After examining the terrain in detail, Caesar finally decided to camp on the headland of Nokias, but he left behind and ordered Hitius to take command of all the ships and stay on the island of Pharos, and to send two brigades from the Tenth Army to defend the island.

"By the way, there is another reluctant request, I hope that Your Excellency the Dictator will understand, that is, the soldiers recruited by His Majesty Pharaoh, many of whom have now become rogue thugs, and the whole city is suffering greatly, and when the dictator moves through the streets of the city in the coming day, please show the majesty of Rome as much as possible, which will also be very beneficial to restore order." Before the envoy retreated, he made such a request very cunningly and inadvertently.

Caesar agreed, and then issued a warrant for the entire legion to be ready.

In the middle of the night, an uninvited guest came to the camp, this is a Jew in a brown cloak, his head and clothes are wet, it seems that he quietly swam to the island, after he saw Caesar, he claimed that he was entrusted by the Chamber of Commerce in the Jewish Quarter of the city, and asked Caesar not to fall for the trick and move the camp to Nokias, because the new pharaoh wanted Caesar to disperse his forces, and then gather a large number of men and horses to plot against Caesar.

"The Jewish Quarter, located in the southwestern corner of the city, is now under siege by the Egyptian army day and night, and I personally think that His Excellency the Dictator should do his utmost to arbitrate the matter and warn the Egyptians to withdraw their troops in passing. This has two advantages: one is to test the truth of Ptolemy's attitude; The second is to unite the island of Pharos with the Jewish Quarter, which would be equivalent to occupying a small half of the city, in the event of a conflict in the future. There can also be more room for manoeuvre. ”

"Please tell your Chamber of Commerce. Thank them for their generosity. I will certainly submit the matter of rebellion to Pharaoh as an important item on the agenda—but Julius. Caesar did not come to fight against the kingdom of Egypt, but I had to go to the Cape of Nokias in order to better demonstrate my sincerity in seeking peace. The Jew was rejected by Caesar, who in the end believed the envoy's words, believing that Ptolemy XIII had no army at his disposal.

The next morning, at the sound of the trumpet. Caesar's flag bearer raised the golden eagle flag high from the main entrance of the camp, greeted the bright sun, and guided the trumpeters, team markers, and Caesar's elite soldiers in a long sequence along the Qili Causeway towards Alexandria.

Caesar himself wore a crown of golden laurel leaves, a scarlet cloak, and rode on a white horse, with twenty-four servants behind him, "Your Excellency the dictator." I don't think that's good, we're in a foreign country after all. It was not in the Roman provinces, so it would be better to wrap a green olive branch around the bundle stick. Someone said so.

"Thank you for the caution, but when we enter this city, we must not only pin our hopes on an olive branch, but also show this capricious people that Rome has been able to expand its territory to every corner of the sea because of fascism." Caesar, who was at a moment, replied loudly, and then ordered Hu Cong to attach the fascist axe to the bundle and have the trumpeters collectively play a majestic marching song, and the chief brigade of the Tenth Legion was the first to cross the Seven Miles Embankment, and surrounded Caesar's guard of honor, and entered the city of Alexandria.

Alexandria, a city far more well-planned than the city of Rome, sandwiched between the sea and Lake Maleotis, had fertile land for farming, and supported a large community of artists and architects, the glory, majesty, majesty and opulence were the symbols of the city, and the soldiers of the Ten Legions, wearing Gallic helmets, walked through the streets, while looking at the rows of Ptolemaic royal gardens, Alexander's mausoleum, the great library, the great theater, and the palace of the pharaohs standing on the island of Ipos, and towering statues of Egyptian gods on both sides of the street.

At this moment, countless citizens also began to pour out of their houses, slowly forming a tidal crowd, sandwiching three thousand soldiers of the Tenth Legion on both sides of the avenue, Caesar on horseback smiled and waved to everyone, but no one seemed to applaud, more people saw this foreign army with a kind of surprised and numb face.

"It is said that they always thought that they lived in the kingdom of God, and that this group of people was as easy to enslave as they were." Seeing that his kindness was ignored, Caesar whispered disapprovingly.

"Your Excellency, I don't think so, the attitude of these citizens does not seem to be very friendly, they look like soldiers preparing to go to war, and after moving to camp, we must prevent a riot against the Tenth Legion." Milu, the representative of the veteran who stayed in the camp next to him, pressed the hilt of his sword on his horse and said very attentively.

Soon there was a fierce verbal conversation among the people, and Ptolemy XIII sent a great deal of spies and ruffians mixed in with the crowd, and they used the native language, which made Caesar and his soldiers unaware of the reason, and many secretly instigated, "Look at the so-called dictator, who is in the land owned by our gods, with the banner of a foreign eagle and a rod, which is a desecration of the dignity of Egypt and Pharaoh." Over the years, the hated Romans have been invading our sanctuary, Lybidaeus has come, Gabinus has come, and now Caesar has come, and if we let it go, sooner or later Egypt will be reduced to a province of the other side, and our temples will be destroyed by the Romans. ”

The first to be incited were the aristocratic elite and the low-level gangsters in the city, the former had a sense of patriotic honor in the middle, and the latter was eager to take advantage of the daily turmoil to take advantage of the fire, so they began to pass words to each other, agreed on codes, and prepared to do so—at this time, in the various streets and assembly halls of Alexandria, the people began to get excited, and many people took out their weapons from their houses and began to slowly gather into a force, but at the moment the Tenth Legion was still in the dark, and continued to march towards the Nokias headland.

But Caesar stopped at the fork in the road leading to the headland, and then pointed to the amphitheater on the left side of the street and asked, "This theater looks like a rampart." ”

Milu looked at it, and then several soldiers who knew the inside story said that it was indeed just a theater, but after General Lybidaeus came back with the piper, it was also turned into a garrison for soldiers, so it was transformed into a fortress. Caesar laughed, and then instructed Sektilius, "Go inside with the chief brigade, for this is close to the palace of Ipos, remember—fortify the fortifications, erect the ballista, and I will take the rest to Nokias." ”

In the palace of Ipos, several eunuchs had just finished keeping their water time, and when the moon rose, they went to the front courtyard of the palace to add burning ointment to the lamps, and then they faintly saw that on the large theater opposite, there were Roman hats and helmets that were shaking and shining in the moonlight. (To be continued......)