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In the world of mathematics, it's not what we know, it's how we know it.

- Pythagoras (ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist)

The collapse of the walls of Memphis was also expected by Bosinus, and the stone crossbows in the Augustan Imperial Army were not ornaments, and the stone crossbows that those stone crossbows threw every day had already made the walls of Memphis City full of holes; Therefore, the collapse of the Memphis wall was enough to shock Bosinus, but it inevitably made him feel a little more helpless.

What is Oscar doing outside the city at this time? Why did he not allow the troops of the Augustan Empire and the army under Cleopatra to attack Memphis?

In fact, as early as after Oscar ordered to stop the attack on Memphis City, in addition to arranging for the equipment brigades of all infantry regiments to bombard the walls of Memphis City every day, Oscar also issued two other orders; The first order was for Bashirek, the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Alexandria, to lead his cavalry to escort the captured Egyptian soldiers to Memphis.

In this order, Oscar also made a point of explaining that Bashirek must take with him the body of the governor of the Jewish province of the Kingdom of Egypt, Okchivian, who died in battle; Prisoners alone could not deter the defenders of Memphis, and with the corpse of Okchivian, the effect was completely different.

The second order was not given to the armies of the Augustan Empire, but to the armies of Cleopatra; The defenders of Memphis are mainly composed of 30,000 of the most elite pharaonic legions of the Kingdom of Egypt and 40,000 garrisons of Central Egypt of the Kingdom of Egypt.

The crux of the matter was that the city of Memphis was still firmly in the hands of troops loyal to Ptolemy XIII, while the rest of Central Egypt was already a no-man's land with Cleopatra's army; Even the province of Thebes, the kingdom of Egypt, close to Central Egypt, maintained its neutrality until the decisive battle was undecided.

This meant that, with some time and effort, Oscar could use Cleopatra's army to find the families of the soldiers in the Memphis garrison who were not part of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Legion; It is undeniable that the method that Oscar came up with is indeed a bad move that cannot be put on the table, but the effect is definitely good.

Cleopatra is a woman who will do anything for power, so she naturally won't have any trouble with Oscar's bad move; In fact, when Oscar told Cleopatra about this method, Cleopatra's performance could be described as a bright eye, and then Cleopatra's army of 30,000 was sent out to do it.

Oscar didn't intend for Cleopatra's 30,000-strong army to find all the families of the 40,000 defenders in the city, as long as they could find the exact families of the defenders of about 5,000 or so; The family members of the other defenders can just grab 20,000 people and put them in the back to make up the number, can the defenders in Memphis still find their families one by one?

After the catapults of the Augustan Imperial Army had destroyed the walls of Memphis for several sections, Oscar ordered all the catapult troops to temporarily stop the bombardment; Because Bashirek has already arrived at Oscar's barracks with his 3rd Cavalry Regiment and countless prisoners!

When Bashirek arrived, Oscar told the soldiers who had been in charge of calling for surrender to inform the defenders of the city that Okchivian and Burdinos had sent 70,000 reinforcements south; After Bosinus, who was inspecting the army, heard the shouts of the enemy troops outside the city, he suddenly had a little ominous premonition in his heart.

Before the ominous premonition in Bosinus's heart had passed, the shouts of the enemy troops outside the city showed that the 70,000-strong army had been completely annihilated by Cleopatra's army; Although Bosinus had always been anxious about the delay in the arrival of reinforcements from Okechivianberdinos, it was impossible to believe the shouts of the enemy outside the city.

After all, it was the most elite 70,000 frontier troops in the Kingdom of Egypt, and among them there were 30,000 extremely powerful chariot troops in the field; More importantly, the forces of the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra besieging Memphis had never been reduced, and where did they send so many troops to annihilate the 70,000 elite armies of Octvian and Perinos.

Not only did Bosinius not believe the shouts of the Cleopatra army outside the city, but even the ordinary defenders of Memphis did not pay attention to the baseless statements of the enemy outside the city; Oscar had long expected that the defenders of Memphis would not be able to believe this news easily, so he sent a hundred captives to the city of Memphis with the corpse of Okchivian on the spot.

A hundred 'enemy troops' could not have made a big move for Bosinius, but he wanted to see what tricks the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra were trying to play, and the hundred released captives approached the gates of Memphis with Octvian's corpse under the guard of the defenders of Memphis.

The moment Posinius saw Octvian's corpse, he knew that the enemy forces outside the city were not lying, and that the 70,000 southbound army led by Octvian himself had probably been annihilated by the combined forces of Augustus' Empire and Cleopatra; In order to prevent the defenders of the city from knowing about this, Posinus gave the order to shoot when the hundred men were still fifty meters from the city wall.

The volley of tens of thousands of archers did not give these hundred captives any chance of life at all; Everyone, including the corpse of Okchivian, was shot into a hedgehog by the rain of arrows from the defenders of Memphis, and Posinius's explanation for this was to prevent the hundred spies from entering the city of Memphis, but were these 100 spies really spies?

Posinius's actions cast an inexplicable haze over the hearts of all the defenders, but some of the defending generals who knew Occivian showed a pale face after seeing Occivian's corpse with Posinius; However, under the vicious gaze of Bosinus, they could only choose to swallow what they wanted to say.

Okchivian's corpse was not Oscar's ultimate ploy, it was just the beginning of Oscar's use to sow the seeds of distrust between the defenders and their generals; Even if Bosinius could have ordered the 100 captives to be shot, he would not have stopped Oscar from having the captured Occivian soldiers use megaphones to describe in detail the destruction of their army.

Two days later, Cleopatra's army of 30,000 men sent out to find the defenders' families finally returned to the army; Oscar gave them the task of finding the real family members of at least 5,000 defenders, and then capturing 20,000 at random to make up the number.

It turned out that these Egyptian troops were good when they were on such non-combat missions; At the very least, they overfulfilled the task assigned to them by Oscar, and they found the families of 15,000 defenders in Central Egypt, and captured 10,000 at best.

When they returned to the barracks, Oscar did not waste any more time, but randomly pulled out three hundred people from the fifteen thousand old and weak women and children, and asked them to call out the names of their sons, husbands, and fathers one by one using loudspeakers; After all the 300 men had finished shouting, Cleopatra's army of 50,000 marched towards the city of Memphis with 25,000 old and weak women and children.

More than 200 of the defenders of Memphis heard the cries of their families, and many more saw their families among the old and weak women and children who were being forced forward by the enemy; When these people were all within two hundred meters of the wall, the pharaoh's chosen archers were ready to shoot, but the soldiers of the illegal old Praetorian Guard were desperately trying to stop their shooting.

The two sides had even evolved to the point of drawing swords against each other, but Posinius gave the order to open the gates and give up resistance; Ignoring the incredible soldiers of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard, the defenders, who were full of their own families, immediately ran over and opened the gates.

In fact, when Posinus heard the shouts of the three hundred men one by one, he knew that the battle could not go on; If he forcibly ordered the soldiers of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard to attack, it would only lead to direct infighting between the soldiers of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard and the 40,000 soldiers in Central Egypt, and in the end, he would not be able to avoid the fate of Memphis City taken by the enemy forces outside the city.

After all, Cleopatra was also one of the pharaonic heirs of the Kingdom of Egypt, and no matter how the Kingdom of Egypt did not become an outsider, the Kingdom of Egypt; Rather than exhausting the national strength of the Kingdom of Egypt in the midst of a civil war, it is better to make a compromise without any possibility of a reversal, which can be regarded as preserving the strength of the Kingdom of Egypt itself.

In the face of the defenders who decisively opened the city gates and surrendered, the 50,000 troops under the command of Cleopatra did not care about the tens of thousands of old and weak women and children in their hands, but rushed directly into the city and collected all the weapons of the defenders; By the time Cleopatra and Oscar entered the city, the Augustan army had taken control of the captives and the walls, and the rest of the Egyptian army had taken over the palace.

Ptolemy XIII did not expect such a dramatic fall of Memphis, and when Cleopatra's army stormed the palace, he was still deliberating with his new queen, Cleopatra's eldest sister, how to get out of the predicament; Perhaps it was because Cleopatra had already given the order, or maybe they really tried to resist, but both men were killed by mistake in the chaos.

When Cleopatra and Oscar arrived at the palace, everything in the palace remained the same, except for Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra's sister, who had become two corpses; This is the best ending for Cleopatra, at least she doesn't have to worry about how to place these two people. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.