“…… In the summer vacation of my sophomore year, when the school was organizing social practice, I had been in contact with this kind of easy-to-operate, sturdy and durable sightseeing airship in the mountains and forests in the north of the city for a while--of course, the scenic area management department would definitely not let me, a rookie, drive the airship, but just ask me to help the pilot scrub, clean and clean up this big guy together.

But in fact, through actual contact and experience, I found that this kind of intelligent airship is really not difficult to drive at all, basically easier than playing air combat games, as long as you enter a few general instructions on the touch screen, and then you can hand it over to the computer to automatically control and adjust. ”

200 meters above the ground of the Nile Delta, Wang Qiu explained to Queen Cleopatra while piloting the airship.

“…… Well, it does look like it's easy to use...... Maybe I can play with it too? Looking at the few instruments and joysticks in front of the driver's seat, Cleopatra's eyes lit up," ...... However, this thing must be flying too slowly! Haven't even made it to Memphis yet? ”

“…… It can't be helped, this kind of sightseeing airship can't drive fast, the top speed is only 120 kilometers per hour, which is slower than the car on the highway - this is still a theoretical value, in fact, it is very good to be able to fly at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour......"

“…… That's a slow speed! I'm afraid it's almost like a snail in the circle of aircraft! ”

“…… Flying slow isn't the worst! Anyway, there won't be any planes, griffon knights, or dragon knights coming to fight us in the air this year. What's really worst of all is that the airship's battery is designed to last only one hour. Originally, it would never have been possible to fly to Memphis...... Luckily, we still have wormholes and can swap out a new batch of batteries at any time, well. You have to change at least three times just one way......," Wang Qiu turned back and pouted at the dark wormhole in the center of the suspended cabin, while Queen Cleopatra made a frustrated expression of "defeated" and rubbed her forehead incessantly.

All in all, this air trip to ancient Egypt in BC is still quite novel and interesting for Wang Qiu.

In order to maintain the route and prevent getting lost. The airship has been tracing up Egypt's most visible natural landmark, the Nile, and all of Egypt's major cities are along the Nile anyway, as long as they don't deviate from the course. You won't get lost no matter what.

From the air, the banks of the Nile are lush with wheat fields, orchards and vegetable gardens. At the junction of the green field and the desert, there is a long shelterbelt belt. Defend the Egyptians against wind and sand. The shelterbelts are filled with drought-tolerant tree species. There are a lot of date palms of economic value. These date palms look graceful, among the many tall and straight trees, like gentle and beautiful "women", their oval fruits with a waxy luster, from a distance look like fake fruits made of plastic, but in fact these dates are very sweet and juicy, according to Wang Qiu's feelings after tasting them here, they are probably comparable to the fruits of the Hami region of Xinjiang, China.

Along the banks of the Nile. There are countless temples that stand in a similar style to the Egyptian temples. It was built almost in the same structure and scale—the huge archway, the obelisk in the center of the square, the courtyard, the colonnade, and further in, the endless archway and colonnade, all of which led to the "sanctuary": a strange hut specially lit to give it a magical effect.

It is also strange to say that the Ptolemaic family that rules Egypt today is the Greeks, or Macedonians, still did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources to build these sanctuaries according to the religious customs of ancient Egypt, and even stubbornly insisted on replacing the Greek with obscure hieroglyphs...... But it was precisely because of the Ptolemaic court's respect for the religious practices of ancient Egypt that the ancient Egyptian civilization did not die out at this time due to alien domination - until the invasion of Egypt by Arab conquerors nearly eight centuries later.

Where the airship passed, almost all the boats floating on the Nile were startled by the silver-white aerial beast, and then scattered in all directions. But when the boatmen realized that the behemoth in the sky was not dangerous, they stopped running away, and propped up their boats from the reeds, and followed the airships in the air as if they were looking at diorama. In the cities along the Nile, the appearance of air monsters has attracted many onlookers, when the airship sweeps over a certain town, the ground is simply empty, more and more people rush to the street or climb to high places, countless heads move with the trajectory of the airship, this scene is really spectacular.

As time passed, the sun in the sky became more and more dazzling, even the wind blowing in the air became very hot, making people unable to feel a little cool, and the unchanged yellow sand and green fields under their feet also made Wang Qiu and the queen begin to experience visual fatigue, and even a little drowsy...... Fortunately, just when they felt more and more sleepy, huge pyramids jumped into Wang Qiu's eyes!

What's more, not far from the ancient pyramids and sphinxes of the Giza Heights, the newly destroyed religious holy city of Memphis, and the sprawling military camp of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII......

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Another morning's bright sunshine shone unhindered on the dry land of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. The air that used to be a little cool at night also became scorching under the gaze of the sun.

The temple gardens on the banks of the Nile are lush with tall trees and flowers that stand upright towards the sun, and the lush foliage half-conceals the ornate bluestone corridors, as well as the statues of rams and lions on either side of the corridors.

On the towering obelisk, the traditional murals of Egypt are meticulously painted, and there are colorful and vivid figures such as shamans, musicians, pharaohs, and clerks, as well as various flowers, birds, fish, insects, papyrus, lotus flowers, and other animals and plants, as well as mysterious hieroglyphs -- Egyptian artists are all fond of color; And the pedestal at the base of the obelisk. It was carefully carved in the shape of a lotus flower, the national flower of ancient Egypt.

A gentle breeze blew, with the gentle chirping of birds and the rich and pleasant fragrance of flowers, and Dmitry closed his eyes slightly. Stretch your arms, take two deep breaths of fresh and pure air, and can't help but be completely intoxicated by this rare peace and tranquility.

For Dmitry, such a leisurely morning may not be numbered. For, following Pharaoh's orders, he was soon to pack up and mount his horse. As a vanguard, fighting the queen for Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII - the relationship between this family is really messy.

Dmitry, who was conscripted from the Faiyum Oasis, was a Greek heavy cavalryman of the Ptolemaic dynasty - through the enticing promise of civil rights and gratuitous distribution of land. The Ptolemaic dynasty attracted large numbers of Greeks and Macedonians from all over the Mediterranean to settle in Egypt, and from among these people they recruited a reliable elite heavy cavalry to serve as a killer weapon on the battlefield. These elite cavalrymen wield Macedonian cavalry, Greek recurved double-edged swords, and wore light but strong bronze cuirasses. Rigorously trained. Can defend himself well in battle and kill enemies.

Historically, the heavy cavalry of the Ptolemaic dynasty was a very good class of troops in the Eastern Mediterranean, and could deal well with the cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, the Macedonian Kingdom and other countries. At the Battle of Rafaela, the few Ptolemaic heavy cavalry managed to withstand the Seleucid cavalry, which outnumbered far outnumbered them, preventing them from attacking the weak flanks of the Egyptian army, and winning the Ptolemaic War in Syria.

These Egyptian heavy cavalry even existed until the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, when Egypt was annexed to the Roman Empire, and many of them were hired by the Romans as heavy cavalry liliang, which had always been lacking in Roman legions. In the East, the battle continued with the Parthians and Persians.

At this time, on the ground in front of Dmitry. Two branches were inserted, and a leather travel bag was inserted, which he had just checked to see if it was secure, and then he stuffed all kinds of luggage into the travel bag...... What should I put in it? It was a loincloth, a dagger, a tunics, rusks as hard as wood, a parchment water bag made of two sheepskins stitched together, and a mat that could be used as a bed, a table, a carpet, a curtain, a curtain, and even a shroud. When it was full, he threw the duffel bag behind his back and hung it diagonally on his chest with a belt.

Looking back, everyone else was packing up, and some were pretty much ready. So Dmitry picked up his shoe again, tried the belt between the first and second toes, and put it on his foot to his satisfaction, and then he took his horse and fed it some nutritious beans to replenish his strength, so that he would not lose his strength or die because of the long journey that was coming.

However, just as Dmitry jumped into the saddle in a dashing posture, and before he could grasp the reins and sit down, a behemoth suddenly emerged from the northern sky under the cover of the canopy, and he was startled.

-- In this B.C. era, the stirrup had not yet been invented in any country, and the cavalry sat unsteadily on horseback with their feet in the air, and if they moved a little wider, they would slide down, even if they were nomadic riders who grew up on horseback.

So, because of excessive horror, Dmitry also fell from the saddle gorgeously and sat on his ass fiercely.

“…… Oh - it hurts!!! My loin!!! What the hell is that thing in the sky? A monster domesticated by the gods?! ”

With the dizziness and severe pain of the fall, Dmitry cried out in a pitch-shifting voice as he gasped for air with his teeth cracked.

At the same time, there was chaos throughout the barracks, with people either stunned or shouting, and some people eating knocked hot porridge into the fire. Other Egyptians saw the Eye of Horus painted on the airship's airbag and immediately trembled and fell to their knees.

A few unbelieving Nubian archers tried to shoot arrows at the behemoth in the air, but were disappointed to find that the strange silver-white flying object seemed to cover the sky and oppress all beings, but in fact it was so far above the ground that the bow and arrow could not shoot at all......

The sudden appearance of the airship in the northern sky immediately confuses the army of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII.

And then there's the airship that broke into the sky over the enemy camp. Soon he became a messenger of doom who brought death and destruction......

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“…… It's close to the goal! Prepare for a ground attack! ”

Looking at the increasingly clear camp and the crowd of people running around under his feet, Wang Qiu announced as he picked up a gamepad from the floor. An electric remote-controlled machine gun temporarily installed at the bottom of the pod was activated, ready to shoot live at the LCD screen of a laptop like playing CS - this is a "civilian version of automatic weapons" that has been developed by learning from the "advanced experience" of the rebels during the Syrian civil war!

Political Commissar Yang, who had just come out of the wormhole, reached out to open a small window at the bottom of the pod, dragged through the wooden ammunition box on the side, and pulled out bundles of cluster wood-handled grenades and threw them down...... The reason why this thing was chosen instead of a real aerial bomb. It is because at the height of the Cold War, in order to meet the siege of the US imperialists and the Soviet Union, China produced an astonishing number of grenades with wooden handles. Pile up in underground caverns all over the place, ready to arm the militia in the event of an all-out war, large enough to fight a third shijie war.

However, the third shijie war did not break out after all. And these obsolete and clumsy wooden-handled grenades. But it was quickly completely eliminated by the melon-shaped all-metal grenade. There were so many wooden-handled grenades stored in the munitions warehouse, and there was no place to go for a while, and the departments concerned were worried about how to deal with them all day long -- no one wanted them for export, and they were reluctant to scrap them -- so when Professor Yang relied on his old connections to get arms, he actually succeeded in killing the scrapped price of 20 yuan a wooden-handled grenade, which was far cheaper than an aerial bomb, so he used this thing instead of an aerial bomb.

- Although cluster grenades are much less lethal than aerial bombs. But the Egyptians' boats, tied with papyrus and reed mats, were also far less robust than modern warships. It can only float in the calm Nile, and it is even worse than the wooden sailing ships of the Age of Discovery...... It's almost enough to clean up these toy-like wrecked ships with cluster grenades.

“…… The machine gun chain is ready, and strafing begins! ”

Suddenly, with a shout from Wang Qiu, a tongue of fire erupted from the machine gun, and the recoil of the gun made the crew on the airship obviously feel stagnant, and at the same time, they saw an orange-red line of fire shooting from the air to the ground and water. And Professor Yang also roared angrily: "The bombing begins!" He threw the stringed cluster grenades down in bundles, and smashed them on the enemy's head like a goddess scattering flowers.

When the first bundle of cluster grenades fell with sparks, some unscrupulous Egyptian sailors dared to stand on the deck and look at the surprise. But when a small boat was blown in two and flew into the sky, and more small black dots fell overhead, the convoy of troop transports anchored in the port of Memphis suddenly became chaotic - every moment there were explosions and deaths in the port on the Nile, ships, trestles, and tents were constantly hit, and one after another a raging fire was ignited.

If any ship is hit by a cluster grenade, the explosion and flames will engulf the entire ship in an instant. And when the cluster grenade falls into the crowd, it will quickly set off a terrifying storm of flesh and blood, leaving countless people sieveed by the metal fragments that have been fired. Or even worse, the clothes were set on fire by the falling Molotov cocktail Molotov cocktail, which quickly burned into humanoid fireballs rolling all over the ground.

Such a terrifying and spectacular scene, coupled with the aerial bombardment that was simply impossible to fight back, soon caused a considerable part of the army to blow up the battalion. Amidst the heart-rending screams and screams, the soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit trampled on each other and searched for their own ways to survive. Some rushed to the boat, ready to pull the anchor and sail desperately, and escape from this hell covered in explosions and flames. Others hid among the ruins of the Memphis Temple, pouting and shivering, praying to their gods to save the faithful.

In the midst of the commotion, the Greek heavy cavalry Dmitry lost his horse and was carried by the surging crowd onto a boat. Before the men behind could fill the boat, the anxious sailors quickly untied the cables and removed the gangplank...... The unfortunate ones who were thrown on the trestle, pushed by those who could not see the situation behind, fell into the Nile in rows. The people who got on the boat didn't care at all, just paddled desperately and walked away.

Seeing the burning dock and the barracks gradually moving away, Dmitry finally lay down on the side of the ship and breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up, only to be shocked to see a large bundle of cluster grenades hanging under the parachute, impartially falling towards his own ship, driven by the breeze!

“…… Oh...... No—"

Immediately afterward, with a violent explosion and the screams of the entire ship's fleeers, a wave of hot air mixed with flames and metal fragments immediately swept through the entire ship. Dmitry felt as if he had been hit hard in the chest with a hammer, and then fell into the Nile in his heavy armor...... (To be continued......)