7. A new round of humanitarian disasters

The stars in the dark night sky had long since disappeared without a trace, replaced by a scorching and dazzling sun.

On the ruins of the city of Pelusim, the sea breeze is gentle, smoky, scorched, dusty, and the sound of collapse is endless.

A group of mercenaries from Syria, like a swarm of ants crawling on bread crumbs, try to find some loot from the charred ruins. Unfortunately, the city was so badly damaged, and this border fortress city was not originally a wealthy place in Egypt, so only a few people were able to dig through a piece of jewelry or a few coins and carefully put them in their purse.

In the sky above the city, there are several hydrogen balloons in the shape of cat's heads floating - not only the heads of Hello Kitty, Jingle Bell, Blue Cat, and Black Cat Sheriffs, but also a grinning robot cat, Doraemon...... The Egyptians apparently regarded these balloons as miracles, and from time to time they knelt down and worshipped them; And the more striking and terrifying miracle is naturally none other than the burned down city of Perusime in front of it.

“…… Alas, miscalculated...... I didn't expect Egyptian cities to be so afraid of fire! This time it burned everything down. The granaries and forage are gone, and the cellars where the gold and silver coins were stored are probably buried under the mountains of rubble, and I am afraid that it will not be too late to dig them out. ”

Standing inside a tower with its roof blown off, caressing the smoke-blackened walls, overlooking the ash-strewn city of Pelusim and the few remaining Hellenistic marble temples in the city center. Wang Qiu, who personally caused this humanitarian disaster, couldn't help but touch his chin and mutter.

-- There was no pity, no sadness, no self-reproach, he just lamented that the spoils of this battle were too small. Not worth the cost of missiles.

Unconsciously, Wang Qiu, a college student who was once very innocent and kind, has become more and more careless about human life and hard-hearted.

It seems that only the tender and juicy Lori, the explosive haode royal sister and the gentle and amorous mature woman can recall what little temperance he has left......

Ahem, to get back to business, yesterday at noon, in Cleopatra, the queen put on her full costume. Holding scepters and flails, chanting words and dancing in front of the whole army, you represent the advanced culture, advanced civilization and advanced productive forces of the super-temporal city management. Finally, under the guise of "divine messenger", he officially appeared in front of the indigenous people of this time and space. And the Syrian mercenaries and Egyptian servants under the command of the queen saw shocking images that were enough to imprint them into the deepest part of their souls and remember them for a lifetime.

-- First, a bunch of colorful and huge cartoon balloons were released, which instantly attracted the attention of the soldiers of the whole army; And then. They turned the tweeter up to maximum volume again. A deafening, sonorous "March of the Soviets" was played!

The kind of music that absolutely does not exist in this era, the rhythm is clear and powerful, and it is full of violent aesthetics, which immediately made the Syrian mercenaries and Egyptian servants under the queen's command all stunned when they heard it, and felt a trembling and trembling from the bottom of their hearts.

After doing enough foreplay and foreshadowing, when the city managers finally wore exaggerated and colorful cosplay costumes, stepped through the void from the deep and dark wormhole, and descended into the world, everything was already in place - everyone who was there to watch. They all believed from the bottom of their hearts that they were messengers of the gods, and they didn't need Queen Cleopatra's orders and reprimands. Consciously and voluntarily threw himself to the ground and bowed his head.

Next, after the reluctant Sonia political commissar reluctantly turned into a werewolf in public, and brandished a pitch-black scythe and a golden scepter decorated with scales on the top, screaming and claiming to be the incarnation of the god Anubis, the whole army was already sincerely afraid of them from the bottom of their hearts, and because they had received divine help, they were full of morale and confidence......

In short, under the intensive bombardment of such a large number of "miracles", these third-rate mercenaries who did not have much knowledge were quickly shaken by the ease - morale +100, loyalty +100, combat effectiveness +50, and the effect was outstanding!

Then, the Queen's army, which had been deceived and greatly boosted, easily crossed the Nile in the afternoon with the "divine envoys" -- when the Queen's army attacked, all the defenders retreated into the city, and did not fortify the ferry at all, and even forgot to collect the ferries -- and then Wang Qiu instructed them to clear an open space and set up "firefighting missile vehicles" with high-explosive warheads, ready to bombard the city indiscriminately.

-- After the "gods" come into the world, the first thing to do is usually to show off their strength and prestige, so that everyone can believe and admit their identity.

Otherwise, whether it is a god in those novels, a master, or a great magister, why do they have to blow up a mountain or reef or something to show off their skills as soon as they appear? Too much strength, huh? Even the God of the Bible, in order to intimidate mortals into believing in him, first destroyed Shijie with a great flood, and then sent heavenly fire to destroy the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and later helped Moses to cause wind and rain in Egypt!

And here, Wang Qiu and others, who came to assist Queen Cleopatra, also took out God's strength to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and prepared to raze the city of Pelusim that was blocking in front of them.

So, in the fanatical adoring eyes of the Egyptian natives, accompanied by the shouts of a group of Syrian mercenaries, one after another missiles, which they called "arrows of the gods", dragged orange tail flames into the sky in the whistling sound, and slammed into the city of Pelusim in front.

-- Fortunately, this kind of firefighting missile is designed by fools, and it is claimed that even the illiterate can use it, otherwise Wang Qiu and a few laymen would really not be able to play it.

As for the counterattack of the defenders...... What archer in this era can shoot an arrow three kilometers away? I don't have this kind of bow and crossbow if I have this strength!

If the defenders of the city of Pelusim had immediately and decisively gone out of the city to meet the attack at this time and interfered with the work of the comrades in the city management to set up missile positions, then they might have a glimmer of hope of survival...... But it is more likely that it was blasted into slag by the chengguan with RPG bazookas.

But. The huge cartoon balloons floating in the air also gave the defenders a great shock and made them shrink into the city. I don't dare to talk nonsense at all, but blindly rely on the illusory sense of security brought by the tall city walls - this is completely waiting for death.

Unfortunately, although the defenders mistakenly chose to be beaten passively, from the perspective of actual combat results, although the firefighting missiles replaced with high-explosive warheads are powerful, they are not the ground-penetrating missiles used by the Americans to blow up holes in Afghanistan, and they are not designed to destroy civil fortifications.

Wants to use it to destroy ordinary cars, boats, and houses. Naturally, it is not a big problem, but if you want to use it to "violently dismantle" the thick and thick rammed earth and stone solid city walls of ancient times, it is a little less destructive - it is naturally possible to blow a gap in the city wall. However, it could not completely destroy the defenders' will to fight and combat ability, and fierce street battles were bound to follow, causing considerable casualties to the attacking side.

However, the number of soldiers under the command of Queen Cleopatra is limited and very valuable. It is difficult to recruit again in a short period of time. Completely unable to withstand losses.

What's more, in order to pursue a more imposing visual effect and enhance the psychological shock to the enemy and their own side, Wang Qiu and his team hoped that they could completely crush the opponent's resistance with only missiles, and let the indigenous people just watch the drama on the side -- this was not only to deter the enemy, but also to further deter their own people, and to establish a firm impression that "God makes everything omnipotent" and "God makes it irresistible...... lest someone drop the chain at some point.

In all, more than a dozen high-explosive missiles were launched. The walls of the city of Pelusim were blown up and collapsed in many places, and the defenders of the walls were either buried alive in the rubble or used as trapeze. Wang Qiu, who was still not satisfied with this result, replaced all the missiles of the second and third waves with napalm incendiary warheads, and then no longer aimed at the city wall, but casually hit the interior of the city.

Then, with the cheers of all the soldiers of the Queen's army, and the cries and sorrows of the defenders of the city of Pelusim, the billowing smoke rose into the sky and quickly covered the entire sky - the whole city of Pelusim became a large torch and burned violently!!

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After watching the temples and pyramids of ancient Egypt through various travel TV shows, it is estimated that in the imagination of modern people, it is estimated that the ancient Egyptians, at least those well-pampered pharaohs and nobles, should also live in such tall and gorgeous stone buildings!

However, this is not the case - in the ancient Egyptian conception, it seemed that only the gods and the dead were worthy to live in stone houses, and called them "eternal dwellings". They believed that there was another eternal life after death, and that temples and mausoleums were meant to last forever, so they spared no effort to build them with immortal stones. As for mortals living in palaces or houses, it is enough to live in only one generation, and there is no need to be too particular about building materials.

So what did they use to build their houses? - The answer is mud! The Nile Valley is rich in mud, and a lot of sand can be kneaded into mud. Grain residues and dried straw were mixed in the mud, beaten into a square, and placed under the blazing sun of Egypt to dry, and the "mud bricks" were made. This type of house construction, which originated in the Neolithic period, remained the dominant way of building in rural Egypt until modern times.

-- The reason why the Egyptians did not put "mud bricks" into brick kilns and burned them into real bricks by fire was that there was no need for them, and because of the lack of fuel.

However, although mud bricks can be used to build walls, the roof still has to find another way. Since there is hardly any good wood in this part of Egypt, and even stone is scarce in the Nile Delta, the Egyptians can only use light straw, palm wood, reeds, and papyrus to lay the roof - these are absolutely flammable materials! And it will definitely be extremely dry under the Egyptian sun. To make matters worse, asphalt was also commonly used by Egyptians as a binder, used to build walls and coat roofs, or applied to wood as a preservative......

The Greeks and Macedonians who immigrated to Egypt generally had to use local materials to make Egyptian-style houses.

So, the houses in the city of Pelusim are all piles of dry fuel - the beams and pillars are asphalted wood, the roofs are coated with a thick layer of asphalt hay, and there is no moisture in the Egyptian sun. After encountering the flames, it is really a little bit of a fire!

On the other hand, it served as a militarized town of the era and an overland gateway to the Ptolemaic dynasty. In fact, the city of Perusime still pays a lot of attention to fire prevention. For example, the inner perimeter of the walls of Pelusim was pre-cleared as an empty field, and no flammable houses were built to serve as fire belts during the siege - but the problem was that this seemingly scientific combat design was at best intended to prevent the enemy from throwing fireballs into the city with trebuchets. And in the face of missiles that seriously broke through the military common sense of the time, it was useless at all.

-- The fireball thrown by the catapult over the city wall can fly another twenty or thirty meters if it is killed. But the missiles are directly bombarding the city center!

What's even worse is that the first wave of napalm incendiary bombs fired by Wang Qiu hit the granary and horse shed in the center of the city, causing a fire. And then the incendiary and high-explosive shells that continued to bombard. It also effectively killed and injured a large number of firefighters crowded on the streets.

-- Napalm. When burned, the thing sticks to the victim's body like a maggot on the tarsal bone. And it doesn't work with ordinary methods of extinguishing fires - if you beat them with your hands, the fire will get bigger and bigger, and if you roll on the ground to extinguish the fire, you will get the whole body on fire.

In addition, Queen Cleopatra's army destroyed the stone aqueducts that supplied water to the city before launching the siege. The defenders and residents of the city of Pelusim could not meet the needs of fighting the fires by simply carrying water from a few wells. And watering alone is not enough......

So, accompanied by the screams of missile launches and the sound of explosions on the ground, as if the whole sky was about to be ignited, it suddenly flew like a red snake, soaring into the sky under the reflection of the sunset, dyeing the evening sky even more red! The raging flames, which spread rapidly like roaring waves, ignited all combustible objects in the entire city, and also turned the soldiers and civilians in the city into hot bread and roast chicken in the ovens, either roasted to the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat was full of aroma, or they were suffocated to death by choking their necks in the deadly smoke and heat waves......

Seeing that the fire was out of control, the city was really hot and hot, and the enemy outside with the help of the gods seemed even more invincible, and the soldiers and civilians of Pelusim City, who were burned to the ground, gave up resistance and poured out of the city gate in chaos to take refuge.

Then, some of them said that they had "lost their way" and voluntarily surrendered to the queen. The others scattered and fled, and the queen of Cleopatra's army was limited in number, blocking only one wall, leaving the roads in all three directions unobstructed.

Then, the Syrian mercenaries under the Queen's command, who were eager to enter the city and loot the booty, had just run near the city gate, but they were also smoked by the heat wave and thick smoke. The inside of the city was so hot that it was like a volcanic eruption, and you couldn't even step into it......

In this regard, Queen Cleopatra naturally did not want to see the first city she took burned to rubble, so she asked Wang Qiu to find a way to extinguish the fire, specifically, to fire a fire extinguishing bomb into the city - unfortunately, Wang Qiu only thought of setting fire to it before starting the war, but did not think of putting out the fire, and did not prepare a fire extinguishing warhead at all, so she had to go back to collect it temporarily, and then consider the difference between the two shijie, which was a full six times the time flow rate......

Well, anyway, by the time he finally pulled the fire-extinguishing missile over out of breath, it was already dawn the next day on the Egyptian side, and the fire in the city of Pelusim had already been almost extinguished, and all kinds of belongings and stockpiles in the city were burned to the ground.

In short, the goal of burning the city and establishing power was basically achieved, but unfortunately, the actual harvest of loot and materials was almost equal to zero.

But in any case, at the very least, the road from the eastern border to Alexandria has been completely opened.

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As the sun rose, the steaming heat from the towers became more and more unbearable, and the rancid stench of the corpses was even more disgusting.

This is the edge of the Nile Delta, where desert meets greenery, and the scorching sun always scorchs the walls and gravel.

Although the hottest season in Egypt has just passed, the maximum temperature in the afternoon can still reach more than 40 degrees Celsius. Therefore, Wang Qiu only stayed on this tower exposed to the scorching sun for a moment, and then wiped the sweat rolling down his forehead and hurriedly withdrew.

Then, on the way back to the makeshift camp, he saw a familiar figure, being carried on a stretcher by four black slaves.

- Pointed wolf ears, fluffy wolf tail, shaggy wolf claws, and a golden scepter with a scythe and a scale-topped scepter, this is Sonya, the witch political commissar dressed as Anubis, the Egyptian wolf-headed god of death...... Of course, it's the monster girl's version.

It's just that the current cute version of Miss Anubis of death does not have half of the majesty and gloom of death at all, but has mosquito coil eyes on her face, foaming at the mouth, her tongue sticking out, her face is red, and she looks delirious and half-dead on the street...... (To be continued.) )