Ren Hong entered the city through the gate of the moon.

On the 20th day of the siege, Cleopatra personally acted as a "Trojan horse" to enter the city, the queen and the Han army's dead soldiers launched a coup and opened the city gate.

Then there was a day-long street battle, where Ptolemy's general Akiras died in battle with a group of loyalists. Most of the Ptolemy soldiers surrendered to the Queen - they were Pharaohs of the Ptolemy family. Who didn't they follow? If you have to say that, the Queen could rule more than a year earlier than the King.

The experience brought to the Han army by entering the port is extremely fresh. This is really an extremely typical Greek city. Unlike the Memphis heavy Egyptian tradition, the Greeks' hundreds of years of culture and tradition have been condensed in Alexander.

Within the arched city gate is the wide Street of Alsino. There are tall stone pillars erected in the middle of the street, and there are statues of gods worshipped by the Greeks. Chu Shaosun could not tell which one it was.

The civilians who were not welcomed by the Egyptians or Greeks were hiding at home, looking through the cracks of the door, watching the Han army thundering every day outside the city with fear and suspicion, and finally opened the city gate with a "Trojan horse" - this is another group of outsiders seven years after the Roman mercenaries entered the city.

Riding on a fully armed chariot, as the winner, General Ren Hong looked to the left of the road: in the bustling port area, the markets were lined up one after another, a long dike connecting the city and the Faros Island, and the towering lighthouse stood there. When the Han army broke through the city, Ptolemy XIII fled to Faros Island under the escort of eunuchs and Roman mercenaries, and hid in the fortress under the lighthouse.

Ren Hong looked to the right of the chariot again. Along the canal were short houses stacked in the first phase of the Egyptian area, and even the flames had not yet been extinguished. To the east was the tall Panshen Mountain. The Temple of Serapis stood on the top of the mountain, and the majestic stone pillars were like the thick legs of giants.

"Stand at the temple, you can overlook the city."

The queen and Ren Hong were in the same car, wearing red and white crowns on their heads, holding scepters, enjoying the joy of regaining the position of the city and the pharaoh, and by the way, they worked as a tour guide for Ren Hong.

"The royal district is called Borukon, Alexander's tombs, the large library, theatre, etc. are all nearby, and the palace is also in the garden."

She said that Ren Hong's accommodation tonight was arranged in the palace. Ren Hong laughed and slept in the palace. Will Ren Grand Master stay at the dragon bed overnight? If there is any in Egypt.

Going east, a few miles outside the city is Canopus, the entertainment resort of the Ptolemy royal family. There is a racing stadium, but now there is black smoke. The iron hooves of the monster war always scar the civilization. The Queen said that after the war is over, I hope to experience the Greek drama and the excitement of racing.

"What other entertainment and games can be more exciting than war?"

Ren Hong obviously did not forget his purpose of coming to Egypt. After arranging the Han army and the queen's confidants to control the city defense together, he hurriedly took Liu Gengsheng and others to the large library.

The building located next to the Muse Temple is the library, which is two stories high and covers a wide area. It has a reddish-brown roof and a pair of cobras at the height of the main entrance. What Chu Shaosun couldn't accept is...

Why are there two statues of a woman with her upper body naked at the door? It is also carved vividly, making it difficult for people passing by to not pay attention to the pair of jade rabbits.

He also looked at it several times, then shook his head: "In the place where the books were collected, he had naked bodies, and his breasts were exposed. How to make scholars concentrate on learning? This is the custom of the Greeks as Rongdi."

But after entering the library, Chu Shaosun had to admit that the Greeks' desire to collect books from all over the world was indeed serious.

On the wooden shelf in the library, there are rolls of pyramid paper. This writing material that is pressed and air-dried with pyramid is a bit similar to that of the Dahan paper and is very convenient for writing. Each area is classified into categories, such as mathematics, astronomy and geography, poetry, epic, drama, medicine, philosophy, rhetoric, etc., and is managed by scholars.

The only thing that Chu Shaosun cares about is that there are still ** statues in the library! His eyes began to float again.

Can it be replaced by a naked man?

Ren Hong and his disciple Liu Gengsheng wandered in this ocean made of papyrus. He smiled and said to his disciple: "How about it, it's just right now?"

Liu Gengsheng was convinced: "This place is indeed the 'Shiqu Pavilion' in Haixi."

It is larger than Shiqu Pavilion and older. After all, since Ptolemy I, books that have been collected for more than two hundred years have been collected, almost all the wisdom of the Mediterranean world. Famous scholars such as Euclid and Archimedes also studied and gave lectures here. The heliocentric theory sprouted here, and even measured the circumference of the earth. When it was done in BC, astronomers from the East and the West shone together and were equally great.

The purpose of building a large book is just to achieve the world knowledge summary. I am afraid that Ren Hong will help the dead Aristotle and Ptolemy I achieve it.

Ren Hong looked at some papyrus, his eyes shining with a strange light. He moved hundreds of thousands of books in the library, together with the Greek scholars in the library, back to the Han Dynasty by boat, and sent it to Shiqu Pavilion to translate it into Chinese, and a great meeting to realize the knowledge and wisdom of the East and the West!

Scholars have their own nationality, but when using knowledge, don’t stick to the different races. As long as it is a knowledge that is beneficial to humans, it can be compatible with everything without asking about the world.

"This is what is called the unique knowledge of the past saints!"

Do you call this robbery? No, it is rescue! It was at this point in history that the great library ushered in the first destruction in the conflict between Caesar and the Egyptians. It is better to keep Greek scholars away from the turbulent Mediterranean, go to India or the great man, set up quiet desks, and contribute to the translation cause.

Scholars in the library, wearing Greek robes, were confused about General Ren's sinister intentions, including the dramatist Xiao Fanos, who had a big gray beard and made great contributions to the city.

As soon as the Han army broke the city, a trench of people came to take over the large library. The scholars were very nervous at first, but later they found that the Han army was actually here to guard the large library to guard against fires and robbery. They were immediately moved.

Fanos, the youngest, also sighed: "There are rumors that the Seris are civilized, moderate, and fair, and are kind people, with low-key and restrained ways of dealing with their neighbors, and they are unwilling to fight with their neighbors. It seems that at least most of them are true."

Ren Hong was not in a hurry to expose his purpose. He wanted to move out all the hundreds of thousands of books in the library. He had to rely on the help of these Greek scholars, and he had to let them be sold and count the money.

It is also inseparable from the Queen's order. If she does not help her win the war completely, this extremely huge project will be difficult to complete.

Ren Hong didn't even bother to search for the books he needed in the large library, and only let Liu Gengsheng, who had learned Greek, be responsible for these collections. He arrived at the port area to the north, where the war had not yet been completely extinguished.

The port was once extremely prosperous, transporting Egyptian products such as grain, glass, papyrus, olive oil, etc. overseas, and transporting gold, cloth, wine, etc. into this place. It is undoubtedly the world's largest port.

But now, it is full of chaos. The merchants abandoned the stalls and many ships sank in the harbor.

The queen also informed the Han army of the enemy's reality: "My stupid brother has more than a few hundred royal guards under his command, and two thousand Roman mercenaries."

Those Romans were ordered by Pompei to help the flute-player restore the flute-player seven years ago, and the queen knew them very well. After the flute-player victory, Pompeii was in support of him not to be expelled again by the Chinese people and to supervise Egypt to pay off debts. Many officers and veterans in the legion stayed in Alexandria in advance. They married and had children in Egypt. The officers led were Pompeii's former confidant, a tall Bitinian named "Septimius", nicknamed Jackal.

Forget about this group of mercenaries, Ptolemy XIII had three thousand men and a team of three intact gallops, cruising between Faros Island and the port, while the ships controlled by the Han army and the Queen were only a dozen civilian merchant ships.

The West Sea Fleet cannot pass through the Red Sea, so you can't break through from the sea. The narrow and long embankment has become the only passage.

"What's going on?"

Ren Hong frowned and summoned Chen Tang, who was wet all over to ask about the situation of the battle. He had just launched a tentative attack.

"The long dike can be said to be a man who can pass through ten thousand men. I sent the dead soldiers to try to break through, but failed."

Ren Hong had already considered pushing the bronze mortar to bombard his mother, but not only Roman mercenaries were blocking the end of the long embankment like turtle shells, but also fleets were guarding, shooting stone bullets with crossbows at anyone trying to pass through it.

"Even if the long embankment is broken, the enemy can still hide in the lighthouse."

Ren Hong's eyes never left the wonders on Faros Island. The Faros Lighthouse is more than 100 meters high, only a little worse than the most spectacular Khufu pyramid. The bottom floor of the first level is square, and further out there is a fortress with stone walls erected, which can accommodate two thousand people to defend. The ground is chiseled in two layers, and the bricks are very dense. A cellar of grain, a storage of equipment, and bread can be eaten for more than a month.

The only good news is...

“There is no fresh water on Faros Island.”

For a time, Faros Island and the Lighthouse became a tough and difficult bone. As long as Ptolemy XIII was on that day, the situation in Alexandria might change drastically again, and forcibly breaking it will take a long time and huge casualties.

Do they still have time?

Ren Hong was already considering, giving up the attack, seized the opportunity to pack and transport the papyrus books and Greek scholars in the library, keep the mess in Egypt, and let the Queen of Cleopatra and the Romans play slowly!

But it is obvious that God didn't even give him this opportunity.

On the third day of capturing Alexander, Chen Tang's third tentative attack on Faros Island failed again, but the sharp-eyed scouts at the port saw a fleet sailing towards the port on the northern sea level, riding on the last south wind in the Mediterranean summer in autumn!

Unlike Ptolemy's warships, the sails supported by those ships were painted with eye-catching red and white stripes!

"It's the Roman ship."

The Greeks at the port ran around and told each other, feeling something was wrong. Roman interference was always a sword hanging above Egypt's head, but weren't they fighting a civil war? Why did they still have the strength to send a ship to Egypt?

"Is it the Great Qin State?"

Chu Shaosun and Liu Gengsheng stood at the top of the library and looked into the distance. At least so far, the "Great Qin Kingdom" is still the imaginary enemy of the Han army, but the Han people have not encountered it directly.

"I can't let my brother get the support of the Romans!" Cleopatra was very anxious. How could she not remember how the Roman army seven years ago helped her father restore the country. Can the Cyris resist the strength that was so powerful that it destroyed the Egyptian army?

Only Ren Hong frowned and looked at it for a while. In the thousands of miles mirror, he saw those scarred Roman warships docking near Faros Island, and a small boat rowed towards the island.

It is true that the Romans came, but the problem is...

"Which Roman?"

Caesar, or Pompeii?

...

At the dock on Faros Island, a middle-aged man with a tired look and a little similar to General Ren's fattest appearance when he stepped onto this land.

Gneus Pompei, one of the three giants, looked at Ptolemy XIII and Septimius, who came to greet him as their saviors, and were stunned.

"The Cialis? For the past ten years, the Romans have been crazy about their silk, and even dreamed that the Cialis who had crossed Parthia directly, were on the other side?"

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PS: There is only one chapter today.
Chapter completed!