean with water-drawing equipment, causing the sea water to flow backwards and pour in.

"The water is salty!" With this frightened cry, the panic of the water suddenly spread to all parts of the Caesar Camp.

Then the water they could get became saltier and uninvited.

The soldiers and the centurion panicked, and then complained, complaining that the dictator led them to this death place out of vain. If the situation worsened, the entire army would be buried in this ghost place, so now we should abandon the camp by boat and go to Faros Island to meet with the fleet of Hetius.

Caesar was very calm. The worse the situation the gambler faced, the calmer he became. He first asked the soldiers to row a boat to go to the island with fresh water in the ocean to get water. Then he encouraged all the centurions and took the soldiers to dig wells to drink, and said, "The land near the ocean, because there are many rivers entering the sea, there will be a lot of fresh water underground. These Egyptians were too superstitious about river water and turned a blind eye to the clear water under their feet. This is their stupidity, and naturally it can also create the wisdom of our army."

Fortunately, since the Pipers were restored, Egypt could not afford to build a navy, so there were only light reed clutches in the royal dock of Ptolemy Thirteen. They could not block Caesar on the sea and could only hope for the natural wind direction. Therefore, Caesar's subordinates first experienced hard work and carried some fresh water from a faraway island. Caesar sent all of them to the working soldiers, and then the soldiers were motivated and dug wells crazily, but after working in the middle of the night, they did not find any water source from the underground of the camp.

Caesar was also a little panicked now. Soon the soldiers of the 10th Legion invented a simple method, which was to use leather bags to store the salty drinking water, and then put it in the scorching sun in the Alexander City Camp. You should know that the most abundant thing in this city is the unobstructed sun. Slowly, sea salt seeped out along the leather. The soldiers could finally swallow it. However, with a canal alone, it could not meet the drinking water needs of more than 3,000 people, and the situation was still very embarrassing.
Chapter completed!