The summer day was cloudless, and a red sun rose over the sea in the distance.

With the pungent smell of burnt smoke and rancidity, and the faint sound of mourning, Alexandria ushered in another dawn in the midst of fierce fighting.

In the camp of the Roman Sixth Legion, which was besieging the Egyptian royal palace, several puffs of cooking smoke slowly rose, and the aroma of food wafted out.

The sleepy-eyed men put the cauldron on the fire, filled it with half a pot of water, and then poured in all the wheat, beans, bacon and pickled fish they could find, and boiled it into a messy paste. Soldiers lined up with wooden bowls to eat, and then squatted on the spot to eat.

Although the battle has been stalemate for the past few days, under Caesar's reputation for constant victory, the morale of the Sixth Legion has been maintained quite well.

Pompey, on the other hand, was increasingly distracted, and because of his defeat on the battlefield, there were more and more deserters under his command, and recently even most of the naval fleet had fled, and it seemed that he had gone to North Africa to defect to the remnants of the noble republicans of the Senate, or simply fell into the grass and became pirates. There were also six warships that originally belonged to Egypt, but they defected to Caesar's side last night, so that Pompey's side even lost the control of the sea.

At this time, the Roman dictator who was tormented by epilepsy for most of the night, Gaius? Julius? Caesar, also holding a bowl of mush, squatted in the courtyard of a mansion, raising his head from time to time, squinting at the Egyptian palace guarded by Pompey and his men in front of him. Over the past few days, his Sixth Regiment has repeatedly smashed its head in front of the gates of this fortified palace due to the lack of the necessary heavy equipment, and has so far made no decent progress.

But. Today, Caesar already has the cards to storm the palace - and beside him, stands a pile of brand-new siege machines.

After several days of struggle, Caesar's craftsmen finally took advantage of the beams and columns that had been dismantled from the city mansion. There were also some other materials collected on the spot, and six tall trebuchets were put together, as well as a complete set of siege equipment such as ladders and crash cars.

As if seeing the dawn of victory, Caesar felt that his appetite seemed to be much better, and after drinking a small bowl of mush, he sent another servant to serve another bowl...... At this moment, he suddenly saw a commotion among the defenders on the walls of the palace. A figure in silver armor appeared at the top of the city, and seemed to be giving a speech whenever he made any gestures. There is always an earth-shattering cheer from the top of the city.

“…… Could it be you? Gnaeus? Pompey? Caesar muttered to himself, gripped the hilt of his sword at his waist - he couldn't make out the figure on the wall at this distance, but he had a keen instinct. He thought it must be Pompey.

For this old rival who has been entangled and fought for decades. and the old son-in-law who once married his own daughter, who has always had some kind of mixed feelings.

(In order to maintain the "Big Three" alliance, Caesar once forced his daughter to marry Pompey, who was older than himself.) ）

If there was no support from Pompey and Crassus in the past, the three of them joined forces against the Senate, and he would not have been able to get to where he is today. If Pompey had not broken the treaty not so long ago, the Senate would not have pressed Caesar step by step, and Zuihou led to the outbreak of this civil war.

However, in the present day. I'm destined to be the master of Rome and Shijie, and you'll only be beaten to the ground by me once again!

I can crush your main army with inferior forces in Pharsalus. Naturally, you can also annihilate the remnants of your Zuihou army in Alexandria!

Caesar thought confidently, casually glancing up at the sky, and then his face changed.

- Huh? Wait a minute? What the hell is that thing in the sky?!! Meteorite?!! Meteor?!!!

At the same time, all the Roman legionnaires on both sides of the confrontation looked up at the sky one by one as if they were wood.

In their stunned eyes, a string of bright and dazzling orange-red fiery meteors was wrapped in the roar of thousands of horses, piercing through the clear blue sky, drawing a gorgeous and dazzling trajectory, and roaring down from the sky...... It seems to compete with the rising sun!

And the landing of these "fire meteors" seems to be right above the heads of these people!

Some of them were so frightened that they could only see their hands and feet poking in place, dumbfounded.

Others, after a brief period of sluggishness, immediately shouted, "...... Something is about to fall from the sky! Flash mob! ”

Next, the soldiers of the Roman Sixth Legion, who were serving their meals, threw down their rice bowls and ran wildly, trying to get into the nearest building to avoid the catastrophe. Caesar, who hadn't reacted for a while, was also carried into the house by several guards.

Pompey, who was standing on the opposite side of the palace wall, also ran down the stairs in a panic, trying to find a safe place to stay.

Sadly, the Romans reacted too late - the irresistible flame of death was already roaring over their heads!

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With a low roar, more than a dozen cloudburst bombs exploded in mid-air.

Immediately afterward, a white mist spread around the Egyptian royal palace, enveloping more than a dozen nearby streets and alleys in an instant.

This is a suspended aerosol formed by the fuel stored inside the cloudburst bomb, which is evenly dispersed in the air and thoroughly mixed with the air. Driven by the pressure, this strange white mist formed a huge wall of qi, rapidly advancing in all directions......

The Romans had completely lost their usual self-confidence, and they ran out as fast as they could, hoping that they would not be covered by the white mist.

“…… Rumble!!! ”

In a series of deafening roars, the strange wall of qi turned into a terrifying wall of fire, and the diffuse white mist turned into a bright red "cloud...... When this aerosol like a dense fog reaches a certain concentration, the fuse of the cloudburst bomb will detonate a second time in the air, causing the entire fog mass to explode, releasing a large amount of heat energy in an instant, forming a high-temperature fireball of 2500 degrees Celsius, and rapidly expanding at a speed of 2000 to 2500 meters per second, forming a terrifying shock wave comparable to a tsunami.

For a time, the thunder was overwhelming, the earthquake trembled, the ground the size of dozens of football fields was glittering, trees fell and houses collapsed, and screams were screaming! Before the people on the ground could figure out what was going on, they were already charred by the scorching wall of fire...... (To be continued.) )