The whole city of Thebes was boiling after hearing Pharaoh's edict, and the priests hurriedly ordered the employees and tenants of the city of God not to leave their respective posts easily, and then they were chaotic and chased after the wind for no reason, "Is your majesty not afraid of divine punishment at all!" This is the favorite mantra of these bald monks during this time, not only to send troops into the city of gods, but also to let a foreign general, with an army dominated by Nubian blacks, is this not an insult and a threat?

"All we have to do now is to pray with all our strength that this city of Thebes will not allow the contamination of the world! Matt is God, and this universe needs the guidance of God and God's agents at all times to achieve a just and harmonious order. ”

But Lypida's Maeder army, which did not care, still came on time, just as the god Matt (the god of cosmic order) had carefully arranged, three thousand dark-skinned soldiers came to the field across the water from the city of Thebes, and began to go to the farms and fields of the temple to take away the men and cattle, and when the overseers appointed by the temple stopped the soldiers, the fate was obvious: several overseers were severely beaten with leather whips, and one was smeared with honey and hung from the barn, where he was bitten by flies and mosquitoes in the middle of the night. The screams kept on, and he was tortured half to death in the early hours of the next morning before he was put down.

After that, Li Bida instructed the "obedient" people to build a bridge over the Nile River that crossed the camp and the city of the gods, and set up small fortresses at each end, sent soldiers to garrison them, and dug a small half-moon-shaped water port, and erected wooden stakes and exits outside. Ten small Librnas. Dozens of reed-made light boats (best suited for fighting on the Nile). Patrolling near the bridges, they were specially used to intercept the ships that were carrying tribute to the temple through the Nile, whether it was rice, linen, wood, masonry, luxury goods, and valuable utensils, and looted them all, "The new temple of Serapis needed a foundation stone, as well as tribute." Then we will bring priests from Alexandra to quell the evil spirits. This is Lipida's explanation of the Theban priesthood.

The temple was really angry, so they sent countless people, carrying the statues of the gods, to go to Alexandra to petition and appeal, but when they reached the necessary way, they were stopped by another improvised "river transport guard", also composed of Nubian blacks, these rough and fierce soldiers. He actually shot the idol with a bow and arrow, and killed the priest's retinue. The priests were so frightened that they had no choice but to flee back.

When this failed, the temple sent a letter to invite the bureaucrats and magnates in the royal city to advise Pharaoh, but the end of the letter was that the stone sank into the sea - after the blood feast, four or five hundred powerful people were confiscated, and the Egyptian royal court was renewed.

At this time, the city of Thebes was completely dumbfounded, and the priests cried loudly in front of the altar of the temple that they wanted to send disaster from heaven to these two armies, lightning, hail, floods, locusts, etc., but it seemed that the gods were asleep—two months had passed, and the Meadjean guards of Libida were still alive and kicking, holding shields and bows and arrows and practicing day by day, and sitting on the banks of the river in their spare time eating beer, vegetables, and bread. The general began to be kind to their villages, and made them take turns to serve in the form of exempting them from taxes, and many of the tenant farmers began to be happy!

The priests of the Theban temple felt that the whole person was not good, and it was these tenants who volunteered to work selflessly for the gods, who cultivated, weaved, and extracted oil, and gave countless wealth to the temple, so that they had splendid temples and statues, and also had the superior status of priests, who could sit on an equal footing with nobles and generals, surround Pharaoh, sometimes send charcoal in the snow, sometimes fall into the ground, and even take their place, and manipulate the country to some extent.

But now this hateful alien general, in the worship of the hateful alien god, has cut off the river transportation and competed for tenants, which is the foundation of his life.

"Let a few priests negotiate terms with the general, and then gather together all the tenants in the city of Thebes, and distribute weapons to them." The chief high priest Penmaat, who wore linen robes and held incense, said that he had been appointed by the pipers, but with the turmoil of the Ptolemaic royal family in recent years, he further strengthened the self-reliance of Thebes, gradually turning tens of thousands of tenants around the temple city into his own personal power.

At the bridgehead, several priestly monks, holding scepters, asked the Nubian soldiers to pass on the message to their general, and waited for a long time in the scorching sun, the one who led the way, whose skin was about to be cracked, and who kept grumbling and smearing olive oil on the bald head. As a result, Li Bida sent a centurion as a herald, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency our general is unwilling to receive you. ”

Under the anger of the leader, the rift that had been healed with oil exploded again, and he protested through the interpreter with an excited expression, saying that he was the spokesman of the god of the land, in charge of the rising and falling tide of the Nile, and that the other party was unwilling to receive him, which was simply an insult to the god.

It is conceivable that Lybidaeus sneered disdainfully in the camp tent, and the centurion replied a little stiffly, as if he had already finished a manuscript: "I'm sorry, the general was ordered in advance to build a temple of the god Serrapis here, and to build a fortress with him, to suppress the new evil spirits in the Valley of the Kings, he does not believe in the gods of this land, and he is not interested enough in the rise and fall of the Nile, and he told me to give you a reply, according to the scriptures of the ages, Pharaoh is the god of gods, the perfect god of all priests, It is disgusting that Pharaoh, the son of Ramon, the human embodiment of Horus (the eagle god), should ignore Pharaoh's commands, and instead of helping, you should hinder the progress of the work. After saying these words mixed with inexplicable terms, the centurion himself was eager to pick his tongue and go back to the bridgehead.

The leading voice shouted words similar to curses, and also returned to the temple complex in Thebes, that night in front of the temples in Thebes bells and drums sounded, many believers and tenants with white turbans wrapped around their heads gathered in front of the pillar of fire in front of them, the priests and monks had serious expressions, these people were originally mostly people with a skill, and later they were recruited into the city of gods in Thebes, to provide gardening, clerical work, painting, justice and other services for the temple, and now they have a new way to serve God, That is to lead the army of the gods to kill the army of the pharaohs. (To be continued......)