"Those who are not married vow to marry wives, while those who have been married ride home and are eager to find their wives." Xenophon depicts the audience's reaction after watching an erotic performance at a private house banquet

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Caesar, however, calmly climbed the tower at the risk of his own, and with the common soldiers, surveyed the devastated battlefield, and after a while he said in a very clear voice to Officer Token and Milou, "No, let's not rush to the Grand Theater to meet the chief brigade of the reckless, our soldiers are not familiar with the city, and will be surrounded by the enemy." See where you are? ”

Milou and the military tribune on duty followed Caesar's hope, and at a distance of about a half-furlong from the Nokias headland, there was an undeveloped marshland, overgrown with weeds, and a canal leading to the sea, which formed a triangular shape with the headland and the Grand Theater, "in this triangular area there was a dense density of residential buildings, which could serve as our fortifications, and the fodder of the marshes could be used for the horses of the cavalry." With that, Caesar made a few quick gestures, and immediately Milu understood everything.

There was a sound of horns, the side door and the main gate of the Nokias camp were wide open, Milou with three hundred Caesar's elite soldiers, lined up into a rectangular tortoiseshell array, the throwing spears and stones shot by the Egyptian mob were bounced away by this layer of shields, and when Milu's tortoiseshell array crushed the Egyptians' equipment firing position like a steel centipede, after a rush of short soldiers, this group of weak-willed rabble fled. Their ballistas were not captured. It was burned.

But that side of the city. When more thugs and soldiers heard that Caesar was going to break through, they crowded down the streets, and many climbed onto the roofs of the houses, prepared stones, and prepared to smash them down, and wipe out Caesar's army in the "sea of the people's war". Suddenly, a group of Roman cavalry, mostly Germanic, shouted and broke down the thugs that stood in front of them, among them the leading general, whose brilliant bald top was particularly striking in the sunlight, was not the Roman dictator Caesar?

The cavalry did not meet any decent resistance, and rushed quickly into the swamp to the east, and then the elite soldiers led by Milou did not have any intention of charging in the direction of the Grand Theater, but retreated slightly, forming a tight formation. The front of the camp was secured, and more soldiers came out of the camp. The group, armed only with a small number of men, and most of them armed with pickaxes, shovels, and baskets for carrying masonry, began to build fortifications along the streets and dwellings between the camps and the swamps, and they skillfully erected half of the walls, connecting the houses that were already close together, forming a ready-made rampart that connected the swamp with the camp of Nokias.

"Burn with fire!" Crowds of thugs threw fire pots, and the brave ones rushed forward and threw torches, trying to burn Caesar's soldiers to death in the houses, but the buildings of Alexandra were different from the civil and wooden houses of Rome, most of them were built of brick and stone ramparts that were set on fire, and they all had vaults, and the torches and fire pots fell to them, but they rolled down and burned many of their own people.

The next day, Caesar's soldiers adopted the "pangolin tactic", after they established themselves in the swamp, they put to use the equipment they had previously captured from the Egyptian siege team, and the soldiers dismantled the bronze ramming angles and levers on several siege engines, and simply modified them so that three or four people could easily hold them, and then Caesar's soldiers did not go through the streets, but chiseled through the walls of one house to another, followed by elite soldiers with sharp blades, killing and expelling the thugs who occupied them or the roofs. It's like killing a swarm of cockroaches. In this way, Caesar's line of defense continued to run along the street, eventually framing the Grand Theater, the marshland, and the triangular area of the headland, surrounded by shields and deer.

Caesar had gone from being attacked at the beginning to now opening up a well-fortified barracks, and he had been fighting for a day or so.

Facts have proved that this rabble will not be able to get on the stage at all in front of him and his elite soldiers.

In front of a wall, several Roman big-headed soldiers were holding their breath, looking at a shield-bearer in front of them, covering the bronze ramming rod and pickaxe, constantly hitting the wall in front of them, with a bang, the engineers quickly retreated, and the shield-bearer crouched down in the smoke and dust, blocking several attacks of swords and arrows one after another, and then the big-headed soldiers shouted past the shield-bearer, rushed into the cave that had collapsed, and instantly slashed down the few thugs who were still resisting on the other side of the wall.

Then Caesar himself bent on his waist and got behind the soldiers, and he frowned and looked at the corpses of the enemies in the house, and then opened the main door, and the sun shone down very brightly, which happened to be the junction of the back of the Grand Theater and the alley, and the soldiers of the Chief Brigade of the Tenth Legion, who were patrolling at the shooting window, cheered when they saw that the dictator was easily shaking off the dust from his body and walking out facing them.

"Raise all the walls to forty Roman feet, so that the enemy will not be able to climb in anyway." The dance floor of the Grand Theater became a temporary command post, where Caesar was deployed with Secledilius, "and the garrison called Pharos, and our military friends in the Jewish quarter, do not act rashly, as long as you hold your position, it is more than enough for me to hold this place with the men of the Tenth Legion." Caesar said confidently, and then he took a stack of gongs and ordered him to send Xiao Ya's backup as much as possible.

"The two legions of the cavalry commander Lybidaeus must have arrived at the fortress of Perusium, and as long as we can hold out for ten days or so, his troops will surely come by ship from the east to rescue us. Also, what about the Ipos side? At this time, Caesar's confidant Ijulus said.

The subtext of Igiulus was that he should not send an army to storm the Pharaoh's palace, because according to the map of the city, if we attacked in a straight line, Ptolemy XIII would not be able to resist it, so we would have to flee by boat from the royal docks.

Caesar shook his head and said that it was not yet the time, if we directly captured or killed Ptolemy XIII, it would provoke more thugs to attack, and even a few legions in Egypt who were still holding a gentle attitude could not sit idly by, so this matter was pressed for the time being, and the ballista shooting at the palace of Ibos was withdrawn, "Don't lose your mind because of anger, I still have to show all the Egyptians that the current war is not against Pharaoh and me, but instigated by a small group of people with ulterior motives, That way you can win more friends and fewer enemies, doesn't it? (To be continued......)