Augustus Road

After carefully examining the terrain, Caesar finally decided to camp at Cape Nochias, but he still had a backup plan. He ordered Hitius to command all the ships, stay quietly on the island of Pharos, and allocate troops from the Tenth Legion. Two battalions of troops defended the island.

"By the way, there is another merciless request that I hope your Excellency, the Dictator, can understand. That is, many of the soldiers recruited by His Majesty the Pharaoh have now turned into thugs. The whole city is suffering from them. The Dictator will come to Japan When moving the camp through the city streets, please try to show the majesty of Rome. This will also be very beneficial to restoring order." The envoy made this request very cunningly and inadvertently before retreating.

Caesar also agreed, and then issued a warrant asking the entire legion to prepare.

In the early evening, an uninvited guest came to the camp. He was a Jew wearing a brown cloak. His head and clothes were wet. It seemed that he swam quietly to the island. After seeing Caesar, he claimed He was entrusted by the Chamber of Commerce in the Jewish Quarter of the city to ask Caesar not to fall into the trap of trickery and move the camp to Nochias, because the new pharaoh wanted Caesar to disperse his troops and then gather a large number of troops to plot against Caesar. "Please tell your Chamber of Commerce. Thank you for their generosity and kindness. I will definitely submit the matter of war to Pharaoh as an important agenda for discussion - but Julius Caesar did not come to be an enemy of the Kingdom of Egypt. I It is still necessary to go to Cape Nochias, so as to better reflect my sincerity in seeking peace." This Jewish suggestion was rejected by Caesar. In the end, he still believed the words of the envoy. It is believed that Ptolemy XIII does not have an adequate army at hand now.

The next morning, at the sound of the trumpet. Caesar's flag-bearer raised the golden eagle flag high from the main entrance of the camp, facing the bright sunshine, and guided the trumpeters, flag bearers and Caesar's elite soldiers behind. They lined up in a long queue and headed towards Alexandria City along the Qili Causeway. "Thank you for your careful reminder, but when we enter this city this time, we cannot just place our hopes on the olive branch. We must let this capricious nation see that the reason why Rome can expand its territory to every corner of the ocean depends on There is such a thing as fascism." Caesar immediately replied loudly, and then asked his followers to put the fascist ax on the stick, and asked the trumpeters to collectively play a majestic marching song, and the chief brigade of the Tenth Legion took the lead in crossing. Qili Embankment. The ceremonial guard surrounding Caesar entered the city of Alexandria.

Alexandria. It is a much more well-planned city than Rome. It is sandwiched between the ocean and Lake Maleotis. It has fertile land for farming and supports a large group of artists and architects. It is glorious, majestic, majestic and wealthy. It is the symbol of this city. The soldiers of the Tenth Legion wearing Gallic helmets walked on the streets with their mouths open, looking at the rows of Ptolemaic Royal Gardens, Alexander's Mausoleum, the Great Library, the Coliseum, and The Pharaoh's palace stands on the island of Ibos, as well as the towering statues of Egyptian gods with animal heads and human bodies on both sides of the street.

At this moment, countless citizens began to pour out of their houses, slowly forming a tidal wave of crowds, sandwiching three thousand soldiers of the Tenth Legion on both sides of the avenue. Caesar on horseback smiled and waved to everyone, But no one seemed to cheer, and more people saw this foreign army with surprised and numb faces.

"It is said that they always think that they live in the kingdom of God. How pious these people are, how easy they are to be enslaved." Seeing that his good intentions were ignored, Caesar whispered disapprovingly.

"Your Excellency, I don't think so. The attitude of these citizens does not look very friendly. They look like soldiers preparing to go to the battlefield. After moving the camp, we must prevent riots against the Tenth Legion." The veteran who stayed in the camp next to him said. On behalf of Milu, he pressed the hilt of his sword on his horse and said with great concern.

Soon, fierce oral conversations broke out in the crowd. Ptolemy XIII sent a large number of spies and soldiers to mix in the crowd. They used the local dialect, which made Caesar and his soldiers completely confused. Many people secretly instigated, "Look at the so-called dictator. He is wearing the eagle flag and cudgel of a foreign nation on the land owned by our gods. This is a blasphemy against the dignity of Egypt and Pharaoh. Over the years, I have been disgusted. The Romans are constantly invading our holy territory. Lepidus has come, Gabinus has come, and now Caesar has come too. If we still let it go, Egypt will become a province of the other party sooner or later. Ours The temples will all be destroyed by the Romans."

The first to be incited were the aristocratic elites and the low-level hooligans in the city. The former had a sense of patriotic honor, while the latter wanted to be in turmoil every day so that they could take advantage of the situation. So they began to pass words to each other, agreed on secret codes, and prepared to take action - this At this time, in various markets and assembly halls in Alexandria, people began to get excited. Many people took out weapons from their houses and began to slowly gather into a force. However, at this moment, the Tenth Legion was still in the dark. , and continued marching towards Cape Nokias.

But Caesar suddenly stopped at the fork leading to the promontory. Then he pointed to the amphitheater on the left side of the street and asked, "This theater looks like a fortress."

Milu looked at it, and then several soldiers who knew the inside story said that this was indeed just a theater, but later when General Lepidus supported the restoration of the flute player, it became a garrison for soldiers, so it was transformed into a fortress. Caesar laughed, and then instructed Psychterius, "You take the chief brigade inside, because this place is very close to the Ipos Palace. Remember - strengthen the fortifications and set up the crossbow, and I will take the rest of the people to Nokias."

In the Ipos Palace, several eunuchs had just finished guarding the water clock, and when the moon rose, they walked to the front yard of the palace to add burning ointment to the lights. Then they vaguely saw that in the big theater opposite, the Roman helmets were shaking, and the light was flickering in the moonlight.