"Why are you always on the run? If you have enough strength, you should fight me; If you don't have enough strength, don't run around, make a master-slave covenant with me, and give me the earth and water. —Darius's letter of surrender to the king of Schitian

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Sabo took a few token officers to the camp of the Hormahi Legion between the Greek Quarter and the island of Ibo, and there were about a thousand soldiers stationed in it, and Sabo read out the new edict of the Pharaoh in front of the main gate, "The Pharaoh will immediately conquer the southern kingdom of Maiero (a state established by Nubia) and regain control of the Ponte Channel, and the Hormahi Legion must be prepared for war, and from now on, it will not participate in the Orbit Festival, in order to prevent being corrupted by songs and prostitutes, and the whole army camp will be temporarily moved to the fortress of Idaui." ”

In front of the barracks, the merrily soldiers of Holmachi, who were greased and whitewashed, dressed in civilian clothes, and put on flower crowns to go to the city theater and brothel, looked at Sabo with some surprise, but when they saw a whole brigade of Roman soldiers standing behind Sabo, they were silent, they knew that there was a brigade of 1,000 people on each side of the Grand Theater and the royal city, so this thin officer had the confidence to tell them to leave this bustling city.

As the Holmach legions staggered out of the tower of the city gate, they saw a group of Roman soldiers rushing towards the city, and the two armies quickly came face to face, stepping through the streets, eye to eye to eye of each other. Do not give in to each other. Passwords are shouted in Greek and Latin. Stalemate in place. "Get out of the way!" A scarred Latin centurion, wearing a double gold chain and a golden medal of bravery of the pharaoh, shouted viciously at the Hormahi legion.

At the end of the day, several Holmach officers stepped forward, nodded at Highbrid, and then ordered all the soldiers to carry their luggage and baggage to the side of the road. With a wave of his hand, the Roman army swarmed by.

The Hormahi legions departed at night, and the movement was so sudden that the general in charge did not receive any edict from the pharaoh, and then the magnates of the whole city of Alexandria felt the air quickly become a bulwark - the Colosseum became a bulwark for the Romans, and many soldiers wearing red coarse cloth cloaks and armed javelins stood on the dome of the theater, walking back and forth, watching the huge city like ants; The Moon City of the Royal City is full of fighting voices every day. The stern presence of ballistas and torches scared away all those who wanted to come to Pharaoh.

Shops in the Jewish Quarter. The noses of these merchants were the most sensitive, and they instinctively felt that something was wrong with the air, and began to count the money in the secret room of the house, but in vain, and now the Egyptians' own army was said to be far away in Idaiui, and the outskirts and seaports were all occupied by the hundred-man army of the Roman legions, and the Roman ships were cruising on the sea, and no one could get out.

Alexandra has become an isolated dead city.

And the Obit Festival is also approaching, in the house of an Egyptian magnate, the secretary brought papyrus to the courtyard, and wrote on it with a melancholy expression, "Heaven and earth rotate like a potter's wheel, without the guidance of the wise eyes of the gods, the world has become unclear, even before the festival, the master is still worried, will the conqueror's sword suddenly be imposed on him?" The master is still inviting the wizard to do his best divination. When he had finished writing, the secretary hastily put away the stationery, read the stack of letters that could not be sent at all, and heard the Latin command of the Roman soldiers patrolling outside the courtyard, sighed, and walked boredly to the backyard with a papyrus in his arms.

Until the early morning of the day of the Obit, the Roman soldiers in the Coliseum, the Intraliso and the Hormach barracks, in the camp camps, took control of the Greek quarters with torches, and rudely knocked on the doors of every powerful house, and when the terrified servants opened the door, the Roman soldiers with fleshy faces stood there, and without saying a word, he raised the letter in his hand, and behind him, wearing a short white linen skirt (which was the characteristic dress of the Egyptian scribes), said to the master of the house in very subtle language: " Today is the day of Pharaoh's feast, and you are among those invited, my Excellency. ”

The cry of the sky, most of them were wives and daughters, and those with slaves, sounded from the courtyard of a house, and anyone knew that this was a parting of life and death, but what could be done, the whole city trembled and succumbed to the obscenity of the sword, and Hebrida came to the dark gray and luxurious villa courtyard wall, which was the residence of the "nomad defense chief" Dere, but how he kicked the door panel, and did not see anyone inside, the chief centurion grew up to be angry, and this general Dere was specially stuffed by Cleopatra to give him 10,000 drachmas, wantHe impatiently called the two soldiers behind him to take out their sledgehammers, smash the door with three strikes and divide two by two, and broke down the door, and then saw three or four trembling but dagger-armed servants by the cistern of the antechamber, crying and shouting to the Romans, presumably to warn these rude soldiers not to invade his master's house.

"Ahh When a tall and thin servant saw Hebrida approaching, he raised his dagger and stabbed it at Hebrida's neck, Hebrida held his weapon with his left hand, and then directly held the sword with his right hand, and entered the slave's lower abdomen, and the blood and intestines all came out, and in the firelight, all the slaves were killed by the soldiers, and a corpse turned into the cistern, and the blood spread out layer by layer along the ripples.

"What did he just say?" Highbrida walked away and asked the soldier behind her.

"Officer, I really don't know, but we have been attacked, and we have to defend ourselves." Several soldiers responded one by one.

In the hall, they saw the bodies of Dere and several members of his family, all of whom had committed suicide, and Dere knew that Pharaoh would not forgive him, because it was through him that Benenici had bribed the chief of Cyrenaica to try to extradite the prince of the pharaoh, and Hebrida rushed into the general's study, and several secretaries had been killed in advance, and there were scattered papyrus ashes everywhere, and Hebrida was illiterate, at least not Greek, so he stuffed all the remaining manuscripts and documents into leather boxes and walked away"Go to the house of the head of the project again!" ”

About two o'clock in the afternoon, in the hall of the pharaoh's royal city, musicians, dancers, and eunuchs went in and out with smiles on their faces, the pharaoh's pipers sat quietly on their thrones, and the hundreds of magnates invited below sat on their seats with deathly faces, and the colonnades, gardens, and towers were guarded by Li Bida's soldiers, and in the huge pool in the center of the hall, there was an iron fence, and several lowly servants were carrying baskets of frogs and pouring them into it, and everywhere were the bloody mouths of crocodiles, fluttering white and red.

When many people saw this scene, they all looked at each other with sad faces, "We all gave that alien general a lot of money, but who wants to be controlled by him today's life." (To be continued......)