Chapter 90: Conspiracy - 5000
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Kirk finally realized: "It turns out that this is the content of the prompt of the god Amun!" This is the Romans' cunning scheme! They are ready to blow up all the Nile water conservancy facilities, release the dammed lake that has been stored over the years in one go, flood the city wall, and then use the power of the giant ship to destroy the water gate in one go! ”
Cleopatra was also stunned by the terrible sight: "If that were the case, there really would be no need to wait for the Nile to overflow. But that would destroy the whole city and turn it into a flooded country, and the Romans didn't want the city? ”
Kirk gritted his teeth and said, "You've seen what Anthony did, right?" To be able to drive the people as meat shields, how can they still have humanity? The city was the gateway for the Romans to advance into the heart of Egypt, and if it could not be captured, the Romans would not be able to control Egypt. They want to destroy everything! ”
Cleopatra burst into tears, and the prospect of the Romans destroying the city was terrible.
Kirk closed his eyes and said: "This idea is too complicated, Antony probably can't think of such a clever tactic, it should be Octavian." This kid is ruthless enough. But now that I've figured it out. How can we respond? ”
Cleopatra smiled bitterly: "It's unimaginable, if it were a normal day, we could still mobilize hundreds of thousands of people to build water outlets and distribute the water to other places, but at present, I am afraid that the time has ??? Oh my God, look at the East Coast! ”
Kirk looked to the east bank and saw that Octavian's regiment had begun to quietly dismantle the barracks tents and retreat to the higher ground in the rear. What they did was very hidden, if it weren't for the Kirk and the two's heart. Surely it is impossible to detect the abnormality. Besides, if there is no intelligence, even if the withdrawal of troops is discovered, most of them will not be suspicious, so what's wrong with the enemy's retreat?
"Oops!" Kirk exclaimed, "Since Octavian, this kid is going to withdraw, he must be ready. ”
He rolled his eyes and called Chubby in the team channel: "Look at what's wrong with Simon?" Did Anthony retreat? ”
Chubby replied: "No, Anthony has not moved, and is still preparing weapons for the siege in the afternoon." ”
Kirk smiled, "Looks like there's still a little time." Although Octavian was ruthless, he was not bold enough to dare to bury Antony with 200,000 Romans. This Antonian camp was not far from the river, and Alexandria was washed away. He's done. Octavian would most likely have informed Antony at the last moment. Embarrassed him. ”
Cleopatra said anxiously: "But now that Octavian has retreated, there will be at most half a day before the flood plan will be activated." Night is the best time to take advantage of the flood to storm the city gates, creating enough chaos and panic to open the city gates. ”
Kirk thought for a moment: "Since the Nile floods regularly. Sometimes the scale of the flood is definitely larger than in previous years. The city of Alexandria was built in the delta where the great river flows. Are there any measures in place to discharge the floodwater? ”
"The reason why the 13 water gates were built was to make it easier for the city to remove floods, and the city does have many waterways. Access to the Mediterranean Sea. But if the dam is blown up, the flood is enough to destroy most of the city, and the giant ship charges down, and it can even break the water gate and rush into the city. ”
Kirk carefully observed the water level of the Nile at the south gate, and found that before the water reached this delta, it was already rushing and jumping, and it was extremely fierce, but after the bifurcation, the two water flows separated, and the water became gentle.
Kirk said decisively: "For today's plan, only a dead horse should be a live horse doctor, act immediately!" Mobilize all the trebuchets and throw a ton of boulders at the south gate for me to build a breakwater until it gets dark! Let the floodwaters of the Nile be diverted from both sides! ”
Cleopatra said: "Fortunately, today we have collected thousands of tons of boulders from under the city walls, and these boulders can be thrown at the south gate to form a dike, but can this level of dikes hold back the flood of the Nile?" You haven't seen anything like the Nile flooding???."
Kirk said: "You can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, hurry up!" ”
Cleopatra was immediately deployed, the city of Alexandria was immediately mobilized, the trebuchets at the south gate were ready-made, and the boulders were collected from Antony thrown under the walls. Hundreds of trebuchets are running at the same time, which is more efficient than modern construction machinery. Over the course of a few hours, thousands of tons of boulders had been thrown into a stone breakwater.
After the stone stopped, the Egyptian army and civilians mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, pulling small carts, shouldering their hands, and began large-scale construction plans. Octavian had already retreated and could not send troops to stop him. Antony, on the other hand, did not know the inside story, thinking that the Egyptians were idle and painful, but they only stepped up their attack on Simon, and had no intention of attacking.
Kirk was also unceremonious, ordering Cleopatra to tear down all useless houses and use them to strengthen the breakwater. Egyptian residents are united in their efforts to tear down their homes and transport them to the construction site.
Cleopatra personally commanded in the rain. When it comes to building such a huge siege, Egyptian engineers are experts. Under the condition of sufficient manpower and material resources, it only took six hours, just before dark, to build a breakwater more than 600 meters long and 156 meters high, the lower part is built with huge stones, and the top is reinforced with logs and mud.
Just when Kirk was sweating like rain with the migrant workers, he suddenly felt a tremor on the ground!
"The enemy has attacked! Cheer me on! Kirk yelled as he pressed a thick log diagonally against the breakwater.
Many migrant workers knew that this was the last moment, and stepped up to put all the materials in their hands to the river. Then, under the command of Cleopatra, slowly retreated into the city.
At the same time, in front of the water gates of the city everywhere, dense oblique sharpened logs have been installed, obliquely up to 45 degrees, to make a horse rejection shape, once the Romans' giant ships go down the river, they will be pierced by these horses to overturn, as a protection.
"We have done everything we can, and the rest can only depend on the arrangement of fate" Kirk hugged Cleopatra and said, "You must promise me that if you cannot go against me, you must go with me." You are not allowed to die here. The restoration of Egypt depends on you. ”
Cleopatra's beautiful eyes stared at Kirk and nodded vigorously, "I know." We have done everything we can for the people of Egypt. You give a lot and you take a lot of risks. For you, I can't give up, I'm willing to follow you to the ends of the earth. ”
Kirk was relieved. Whether the operation succeeded or not, Cleopatra finally figured it out. As long as this beautiful man follows him, the success or failure of Egypt is not so important.
He and Cleopatra were about to kiss, but they felt the ground shake again!
Apparently, it was the Romans who blew up the second dike again. The calculations of the Romans were incomparably precise. As soon as the first flood reached the second dam, it blew up again. Superimpose two wave peaks. The amount of water and the impact are even more terrifying!
It seemed that it was the two unconscionable ones of Warrenos and Prolo, Kirk gritted his teeth, these two were already Octavian's right-hand men. I really don't know whether to thank them for helping me complete the main quest, or scold them for being ungrateful.
But the tremors on the ground are already very noticeable. Kirk quickly lifted Cleopatra to a high place. Return to Pharaoh's Golden Temple.
The two of them were at the railing of the Golden Temple. Look far away. It turns out that the situation is worse than they imagined!
Far to the south, the Nile, which has shrunk a little because of the dry season, has become choppy. A white wave. It is more than ten meters high, like ten thousand horses galloping, fiercely rushing towards Alexandria!
Behind is boundless followed by countless huge waves, wave after wave, lapping over!
This was Octavian's ultimate plan!
Wash away the water gates and walls of Alexandria with huge waves, and then rush into the city with battleships!
As long as the walls of this legendary giant city are breached by floods, it is only a matter of time before the city falls.
Kirk saw that Anthony's army was already retreating to higher ground in a hurry, and he didn't even care about the trebuchets and tents. Apparently only at the last moment Octavian had been notified, and he hastily retreated to higher ground.
Kirk turned his gaze back to the flood and cursed.
It turned out that Octavian's guy had already counted everything! Not only did he blow up three dams and stack the waves, but he also painstakingly threw down a lot of logs!
These logs, which are hugged by one person and weigh several tons, have become the most terrifying siege cones under the impact speed of tens of meters per second of the flood, and the logs that go down the river at high speed will form a destructive force once they hit the city gate and the water gate!
Watching the gentle Nile River instantly turn into a roaring Grim Reaper, from the sky, tens of millions of tons of floods rolled up, instantly devouring all the things that drowned all obstacles, and rushed forward like a lion. Cleopatra's face turned pale, and she quickly knelt down and prayed: "O god Amun, please help us, I have never seen the Nile become the tyrannical appearance it is today, please save us???"
Kirk had been confident in the six-hour breakwater and the epic walls of Alexandria, but now that it had happened, he was not so sure.
He suddenly thought of a way, let's use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Kirk took Cleopatra with a flash, and then a [jump], and flew to appear at the wall of the south gate!
The [Tide of the Sea God] on his waist suddenly launched the [Vortex] stunt!
This skill, which Pompey relied on, appeared on the front line of the roaring Nile again!
At this time, the first wave of the Nile River was already more than 20 meters high, forming an incomparably tall white demon! In the face of such a devastating force, all resistance pales in comparison! Countless huge logs, galloping and undulating in the huge waves, occasionally revealing grandeur! Like the sharp teeth of a white devil!
Cleopatra was already curled up in Kirk's arms like a kitten, and it was only in the crook of her lover's solid arm that she could feel incomparably safe and reassured.
But Kirk stood at the head of this huge wave, and with a calm expression, he hugged Cleopatra tightly and activated his skills!
The vision of Neptune, the god of the sea, appeared in the void, driving a chariot of four sea-drawn horses, with 54 plump and beautiful naked saintesses behind him, and he roared angrily at the roaring waves of demons!
This is the roar of the sea god!
The great power of the sea god has formed a huge whirlpool in the Nile River that is 2,500 meters wide!
The whirlpool drains all the water from the river and excretes it in all directions!
The huge White Wave Demon, although it is 20 meters high, vows to destroy everything, but under the power of the sea god, it is still impossible to escape the fate of being scattered and splashed! Neptune angrily waved the Seagod Trident Scepter in his hand and cut the 20-meter wave alive!
Kirk stood at the top of the breakwater. Like the god of the sea, he divides the huge waves into two, splitting the waves, like a god!
A huge whirlpool scattered the white waves in the air when the shock wave arrived!
The abundant water was thrown into the air by the whirlpool like a helicopter propeller, like a grand rainstorm!
Octavian and Antony, who were hiding on the heights, watched in amazement as Kirk roared in the Nile, which was as wide as the sea. Chop the waves through the waves. Divided!
The first wave was cleaved by Kirk, and the wave surged helplessly to both sides, avoiding the breakwater and the city of Alexandria behind it!
Cleopatra looked at her lover wistfully. This hand is so beautiful.
But the waves behind were even more turbulent. Wave after wave. The second wave is 23 meters high!
Kirk's face did not change, and he still stood at the head of the tide and continued to command the sea god to split the wind and waves with a whirlpool!
Countless huge logs were thrown into the air by Kirk's divine power. In its own gigantic speed and impact system, it spun and flew towards the Roman barracks on both sides!
Countless Roman soldiers were waiting to see the spectacular scene of Alexandria being destroyed by the flood, talking and laughing loudly, how to slaughter the city, plunder the beauties, and loot the people's wealth after attacking the city, but they were stunned to see that instead of destroying the city, the flood was possessed by the magical Kirk, a sea god, and split the river in two, and the huge logs fell into the barracks one after another, and smashed heavily on the head!
"I rub it, whose bad idea is this? Why put logs in the river! ”
There were heavy casualties, the dead and wounded were indiscriminate, the logs rolled down, and they were either dead or wounded.
Octavian, wet by the river, like a chicken in soup, his face was pale, and he was originally going to watch Kirk's good play, but he was once again played by Kirk's master.
"No matter how many gods you mobilize to help you, there is always a time limit for this skill, depending on what you do later!" Octavian gritted his teeth, he still had absolute confidence in his plan.
Three were blown up, and this amount of water was powerful enough to withstand a total Nile flood, and it would definitely destroy Alexandria!
Kirk once again defused the power of the Great Wave, but as Octavian had guessed, this powerful skill could only last for 120 seconds, even with this statistic. It is also the advanced version that Kirk can only get under the 9 pieces of the [Gift of the Lord God] set!
Kirk has defused more than a dozen waves, which have greatly reduced the destructive power of the waves. Normally, the waves in front are a mixture of the impact and water of the three dikes, and once the flood peak has passed, the water behind is much calmer.
The sea god struck a last blow, splitting and dissolving a 22-meter wave, but in the end, the sea god roared angrily and disappeared into the river.
Kirk reluctantly stopped the summoning and hugged Cleopatra in his arms.
A flash, teleported into the distance, and finally appeared in the Golden Temple of the Pharaoh.
He has already done everything he can do, and the rest can only be left to fate.
The flooding of the Nile has not stopped, although the flood peak has decreased compared to the reduction of Kirk, but it is still a full ten meters close to 20 meters!
This devastating flood is still roaring and charging, and thousands of horses are rushing towards Alexandria.
Octavian slammed the scepter in his hand to the ground: "Rush over to me!"
As Caesar's heir, his abilities have been questioned by Anthony, who ridiculed him for being "milky but not dry". This conquest of Alexandria was the best opportunity for Octavian to make a name for himself. He wanted to prove to Caesar and the Romans that what Antony could not do, Octavian could do!
The waves slammed into the breakwater with the force of thunder!
Kirk's heart tightened, and Cleopatra in his arms hugged him.
The breakwater roared overwhelmingly, and many of the thick logs that were supporting behind were broken alive, but they held on!
The second wave of the flood peak is coming again!
Although the logs continued to break, the breakwater continued to crumble, but it was finally prevented.
"It worked!" Chubby was overjoyed, this time he was busy for 6 hours, and he finally didn't work in vain.
Kirk's face turned pale: "Don't be too happy, get ready, and block the city gate for me!" ”
Xiaopang, Sheva, Mosuo and others hurriedly took the migrant workers and rushed to the city gate of the south gate.
The waves roared angrily in front of the breakwater more than ten meters high, rolling up thousands of huge waves, but each time they were helplessly crushed in front of tons of boulders and log supports, and only the waves could hit the breakwater, turning into gentle aftermaths and heading towards the Nile on both sides.
But Octavian was ruthless this time, sending Volonos and Plo with 10,000 elite soldiers to rip off all the dikes on the Nile. The amount of water is too large, the flood peak waves are wave after wave, and there are logs that have been carried down the river by the Romans, mixed with the fierce impact in the huge waves, hitting the breakwater!
"Boom"! A thick log slammed into the breakwater, and a one-meter-thick gap suddenly appeared in the breakwater!
"Not good!" Kirk's heart tightened, although this situation had been expected for a long time, but the impact of the log was too great.
The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and another huge wave covered the breakwater, and several giant trees hit the gap in the breakwater at the same time, further expanding!
Floods are pouring in!
Like a snowman under the scorching sun, the breakwater began to melt rapidly, collapse, collapse, and finally be broken by the flood!
At this time, it was only 6 minutes before the first wave of the flood peak was controlled!
"Damn!" Kirk slammed his fist on the pillar, picked up Cleopatra and rushed to the south gate, but fortunately, Xiaopang and Mosuo and others had already arrived at the city gate in advance, and used logs and boulders to resist the city gate and resist the flood peak!
The first wave of the flood crests crashed into the city gates! (To be continued......)