About a few days later, Lypita and Cleopatra, together with the fleet and two legions, sailed west from the island of Sepi to the city of Alexandria to aid Caesar.

At the same time, in the city, Diotusus and Mortanenes came to the prison of the royal palace, where Scipio, lying a little exhausted, saw the two men shaking the key, and thought that they had come to free him, but soon they went over to the cell next to it, where Septimius, who had killed the two consuls, was imprisoned, and the old soldier was sitting cross-legged on the filthy ground, catching all kinds of reptiles to eat.

"Septimius, on behalf of His Majesty Pharaoh, I have come to honor your reward."

"Now I want fifteen thousand drachmas to offset the torture I have endured in this damned prison." The other party said in a hoarse voice.

"This is perfectly fine, except that we can add another 30,000 silver coins, on the condition that you serve as an advisor to besiege Caesar in the Grand Theater." The eunuch said.

Septimius laughed heartily, and asked the eunuch, "I only need the original bounty now, and take my wife and children to Cyrenaica for refuge and live a happy life." Now you want to stuff me with this money again, and tell me to do something that will never be recovered—this war, you Egyptians, cannot win. ”

"As long as there is the divine power of His Majesty Pharaoh, victory will still be ours, Caesar now has only a few soldiers, and our army can completely take advantage of the arrival of his reinforcements to cut off his head." Matanmenes said in desperation.

So Septimius blinked, indicating that the reward was not too thin and could be considered.

"Keep an eye on this old thing!" The eunuch before leaving. Reminded Theotusus.

It was afternoon. Septimius was guarded by many soldiers of the Gorta Legion. After running around Caesar's fortified camp, he immediately proposed: Caesar can build fortifications to hold on, and you can also erect higher fortifications to attack them.

Then Septimius circled the city again, and then pointed out that the entrance of the alley should be sealed with a horizontal wall, that the dwelling should be demolished, and that the streets should be buried. Which must be dredged up, and then he said, take out a thousand soldiers from the Gorta Legion, and organize them into a separate brigade, and they will be stationed in the central square within the area I have designated, and serve as a reserve. The rest of the rabble of the populace was dismissed by me, and they had no useful effect except to block the route of their attack.

Under the guidance of this old advisor, the streets leading to Caesar's camp were instantly cleared. Throwing spears, spears, and stone bullets sharpened by the teeth of slaves in the Temple of Isis the Great Isis. They were loaded on mule carts, which were then connected by ropes and chains, rumbling through the straight streets and delivering ammunition directly to the front line, and the Egyptian army also built a large number of siege towers and trebuchets, and began to shoot non-stop at Caesar's camp stronghold.

It seems that the Egyptians also learned quite quickly during the war!

With fierce shooting and encroachment, the Egyptians actually defeated several small strongholds of Caesar two days later, because after all, Caesar's men were too few and somewhat overstretched, and the defense began to become difficult.

At this time, Ptolemy XIII himself exerted his strength, he smashed and melted all the valuable things in the palace, distributed them to soldiers, civilians, and armed slaves, and promised that after killing Caesar, he would give them even more, and the fighting spirit of the whole city was rekindled. Later, some engineers also proposed a strategy of cutting off the water, and they suggested that the water supply of Alexandra was mainly provided by the canals in the south, and that the inhabitants dug many canals from the canals and extended to all corners of the city, and that the rich had pipes to supply the water, and the water was filtered to become very clear, but the poor families had to drink the sewage mixed with mud - now if we dug the canals, we could kill Caesar with thirst in it.

The group thought of doing so, and they first dug up all the aqueducts, both open and covert, along the triangle guarded by Caesar's legions, and drained the water completely, and then the men with a great sense of humor finally left a canal, but led it into the ocean with a water-sucking device, causing the water to flow backwards and pour into it.

"The water is salty!" With this cry of fear, the panic of the water cut instantly spread to all parts of Caesar's camp.

Subsequently, the water they could get their hands on became saltier and more salty and uningestible.

The soldiers and centurions panicked, and then complained, that the dictator, out of vanity, had led them to this place of death, and that if the situation worsened any further, the whole army would be buried in this ghostly place, and that it was now time to abandon the camp by boat and go to Pharos to join the fleet of Hitius.

Caesar was very calm, and the gambler became more and more calm when he was faced with the worse the situation, and he first asked the soldiers to row small boats to the small islands in the ocean to get water, and then he encouraged all the centurions to dig wells and drink from them, and said that "the land near the sea, because there are many rivers that flow into the sea, there will be a lot of fresh water in the ground, and these Egyptians were too superstitious about the water of the rivers and turned a blind eye to the clear water under their feet, which is their stupidity, and naturally it can also make our army wise." ”

Fortunately, since the return of the Piper, Egypt has not been able to come up with money to build a navy, so Ptolemy XIII's royal dockyard only has some light reed clippers, unable to blockade Caesar on the sea, and can only hope for the natural direction of the wind, so Caesar's subordinates first went through the hardship of bringing some fresh water by ship from a distant island. Caesar distributed it all to the toiling soldiers, who then worked hard and dug wells frantically, but after working in the middle of the night, they found no water source from the ground in the camp.

Caesar was also a little panicked at this time, and soon the soldiers of the Tenth Legion invented a simple method, that is, to use leather bags to store the salty drinking water, and then put it in the scorching sun in the camp of Alexandria Zhuocheng, you must know that the most abundant in the city is the unobstructed sun, and slowly the sea salt seeped out along the leather, and the soldiers drank the remaining water, and finally they could swallow it, but there was only one canal, which could not meet the drinking water needs of more than 3,000 people, and the situation was still very embarrassing.

In addition, many of the natives included in the camp were also instigated by Pharaoh and many nobles, who were ostensibly polite to Caesar's soldiers, but secretly tried all means to reveal the information of the Ten Legions. Soon after, the Gorta legion became more aggressive and poured more seawater into the canal with a screw pump, so that the Romans could no longer produce fresh water. (To be continued......)