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- Homer (Homer, the blind poet of ancient Greece)

The kingdom of Petra and the kingdom of Perszo were just two small and weak kingdoms, and their armies were not even as numerous as the kingdom of Pamela, how could they be able to hold back the 40,000 elite armies of the Kingdom of Egypt; The garrison of the Kingdom of Egypt in Judea was used to defend the Seleucid Empire, and it was one of the elite troops that the entire Kingdom of Egypt could have.

The invading army of 30,000 elite infantry and 10,000 chariot troops completed the occupation of the Nabataean region without even encountering a decent resistance when it entered the territory of the Persian kingdom; After completely conquering the Nabataean region, the army marched south and invaded the territory of the Petra kingdom, conquering the Sinai region in a matter of days.

While Seleucus VII's army was still fighting with the 90,000-strong alliance of kingdoms in the East, the Kingdom of Egypt had quietly wiped out the kingdoms of Perszo and Petra, and the Nabataean region and Mount Sinai ruled by these two kingdoms became the seventh and eighth provinces of the Kingdom of Egypt one after another.

Originally, Pharaoh Ptolemy XII of the Kingdom of Egypt thought that after the occupation of the Nabataean region and the Sinai region, these two regions would still need the troops of the Kingdom of Egypt to maintain stability; But this was not the case, and after the armies of the two kingdoms were wiped out and the royal family was escorted to Memphis, the people of the Nabataean and Sinai regions had no resistance to the rule of the Kingdom of Egypt.

Come to think of it, wars on the eastern continent are unusually frequent, and it is normal for the sovereignty of a region to be exchanged for each other; More importantly, it is better to be a citizen of the rich and powerful Kingdom of Egypt than the people of the Kingdom of Persud and Petra, who are bullied, at least without worrying about foreign enemies invading their homeland.

Ptolemy XII was delighted by the rapid stabilization of the provinces of Nabataean and Mount Sinai, believing that it was his authority that had deterred the ruled peoples from such stability; At this time, Seleucus VII also completely defeated the army of the Kingdom Alliance, and led the elite army of his empire back to Antioch.

The reason why the elite army of the Kingdom of Egypt stationed in Judea could be sent to conquer the kingdoms of Petra and Persia was because the most elite ironclad cavalry troops of the Seleucid Empire left Antioch; Now that the elite army of the Seleucid Empire is coming back, the 40,000 troops of the Kingdom of Egypt will naturally return to Judea to continue garrisoning.

In addition to stationing 30,000 elite infantry and 10,000 chariot troops in the Jewish region adjacent to the Seleucid Empire's province of Corosy, the Kingdom of Egypt also stationed 50,000 elite infantry and 20,000 chariot troops in the Phoenici region, which was connected to the Seleucid province of Syria.

Even the Egyptian island of Cyprus, near Syria, had 20,000 elite infantry and 5,000 chariot troops ready to threaten the Seleucid Empire itself from the sea; These armies were the entire army that the Kingdom of Egypt used to defend the Seleucid Empire, 100,000 elite infantry and 35,000 chariot troops, which no more than two countries in the entire Eastern Continent could match.

But for the Kingdom of Egypt, this is not the entire army of the Kingdom of Egypt, nor is it the most elite army of the Kingdom of Egypt; In Memphis, the capital of the Kingdom of Egypt, there is also the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard, which is loyal to the Pharaoh, which has the most elite 30,000 cavalry in the entire Egyptian Kingdom, and the Central Egyptian province where Memphis is located also has 30,000 infantry and 10,000 chariot troops.

The Nile Delta region in the north of the Central Egyptian province is the naval base and capital province barrier of the Kingdom of Egypt, and in order to ensure that the capital province of the Kingdom of Egypt is not threatened by the sea, the Kingdom of Egypt also stationed 20,000 elite infantry in the Nile Delta region.

If the entire army of the Kingdom of Egypt were to be counted, the total strength of the army of the Kingdom of Egypt would be 225,000 men; Needless to say, the number of troops of the Kingdom of Egypt should be incomparable to any country in the world at present.

Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the Egyptian king's ** team, at least in terms of numbers, they have an advantage that no other country can match; This is why the wealthy kingdom of Egypt was able to recruit so many troops and feed them, and any other country would collapse economically and be financially depleted.

The most enviable advantage of the Kingdom of Egypt is its huge population base, in the core of the Kingdom of Egypt, the Nile Delta, Central Egypt, and Thebes, which not only has countless fertile land, but also has a total population of more than 20 million, which is the strong foundation of the Kingdom of Egypt.

In addition to these three most prosperous core areas, the Jewish and Phoenician regions of the Kingdom of Egypt were also prosperous and rich places, with a total population of more than 30 million. With a population of 30 million, how many troops could the Kingdom of Egypt fail to recruit? Even if one person is recruited out of a hundred, the Kingdom of Egypt can easily have an army of 300,000!

More importantly, the Kingdom of Egypt was different from the natural resources of Rome, which had a large population but did not have enough food to feed them. Once Rome lost its food imports, it could not even feed half of its population on its own food production.

The Kingdom of Egypt has the highest grain and grass production in the world, and the Nile Delta region alone produces enough food for a year to feed the entire 10 million people of the Kingdom of Egypt; Combined with other regions with the same fertile land, the annual grain production of the Kingdom of Egypt is enough to feed 50 million people, and this is where the confidence of the Kingdom of Egypt lies!

While feeding its kingdom of more than 30 million people, the Kingdom of Egypt was also the main object of food purchase by the Carthaginian Kingdom in North Africa, the Roman Augustan Empire, the Roman Empire, and many other powers; Every year, the Kingdom of Egypt was able to make millions of gold profits from the large-scale sale of grain, which also became the financial support for the Egyptian Kingdom to build up a huge fleet of chariots.

It is a pity that even such a powerful kingdom of Egypt also has its own internal chaos, and if it were not for these chaos, which has seriously dragged down the strength of the kingdom of Egypt, the kingdom of Egypt would really be the successor with the best chance of restoring the territory of Alexander's empire; The chaos in the Kingdom of Egypt did not come from anywhere else, but from the unruly royal family of the Kingdom of Egypt.

The current pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy XII, was a cruel and perverted pharaoh, and his resolute reforms in the kingdom's government could not change his private life; Ptolemy XII had two daughters and a son, and then he married his own daughter as his own queen and forced his other daughter to marry his son.

In fact, the royal confusion of the Kingdom of Egypt in this respect has existed since ancient times, and Ptolemy XII was not the first to do so, but only a perfect successor to his ancestors' misfortune in this regard; The crux of the matter was that Ptolemy XII's second daughter was not willing to marry her own brother, nor was she willing to serve as the heir to the pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt with her brother.

This is not to say that the second daughter of Ptolemy XII had no ambitions for the position of Pharaoh, she was just unwilling to share the position of Pharaoh with her stupid brother, and she wanted to become the supreme Pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt alone; But how could Ptolemy XII give his ambitious daughter a chance?

Just as Ptolemy XII was about to force his second daughter Cleopatra to marry his youngest son, an unexpected event happened, when Ptolemy XII died while the chariot was hunting with his queen; Unfortunately, Ptolemy XII's queen was also in the chariot at the time, and both of them died in the accident.

Faced with the sudden death of Ptolemy XII and his queen, the supreme power of the Kingdom of Egypt was thus vacated; According to the past practice of the Kingdom of Egypt, the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt was not only Pharaoh, but also the wife of the Pharaoh, which means that the queen of the Kingdom of Egypt was also one of the de facto rulers of the Kingdom of Egypt.

If Cleopatra had willingly become the wife of her brother Ptolemy XIII, she would have become the new queen of the Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra VII; In this way, the kingdom of Egypt would be under the rule of Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra VII, and the entire kingdom of Egypt would remain fairly stable.

In order to obtain the supreme position of pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt, Cleopatra secretly colluded with the naval commander of the Kingdom of Egypt, Oles, and the commander of the 30,000 infantry stationed in Central Egypt, preparing to end the life of Ptolemy XIII by force and seize the position of pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt.

Ptolemy XIII was far more powerful than Cleopatra imagined, General Bosius of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard of the Kingdom of Egypt was a staunch follower of Ptolemy XIII, Governor of Judea and Commander of the Jewish Regional Garrison Ochchivian was also a follower of Ptolemy XIII, and Phoenician Governor and Commander of the Phoenician garrison was still a follower of Ptolemy XIII.

While the army loyal to Cleopatra was preparing for a coup d'état, General Posinius, under the orders of Ptolemy XIII, launched an early attack on Cleopatra; The generals loyal to Cleopatra were executed on the spot, and the garrisons in Central Egypt surrendered to Ptolemy XIII, and Cleopatra had to flee in a hurry with the Egyptian navy loyal to her. (To be continued.) )