According to Pompey, Caesar had at least eighteen legions in his hands, and one legion of 4,000 to 5,000 men, nearly 100,000 troops.Although Caesar had only four legions in the East, he defeated twice as many Pompey as he could, taking in a large number of prisoners, and even sending only a few legions south to Egypt would be a formidable enemy.So in order to deal with Caesar, the Great Han Hussar General, Pompey, the Egyptian Pharaoh, and a new triumvirate were concluded in Alexandria.At the request of the general, the queen claimed that in order to "protect" the Great Library from war or from being burned and looted by the barbarian Romans, the important books in the Great Library were shipped out of the city and sent to the port south of the city for preservation, and if the situation was not good, it was sent down the Nile to Memphis for preservation.Liu Gengsheng and the dramatist Fanos Jr. presided over this huge book transportation project, and Phanos Jr. still didn't know that the purpose of the Seri people coming to Egypt was actually these books that no one cared about except scholars, but he was moved by the importance that the Seris people attached to knowledge.Liu Gengsheng can speak Greek, and the two have become friends in a few days."
As far as I know, the natural attitude of the Greeks towards the Romans was a contempt mixed with fear."
When Phanos Jr. chatted with Liu Gengsheng, he talked about the relationship between the Greeks and Rome."
The Greeks thought they were more sensible, we knew how to appreciate the drama, while the Romans only knew how to watch slaves duel with men and beasts, fierce and bloodthirsty, but the Romans were now more successful."
Little Phanos pointed to the prosperous city of Alexandria and sighed: "Now from the land to the sea, it is Rome that dominates everything, and the city-states and kingdoms of the Greeks have perished one after another and are ruled by Rome." ”"What is causing this situation?
It was the Greeks' indulgence in pleasure, their lack of unity, their political weakness.The greatness of Rome was due to certain qualities that the Greeks lacked. ”Rome is still full of hope and progress that Greece has lost, and the era of the Greeks is coming to an end.Chu Shaosun also wrote down these things one by one, and asked the translator to ask the little Phanos about the history of Rome, since he came to Alexandria, through conversations with the Greeks and Romans, he found that what he saw was believing, and there were many discrepancies with the records in the records of the Great Qin State of Haixi, the general of Ren."
The ancestors of the Romans?"
Little Fanos touched his beard and said: "Their own legend is that they are the descendants of the prince of Troy, who escaped from the besieged and destroyed city of Troy, and finally went to Italy with a small number of people and established Rome. ”Because the translator didn't know how to interpret "Prince Troy" in Chinese, he translated it as "Prince from the East", which made Chu Shaosun even more confused, because this was indeed contained in the Chronicles of the Great Qin Kingdom.Chu Shaosun asked the Greeks if they knew that Rome was the remnant of the last dynasty of the Seris Kingdom, and when they fled to the West one hundred and fifty years ago, the little Phanos and others looked at each other and even laughed."
Of course it can't be."
The Greeks are not Indian, and the history of more than a hundred years ago is still recorded and remembered.If nothing else, the history of the Ptolemaic dynasty alone with Rome has been more than 200 years.As far as the books in the Library of Alexandria are concerned, there was no such thing as the Cyriss coming west a hundred and fifty years ago.However, it was during the Second Punic War, when Rome and Carthage fought frequently in the western Mediterranean, but even Hannibal's expedition failed to reach the city of Rome.Not to mention that Chu Shaosun seemed to have discovered the mistakes and misunderstandings of General Ren's writings, in the port area north of Alexandria, the Han soldiers were also looking at Pompey's men adjacent to their defense area.Pompey's remnants were about 2,000 people, plus 2,000 mercenary regiments loyal to Pharaoh for many years, which were on par with the Han army, but their morale was low, after all, they had just experienced a big defeat and fled, and the most demoralizing thing was not defeat, and when the battle began to show unfavorable conditions, Pompey saw that the cavalry was driven back, and the descendants were in chaos, and they lost confidence in the rest of the legions, so they left the battlefield, rode their horses back to the camp, and left by boat overnight, which led to a great rout afterwards.Even with their new allies, the soldiers who fled with Pompey were still hunched and unconfident about defending against Caesar.On the other hand, the Han army was in high spirits, they had just defeated the 20,000 army of the Ptolemaic general Aquilas, captured a large city, and the hussar general rewarded them for their merits, and asked the military judge to give everyone a martial arts knighthood on the spot, and promised to return to India after the war to become serfs, and their children could enjoy better education and treatment.Hearing that there was another battle to be fought, regardless of the rank of knight, the officers and men were gearing up to observe the equipment of Pompey's army across the embankment.This is not an orthodox Roman legion, most of them are Pompey's improvised recruits in Greece, most of them still wear Greek-style Collinthian helmets, but the armor on their bodies has been replaced by Roman ring armor, and the weapons in their hands are Roman short swords and Greek round shields, which are somewhat mixed and matched.However, the centurions among them impressed Gao Wutong and the others, and their helmets were crowns like horsehair, which looked tall and mighty, and the higher ones were dressed in red robes.Pompey was able to remain stationed on the island of Pharos, where the Great Lighthouse was located, the Han army controlled the port, and the Queen of Egypt also contributed.After regaining power, Cleopatra VII cruelly fed her brother to crocodiles, declared herself the only pharaoh, imprisoned her ambitious little sister, and appointed another young brother as a co-ruler, and the queen may marry him.Then the queen appeared in person, inciting the Greeks everywhere in Alexandria."
The Romans were slowly developing a habit of encroaching on Egypt, and Aulus Gabinius had come to Egypt with an army a few years earlier."
It was to escort her and the Piper father and daughter home, but the queen deliberately forgot this, she was a pharaoh before the Egyptians, and now she wore Greek robes, presenting herself as a defender of the Greek tradition, wanting to take advantage of the Greeks' fear and contempt for Rome."
Caesar is now coming with an army again, and if he can't be driven out, Egypt will become a Roman province!"
Upper and lower Egypt had gradually submitted to her rule, and the wealthy Greeks feared being robbed by Caesar's army, and they naturally chose the latter between the Romans and the queen.Tens of thousands of slaves and citizens were armed, but Ren Hong was a little worried that they would play a scene of rebellion, and they were only arranged in the city as logistics.What Ren Hong hoped to gain from this temporary alliance was naturally the power of the Egyptians and Pompey on the sea.The fleet of the Han army was in a hurry in the Red Sea, and if Ren Hong had the manpower to carry the fleet to the Mediterranean Sea by land, it would be better to run away directly with the book.Pompey's ten scarred ships, and the twenty or thirty three-oared ships that returned to the queen after the death of Ptolemy XIII, would be crucial in the battle.However, Ren Hong rejected Chen Tang's request to lead troops to take over the Egyptian fleet to join the naval battle, and bring bronze cannons to the ship."
The Romans fought at sea, mainly by connecting the strings, with the bronze cannon on the head, can not change the tide of the war, if accidentally captured by the enemy, it is not beautiful."
The Han army that came from the expedition could not afford to lose, and Ren Hong was unwilling to gamble everything on naval battles, and letting the soldiers drive ships they had never used before was like handing them unfamiliar weapons on the battlefield.What's more, in Ren Hong's plan, the fleet was not to prevent Caesar from landing."
Instead, they will hide in the great green sea in the east, and after the Roman legions have landed, they will sail from the east to attack their fleets, so that the Romans will not be able to meet each other on land and sea!"
And at this moment, with an exclamation, the big lighthouse was like a beacon of the great man, and at the first time he saw the enemy, a pillar of smoke was lit!
On the already towering lighthouse, pillars of smoke soared into the sky, while golden drums sounded in unison at the port, the Han army assembled, and Pompey's men looked apprehensively into the distance.It took a while for more than twenty ships with red-and-white sails to appear on the blue-green horizon.This is the third day after Pompey's landing, and the old opponent who has been biting his tail has finally arrived!"
Caesar is coming!"
Ren Hong's plan failed at the beginning.Caesar's fleet, after discovering that there were only a few ships outside Alexandria and was crushed in one blow, did not foolishly land directly and suffered a joint attack by the three forces.They had been stranded at sea for a long time, and then they abandoned Alexandria and marched to the east towards the great green sea at the mouth of the Nile."
As Pompey expected, Caesar saw through my plan."
Ren Hong smiled and shook his head, this plan really couldn't deceive Caesar, who had been in a hundred battles.However, it is infuriating that Caesar's fleet, which was originally built by Pompey and the republicans at great expense in the past year, not only failed to prevent Caesar from crossing the Adriatic, but also recruited his captives after the defeat.Fortunately, the captain of Pompey's transport brigade did not go to the naval battle this time, but let his son, who has also crossed the Mediterranean Sea in history, and made the last three have a deep headache as the commander.Half a day later, from the direction of the Great Green Sea, several wrecked ships came.The Battle of the Great Green Sea ended with Caesar's victory, and the demoralized Pompey fleet was routed again, and Pompey's son, Pompey Jr., who was called "Pang Gongzi" by Chu Shaosun, although he fought bravely, was unable to return to the sky, and disappeared with several ships.The Ptolemaic fleet, which had just been surrendered by the queen for three days, gave up the battle directly after being attacked by Caesar's ships, and fled to the mouth of the Nile River, which is dotted with islands.Caesar's fleet soon returned to the vicinity of Alexandria, where a memorial monument to the accession of Ptolemy V was found in Porto Rosetta, northeast of the city, with the same inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian, and colloquial scripts of the time, although Egyptian characters have not been forgotten.Half a day later, the Romans, who had landed without the help of warships, appeared east of Alexandria.Gao Wutong and other Han soldiers who had been transferred to the Gate of the Sun in the east finally saw the real Roman legions, not Pompey's men who were really Greek impostors after they ran out of veterans.It was a whole legion, more than 4,000 men, arrayed miles outside the Gate of the Sun in eastern Alexandria, with rings reflecting the sun, Roman helmets in unison, short swords, heavy throwing spears, large square shields, and red as far as the eye could see, and morale was unknown higher than that of Pompey's defeated army.In front of each brigade and battalion, there are their respective flags, which are said to be flags, which are more like honor guards.Some have spear tips and palms at the top, while others have golden garlands and silver rings inlaid on the poles, and the flag bearers wear animal helmets and leather."
If it's a wolf, it's the flagbearer of the brigade.""
If it's a bear, it's the flag bearer.""
What if it's a lion?"
Ren Hong asked the interpreter to ask old Pompey, who was standing with him on the Sun Gate.In front of the Roman army, the biggest and most conspicuous was a tall flag bearer with a lion beast helmet, holding a spirited red banner with a gilded eagle on it, ready to fly!
It seems that he wants to capture the sharp eagle claws towards the Han army and Pompey!"
It's the Golden Eagle Banner, which represents the Legion."
Pompey on the city wall recognized the troops on the opposite side, as if he saw the invincibility of this army in the previous defeat, and it was their attack that made him defeated."
It's the Tenth Legion!"
The Tenth Legion, formed ten years earlier, was Caesar's most prestigious legion, conquering Gaul for Caesar and winning a decisive victory in the decisive battle with Pompey.Seeing that the Romans had seen through their strategy, the queen proposed to defend it, and Alexander's eastern walls were still strong, the city was well fed and manpowered, and a few thousand Romans posed no threat.But Ren Hong knew that the longer the time dragged on, the more beneficial it would be to the Romans: after this vanguard, there were really ten legions, plus the armies of the various Roman vassal states preparing to go south to Egypt, although it was not easy to land from the sea with a southerly wind, but it could come from Cyrene and Judea by land.Now that the sea control has been lost, if the landing Roman legions are not defeated in one go, then as the enemy supports more and more, the Han army can only hastily withdraw from Egypt."
Take the initiative."
Ren Hong decided so, and personally took 3,000 Han troops to the outside of the city, and asked Wu Zaihan to take more than 100 people to "protect the queen" on the city wall Ren Hong was actually afraid that this queen would turn her face and sell her allies when the situation was not right, and she must have done it.As for the capricious Septimius, he was also placed under house arrest, and Pompey's eldest son took control of the mercenaries, who were now deployed on the left flank next to the Han army.There were also five thousand Ptolemaic troops led by the queen's confidants, Apollodorus, as the right flank.What is surprising is that the Romans on the opposite side, in addition to the Golden Eagle Banner of the Tenth Legion, actually have nine other ones raised one after another.This caused a commotion in Pompey's army, and the morale was even more depressed, and the Egyptians were also very surprised, could it be that Caesar led ten legions south so quickly?
I'm afraid that more than 20 ships can't hold so many people."
Nope."
Those various legion eagle banners made Pompey beside Ren Hong feel ashamed and dazzling, his eye sockets were deep, since the rout, Pompey had not slept well, and he had lost a lot of weight.The defeat almost broke his backbone: "The nine Legion Eagle Banners were captured by Caesar from my army!"
After the defeat in the decisive battle in Greece, Pompey almost abandoned his army and fled alone, he found a horse, ripped off his commander's clothes, ran out of the camp through the back door, and drove his horse all the way to Larissa.He didn't stop there, collecting some of his men who were fleeing along the way, and still running at the same speed, day and night.He took thirty cavalry retinues and hurried to the seashore, boarded a grain ship, and went to join his wife and children, and went south with two thousand men from all walks of life.In Greece, Caesar surrendered ten times as many as he did.Shame, Pompey's life's victories and fame, along with the name of consul, were now taken away by Caesar, and the general of the Seris was the last hope that appeared before him when he was cornered.Ren Hong takes a fancy to Pompey's point, and it is impossible for him and Caesar to reconcile.What's more, as Caesar's friend, son-in-law, and enemy, Pompey knew him too well."
The Tenth Legion and these Eagle Banners are just a façade."
Pompey did make a judgment, pointing at the Roman legions opposite, who were bait to lure the Seris and him out of the city to meet them."
Caesar, not here!"
Outside Alexandria, on a huge triremes, a thin and bald man between Pompey and Ren Hong, with a relatively high hairline, had a thin hair on the back of his head combed forward, but was blown backwards by the sea breeze.The bald man was looking at Alexandria in the distance, his eyes were serious and deep, and he was talking to himself."
It is by human nature that people tend to believe and fear things that they have not seen and that are secretly unfamiliar.""
From the East, the mysterious Seris, this is Pompey's last hope?"
When Caesar learned that Pompey had fled to Egypt, he took with him only the Tenth Legion, as well as more than 3,000 men of the Eleventh Legion, twenty ships from Rhodes, and the large army, which remained in Greece.But Caesar, confident that he had won the prestige of his victory, did not hesitate to march south with this weak army.Then he was shocked to learn that the co-rulers of Seris had also arrived in Egypt, and with the queen defeated Ptolemy XIII and accepted Pompey.Caesar smiled and beckoned the two captains on the ship who had followed him for many years: "Urenus. ”"Polo.""
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Take the Eleventh Legion, board the harbor and take the city!""
War gives the conqueror the power to make any claim on the vanquished, and wherever the sun shines, it is the land of Rome, and the rich Egypt is no exception."
And if I bring back the co-rulers of Seris, it will be a trophy that will drive the Romans mad and excited more than the grain of Egypt."
The general, known in Rome as the "Conqueror of Bactria and India," spread to Rome for ten years through Parthian and silk merchants, and was often referred to alongside Caesar, who conquered Spain and Gaul.And the city where they met is also the tomb of the greatest conqueror in the world: Alexander the Great!
As one of Alexander's many admirers, Caesar did not believe that this was a coincidence.It seems to be a gladiatorial battle designed by the gods, so that two people who could not have met met here meet!
Then give it a try.Through a hearty battle for the gods to see, see who is the greatest conqueror after Alexander.This battle will be a battle worth writing more than the defeat of Pompey in the civil war he has already written!"
The dice I threw in the Rubicon will be picked up here!"
PS: There's still only one more.,Content beyond the scope of knowledge.,It's really too difficult to write.,This kind of stupid thing won't be done in the future.。
In addition, there are really not a few chapters left, and it is expected to be completed on July 31.